# Favorite '80s movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749 "2003-04-14T23:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/21 "2003-04-15T13:28:53Z")
\*\*Some Kind of Wonderful Halloween Top Gun\*\* plus all that have already been listed. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/22 "2003-04-15T13:32:14Z")
i almost forgot… **Tango and Cash** ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/23 "2003-04-15T14:03:57Z")
Most of John Hughes’ work in the mid 80’s, **Labyrinth** fer sure (Jennifer Connelly at 15, yum!), definitely **Raising Arizona**. And I agree with lots of other choices from the previous posts. I worked in a video store in the 80’s so I watched _a lot_ of movies. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/24 "2003-04-15T14:36:26Z")
**Better Off Dead** **The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension** ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/25 "2003-04-15T14:37:45Z")
Randall? Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/26 "2003-04-15T14:47:56Z")
21 posts and no mention of _ **Risky Business** _??? ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/27 "2003-04-15T15:11:12Z")
**This Is Spinal Tap** ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/28 "2003-04-15T15:23:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Banger \* > \*\*[Caddyshack](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080487). > > Perhaps the most often quoted film of the 80s … \*\* I think [Fletch](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089155) would give it a run for the money in the most-quoted department. Ah, the early 80s…back when Chevy Chase was actually funny… ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/29 "2003-04-15T15:27:47Z")
**Fast Times at Ridgemont High** Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Phoebe Cates… ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/30 "2003-04-15T16:51:35Z")
Thanks for the mention of **Last Dragon** , **monstro**. As you know, for all its cheese, that has to be one of the most quotable movies of all time. Other thus-far unmentioned '80s gems: **I’m Gonna Get You, Sucka** **Last American Virgin** **Lethal Weapon** (c’mon, guys!) **Trading Places** **48 Hours** **Eddie Murphy’s Raw** **Amazon Women on the Moon** **Hollywood Shuffle** **Midnight Madness** squeaks in with a 1980 release. **Bachelor Party** **Splash** **Bad Boys** (with Sean Penn and Esai Morales) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/31 "2003-04-15T16:57:58Z")
**NoClueBoy** , _Halloween_ was released in 1978. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/32 "2003-04-15T17:12:44Z")
From the IMDB’s list of the top movies of the 80’s, my top 10: 1 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (60941 votes) 2 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (71352 votes) 3 Boot, Das (1981) 8.4/10 (18093 votes) 6 Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (24487 votes) 8 Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (51774 votes) 9 Aliens (1986) 8.1/10 (42512 votes) 11 Princess Bride, The (1987) 8.1/10 (36587 votes) 17 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (55203 votes) 20 Henry V (1989) 7.9/10 (6052 votes) 33 Terminator, The (1984) 7.8/10 (36815 votes) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/33 "2003-04-15T19:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\ ***NoClueBoy** , _Halloween_ was released in 1978. \*\* Yeah, but I didn’t _see_ it until the 80s. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/34 "2003-04-15T20:11:52Z")
**Cocktail Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead National Lampoon** (various and sundry) **Sixteen Candles Rain Man A Christmas Story** ---
**Author:** ![li\_l\_Dickie\_Dirtz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@li\_l\_Dickie\_Dirtz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/li_l_Dickie_Dirtz)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/35 "2003-04-15T20:31:48Z")
**The Pope of Greenwich Village** ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/36 "2003-04-15T22:27:02Z")
Oops, sorry all – I left some biggies off my list: **Johnny Dangerously** **Mr. Mom** **Soul Man** **Enemy Mine** **Bull Durham** **Full Metal Jacket** **Easy Money** **Back to School** ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/37 "2003-04-16T03:19:35Z")
**My Favorite Year** and **The Stunt Man** are two of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/38 "2003-04-16T04:55:30Z")
**Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** Great, awesome, wonderful. Action, adventure, sci-fi, comedy, it had it all. **Big Trouble in Little China** Same reasons 😃 For a while I loved **The Breakfast Club** until I got older and intellectually disagreed with many of the points it made, or suggested, but entertainment wise, it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/39 "2003-04-16T05:00:49Z")
**Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** Great, awesome, wonderful. Action, adventure, sci-fi, comedy, it had it all. **Big Trouble in Little China** Same reasons 😃 For a while I loved **The Breakfast Club** until I got older and intellectually disagreed with many of the points it made, or suggested, but entertainment wise, it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749/40 "2003-04-17T07:51:51Z")
Oh yeah, **The Stunt Man**. I coulda sworn it was '78 or '79… it’s 1980 and one of the best films _ever_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-movies/168749.md?page=3)