Need to fill up my Blockbuster queue. I'm on an 80's movie kick right now. I already have the staples like Breakfast Club. I'm looking for films that are lesser known but still good like Three O'Clock High.

Any recommendations?

2/16/2007 4:38:51 PM

early 90's: Drop Dead Fred

Weird Science
Stripes
i dont know what else

2/16/2007 4:43:08 PM

war games
Real Genius
weekend at bernies
loverboy
back to school
soul man
the movie where the girl dresses up like a guy...cant remember the name

2/16/2007 4:43:53 PM

I can't remember if My Science Project sucked or not.

2/16/2007 4:44:02 PM

Loverboy

Ha I forgot about that one! I've seen that one like 10 times.

2/16/2007 4:44:40 PM

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"the movie where the girl dresses up like a guy...cant remember the name"

Is that the one where she flashes her huge tits at the end?

2/16/2007 4:45:39 PM

Gremlins

2/16/2007 4:45:51 PM

the wizard

2/16/2007 4:49:28 PM

It's Just One of the Guys.

2/16/2007 4:50:16 PM

^yessssss

The wizard was the bomb

couple more off the top of my head:

Little Monsters (fucking epic movie)
Mac and me

2/16/2007 4:53:20 PM

MOTHERFUCKIN.....

VISION QUEST

&

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR

2/16/2007 5:02:22 PM

Garbage Pail Kids
Howard the Duck
The Peanut Butter Solution (I think that's the name...and most people have never heard of it)
Tremors (actually 1990, but I really wanted to write it)

Damn...I really want to watch Howard the Duck now

2/16/2007 5:07:00 PM

Ahem.

ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING

It has hot-ass Elisabeth Shue, murderous mobsters, Albert Collins, Ferris Bueller-style Chicago parental avoidance, and THOR!

Also,

Heaven Help Us

and

Diner (set in 1959, but a quirky '80s film nonetheless)

[Edited on February 16, 2007 at 5:14 PM. Reason : 4]

2/16/2007 5:12:45 PM

Better Off Dead.

2/16/2007 5:16:09 PM

Flight of the Navigator is the shit...

How about:
Can't Buy Me Love
Adventures in Babysitting
Labyrinth
Sweet 16
St. Elmos Fire
Big
Short Circuit
Lucas
48 Hours
Beverly Hills Cop
Purple Rain
Amadeus
Coming to America
Revenge of the Nerds

Just some to get you started

2/16/2007 5:16:56 PM

HOWARD THE DUCK

2/16/2007 5:18:16 PM

Here's something that will help. Fitting with the theme, this site is totally awesome!

http://www.fast-rewind.com/

2/16/2007 5:18:39 PM

The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen?

2/16/2007 5:21:26 PM

Tron

2/16/2007 5:26:11 PM

Any movie with the Coreys (Haim and/or Hart)

2/16/2007 5:39:01 PM

This is Spinal Tap

2/16/2007 5:48:43 PM

^ Hilarious

2/16/2007 5:49:19 PM

I've tried to watch Purple Rain a couple of times. I could never get into it.

And I totally remember The Peanut Butter Solution, especially the part where the kid puts some of it on his balls and grows some wicked pubes.

2/16/2007 6:53:49 PM

Brazil (1985) is my favorite movie of all time but I'm not so sure it's what you are looking for in an "80's movie"

2/16/2007 7:00:10 PM

One Crazy Summer (i think)

whatever that one is with John Cusack, Demi Moore, and Bobcat

2/16/2007 7:01:49 PM

^^that movie is amazing

2/16/2007 7:11:50 PM

batteries not included!

2/16/2007 7:19:24 PM

The Money Pit, any other Tom Hanks 80s movies.

2/16/2007 7:29:00 PM

I APPROVE THIS FUCKING THREAD.

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR OMG! THE WIZARD FOR TEH WINZ. Vision Quest is outta control.

Fuckin any Corey Haim/Feldman combo!




SHORT CIRCUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on February 16, 2007 at 7:34 PM. Reason : add]

2/16/2007 7:33:51 PM

Not quirky (in any sense) but still excellent:

The Killing Fields and The Mission

2/16/2007 7:34:28 PM

the burbs
Dont tell mom the babysitter is dead

2/16/2007 9:02:01 PM

^The Burbs ftw!!!


Also:

Better Off Dead

I-Man



[Edited on February 16, 2007 at 9:12 PM. Reason : .]

2/16/2007 9:07:14 PM

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"The Peanut Butter Solution (I think that's the name...and most people have never heard of it)"

yep. that movie was fucking weird..... i was so young when i saw it, when they were testing peanut butter solution (it was supposed to grow hair) and one kid said "where are you going to put it", and the other kid looked down. Then later it showed hair coming out the bottom of his pants, and i was like ".... why did he put it on his feet?"

2/17/2007 1:37:31 PM

mannequin

2/17/2007 1:49:40 PM

weekend at bernies
less than zero
mister mom


[Edited on February 17, 2007 at 1:58 PM. Reason : and anything with richard pryor/gene wilder]

2/17/2007 1:58:11 PM

The Dream Team with Michael Keaton is pretty good
Back II the Future
Electric Boogaloo
Breakin'
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
A Fish Called Wanda
Three Men & a Baby
Hairspray
Heathers
Mermaids

2/17/2007 2:03:15 PM

Lady in White and anything with Lucas Haas

2/17/2007 2:05:12 PM

A lot of these are good. Some of these aren't really quirky.

I'm so negative.

[Edited on February 17, 2007 at 3:27 PM. Reason : sss]

2/17/2007 3:26:57 PM

someone help me... i believe this was an 80s movie: this kid would ride his bike around a rock quarry, and when he did there would be this swirling and gurgling in the water. they made it out like there was a monster that lived in the water in the quarry, but in the end, a giant crane excavator thing was the culprit and for some reason lifted up out of the water at the end of the movie. i don't think the plot of the movie revolved around this, i believe the movie was about something else.

2/17/2007 5:11:09 PM

^dunno what that is

but here are some other good 80's movies
BEETLEJUICE
Johnny Dangerously with Michael Keaton
American Werewolf
Big
Crocodile Dundee

not quirky but still noteworthy:
Bloodsport
Masters of the Universe

2/17/2007 6:11:37 PM

^^The Quest

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091810/


I think the international title was Frog Dreaming according to this.


[Edited on February 17, 2007 at 6:25 PM. Reason : .]

2/17/2007 6:16:47 PM

I can't believe no one has mentioned Explorers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/

2/17/2007 6:34:03 PM

Ah! ^I got that mixed up with Flight of the Navigator as mentioned above.

here's another one for you



The Dirt Bike Kid
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090948/

[Edited on February 17, 2007 at 6:52 PM. Reason : tdbk]

2/17/2007 6:51:02 PM

My god, I haven't thought about ^that movie in like 15 years

2/17/2007 7:40:38 PM

a couple that i would add:
rad - the best bmx movie ever
neighbors - belushi and akroyd being very weird
porky's (all 3) - boobs, duh
gleaming the cube - skateboarding
legend of billie jean - fair is fair!!
the stuff - horror about killer yogurt
night of the comet - one of my all time faves
fraternity vacation - tim robbins as mother tucker
party animal - best 80s movie BY FAR!! hard to find though

2/17/2007 8:29:39 PM

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"legend of billie jean "

FTW!

Also wanna add:

The Monster Squad

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093560/

[Edited on February 17, 2007 at 9:00 PM. Reason : .]

2/17/2007 8:58:54 PM

Quote :

"someone help me... i believe this was an 80s movie: this kid would ride his bike around a rock quarry, and when he did there would be this swirling and gurgling in the water. they made it out like there was a monster that lived in the water in the quarry, but in the end, a giant crane excavator thing was the culprit and for some reason lifted up out of the water at the end of the movie. i don't think the plot of the movie revolved around this, i believe the movie was about something else."

Wasn't it set in Australia? And I think it had Henry Thomas (Elliot from E.T.).

2/17/2007 10:39:54 PM

another vote for The Wizard. Damn I'd forgot that movie before this thread.

2/18/2007 1:03:19 AM

I just saw Red Dawn today. Not quirky, but pretty good nonetheless

2/18/2007 1:31:25 AM

The Neverending Story
Cloak and Dagger
Goonies

2/18/2007 1:40:17 AM