Whats your picks of 80's (and early 90s) movies?

[Cloudy147]

Hi all,

I do love a good 80's/90s film, there was just something very film-ic about them. They felt real, without being too real. Perfect escapism.

I fancy watching some that I might hve missed and wondered if you had any recommendations? Any genre other than horror, as I'm not into those.

My picks, most of them obvious, and some slightly creep into the early 90s, which is OK too

Commando
Bloodsport
Kickboxster
Ferris Beuler
Career Opportunities
Uncle Buck
Terminator
No Retreat, No Surrender
A Few Good Men
Under Seige

Whats your suggestions, comedy/action/drama etc even obsure ones - be great to find some gems that might have been missed!

[cuprabob]

Weird Science, just for Kelly Le Brock

[Oil Trash]

Breakfast club - might be a Molly ringwald influence
Top gun just for the flight scenes

[viggyp]

I still love watching 80's movies. My faves are:

The Terminator
Nightmare on Elm St
Transformers The Movie
Goonies
Trading Places
Cannonball Run
Porkys
Lost Boys
Stand By Me
Weird Science
Breakfast Club
Christine
Police Academy 1 - 3

Edit: I'd like to add Big, Outrageous Fortune and Ruthless People

Just at the top of my head mind.

[phope]

Coming to America
Aliens
Predator
Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Obvious choices but good ones.

[williamp]

True romance
Desperado

And from the mid 90s
Ronin
Taxi (original version, in french)

[viggyp]

phope said:

Coming to America
Aliens
Predator
Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Obvious choices but good ones.

Damn, there should've been at the top of my mind.

[anonymous-user]

Big Trouble in Little China - Carpenter at his best with a hilarious performance by Kurt Russell

[jontymo]

My favourite era of films:

Heat
Roadhouse
Ronin
Goonies
Indiana Jones
Point Break
Red Dawn
Tombstone
Pulp Fiction
From Dusk Till Dawn
Highlander
The Untouchables
Tron
Wall Street
Lethal Weapon
Die Hard
I give up now and let somebody else have a go LOL

[Johnnytheboy]

Excalibur.

[bimsb6]

The mask just for cameron diaz !

[dudleybloke]

Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous.
Spies like us.
Dragnet.
Trading Places.
Robot Jox.
To live and die in LA.
Night of the running man.
Split Second.
Raw Deal.
Red Heat.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Red Dawn

[Radec]

There's just too many good films, to me personally it's the best era for films.
All we get now is style over substance with full on CGI and poor reboots.
Still get some crackers but the amount of bad films outweigh the good.

[anonymous-user]

Well he's just a raggedy man!

[mick987]

cuprabob said:

Weird Science, just for Kelly Le Brock

As a teenager I spent many an afternoon in my bedroom thinking about Kelly Le Brock (always thought I had a shot as she had terrible taste in men)

[irocfan]

dudleybloke said:

Raw Deal.
Red Heat.

Just watching Raw Deal (and enjoying it). Watched Red Heat a couple of months back - loved it

[Old_Skool_Fool]

Some different ones that can fly under the radar, but I quite like:

The Hitcher 1986 C. Thomas Howell & Rutger Hauer
Hardware 1990 Director: Richard Stanley
The Crow 1994 Brandon Lee
Reservoir dogs 1992
The Abyss 1989 Directors cut
The Beast of War 1988 Jason Patric
Das Boot 1981(?)

As mentioned above, the original French version of Taxi with Luc Besson is well worth a shout, even with subtitles, it's still a really good film, and the driving scenes are so overlooked. Looks a bit cheesy, and at times is, but by the end of the film I found myself not bothered about the cheesy bits, and enjoyed and remembered the rest of the film instead.

A bit cheesy but I always kinda liked The Hunt for Red October 1990, and super cheesefest Independance Day 1996.

[ReallyReallyGood]

Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 always cheer me up. Simple but entertaining fun.

[Lee_sec]

Transformers: The Movie (1986)