re: UNSTICKY PLEASE - 100 Movies We Agree Don't Suck: 80's Edition

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Is it movies we now agree don't suck or is it movies we didn't think sucked back in the 80's? Cuz there's a few I loved back in the 80's that I think suck now and there's some I wouldn't watch cuz I thought they were sucktacular then or they were Chick flicks and I was a teen who would never get caught watching a Chick flick.

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Pick your poison. We are open to either. Although I would answer that with the "now," with the now really meaning, "Movies that will never suck."

1. Caddyshack
2. Risky Business
3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
4. Stand By Me
5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
6. The Outsiders
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Raising Arizona
9. Big
10. Sixteen Candles
11. National Lampoon’s Vacation/Christmas Vac
12. Less Than Zero
13. The Breakfast Club
14. The Sure Thing
15. Fletch
16. Die Hard
17. Back to the Future
18. Valley Girl
19. A Christmas Story
20. Naked Gun

Missed the cut:
Weird Science, Repo Man, Beverly Hills Cop, Karate Kid, Scarface, Red Dawn, Field of Dreams, Trading Places, The Natural, Gremlins, Terms of Endearment, Taps, The Shining, Top Gun, The Big Chill, Dead Poets Society, Pretty In Pink, Urban Cowboy, Stripes, Officer and a Gentleman, ET, Airplane!, Diner

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damn. you left it off twice

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damn. you left it off twice

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Being that it's a baseball movie, he should've listed it thrice on the "out" list.

I haven't looked at any comments, so I'm sure some of these have already been made fun of, but oh well.

I have not seen some of these since the 80's, but they left a lasting impression. I know that other movies that I loved in the 80's did not survive a recent rewatch, so some of these may suck as well. However, they were awesome when I was a kid or teen.

1 Raiders of the Lost Ark
2 They Live
3 Die Hard
4 Bull Durham
5 Empire Strikes Back
6 Aliens
7 First Blood
8 The Terminator
9 Caddyshack
10 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
11 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
12 Lethal Weapon
13 The Hitcher
14 Back to the Future
15 To Live and Die in L.A.
16 The Karate Kid
17 Risky Business
18 Better off Dead
19 Trading Places
20 The Shining

The 80’s hit me from ages 4-14. So for me, the 80’s movies were more about comedy, action/adventure, and coming of age than it was drama, art, tone,and message/theme etc. I judge these not really as a 35 year old taking these movies out of context, but more as a nostalgic child of the 80’s. These movies were more about magic for me and all that other crap you believe in before you become an adult. Also, there’s Platoon.

1 Goonies (T’was the best mixture of adventure, comedy, and coming of age)
2 Empire Strikes Back/Jedi- Really on this list for Empire but I’ll claim ROTJ as a kid.
3 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark/Temple of doom
5 Breakfast Club
6 Back to the future
7 Airplane!
8 Stand by me (the best King adaptation not named Shawshank)
9 Karate Kid- The only movie not named Rocky IV that I cheered in theatres for (I was 9)
10 A Christmas story
11 E.T.
12 Hoosiers
13 Princess bride
14 Clue
15 Aliens
16 Die Hard
17 Beverly Hills Cop
18 Rocky IV and III (don’t care if they were cheesy)
19 Caddyshack
20 Platoon


The 20 that didn't make it in no particular order...

Real Genius
Weird Science
Fletch
Eight men out
Trading places
Who framed roger rabbit
Vacation
Coming to America
Bull Durham
The gods must be crazy
Big
Mr Mom
The Shining
This is Spinal Tap
Raising Arizona
The Hollywood Knights
Spaceballs
The Toy
Glory
Fatal Attraction isn’t going to be ignored, Dan!!


Notable movies I have never seen or completed: Blade runner/Raging Bull/the killing fields/the last emperor/ran/once upon a time in america/midnight run/Amadeus/prizzi’s honor/blue velvet/last temptation of Christ/brazil/my left foot/miller’s crossing/out of Africa/gandi/dangerous liasons

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That's awesome. I think many of the posters your age used similar values when making their list. I was already an adult during those times but a few "kid's movies" still made my list. That was a great decade for adventure films and just outright "fun" movies. Looking at all the "fun" movies on everyone's list makes me kind of jealous of you guys. I may have to make up a list of favorites from my childhood (six-16)& post them with a disclaimer in my list post. I don't think there will be nearly as many fun ones.

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i voted in others, and one thing that struck me was the lack of really good comedies in the 90's and 2000's and then i wondered if i thought that because of my age.
i was much more likely to choose deeper, darker movies for 90's and 00's or movies with messages. Most of the movies i picked were like picking out rides i liked. since the 80's framed me from 4-14 they were the movies that hit me before high school and college.

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1. E.T.
2. Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back
3. Fanny And Alexander
4. Come and See
5. Cinema Paradiso
6. Stand By Me
7. The Wings of Desire
8. Field of Dreams
9. Blue Velvet
10. The Princess Bride
11. The Breakfast Club
12. Batman
13. Pee-Wees Big Adventure
14. The Ballad of Narayama
15. Raising Arizona
16. Brazil
17. Berlin
18. Akira
19. Crimes and Misdemeanors
20. Terminator

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Empire is going to win this.

Glad someone else had Cinema Paradiso - it's the movie made for lists like these - a childhood story about the love of cinema.

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i would like to write, but only for rocky iv and/or first blood: part ii

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Ok, we'll see if they make it.

1 Cinema Paridso
2 Full Metal Jacket
3 Die Hard
4 Blood Simple
5 Airplane
6 Blues Brothers
7 Raising Arizona
8 The Princess Bride
9 A Christmas Story
10 Ghost Busters
11 Terminator
12 Major League
13 Star Wars
14 Field of Dreams
15 Back to the Future
16 Ferris Buellers Day off
17 The Secret of Nihm
18 Moon Struck
19 ET
20 Amadeus

Just Missing: Who Framed Rodger Rabit, Never Ending Story The Untochables, Planes Trains and Automobiles, An American Tail.

Final list

just in time