The best film of the 80s...

[brucef]

Without a doubt the best film of the 1980s was Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Definitely. Without a shadow of a doubt. Or was it Ghostbusters? Actually, the Burbs was pretty good too...

So what WAS the best film of the 80s?

[ToonlistGuy]

I was thinking Ghostbusters even before reading the main message. That was buy far my fave film of the 80s. I went to watch it for my birthday with 4 mates.

The Library Ghost REALLY scared my mate, so much so that he covered his face up and screamed like a small girl. At the time he was VERY traumatised, but apparently his rehabilitation went well, and he's returned to be a fully functioning member of the community.

So Ghostbusters gets my vote.

And Gremlins. [:I]

That which does not kill us, only makes us stranger.

[Tallulah]

I was a sucker for films like Ferris Beuler's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire etc...

I was always thinking about running away to America just so that I could attend high school over there [:I]

I was also a fan of films like Brewsters Millions, The Tall Guy and War Games - always the ones with happy endings and no killing - owt for a happy life!

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[Chickin]

My vote goes to the Empire Strikes Back. Absolutely fantastic !!

I also liked Mannequin and all those really naff horror films like American Werewolf, the Howling, Return of the Living Dead etc. etc. My friends and I would get an older brother to rent them for us on Beta video tapes (do you remember them?)

[tarquin911]

quote:Originally posted by brucef

Without a doubt the best film of the 1980s was Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Definitely. Without a shadow of a doubt. Or was it Ghostbusters? Actually, the Burbs was pretty good too...

So what WAS the best film of the 80s?

[katie cole]

This is a hard one, the breakfast club is way up there, also ferris buller, st elmos fire, pretty in pink, class, that was a very funny one, also a bit saucy.
I agree with tallulah, all the american high school ones, it made our dreary british schools look so bad!

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[Rodney]

Breakfast Club is my hands down favorite movie of the 80's. It's still in my top 100 favorite movies of all time.

[She Unlimited]

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Ferris Beuler's Day Off,

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My favorite, how about E.T.

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[PhoenixDown]

Wow this thread made me realize how bad todays movies are!

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[Elmo]

Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, Pretty In Pink all great movies. Nightmare in Elm Street I love, even though our teacher showed it to us on the last day of school (we were 16), and it scared the **** out of me

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[Rains]

Breakfast Club was a very good film. When I first sat down to watch it on TV I had the feeling it wouldn't live up to the hype, but it did. Pretty powerful stuff. Can't remember any of that happening in my class room days.

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[jules]

I love st. elmos fire. It that film where i first fell in love with the gorgeous Andrew McCarthy!! Loved him in mannequin too. There were too many good, classic movies made in the 80's to choose a favourite though.

[swervey]

Nah, it has to be Rita Sue and Bob too,which perfectly sums up how depressing the eighties realy were.Though the film itself is highly amusing it is a very precise image of these sorry times.

[edshuck]

I liked Star Wars. For all the techie reasons. And of course Sir Alex. I saw it in San Francisco when it opened and again in Lagos, Nigeria when it opened.

Some of my all time favorites are Its a mad mad mad mad world, A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, and The mouse that roared.

Good thread

[mummybear]

Too many for me to pinpoint

Legend, LadyHawke, Breakfast Club, Dirty Dancing, for starters

[beta tapes? I have a box full]