To ask for you 80s/90’s crap but great film recommendation

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Just that really. Amazon seems to have had an explosion of older films. I love rediscovering someone that I rented once from the video shop as a kid! What rubbish yet compelling film do you love.

Mine is Howard the Duck

Tremors, Overboard and Willow. Might try to find one tonight now

most of these films aren’t even crap —or I’m really low brow with no taste—.
My choice Weekend At Bernie’s. My DCs and me thought it was hilarious.

Drop Dead Fred and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe plus Three Men and a Baby/Little Lady and Look Who's Talking are firm faves here.

Honey I Shrunk the Kids!

Forever Young with Mel Gibson awful brilliant

Ruskies with a young River Phoenix. It's about a Russian soldier who gets injured when he falls out of his submarine (I think?) And washes up on the California coast. He befriends a group of kids, who try to protect him from the evil CIA agents hunting him. It's like The Goonies but with a Cold War twist.

God I love crappy 80s films.

Overboard - my favourite film! Roughly late 1980’s I think it came out.

Can't believe no one has said Mac and Me yet - best film ever! 😂😂😂

Ladyhawke
Tremors
Big Trouble in Little China
The Shadow

Goonies is amazing
Stand by Me is a classic
Dirty Dancing
The breakfast club
Bill & Ted
Gremlins 1 and 2
Temple of doom is the BEST Indiana Jones

@Ronia I still have both on video!!

• but they're not crap so don't count 😂😂

Roadhouse. So awfully bad it’s actually good, but it does have some quite funny lines, and Patrick Swayze has never looked better

Stand by me - the original River Phoenix movie
Pretty in Pink - James Spader as the bad guy
Sex, lies and video tape - James Spader (sensing a theme?)
St Elmo’s Fire - can’t believe it hasn’t been mentioned yet!
Point Break

Troop Beverly Hills!

Oops - just realised the theme was crap movies and 3 of mine are not really crap!

My Girl - I still cry 😭

First Wives Club
The Goonies
far and Away
Romancing the Stone

Gremlins 1 and 2
Hot Shots 1 and Part Deux
Pretty Woman
Drop Dead Fred
Brassed Off
Educating Rita
Plunked and Macleane

Problem Child 2 - I saw this with my then BF (now DH) when I was 19 because there was nothing else on at the cinema. We were loved it. Most of the parents there didn't! Don't expect it to be highbrow, but if you want a good laugh, watch it!

Fairly low budget and underrated at the time:
Night of the Comet
Clerks

Ones I've heard of but haven't seen:
Flight of the Navigator
Innerspace
The Lost Boys

Ones I loved because the actors played against type: One Hour Photo, The Majestic, What Lies Beneath - into the early 00s but in the ballpark of some of the films mentioned above.

And Mermaids, too. Loved that film.

Mannequin. So fucking awful it's brilliant.

So many, but looking at those that haven't been on the list
GI Jane
Cutting Edge
Flight of the Navigator
Mighty Ducks
Lost Boys
Prayer of the Rollerboys
Licence to drive (spot the Corey Haim fan 😉)
Action films were great then so all the usual Die Hards, Lethal Weapons
Sliding Doors
Deep blue sea

All the John Hughes films
Dirty Dancing
Footloose
Cool Runnings

I adored flight of the navigator- remember watching it in the cinema and for years going into the video shop (remember them?) to see if it was out yet.

Inner space was fab too.

Raising Arizona!!

Some absolute gems here 😁😁😁

Wild at Heart
Grease