Totally Awesome Awful 80's Movies!!!

[Oberon]

The Sure Thing.

 

[MacGuffin]

The granddaddy of them all:

 

[Thalassa]

Nah, apparently you're forgetting about Risky Business ^^^^

Has anyone mentioned Less Than Zero? Or Clue...that's my all-time favorite.

 

[MacGuffin]

Nah, apparently you're forgetting about Risky Business ^^^^

Nothing tops Top Gun! Take my breath away...

Or Clue...that's my all-time favorite.

 

[tinkerbell]

ah St Elmo's fire, pure cheese but I loved it
Manequin love andrew McCarthy had that feed me thing about him
Terms of Indearment
Fame - the original
Grease
Nightmare on elm streets - freddies back
Omen
Texas chain saw massacer
Annie
An officer and a gentleman
Fredy bwelers day off (?sp)
Gohst busters

snuff for now

we should do this for music too... kid creole and the coconuts - oh annie i'm not your daddy

 

[Thalassa]

ah St Elmo's fire, pure cheese but I loved it
Manequin love andrew McCarthy had that feed me thing about him
Terms of Indearment
Fame - the original
Grease
Nightmare on elm streets - freddies back
Omen
Texas chain saw massacer
Annie
An officer and a gentleman
Fredy bwelers day off (?sp)
Gohst busters

snuff for now

I St.Elmo's Fire too!!!

You know, I totally made a thread about the old Nightmare on Elm Street...but ftr, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Omen are not only 70's films, but are considered to be great horror movies. I think the original Chainsaw is one of the scariest movies ever made.

 

[tinkerbell]

Still the 80s were cheesy horror movies usually not to horrific, fair enough on the 70s bit, but they are hardly "good" horrors, although I find the genre a bit ridiculous, why would you entre a room without the lights on etc....

 

[Thalassa]

Still the 80s were cheesy horror movies usually not to horrific, fair enough on the 70s bit, but they are hardly "good" horrors, although I find the genre a bit ridiculous, why would you entre a room without the lights on etc....

Well if you're a horror person, Omen and Chainsaw are considered "good" horror...so are The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, The Shining....bad horror is largely composed of 80's slasher flicks though, I agree...

 

[thirtiesgirl]

"Say Anything."

You can never forget John Cusack holding up that boom box.

EDIT:

Lloyd Dobler is my ultimate fantasy boyfriend.

Who could forget these?

Legend

YouTube - The Lord of Darkness - Tim Curry voice

War Games

YouTube - WarGames trailer

Nine To Five

YouTube - Clips of Dolly Parton from 9 to 5 movie

 

[onceuponatime]

Has The Breakfast Club been mentioned yet?

 

[tinkerbell]

Loved Freddy, but then that was because he was misunderstood

Ecorcist is good but really slow and is really of it's da. Rosemary's baby is just a bit dull to be honest. Loathed the shining,

The 80s did have a LOT of slasher movies

I never really got into the Friday 13th movie series....

Black Christmas was my all time fave (? 80s), because it has a creepy ending and doesn't conclude.

I was also big on Stephen King type stuff and books by James Hrbert, although I loved the Magic Cottage best - which is more creepy than true blue horror

The whole Porkeys series was awful

 

[Thalassa]

Loved Freddy, but then that was because he was misunderstood

Ecorcist is good but really slow and is really of it's da. Rosemary's baby is just a bit dull to be honest. Loathed the shining,

The 80s did have a LOT of slasher movies

I never really got into the Friday 13th movie series....

Black Christmas was my all time fave (? 80s), because it has a creepy ending and doesn't conclude.

I was also big on Stephen King type stuff and books by James Hrbert, although I loved the Magic Cottage best - which is more creepy than true blue horror

The whole Porkeys series was awful

How can anyone loathe The Shining???!!!

Yeah, Black Christmas is a scary old one ...I actually own that one on DVD....I read all of the Stephen King books growing up, and actually tend to think of them almost more as drama than horror. Brian De Palma's Carrie I think is one of the best film interpretations of a Stephen King novel. I'm a huge horror fan, though, so we'll have to agree to disagree on this.

Yeah...Porky's is so awful I can't even watch it...lol

 

[onceuponatime]

I love Porky's. . .

 

[tinkerbell]

I've been informed Black Christmas is a 70s movie too. Just thought the shining was obvious, lacked real suspence... is all....

but hey we can have different tastes

 

[Thalassa]

I've been informed Black Christmas is a 70s movie too. Just thought the shining was obvious, lacked real suspence... is all....

but hey we can have different tastes

I'm a really visual, atmosphere person when it comes to films...I even loved the recent Brideshead Revisited film because of the atmosphere, even though it got panned by critics because it isn't as true to the book as the early 80's BBC series...The Shining has so much atmosphere I could just watch it over and over again...

 

[Quinlan]

Guy from a landlocked place moves to Hawaii and starts surfing, gets in trouble with a hawaiian surfer gang, falls in love with one of their sisters and learns how to surf good and then wins a competition.

Or something.

Edit: I found the name, it's called North Shore.

 

[Oberon]

Remember Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis in The Fly?

 

[Moiety]

 

[Thalassa]

I had to watch that for Film Appreciation in college...and I was like lolwut? but I suppose it demonstrates the Hollywood formula in the Sci-Fi genre

 

[Moiety]

I had to watch that for Film Appreciation in college...and I was like lolwut? but I suppose it demonstrates the Hollywood formula in the Sci-Fi genre

Or how bad you are at Film Appreciation