Was this the greatest decade for movies? I think it was, I end up loving most 80s movies I get rec'd
List of some of the best 80s films
>robocop
>a nightmare on elm street
>gremlins
>fast times at ridgemont high
>the blob
>clue
>possession
>little shop of horrors
>the return of godzilla
>scarface
>hellraiser
>the goonies
>return of the living dead
>henry: portrait of a serial killer
>the king of comedy
>mad max 2: the road warrior
>creepshow
>return to oz
>the stepfather
>back to the future
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Some more because I'm bored
>batman
>videodrome
>airplane!
>cannibal holocaust
>communion
>student bodies
>aliens
>beetlejuice
>christmas vacation
>critters
Joke list?
The 80s was completely unhinged, best decade for movies
Yeah a lot of 80s films have an unhinged energy.
I get hating the 80s if you dislike how franchise-focused Hollywood started getting, but it's not like that problem went away in the 90s and imo "franchise" sequels in the 80s were typically better than the 90s ones which often felt cashgrabby.
And for children's cartoons based off of those movies
according to picrel the 80s was a dystopian wasteland of goyslop and movies weren't good againuntil the 90s. that's why he's a homosexual.
90s was good too, at least compared to the hellscape of the 2010s
90s had good movies but the ones that were really good were a continuation of the 80s like total recall
mfw you put socks back on
Frick that pedo
What makes him a pedo
At the very least it looks extremely similar to a child's foot etc and where they are looks extremely similar to Jeffrey Epsteins airplane The e-girlta Express. The very close similarity of both is literally undeniable.
Chud logic
I do enjoy the era of film he sort of started, inclusing his films, only much less than the 80s and 90s.
The 80s were goyslop, but it was exactly what people wanted. In contrast the 70s were full of artsy film and there is little from that period i can watch.
'90s were also based, but I think the '80s edges it because absolutely everyone was coked out of their brain and it shows.
I’ll also add my favorites
>Mishima: a life in four chapters
>Ran
>Angels Egg
>Raging Bull
>King of Comedy
>The Shinning
>Blow Out
>Akira
>Thief
> Fanny and Alexander
Ghostbusters
Poltergeist
Labyrinth
First Blood trilogy
Indy trilogy
empire and jedi
that movie where ted from F13: The Final Chapter gets it bad in the end
The day after
Trading places
The dead zone
Threads
Godzilla 84
Karate kid trilogy (3 is still good imo)
top gun
Twilight zone the movie
Honey i shrunk the kids
Batman
Look who’s talking
Dirty dancing
ROAD HOUSE!
Commando
Society
ROAD HOUSE!
dressed to kill
Halloween II - IV
Elm street I - IV
ROAD HOUSE!
>Karate kid trilogy (3 is still good imo)
The Karate Kid is a legitimately good movie, and I don't mean in the 80's nostalgia/memes sense. It has a great story, and great life lessons. The other movies don't even need to exist.
>The Thing
>Predator
I can’t believe Predator was this far down. Shame on all of you.
>Gremlins
Gizmo, Evil Gremlins and the babelicious Phoebe Cates.
personally i love the 50s and early 60s
Lots of good movies in the 40s too
Escape from New York
1988 top 100 in no particular order
1984 top 100 in no particular order
>Was this the greatest decade for movies?
It was good for action and horror schlock, that's for sure.
But every decade had its strengths. Except for the one we're in right now.
t. born in 1980
The 80's were the last decade in which all filmmaking had to be honest, in the sense that pretty much whatever you did had to be produced with photography and analog effects.
Aside from the cliche but entirely true statement that sets and prosthetics and matte paintings have SOVL that CGI lacks, the real issue with current films is that the complete reliance on digital effects has completely altered the filmmaking process. Actors are working in empty rooms reacting to shit that isn't even there. Two people can have a scene together but not actually be in the same room. "Fix it in post" is normal now. Deciding what you were trying to do *after* you already shot is not uncommon. You can half-ass principal photography in ways that were unthinkable in the Verehoven era. And that's without mentioning the compromised writing rooms and casting and, well, pretty much everything.
The 80's up through the early 90's aren't necessarily peak cinema for pure artistic merit (that's the 70's), but they're the best if you wanted a mix of everything from lowbrow to highbrow with top tier films in every genre. And it's because in the post-Star Wars world studios were willing to spend a fortune and give people budgets they might never have had before. They might have hedged their bets with something like Burton's Batman the decade before but once they knew they had a gravy train of marketing to ride they spent what they needed to spend because they knew they could make it back easily.
So you had all these veteran set designers and FX guys and costumers who had all been honing their crafts for years and a bunch of legit directors who all wanted to experiment or try their hand at "lesser" genres like action movies or horror movies getting and they all get this massive influx of cash to max out their potential. It's a very unique period and we see individual guys who get that sort of freedom now but not so broadly like it was back then. The 80's really were kino
>sets and prosthetics and matte paintings have SOVL that CGI lacks
Objectively true.
>the real issue with current films is that the complete reliance on digital effects has completely altered the filmmaking process
Also true, the move to everything being CG is what lead to the terrible "MCU formula" of mindless quipfests that are completed by underpaid third world animators in post.
Posters really should go back to this look and feel. That's one of the greatest promotional shots for a film ever. Still can't believe how plastic and shitty the remake looked by comparison.
For mainstream fun movies, yeah. I don't think it's just nostalgia. I don't have the same nostalgia for 1990s movies.
I've been rewatching some of the films from my childhood and I prefer 1980s ones. In the 90s they already started using too much CGI, also the movies became too big for their own good. It's like everyone tried to be Spielberg or something (The Terminator vs Terminator 2).
Also, horror movies went to shit.
most of the shit you posted is hollyslop, 80s is as good a decade as any other.
>hollyslop
Nothing wrong with Hollywood if it's good movies.
slightly above average movies that simply meet the era standard for entertainment are not good, in my opinion. Only something exceptional can be called "good".
>Only something exceptional can be called "good".
That's moronic, good doesn't mean "exceptional."
90s was a much more sloppy decade. And this shit is sadly still remembered and praised by normies.
80s were more raw. More cool action, sex, violence. 90s gave us all those shitty big budget Oscar baits - Shawshank, Forest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, Schindler's List and so on.
Buckaroo Banzai
Dude
The 70s
Too serious. 80s movies are more fun.
I get that, but a movie doesn't have to be fun to be good, at least for me. It just has to click and resonate with me
You guys are going to hate me for this but pic-related is the only movie from the 80s that I've seen that is a 10/10, although there are still some classics that I need to watch, like The Thing or Paris, Texas.
I feel that 80s movies have aged worse than 70s movies.
I will say that I probably enjoy a larger number of movies from the 80s, but the 70s had higher peaks
Well how about just a top 20? Starting at the beginning with 1970? Against the weakest year of the 80s is I believe objectively 1989. And right off the bat you know what I'm starting with? Meet the Feebles. But I'll help out to start. I'll match that against and losing to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Next up I got Fly 2. That's gonna be tough I think. Among other things, to find something as gut wrenching as the dog scene. The Fly 2 is a really great movie as I recall. And likely strongly inspired the beginning of Species among other things.
70-72 probably doesn't have a solid top 100 even using all 3 of them.
Anything is better than the 90s. Watched a ton of movies by decade and once I hit mid 90s there was a massive drop in quality and cinematography. Continued in the 2000s with blips of shining greatness like LOTR and Harry Potter.
I don't believe you're real
Slop friendly list but okay
You're such a homosexual it's unbelievable.
There are actually some good 80s lists ITT but most of yours is post Star Wars pleb crap
That's not mine, but any list with RoboCop and The Blob is alright by me. Modern Hollywood couldn't make a film like RoboCop even if they tried.
>Dutch director
>Hollywood
Try again
>Dutch director
>Makes Hollywood film
If I did eat 9 cans of ravioly, I would absolutely admit it and also be proud of it
It's not entirely a matter of Hollywood but it's 100% a matter of Verhoeven, Starship Troopers couldn't be made today not because of Hollywood but because of Verhoeven.
There's a distinct gritty tone to 80s flicks but it was the beginning of the end and the rise of consoomers and nostalgiagays
>tekken 3 king outfit
That's the 90s which is the superior decade bro
Gen X burnouts fricking love 80s slop man, they have nostalgia goggles sewed onto their fricking faces and wish they were in high school still. The 90s, 70s and hell even the the 60s mog the shit out of this dark age. Only bright spots were like Kubrick movies and Blade Runner.
Also
Starship troopers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Roboslop
Go to bed Tarantello
80s gays are mentally ill
watched Robocop and didn't think it was so great
love Total Recall and Starship Troopers though
That's weird I watched RoboCop for the first time just last year and thought it was one of the best movies ever.
You're correct
I enjoyed it but it doesn't stand with the best 80s sci-fi action kinos
>I watched RoboCop for the first time just last year
Frick off, zoomer.
I'm 34, I just never got around to it.
I don't believe you. You are a zoomer, or at the very least, a femanon.
Believe what you want, it's not like I can convince you otherwise.
>Robocop and didn't think it was so great
>thought it was one of the best movies ever.
>it doesn't stand with the best 80s sci-fi action kinos
Robocop sits in a class by itself. It includes elements of action, western, sci-fi, black comedy, horror.
It's sold as a sci-fi action flick, but its only that in a superficial sense. The action is actually pretty campy and corny most of the time. Was that intentional, or was it Verhoven's style, limitations of production?
Robocop, like many 80's sci-fi stories is really about the relationship between man and technology/machines. Will machines replace man, or attack man? What happens when man is turned into a machine? Will man be able to retain his/their humanity in the face of technological advancement?
"I can feel them, but I can't remember them"
I thought that maybe it was overrated and it was just my nostalgia. But the more movies I watch the more I like the decade. It's the decade that gets the mix of reality and unreality of movies right the most.
1980 Motel Hell
1981 Southern Comfort
1982 Deathtrap
1983 10 to Midnight
1984 Night of the Comet
1985 Radioactive Dreams
1986 The Hitcher
1987 Extreme Prejudice
1988 Talk Radio
1989 Vampire's Kiss