[Closed] Your favourite (classic) 80's & 90's films?

Southern Comfort, Platoon, Near Dark. Don't know if they'd be considered "Classic"?
Then again, I wouldn't consider Blade classic - a fun film, but not an alltime fave. Robocop was great at the time, but looks badly dated and a bit silly now IMO.

cinema paradiso - is that the kind of thing you meant?

Local Hero

Define 'classic'... for me:

The Rock
Twin Town
Back to the Future
Blade (much as I hate to agree with Hora)
Starship Troopers

EDIT - a few more:
Bill & Ted - both of them
Indiana Jones Raiders
Lost Boys

But Robocop? That's just rubbish!

Debz for that reason it also makes (Robocop) the film endearing IMO.

Rita, Sue and Bob too

5 of my favorites:

Lost Boys
Pretty in Pink
Breakfast Club
Goonies
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

The first Blade was rubbish. The second one was good.

Best films from the 80's?

Brazil
Aliens
Full Metal Jacket.

that sort of thing.

Just remembered - Hackers - brilliant in a crap and totally unrealistic way - still watch it whenever it's on 🙂

The Silence of The Lambs
Platoon
Fargo
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Unforgiven

Just remembered - Hackers - brilliant in a crap and totally unrealistic way - still watch it whenever it's on

Of course 🙂 I found it to be quite aspirational, but I was young, got it on DVD and watch now and again

Lost Boys
The Goonies
Stand By Me
Any Bond film in that period

Obviously Commando is the serene top of the pile. Such utter class, dated and ham yet watchable for eternity.

planes trains and automobiles

+1 for cinema paradiso
also the usual suspects - made at a stunning cost of buggerall and still the best ending ever

if you'r talking comedy it has to be the producers [ origonal not shite copy ] no-one comes unravelled like gene wilder .

mart

'Let of some steam Benett!'

My cousin vinny!

point break

Ghostbusters

[i]Commando[/i]

I don't think I'd watch that again until I've watched every other film I haven't seen!

home alone at xmas

Ooo Lock Stock and Two smoking barrells just sneaks into the 90's.

Sheer class in a sea of bad Guy Richie.

Roadhouse , i thought you`d be bigger
Terminator .
Alien 2 , the uncut version .
Conan the barbarian .

all old hat now , but great in their day .

Lots of good suggestions already. I'd add "Grosse Pointe Blank" to the list.

Trainspotting

withnail and I

weird science
porkies
war games

True Romance

Near Dark +1
Brazil +1
Trainspotting+1

The Quiet Earth
Leon
Delicatessen
Chunking Express

Don't get me started...

Some great calls.........

Point Break, Grosse Point Blank, War Games etc etc tc

My lovefilm acount is getting some additions 😀

so, so many beloved films (including most of those above)

but I'm going to make a special shout for the 80s and 90s canon of the director Rob Reiner. I don't think he gets the credit he deserves for this fantastic unbroken run of ace films (spanning multiple genres)

This is Spinal Tap
The Sure Thing
The Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally
Stand By Me
Misery
A Few Good Men
Mind you, I don't think he has made anything worth watching since a few good men

some more favorites from the 80s and 90s

Se7en
Leon
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Boogie Nights
Magnolia

The Thing
The King Of Comedy
Raging Bull (1980 I think so sneaks in there)

The Goonies
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
ET
Schindlers List

Blue Velvet
Wild At Heart

My favorite really trashy but amazing nonethless film of the 90s is Con Air

Not mentioned yet - The Shining

I reckon my favourite of alltime has now become a 2006 film - The Departed.

Got a load of the John Hughes films on DVD

Breakfast club was always a favourite. Ferris bueller pretty in pink, and all time favourite The Princess Bride

Cinema Paradiso

girl's film!

For proper movies, the classic 80's 90's list has to include:

Top Gun
Navy Seals
Under Siege
Terminator
Predator
First Blood
Aliens
Platoon
Conan the Barbarian

Basically, all the movies that blokes still recognise quotes from - who the hell has ever quoted dialogue from Cinema Paradiso or Pretty in Pink over beer and peanuts?

+ lots for
Stand By Me
Breakfast Club
The Princess Bride

Not mentioned yet:
The Big Lebowski, is late 90s
Glengarry Glen Ross
Scarface
White Men Can't Jump

The Lost Boys
Ferris Builers' Day off
The Breakfast Club
The Goonies

I am ashamed to say I have never watched Cinema Paradisio

I taped it off the TV in the 1990s - that tape stayed with me until I got rid of all my VHS about 5 years ago

I then got a copy on DVD free with one of the Papers

Despite this I have never got round to putting it on and watching it. I'm sure its excellent - but I'm just never in the mood for it when I'm choosing something to watch

My word.

The Killer, utterly dated yet amazing. Utterly amazing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097202/

Hardboiled Cop.

Tonight I am going to watch Blade and the Killer 😀

forgot about American Werewolf in London

and The Empire Strikes Back
and Unforgiven

and Toy Story (and maybe Toy Story 2, can't remember if that was 90s or not)

EDIT - forgot about Die Hard as well

Home Alone +1 ... great fun

but seriously you can NOT beat

Heat

Pacino and De Niro (before he sold out)

class

The Princess Bride

eduacted erudite types discuss foreign films over a latte innit
Super call over Princess bride watch it with my kids

[i]but seriously you can NOT beat

Heat[/i]

I so wanted to love that film, but the ending.. ❓

Thelma & Louise (Mrs Dezb's fave)
True Romance

Meet The Feebles

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

L.A. confidential

Aaah come on guys...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off 🙂

bmx bandits

Oh oooh nearly forgot Weekend at Bernie's

ET

kevin and perry go large

+1 for Die Hard

Christmas isn't Christmas until I've heard the strains of Dean Martin[i] "oh the weather outside..." [/i] and [i]"happy trails Hans"[/i]

Not sure if its from 90's or crept into 00's but loved 'Killing Zoe'

Mars Attacks!

Even though I own it on DVD I will happily sit there and graze if its on tv

Lot of Awesome films mentioned already, late 90's but...

Can't beat this as a start to film. You just know you're in for a treat...

reservoir dogs

Hold on a sec, has anyone said

Usual Suspects

Have to say Con Air is probably one of my [u]worst[/u] films of all time!

And here's the ending music too.

If you want me to recount the script I'm more than happy.

DezB - that's its beauty!

The Blues Brothers is my fave film ever - just qualifies as 1980.

and The Commitments.

and Evita with Maddona

I guess I prefer music to films.

Bad Taste
Subway
To live & die in LA
Hardware
Cherry 2000

Nikita - original French version of course
Delicatessen
run Lola run
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
La Haine

the waking of ned devine - might not make your date restiction, though

Wings of Desire.
The Three Colours trilogy.
The Vanishing.

And, of course, Dumb and Dumber.

Bad Boy Bubby

Betty Blue

MSP's choices: Top.

Back To The Future.

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

stargate - watched in an open air cinema with planes landing at the airport next door (Broome, Western Australia)

Things to do in Denver when you're dead

Ronin..

Manhunter, Heat, escape from NY & LA, the warriors, cat in the brain, blade runner,

stargate - watched in an open air cinema with planes landing at the airport next door (Broome, Western Australia)

I've tried to watch Stargate three times; once at the flicks and twice at home.
Each time I've fallen asleep before they actually go through to wherever it is they end up.

Is it any good?

Oh, & I forgot The Crying Game earlier.

anyone said "true lies" yet?

toy story

rain man

ghostbusters

schindlers list

american beauty

se7en

the piano

jurassic f***ing park!!!

fightclub

12 monkeys (the fisher king too)

leon

+1 Thelma and Louise
+1 Usual Suspects

Yoshimi, Zilling Zoe was mid nineties and a good film I recall, came out around the time of Leon, True Romance, Kalifornia IIRC.

Weekend at Bernies

hmmm for some reason i just thought of an 80s film i watched but cant remember its name now. set in a scrap yard with a load of dropouts living in it. and they get their hands on some bottles of poison/acid which melt them when they drink it or something like that.
had a vietnam vet in there and someone got stabbed with a thigh bone, someone else had their n*b either cut off or bit off and then they played catch with it :-/
classy eh?

anyone help me out with its name? not that i particularly want to watch it again, its just bugging me now 🙂

Angel Heart
JFK
Mississippi Burning

Repo Man used to be a favourite of mine, but can't imagine it being on many peoples classic list.

Gremlins