Movies that DEFINE the 80s!!!???!


Question: Yes, a lot of good answers already. Maybe also (if it is either important 1980s films or films typically 1980s): Stand By Me, Dead Poet's Society, Witness, Flashdance, Top Gun, Big, Crocodile Dundee, Fame, The Lost Boys, Three Men And A Baby, An Officer And A Gentleman, Labyrinth, The Big Chill, Coocoon, The Blues Brothers, The Neverending Story, Nine To Five, Weekend At Bernie's, Mannequin, Working Girl and Police Academy movies. Good question.


Answers: Yes, a lot of good answers already. Maybe also (if it is either important 1980s films or films typically 1980s): Stand By Me, Dead Poet's Society, Witness, Flashdance, Top Gun, Big, Crocodile Dundee, Fame, The Lost Boys, Three Men And A Baby, An Officer And A Gentleman, Labyrinth, The Big Chill, Coocoon, The Blues Brothers, The Neverending Story, Nine To Five, Weekend At Bernie's, Mannequin, Working Girl and Police Academy movies. Good question.

those goofy teen angst movies with the brat pack

sixteen candles
feris buelers day off

Sixteeen Candles
Teen Wolf
St. Elmo's Fire
Pretty In Pink
Say Anything
Wallstreet
Karate Kid
Breakfast Club

Movies In The 1980's
The 80's saw many innovations in film making, both from a creative and movie business standpoint. The special effect driven blockbuster films were developed and perfected in the 80's, driven by the late 70's success of the Star Wars series. Releasing films on many more screens, and the development of home video changed the way movie companies made money.

The teen comedy film genre was invented in the 1980's. Some of the more famous of these movies were Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) , Weird Science (1985) and Valley Girl (1983). These films featured some future 80's superstar Hollywood actors such as Sean Penn, Matthew Broderick and Nicolas Cage.

80's Film Making Style
The short attention span of the 1980's MTV generation led some film makers of the decade to create more simplistic, faster paced and action packed motion pictures. Soundtracks to these movies became important as a revenue producer for the movie studios. Films like Flashdance and Footloose produced platinum-selling soundtrack albums.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas produced one blockbuster film after another in the 80's. Speilberg contributed Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the Back to the Future (1985) trilogy. Lucas' films included The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983).

The 80's also became the decade of the movie sequel. Most films that were major box office hits were made into sequels. Examples are the Indiana Jones movies, the three Back to the Future films, the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street horror series and of course the Star Wars follow-up blockbusters.

Pretty in Pink
16 candles
Breakfast Club
Footloose
karate kid
dirty dancing
Ferris Bueller's day off
E.T.
Goonies
Gremlins
Ghost Busters

valley girl has to be #1 on my chart!

Kickin' it old school defines the 80's very, very well. Jamie Kennedy is also really funny in it and shows the people nowadays how the world has gone down since the 80's.

13 going on 30 and ferris buelers day off.

Back to the Future

Breakfast club
st elmos fire
sixteen candles

rocky 4, big trouble in little china, the golden child, raiders of the lost ark trilogy, empire strikes back, ET

You gotta love The Breakfast Club & Back From the Future.

"You won't believe it, we have to back to 1955!"
"I don't believe it!"



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