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Favorite movie from the 80's. Name it, defend your position. You also get a runner up. (Bear in mind, I mean shitty, childish movies. Raiders, Empire, and Back to the Future clearly win.)

I go with Explorers. The first two thirds carved lines in my brain that would later be filled by great things. (The last third bugged me then and bugs me now.)

Runner up? Spaceballs. Trey can not take that from me.

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Re: You get one.

Definitly Revenge of the Nerds.

I would also say that Spaceballs as of what I can think of now is a solid runner-up.

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Karate Kid in a no brainer.

It epitomizes the 80's for me.  The Reagan era optimism, the music, the fashion (check out Macchio wearing camo pants, with a TUCKED in flannel shirt with no belt) the dialogue (you couldn't just leave well enough alone, could ya, ya little twerp!).  Everything screams 80's.

Beyond that, its a classic Campbell heroes journey and actually very accurate in its depiction of  Martial Arts philosophy, if not techniques.  Make no mistake, the fighting in Karate Kid is not good in a quantifiable sense.  But as a story of a fatherloss son and a sonless father who find each other, and how the student can be just as important to the teacher, its unparalleled.

Runner up is Real Genius.  I have so much affection for the tone of that movie.  It wasn't nerds vs jocks, it was nerds vs other nerds, with national security and college as a backdrop.

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Re: You get one.

So is the point of this to name the one, beloved bad 80's kid's movie?


Easy.



Howard the Duck.

No defense necessary. After all, "If God had wanted us to fly, he wouldn't have taken away our wings!"

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If i'm going off pure memory...it's Rad.  I mean it has Bart Connor and a backflip on a bike.  However, I can only vouch for it's awesomeness from the 9 year old version of me.  There's a good chance it's a giant steaming pile of fail.

And damn you Eddie.... Real Genius is my second pick..such a classic.   

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"They're beauticians!?"

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Not a kids movie, but John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. You have God is evil, Jesus was an alien, quantum physics can decode holy texts, Alice Cooper as a possessed bum and the nerd from Rip Tide gets impaled on a bike. What's NOT to like?

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Damn I forgot about Willow, maybe that's my runner-up.

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Bugsy Malone.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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Bugsy Malone is a 70's movie, was released the same year I was born (76). It's awesome though, I still watch it today big_smile

I love 80s movies so much and outside of the obvious choices (BTTF, Ghostbusters, Raiders, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Evil Dead 2 big_smile) I can't think of just one favourite. I'll come back to this.

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Black Rain.
Ridley Scott was still in 'Blade Runner mode' with the smoke, etc. Sorta-kinda a remake of The Yakuza from the '70s. I like the acting - it isn't natural, they're going for a thing but it works babe. Kinda cheesy, a little racist - the opposite of the original - but great. Andy Garcia was supposed to be a big star from this but he never really did. And that Café Racer... drool.

The Blue Brothers.
You know this one. Great music, car chases. Dan Aykroyd being funny by playing it 'serious', what he does best.

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Shifty Bench wrote:

Bugsy Malone is a 70's movie, was released the same year I was born (76). It's awesome though, I still watch it today big_smile

Dammit.

I can't think of a bad kid-type movie from the 80s that I love. Some demented people claim that The Goonies is bad, but it's actually one of the greatest movies ever made, so that doesn't count. Big Trouble in Little China widely acknowledged as awesome*. Jumanji is from the '90s. And King Kong is also from the '70s.

How about Flash Gordon? Flash Gordon is from the '80s and is pretty terrible, but I like it pretty well.

* And forces us to contemplate a world filled with Kurt Russell/Kim Cattrall offspring, a world of supermen and wonder women, a world ruled by the wise and mighty. **

** Possibly to be conquered by a horde of Arnold Schwarzenegger/Linda Hamilton offspring.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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GHOSTBUSTERS, hands down.  Runner up is THE LAST DRAGON.

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Zarban wrote:
Shifty Bench wrote:

Bugsy Malone is a 70's movie, was released the same year I was born (76). It's awesome though, I still watch it today big_smile

Dammit.

I can't think of a bad kid-type movie from the 80s that I love. Some demented people claim that The Goonies is bad, but it's actually one of the greatest movies ever made, so that doesn't count.


I frickin' love The Goonies big_smile

If we're going by guilty pleasures of the 80s I'll say Little Monsters starring Fred Savage. Runner up: Starchaser: The Legend of Orin.

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If I had an alternaate universe choice, it would be Last Starfighter and Last Dragon.  I LUUURRRVVVV Last Dragon.

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Can we just turn this thread into a LAST DRAGON quote-fest?

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Footloose - Kevin Bacon. Kenny Loggins' music. Need I say more?

Runner up is probably Red Dawn.

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I know I have brought it up a bunch of times...but I am really looking forward to a Who framed Roger Rabbit Commentary. A movie of such power and change in cinema deserves to be recognized. Many have forgotten it, but to this day, it is still my favorite movie ever made.

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#1: "The Lost Boys" Great soundtrack, good scares, funny lines, bad hair. And Jamie Gertz as a perfect ten!

Runner-up: "Ferris Bueller." if i was playing word association: 80s = Ferris' Day off.

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Big Trouble in Little China. Kurt Russel, KimCattrall, and James Hong. Evil spirits and a truck. There's no doubt about it.

Runner-up: Coming to America. It's got Eddie Murphy, Darth Vader and tits. What more can you ask?

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1980's movie??

hmmmm for me would be Ghostbusters..

it's the only movie i still remember during the 80's.

well it's funny and very interesting also coz the story is about some not so natural creatures..

and it's about saving the earth from a so called darkness or sort of evil..

and the scene i can't forget about it was when they went to statue of liberty and they let it walk..

very amazing..

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Welcome to the forums!

(The Statue of Liberty bit was Ghostbusters II, so apparently you remember two films from the 80's. smile)

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I enjoy the wording of "letting it walk".  As if there's some mysterious force hindering the movement of NYC landmarks.


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I would put the original GHOSTBUSTERS on a level with RAIDERS, EMPIRE, and BTTF -- i.e. not a shitty childish film you give a free pass for nostalgia's sake.

GB2, that one can count.

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