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From the lens My Top 10 80s Movies.

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  • janeeyre1000 May 4, 2012 @ 12:25 am | delete
    You forgot Risky Business and my all time favorite The Blues Brothers!
  • Decanus Apr 24, 2012 @ 4:13 pm | delete
    Fun lens. Love all 80's films, Goonies and Stand By Me deserve a mention too!
  • sadie-heldberg Apr 18, 2012 @ 5:47 pm | delete
    How I wish they made film the way they used to, I loved and watched many of these films multiple times. Gizmo is the cutest character that has ever rocked the silver screen it’s undisputable in my mind. The satire “The Princess Bride” is just plain fabulous and there really is no other way to express the hysterical film. I have a colleague who works with me at Dish, after work on Fridays we get together for a movie night. 80’s movies are usually our theme, which is readily available from my blockbuster @Home subscription. I love being able to live stream directly to the huge TV on the wall it is easy and available whenever we are ready to get started with our popcorn. I think the reason movies back then were so good is that they did have to rely on storytelling and so that is why I keep going back.
  • georgeadri69 Mar 23, 2012 @ 8:13 am | delete
    Very good list of movies.
  • davespeed Feb 12, 2012 @ 4:02 pm | delete
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off is certainly one of my favorites. Enjoyed your lens! I love the 80s!
  • writergrey Jan 11, 2012 @ 12:23 pm | delete
    Ferris Bueller has developed a real following among people too young to have seen it first time - way to go!
  • HartmanSteven Dec 6, 2011 @ 12:46 pm | delete
    Ghostbusters is definitely one of the best but I might have to find room in the top 10 for Major League. I did a lens on Ghostbusters and would love for everyone to check it out!
    http://www.squidoo.com/ghostbusters-movie
  • agent009 Nov 29, 2011 @ 11:37 am | delete
    Gremlins is a classic, the sequel I didn't enjoy as much.
  • Rantsand Nov 25, 2011 @ 9:55 am | delete
    LOl ok, thanks for this. It seems like ever year they come out with more movies than the year before so it's really hard to go back and watch those movies from 30 years ago. Nevertheless, this was a nice tri down memory lane. The Princess Bride, and Ferris Bueller's Day off... timeless as the day they were made. :-)
  • dvdmoviereviews Nov 24, 2011 @ 5:02 pm | delete
    some great movies here. What about Bladerunner?
  • WayneDave Nov 24, 2011 @ 4:53 am | delete
    More of a fan of 70s movies, but great lens. I must say I think most of the films on your list are films that I DID love at some point!! Haha. Thanks for sharing.
  • SudokuNut Nov 19, 2011 @ 10:59 pm | delete
    I think I might be the last person alive not to have seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off...must rectify that soon! This is a great selection and like the other comments here I can think of so many more too. The 80's was a fun time for movies.
  • EEWorkouts Nov 9, 2011 @ 9:59 pm | delete
    Favorite from this list - Top Gun
  • aquarian_insight Nov 5, 2011 @ 5:20 pm | delete
    You covered my favourites! I don't know if I could have made this lens as I love too many 80s movies! The 80s is my happy place so I loved this lens.
  • Danzuc Oct 28, 2011 @ 4:58 am | delete
    Great lens. Lots of great memories and love the polls. Thumbs up!
  • 80sGirl Oct 24, 2011 @ 8:53 am | delete
    I don't think I can pick just one! All the movies listed here plus Goonies, Spaceballs, Indiana Jones and more!! I lensrolled you to my 80s movie lens too!
  • peppervel Oct 10, 2011 @ 4:46 am | delete
    My ultimate favorite movies from 80's are Cry Freedom and League Of Their Own.
    I watched Cry Freedom at least 21 times and League Of Their Own 15 times
  • LotusLandry Sep 23, 2011 @ 10:12 pm | delete
    NINE TO FIVE
    A Fish Called Wanda.
    (from a reviewer,by surrogate,of The Beaver)
  • therabill Sep 8, 2011 @ 9:44 pm | delete
    You should read the book "Ready Player One". A lot of 80's nostalgia.
  • PopArtGirl Sep 1, 2011 @ 1:43 am | delete
    Great lens! A few of my personal favourites - The Goonies, Spaceballs, Romancing the Stone, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Flight of the Navigator!
  • Close2Art Aug 19, 2011 @ 12:16 am | delete
    another good one is E.T.
  • ThatsYourPeople Aug 2, 2011 @ 1:32 am | delete
    You already have a lot of my favorites (Sixteen Candles is my #1) but I also love The Outsiders.
  • mountainstevo Jul 26, 2011 @ 11:38 am | delete
    The breakfast club has got to be the greatest highschool movie ever made.
  • cartechz Jul 14, 2011 @ 4:16 am | delete
    I love to watch all this movies my + for this lens
  • filmic Jul 9, 2011 @ 9:26 pm | delete
    good lens - brings back some memories.
  • JCEverett Jun 25, 2011 @ 3:03 pm | delete
    Eighties was a great time for movies. Boyfriend School, Just One of the Guys, Adventures in Babysitting, Neverending story, Weekend at Bernies, Spaceballs, Heathers, Flight of the Navigator...I could go on for days. Thanks for the lens.
  • Video_Express_Boston Jun 21, 2011 @ 5:30 pm | delete
    So many awesome movies. I loved Goonies and ET.
  • manfield3 Jun 20, 2011 @ 1:54 am | delete
    Love it!!
  • JCEverett Jun 16, 2011 @ 9:27 pm | delete
    Eighties femme fatale: Kathleen Turner in Body Heat love that movie. Peter O'toole's best role is in my opinion from the eighties The Stuntman. Top Five Tome Hanks movie includes Big. I saw Bull Durham for the first time a year or two ago fell in love with it. A Christmas Story will always have a special place in my heart when it taught me never to lick a cold pole. One of the most inventive and entertaining movies from Dustin Hoffman is Tootsie. This is just to name a few of my favorites. I enjoyed your post thank you for sharing.
  • brandanhicks May 26, 2011 @ 11:06 pm | delete
    great movies! check out my lens on th 80s! funny!
  • cstronner May 8, 2011 @ 1:56 am | delete
    Can't believe you forgot the Lost Boys. Best movie ever in my opinion. :-) Glad you added it in the end tho
  • fantasticallyfictional May 4, 2011 @ 5:20 am | delete
    Thanks for the fun! I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. You've got some awesome films there - excellent choices! Please feel free to take a look at my 90's Childhood Nostalgia page.
  • cuteordeath Apr 28, 2011 @ 2:25 pm | delete
    Love all of these. :)
  • bames24 Apr 14, 2011 @ 11:03 pm | delete
    loved your lens...
  • itsmuzza2011 Mar 13, 2011 @ 6:31 pm | delete
    the 80`s had the greatest films with the greatest oneliners who can forget - shes lost that loving feeling? or the flux capaciter... fluxing? all fantastic memories and thanks for letting me relive them here great lens well done
  • WindyWinters Mar 4, 2011 @ 6:45 pm | delete
    The 80s had lots of fun movies. It's the era when my kids were little babies. I've seen all of these movies many times except Lost Boys. I know...how could I have missed it. :)
  • Treasures-By-Brenda Feb 10, 2011 @ 1:45 pm | delete
    So many movies, so little time.
  • GabrielaFargasch Feb 9, 2011 @ 7:59 pm | delete
    Great movie choices!! My favorite was definitely "Back to the Future"!! I probably watched it over 50 times when I was a kid...
  • photofk3 Jan 21, 2011 @ 10:51 am | delete
    My favorite movies are old school action movies. Most of them were made in the 80's. like Die Hard, Rambo, Predator and more. Thank you for this lens.
  • glowchick Jan 11, 2011 @ 6:55 am | delete
    Great lens :)
  • Philippians468 Jan 10, 2011 @ 12:18 am | delete
    back to the future
  • lilymom24 Jan 7, 2011 @ 10:46 am | delete
    I was a child of the 80's and have enjoyed sharing some of the above movies with my children. Goonies was a fun one and they loved The Princess Bride. This was a fun lens. =)
  • brendonb Jan 3, 2011 @ 11:51 am | delete
    great lens really...
  • brendonb Jan 3, 2011 @ 11:48 am | delete
    Great lens on the 80s movies although I haven't many of them...will surely catch up with them soon!
  • carlajo73 Dec 30, 2010 @ 8:31 am | delete
    Great job, I'm lensrolling to mine: My Life as a Child in the 80s, http://www.squidoo.com/80s-child.
  • scar4 Dec 25, 2010 @ 8:34 pm | delete
    I watched the 2011 "The Karate Kid" movie, not the one you mentioned above.
  • hunksparrow Dec 15, 2010 @ 11:42 am | delete
    Great list. You are right, it is tough to pick 10 because there are so many classics from the 80's i.e. Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones, Goonies. Had fun reading your lens.
  • La-Z-i Nov 19, 2010 @ 3:53 pm | delete
    Breakfast Club was a good flick, but Pretty In Pink was better and it had Harry Dean Stanton!! Your list was pretty accurate, though I would have included The Goonies and Rocky 4 in there...Back To The Future is definitely my # 1. How else would we know what a giggowat is! :)
  • charder Oct 25, 2010 @ 11:38 am | delete
    Awesome compilation here! Check out my 80s costume lens: http://www.squidoo.com/have-an-80s-costume-party
  • MarjorieKaye Oct 24, 2010 @ 12:16 am | delete
    I loved The Lost Boys, Poltergeist, ET,The Right Stuff and Aliens. In terms of entertainment, 80's films are among the best.
  • Oct 18, 2010 @ 11:52 pm | delete
    I'm not sure if it was the movies or just the era, but the 80's were something special. Dirty dancing is still one of my favorite movies.
  • WorldVisionary Oct 17, 2010 @ 11:01 am | delete
    This was like a trip down memory lane - really fun!
  • Grumpy-Fett Sep 28, 2010 @ 9:49 pm | delete
    I don't think I could choose my favorite. Maybe Back to the future? Great lens!
  • italianizeyourself Sep 24, 2010 @ 10:49 am | delete
    Teen Wolf was awesome. Teen Wolf Too was a little painful though. The "impromptu" choreographed dance scene made it that much worse. The 80s definitely put out some classics. Great list.
  • Blonde_Blythe Sep 13, 2010 @ 4:29 pm | delete
    Pretty in Pink is my favorite '80s movie (love that Duckie!) but Sixteen Candles runs a close second! :)
  • jo9091 Sep 4, 2010 @ 4:39 pm | delete
    great lens it makes me want to watch old movies
  • Haddonfield04 Aug 1, 2010 @ 9:58 am | delete
    Well there were literally hundreds that were fantastic that came out of the 80's. To list 10 is nuts. You should have like a top 50 or something. Terminator, Splash, Footloose, Youngblood, Real Genius, The Money Pit, Airplane, National Lampoons, Beverly Hills Cop, Aliens, ect. There's just too many top 10's. I wouldn't call Teen Wolf a top 10 though. Most of your selections are sci-fi. Need some more variety. But all great movies.
  • Rose4u Jul 3, 2010 @ 4:02 pm | delete
    I love movies from the 80s, Dirty Dancing is one of my favorite ones :)
  • JewelRiver Jul 2, 2010 @ 7:59 pm | delete
    Great site! 80s movies are the best! I'm watching ghostbusters tonight and you're right about the zuul part that freaked me out too!
  • lasertek Jun 10, 2010 @ 10:18 pm | delete
    I have seen most of the featured movies here. I like Dirty Dancing and Top Gun the most. I'm interested to watch the Princess Bride. I haven't heard of it but it seems a good movie to watch.
  • JoanneOtt May 27, 2010 @ 9:09 pm | delete
    I especially liked Ghostbusters, Dirty Dancing and The Breakfast Club. Good lens.
  • stevensp Apr 26, 2010 @ 9:18 pm | delete
    Dirty Dancing is my favorite movie
  • Leo9 Apr 26, 2010 @ 4:36 am | delete
    I'm into comedy so my list would include Ruthless People, The Witches of Eastwick and She Devil.
  • norbitdb Apr 13, 2010 @ 9:14 pm | delete
    excellent selection of films, I have not seen everything
  • farooq19 Feb 7, 2010 @ 3:03 pm | delete
    Awsome movie list of 90's gremlin and top gun ...
    i like these...

    http://www.squidoo.com/bestromanticmovies
  • Cindy_Egan Nov 26, 2009 @ 3:25 pm | delete
    For me the best movie was,is and will always be Dirty dancing! It had something particularly wonderful in it, something that makes you remember the movie for ever :)!!! Great lens
  • Dreadmoc Nov 25, 2009 @ 3:25 am | delete
    The 80's in fact yielded the best movies! Unless this is a list of comedies, I'd have to add Predator, The Terminator and every other Arnold movie to the list. I mean, come on, Conan was classic. Also you left out Ruthless People! Shame on you. The Dream Team was side splitting, and Rocky Three and Four had awsome soundtracks. Don't forget Lethal Weapon and Dirty Harry. Return of the Jedi was also and 80's movie. Indiana Jones! Well you get the point. Edit this lens to be a top 100 list of greatest movies of all time and 99% of them will still be 80's!

    Monster Squad
    Goonies
    They Live
    Big Trouble in Little China
    Cloak and Dagger
    The Squeeze
    The Color of Money
    and on and on and on...I love movies!
  • momto4 Aug 31, 2009 @ 3:55 pm | delete
    Great lens! I love all the movies on this list. My favorite would have to be Back to the Future.
  • WindyWinters Jul 22, 2009 @ 2:04 am | delete
    Great Top Ten List. I love the 80s; however, I didn't see The Lost Boys or Teen Wolf. Geesh, how did I miss those 80s movie. I have to agree with Teddi; how did you miss Purple Rain, lol! Just kidding! Good Job!
  • tonia1 Jul 15, 2009 @ 6:07 pm | delete
    Hey what about "LITTLE DARLINGS", "BAD NEWS BEARS" "PRETTY IN PINK" THERE IS ANOTHER ONE WHERE A GIRL PRETENDS TO BE OLDER THAN SHE REALLY IS AND IT STARED REX SMITH THAT WAS SOOO GOOD AND ANOTHER ONE WHERE A GIRL PRETENDS TO BE A GUY TO DO SOME STORY AT A HIGH SCHOOL. I THINK ONE WAS CALLED THE LOST BOYS??? IT STARED A BUNCH OF PEOPLE, TOM CRUISE, RALPH MACHIO, DIANE LANE, PATRICK SWAYZE, EMILIO ESTEVEZ-ABOUT GREASERS AND GANGS-SOMEONE WAS CALLED "PONYBOY" REALLY GOOD!! OH I LOVE THE 80'S!!!!
  • ImSoChrisP Apr 22, 2010 @ 1:37 pm | delete
    The movie with the girl that dressed up like a guy was "Just One of the Guys" i liked that one ALOT too. And I think the last movie you are refering to is "The Outsiders" hope I helped you! :D
  • nickupton Jun 26, 2009 @ 12:31 am | delete
    Great lens and great movies - I have lensrolled this to a few of my movie lenses and featured it on my top ten movies page. Going to look at the fantasy movies lens now.
  • worldbuilder Jun 19, 2009 @ 8:23 pm | delete
    I was raising my children in the 80's so there are a lot of good memories attached to these movies. The Princess Bride is my favorite movie also. I sort of wonder about a person who doesn't like it, don't you? Great lens, thanks!
  • StrangeConversation Jun 18, 2009 @ 5:02 am | delete
    Can I interest you in my Top 10 coming-of-age movies of the 1980s?
    http://www.squidoo.com/comingofage1980
  • StrangeConversation Apr 8, 2009 @ 3:50 pm | delete
    Great lens with some great 80s movies. I'd find it difficult to stick to just 10 favourites from the 80s but you've chosen many of the films I would pick.
  • Mar 25, 2009 @ 10:44 am | delete
    oh i loved the 80's. I am an 80's child and i grew up loving Micheal J Fox, the ghost buster and of Feris. Great lens
  • beckicirca1987 Jan 13, 2009 @ 9:19 pm | delete
    How could you forget Ronald Miller and Cindy Mancini? Can't Buy Me Love...great 80's movie and look at Patrick Dempsy now! I love the 80's!!!!!!!
  • Teddi14 Dec 29, 2008 @ 3:22 am | delete
    Creative lens. I have a lens about being part of the class of 1985 and I have some of the 80's movies listed too. But, I am wondering how in the world you could not list Purple Rain with Prince? 5*'s. I am lensrolling this one to mine.
  • poutine Dec 7, 2008 @ 8:45 am | delete
    I only saw 3 of the mentionned ones. The other ones don't have any attraction for me.
  • fefe Dec 6, 2008 @ 1:08 am | in reply to addytraci08 | delete
    That's a good one, thanks - hope you don't mind if I use it.
  • addytraci08 Nov 18, 2008 @ 11:16 am | delete
    I think one of my favorite quotes from the breakfast club is....."Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?" it gets me every time.
  • MrsZ Nov 9, 2008 @ 1:24 am | delete
    We were quite entertained in the 80's...weren't we! Fun lens! 5*s!!
  • fefe Oct 27, 2008 @ 8:14 pm | in reply to theacademic | delete
    i haven't seen Wall Street yet. Will have to check it out :)
  • theacademic Oct 26, 2008 @ 4:12 pm | delete
    Come on, can't believe that Wall Street is not on there. In times like this, such a fitting movie!
  • dc64 Sep 23, 2008 @ 7:26 pm | delete
    I agree with many of your choices like The Princess Bride, The Karate Kid, and The Lost Boys. Personally, I prefer Pretty in Pink to Sixteen Candles. I'll lensroll this to my "The Princess Bride" lens! 5 stars for nostalgia!
  • enslavedbyfaeries Aug 22, 2008 @ 10:40 am | delete
    The Princess Bride is a favorite at our house, -my girls and I love it! All of these choices are fun and definitely take you back to the days when our hair big and the clothes were... on second thought, I'm not sure I'm willing to go back there right now. :)
  • kiwisoutback Jul 28, 2008 @ 7:13 pm | delete
    I loved Ghostbusters, especially the 2nd one. Gremlins was cool, too...they don't make brainless, original movies like that anymore, do they?
  • Irenemaria Jun 14, 2008 @ 3:07 pm | delete
    So many years has passes since these movies were new. Thank you for the reminder!
  • EverythingMouse Mar 11, 2008 @ 10:12 pm | delete
    Has to be Back To The Future. I watched it last week - my children saw it for the first time and really loved it.

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