There are many fantastic movies made through the years but for me, nothing beats those movies from the 80's! Jennifer Conneley's Labyrinth, Never Ending Story and a lot more really created a huge impact on the audience. Aside from the fact that these movies bring back childhood memories, they also inspired me to make movies someday that are great as those flicks. I truly appreciate those people behind those amazing films. Until now, I never get tired of watching them.

Off the top of my head...

John (legend) Carpenter's
Escape from New York (1981)
The Thing (1982)*
They Live (1988)*
Prince of Darkness (1987)

(*time for a remake/sequel)

Christmas Vacation (1989) (Chevy Chase)
The Goonies (1985)
Back To The Future (1985)

When you watch them again you can make a better judgement about which are good. Example: I always thought Transylvania 6-5000 was great. I bought the DVD for $3 and watched it last night. It's really not that good. Dark Crystal is another one I thought was great. I own it and it's not as good as I thought.
But there are some that hold their own:
Goonies
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future
Stand by Me

Return of the Jedi
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Last Starfighter
Goodfellas
Say Anything...
Amadeus
Streets of Fire

Those are my favourites from the 80s and I could watch them over and over again

Weekend at Bernies! Weekend at Bernies!

We have the 80's to thank for the 'moving a dead body around like it's still alive' genre.

Yall can't forget "Howard the Duck." Now thats a classic!

The Karate f-ing Kid.

This movie inspired me to want to hurt people - instead I only injured myself repeatedly. It wasn't until the second Karate Kid that I put Peter Cetera on my **** list for that damned song that I can't get out of my head.

Oh and I loved the Goonies. Sloth was my homeboy.

The Thing was a great movie, I agree with you about the re-remake(I think the '82 is a remake of a '60s movie). It scared the crap out of me when it came out.


They Live.......Roddy Piper is Da' Man!

BATMAN! 1989~~~~~~`

The Last Dragon!

Yeah most of my faves have been mentioned:

Caddyshack (actually anything with Chevy Chase)
The Goonies
Stand by Me
The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
The Lost Boys
Short Circuit
Licence to Drive (no actually that was ****, but I just liked Corey Haim pre selling tooth on Ebay)
Inner Space
Tootsie
Back to the future

I nearly forgot about Ghostbusters.

There were some good movies from the 80s

Few of my favs were already mentioned.

The lost boys the terminator star wars!!!

Does anyone remember a movie called Rat Boy? It was so depressing...
Or a movie about a little Mokele-Mmembe called Baby?
Am I dellusional?

Raging Bull and The Empire Strikes Back count as the 80s right?

Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
man I could go on forever but in my honest opinion the best horror movie came out in 1987 and it was called The Gate.

Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.

The removal of an old tree in Glen's backyard reveals a large and mysterious hole. Glen and his sister, Al, are left to look after themselves for three days when their parents go away. This is when strange things begin to happen, all of them centered around the "hole".

The boy Glen and his best fried Terry accidentally open a gate to hell when a rotten tree is removed from the backyard of Glen's house. When his dog die and a friend of Glen's sister, the teenager Alexandra, buries the animal in the hole, demons from an ancient civilization are released, seeking for two human sacrifices to dominate the world. Glen, Al and Terry, who are spending the weekend alone in the house, fight to save their lives and close the hole.

Gotta be Flash Gordon for me, I really think its due for a remake!

Brad Pitt as Flash
Alan Rickman as Ming the Merciless

what do you guys think?

Aaah just remembered "The Dark Crystal"

Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones' movies

Melly~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Goodfellas was in the ninieties wasn't it? + "Saturday the 14th"

Sixteen candles
Rambo (First blood)
E.T
Poltergeist
I *think these were 80's:
Friday 13th (?)
Nightmare on elm street (?)
Halloween (?)