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re: Forgotten great 80's movies you loved

Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:57 am to
Posted by Duane Dibbley
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Posted on 4/10/18 at 11:57 am to
Superfuzz
Body Heat
Black Rain
8 Million Ways to Die
Puppet Master
52 Pick-Up
Rawhead Rex
C.H.U.D.
Top Secret!
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Tin Men
Posted by boxcarbarney
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Posted on 4/10/18 at 12:07 pm to
I grew up on cheesy 80s Sci Fi and Fantasy movies, so I have a few that I absolutely love:

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Staring a young Molly Ringwald, and Michael Ironside as OverDog.

Beast Master

Blood of Heroes
Starring Rutger Hauer

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

Krull

House and House 2 Ding Dong, you're dead

Steel Dawn

And probably a bunch more that I've forgotten. The 80s really were a great time for these kinds of movies that didn't take themselves too seriously.
Posted by messyjesse
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 4/10/18 at 12:48 pm to
Dragnet. Favorite Dan Aykroyd performance. Young Tom Hanks. Kathleen Freeman has a killer bit part too.
Posted by KingBarkus
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 4/10/18 at 1:14 pm to
Vice Squad
Posted by 88Wildcat
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:41 am to


Posted by Darkknight
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:46 am to
Came out in summer of 79', but ran on Skinamax during early 80's....


Posted by meeple
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:58 am to
Not sure if it's forgotten, but I loved the Beastmaster. Would watch it every time and hope every time that something changed and the ferret wouldn't die
Posted by blueboy
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 10:39 am to
There are way too many. I keep seeing some of them occasionally on cable. The Wraith came on the other day and I had to watch it. Hot Pursuit with John Cusack came on last week.

Movies like RAD and Real Genius are hardly forgotten, though. Movies like Dreamscape and Dragonslayer never get talked about.
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 11:02 am
Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 10:55 am to
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid


I loved this one and The Man with Two Brains as well, both done by Carl Reiner. You can't even order Man with Two Brains on Netflix.

Another favorite 80's comedy - Strange Brew.
Posted by the paradigm
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 4:48 pm to







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Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 8:04 pm to
Oh, and

Monty Python's Meaning of Life

This had some of the best stuff that Python ever did. It pushed comedy beyond a lot of people's comfort zones and had a mixed reception. But I watched it at least 5 times at the theater that used to be just north of the LSU campus, and thought it was fantastic. And still do.
Posted by udtiger
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:22 pm to
Nighthawks was a damned good movie.

Definitely a different face for terrorists.
Posted by jTy
Fayetteville, AR
Member since Jan 2018
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 10:23 pm to
Going pirate only:
Savage Island aka Nate and Hayes (Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O’Keefe)
The Island (Michael Cain, David Warner)
The Pirate Movie

Guessing first two would hold up pretty well today. Last i remember to be pretty campy.
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