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Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:11 pm
by Art_Teacher
80's movies! I've decided to celebrate the end of summer with a 1980's filmfest on our big screen. So what are your favorite, classic 80's movies? I want to make sure I don't forget any.
So far, I have:
Pretty in Pink
The Breakfast Club
Big
St. Elmo's Fire
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:13 pm
by katarria
I totally love the Breakfast Club!! We just won an "80's Movie Night" basket from a raffle - we got like 10 new DVD's!!
I'm also a fan of Big, Splash, Mannequin (I think that's what it's called - not sure on that one), FB's Day Off, and Beetlejuice (was that 80's?)
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:14 pm
by Art_Teacher
I forgot about Mannequin! I loved that movie! Beetlejuice was the end of the 80's, I'm pretty sure.
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:17 pm
by MOM2SNOX
Well dayum! You got all MINE! LOL!
Here's a few extras...
Footloose
Flashdance
E.T.
Back to the Future
16 Candles
Risky Business
Dirty Dancing
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:18 pm
by Panda
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
I think that was the 80s...
I loved Ferris Bueller and Footloose too. Actually, I love most 80s movies!
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:19 pm
by Art_Teacher
LOL! How could I forget Footloose and Back to the Future? I love Kevin Bacon and Michael J. Fox....Tom Cruise used to be one of my faves, too. Top Gun, anyone? Now, he's just wacko.
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:20 pm
by MamaK321
...dh is a freak I tell ya
lmao
The Big Chill
Short Circuit
Police Academy
Weird Science
Stripes
Private Benjamen
Ghost Busters
Red Dawn
Goonies
The Last Starfighter
and then I found a pretty good list here also, scroll to the list at the bottom (
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/celebrit ... ist_1.html)
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:22 pm
by MOM2SNOX
Yep, was gonna mention Top Gun too :P
How about..
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Stand By Me
The Goonies
Beetlejuice
The Princess Bride (one of my ALLTIME favorites!)
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:28 pm
by Art_Teacher
Kristi, that is a great list! I love most of those movies, and there are a few I'd forgotten about...Short Circuit and Stripes are two more of my faves! I'm starting to feel so old, because most of my students haven't seen half these movies, and they don't know the actors/actresses I am talking about, either. It's scary!
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:31 pm
by MOM2SNOX
Stripes! OMG! That movie was watched in our house on a daily basis! My brother and I could repeat the movie verbatim!
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:37 pm
by MOM2SNOX
My 16 y/o DS is reading this over my shoulder and suggested the following:
TRON (gotta love the sci-fi ones)
Blade Runner
History of the World Part I
Half Baked
OMEN
Poltergeist
The Exorcist
Black Dog
Con-Air
Road House
Animal House
National Lampoon
Labrynith
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:42 pm
by mkcdaisy
Girls Just Wanna have Fun (sarah jessica parker the early years)
Breakin (for this break dancing memories)
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:43 pm
by butterfly843
Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller are my two favorites.
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:34 pm
by AnnOminous
I think The Exorcist came out in the 70's.Animal House is either the late 70's or very early 80's, like 1980 or early 81.
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:05 am
by Scraprat
Beverly Hills Cop
The Empire Strikes Back
Coal Miner's Daughter
Urban Cowboy
The Exorcist, The Omen (the original) and Animal House were all 70's movies. ConAir was 1997 or so.
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:55 am
by SarahA
Dh's fave 80's movie is Blues Brothers. I have to admit I like it, too.
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:10 am
by ajsmom
What about Grease or was that too early?
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:31 am
by 4peasinourpod
Princess Bride....LOVE that movie. LOVE.
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:50 am
by Indy Scrapper
My dd is an 80's kid and she loves all the ones that have been listed. Naturally, I have seen them all more than once being her mom. I do have a few that I watch over and over.
Footloose
Dirty Dancing
The Big Chill
Re: Name your favorite
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:05 am
by DN in MN
I was also thinking of Grease
and what about the Gremlins