remember that great John Cusack film 'High Fidelty'? (should be an honorary 80s movie) well heres a HFT5 of my fav 80's films...
1. The Outsiders 2. Empire strikes back 3. Rain Man 4. Ferris Bueller's day off 5. Ghostbusters
Posted by okagirl (Member # 1004) on :
The outsiders is one of the greatest movies ever. I am absolutly in love with it even though i've only seen it a few days ago! Dallas is so hot! Don't you think? i love ghostbusters too!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
1. Some Kind Of Wonderful 2. Die Hard 3. Ferris Beuller's Day Off 4. The Breakfast Club 5. The Sure Thing (had to fit in a Cusack movie somewhere!)
Posted by Jeannie (Member # 260) on :
1)Some kind of Wonderful
Posted by Jeannie (Member # 260) on :
Doh! 2)Pretty in Pink 3)St Elmo's Fire 4)Ferris 5)The Goonies (this list is subject to change coz I'm a fickle bunny!)
Posted by Blake (Member # 75) on :
1 Stand by me 2 Cant buy me love 3 Breakfast club 4 Goonies 5 Ferris buellers day off But i love so many more.
Posted by willman85 (Member # 1215) on :
1. The Breakfast Club/16 Candles 2. Mannequin 3. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 4. The Burbs 5. Coming to America
High Fidelty is a great film (but I prefer the book).
Posted by CruelSummer (Member # 120) on :
1)Say Anything... 2) Mannequin 3) Casual Sex? 4) Shag: The Movie 5) The Last Dragon
Posted by MrHand (Member # 386) on :
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Posted by MrHand (Member # 386) on :
oooppsss. [ Hit Enter before finishing } 1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 2. Wierd Science 3. Breakfast Club 4. 16 Candles 5. Valley Girl
Posted by Officer Partridge (Member # 416) on :
Uhh, I'm confused. Since when are 80's fans concerned with quality?
And by the way, High Fidelity was complete garbage. I had more fun with Showgirls.
Top Five 80's Movies for People Who Love The 80's
1.)Karate Kid 2.)Thrashin' 3.)RAD 4.)Real Genius 5.)Over the Top
HA! You're wrong!
Rainman? Are you a retard?
Posted by Sonny (Member # 503) on :
1)Stand By Me 2)The Goonies 3)The Burbs 4)Explorers 5)Rocky (all of em lol count em as 1 ;))
Posted by Sonny (Member # 503) on :
The Outsiders would b in my Top 5, but i aint seen it ive only read the book :S
i cant find the dvd yet so my list will change :D
as for this moment in time im stickin with my list ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Posted by Bridgette Marie (Member # 88) on :
Who's Officer Partridge??
My top fave 80's movies, though it's really hard to narrow down, would be (in no particular order):
1.The Neverending Story 2.Dream A Little Dream 3.Goonies 4.Hairspray 5.Heathers
(God, that was so hard to narrow down, there are so many greats that I love. Oh and Kash, I also like The Outsiders a lot too. Now that I live pretty close to where the film was made, I can sort of identify with the movie a lot more.When I lived in California, Oklahoma seemed a world away, but now I'm only about a 90 minute drive from Tulsa, and about a 5 minute drive from the state of Oklahoma. I like the Tulsa mall).
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
Never Ending Story was about as close as it comes to filming a dream,I kinda liked Heathers too Bridgette, but only coz I'm a Winnona Ryder fan, even though the head bitch who gets whacked with a cup o bleach was just so good, at being bad.
Posted by mina19972000 (Member # 964) on :
hey, i'm new. how about this... top 5 dream guys who could never exist in real life. 1.) john cusack in say anything 2.) jon cryer in pretty in pink 3.) jeff goldblum in earth girls 4.) eric stoltz in some kind of wonderful 5.) alan ruck in ferris
Posted by Bridgette Marie (Member # 88) on :
Hey Mina,
Welcome, and great new topic! And you're right, most of those dream guys could never exist in real life! Except for the Jon Cryer-type character in Pretty In Pink.I knew a guy in highschool named Randy who had such a big crush on me, and he acted a lot like Ducky.He was so annoying!!I couldn't stand him!He was one of those retro-punk rock guys who don't get the hint that you dont like them and follow you around anyways, haha.But it would still be cool to dream about a guy like Jeff Goldblum in "Earth Girls" coming true...
Posted by mina19972000 (Member # 964) on :
i don't know. duckie had such great style in his own way, and they don't come any sweeter or more devoted. :)
Posted by Bridgette Marie (Member # 88) on :
That's so true,Mina.I didn't mean to say that the character of Duckie was annoying, I meant that the guy that liked me,Randy, was annoying.I really liked Jon Cryer in his role in "Hiding Out". It's a very cute, funny, underrated 80's highschool flick.
Posted by mina19972000 (Member # 964) on :
i love that one too, but i don't really know what else he is in. did he make any other classic 80's flicks?
Posted by vgp100 (Member # 1209) on :
He was in Morgan Stewart's Coming Home. The principal fromBreakfast Club was in it too. Really cheezy--but classic 80's.
Posted by Bridgette Marie (Member # 88) on :
In case you haven't seen them yet Mina, I've written pages for Hiding Out and Earth Girls Are Easy, so feel free to check those out(since you're a fan of Jeff Goldblum and Jon Cryer).
And Jon Cryer had a part in Superman 4, so you might want to check that out too.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Hey Mina,
Question about #5 on your list (from a man's perspective). Alan Ruck's character in Ferris (Cameron) existed all over the place. You just never really saw them because they didn't have someone like Ferris ruining their life for them in such a bizarre way. I know guys from my school that were just like Cameron - wanting to be daring and exciting, but never quite managing to go the whole way because they were overshadowed by someone more popular, more crazy, and more confident. However, I will grant you that none of them ever wrecked their father's prized ferrari by running it over a ravine!
Posted by Jeannie (Member # 260) on :
Paul if that were true, I would have noticed! Believe me, I spent my teenage year looking for a Cameron of my very own! Mina another one for your list should be Andrew McCarthy in St Elmo's Fire, he's so lovely, and the way he was about Ally Sheedy in that film was so sweet! Now I'm older, I'm still looking for a man like him! P.S. Jon Cryer is in Hotshots as well!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Trust me, Jeannie, we were there - we just got very good at not being noticed by girls - and we so desperately wanted to be noticed by girls!!!!! (sob)
Posted by Jeannie (Member # 260) on :
Sorry Paul hun, didn't mean to bring up old wounds : )
Posted by Bridgette Marie (Member # 88) on :
Hey Paul, dont feel bad.Sometimes, I would rather I wasn't noticed by guys in highschool as much as I was.A lot of other girls in my highschool thought I was a slut and made up a bunch of dumb rumors about me just because a lot of boys liked me, but that couldnt have been farther from the truth.I hung out with a lot of guys and just had fun and acted silly, and didn't neccesarrily date them, even though thats what the whole school thought.Sometimes, getting too much attention from the opposite sex can make highschool unbearable, but overall highschool was a blast.No responcibilities!
Posted by mansfield (Member # 939) on :
Hi everyone from Moscow(Russia)! This is my 5 favourite 80's films: 1.Jumpin' Jack Flash 2.Elvira 3.Modern Girls 4.Nightmare on Elm street 5.Romancing the stone
P.S.(bonus) and of course French romantic comedies "La Boum"(1980) and "La Boum-2"(1982) with young Sophie Marceau.
Posted by mansfield (Member # 939) on :
My Top 3 dream girls: 1)Amanda Wyss(as Tina Gray) in "Nightmare on Elm st." 2)Heather Thomas (as Jane) in "Zapped!" 3)Heidi Sorenson (as a Hooker) in "Fright Night".
Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
Ok, here is my list of top 5!
1. Sixteen Candles 2. Fast Times At Ridgemont High 3. Can't Buy Me Love 4. Valley Girl 5. Making The Grade
Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
Oh yeah, I forgot Weird Science...that should've been on my list. I must say Mr. Hand, you have great taste in movies...Aloha!!
Posted by habed (Member # 800) on :
Hola from Mexico city!!! Hi to the US and Moscow!!
Ok, my answer to both topics:
Top 5 movies
1. Streets of fire 2. St. Elmo's Fire 3. Flashdance 4. The Lost boys 5. Footloose
Dream girls on film:
1. Jennifer Beals, Alex in Flashdance, does anybody knows a girl like that??? If so, please ask her to write me, closest to perfection that I've never known. 2. Diane lane in Streets of fire, hot hot hot. 3. Jennifer Gray, Baby in Dirty dancing, Sweet, innocent, nice looking, kind of good dancer
And I think that's it. But Jennifer Belas ranks Number one on my all time babes follow by Sandra bullock (ok more of a 90's star but she did some things in the 80's)
Adios Amigos!!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Streets Of Fire - what a great movie. Very underrated and rarely seen - but so, so good. As I said in my review (which ties in nicely to the topic) a friend of mine, after we saw the movie together, immediately said "That's #4 on my all time favorite movie list" - and he's the type of guy to be very serious about this!
Posted by habed (Member # 800) on :
You're right, very underated, but still my top all time movie!!! (not just 80's) I've seen it maybe 150 times and each time I see it, I love it!!!!! I'll never get tired of seeing it.
Posted by mina19972000 (Member # 964) on :
to answer your earlier question paul, i have yet to find a real cameron out there. maybe i'm unlucky, but i tend to meet a lot of in your face macho guys and the few potentials i have met were the same underneath it all. i'm not giving up though. :) i have my movies til the real thing comes along...
Posted by Chloe (Member # 37365) on :
My top five favorite 80's movies? Ooh, that's a tricky question...
1) Poltergeist 2) Some Kind Of Wonderful 3) The Breakfast Club 4) Better Off Dead 5) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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