Do you love 80's movies?

[jbissell]

My favorite 80s movie is probably Armageddon.

You mean Deep Impact.

[Spoony]

I believe it was called ArmaImpact.

[Chris L]

I'm lookin' at this thread and I'm all...

[Omar]

The Big 5:

WarGames
Back to the Future
The Karate Kid
The Great Muppet Caper
Young Sherlock Holmes

Runner Up: Ms. 45

[dania]

I've always liked the angry dance scene in Footloose. 

[Forrest]

I'm-a throw Three O'Clock High on this list.

[Gilly]

There are a lot of movies that were shown on Wonderful World of Disney in the 80's that I wish were in print. Like Mr. Boogedy, The Girl Who Cried Freedom and Tiger Town (actually I think Tiger Town was on DVD but Netflix just doesn't have it).

One of my favorite movies growing up was Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveler which was finally released on DVD. Oh, and Alice in Wonderland with the all-star cast was finally released on DVD last summer too! Hmm, I think most of my memorable movies were all made for TV.

[yesno]

Does 1990 count as the eighties?

Because I watched Pump Up the Volume dozens of times.  Maybe dozen of times.

[Regular Joe]

This movie gave me the deep down chills, and remains one of my favorite 80's movies (it bears re-watching very well):

[Spoony]

I've always liked the angry dance scene in Footloose. 

I always saw that scene as a metaphor for masterbation.

Hey... we took this awful spam post and turned into an actual thread. PIZZA PARTY FOR FOT"S!

[John Junk 2.0]

My favorite '80's movie is Indiana Jones 4.

[Susannah]

No one for "Hotdog...The Movie?"  With a post-"Makin' It" David Naughton?

In all seriousness, "Better off Dead" and "C.H.U.D." are tops in my book, always and forever.

[Son of Dorvid]

[Sarah]

I've been wracking my brain trying to remember what movies I saw in the eighties (I'm not counting movies made in the eighties that I saw later).  It's surprisingly difficult. But . . .

Of the blockbusters, I remember enjoying Dressed to Kill, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Poltergeist.  I really liked Diva.  I was horrified and moved by Pixote.  I loved Local Hero and was entertained by Four Weddings and a Funeral.  I loathed The Deerhunter and The Big Chill.

Damn, I saw a ton of movies in the early eighties.  Why can't I recall more about them?

[Vambo]

I assigned "Better Off Dead" as a cultural literacy assignment to both of my direct reports.

My two favorite movies of all time are both from the '80's: