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Author Topic: Movies for Mike (80s Movies You Should Have Seen) Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-21-2006 12:56 AM                     I was just informed that our very own Olpin8er hasn't ever seen Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Weird Science, or Real Genius. I am truly heartbroken. Lucky for him, he's seen The Breakfast Club and Better Off Dead! Please help this poor child by suggesting your favorite 1980s movies for him to watch (sadly, on video). For less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you might just save his life. ... Or mine. Yes, Mike, Raiders of the Lost Ark is the one with the boulder.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-21-2006 01:00 AM                     Actually, I've never seen breakfast club either. But Better Off Dead is possitively one on my favorate movies ever.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-21-2006 01:38 AM                     80s movies don't get much better than License To Drive. With the dueling Coreys, how could you possibly go wrong? If that doesn't float his boat, surely a more mainstream 80s movie such as Planes, Trains & Automobiles would do it. (Of course Adam hates the movie because he is weird. )  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 03-21-2006 02:04 AM                     Well, the REAL 80s ended in June 1986, when the CED videodisc format was shut down for good. The Coreys appeared separately on a few CED titles but the format was dead before they appeared onscreen together. One essential 80s movie that is available on CED videodisc, is The Last American Virgin. It's especially recommended for people who love movies with happy endings.  |  IP: Logged Dieter Depypere Master Film Handler Posts: 343 From: Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, Austria Registered: May 2005 posted 03-21-2006 03:11 AM                     Seen "Cinema Paradiso" yet?  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-21-2006 07:42 AM                     Well, nothing sez the 80's like the film that ushered in the 1980's, Xanadu...  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-21-2006 09:05 AM                     As far as coming of age 80's go, I'll put in a vote for Risky Business.  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 03-21-2006 09:07 AM                     Don't forget any of the early Patrick Dempsey catalog such as Loverboy or You can't buy me Love ...  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-21-2006 09:36 AM                     Dirty Rotten SCoundrels or the Burbs are always good for laughs  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 03-21-2006 10:52 AM                        If it weren't so obvious, I'd include Ferris Bueller's Day Off as among the requisite 80's film canon contenders ... but then, mentioning it is just as fair game, considering that the original suggestions were necessary in the first place! Another one I'm not quite as comfortable admitting to is Adventures In Babysitting ... in no way truly essential, but full of 80's goodness, nonetheless.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-22-2006 12:23 AM                     How did I forget The Goonies???  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-22-2006 01:00 AM                     ..or any of the John Hughes pictures - outside of "Ferris Bueller" ..or the three "Back to the Future" fliks. ...ROBOCOP series.. we can't forget these. Then, the Swarzenegger campy action fliks - Predator, Running Man, et.al.. "That Night in Rio", "Lady in Red","Mr. Mom","Young Sherlock Holmes","Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome","Project X", "LADYHAWKE" ..and the two "Cocoon" movies.. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". The "Porky" movies. ..and if we can get Mike to be in the liberal arts of the cinema, there was the great - "AMADEUS", "Out of Afica" and "The Last Emperor" ... ..but, he'll probably fit into Spicoli's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." - the one that made Sean Penn a household name with Mr. Hand. ..then the campy beach movies..."Hard Bodies" and others.. The first "BATMAN" movie - the one where Jack Nicholson stole this one away from Michael Keaton... ..the invention of the CD. The decade that Disney started to pull its head out the sand and being a big (now,too big of a) company with "Oliver and Company" and "the Little Princess" the decade of Eddie Murphy being Axel Foley and "Beverly Hills Cop" with Glen Frey singing "the Beat Goes On" .. with the "Annoying Thing" doing the techo version of "Axel's Theme" ..and the list goes on...the 80's was a good decade. The conception of the mall cinema with shoebox auditoriums. ..no friggen rap crap thumping music. Hairbands coming out with their rock ballads. V8's were still the engines to have instead of these little "rice burning street racers." and drivers who want to be from 'south of the Rio Grande ' - Monte  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-22-2006 01:27 AM                     Most of my picks have been accounted for, but I'll suggest: The Cannonball Run Blue Thunder Bachelor Party (with its multiplex joke that is now a reality) Ghostbusters Revenge Of The Nerds Ladyhawke (I know, a period piece, but it had that rock score that screamed '80s!) Pee-wee's Big Adventure Top Gun Lethal Weapon The Lost Boys Die Hard quote: Monte L Fullmer "Beverly Hills Cop" with Glen Frey singing "the Beat Goes On" I think that song is "The Heat Is On."  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-22-2006 05:16 AM                     whoops..yes 'the HEAT is on.' Got the '60's mixed in there..  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-22-2006 06:43 AM                     Spinal Tap St. Elmos Fire Caddyshack Croc Dundee Cocktail Full Metal Jacket Poltergiest ET Anything with Traci Lords(New Wave Hookers) or Ginger Lynn(Kinky Business) Friday the 13th Beetlejuice Footloose Bill and Ted Flashdance Airplane, and sequels The Karate Kid  |  IP: Logged

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