Nostalgia…
As I sit here and wait for the WordPress for iPhone front-end…
I ponder are these truly the 12 most awesome movies of the 80s.
My criticisms:
- Can’t really remember Repo Man
- GI Joe the Movie shouldn’t be on the list. It was a made-for-TV movie, not nearly the quality of the Transformers movie
My Honorable mention (partially ripped from the comments of the original post):
- Better Off Dead / One Crazy Summer (the start of the Legend of John Cusack)
- Real Genius (Iceman as an ubergeek)
- Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter / Russell strike again)
- TRON (Hollywood’s meets Silicon Valley… well… the boy-to-girl ratio in the movie was right.)
- Can’t Buy Me Love (the start of the Legend of Patrick Dempsey)
- Caddyshack (NOONAN…. nooooonooooNOONAN)
- Ghostbusters (shh… smell something?)
- Trading Places (The best of SNL casted movies)
- Beverly Hills Cop (vociferous Eddie Murphy swearing at it’s best)
- Back to the Future (Alex P Keaton as the hero)
- All the Right Moves (Friday Night Lights before Friday Night Lights)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Classic)
- The Road Warrior (Mel…)
- Stand By Me (Wil Wheaton, Chubby Jerry O’Connell, River Phoenix and one of the Coreys)
- Fletch (c’mon… it’s Fletch)
- Pick a John Hughes movie with a member of the Brat Pack.
Things that started in the 70s and continued into the 80s that were pretty good.
- Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi
- Aliens
- Superman II
