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Favourite 80s films?????

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onebadbaby Wed 24-Feb-10 21:10:15

Beaches is on film 4 right now- love it! Remind me of other great films from the 80s I've forgotten!

MinaTannenbaum Wed 24-Feb-10 21:11:56

Terms of Endearment
An Officer and a Gentleman
Blade Runner
Fatal Attraction

MayorNaze Wed 24-Feb-10 21:12:13

heathers. and pump up the volume. oh christian slater how i did lust after you (and actually still do blush)

mammyknowsbest Wed 24-Feb-10 21:14:05

Dirty Dancing :-)

MinaTannenbaum Wed 24-Feb-10 21:15:29

Big
Diner
When Harry Met Sally
Hannah and Her Sisters

posey Wed 24-Feb-10 21:15:44

Pretty in Pink

mammyknowsbest Wed 24-Feb-10 21:16:28

Terms of Endearment and Beaches make me snot and bubble sad Better get the tissues ready, I've turned over to film 4.

ginnny Wed 24-Feb-10 21:17:24

The Outsiders
The Breakfast Club
Footloose
Wierd Science
Ferris Buellers Day Off

I Love love the 80s

smallorange Wed 24-Feb-10 21:17:25

Ferris bueller's day off - fantastic film.

"ferris says if he dies he is going to give his eyes to Stevie Wonder"

Top gun - possibly the gayest film ever made

The Breakfast Club - whatever happened to Judd Nelson

DP would ditto Bladerunner and Weird Science

smallorange Wed 24-Feb-10 21:22:44

Watched footloose the other night. Kevin bacon was rather tasty.shame about the dance routine.

onebadbaby Wed 24-Feb-10 21:23:08

The lost Boys
Flatliners

janeite Wed 24-Feb-10 21:25:47

Gotta be The Breakfast Club - not just the best 80s film but the best film of all time, ever.

janeite Wed 24-Feb-10 21:26:23

Btw -

Does Barry Mannilow know you raid his wardrobe?

onebadbaby Wed 24-Feb-10 21:31:05

Footloose- on tomorow!

smallorange Wed 24-Feb-10 21:31:05

What about St Elmo's fire? It's terrible but i love it.

Risky business - tom cruise was bloody gorgeous in that

onebadbaby Wed 24-Feb-10 21:33:17

Endless Love
What was the other with Brooke Sheilds where stranded on dessert Island??

pixierara Wed 24-Feb-10 21:35:02

Pretty in Pink
the lost boys

any bratpack film grin

LetThereBeRock Wed 24-Feb-10 21:50:45

Top Gun

The Lost Boys

Three Men and A Baby(One of my guilty pleasures)

This Is Spinal Tap

The Empire Strikes Back

Return Of The Jedi

Mystic Pizza

Ghostbusters

Airplane

Crocodile Dundee

The Shining

The Karate Kid

Dirty Dancing

The Blues Brothers

The Elephant Man

Clash Of The Titans

Gremlins

Poltergeist

LetThereBeRock Wed 24-Feb-10 21:53:51

Steel Magnolias.

BelleDameSansMerci Wed 24-Feb-10 22:05:02

Pretty in Pink (again - oh Andrew McCarthy where are you now?)

Risky Business (again)

Blues Brothers (probably again)

Pretty Woman (was that the 80s?)

And, last but not least, Desperately Seeking Susan.

I am stuck in the 80s (and proud).

BelleDameSansMerci Wed 24-Feb-10 22:06:29

Aaand, Dance With A Stranger (Ruth Ellis story - think that was the title anyway).

LetThereBeRock Wed 24-Feb-10 22:08:08

Fright Night

PandaG Wed 24-Feb-10 22:09:48

Pretty in Pink

Ferris Beuller (sp?)

Dirty Dancing

Out of Africa

Bladerunner ( but I didn't watch that in the 80's)

PandaG Wed 24-Feb-10 22:10:59

Mannequin blush loved that !

abroadandmisunderstood Wed 24-Feb-10 22:12:18

It's my birthday this weekend and I asked DH for DVDs of Top Gun, Dirty Dancing and The Lost Boys. I think I want to relive those teenage shivers of frisson. Was that Tom Cruise's tongue, do the dance moves I. The front roomfor the first time in 20 years...

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