What movie defines 80's cinema?

Alph Tech / STUART · Gender: Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 222

You non-TFfers will be able to see it in an hour. Meanwhile, TotalFark can check this thread out at here.
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Aramor · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:41 am Post subject:

If WarGames is the movie i think it is, it wins... isn't that the one with the kids who hack in the computer and almost start a global nuclear war?
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Munan · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:57 am Post subject:

Hello?!

TRON!!!!!

That's the movie that really defines the 80's
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Aramor · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:58 am Post subject:

So true. That movie rocks.
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The Huge Wing Wong · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:44 am Post subject:

yup tron is TH3 80's MOV13!!!!!!11!!!
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Ipsa · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:34 am Post subject:

Jeez... It has to be between two movies that I haven't seen since the 80s? Of the two, "Wargames" is probably the better choice, right in line with other 80s defining films such as "Short Circuit", "Tron", and "Back to the Future", "Mad Max 2", and "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome". "Lethal Weapon" belongs somewhere in there, too.
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Satan Crime Wash · Gender: Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1980

I vote Goonies, but only because The Blues Brothers isn't in the list. Or Big Trouble in Little China.
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Satan Crime Wash · Gender: Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1980

And why no Ghostbusters?
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Isaac · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject:

I don't think I've seen WarGames but The Goonies I love. But, if there were more choices, I might have picked something else. As some people mentioned Back to the Future and Ghostbusters, those are two '80's series's that my friends and I still enjoy and love.

My friends also like old '80's B-Movies. I don't know if any of you watch them, but we have a few of them here, like "Funhouse", "Head of the Family", and "Trilogy of Terror 2". Those represent the '80's pretty well too, somewhat.
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Crotchfire · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry, but I think the finest movie in 80's cinema is

This is Spinal Tap

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Alph Tech / STUART · Gender: Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 222

So has anybody seen this "Heathers" movie?
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Ipsa · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject:

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Simon_Says · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

Back to the Future in my opinion.
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Aramor · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:43 am Post subject:

How's about... all the movies from the 80's I saw and rocked?
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ash_wednesday · Gender: Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 749 Location: Canadia

When I get around to it I'll make a poll list of all the good 80's movie for us to vote....someday.
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AbbyNormal · Gender: Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 55

I agree with Simon_Says - Back to the Future. MJ Fox was an 80's icon, it had that great Huey Lewis song, and central to the movie was the contrast between the '50s and the '80s, which drove the '80s part home.
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Simon_Says · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:

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benm · Gender: Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 6

I would have to go with Princess Bride or Fast Times at Ridgemont Hight

Of the options listed, I have to take War Games because my dissertation is about creating strategic games (although none involving nuclear weapons).

Munan · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:10 am Post subject:

Tron, Tron, Tron!!!!!!!!!! Dammit!

And Back to the Future as a good second.
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Tantu_Horn · Gender: Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 33

C'mon now, a movie that epitomizes the 80's has to be cheesy and goofy and have a new wave soundtrack.

Better Off Dead
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Ferris Beuller
and
Just One Of The Guys

Those movies ARE the 80's!
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AAATripper · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:

Aliens, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi were all made in the 80's. Shame on all of you, forgetting where we came from....
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