Quintessential but obscure 80s movies...?

[danzig138]

Corvette Summer

Wouldn't that be a 70s movie?

As for the OP, what exactly are you looking for again? People's favorites from the 80s, or movies that scream "The 80s" to you? Because I don't know that they're necessarily going to be the same.

 

[Torillan]

The Sure Thing

An absolute classic! The best line (of many) has got to be "Sponteneity has it's time and place".

 

[werk]

Corvette Summer

YES! I loved that movie when I was a kid.

In the link someone posted early on was The Wraith, also a good one.

I liked My Science Project (nice car) and House (great actors), probably for the fantasy aspect. The Last Starfighter, of course. The sci fi movie with John Boy from the Waltons...the guy with the mole. That's a crazy movie, love it every time I see it super late at night.

Also watch The Greatest American Hero, it's TV, but it's great.

 

[Mark Hope]

An absolute classic! The best line (of many) has got to be "Sponteneity has it's time and place".

"...But not the Gary Cooper who's dead..."

Less Than Zero

Mannequin

War Games

Class

St. Elmo's Fire

About Last Night

Adventures in Babysitting (aka A Night on the Town)

 

[werk]

Wouldn't that be a 70s movie?

Corvette Summer (1978)

SO it is...

I didn't see it til it was on cable, so that was in the 80s

 

[RichCsigs]

Can't Buy Me Love

 

[johnsemlak]

Can't believe no one's mentioned The Sword and the Sorceror

 

[johnsemlak]

Two very different quintessential 80s movies:

Rambo II

Spies Like Us

 

[Villano]

Did anyone mention CLUE?

 

[Taelorn76]

I've always had a great fondness for Red Dawn myself. I even have the DVD. How much more 80s can you get?

buzzard

Now that is a Quintessential 80s movie. You have communists, teens with guns, explosions, Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen. What more could you ask for in a 80s movie.