Do you love 80's movies?

[Bryan]

Videodrome, aka the greatest Canadian film ever made.

I agree with many of the films that others have mentioned, but over all the 80s were a pretty dark decade in every way. Bad movies, bad fashion, bad drugs, bad music.

Are people just automatically nostalgic for the era they were born into? 'Cause I dig the 70s, and that's when I was born. (But also, the 70s are way cooler than all other post-war decades.)

[Sarah]

I guess my list is a grab bag without any particular theme:

Repo Man
My Life As A Dog
Hannah And Her Sisters
Goodfellas (that might have been the early 90s)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (don't love this one now)
I liked Spike Lee's movies back in those days. 
Down By Law and Mystery Train
Yep, I drank the Jim Jarmusch kool-aid, down to the last drop.

And how tastes change over time: I loved My Dinner With Andre and Sex, Lies and Videotape at the time.

I liked all of these, too.  My list included only those movies I remembered seeing in theaters, so I didn't even think of these.

I feel compelled to come out in defense of the eighties.  I was so grateful for the music after the histrionics (super groups and disco) of the seventies.  I've been watching Swingtown lately, and the soundtrack makes me cringe.  Top 40 music is top 40 music, but even there the eighties beat the seventies hand's down, or so I think (I know many will disagree). 

Let the ridicule commence.  It will roll right off my back.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

Videodrome, aka the greatest Canadian film ever made.

I agree with many of the films that others have mentioned, but over all the 80s were a pretty dark decade in every way. Bad movies, bad fashion, bad drugs, bad music.

Are people just automatically nostalgic for the era they were born into? 'Cause I dig the 70s, and that's when I was born. (But also, the 70s are way cooler than all other post-war decades.)

i dig the 70's far more than any other decade

[Martin]

The sincerity of this thread is a mockery of all that flooney stands for! 

[iAmBaronVonTito]

The sincerity of this thread is a mockery of all that flooney stands for! 

such face....