80s films were crap. Yes? No?

[Elpenor]

Crap poll. Can’t vote for 99% AND some of the best films ever made were in the 80s.
And who’s gonna vote 50%

Don’t mess with the poll you get the horns

 

[Griff]

Saw The Fly at the pictures back in '86, that still stacks up as a good film.

 

[Aladdin]

Beaches

I cried when I watched it first time but watched it during lockdown and thought it was just middling in terms of acting and storyline. Awful script. Great song.

 

[Kaka Tim]

not previoiusly mentioned (i think) - Dangerous Liasons, Emerald Forest, Mona Lisa, Sid and Nancy, princess bride, who framed roger rabbit?, withnail and I, my beautiful laundrette, bill and ted ... fucking loads of good films and a fair few all time classics.

ETA - some crackers on this list. The 100 Greatest Movies of the 1980s

 

[Knotted]

I think my five favourite 80's movies were

Plague Dogs
Stalker
Flash Gordon
Videodrome
Ran

Not necesssarily in that order.

 

[Spymaster]

Ferris Buellers Day Off Spymaster ? Did you watch it in the 2020s and still think it was great?

No point arguing about individual films because that'll always be subjective. I think loads of films that others rave about are shit.

Point is that the 80s were probably no better or worse for films than most other decades.

 

[Orang Utan]

Just had a butchers at some internet lists of the best films from the 80s and hear are some less obvious ones:
Local Hero
Miracle Mile
Matewan
Brother From Another Planet
Near Dark
The Vanishing
Withnail & I
Drowning By Numbers
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover and His Roasted Penis
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Return Of The Jedi
Midnight Run
Atlantic City
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Do The Right Thing
Hollywood Shuffle
Trading Places
48 Hours
Beverly Hills Cop
Heathers
Drugstore Cowboy
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
The Killer
The Long Good Friday
Evil Dead 2
Top Gun
Akira
My Dinner With Andre
Big
My Beautiful Launderette
My Neighbour Totoro
The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
Escape From New York
The Thing
Big Trouble In Little China
Prince Of Darkness
They Live
Risky Business
Repo Man
Elephant
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Rumble Fish
The Outsiders
Birdy
Moonstruck
Vampire’s Kiss
This Is Spinal Tap
The Man With Two Brains
Raging Bull
The King Of Comedy
After Hours
Paris, Texas
The Right Stuff
An American Werewolf In London
Stop Making Sense
Blow Out
Scarface
The Untouchables
Casualties Of War
Platoon
Salvador
Wall Street
Something Wild
Brazil
Time Bandits
Come & See
Stranger Than Paradise
Down By Law
Mystery Train
Shoah
Ran
She’s Gotta Have It
School Daze
Scanners
Videodrome
The Dead Zone
The Fly
Dead Ringers
Stand By Me
Once Upon A Time In America
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
Ski School

Bored now, but there’s loads more

 

[Griff]

No point arguing about individual films because that'll always be subjective. I think loads of films that others rave about are shit.

Point is that the 80s were probably no better or worse for films than most other decades.

Judging by the masses of good '80s films mentioned so far, I'd say the '80s were a far better decade than say 2010-2020.

 

[Chz]

I will say it was a rough decade for Oscar winners. Out of the 10, I'd only want to watch Amadeus over and over again and maybe The Last Emperor wasn't too bad.

 

[Elpenor]

Cinema Paradiso came out in the 80s too

 

[ruffneck23]

Good morning Vietnam
A nightmare on Elm street
48 hours
Platoon
The blues brothers.

Load of others.

 

[Griff]

Haven't seen Betty Blue in years.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Ghostbusters is absolutely fucking dreadful. I was astonished at how bad it was on a recent rewatch.

 

[poppy60]

I agree ,definitely overhyped.

 

[poppy60]

Just had a butchers at some internet lists of the best films from the 80s and hear are some less obvious ones:
Local Hero
Miracle Mile
Matewan
Brother From Another Planet
Near Dark
The Vanishing
Withnail & I
Drowning By Numbers
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover and His Roasted Penis
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Return Of The Jedi
Midnight Run
Atlantic City
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Do The Right Thing
Hollywood Shuffle
Trading Places
48 Hours
Beverly Hills Cop
Heathers
Drugstore Cowboy
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
The Killer
The Long Good Friday
Evil Dead 2
Top Gun
Akira
My Dinner With Andre
Big
My Beautiful Launderette
My Neighbour Totoro
The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
Escape From New York
The Thing
Big Trouble In Little China
Prince Of Darkness
They Live
Risky Business
Repo Man
Elephant
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Rumble Fish
The Outsiders
Birdy
Moonstruck
Vampire’s Kiss
This Is Spinal Tap
The Man With Two Brains
Raging Bull
The King Of Comedy
After Hours
Paris, Texas
The Right Stuff
An American Werewolf In London
Stop Making Sense
Blow Out
Scarface
The Untouchables
Casualties Of War
Platoon
Salvador
Wall Street
Something Wild
Brazil
Time Bandits
Come & See
Stranger Than Paradise
Down By Law
Mystery Train
Shoah
Ran
She’s Gotta Have It
School Daze
Scanners
Videodrome
The Dead Zone
The Fly
Dead Ringers
Stand By Me
Once Upon A Time In America
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
Ski School

Bored now, but there’s loads more

We have seen quite a few of these and have them.

 

[Idris2002]

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[Idris2002]

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[Magnus McGinty]

My son likes Ghostbusters and Gremlins. Both were a bit cheesy but in a fun way.

Alien and Terminator are both masterpieces. I won’t let him watch those yet though.

E2a Alien actually 1979 lol.

 

[8ball]

So many great mid-budget horrors.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Best decade ever

Once Upon A Time In America
Paris Texas
Diner
Repo Man
Melvin and Howard
Wings Of Desire
Fitzcarraldo
Raging Bull
The King Of Comedy
Salvador
Blue Velvet
Angel Heart
Cutters Way
Videodrome
Down By Law
Stranger Than Paradise
Stop Making Sense
9½ Weeks

and even, yes, Wall Street

 

[Spymaster]

Best decade ever

Once Upon A Time In America

Hadn't thought about gangster flicks.

Would have to add:

Scarface
The Long Good Friday
The Untouchables
Colors

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I think my five favourite 80's movies were

Plague Dogs
Stalker
Flash Gordon
Videodrome
Ran

Not necesssarily in that order.

Being picky, Stalker's 79.

I was chatting to a friend about that film recently, and he called it The Stalker, which I'd never heard before. It's never called The Stalker, but I think it probably should be.

I've never seen Plague Dogs. One I should watch.

 

[CNT36]

Ghostbusters is absolutely fucking dreadful. I was astonished at how bad it was on a recent rewatch.

If you can ignore the reaganomics and the fact Venkeman's obviously a rapist it's still a good watch.

 

[CNT36]

I've tried to enjoy ET I really have but it's just so boring. I'm not 100% sure I have seen it the whole way through just because so little of note happens and it just won't hold my attention. My recollection is Goblin, teddy bears, army men, push bike, moon, spaceship. Somewhere in there it points at a phone. I feel like I've spent days watching it and that's all I can tease out.

 

[Humberto]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

 

[Chilli.s]

If you can ignore the reaganomics and the fact Venkeman's obviously a rapist it's still a good watch.

Saw it at the cinema in the 80's, enjoyed it. Recent re-watch found it to be dreadful, only managed 30 mins

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Terrible films are what made the ‘80s. Along with terrible hair dos and terrible fashion.

 

[CNT36]

Hadn't thought about gangster flicks.

Would have to add:

Scarface
The Long Good Friday
The Untouchables
Colors

I remember really liking colors when I was a kid. I remember fuck all about it now mind.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

If you can ignore the reaganomics and the fact Venkeman's obviously a rapist it's still a good watch.

Venkman's rapistness is one of the things that really cannot be ignored. It's vile.

 

[belboid]

A couple more worth mentioning (even though the OP has obviously been completely obliterated already)

Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Come and See
King of Comedy