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Torrent wrote:"Back to the future"!!!

No other movie captures that 80s feeling better for me. It's the poooower of looohoooove...

I'm not talking about cineastic quality here.
Exactly!! Finally, somebody got it right.

Dudes, I was talking about movies with an 80s flavor. Ya know . . . Gandhi? That sure was 80s . . . :roll:
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My point exactly, so it's not 80s. The movie didn't have mullets, leg warmers, or even Bon Jovi!
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:lol: :lol: I must have missed something. Like the 80s.

THE WOUNDED LAND came out at the start of that decade, so there was something worthwhile to pay attention to. I was reading a ton, those years.
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Lord Foul wrote:Dudes, I was talking about movies with an 80s flavor. Ya know . . . Gandhi? That sure was 80s . . . :roll:
Damn, I forgot to take my mind-reading pill!!! Yeah, I know, it's a stretch, but "Favorite 80s Movie" could, conceivably, mean favorite movie from the 80s.


I got your :roll: right here, pal!


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Fist! Fist, Fist, Fist! . . . Dude, Fist!

Okay dude. My favorite movie is, like, A Clockwork Orange. I thought that, since I chose Ferris Bueller as my favorite 80s movie, you would have deduced that I chose it not on quality but for its 80s flavor, as my true favorites consist of serious works.

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mY 80S fAVS:

('80)
Empire Strikes Back
Shining
Raging Bull
Airplane!
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
('81)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Fox and the Hound
Time Bandits
Great Muppet Caper
('82)
Gandhi
Thing
E.T.
Verdict
Tron
Conan the Barbarian
Wrath of Kahn
Dark Crystal
Blade Runner
('83)
Return of the Jedi
Scarface
('84)
Killing Fields
Natural
Terminator
First Blood
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Police Academy
Starman
Karate Kid
('85)
Back to the Future
Witness
Cacoon
('86)
Platoon
Short Circuit
Labrynth
Color of Money
Voyage Home
Aliens
Top Gun
Hoosiers
Highlander
An American Tail
Mission
('87)
Last Emperor
Wall Street
Full Metal Jacket
Princess Bride
Untouchables
Predator
Batteries Not Included
Dirty Dancing
Lethal Weapon
('88)
Rain Man
Road House
Mississippi Burning
Die Hard
Heathers
Beetle Juice
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Naked Gun
Big
Land Before Time
Gorillas in the Mist
('89)
Batman
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Christmas Vacations
Field of Dreams
Abyss
Dead Poets Society
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Glory
Little Mermaid

mY 80s gOTTA sEE'S:
- Amadeus
- Brazil
- Cinema Paradiso
- Reds
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Color Purple
- Empire of the Sun
- Elephant Man
- Do the Right Thing
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Sophie's Choice
- Henry V
- Broadcast News
- Bull Durham
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Tapeheads, Big Trouble in Little China, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Near Dark, The Terminator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, The Thing, The Abyss, Escape From New York, First Blood.

And that's just off the top of my head.
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Quite possibly John Boorman's Excalibur. If not that, I'd go for Kurosawa's Ran.
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Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, but a few that haven't are Brazil, Birdy, Purple Rain, Pale Rider, and The Color Purple.
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It's funny, I just clicked on this thread to add Purple Rain.


Great movie that I think requires a re-watch and a review......
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I must say it highlights just how good the 70s movies were. Having said that there are a few excellent movies in there including one of my all time favourites Blade Runner but I don't see quite the class of the previous decade.
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finn wrote:I must say it highlights just how good the 70s movies were.
Yeah, couldn't agree more. There were some really excellent '80s movies, but US cinema was just not as good as it was in the '70s. Hong Kong cinema was becoming really great at this time, though.
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There was a lot of crap in both decades, and a lot of good, and I think different genres were stronger in comparison. Thanks to far better technology, the thriller, the horror movie, and the action flick were all far better done in the '80s. Because of those limitations, I think that the character-driven drama was stronger in the '70s.

I also think that a reliance on that technology resulted in laziness in screenwriting towards the end of the '80s, that still lingers today.
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