80's movies.
 

The 80's was a fun time.. there was this movie on this afternoon called Short Circuit.

classic and I grew up with this movie. I used to have it on vhs but I cant find it anymore.. It was one of those movies that had deleted scenes in the credits which was pretty cool.

Johnny 5 was a cool and funny robot and the music was so awesome and so 80's and when I heard the music playing from the radio where Johnny 5 was changing the stations it felt so nostaglic.

One of the many movies I literally grew up on. Good times, good times...

Ever seen Short Circuit 2?

Batteries Not Included, anyone?

The 80's spawned some classic movies.

short circuit 2 was awesome! my favourite part was when johnny 5 got done up as a punk! in fact i was in msn with comet_an_me the other day and she was watching it!

OMG, I thought I was the only one who knew about Batteries Not Included!

Yeah, the 80's is simply awesome in the movie department.

Some favorites of mine would be:

Splash
The Great Mouse Detective
The Little Mermaid
Oliver in Company
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Big
The Money Pit (that was an 80's flick, wasn't it?)
Rocky
Die Hard
The Princess Bride
Back to the Future
The Terminator

Here are 80's movies I got on DVD
Aliens
Batman*Though I thought Returns was way better*
Blade Runner*The directors cut though*
Evil Dead 2
Hellraiser
Legend*Actually I think this movie sucks now, no clue why I own it*
Predator
RoboCop
The Terminator
The Thing


Man movies used to be SOOO violent in the 80's and early 90's I miss it.

Short Circuit is great, and the sequel is really awesome as well. That part in Short Circuit 2 where the thugs beat the hell out of Johnny 5 with the fire axe while he screams "NO! NO!" used to kill me as a kid. When he tricks himself out in the Radio Shack and chases down the bad guy to "I Need A Hero" is the clincher.

I have batteries not included on vhs still I believe. I have to look for it but um a few actors are also in Cocoon and Cocoon: The return a couple great 80's movie. One actor, Wilford Brimley, not only did he starred in both Cocoon movies, he also had a role in Ewoks: The Battle For Endor which was the 2nd and final ewok movie.

The Ewoks Adventure was the first one and the 2nd one Ewoks battle for Endor contuines from the last one.. Wicket is major in this one. Both movies was great and they were made for TV. You can find both these movies on dvd.

ALso abotu Wilford Brimley, he had done some commericals, been in many many movies, had a guest role in Seinfeld as the postmaster general.

here's a commerical from 1991 with him doing an Quaker Oat commerical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-OAJVmH1jU

heres him in family guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2BXQUVFybk

Also to answer the question abotu Short Circuit 2, I only seen parts of it and I never seen the whole movie. I remember him donning hte punk look adn he became golden or something?

The gold-plating was his citizenship gift. ^_^

oh ok.

so what was the whole movie about?

That moment in Short Circuit where Number 5 asks whats-her-name to "reassemble" the grasshopper he killed... gave me nightmares.

But I love those movies. And Fisher Stevens... hahaha...

It seems like everyone from my generation likes The Breakfast Club, but ye gods, not I. Do Not Want.

My favorite 80s movie has to be The Princess Bride. Back to the Future and the Evil Dead series are up there, though. Also like Goonies, Abyss, Bill and Ted!, Amadeus, the Blob (though the original from the 60s is awesome), Darkman, the Color Purple, Ghostbusters, Gremlins (ha!), Little Shop of Horrors, anything from Jim Henson, Indiana Jones, When Harry Met Sally, Spaceballs (what?)... wow, I watched a lot of movies back then...

Someone tell me why Police Academy had five sequels?

I am always watching 80's movies.

My favorite is Adventures in Babysitting!
I also loved Crocodile Dundee, License to Drive, Kuffs, The Chipmunk Adventure, Hot to Trot, K9, Legend, Top Gun, Goonies, The Man From Snowy River, The Return to Snowy River.

Oh, and the slasher horror flicks. Nightmare on Elm street, Friday the 13th, etc.....

I cannot even begin to name every 80's movie that I have seen and love. It'll take a long time, as that was the huge bulk of my youth, heh. Classics, inDEED.

But, for now... I have but one work for you all:







Ducky.

Are you talking about Howard the Duck?

Dude, exactly. If the weight of the world ever crushed my spirit, it was during that particular scene in Short Circuit 2. That's one helluva tear-jerker when you're eight years old. :cry:

And there's also that scene when he's imprisoned by the police and held in shackles in the police department's storage room, reading "Frankenstein", with that sappy music playing. Good God... :(

Howard the Duck... that movie is priceless. :lol:

No. Though that movie IS awesomely bad. I talk about Ducky. From Pretty In Pink.

Make fun of me for saying this, but I actually liked that movie. I thought the stop-motion effects were some of the best ever.

I love Howard The Duck. Despite the cheesiness of it, the music was cool for a time. I still own the vhs movie lol.

Oh jeez, the 80's. Man saw all of my favorite movies back then. The horror movies were all awsome, gory, suspensfull and gory... And yeah short circuit is a little masterpiece. Same with Batteries not included, man I cried like a little baby when the mother got destroyed, just like poor J5.

Ah man, so many souvenirs...

Arachnophobia anyone ? that movie was made in 1990, but I consider it a 80's hit. Man, that movie scared me to death as a kid.

I don't remember them all but here's some :

- Beverly Hills Cop (one of the few times I actually enjoyed watching Eddie M.)
- Superman (Yup yup, the man of steel)
- Conan The Barbarian ( Classic bad a$$ of the 80's)
- Mad Max (Mel Gibson at his best)
- Rocky (Nuffsaid)
- YoungBlood (Best hockey movie ever)
- Beetlejuice (Yeah ! Talk about some of the 80's magic)
- Weekend at Bernie's (Good old Bernie ! Man I loved this movie, pretty original, again you can only find movies like this one in the 80's)
- The never ending story (perhaps the best fantasy movie of the 80's)
- Tron (the ancestor of CGI movies of today.)
- Willow (a dwarf with an attitude, and some magic powers... one of my favorite movies as a kid. Remember that huge twin-headed dragon ?!)
- Child's play (Chucky !! the infamous killing doll, coolest bad guy eva !...)
- Poltergeist ( one word to describe this, nightmares.)
- The shinning (Here's Johnny!)

These are just some examples of what the 80's had to offer. Put the CGI aside, and the 80's were the best. So many memories, so many classics...