The biggest problem with Hollywood movies during that time is that everybody was trying to make the next big blockbuster after the success of Star Wars and Jaws. It really caused a creative decline in Hollywood and it wasn't until the early '90s that Hollywood started producing great movies again. It also didn't help matters that some of the most talented directors from the '70s such as Terrence Malick, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Roman Polanski all began to either decline, went into a slump, or in Malick's case stopped making movies altogether during the '80s. Combine all of that factors together and you have one of the weakest decades in film history.

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Posted by Govt Tide

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Posted on 4/9/12 at 6:16 pm to Unbiased Bama Fan

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The biggest problem with Hollywood movies during that time is that everybody was trying to make the next big blockbuster after the success of Star Wars and Jaws. It really caused a creative decline in Hollywood and it wasn't until the early '90s that Hollywood started producing great movies again. It also didn't help matters that some of the most talented directors from the '70s such as Terrence Malick, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Roman Polanski all began to either decline, went into a slump, or in Malick's case stopped making movies altogether during the '80s. Combine all of that factors together and you have one of the weakest decades in film history.

The 80s weren't THAT damn bad for movies especially so with horror films and comedies. In on particular order:

Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Caddyshack
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Aliens (redux)
The Thing
Rocky 3
Rocky 4
This is Spinal Tap
Raising Arizona
Ferris Buehlers Day Off
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
War Games
Nightmare on Elm Street
Evil Dead series
Friday the 13th
Driving Miss Daisy
Vacation series
Die Hard
Beverly Hills Cop series
48 Hours

and many others

It isn't on the level of 70s as far as epic groundbreaking movies but it still had plenty of good stuff. It was just good in the less respected genres of horror and comedy.