Bitchin' Movies from the 80's

[ComandanteCero]

share your top movies from the age of big hair and rad synth music!

[AllThingsKC]

Big Bird Goes to China

[PumpkinStalker]

Favorite 80s movie ever - Real Genius. Hilarious movie with a very young Val Kilmer.

[Jess]

Obviously, Howard the Duck. 

[DaveKCMO]

the neverending story. theme song by limahl. yummy.

[KCMax]

War Games! How about a game of global thermal nuclear war?

Red Dawn - WOLVERINES!!!!

Rocky IV - I fight for myself!

Oh Cold War, we need you back to help Hollywood produce good movies again!

[NDTeve]

Fast Times at Ridgemount High: No shoes, no shirt, no dice.
Rad: Send Me an Angel!!

[chrizow]

Rad
Thrashin'
Better Off Dead
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Just One of The Guys
License to Drive
Breakin
Police Academy (1-4 only)
Gleaming the Cube
Karate Kid 1, 2
The Wizard
etc.

[KCMax]

Just One of The Guys

I'm pretty sure that was the first boobie I ever saw in a movie. Wasn't it PG? Oh MPAA, you sure have changed.

[kcdcchef]

better off dead
one crazy summer
my best friend is a vampire
moving violations
Say Anything
saturday the 14th
Hamburger: the Motion Picture
Bikini Shop
Back To School
Teen Wolf
Trading Places
Back to the future, of course
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Some other flic where a girl became a boy after wishing by throwing this magic rock she bought off a kid. She ends up becoming a girl again at the end after throwing another magic rock.

[kcmetro]

Back to the Future
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Wall Street
The Golden Child
Christmas Vacation
Can't Buy Me Love
Teen Wolf

[DaveKCMO]

saturday the 14th

i loved this movie!

[kcdcchef]

the toy
harlem nights

[phuqueue]

The correct answer is Ghostbusters.  I am aghast at this thread.

Some other greats have been mentioned though: Back to the Future, Karate Kid, Wargames...  Kind of shocked that everyone has overlooked Indiana Jones (or the Empire Strikes Back, for that matter).  Spielberg had some gems with Indy as well as ET.  James Cameron did some great work in the 80s, too: Terminator, Aliens, and the Abyss (which is actually, I think, his weakest movie, and no, I'm not forgetting Titanic, but it's still pretty solid).  Blue Velvet is pretty good.  Escape from New York, Raging Bull, Amadeus, Field of Dreams, Risky Business, the Vanishing.  To borrow from the other movie thread, there were some good Woody Allen movies: Purple Rose of Cairo and Hannah & Her Sisters stand out in particular.

Moving into not necessarily great but still personal favorites territory: Teen Wolf, Weekend at Bernie's, Cocktail, Breakin' (and let's not forget Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo), Footloose, Kickboxer, Red Dawn...this list could really go on forever.

What a great decade.

[910penn]

Huge ghostbusters fan myself.  Surprised to see no mention the movie Big with Tom Hanks, I thought that was a good one too.

[Gladstoner]

Garbage Pail Kids

[construction guy]

Weird Science
Hot Dog
Meatballs 1-3
The first three Friday the 13th's
The first two Nightmare on Elm Street's
Red Dawn (the commie now work for UAW)
10
Stripes
Arthur
Top Gun (despite the freak that starred in the film)

[bbqboy]

if we're allowed to mention all time bad movies made in the 80's, Can't stop The Music tops the list, in my opinion.
Bruce Jenner, Valarie Perrine, and the Village People. Cinema perfection.

[Roanoker]

I know these are chick flicks, but I'm a chick (or used to be).

Flashdance
Urban Cowboy
An Officer and a Gentleman
Fame

[Appraiser]

Porky's