What was your favourite movie from the 1980s?

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G.P wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:58 amAlso Goodbye Pork Pie, an NZ road movie.
I remember seeing that... my parents would've rented it from the list of dodgy pirate videos that used to circulate out estate in the early 80s.

Also Malcolm, a low budget Oz movie that is genuinely brilliant.
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derek badger wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:11 pm
Docca wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:43 pm Porkies

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Slenver wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:18 pm
G.P wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:58 amAlso Goodbye Pork Pie, an NZ road movie.
I remember seeing that... my parents would've rented it from the list of dodgy pirate videos that used to circulate out estate in the early 80s.

It was on the telly some time in the 1980s, I remember seeing it while I lived at my parents and they never had a video while I lived there.
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One of either:
Breakfast Club
Rain Man
Highlander
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Pretty in Pink
My Left Foot
Lethal Weapon
Scarface
Stone (cult Aussie biker movie)
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How could I forget This Is Spinal Tap
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Animal Farm.

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The ones I enjoyed and watched the most in the 80’s

Highlander
Blade Runner

And I have a bit of a soft spot for The Princess Bride (my kids think I’m very wierd when I tried to get them to watch it)
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I forgot Flash Gordon, runs Commando a close 2nd.

Probably the two films I've watched the most.
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Nordboy wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:37 pm
And I have a bit of a soft spot for The Princess Bride (my kids think I’m very wierd when I tried to get them to watch it)
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:50 pm
Slenver wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:18 pm
G.P wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:58 amAlso Goodbye Pork Pie, an NZ road movie.
I remember seeing that... my parents would've rented it from the list of dodgy pirate videos that used to circulate out estate in the early 80s.

It was on the telly some time in the 1980s, I remember seeing it while I lived at my parents and they never had a video while I lived there.
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Nidge wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:45 pm How could I forget This Is Spinal Tap
That's right it's 1982. Get out of the sixties.
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Most watched 80s films I watched 'at the time' - probably Excalibur and Back to the Future.
Most watched 80s films I watched 'subsequently' - probably the same but add in Withnail.
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Since I haven't been to a cinema since 1978 ( possible earlier) most a the films I seen have been on the telly so somewhat limited. Also, I generally watch for entertainment, not quality. Sooo........... "Who framed Roger Rabbit?" because it made me laugh. And a second one which was totally the opposite to my usual viewing, "Das Boot" which, to my embarrassment, made me cry.
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G.P wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:58 am Also Goodbye Pork Pie, an NZ road movie.
The first film I can recall watching on VCR. I think we must have borrowed a VCR off a neighbour (not that we were poor or anything, my folks were terribly poor technology adopters) and that must have been something the neighbour had taped. I must have watched it 10 times just because I could.
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Jabberwocky.

Delicatessen. Damn, 1991.
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Phoenix wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:37 am Cinema Paradiso.

Good choice, I liked that one as well.
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cheb wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:28 pm Jabberwocky.
Pedantic sorry but that's still the 70s innit?
Otherwise it would have been on my list too.
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Could be, I didn't check.

I have now, 1977.