Ultimate 80's Memories Thread - Part 2 - The 80s Strikes Back

[Ace of Spade]

Love this film.

Such a classic flick. I prey Hollywood doesn't try to remake The Breakfast Club. Hollywood now(2016) will never be able to capture that special something that those 80's movies had that made them so great.

 

[ProBoxingInsidr]

Such a classic flick. I prey Hollywood doesn't try to remake The Breakfast Club. Hollywood now(2016) will never be able to capture that special something that those 80's movies had that made them so great.

oh it will be remade. the only shock is that it hasnt been yet. i wonder what part jaden smith would play? jack black could be the principal.

 

[Sir Galahad]

i was totally in love with Tia from Uncle Buck. girl was perfect

I would totally bang her.

 

[Gandzooka]

My Science Project from 1985 (full movie)

 

[Gandzooka]

Elvira Mistress of the Dark 1988 (full movie)

 

[PorkPiePusher]

 

[therealdope]

Just watched "Secret Admirer." Freaking FANTASTIC movie.

Might have lost my virginity to Lori Loughlin in that movie.

 

[Sir Galahad]

Such a classic flick. I prey Hollywood doesn't try to remake The Breakfast Club. Hollywood now(2016) will never be able to capture that special something that those 80's movies had that made them so great.

I will personally kick the Producer in the balls.

 

[pinkybrief]

oh it will be remade. the only shock is that it hasnt been yet. i wonder what part jaden smith would play? jack black could be the principal.

that would be better than the classic

 

[Sturmovik]

1980s in Film



The films of the 1980s covered many genres, with hybrids crossing between multiple genres. The trend strengthened towards creating ever-larger blockbuster films, which earned more in their opening weeks than any previous film, due in part to staging releases when audiences had little else to choose.

• Drama - Among the historical, romantic, and dramatic films, several were well received at the box office, including Rain Man (1988), Fatal Attraction (1987), On Golden Pond (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983),The Color Purple (1985) and Out of Africa (1985). Also notable in critical success were Gandhi (1982), Sophie's Choice (also 1982) and A Passage to India (1984).

• Westerns - A stylish form of western was evolving, with films such as Pale Rider (film), Silverado (both 1985) and Young Guns (1988).

• Horror - Creativity from 1970s horror films extended throughout the 1980s, except having more gore, with many successful 1980s horror films having numerous sequels as their murderers were themselves unstoppable. Stanley Kubrick directed his horror film The Shining (1980). The creative and gory The Evil Dead (1981) with its secluded atmosphere is seen by many as one of the best in its genre leading to its inevitable sequel Evil Dead II in 1987. Halloween director John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) shocked audiences in its effects, as did David Cronenberg's graphic and gory Scanners (1981). Sequels to Halloween(1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) were the popular face of horror films in the 1980s, unkillable as their antagonists were, a trend reviled by most critics. David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly was released a few weeks before the James Cameron film Aliens. Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead, and Lloyd Kaufman's The Toxic Avenger (all1985), soon followed. And films such as Ghostbusters, Joe Dante's Gremlins, (both 1984), and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) started a trend for horror comedies. Child's Play (1988) started the popular killer doll franchise starring Brad Dourif as the infamous killer doll Chucky.

• Teen comedies - Influenced largely by 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, the decade also saw the continued rise of teen comedies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's and Revenge of the Nerds(the later two of these had sequels). Also popular were the films of John Hughes such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). He later created the Home Alone series of the 1990s. "Home Alone" was one movie in a revival in comedies aimed at a family audience, along with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and its 1990s sequels (1992, 1997-video direct). Heathers (1989) provided a tongue-in-cheek approach to the teenage comedy genre; showcasing the murders (disguised as suicides) of several popular students at an American high school. Other notable comedies of the decade include the gender-swap film Tootsie (1982),Broadcast News (1987), and a brief spate of age-reversal films including Big, 18 Again!, Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son.

• Action-films - In the 1970s, action films usually focused on maverick police officers. However, the action film did not become a dominant form in Hollywood until the 1980s, when it was popularized by actors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis. Stallone continued the Rocky series and starred in 1982's First Blood about a returning Vietnam War veteran fighting a small town sheriff and its sequel Rambo: First Blood Part II. Vietnam War films grew in popularity in the 1980s, from being a film subject which was still seen as a taboo in the 1970s. Movies like Platoon and Stanley Kubrick'sFull Metal Jacket made the war a subject. Chuck Norris starred in the Missing in Action trilogy (1984, 1985, 1988) about a Vietnam veteran going back to rescue POWs. Schwarzenegger starred in The Terminator (1984), Commando (1985), and Predator (1987). The 1988 film Die Hard was particularly influential on the development of the genre in the subsequent decade. In the film, Bruce Willis plays a New York City police detective who inadvertently becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office block. Meanwhile, Hong Kong action cinema was being revolutionized by Jackie Chan, Tsui Hark, and John Woo.

You know I thought that was a fairly decent run down of 80s movies...Then I thought where is the movie Aliens? Oh there it is in the Horror section, umm hold on, its actually referring to the movie 'Alien' - which was released in 1979.
So a list of notable 80s movies that incorrectly names a movie from the 70s and doesnt properly acknowledge one of the greatest movies of the 80s, let alone of all time.

Fail

 

[Gandzooka]

 

[Skip Reming]

You know I thought that was a fairly decent run down of 80s movies...Then I thought where is the movie Aliens? Oh there it is in the Horror section, umm hold on, its actually referring to the movie 'Alien' - which was released in 1979.
So a list of notable 80s movies that incorrectly names a movie from the 70s and doesnt properly acknowledge one of the greatest movies of the 80s, let alone of all time.

Fail

But Alien is more of an 80s film than a 70s fillm. It was released in late june 79. Much more of an early 80s tone.

 

[EvilDDS]

Might have lost my virginity to Lori Loughlin in that movie.

Great way to lose it!

 

[Sir Galahad]

Do you kids of the 80's remember this?



Remember back in the 80's when a parent could whoop their kids with pretty much anything in the house and "NOT" go to jail? lol

Had those vampire mouthpiece. I remember getting my ass whooping with the belt.

 

[EvilDDS]

I remember watching Eddie Murphy's Delirious and thinking it was the funniest thing ever, "my aunt Bunny got a moustache!"

 

[Ace of Spade]

I remember watching Eddie Murphy's Delirious and thinking it was the funniest thing ever, "my aunt Bunny got a moustache!"

Yep... Classic... and Eddie Murphy was only 22 years old at the time.

 

[ProBoxingInsidr]

I remember watching Eddie Murphy's Delirious and thinking it was the funniest thing ever, "my aunt Bunny got a moustache!"

this was so much better than raw. when this was out, i also thought it was the funniest thing ever. when raw came out, i was just wondering if he was trying to see just how many times a person could swear in one hour

 

[Ace of Spade]

this was so much better than raw. when this was out, i also thought it was the funniest thing ever. when raw came out, i was just wondering if he was trying to see just how many times a person could swear in one hour

Yeah... "Delirious" is way better than "Raw".

"Delirious" - 10/10

"Raw" - 6.5/10

 

[Adamant]

Such a classic flick. I prey Hollywood doesn't try to remake The Breakfast Club. Hollywood now(2016) will never be able to capture that special something that those 80's movies had that made them so great.

It's crazy to me how so many films in the 80s (and to be fair, pre-80s and even some of the 90s) are so full of heart that special greatness. It was palpable. Yet most films today just feel cheap and uninteresting. No heart. No rewatch value. All sterile and devoid of that special something.

Granted, that special modern film comes along every once in a while, but it's not NEARLY as often as it used to be. Especially in the 80s where basically every other film was a classic.

 

[simps3d]

I'm gonna try and watch this within the next day or two. I hear it is awesome:

It's great until the end.