You can only pick three...

**Doc** · 05-22-2020, 11:52 AM

missing is

Blues Brothers (1980)
Back to the Future (1985)
Coming to America (1988)
Purple Rain (1984)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
DIrty Dancing (1987)
Red Dawn (1984)

**Doc** · 05-22-2020, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by Doc

missing is

Blues Brothers (1980)
Back to the Future (1985)
Coming to America (1988)
Purple Rain (1984)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
DIrty Dancing (1987)
Red Dawn (1984)

If we include those

#1) FT@RH
#2) Red Dawn
#3) Waffling between Caddyshack and Alien....I'll go with Alien

**KeithKSR** · 05-22-2020, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by Darrell KSR

I don't know what that says about us, but I am right there with you.

Man, those were some great movies.

It probably says we are way too much like CBBN.

**KSRBEvans** · 05-22-2020, 01:20 PM

2 other underrated comedies I'd put on that list for consideration:

Midnight Run
Spies Like Us

**KeithKSR** · 05-22-2020, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by Darrell KSR

Using the Blueboss scale of "I'm channel surfing on a Saturday afternoon, and I run across this movie, I stop and watch it," this is what I stop and watch.

The Breakfast Club (probably)
Weird Science (probably)
Better Off Dead (probably)
Trading Places
ET (probably)
Friday the 13th, if at night
Risky Business
Beverly Hills Cop
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
St. Elmo's Fire
The Karate Kid
Caddyshack
Ghostbusters
Stand By Me
Top Gun
[Blues Brothers--has to be on the list, so artificially including it]
[Vacation-same]
[Porky's-same]

Depending on how you count it, I'm definitely in double digits and maybe close to 20. It's a definite 10 (or 13, if you include the three additions), plus a few others. And you know, that doesn't mean if it's not on the list, I don't stop and watch it. Those were some good movies.

How did Vacation not make their list? How does one make a list of iconic 80s movies and leave off Vacation?

**blueboss** · 05-22-2020, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by Doc

If we include those

#1) FT@RH
#2) Red Dawn
#3) Waffling between Caddyshack and Alien....I'll go with Alien

Alien is one that I’ll stop and watch or record while surfing.

Doc, you’ll appreciate this because it’s your current neck of the woods. When Alien came out I was living in Jensen Beach and several
of us went and saw Alien at the Stuart movie theater.

There’s a lot more to the story than I probably need to go in to, but keep in mind it was my college days, and it was S FL in the late 70’s early 80’s.... and there were a lot of cattle farms in the area.

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**Darrell KSR** · 05-22-2020, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by KeithKSR

How did Vacation not make their list? How does one make a list of iconic 80s movies and leave off Vacation?

Bizarre omission. Clearly one of the top ones, no matter how you feel about your own top 3 or 5.

**blueboss** · 05-22-2020, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by KeithKSR

How did Vacation not make their list? How does one make a list of iconic 80s movies and leave off Vacation?

That was my question, plus no Airplane, “surely” that should have made the list too.

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**dan_bgblue** · 05-22-2020, 06:33 PM

and there were a lot of cattle farms in the area.

You guys went cow tipping?

**Doc** · 05-22-2020, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by blueboss

Alien is one that I’ll stop and watch or record while surfing.

Doc, you’ll appreciate this because it’s your current neck of the woods. When Alien came out I was living in Jensen Beach and several
of us went and saw Alien at the Stuart movie theater.

There’s a lot more to the story than I probably need to go in to, but keep in mind it was my college days, and it was S FL in the late 70’s early 80’s.... and there were a lot of cattle farms in the area.

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Alien was by far and away the scariest movie I ever saw. Only Jaws and Silence of the Lamvs comes close

**blueboss** · 05-22-2020, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by Doc

Alien was by far and away the scariest movie I ever saw. Only Jaws and Silence of the Lamvs comes close

Agreed!

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**blueboss** · 05-22-2020, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by dan_bgblue

You guys went cow tipping?

Not exactly, more on the order of gathering/ harvesting.

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**blueboss** · 05-22-2020, 07:03 PM

Anybody else notice Scarface wasn’t on the list either.

I was living in S FL during the Mariel boat lift in 1980, and actually seeing the impact the lift had on the region was eye opening. When the movie came out and intertwined the story line with the Cuban immigration it hit really close to home. South FL was the wild, wild west in those days and IIRC Miami surpassed NYC as the most dangerous city in the country.

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**Catfan73** · 05-23-2020, 06:30 AM

The Princess Bride
The Shining
Stripes
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

**KSRBEvans** · 05-23-2020, 08:12 AM

Oh-and where's Red Dawn?

The list maker obviously hates America.

**Darrell KSR** · 05-23-2020, 10:32 AM

We should make a list of the top 20 omitted movies from that list.

**KSRdallen** · 05-23-2020, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by Darrell KSR

We should make a list of the top 20 omitted movies from that list.

Good idea. One to consider, Chariots of Fire.

**blueboss** · 05-23-2020, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Catfan73

The Princess Bride
The Shining
Stripes
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Wow, The Shinning and Bueller, Bueller, Bueller are both surf’n stoppers.

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**KSRBEvans** · 05-23-2020, 02:06 PM

No Sixteen Candles? War Games? Real Genius? Raiders?

**dan_bgblue** · 05-23-2020, 03:11 PM

Beverly Hills Cop, Stripes, Airplane, Ghostbusters, ET

**blueboss** · 05-23-2020, 05:04 PM

Caddy Shack on IFC tonight at 8:00 est followed by Christmas Vaction

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**Darrell KSR** · 05-23-2020, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by blueboss

Caddy Shack on IFC tonight at 8:00 est followed by Christmas Vaction

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Sweet.

**CitizenBBN** · 05-23-2020, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by KeithKSR

It probably says we are way too much like CBBN.

You should both be afraid. Very afraid. And yes that scene is hysterical. I won't say it's the scene I've rewinded on the most in that movie, but it's still good....

**CitizenBBN** · 05-23-2020, 05:56 PM

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Crap. Now I have a problem with my top 3.

Yes, we need a top 20 movies left off this list, we're up to about 10 stand out 80s films or more.

**KSRdallen** · 05-23-2020, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by dan_bgblue

Beverly Hills Cop, Stripes, Airplane, Ghostbusters, ET

Fatal Attraction. ‘87.

**Doc** · 05-24-2020, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by KSRBEvans

Oh-and where's Red Dawn?

The list maker obviously hates America.

I had it as #2

**KeithKSR** · 05-24-2020, 06:43 AM

IFC had Caddyshack and Christmas Vacation on last night. Beetlejuice is on this evening. I think they will res how Caddyshack again today.

Top Gun is on AMC tomorrow, IFC advertised Top Gun for next weekend. IFC movies are uncut, for the purists.

**kingcat** · 05-24-2020, 09:35 AM

Aliens came in fourth for me, tied with LW.

If it had been on the list, Vacation is my clear number one.

**CitizenBBN** · 05-24-2020, 11:57 AM

Looks like we could do our own with a top 3 just from the movies they left off the list. or do our own list, b/c a lot of the films on their list probably need to be dropped for those on our list.

**CGWildcat** · 06-02-2020, 09:17 PM

Die Hard

Weird Science

Caddyshack

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