Best movie of the 80's

[Loppan Torkel]

1. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. The Shining (1980)
4. Back to the Future (1985)
5. Aliens (1986)
6. Das Boot (1981)
7. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
8. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
9. Hotaru no haka (1988)
10. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
11. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
12. Amadeus (1984)
13. Raging Bull (1980)
14. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
15. Die Hard (1988)
16. The Elephant Man (1980)
17. Blade Runner (1982)
18. Ran (1985)
19. Scarface (1983)
20. Tonari no Totoro (1988)
21. The Thing (1982)
22. Platoon (1986)
23. Stand by Me (1986)
24. The Princess Bride (1987)
25. The Terminator (1984)
26. Gandhi (1982)
27. Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)
28. Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
29. Rain Man (1988)
30. The Untouchables (1987)

From IMDB, by user score.

Which is your favorite? What's overrated/underrated? Could a movie be selected as best without making a forum game out of it?

 

[holy king]

how is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation missing from that list?

 

[Disgustipated]

My top 4 (from the list)

The Terminator
Das Boot
Blade Runner
Die Hard

edit: I forgot Blade runner, so I'll change it to my top 4

 

[bhsup]

• Red Dawn
• The Terminator
• Conan The Barbarian
• Some Kind Of Wonderful

WOLVERINES!!!!


Link to video.

 

[Borachio]

In no particular order, my 4 favourites from that list:
Das Boot
Amadeus
Gandhi
Blade Runner

 

[JollyRoger]

The Gods Must be Crazy
Airplane!
Wall Street

 

[gangleri2001]

Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2

 

[NedimNapoleon]

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. The Shining [REDRUM]
3. Raiders of the lost Ark
4. Blade Runner

 

[Angst]

Blade Runner is too low on that list...

 

[shadowplay]

 

[Antilogic]

List missing some classics like Gymkata, Xanadu, Flash Gordon, Howard the Duck, and the other half of the Stallone's repertoire.

 

[Crezth]

Miyazaki represent!

 

[Angst]

Completely forgot about this!!

 

[Borachio]

List missing some classics like Gymkata, Xanadu, Flash Gordon, Howard the Duck, and the other half of the Stallone's repertoire.

"Flash Gordon?", I thought. "Too early," says I, to myself.

But, on checking, it's dated 1980.

Stallone you can keep. (Though this ofc is only my opinion, and means nothing.)

 

[Puck Nutty]

*In before someone points out that the '80's didn't start until 1981*

In no particular order:

Aliens.
Das Boot.
Return of the Jedi.
Blade Runner.
Ran.
The Princess Bride.
The Terminator.

 

[Antilogic]

"Flash Gordon?", I thought. "Too early," says I, to myself.

But, on checking, it's dated 1980.

Stallone you can keep. (Though this ofc is only my opinion, and means nothing.)

It's a stretch--all the movies I mentioned regularly appear the worst movies of the 1980's lists. Except for Flash Gordon, but I thought it was pretty bad.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Link to video.

 

[Puck Nutty]

Oh yeah, I forgot Ghostbusters, too.

 

[Glassfan]

Turn It up to Eleven!


From the list;

Das Boot
Amadeus
Blade Runner
Platoon
The Princess Bride
Gandhi

My own favorites;

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Zelig (1983) -Woody Allen classic
Stripes (1981) -Bill Murray at his best
Popeye (1980) -Robin Williams
The Natural (1984) -Robert Redford
Excalibur (1981) -Wagner Represents!
The Color Purple (1985) -best-film-ripped-off-by-the-Academy-because-it's-Black.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) -serious greatness
Beetlejuice (1988)
A Christmas Story (1983) -you'll shoot your eye out!
Dune (1984) -the best version
Kagemusha (1980) - another Akira Kurosawa film
Labyrinth (1986) -David Bowie
The Last Emperor (1987)

 

[Leonel]

Where's Robocop?