Shining was my easy #1, maybe more favorite horror ever. Masterclass in every aspect.

Die Hard was my second.

Die Hard right there with Aliens and Terminator as the Holy Triumvirate of 80s action that transcends the decade.

The Shining didn't make my list but Die Hard most certainly did, all the way to #3. Next to The Terminator it is the single greatest action movie of the decade, and I wouldn't blame anyone in the least for choosing Die Hard over it. This movie is SO important to the action genre, as it pretty much created the wise-cracking everyman action hero that is featured so commonly now. Still NO ONE does it better than Bruce Willis's John McLane.

I'm telling you all Top Gun or Back to The Future better be #1 or I don't know what to say.

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Ghostbusters
3. Princess Bride
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. Raiders of the Lost Arc
10.
11. Goonies
12. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
13.
14.
15. Beetlejuice

All I know is I had a very different 80's movie watching experience than most of you. Some of it is because I'm a chick that didn't grow up watching horror movies (or Aliens, Terminator or Predator), but there are some definitive 80's films not on this list that I feel should be and I even nixed RotJ, Police Academy, my favorite Clint Eastwood films and any Bond movies.

You’re potentially at like a 50% hit rate for your movies though , which is on par or better than the lot of us. I don’t think we had that different of movie experiences really...

I think only 6 of my movies made the list. Lionheart is usually lucky if he gets two movies.

Cinema Paradiso for number 1 or we riot/Lionheart.

I'm pretty sure BTTF will be number 1 while Top Gun was my number 15. Since the trailers have come out for Top Gun: Maverick it would probably place higher now. I really love the shot of Maverick's F-14 complete with MiG killer markings on the pedestal as he drives up on his motorcycle in the trailer, chills. 

Dec 31, 2019 0:39:08 GMT UT said:

You’re potentially at like a 50% hit rate for your movies though , which is on par or better than the lot of us. I don’t think we had that different of movie experiences really...

I think only 6 of my movies made the list. Lionheart is usually lucky if he gets two movies.

Well neither of those is saying much. You hate everything and Lionheart is...eccentric.

I think we are all probably at about the same. And I love movies. Except bad ones , or annoying ones like The Shining.

Dec 30, 2019 18:46:42 GMT UT said:

Fuck The Shining , massively overrated here by being voted as the #3 80's movie of all time. I really don't like the movie at all and will never go back to it. And it's shown up enough to where I figured we could go ahead and post an actual deserving movie this high ... one of , if not the greatest action movie of all time and the template of everything we went on to see in the 90's.

Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean it’s overrated. Fantastic movie with a top of the line performance from Nicholson. Way better movie than Die Hard.

Die Hard is also awesome and a fantastic Christmas movie. Glad both movies made it. I have to agree with Emperor though that Terminator is better than Die Hard.

Dec 31, 2019 0:30:25 GMT iron maiden said:

I'm telling you all Top Gun or Back to The Future better be #1 or I don't know what to say.

All I know is I had a very different 80's movie watching experience than most of you. Some of it is because I'm a chick that didn't grow up watching horror movies (or Aliens, Terminator or Predator), but there are some definitive 80's films not on this list that I feel should be and I even nixed RotJ, Police Academy, my favorite Clint Eastwood films and any Bond movies.

I already don’t know what to say that one of the two movies missed the list. Crazy. Both made mine. If neither make it, I will hack destroy the forums.

Why does being a chick mean you didn’t watch horror movies or Aliens / Terminator / Predator? What’s different between those and something like Star Wars?

Dec 31, 2019 15:18:36 GMT Lionheart said:

Dec 30, 2019 18:46:42 GMT UT said:

Fuck The Shining , massively overrated here by being voted as the #3 80's movie of all time. I really don't like the movie at all and will never go back to it. And it's shown up enough to where I figured we could go ahead and post an actual deserving movie this high ... one of , if not the greatest action movie of all time and the template of everything we went on to see in the 90's.

Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean it’s overrated. Fantastic movie with a top of the line performance from Nicholson. Way better movie than Die Hard.

Die Hard is also awesome and a fantastic Christmas movie. Glad both movies made it. I have to agree with Emperor though that Terminator is better than Die Hard.

Yes it does , but thanks.

Dec 31, 2019 15:32:53 GMT UT said:

Dec 31, 2019 15:18:36 GMT Lionheart said:

Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean it’s overrated. Fantastic movie with a top of the line performance from Nicholson. Way better movie than Die Hard.

Die Hard is also awesome and a fantastic Christmas movie. Glad both movies made it. I have to agree with Emperor though that Terminator is better than Die Hard.

Yes it does , but thanks.

Nope. Prove it. You’re wrong wrong wrong wrong. Nicholson is my HERO. How dare you.

Dec 31, 2019 15:35:18 GMT Lionheart said:

Dec 31, 2019 15:32:53 GMT UT said:

Yes it does , but thanks.

Nope. Prove it. You’re wrong wrong wrong wrong. Nicholson is my HERO. How dare you.

It has nothing to do with Nicholson , the movie as a whole is a drag. The fact that it’s mentioned as the greatest horror movie of all time or highly on most lists you see is was increases my hatred for it. It’s fine.

I know I’m in the minority but the majority can suck it.

1. Back to the Future 

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit. ~ Doc Brown 

Released 

1985 

Credits 

Director: Robert Zemeckis 

Writer: Robert Zemeckis 

Writer: Bob Gale 

Cast 

Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly)

Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown)

Crispin Glover (George McFly)

Lea Thompson (Lorraine)

Thomas F. Wilson (Biff)

Critical 

#37 Rated Movie of All Time (IMDB)

8.5/10 (IMDB)

96% (RT Critics)

94% (RT Audiences)

Box Office 

Domestic: $211,159,762 

Worldwide: $388,355,305

At the Oscars 

- Winner for Best Sound Effects 

- Nominated for Best Original Screenplay 

- Nominated for Best Sound 

- Nominated for Best Original Song 

Dec 31, 2019 15:40:16 GMT UT said:

I know I’m in the minority but the majority can suck it.

I love it. Time to rant.

Die Hard stinks and is not a Christmas movie.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is dated trash.
Back to the Future is worse than the above but everybody worships it as some kind of masterpiece of cinema when it's just a silly film with a silly gimmick and time travel never makes sense in anything.
I haven't seen Ghostbusters.
I haven't seen The Goonies either but it looks really really dumb.
Blade Runner is boring, all style and no substance.

I know I'm in the minority but the majority can...

SUCK IT!!!!!!!!

The runaway winner for #1 , over 40 points higher than Die Hard and 70 points higher than #3 The Shining. And I think it really deserves it , I've seen the movie a ton throughout the years and even after a recent rewatch with the kids there is no doubt just how well this holds up in every aspect. I'd even go as far to say that it's a perfect movie - the screenplay was meticulous and it shows with the hundreds of little details and gags that they played off from , the characters are great , the comedy is still hilarious .. it's just awesome and perfectly and encapsulates what was so great about 80's movies to me. I'll never get tired of going back to see Back to the Future. Or even the sequel which I also love. Good job PW on getting the right #1.

Dec 31, 2019 16:38:49 GMT Emperor said:

Dec 31, 2019 15:40:16 GMT UT said:

I know I’m in the minority but the majority can suck it.

I love it. Time to rant.

Die Hard stinks and is not a Christmas movie.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is dated trash.
Back to the Future is worse than the above but everybody worships it as some kind of masterpiece of cinema when it's just a silly film with a silly gimmick and time travel never makes sense in anything.
I haven't seen Ghostbusters.
I haven't seen The Goonies either but it looks really really dumb.
Blade Runner is boring, all style and no substance.

I know I'm in the minority but the majority can...

SUCK IT!!!!!!!!

You have to pay royalties to use that catchphrase! 

Like it or hate it, you cannot dispute it is a quintessential 80's movie.

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Ghostbusters
3. Princess Bride
4. Labyrinth
5. Dirty Dancing
6. Top Gun
7. Pretty in Pink
8. Weird Science
9. Raiders of the Lost Arc
10. Back to the Future
11. Goonies
12. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
13. Splash
14. Road House
15. Beetlejuice

Kind of surprised no Top Gun

1. The Breakfast Club
2. The Terminator
3. The Accused
4. The Shining
5. Heathers
6. Kiki's Delivery Service
7. A Nightmare On Elm Street
8. Commando
9. The Princess Bride
10. The Name Of The Rose
11. An American Werewolf In London
12. Scarface
13. The Entity
14. When Harry Met Sally
15. Risky Business

This was a fun countdown overall , one of our most active too with 9 pages. The 80's were great and I think we did get all the heavy hitters on there at one point or another and covered every genre. Perhaps a Pretty in Pink or 16 Candles to get one more of the Hughes movies on there would have been better but overall I can't fault the list aside from The Shining being #3.

Here's my list.

1. The Breakfast Club
2. Back To The Future
3. Aliens
4. The Naked Gun
5. Raging Bull
6. Batman
7. Die Hard
8. The Terminator
9. Rocky IV
10. The Shining
11. Big
12. Pretty in Pink
13. Robocop
14. The Little Mermaid
15. Beetlejuice

1. Back To The Future
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3. Aliens
4. Die Hard
5. Blue Velvet
6. Princess Bride
7. Ghostbusters
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. Blade Runner
10. The Shining
11. The Thing
12. Mad Max 2
13. Airplane
14. The Elephant Man
15. Terminator

I love how dark Back to the Future starts. Marty's life is pretty meager and the one interesting thing he has going for him is shot down within minutes of the movie starting. Threw the passage of time, not only is he able to achieve his own redemption, but also give his parents their own opportunity. It's such a cathartic experience and the way the movie crescendos with Marty trying to return to his own time period is for my money the most thrilling sequence put to film. After all these years, that movie still gets me.

Great scott indeed.

I nearly forgot about Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it's one of my favourite movies of all-time. Before the Avengers, WFRR was the greatest movie cross-over in cinematic history and it was a dream come true watching all these famous characters interact inside their own world. The noir setting provides a nice contrast to the lunacy and I always enjoyed the moral of the movie.

Blue Velvet has one of the better endings in film history, and Lynch's earlier work the Elephant Man may have the most bittersweet. I notoriously despise the biographical genre, but the Elephant Man stands alongside Ed Wood as one of the better inclusions in the sub-genre.

The rest of my list is boring. They're all great movies - UT is wrong, Emperor is wrong, RT is definitely wrong and when The Kid grows up he'll also be wrong.

Happy New Years ya filthy animals.

Emperor

6. Kiki's Delivery Service

I didn't think porn counted?

Good call on Who Framed Roger Rabbit Big Pete .

1.The Empire Strikes Back
2.The Terminator
3.Die Hard
4.Raiders of The Lost Ark
5.Blade Runner
6.Back to the Future
7.Trading Places
8.Coming to America
9.Lethal Weapon
10.Raging Bull
11.First Blood
12.Scarface
13.Highlander
14.Big Trouble in Little China
15.The Goonies


Back to the Future was my 6, and I have no complaints about it being #1 as it has the same adventurous spirit/thrills as my top 5 but is more accessible to a general audience. It's suitable for adults yet makes a great family film as well.

I am slightly disturbed by the lack of Eddie Murphy love, as both Trading Places and Coming to America are both stone cold comedy classics

Fuck this noise.

Back to the Future!?!?

I could see it cracking the list in the neighborhood of E.T. but come on.

Then again, I just never got the love for that movie.

Participants: 𝓹𝓲, UT

𝓹𝓲
God
*****
Dec 9, 2019 at 8:21pm Quote
So many good movies as well as childhood favorites. Hard to choose, even harder to rank. Kicking this out before I overthink it. Wife should submit a list that looks radically different.

𝓹𝓲's:
1 .) Platoon
2 .) Hamburger Hill
3 .) The Transformers: The Movie
4 .) Die Hard
5 .) Aliens
6 .) Full Metal Jacket
7 .) Dead Poets Society
8 .) When Harry Met Sally...
9 .) Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
10 .) The Princess Bride
11 .) The Terminator
12 .) The Shining
13 .) First Blood
14 .) Predator
15 .) RoboCop

𝓹𝓲
God
*****
Dec 11, 2019 at 9:50pm Quote
Wife's:
1. Clue
2. Beetlejuice
3. The Little Mermaid
4. The Fox and the Hound
5. Ferris Beuller's Day Off
6. The Princess Bride
7. Coming to America
8. When Harry Met Sally...
9. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
10. Splash
11. Big
12. Heathers
13. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
14. Land Before Time
15. All Dogs Go To Heaven

I was way off, Die Hard was my #11, Back to the Future was my #2, which makes sense endlessly rewatchable.

Also, fun fact: I was released the same day as Back to the Future-July 3rd, 1985.

1. Back To The Future
2. Ghostbusters
3. Die Hard
4. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
5. The Shining
6. Raging Bull
7. The Terminator
8. Aliens
9. Platoon
10. The Breakfast Club
11. This Is Spinal Tap
12. The Blues Brothers
13. A Nightmare On Elm Street
14. E.T.
15. Top Gun

Like the Platoon love from 🤯 . From a purist aspect still my favorite war movie. Apocalypse Now has it's own corner in the genre. Surprised no Full Metal Jacket.

I actually prefer Sixteen Candles to Pretty In Pink since I've seen that one pop up on a few lists. Hughes's Molly Ringwald formula was running dry, he stopped at the right time.

No brainer number 1, my favorite movie of all time. Strangely though I actually haven't watched it in a few years.

About half my list missed out.

1. The Shining
2. Back to the Future
3. Airplane
4. Scarface
5. The Terminator
6. The Thing
7. Little Shop of Horrors
8. Nightmare on Elm Street
9. Spaceballs
10. Beetlejuice
11. Die Hard
12. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
13. Princess Bride
14. Full Metal Jacket
15. The Untouchables

No spoof love with both Airplane and Spaceballs missing. Same with the horror masterpiece with a master class in practical effects in the Thing.

Dec 31, 2019 16:38:49 GMT Emperor said:

I love it. Time to rant.

Die Hard stinks and is not a Christmas movie.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is dated trash.
Back to the Future is worse than the above but everybody worships it as some kind of masterpiece of cinema when it's just a silly film with a silly gimmick and time travel never makes sense in anything.
I haven't seen Ghostbusters.
I haven't seen The Goonies either but it looks really really dumb.
Blade Runner is boring, all style and no substance.

I know I'm in the minority but the majority can...

SUCK IT!!!!!!!!

It seems you took this opportunity to immediately burst out all your pent up rage that has been building throughout this entire list. By posing it in a ridiculous fashion like this where it is all stacked up, you avoid pissing anyone off with rage because they just assume you are a silly man. I love it.