re: What 80's movie has the most 80's feel?

The comedies and cheesy movies are good, but nothing was more 80's than when they were being edgy and cool, for the time. Against All Odds is super 80's in every way, but presented as what people thought was cool, which we did. It's the equivalent of 70's people seeing old pictures of themselves wearing butterfly collars and leisure suits.

I'll add Manhattan Project

Also, maybe not as well known, Liquid Sky and The Hunger

Yeah, I kind of see that.

There is another thing that many people don’t realize about the 80s, and that is there is a generational gap between the early 80s and the late 80s. The early 80s folks were really influenced by a different generation, so it may skew how the whole “80s” are viewed by those who lived it.

Although I graduated high school in 1986, I was only 17 years old, so I consider myself much different from people who are just a year or two older than me for I relate more with the late 80s to mid 90s, musically and culturally really - which makes me one the older gen-exers.

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Good lord, Sherilyn Finn in white cowboy boots and Daisy Dukes, whoa

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Good lord, Sherilyn Finn in white cowboy boots and Daisy Dukes, whoa

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is that the one where she's having sex with a dude as he's changing into a monster

lots of fenn boobies in that movie and they are SPECTACULAR

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The early 80s folks were really influenced by a different generation, so it may skew how the whole “80s” are viewed by those who lived it.

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Yeah...it's one thing to be the same age as the teenagers in the movies and another thing to be a kid influenced by those teenagers in the movies.

I think if you were a kid in the 80's - those movies have more impact than if you were a peer of those on screen.

But back to your point...early 80's have a different feel than late 80's.

It seems 1984 might be the perfect cut-off point. 1983 movies and before just seem to have a different feel - like a different decade.

Early 80's really isn't 80's to me...when I reference the 80's - I'm thinking 1984-1988.

Trading Places

Planes Trains and Automobiles

Back to the Future

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure

Karate Kid


And this personal fav of mine