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Cheesy / classic 80’s films!

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PoptartPoptart · 24/02/2023 20:18

Me and DH have have recently discovered old Top of the Pops episodes on BBC 4 and a lot of the songs featured in old films, prompting a lot of nostalgia in our house!
So I’m making a list of classic 80’s and early 90’s films to rewatch.
So far I’ve got:
At Elmo’s Fire
Mannequin
Ferris Bueller’s day off
Pretty in pink
Girls just wanna have fun
Top Gun
Dead Poets Society
Ghost
Anyone care to add anymore?

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IneedcoffeeinanIV · 25/02/2023 01:24

Oooooo 80's films are my absolute favourite.
Sixteen Candles, Heathers, Weird Science, Say Anything, Stand by me.

EdvardMunchsMuse · 25/02/2023 01:46

Some Kind Of Wonderful is my absolute favourite.

Pinkywoo · 25/02/2023 07:25

The last Starfighter

Hiddendoor · 25/02/2023 07:29

Short Circuit
Cocoon
Batteries not included

MrsMariaReynolds · 25/02/2023 07:34

National Lampoon's Vacation

The 'Burbs (one of my ultimate faves, a cult classic in America,.but virtually unknown in the UK)

Lostinplaces · 25/02/2023 08:05

Money Pit

igglu · 25/02/2023 08:46

License to drive. I loved Corey Haim

KillingMeDeftly · 25/02/2023 08:53

Back to the Future trilogy
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Coming to America
The Breakfast Club
Twins
Big
Dead Poets Society
Working Girl
Heathers

Hadley Freeman's book on 80s films is worth reading too - it's called Life Moves Pretty Fast.

DorritLittle · 25/02/2023 08:58

Young Guns II.

Did anyone else have a beta max? I had to tape a lot😂

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 25/02/2023 09:14

Wall Street

KillingMeDeftly · 25/02/2023 09:22

DorritLittle · 25/02/2023 08:58

Young Guns II.

Did anyone else have a beta max? I had to tape a lot😂

Apparently there's Young Guns III in the works! Though arguably they aren't exactly young anymore...

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PoptartPoptart · 25/02/2023 17:14

igglu · 25/02/2023 08:46

License to drive. I loved Corey Haim

I had forgotten all about this movie!!
Pure nostalgia!
Suddenly I’m back at a teen sleepover with half a bottle of vodka that my friend had smuggled from her parents liquor cabinet and 10 B&H that someone’s older brother had bought for us at the dodgy corner shop!!

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Twobigsapphires · 25/02/2023 17:52

My girl
stand by me
kramer vs kramer
sleeping with the enemy
backdraft
beetle juice
only you
nightmare on elm street
turner and hooch
Big
sleepless in Seattle

Ohthebanality · 25/02/2023 17:53

The Fly

IntentionalError · 25/02/2023 18:01

I loved Trading Places, although the film apparently now comes with ‘content warnings’ written by people who are too thick to understand that it was about mocking & undermining racial stereotypes…

BeetleyCarapace · 25/02/2023 18:06

Aliens
Soapdish
Die Hard
Overboard
Clue
Beetlejuice
Batman

BeetleyCarapace · 25/02/2023 18:06

Ooh and The Thing

FunkyMonks · 25/02/2023 18:09

Love 80s 90s films pure heaven the music and the cheese 😊🥰 other posters have made the movie suggestions I would have gone with.

FunkyMonks · 25/02/2023 18:10

The burbs is another good one Tom hanks.

BakedTattie · 25/02/2023 18:10

The lost boys.
the shining
the never ending story
any old Disney film.
the warriors.

BakedTattie · 25/02/2023 18:12

Jaws

FunkyMonks · 25/02/2023 18:12

@MrsMariaReynolds I absolutely love the burbs agree it's a good movie.

BakedTattie · 25/02/2023 18:13

Willow

Blossomandbee · 25/02/2023 18:14

Big (it's been on tv a few times recently and I had forgotten how good it is)
Look who's talking
Labyrinth

TheIsleOfTheLost · 25/02/2023 19:47

Gleaming the Cube
Heathers
(1990) Pump up the Volume

Can you tell I was a huge Christian Slater fan?

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