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Top ten favourite 80s movies


Predator
Terminator
Aliens
Return of the living dead
Midnight Run
Day of the Dead
Trading Places
Coming to America
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Mad Max Road Warrior

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In chronological order and how I own them...
Excalibur (1981) - Blu-ray
Local Hero (1983) - Blu-ray
The Terminator (1984) - Blu-ray
Witness (1985) - DVD
Children of a Lesser God (1986) - DVD
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) - DVD
Black Widow (1987) - Blu-ray
The Presidio (1988) - Blu-ray
Black Rain (1989) - Blu-ray
Let It Ride (1989) - DVD

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Friday the 13th(all of them)
The Shining(I have a love-hate relationship with this movie lol)
Poltergeist
A Nightmare on Elm Street(all of them)
Gremlins
Aliens
Hellraiser
Child's Play

Can't think of anything else, really.

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This was truly difficult, but I'm just gonna go with these:

The Land Before Time (1988)
Blind Fury (1989)
All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Labyrinth (1986)
Road House (1989)
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Coming To America (1988)
Twins (1988)
NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

HM:
The Karate Kid (1984)
Short Circuit (1986)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
and many more

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Makes me wonder how these movies would've done had Twitter and social media as we see it now existed back then??

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The Empire strikes back
The return of the Jedi
ET
Raiders of the lost ark
Indiana Jones and the last crusade
Witness
Back to the future
Aliens
Tootsie
Groundhog day
Bonus: Dirty rotten scoundrels

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The Thing
Platoon
Return of the Living Dead
RoboCop
Aliens
Day of the Dead
Midnight Run
Trading Places
Withnail & I
Once Upon a Time in America

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american ninja
red dawn
top gun
colors
hoosiers
teenwolf
3 amigos
pink floyd - the wall
christmas vacation
the shinning

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I have several that I like but my top two are The Wrath of Khan and Back to the Future.

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