My 88 Favorite 80’s Movies

Well, I did it. My list of my favorite 80's movies. It's not complete, but it's close.  Hope it helps...

A Christmas Story

·         Obviously a Christmas movie, an awesome classic.

·         You’ll shoot your eye out!

Adventures in Babysitting

·         “Don’t mess with the babysitter!”

·         Thor

Airplane!

·         “I speak jive”

·         Classic 80’s humor

Aliens

·         Not the best movie, but pretty famous and often spoofed.

Back to the Future

·         You better not need notes on this one.

Batman

·         Michael Keaton at his best!

Beetlejuice

·         Skinny Alec Baldwin.

·         Their last name is Dietz.

·         Dayyyy-o.

Beverly Hills Cop

·         Taught me the banana in the tailpipe trick!

Big

·         Taught me how to play chopsticks on the piano.

·         Tom Hanks is and has continuously been the man!

Big Trouble in Little China

·         “Two girls with green eyes”

·         Porkchop Express!

The Big Chill

·         Probably the best soundtrack of any movie, most certainly of any 80’s movie.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

·         69 dude!

·         Raging Waters!

·         Ziggy Piggy!

Bloodsport

·         Kumite!

·         Jean Claud

·         Frank Dux

Blues Brothers

·         It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

The Breakfast Club

·         Emilllllio

·         Bender

·         Mess with the bull, get the horns

·         Can you describe the ruckus?

The Burbs

·         Hanks is still awesome.

·         Cory Feldmen… and his hair

·         A soldiers way saves the day!

Caddyshack

·         Rodney Dangerfield

·         Bill Murray

·         Chevy Chase

·         “It’s easy to grin when your ship comes in!”

The Chipmunk Adventure

·         Classic 80’s kids movie.

Coming to America

·         One of Eddie Murphy’s best

·         Arsenio Hall

·         Only juices and berries

Crocodile Dundee

·         A must see for any 80’s fan.

·         “that’s not a knife”

·         Always made me want to visit a NYC subway station, for a specific reason.

Das Boot

·         Germans

·         WWII

·         Submarines

·         What else do you need?

Die Hard

·         yippee ki yay

·         Carl Winslow

·         Simon Says

Driving Miss Daisy

·         Awesome, academy award winner

E.T.

·         A nicer side of aliens for an awesome change up

Earth Girls Are Easy

·         Jim Carry

·         Jeff Goldblum

·         Geena Davis

·         Eh, why not?

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

• This movie needs no notes
• That’s my skull!
• No birthday party in here for me

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

• One of my all-time favorite movies.

Field of Dreams

• Move to Iowa? Don’t mind if I do, after seeing this awesome baseball movie.
• Kevin Costner is always awesome!

First Blood

·         The story of John Rambo!

·         They drew first blood!

Footloose

·         Taught me how to dance.

·         6 degrees of dancing skills.

Full Metal Jacket

·         Bad ass Vietnam War movie.

Ghostbusters

·         Stay Puft marshmallow man

·         Slimer

·         Venkman

·         So awesome.

Good Morning, Vietnam

·         Crazy ass Robin Williams

·         Another good Vietnam War movie

·         Warning: Will make you want to be a DJ

The Goonies  

·         Needs no notes

·         Goonies never say die.

The Great Outdoors

·         The raccoons!

·         Dan Aykroyd

·         John Candy

·         Awesome summer

·         Pontoon boat

·         Home of the old 96’er

Gremlins

·         Appreciate your microwave

Heathers

·         I love my dead gay son.

·         Creepy, but awesome, Christian Slater

·         Croquet

Highlander

·         There can be only one.

·         Except for all the sequels.

·         And the TV show

Hoosiers

·         Gene Hackman

·         Basketball.

·         Awesome.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

• Needs no explanation.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

• Needs no explanation

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

• Needs no explanation

The Karate Kid

• The kick!
• Don’t tell me you haven’t tried it, at least once.
• Wax on.

The Last Emperor

·         Kind of historical

·         But really awesome story of changing times in turn of the century China

Lethal Weapon

·         “I’m too old for this shit!”

·         Anyone who hates Mel Gibson should re-watch Lethal Weapon.

·         Also, youtube: Lethal Weapon 5

License to Drive

·         “No thanks Dad, I got a Mercedes.”

·         Get out of my mind.

·         Get into my car!

·         The secret to any great 80’s movie: The Cory’s

Little Man Tate

·         Underrated.

·         Not very mainstream, I think.

·         Sad movie.

Look Who's Talking

·         Kristie Alley at her prime.

·         John Travolta is awesome too, but no dancing

The Lost boys

·         “One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires”

·         The Cory’s.

·         Kiefer Sutherland, creepy as ever.

·         Vampires before vampires were cool.

·         Santa Cruz.

·         Boardwalk.

·         A must see for any 80’s movie list.

The Money Pit

·         Hanks, as usual, is awesome.

·         I could do without shelly Long, but er, still an awesome 80’s movie.

The Muppets Take Manhattan

• If you’re a product of the 80’s you should have grown up on this movie.
• And grown up on the Muppets.
• Jim Henson was a genius.

My Left Foot

·         Daniel Day Lewis, you awesomely challenged MF’er.

·         Sad movie. Watch in the dark so no one sees you cry.

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

·         I watch this at least 5 times around Christmas time.

·         Chevy Chase does an awesome job as the dad who has his whole family over for Christmas.

·         One day I want my house like his for Christmas.

National Lampoons Vacation

·         Wally World.

·         Wood-paneled station wagon.

·         Enough said.

·         Also, Christy Brinkley.

The Never Ending Story

·         Never have you wanted to ride a dog through the sky more.

Once Upon a Time in America

·         If you love gangster movies you’ll love this movie.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

·         Anyone who grew up in the 80’s should have seen this and should be able to reproduce the bar scene dance.

·         Tequila!

Platoon

·         Hardcore Vietnam War movie.

Predator

·         This guy was California’s Governor.

·         Pretty bad ass movie about a bad ass alien.

The Princess Bride

• Everyone in the world has seen this movie.
• Everyone.

Popeye

• Crazy ass Robin Williams in back
• Wait until you see Olive Oyl

Raging Bull

·         “He ain’t pretty no more”

·         This is an early 80’s movie, it has more qualities of a 70’s movie, but still awesome.

·         DeNiro and shit.

Rain Man

·         Tom Cruise

·         Blackjack

·         Makes you want to count cards

·         Dustin Hoffman is pretty awesome as usual.

The Right Stuff

·         Space movie.

·         All star cast.

·         Astronauts.

Risky Business

• Reminds me of when I was in high school.
• Sometimes you just gotta say "what the heck." 
  

Robocop

·         Now we’re talking.

·         Quintessential 80’s movie.

·         What are your Prime Directives?

·         Probably didn’t need the 6 sequels.

Scarface

·         Gangster gangster at the top of my list.

·         Tony Montana

·         The world is yours!

·         Everyone is the world should see this movie at least a dozen times.

Scrooged

·         Underrated

·         Pretty awesome Christmas movie.

·         Bill Murray

The Secret of My Success

·         Now we’re talking!

·         Michael J. Fox!!

·         80’s businessman movie.

·         Can’t lose with this movie!

The Shining

·         Hereeeeee’s Johnny.

·         Made me always want to try one of those vine-mazes.

·         Made me want to avoid huge, snowy vacation hotels.

·         Such an awesome movie.

·         “No TV and no beer make Homer go something something”

Short Circuit

• Don’t make me say it…
• Ok…
• “Number Five is ALIVE!”
• Can’t lose with an 80’s robot movie.

Sixteen Candles

• Er, not a huge fan.
• But a must for an 80’s list.

Stand By Me

• This is so awesome.
• Teens searching for a dead body before the evil, Ace, can find it.
• John Cusack has an appearance.

St. Elmo's Fire

• All-star 80’s crew
• Brat pack
• Wish I went to Georgetown University

The Terminator

• I’ll be back
• Terminator 2 is better

They Live

• You’ll want cooler sunglasses than you have now.

This Is Spinal Tap

• Tons of spoofs from this one.

The Three Amigos

·         Now we’re talking.

·         If I were a cowboy, I would be this kind.

·         El Guapo

·         Singing Bush

Three Men and a Baby

·         Classic Guttenberg

·         Ted Danson

·         Mustaches

Top Gun

·         If you dare ask any questions…

·         If you dare!

Tron

·         The new one is better

·         This one is kind of awesome, in an 80’s technology way

Trading Places

·         Randolph and Mortimer Duke

·         Dan Aykroyd

·         Eddie Murphy

·         Classic bait and switch (I don’t know what that means, but awesome switch-a-roo movie)

Uncle Buck

·         John candy

·         Young home alone kid

·         (yes I know his name)

The Untouchables

·         Elliot Ness

·         Sean Connery

·         Kevin Costner, bad ass, as usual.

War Games

• Shall we play a game?
• Young Matthew Brodrick, pre-Ferris Bueller

Weird Science

·         Kelly LaBrock

·         Playboy

·         Wish I knew computers better.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

·         Pah-pah-pah, please!!!!!

·         You’ll learn to love, then hate toons.

·         Then love them again.

Willow

·         Classic 80’s.

·         A must see for a true 80’s fan.

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Bummer!!

Gucci by gucky.

You’re gonna get a bouquet of beauty right here.
amazing.

Lonely Island strikes again…

…and shepherds we shall be…

This is an oldie, but a goodie. “Danger at Sea”

The progression of fixing up one of the rooms in my house

"I miss the days when bust size was relevant"

Brooke Armour me too, Brooke, me too.

So awesome.

Summa’ Time

It’s baaaaccckkkkk.  Summer is here. Yesterday, 102 degrees. Sunday 103 degrees.  Today will be a nice and cool 99 degrees. Whoa! Here comes the sun. 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m summer’s biggest fan. Swimming, rafting, lounging, beer drinking… these are a few of my favorite things! But the heat, yikes.

Adding insult to injury, my air conditioning (which was working last month) decided to go kaput on me right as Sacramento heated up. Now I’m driving around in a dark colored truck with an A/C that basically only blows hot air at me… sounds like a democrat… ha-ha-ha.  I’ve tried to make an appointment at Polar Beat Auto A/C repair, but haven’t been able to get a time slot. Boo. I picked Polar Bear for two reasons: 1) they’re the only auto only a/c repair shop in town 2) I like the name. Polar Bears are awesome. Hopefully it will get fixed before this weekend’s 4^th of July camping trip.

"this is much better than work"

I was talking to Brookster and she gave me an awesome quote regarding my blog…
exactly, Brooke, exactly!

“I walk around in the summertime saying, how about this heat”

Ancient Chinese Proverb

"I tried to make a dog house yesterday, but I only had enough dogs to make 3 walls."

Eric Danger aka: Magnum, P.I.

one of the best Halloweens ever.

Smokey, the cat who just hangs out at our house. She rules.

Me getting chased out of the tunnel on top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by a lady in a red hat.

my new Nike LunarGlide+.

siiick

Overstock.com came through!

Last month I bought a much wanted seersucker suit from Overstock.com.  When it finally arrived I tried it on, and sadly, it was too small. I contacted overstock and asked to return it.  They emailed me a return label, but I didn’t realize that they did.  A few weeks later, I emailed overstock again, and asked for a new label.  I printed it out, taped it to the box, and sent it back. Then today I got a receipt from overstock letting me know they refunded the cost of the suit, minus $19.60 due to a late fee. This is what I wrote them back…

“-$19.60 for a late fee? You’ve got to be kidding?!?! This is overstock’s version of a joke? Its not very funny.
A better version would be: knock, knock. Who’s there? A overstock late fee. Overstock late fee who?? Sike; just kidding. There is no overstock late fee.

Why am I getting charged a late fee? What am I late for? Dinner? No! I just ate lunch, how can I be late for dinner??

Ok, back to reality? Is it because I waited so long to actually send it back? Well, that is YOUR fault (sorry overstock employee, it’s not actually your fault, it is OVERSTOCK’s fault!) I waited and waited for the return label to be mailed to me. I diligently checked the mail everyday for weeks. And finally I emailed overstock, and they emailed me a copy of it.

Email?! What is this, 2010? Ok, so it is 2010, I didn’t realize that you guys would me emailing me a label. I imagined that overstock and all its glory would be mailing me a return label that was on that sticker kind of paper, where you peel the back off, and it sticks to the box… nope… overstock emails me a copy of it, making me print it off, and taping it to the box. TAPE?!? That was disappointing, I had hoped for more from a giant company like the big O.

But I’m getting sidetracked. I don’t recall ever getting the original return mail label; therefore, I didn’t send it back on time. I really did wait for it in the mail. Then I finally emailed overstock, and they emailed me a copy.

My point is, I don’t want to and I don’t feel like I should be paying nearly $20 in late fees. This isn’t blockbuster! I would dare to say that if I actually get charged for a late fee, I will not order from overstock again (this coming after I gave a raving customer service review, where I specifically said that I would be back to overstock for my purchasing needs). I know 1 customer saying that they won’t come back means little to a conglomerate super internet power store like overstock, but it means a lot to me. You know how it works. I tell 1 person about my crummy service, they tell someone. Then they tell someone. Then they tell someone. Within 2 weeks I will single handedly be responsible for shutting down overstock. My network is that big! I have over 400 facebook friends. I yelp. I used to myspace, but it doesn’t seem as cool anymore. Before myspace I even had a friendster account. Remember friendster? Yeah, neither does the rest of the world. I’m a member of slickdeals. I blog. Some call me a renaissance man. Others call me the songbird of my generation. You may (hopefully) call me $19.60 richer!!

My point is, don’t pick on the little guy (well, I’m not that little. 5’11”, 225 pounds). I was just trying to order a seersucker suit. But it didn’t fit. I missed my Kentucky derby party (well I didn’t miss it, but I didn’t get to wear the suit like I had planned because it was too small).

Please refund the full amount of the late fee :)
-Eric”

Overstock quickly responded with…

“…Since this was your first order with us (and partially because of the knock knock joke), we have issued an additional credit in the amount of $19.60 on 06/14/2010 to your Visa account. …”

Awesome.