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The Greatest 80s Movies - Channel 5
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As usual what utter lazy, half-hearted rubbish. I think every film in the list was American and even if the director was British you can guarantee it was made in America.
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02. Dirty Dancing (1987)
03. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
04. The Goonies (1985)
05. The Breakfast Club (1985)
06. Ghostbusters (1984)
07. Die Hard (1988)
08. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
09. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
10. Big (1988)
11. Gremlins (1984)
12. Top Gun (1986)
13. When Harry Met Sally.... (1989)
14. Stand by Me (1986)
15. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
16. The Lost Boys (1987)
17. Beetlejuice (1988)
18. 3 Men & a Baby (1987)
19. Footloose (1984)
20. Trading Places (1983)
21. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
22. Pretty in Pink (1986)
23. Blue Velvet (1986)
24. Fatal Attracion (1987)
25. Weird Science (1985)
26. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
27. Crocodile Dundee (1986)
28. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
29. Fame (1980)
30. The Karate Kid (1984)
31. Working Girl (1988)
32. Flashdance (1983)
33. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
34. St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
35. Rocky IV (1985)
36. Splash (1984)
37. Tootsie (1982)
38. Nine and a 1/2 Weeks (1986)
39. Risky Business (1983)
40. Wall Street (1987)
No Shining, no Blues Brothers, no Long Good Friday, no Empire Strikes Back, no Return of the Jedi, no Airplane!, no Elephant Man, no Superman II, no Time Bandits, no Raiders of the Lost Ark, no Blade Runner, no The Thing, no Poltergeist, no Dark Crystal, no Labyrinth, no Gregory's Girl, no Local Hero, no Rambo, no National Lampoon's Vacation, no Friday the 13's, no Christmas Story, no Terminator, no Police Academy, no Top Secret!, no Spinal Tap, no Brazil, no Aliens, no The Fly, no Flight of the Navigator, no Ruthless People, no Princess Bride, No Withnail & I, no Predator, no Raising Arizona, no Naked Gun, no Rain Man, no Willow, no Fish Called Wanda, no Coming to America, no Parenthood, no Batman....
I have just finished watching the show. Thanks to ads i recorded it instead. And i thought it was ok , great to relive some brill 80's films. There was lots i love and lots i don't. Like everything in life it is subjective.
We all like different things.
The 80's being the best decade for films they simply couldn't fit them all in. Some of my faves Mannequin and any christian Slater 80's film. They get slated by critics and may not be the most successful but they are still to me great.
There was other big films missing - any terminator film , sixteen candles , batman , airplane! , the shining , fast times at ridgemont high , star wars films , alien , blade runner , robocop , the princess bride , labyrinth , the blues brothers , rain man.
I could go on & on.
You can't fit all the great 80's films into just 40. It is impossible. A great decade for films and i could see why most made the chart whether i am a fan or not.
It was an ok chart and not one to take seriously. There are hundred of top 80's films list everywhere and all are different.
You just simply can't fit them all in.
Was weird though that of the original 3 Indy films the least popular one got on the list. God knows how Raiders didn't make it.
Its just personal opinion though. Everybodys top 40 would be different depending on personal taste.
You have named 40 films that were'nt on the list, but surely not even all those would make your own top 40 ?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), $435 million
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), $309 million
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), $290 million
Batman (1989), $251 million
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), $245 million
Ghostbusters (1984), $238 million
Beverly Hills Cop (1984), $234 million
Back to the Future (1985), $210 million
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), $197 million
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), $179 million
As they were the biggest grossing?
Think about it, you only know if the movie is good if you watch it. The marketing may be really good for an ok film so more people go and see it!
1: little mermaid
2: labyrinth
3:ghostbusters (and 2, as well)
4: siixteen candles
5: blue lagoon
6: muppets take manhattan
7: who framed rodger rabbit
8:little shop of horrors
9:splash
10:Friday the 13th (3D)
A bit of a girly list. But I'm surprised more of these films aren't in the list.....
He ranted about watching Top Gun as a young boy, young? He would have been 4.
Were there any James Cameron movies in the list?
All the bit in bold ones appeal to me.
Add the darker Disney stuff like The Black Cauldron and Watcher in the Woods. (I'd add the Black Hole but that was 79)
I thought that.
More of a cult classic that one. Christian Slater was to die for in that film
The monster squad. Everyone saw it on VHS, noone will release it on DVD.....
It's on Region 1 if you have a player that can handle it.
I've been watching a lot of the classic 80s movies on netflix. Some hold up (D.A.R.R.Y.L holds up), some don't (Solar Babies, Krull, and Cloak and Dagger are awful)
Nor 'The Abyss' which may not be the greatest movie ever made(although I love it) but was a major landmark in CGI.
None the less, how on earth were 'The Terminator', Aliens and Blade Runner not in the list, not to mention the others that you have listed
They should have called it 'Some films from the 80s'.
I don't think the horror films with a lot of gloop such as The Thing and The Fly were universally popular ?