1980s Releases Seen/To See

Submitted by openstacks on Mon, 07/26/2004 - 12:15
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  • Displayed by year of release (according to IMDB) in approximate order of preference/interest. Suggestions are always welcome.
  • 1980 Seen
  • Caddyshack
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Airplane!
  • Raging Bull
  • Kagemusha
  • The Shining
  • Coal Miner’s Daughter
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Superman II
  • Nine to Five
  • Private Benjamin
  • Ordinary People
  • Stardust Memories
  • Fame
  • Flash Gordon
  • Stir Crazy
  • Altered States
  • HealtH
  • Blue Lagoon
  • Oh God! Book II
  • Popeye
  • 1980 To See
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Long Good Friday
  • Atlantic City
  • The Last Metro
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy
  • The Jazz Singer (yeah, I know it’s bad, but still)
  • 1981 Seen
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Time Bandits
  • For Your Eyes Only
  • History of the World, Part I
  • Stripes
  • Das Boot
  • Arthur
  • Body Heat
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • Chariots of Fire
  • Heavy Metal
  • Modern Problems
  • Cannonball Run
  • 1981 To See
  • On Golden Pond
  • Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
  • The Evil Dead
  • Excalibur
  • Reds
  • Mephisto
  • Blow Out
  • The Fox and the Hound
  • Ragtime
  • Escape from New York
  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Gallipoli
  • 1982 Seen
  • The Dark Crystal
  • Pink Floyd The Wall
  • Gandhi
  • E.T.
  • The Secret of NIMH
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • The Last Unicorn
  • Diner
  • Tron
  • Annie
  • Blade Runner
  • 48 Hrs.
  • First Blood
  • Porky’s
  • Tootsie
  • Poltergeist
  • Fitzcarraldo
  • The World According to Garp
  • Airplane II: The Sequel
  • A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
  • Rocky III
  • Author! Author!
  • Eating Raoul
  • The Sword and the Sorceror
  • The Toy
  • Q: The Winged Serpent
  • Death Wish II
  • Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  • 1982 To See
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High
  • Fanny and Alexander
  • Victor/Victoria
  • Sophie’s Choice
  • Missing
  • My Favorite Year
  • Les Misérables
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
  • Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
  • Vincent
  • The Thing
  • The Verdict
  • The Year of Living Dangerously
  • The Retrun of Martin Guerre
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • 1983 Seen
  • Koyannisqatsi
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Scarface
  • The Meaning of Life
  • A Christmas Story
  • The King of Comedy
  • National Lampoon's Vacation
  • WarGames
  • The Outsiders
  • The Big Chill
  • The Right Stuff
  • Risky Business
  • Bill Cosby, Himself
  • Trading Places
  • The Man with Two Brains
  • Octopussy
  • Strange Brew
  • Krull
  • Yellowbeard
  • Videodrome
  • Easy Money
  • Superman III
  • Never Say Never Again
  • Mr. Mom
  • Flashdance
  • Silkwood
  • D.C. Cab
  • 1983 To See
  • Zelig
  • Terms of Endearment
  • Confidentially Yours
  • Rumble Fish
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Never Cry Wolf
  • Local Hero
  • Yentl
  • 1984 Seen
  • This is Spinal Tap
  • Amadeus
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • Stop Making Sense
  • The Terminator
  • Revenge of the Nerds
  • Ghost Busters
  • Beverly Hills Cop
  • The Karate Kid
  • Police Academy
  • Paris, Texas
  • The Muppets Take Manhattan
  • The NeverEnding Story
  • The Flamingo Kid
  • Romancing the Stone
  • Gremlins
  • The Natural
  • 1984
  • Repo Man
  • 2010
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  • The Last Starfighter
  • Top Secret!
  • Cloak and Dagger
  • Footloose
  • The Woman in Red
  • Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Bachelor Party
  • Splash
  • Dune
  • Supergirl
  • 1984 To See
  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • The Killing Fields
  • Nausicaä
  • Broadway Danny Rose
  • Blood Simple
  • Sixteen Candles
  • Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
  • Body Double
  • A Passage to India
  • Frankenweenie
  • Birdy
  • All of Me
  • The Cotton Club
  • Purple Rain
  • 1985 Seen
  • Ran
  • Back to the Future
  • Brazil
  • The Goonies
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Peewee’s Big Adventure
  • Silverado
  • Better Off Dead
  • Clue
  • The Color Purple
  • Cocoon
  • Fletch
  • Brewster’s Millions
  • Rocky IV
  • Jewel of the Nile
  • Weird Science
  • Desperately Seeking Susan
  • A View to a Kill
  • Spies Like Us
  • Toxic Avenger
  • National Lampoon’s European Vacation
  • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
  • Commando
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II
  • The Legend of Billie Jean
  • Teen Wolf
  • 1985 To See
  • A Room with a View
  • Tampopo
  • My Life as a Dog
  • Purple Rose of Cairo
  • Lost in America
  • St. Elmo’s Fire
  • Real Genius
  • Shoah
  • Ladyhawke
  • Out of Africa
  • Prizzi’s Honor
  • Witness
  • 1986 Seen
  • Stand By Me
  • Platoon
  • Blue Velvet
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Top Gun
  • Aliens
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • Hoosiers
  • True Stories
  • The Money Pit
  • Short Circuit
  • Labyrinth
  • Highlander
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • The Karate Kid, Part II
  • Peggy Sue Got Married
  • Back to School
  • Gung Ho
  • Youngblood
  • The Fly
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  • Crocodile Dundee
  • An American Tail
  • The Color of Money
  • Iron Eagle
  • F/X
  • Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  • SpaceCamp
  • Nine 1/2 Weeks
  • Three Amigos
  • Soul Man
  • The Golden Child
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  • Police Academy 3: Back in Training
  • Cobra
  • 1986 To See
  • Castle in the Sky
  • Down by Law
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • The Name of the Rose
  • Ruthless People (I may have seen this)
  • Salvador
  • Jean de Florette
  • Manon des sources
  • Pretty in Pink
  • The Mission
  • Clockwise
  • Mona Lisa
  • Matador
  • Children of a Lesser God
  • 1987 Seen
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • The Princess Bride
  • Spaceballs
  • Lethal Weapon
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • The Untouchables
  • Predator
  • Raising Arizona
  • Robocop
  • Hamburger Hill
  • The Brave Little Toaster
  • The Last Emperor
  • Moonstruck
  • Wall Street
  • Fatal Attraction
  • La Bamba
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
  • Radio Days
  • Running Man
  • Innerspace
  • Roxanne
  • Three Men and a Baby
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Broadcast News
  • Born in East L.A.
  • Throw Momma from the Train
  • Overboard
  • Revenge of the Nerds 2
  • Mannequin
  • Stakeout
  • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
  • Dragnet
  • Leonard Part 6
  • 1987 To See
  • Withnail and I
  • Less Than Zero
  • Wings of Desire
  • House of Games
  • Au revoir les enfants
  • Babette's Feast
  • Angel Heart
  • Bad Taste
  • No Way Out
  • The Big Easy
  • Hollywood Shuffle
  • 1988 Seen
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Rain Man
  • Coming to America
  • Big
  • The Naked Gun
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • Die Hard
  • Willow
  • Akira
  • Bull Durham
  • Beetle Juice
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • Stand and Deliver
  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Hairspray
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • Alien Nation
  • Married to the Mob
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Colors
  • Gorillas in the Mist
  • Biloxi Blues
  • The Thin Blue Line
  • Bright Lights, Big City
  • Rambo III
  • Beaches
  • Earth Girls Are Easy
  • The Great Outdoors
  • Cocoon: The Return
  • Twins
  • Action Jackson
  • Killer Klowns from Outer Space
  • Short Circuit 2
  • 1988 To See
  • Last Temptation of Christ
  • Running on Empty
  • The Vanishing
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (I've probably seen this)
  • Talk Radio
  • Midnight Run
  • Dead Ringers
  • Tucker
  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
  • Alice
  • Rattle and Hum
  • The Accused
  • Eight Men Out
  • Another Woman
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • Landscape in the Mist
  • Torch Song Trilogy
  • The Land Before Time
  • 1989 Seen
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Heathers
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Say Anything
  • Batman
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Back to the Future II
  • UHF
  • Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
  • sex, lies and videotape
  • Glory
  • Casualties of War
  • Field of Dreams
  • Roger and Me
  • The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
  • Drugstore Cowboy
  • The Abyss
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  • The Little Mermaid
  • Erik the Viking
  • Valmont
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys
  • Lethal Weapon 2
  • Lean on Me
  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
  • Ghostbusters II
  • Leviathan
  • Uncle Buck
  • Tango and Cash
  • Pet Sematary
  • Who's Harry Crumb?
  • The War of the Roses
  • The Karate Kid Part III
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
  • Look Who's Talking
  • Troop Beverly Hills
  • Shocker
  • 1989 To See
  • When Harry Met Sally...
  • Meet the Feebles
  • Mystery Train
  • New York Stories (this seems very familiar)
  • My Left Foot
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • The Big Picture
  • Henry V
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • The 'burbs
  • Parenthood (I probably saw this)
Author Comments: 

This new list is an effort to consolidate my current lists and make each one a bit more useful. So I've taken the annual lists I've been compiling and grouped them into decades. Please feel free to add any movies that I need to see that you don't see listed.

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1990s Releases Seen/To See
stooky07/31/2004

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not "PURPLE RAIN"! You don't have to do it, reach out to friends and family for a support system and resist. Too many people have fallen into this Violet trap.

T'ho

:?)

openstacks07/31/2004

But I've listened to the soundtrack so many times that I can't help but be curious. Perhaps I'll just have to go on wondering...

lukeprog08/25/2004

What did you think of Cannonball Run?

0dysseus08/25/2004

It helps you to understand "Cannonball Run II".

That's not a good thing.

openstacks08/25/2004

I'm gonna have to agree with 0dysseus; Cannonball Run is pretty mediocre. If you're looking for something mindless, it will suffice in a pinch.