Extremely "80s" (the 1980s) Mid-Major Movies Poll (American(?))

[tifosi77]

Heathers, Weird Science...where's Commando?

Arnie was too established by the time of Commando to fit Slappy's completely arbitrary criteria.

Will accept Enter the Ninja, or Revenge of the Ninja.

[tifosi77]

Tif -- generally

[Gaucho]

[MWB]

I like the list, but I've never heard of Heathers. I'd replace that with The Gods Must be Crazy.

[Morkle]

What? Heathers is a great movie. It was on USA network like 3 times a week when I was growing up.

[blackjack68]

Breakin' 2 ~ Electric Boogaloo

[dodint]

I had never even heard of Heathers until Mr. Robot came out.

[blackjack68]

That is shocking to absolutely nobody.

[eddy]

[Troy Loney]

What about Gleaming the Cube?

[Morkle]

I mean...

War Games
The Toy (Richard Pryor)

[MWB]

What? Heathers is a great movie. It was on USA network like 3 times a week when I was growing up.

Some of us didn't grow up in a house with luxuries like basic cable.

[Morkle]

That wasn't meant to say you wouldn't know what it was. I was just saying Heathers was a movie that was repeated to a ridiculous amount.

It also would never fly today with the ending of the movie.

[Silentom]

Never heard of Heathers until this thread.

[Troy Loney]

I knew of Heathers, but not the plot. After reading that....mah gawd.

[Morkle]

The story was wild, the ending was awesome. They originally wanted to do it at prom, then the financial backers said no - so they wanted to shoot prom as if it were heaven after the school blew up.

[Nuge]

Gung Ho

Gung Ho is great. Classic Keaton.

From this list, Cocktail is the obvious winner. Footloose seems too big for the list. I'd sub it out for White Water Summer to fill the Kevin Bacon quota.

[slappybrown]

A man who understands the glory that is Cocktail.

[tifosi77]

Cocktail never should've been on the list. When it came out, Tom Cruise was a bona fide superstar, and it was an A movie. Slappy can't adhere to his own arbitrary guidelines.

[Morkle]

Martha Dunnstock, an obese student known as "Martha Dumptruck", pins a suicide note to her chest and walks into traffic. She survives, but is badly injured and mocked for trying to "act like the popular kids."

I could imagine the audible gasps and the visible fainting our society would have if a movie like this was released in today's day and age.

[tifosi77]

Altho it did give us the word 'flugelbinder', so I guess there's that.

[tifosi77]

Breakin' 2 ~ Electric Boogaloo

This might be one of the only movie franchises in history where the go-to reference for 99% of people is the sequel.

[Viva la Ben]

I’d same Rambo would be another of the same tif

[tifosi77]

Hmmmmm....... I'll allow it, on the grounds that James Cameron wrote the screenplay as a side project while developing Aliens, and is largely why the latter film is basically a parable about Vietnam.

[redwill]

I went with Heathers and Trading Places from that list.

Disappointed not to see This is Spinal Tap.

Speaking of Rob Reiner, for those of you hesitating or refusing to see Princess Bride for whatever reason ... do yourself a favor. That's all I can say. Ignore the hype if it helps you, but see it. The movie exceeds even the hyperbole.