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.