what are some of your favorite movies from the 1980s, and can you leave just a brief summary about the film?
2007-05-20 18:59:04 · 35 answers · asked by dontXpanic 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Ghostbusters, hands down
2007-05-20 19:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by S4M F1SHER 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant, before the Nazis...
The Shining (1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future
Raging Bull (1980)
A biographical film about the middleweight champ, the physically tough, but emotionally self-destructive Jake LaMotta.
Aliens (1986)
The planet from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, enough?
Amadeus (1984)
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.
The Elephant Man (1980)
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.
2007-05-20 19:11:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I even have multiple famous video clips from the Eighteen Eighties; besides the undeniable fact that, the cheesy ones from that decade that I take exhilaration in watching are: The Pirate movie (1982) Grease 2 (1982) nighttime Of The Comet (1984) the guy with One pink Shoe (1985) Twilight Zone: The movie (1983)
2016-10-05 11:25:46 · answer #3 · answered by schiraldi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a few of my fav 80's films
Officer and Gentleman - Richard Gere and Debra Winger
Big - Tom Hanks, wanted to be big at a fair ground
The Colour Purple - Whoopey Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey -
Die Hard - Bruce Willis - classic
Dirty Dancing - Patrick Swayze
Rain Man - Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman - brilliant
E.T - Childrens classic
Man with two Brains - Steve Martin
Planes Trains and Automobiles - Steve Martin, John Candy
The Fly - Jeff Goldbloom
Fatal Attraction - Glenn Close, Michael Douglas
Back to the Future - Michael J Fox
Elephant Man - John Hurt
2007-05-21 01:39:39 · answer #4 · answered by Joanne A 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In order:
Raiders of the Lost Ark - 81
Gandhi - 82
Back to the Future - 85
Die Hard - 88
Field of Dreams - 89
Aliens - 86
Full Metal Jacket - 87
The Empire Strikes Back - 80
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - 82
Ghostbusters - 84
Trading Places - 83
The Shining - 80
Raging Bull - 80
The Road Warrior - 82
The Right Stuff - 83
Poltergeist - 82
Stripes - 81
The Terminator - 84
Tootsie - 82
Big - 88
2007-05-21 05:03:47 · answer #5 · answered by Bob Mc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
release date august 22 1986
2007-05-20 19:09:05 · answer #6 · answered by Jordun B. 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rain man - D. Hoffman and T Cruise - 1988
After an Tautistic savant (D Hffman) inherits three million dollars from his deceased father, his younger brother, in an attempt to trick him out of the money.
3 men and a baby - S. Guttenberg - T. Selleck, 1987
The 3 men - an actor, an architect and a cartoonist - share a swanky pad where they entertain a steady succession of one-night stands. This all changes when a woman appears at their apartment one day with the actor's illegitimate infant. Dad happens to be out of town at the time, so it's up to his two woefully inexperienced roommates to deal with the baby that has been abandoned to their care.
Moonstruck - Cher - N. Cage, 1987
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance's brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
2007-05-20 19:28:09 · answer #7 · answered by A S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
GarbagePail Kids, Little Shop of Horrors, Back to the Future, Beverly Hills Cop but the best has got to be The Lost Boys..
2007-05-21 01:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ghostbusters, all the Brat Pack movies, Dirty Dancing, and The Goonies
2007-05-20 19:08:16 · answer #9 · answered by Stacy S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
HI .My favorite movie was ET..The Extra Terrestrial made in 1982. It is about a lovable alien who gets left behind on Earth as his space ship returns home.He is discovered by a young buy in the barn of his home and a special friendship develops between the two.
2007-05-20 23:48:47 · answer #10 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Back to the Future hand down!
Set in 1985. 17 year old Marty McFly (Micheal J Fox) accidently travels back in time to 1955 in his friend Doc Browns (Christopher Lloyd) time machine. He uses up the plutonium needed to timetravel and accidently stops his mother and father meeting. He then has to find a way to get his parents to meet before he destroyes his own future!
Age cert: PG also stars: Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F Wilson, Claudia Wells, Billy Zane
2007-05-21 06:22:43 · answer #11 · answered by x-Alex_the_lion-x 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋