Best movie of the 80's?


Could be, do you think any of these can beat BTTF?
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Aliens
3. Batman
4. Ghost-busters
5. The Thing

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That's pretty diverse genre list. Maybe 1 and 2 but I can't say I cared for 4 and 5 and Batman I think I could I could take it or leave it.

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i tried watching that first batman film in 86, gave up halfway through , never watched another batman film.

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If you're talking about the Tim Burton directed Batman, that was '89. It was a movie that lacked a plot and was about as campy as the '60s version, just in a different style. Give Batman Begins or The Dark Knight a watch. Much better.

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Definitely prefer "camp" over pretentious darkness.

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I would say its between Ghostbusters, BTTF and Raiders. It would be a tough one to call though.

1. BTTF
2. Ghostbusters
3. Raiders

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The Thing
Platoon
Midnight Run
Raiders
Robocop

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No ET, Die Hard or Empire Strikes Back??!!

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I loved Die Hard and Empire Strikes Back was my favorite Star Wars movie!
I never really liked E.T. as much as the general public did.

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No Breakfast Club?

Or any other John Hughes movie for that matter?

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is very high up on my list!

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No. Definitely not.

Okay, I liked some of Hughes' films as back in the day, but to put it politely, they haven't stood the test of time.

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I still think The Breakfast club is a great movie. Its irrelevant that its an obvious 80´s movie. The message of the movie still applies even 34 years later.

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Planes Trains and Automobiles holds up.

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I think I like Back to the Future and all these other movies just as much. Also I don't like the hate Batman gets. Also anyone who thinks it's as cheesy as the 60s show needs to watch the 60s show again cause it was a lot darker than a single second of the 60s show.

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I just thought of The Road Warrior, it could give BTTF a run for it's money.

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Ain’t none of these on the level of The Whoopie Boys.

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Commando
Rambo
Aliens
Raiders of the Lost Ark

The 80s belong to Action.

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Maybe 80's had it all, scifi, action, comedy, drama. 90's were a big dropoff, 00's even worse, today it's over.

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No like every era there is good and bad.

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Uhm no, the 90s were a great movie era.

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« the 90s were a great movie era. »

Yeah, but it does actually give the impression that it was a bad decade for movies. But recently I’ve made a top 50 of my favorite movies of all times and was surprised by how many movies from the 90s were in it.

But still, for some reason the decade does give the impression to stink, which is totally misleading.

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I think movies really started to decline around 2005..it was after the LOTR era and Hollywood had just started to make a bunch of crap movies to be in theaters one day then practically on DVD the next day. Maybe Dukes of Hazzard movie is the line of demarcation?

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