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1980's Movie Rankdown

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Taz, Mar 15, 2022.

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  1. OziBeerMan

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    @Taz I haven’t even started in the Aussies.
    I think I’ll be adding to my list lol. Never realised what a great decade of movies.
     
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  2. Cena Never Give Up Gold Member

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    Rocky IV
     
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  3. Fontaine Gold Member Gold Member

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    100% all over this one :D!

    Back to the Future 1 + 2
    Neverending Story
    Aliens
    Beetlejuice
    Terminator
    Lost Boys
    Big
    Goonies
    ET
    Ferris Bueller
    Stand By Me
    India Jones trilogy
    Wall Street
    Harry and the Hendersons
    Predator
    Short Circuit
    Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
    Gremlins
    Inner Space
    Running Man
    Turner & Hooch
    The Land Before Time
    See no Evil, Hear no Evil
    Evil Dead
    Beverly Hills Cop 1 + 2
    Die Hard
    An American Tail
    Ghostbusters 1 + 2
    American Warewolf in London
    Fright Night
    Critters
    Platoon
    Full Metal Jacket
    Dead Poets Society
    Highlander
    Flight of the Navigator
    Conan The Barbarian
    Scrooged
    Empire Strikes Back
    Return of the Jedi
    Dark Crystal

    You could keep going with the 80s. How did we go from that to the * show which is the 90s....
     
  4. Vinnie BBQ Justice is lost Justice is raped Justice is gone.

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    The Beyond
    They Live
    Re-Animator
    The Thing
    City of the Living Dead
    Fright Night
    N8ightmare City
    House (1985)
    House II
    Night of the Creeps
    Evil Dead
    Evil Dead 2
    Army of Darkness
    Prince of Darkness
    Demons
    Demons II
    Gremlins
    Back to the Future I/II/III
    Day of the Dead
    the Goonies
    An American Werewolf in London
    Silver Bullet
    Ghoulies
    Ghost Busters
    Street Trash
    Blade Runner
     
  5. OziBeerMan

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    Malcolm
    Young Einstein
    Breaker Morant
    The Man from Snowy River 1
    The Year of Living Dangerously
    Running on Empty
    Crocodile Dundee 1 and 2
    Mad Max 2
    Mad max Beyond Thunderdome
    Gallipoli
    Puberty Blues
    The Year my Voice Broke
    The Club
    We of the Never Never
    Careful he might hear you
    Road games
    Dogs in space
    Razorback
    Pharlap
    Dead Calm
     
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  6. Fontaine Gold Member Gold Member

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    The Breakfast Club
    Pretty in Pink
    Uncle Buck
    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
     
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  7. Taz Blind Justice Gold Member News Writer

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    Could literally list just about every John Hughes movie, lol
     
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  8. Fontaine Gold Member Gold Member

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    I should have just wrote John Hughes 80s to save the time ha
     
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  9. OziBeerMan

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    Everyone watch Malcolm, it’s great.
     
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  10. Tim-Time 1888 Always look on the bright side of Life Gold Member

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    Deadly Pursuit - in case its no been mentioned.
     
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  11. Sean Daleer Free Palestine Gold Member

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    I think every movie I would have nominated has already been put forward.

    Looking forward to the vote.
     
  12. paulie walnuts Gold Member Gold Member

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    Loved 80’s action movies.
    Commando and Rambo: First Blood part II are 2 that I don’t think have been mentioned yet.
    Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile as well.
     
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  13. Taz Blind Justice Gold Member News Writer

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    Good shout. :50:
     
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    Manhunter
    The january man
    Fx murder by illusion
    Mannequin
    Teen wolf
    No retreat no surrender
    Project A
    The killer
    Demons
    Weird science
    Transformers : the movie
    Adventures in babysitting
    National lampoons vacation
    Fletch
    Splash
    Big trouble in little china
    Firestarter
     
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  15. Tim-Time 1888 Always look on the bright side of Life Gold Member

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    I don't know how I forgot about it originally tbh Taz.
     
  16. paulie walnuts Gold Member Gold Member

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    Bloodsport
    The Karate Kid
    The Living Daylights
    A View to a Kill
    D.A.R.Y.L
    Dirty Dancing
    Music Box
     
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  17. Taz Blind Justice Gold Member News Writer

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    What we have so far....

    1984
    48 Hrs.
    9 to 5
    A Fish Called Wanda
    A Night on the Town (aka Adventures in Babysitting)
    A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Airplane
    Airplane II: The Sequel
    Aliens
    An American Tail
    An American Werewolf in London
    Angel Heart
    Anne of Green Gables
    Army of Darkness
    Arthur
    Back to the Future
    Back to the Future Part II
    Batman
    Beetlejuice
    Beverly Hills Cop
    Beverly Hills Cop II
    Big
    Big Trouble in Little China
    Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
    Blade Runner
    Blue Velvet
    Brazil
    Breakdance
    Breaker Morant
    Caddyshack
    Careful He Might Hear You
    Casualties Of War
    Chariots of Fire
    Christine
    City of the Living Dead
    Class of Nuke'em High
    Clockwise
    Cobra
    Cocoon
    Color Purple
    Come and See
    Coming to America
    Commando
    Conan The Barbarian
    Critters
    Crocodile Dundee
    Crocodile Dundee II
    Dark Crystal
    Day of the Dead
    Dead Calm
    Dead Poets Society
    Deadly Pursuit
    Demons
    Demons II
    Die Hard
    Dogs in Space
    Driving Miss Daisy
    Dune
    E.T
    Empire Strikes Back
    Escape From New York
    Evil Dead
    Evil Dead 2
    Excalibor
    Fatal Attraction
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Field of Dreams
    Firestarter
    First Blood
    Fletch
    Flight of the Navigator
    Footloose
    Fright Night
    Full Metal Jacket
    Fx murder by illusion
    GallipolI
    Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters II
    Ghoulies
    Gregory’s Girl
    Gremlins
    Hannah and Her Sisters
    Harry and the Hendersons
    Hear No Evil, See No Evil
    Highlander
    House (1985)
    House II
    Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
    Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
    Inner Space
    Jewel of the Nile
    Killing Fields
    L'argent
    La Bamba
    Lady in Red
    Lean on Me
    Lethal Weapon
    Lethal Weapon 2
    Lifeforce
    Local Hero
    Mad Max 2: Road Warrior
    Mad max Beyond Thunderdome
    Malcolm
    Manhunter
    Mannequin
    Midnight Run
    Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters
    Mississippi Burning
    My Left Foot
    My Neigbor Tortoro
    N8ightmare City
    Naked Gun
    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
    National Lampoon's European Vacation
    National Lampoon's Vacation
    Neverending Story
    Night of the Creeps
    No Retreat No Surrender
    Officer & a Gentleman
    Once Upon A Time In America
    Pale Rider
    Paris, Texas
    Pharlap
    Planes, Trains & Automobiles
    Platoon
    Police Academy
    Poltergeist
    Predator
    Pretty in Pink
    Prince of Darkness
    Project A
    Puberty Blues
    Pumpkinhead
    Raging Bull
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Rain Man
    Rambo: First Blood Part II
    Razorback
    Re-Animator
    Return of the Jedi
    Risky Business
    Road Games
    Rocky III
    Rocky IV
    Romancing the Stone
    Runaway Train
    Running on Empty
    Scarface
    Scrooged
    Short Circuit
    Silver Bullet
    Splash
    Stand By Me
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
    Stormy Monday
    Street Trash
    Stripes
    Taps
    Teen Wolf
    Terminator
    The 'Burbs
    The Accused
    The Believers
    The Beyond
    The Blues Brothers
    The Bounty
    The Breakfast Club
    The Club
    The Color Of Money
    The Fog
    The Goonies
    The January Man
    The Karate Kid
    The Killer
    The Land Before Time
    The last Starfighter
    The Lost Boys
    The Man from Snowy River
    The Man With Two Brains
    The Naked Gun
    The Princess Bride
    The Right Stuff
    The Running Man
    The Shining
    The Terminator
    The Thing
    The Toxic Avenger
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    The Untouchables
    The Year My Boice Broke
    The Year of Living Dangerously
    They Live
    Top Gun
    Trading Places
    Transformers : the movie
    Turner & Hooch
    Uncle Buck
    Wall Street
    We of the Never Never
    Weekend at Bernies
    Weird Science
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Withnail and I
    Young Einstein
    Young Guns


    To this I am adding...


    The Elephant Man
    Amadeus
    Glory
    Stir Crazy
    Haunted Honeymoon
    The Three Amigos
    Fletch Lives
    The Witches of Eastwick
    Ladyhawk
    Labrynth
    Legend
    Willow
    The Secret of Nimh
    Ordinary People
    Raising Arizona
    Twins
    Police Story
    Eastern Condors
    Betty Blue
    Subway
    Das Boot
    The Last Temptation of Christ
    The Mission
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    St Elmo's Fire
    Spaceballs
    History of the World, Part I
    Little Shop of Horrors
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    Brewster's Millions
    Red Dawn
    The Outsiders
    The Verdict
    Tootsie
    Dirty Dancing
    The Big Chill
    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Witness
    Fatal Attraction
    Dangerous Liasons
    Moonstruct
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Gandhi
    Good Morning Vietnam
    Krull
    Do the Right Thing
    * and Alexander
    RAN
    This is Spinal Tap
    Grave of the Fireflies
    Paris, Texas
    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
    Educating Rita
    The Fly
    Poltergeist
    Akira
    Crimes and Misdemenours
    Heathers
    Repo-Man
    A Time to Live, A Time to Die
    A Prayer Before Dying
    Pink Floyd: The Wall
    The Outsiders
    Children of a Lesser *
    Sophie's Choice
    On Golden Pond
    Terms of Endearment
    War of the Roses
    Music Box
    The Fabulous Baker Boys
    WarGames
    Heartbreak Ridge
    Beatrice
    Empire of the Sun
    The Big Blue
    Sudden Impact
    Licence to Kill
    The Living Daylights
    The Natural
    9 1/2 Weeks
    Barfly
    Monty Python The Meaning of Life
    The Golden Child
    Last Exit to Brooklyn
    Bull Durham
    Eight Men Out
    Say Anything...
    Stakeout
    Let It Ride
    *, Lies and Videotape
    Pretty in Pink
    Some Kind of Wonderful
    Mr Mom
    Working Class Man aka Gung-Ho!
    Sixteen Candles
    She's Having a Baby
    Johnny Dangerously
    King Solomon's Mines
    Firewalker
    Delta Force
    Missing in Action
    Missing in Action II
    Lone Wolf MacQuade
    Frantic
    High Spirits
    Less Than Zero
    Easy Money
    Back to School
    Red Heat
    Return to Oz
    Broadcast News
    Talk Radio
    When Harry Met Sally
    Roxanne
    Who's Harry Crumb?
    1969
    Without a Clue
    Night Shift
    Heathers
    The Name of the Rose
    Escape From Sobibor
    The Lighthorsemen
    Cannonball Run
    A Better Tomorrow
    UHF
    Spies Like Us
    Cocktail
    Gorillas in the Mist
    F/X
    The King of Comedy
    The Big Easy
    Enemy Mine
    The Golden Child
    Trading Places
    A View to a Kill
    D.A.R.Y.L
    Bloodsport
     
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  18. Sean Daleer Free Palestine Gold Member

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    Oh don’t think it’s been mentioned yet.

    Turk 182. Cool wee anarchy movie
     
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  19. Taz Blind Justice Gold Member News Writer

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    Zimmerman Flew, Tyler Knew!
     
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  20. Sean Daleer Free Palestine Gold Member

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    Gets a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Probably the most forgiving movie site out there :giggle1:

    Right up my street that. You don’t like it? Ok I * will then haha.