FabSwingers.com forum: best 80's movie of all time....

By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

one for the movie snobs....

goonies??

back to the future??

raiders of the lost ark??

Ferris beullers day off???

this one caused rows in the pub.... lol

and off you go!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ermm never any of them. not a film buff and wouldnt have a clue when films were made.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any John Hughes film....but if forced to give an answer........Pretty In Pink.

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By *oublewodkaWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Any John Hughes film....but if forced to give an answer........Pretty In Pink.

Hear hear!!

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By *oublewodkaWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Any John Hughes film....but if forced to give an answer........Pretty In Pink.

Hear hear!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lemon Popsicle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mcvicar

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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Any John Hughes film....but if forced to give an answer........Pretty In Pink.

there are 2 answers to the question...

if we are talking "80's movie".. then I would take the breakfast club over pretty in pink!!! I know Controversial!!!

in fact.. i am going to more controversial... Ferris was underated... so was Adventures in babysitting!!!

if we are talking "best film made in the 80's"... then I am taking the empire strikes back!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

defo pretty in pink or any other of the brat pack films...rob lowe in st elmos fire, mmmmmmmmm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lots of choices but for me out in front the thing. For its time outstanding effects.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's earlier than the 80's but Once upon a Time in America is a good film.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Any John Hughes film....but if forced to give an answer........Pretty In Pink.

there are 2 answers to the question...

if we are talking "80's movie".. then I would take the breakfast club over pretty in pink!!! I know Controversial!!!

in fact.. i am going to more controversial... Ferris was underated... so was Adventures in babysitting!!!

if we are talking "best film made in the 80's"... then I am taking the empire strikes back!!! "

I never really warmed to The Breakfast Club, undoubtedly it is a great 80's teen angst film but PIP, (and its mirror opposite....Some Kind Of Wonderful), for me, just epitomises the 80's with the have's and the have not's culture of that decade.

Adventures In Babysitting is my all time favourite

guilty pleasure and criminally under-rated.

My favourite comedy of the 80's is Johnny Dangerously starring Michael Keaton in a slapstick comedy set in the gangster era of 1930's Chicago.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and if you're a fan of all things 80's and its pop culture, head over to the Stuck In The 80's podcast at http://stuckinthe80s.libsyn.com/

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By *ovable roguesCouple
over a year ago

GATESHEAD

boyz in the hood

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

Footloose!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being Scottish...how could I forget.......Restless Natives, which has probably the greatest score to any film in the 80's.

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By *lentyoffun40Couple
over a year ago

Lancashire

Gotta have to be ET or TOPGUN

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

TOPGUN!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lost Boys

Goonies....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Breakfast club

Lost Boys

Stand by Me

Platoon

Field of Dreams

Akira

Big

Labyrinth

Wierd Science

La Bamba

Born on the 4th of July

Who Framed Rodger Rabbit

Weekend at Bernies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I carnt believe no one has mentioned

Star Trek 3 : the search for Spock

Lol

But seriously there are so many 80's films you would probably have to split them into type...

I go with back to the future ..

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By *taffsfella1Man
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

The Blues Brothers

Beverly Hills Cop

Gremlins - I still do an impression of Gizmo saying "bwight wight" whenever someone switches a light on lol

Karate kid - "wax on, wax off"

Innerspace

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

Chariots of Fire

Ghandhi

Little Shop of Horrors - my most watched film ever

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't forget ghostbusters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Breakfast club

Lost Boys

Stand by Me

Platoon

Field of Dreams

Akira

Big

Labyrinth

Wierd Science

La Bamba

Born on the 4th of July

Who Framed Rodger Rabbit

Weekend at Bernies"

Oooh alot of my favs on that list!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Purple Rain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Breakfast club

Lost Boys

Stand by Me

Platoon

Field of Dreams

Akira

Big

Labyrinth

Wierd Science

La Bamba

Born on the 4th of July

Who Framed Rodger Rabbit

Weekend at Bernies

Oooh alot of my favs on that list!

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bit of a film nut

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the blues brothers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Withnail and I pure quality. Still use the phrase urgh I feel like a pig has shit in my head. !

Do like purple rain as well had a amazon splash a few weeks ago and saw it . Acting is terrible liked the music though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Robocop.

Trains plains and automobiles.

Uncle buck

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By *ored1001Man
over a year ago

wigan

Jaws

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By *taffsfella1Man
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

I was going to say Jaws but it was 70s

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

I would have said Marathon Man or Midnight Express but neither quite made it to the 80's.

So I will go for The Killing Fields.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All time best one has to be Stand by me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"TOPGUN!!!"

Yep!!!!

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"the blues brothers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No one said 'Ferris Buellers Day Off' yet? Well let me just slide that one in here for y'alls consideration.

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Heathers.

Nuff said.

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By *taffsfella1Man
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

"No one said 'Ferris Buellers Day Off' yet? Well let me just slide that one in here for y'alls consideration.

Only the OP but it's sunday morning so we'll let you off

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Batchelor Party is really funny, with a very young Tom Hanks starring in it. Our youngest son loves it even though it was made before he was born lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Big

Platoon

Die Hard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

trading places

indiana jones films

the blues brothers

die hard trilogy

star wars original films

beverley hills cop trilogy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Star Wars Empire Strikes Back

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Back to the Future

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Children's movie is goonies

more grown up movie has to be dirty dancing.

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By *wingerdelightCouple
over a year ago

eastliegh

has to be

withnail

platoon

jaws

black hole

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cocktail

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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

It was a great decade for movies.. So I will throw out a few more...

Trading places

Terminator

Roadhouse

Risky buisness

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By *wingerdelightCouple
over a year ago

eastliegh

"It was a great decade for movies.. So I will throw out a few more...

Trading places

Terminator

Roadhouse

Risky buisness"

ohforgot about terminator

that has to be the top of the list

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was flatliners an 80s flick?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

flight of the navigator!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its not really a contest is it !!! Clearly it has to be Dirty Dancing by far the greatest 80s film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm about to say something controversial, but I stand by it....dirty dancing has got to be one of the WORST films ever made! Beyond cheesy, terrible dancing for the most part and swayze gives me the creeps! Can honestly say, I wish I'd never seen it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Top and tailing the decade (both excellent but not sure id say best)

The Elephant Man (Though technically a 70's film as it was released in Jan 1980)

Goodfellas (Could be considered a 90's film but production started in 89)

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

roger rabbit mmm jessica xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

desperately seeking susan.

Ruthless people.

Short Circuit.

Uncle Buck.

Mannequin.

Predator.

An American warewolf in london.

Gremlins.

Beetlejiuce.

Labyrinth

To many to mention

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trading Places... or... Deep Inside Ginger Lynn...

Just can't make me mind up which I prefer out of those two...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breakfast club

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"one for the movie snobs....

goonies??

back to the future??

raiders of the lost ark??

Ferris beullers day off???

this one caused rows in the pub.... lol

and off you go!!!

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platoon

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

Untouchables

The fugitive

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

Was "Debbie does Dallas" an 80's film? Or maybe even "Deep Throat"

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By *els_BellsWoman
over a year ago

with the moon n stars somewhere in gtr manc

Probably most have been said,

Gremlins

Flashdance

Pretty in Pink (great song aswell)

Breakfastclub

The Goonies

Stand by Me

Lost boys (put me off Chinese food for years)

Dirty Dancing

Risky Business

Top Gun

Weird Science

Woman in Red

The Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor films. (I know they started mid to late 70's)

I think my dvd (and video

) collections are mainly 80's great era!

Great thread Fabio

Will be digging some of these out to watch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was "Debbie does Dallas" an 80's film? Or maybe even "Deep Throat"

Both 70's I'm afraid...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Top Gun. Back to The Future. Mannequin. Dirty Dancing. Turner and Hooch. Karate Kid. Lethal Weapon.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Top Gun. Back to The Future. Mannequin. Dirty Dancing. Turner and Hooch. Karate Kid. Lethal Weapon."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Streets of Fire. I am Tom Cody.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Find it odd that so many have said Platoon, yet not one mention of Full Metal Jacket and the outstanding acting of Vincent D'Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey...not to mention some of the best lines every spoken on film and a superb job of turning bits of the UK into Vietnam

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By *adkatWoman
over a year ago

Alfreton

Breakfast club

Ferris bullet

Lost boys

Terminator

Dirty dancing

Bill and ted

Risky business

Gallipoli

And way too more to mention

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Platoon,dirty dancing, cocktail and dirty dancing...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Breakfast club

Lost Boys

Stand by Me

Platoon

Field of Dreams

Akira

Big

Labyrinth

Wierd Science

La Bamba

Born on the 4th of July

Who Framed Rodger Rabbit

Weekend at Bernies

Oooh alot of my favs on that list!

bit of a film nut

me too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The lost boys

Ferris Beullers day off

The goonies

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By *riendly foeWoman
over a year ago

In a crisp poke on the A814

Raiders.....By long shot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lost boys

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mad Max

The Thing

Spaceballs

Blade Runner

Leathel Weapon

Rambo

to name a few

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breakfast club

Some kind of wonderful

Pretty in pink

Cocktail

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Soo many to choose from, as the 80s was a fantastic decade for films, but some of my favourites are:

Back to the Future

Dirty Dancing

Top Gun

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Flight of the Navigator

The Lost Boys

Big

Mac and Me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"one for the movie snobs....

goonies??

back to the future??

raiders of the lost ark??

Ferris beullers day off???

this one caused rows in the pub.... lol

and off you go!!!

Of these,,,BTTF... obviously...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Beverly hills cop

Mad max 2

Ghostbusters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Betty Blue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh what about The Hitcher....

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