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offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-07-01 16:21 [#02604567]
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https://ibb.co/KGcchVt


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2020-07-01 16:47 [#02604569]
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Of that list the only one I would re-watch is Aliens. 80s
comedies and romcoms are dire. DIRE.

OK on second thought I admit would rewatch Lost Boys for
Sax Man.


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2020-07-01 16:50 [#02604570]
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Hold on I am receiving a late breaking bulletin that I think
Heathers is also pretty OK.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-01 17:04 [#02604571]
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my main main man


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-01 17:04 [#02604572]
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half are great, half is just nice nostalgia


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-01 17:05 [#02604573]
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There is a shit ton of 80s films that arent on there that i
would add


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2020-07-01 17:06 [#02604575]
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yeah i watched heathers not too long ago, it's "very" as
their vernacular goes. my mum let me see it when i was
little and i had no clue what was going on but i remember
learning about cow tipping, heh


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-01 17:34 [#02604582]
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robot jox is a weird movie
robocop is a better movie


 

online dariusgriffin from cool on 2020-07-01 17:48 [#02604589]
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somehow heathers never registered on my radar before, sound
like a lot of fun


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 02:13 [#02604656]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2020-07-02 02:53 [#02604657]
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Excellent selection. Ellen Barkin and Peter Weller looked
like living 80s graphic design in that movie. Plus it's
completely bonkers.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 03:08 [#02604658]
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i haven't seen it in a while, i remember it being bizarre
but that's why i really liked it,


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2020-07-02 03:32 [#02604659]
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It's just so over the top in every way and that's why it
works. If they had shown restraint or "good taste" in some
aspects it would have fallen apart.

Plus it had Jeff Goldblum in that Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
cowboy costume.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 03:54 [#02604660]
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herd of it but haven't seen it


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 03:54 [#02604661]
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where do they get those ties with the horizontal stripes
looks like a cover of WiReD magazine


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 03:55 [#02604662]
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hotbot necktie search


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 03:57 [#02604663]
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stakeout (1987) is peak 80s emilo esteveszsz fart joke


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 04:00 [#02604664]
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eraser (1996) is not relevant to this thred


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 04:02 [#02604665]
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disco godfather (1979) is almost 80s like it is to be almost
pregnant


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 04:08 [#02604666]
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back on topic,
gary busey's bulletproof (1988).
gary busey's catchphrase is literally "butthorn" and it
features the singularly most awkward rape scene in the
history of cinema. parts of it were so flagrantly terrible
that i found myself stewing on the whole concept of a movie
itself: like, alright, i know what you're trying to do with
my emotions here, but this is such crap i can't, i just
can't -- but, yeah, isn't that weird? how movies are a
tunnel we subject ourselves to; we want our emotions
manipulated, with plot and characters and music

so i thot "let's just blow that up right now" and made
this


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2020-07-02 09:07 [#02604674]
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Better off Dead is an ok John Cusack romcom but far better
is Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing. And then Say anything... is
also better than... Better off dead.

The Goonies which I watched again recently did not
disappoint, I know some people say it didn't age well. They
are wrong.

The Lost Boys is brilliant, and yes I do like Sax Man. I
remember when I first the film at the cinema when it came
out and thinking Sax Man was the single greatest song if
ever heard, I struggled to comprehend how music could be
that good.


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2020-07-02 13:39 [#02604687]
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I was just googling around and Sax Man's story has
a happy ending.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 14:06 [#02604688]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 14:07 [#02604689]
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that is the type of film i love


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 14:07 [#02604690]
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i'll have to buy the blu ray now,


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 14:08 [#02604691]
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outland


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 14:08 [#02604692]
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has a great scene with steven berkov as a drug addled maniac



 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2020-07-02 18:08 [#02604705]
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Great story. All this time I didn't know the song was a
cover, I've only ever been about the Sax Man version. I'm
giving the original a go.... now.



 

offline DADONCK from here on 2020-07-02 18:33 [#02604706]
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uuuh, lucky you. its good


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-02 19:33 [#02604707]
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I facking love lost boys sax man

I still believe!

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-02 22:21 [#02604755]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2020-07-02 23:18 [#02604771]
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The only one I haven't seen on that list is Mystic Pizza.
Think it's going to stay that way too.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-05 23:10 [#02604977]
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haha yeah


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-05 23:10 [#02604978]
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cheers


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-05 23:12 [#02604979]
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Does anyone else get emotional when they find ET face down
in the river, that always gets me that


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2020-07-06 14:15 [#02604991]
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yes, it was my favourite film as a kid
i was scared of e.t. at first, shocked when he died, crazy
happy when he came back (telefon, telefon) and sad when he
left

the whole spectrum of emotions, just because of that potato
from outer space, damn


 

offline Portnoy on 2020-07-06 14:30 [#02604992]
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haven't seen ET in years but that scene sticks in my mind -
looks very gritty with him lying there


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 14:43 [#02604993]
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god i really want to see it now, haha potato from out of
space

John Williams music is genius in that film



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 14:43 [#02604994]
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yeah very stark for a kids film!


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2020-07-06 15:49 [#02604995]
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the music is awesome. i rewatched it last winter and just
saw it popping up on my netflix and i almost clicked

as i kid i always hoped for a second film, where e.t. comes
back. the only official sequel was a commercial

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 19:40 [#02605003]
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apparently there was going to be some sort of horror quasi
sequel called night skies, sounds like a bit of a weird
idea!

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 19:40 [#02605004]
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Anybody like 'to live and die in LA?"



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 19:41 [#02605005]
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LAZY_TITLE

this is getting a new release soon, remember renting this
from the video shop in the 90s


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 20:31 [#02605019]
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Yeah, Wang Chung... love that tune... not seen the film
though.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 20:32 [#02605020]
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Anyone remember the VHS display in their local corner shop,
all up on the wall, and the smell of corner shops that go
with it...?
Looking at all the covers and wondering wtf they were all
about, when ur 5, fucking brilliant.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 20:37 [#02605024]
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yeah i was saying to before i really miss going to the video
shop with my dad and brother, used to go every weekend, get
some Charles Bronson film, some sci fi action film
invariably with Rutger Hauer in it.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 20:39 [#02605025]
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oh yeah i know what you mean, they did that for games on
cassettes as well. those spinning carousels with 3 sides.

Do you remember those sensors you had to walk over when you
went into a library and made a clicking sound


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 20:44 [#02605029]
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death machine


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-07-06 21:07 [#02605030]
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not only did my library have that, it had a fishtank with a
lamprey and a two story cactus in skylit stairwell


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-07-06 21:28 [#02605033]
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nice one, interesting to see we shared a sort of commonality
even though you're in America. I really miss going to the
library with my dad, getting books, tapes and cds. I guess
it was like a prototype of surfing the internet


 


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