80's Movies - Whats your favourite?

[bluecow]

I love 80's films, especially 'Brat Pack' films, Breakfast Club, The Outsiders, Stand By Me.

The Back to the Future trilogy has to be my favourtie though. Michael J. Fox :lurve:

Oh dear I have just succeeded in making myself feel old :doh:

[~Twiggy~]

Ferris Beuller has to be my fave.

[spidey]

The Breakfast Club's my favourite...my husband hates it though!

[bluecow]

Ferris Beuller has to be my fave.

I love Ferris Beuller! Posting that on the A-Z of film threads was what made me think of other 80's movies :D

I think I must have watched the video of it every single day during the school holidays...at least once. I think it had something to do with Matthew Broderick :lurve:

[Hungry Hippo]

This is tricky as there are so many

Back to the Future
Predator
Aliens
Goonies :oops:
Flash Gordon :oops: :oops:

I love Ferris Bueller too.

[*Fallen Angel*]

I rather like

Dirty Dancing
Top Gun :oops:

[noo noo]

:ellie: :ellie: :ellie: Pretty In Pink :ellie: :ellie: :ellie:

[Hello Kitty]

I love anything with Molly Ringwald in so:

Pretty in Pink!
16 Candles
Breakfast Club

I did like Dirty Dancing too

[dora the ex...]

top gun is just an all time favourite :ellie: especially on surround sound :clap:

[bluecow]

The Goonies is a classic film! And Dirty Dancing goes without saying :wik:

[MissDem]

Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club...

I also liked "About last night" - never has Demi Moore portrayed herself more accurately! :laff:

[August Girl]

Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller.

and Working Girl.

[Chocolate Lips]

The Goonies :laff: Hey you guys........ :ellie: can anyone here do the truffle shuffle :laff: :laff: ?

Dirty Dancing of course (nobody puts baby in the corner)

Other favs

Cocktail
ET (phone home......this made me cry the other day :roll: )
Adventures in Babysitting
Fame
Footloose
Flashdance

[Mad Madam Mim]

Ferris Bueller you're my hero




I also liked Pretty in Pink lots!

Oh and you can't be my age and not have a soft spot for Dirty Dancing - this made me laugh becase it reminded me of a friend at uni (when drunk) launching herself at another friend (she was leaping from the bed) saying 'Ethel (name changed to protect the innocent) be Patrick Swayze' to which Ethel moved smartly out of the way leaving flying friend to land drunkenly on the floor :laff:

[seashell]

hi, i too loved the breakfast club, i also had on video:

The Outsiders
Over The Edge
Wierd Science!
Ferris Buellers Day Off

and lots of the others you have all mentioned like Dirty Dancing etc

I was also obsessed with "River Phoenix" and loved all his films - cant remember if these came under 90's films or not :laff:

[August Girl]

I loved The Lost Boys, was that 80's?

[bluecow]

I loved The Lost Boys, was that 80's?

Yes AG, it was made in 1987 :geek: That is a fab film :ellie:

I had a major crush on Corey Haim in the 80's and probably the 90's too!

I watched most of his movies - Licence to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, Silver Bullet.

[curvyfairy]

I'm are

Dirty dancing
Stand by me
Lost boys but i was scared of it :no:
Working girl
Heathers

Carriexx

[MsNat]

Heathers is a great film.

I also loved Top Gun and had a hugggggeee crush on Tom Cruise at the time :oops: :oops: :shock:

Oh and Fatal Attraction, athough I don't think it's supposed to be as funny as I find it :shower: :boobies:

[Angie]

I lurrrve pretty in pink.

But omg, that dress she wears at the end :laff:

[Adelelee]

Dirty Dancing
Cocktail
Also liked Heathers but only seen it once

[cheeky_biscuit]

Dirty dancing, absolute fav!
Pretty in pink.
Big!
ooh, heathers IS a good film - which was the other christian slater film where he thought he had a baboon heart?
Stand by me is on more4 now.

[Narcissa Malfoy]

Some fab films!

About Last Night
Fame
Pretty in Pink
Footloose
Dirty Dancing
Flashdance

[scrobble]

Both have been mentioned before, but I LOVE Stand By Me and The Lost Boys. Don't think I could choose a favourite out of those 2 as they're too different to compare!

[popinjay1]

I love Pretty in Pink too and could never work out why she didn't choose Duckie but I always go for the underdog!

I also loved Mannequin. Anyone else remember this? It starred a very young Kim Cattrall.

[Pancake01]

Has anyone watched Top Gun recently? It is SO gay! The volleyball scene is just gay porn. And the relationship between Goose and Maverick - yeah right :wink: . And Tom Cruise really wanted to shag that other bloke - his enemy figure, can't remember his name.

The 80s film I really like is Scandal, about The Profumo Affair. I also really like The Accused.

[seashell]

I also loved Stand By Me - i was mad on River Phoenix at the time - so sad he died of drug overdose:-(

[Narcissa Malfoy]

The 80s film I really like is Scandal, about The Profumo Affair.

:thumb: I had forgotten about that one! It's great!

Just remembered:

Ghost
Gremlins
Desperately Seeking Susan (loved this! - really wanted a pair of boots like Madonnas!)

[seashell]

The soundtracks used to be good didnt they to lots of those films -i had Top Gun, Scandal, Lost Boys, Dirty Dancing and Footloose.8)

[Narcissa Malfoy]

The soundtracks used to be good didnt they to lots of those films -i had Top Gun, Scandal, Lost Boys, Dirty Dancing and Footloose.8)

Yes - I had a few too - my favourite was the Dirty Dancing one - used to love Hungry Eyes!

[grockler]

Another vote for Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
"It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."

Oh, and I must have seen Back to the Future about five times in the cinema when it came out.

[Pawpads]

Weird Science.
I've watched it a million times and will watch it a million more.

[Alycat]

Back to the Future and Stand By Me are my definate favorites

[Damsella]

Ferris Bueller :thumb:
Top Gun
Risky Business
Withnail & I
The Draughtsman's Contract

[Pikeypants]

Dirty dancing, absolute fav!
Pretty in pink.
Big!
ooh, heathers IS a good film - which was the other christian slater film where he thought he had a baboon heart?
Stand by me is on more4 now.

Untamed Heart!! But it was the 90's I'm afraid! I loved Christian Slater- especially Pump Up the Volume & True Romance but they were 90's too.

Amadeus was one of my all time fav 80's flicks, as are Highlander, Labyrinth & Steel Magnolias. I love love love the song from Working Girl "Let the River Run" by Carly Simon!

Brat pack: Footloose, Lost Boys, & I think Dirty Dancing should go without saying!

[MrsGucci]

Oh it's got to be Ferris Bueller for me!

"Hey badabadabada zowing bada ... kennedy, kennedy, kennedy" <- who know's why but it's stuck in my head for god knows how many years!

Other favs include:

Anything with Corey Haim (OMG I used to LURRRVE him!)
Lost Boys
Breakfast Club / Pretty in Pink (Duckie can now be seen in 2 and a half men with Charlie Sheen, excuse me but both have seen better days!)
Young Guns and Young Guns 2 (What's not to like, Keifer, Charlie, Emilio, Lou all in one film!)

Sal
x

[redhed]

Isn't Pretty Woman an '80s film? And one of my all time "I'm feeling down about something and need cheering up" DVDs. Must see if I can dig it out....

Top Gun is good but you have to watch it (as we all did at Uni in the 80s) while wearing Ray-ban aviators.

[tigger71]

Another vote for Heathers here, also Back To The Future, Romancing The Stone, Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure, Ghostbusters and Girls Just Want To Have Fun - The Movie (featuring a very young Sarah Jessica Parker!)

Pretty Woman was released in 1990 although I think it was made in 1989 so technically it counts as an 80s movie!

[tinkerbell]

FOOTLOOSE!!!! OMG Kevin Bacon :lurve: and dancing :cloud9:

[Miss Frosty]

Top Gun without a doubt! :wink:

Older brother at the time, watched it continually before joining the RAF to become an Air Traffic Controller so it was ALWAYS on in our house at some point!!

MF

[Badgirl]

Full Metal Jacket

Hope and Glory

Back to the Future

[Jelly]

Heathers
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles - this is hilarious, especially the scene at the end where he says 'I brought your panties back' and then they snog (or pash, I would have said back then :lol: )

[sapahesi]

Same as everyone else I think! Back to the Future :rock: (all 3 but esp no 2), Dirty Dancing, The Goonies (I was so happy this was on TV at the weekend!!).

But none of Tom Cruise's films - I cannot stand that man and Top Gun makes me want to vomit :rolleyes:

[flipflop]

Dirty Dancing, it was on again on Sunday night and I rmembered LOADS of the dialogue. I really want to see the musical now.

[So Happy]

Yes Dirty Dancing was the film I just had to watch again and again and again.

I must of been one of the few people that haven't see Top Guy and Ferris Bueller yet.

[skylark]

Oh there are sooo many. As a spotty teenager I would spend every weekend at the movies with my mates....

Dirty Dancing
St Elmo's Fire
Footloose
Pretty in Pink
Ferris Beuler
Back to the future
Weird Science
War Games
Goonies
Top Gun
Cocktail
Blue Lagoon
Cocoon
Dead Poets Society
Karate Kid
Private Benjamin

Phew there are so many.....At the time I hated the 80s but now I think it was a great era. My clothes were questionable, my music was odd but I had a great great time.

[guinness]

Bill and Ted! :grin:
and dirty dancing, obv :wink:

[Squeaker]

"Hey badabadabada zowing bada ... kennedy, kennedy, kennedy"

Mrs Gucci, for 20 odd years you've been hearing wrong - Cameron says "He better, he better, he better, he better, swing (serwing) better"?

My faves were

Ferris B
Weird Science
War Games (Greetings Professor Falken, the only winning move is not to play)
Goonies (At the moment I can def do the truffle shuffle - bugger!)
Top Gun
Dead Poets Society (I love House as I get to drool over RSL)
Dirty Dancing
St Elmo's Fire
Footloose
Karate Kid
Adventures in Babysitting
The Breakfast Club

[bluecow]

Mrs Gucci, for 20 odd years you've been hearing wrong - Cameron says "He better, he better, he better, he better, swing (serwing) better"?

It's actually "Hey batter, batter, batter, batter, s-wing batter"

:wink:

[Squeaker]

Bluecow, I was wondering actually when I typed whether to opt for better or batter. I hear it differently every time I watch it. I had to ask DH what he thought it was and he swung me towards 'better' but I may have to have a sneaky watch this afternoon to see what todays ears are hearing :grin:

[Hellina]

i loved most of the ones mentioned here already but the reason i came on this thread was to rave about the lost boys, it's still in my top 3 films ever!
i had the book,the soundtrack (i bought it 3 times on vinyl, cassette and cd) the video twice because i had to buy it again when i moved to the US. and now dvd !

i was obsessed with it for a long timw and would watch it over and over. i have a mate who periodically texts me a line from and i reply with the next line! qiute sad really
I didn't discover it untill the early ninties though so does that count? I would have sold my family for jason patric!!!


also loved ghostbusters 1 and 2.