Quintessential but obscure 80s movies...?

[Mark Hope]

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.

Diane Lane or Elizabeth Shue.

 

[grimslade]

The Sure Thing

Love that movie.
I flunk English, I'm outta here. I gotta get a job, and you know what that means. That's right, they start me at the drive-up window and I gradually work my way up from shakes to burgers, and then one day my lucky break comes: the french fry guy dies and they offer me the job. But the day I'm supposed to start some men come by in a black Lincoln Continental and tell me I can make a quick 300 just for driving a van back from Mexico. When I get out of jail I'm 36 years old. Living in a flop house. No job. No home. No upward mobility. Very few teeth. And then one day they find me, face down in the gutter, clutching a bottle of paint thinner and why? Because you wouldn't help me in English.

So bad/offbeat 80's movies?
Wraith
Top Secret
Real Genius
Cat People

 

[Mark Hope]

"You were too busy to help a drowning man!!!"

Love that film to bits. What can I say? It introduced me to the wonder of the shotgun.

Better off Dead

One Crazy Summer

(yeah, I am a big Cusack fanboi)

Weird Science

Footloose

Oh, so many great movies. So little time.

 

[Hypersmurf]

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.

Battle Beyond the Stars!

Love me some James Horner soundtrack.

"Live fast; fight well; and have a beautiful ending."
"There is no dog in this."
"But I want to live forever!"
"I love it when a plan comes together!" "I love watching a pro work!"

Makes me wanna go buy it on DVD!

-Hyp.

 

[trancejeremy]

Movies like Adventures in Babysitting and One Crazy Summer are what I was looking for. And movies like Vamp and Summer School. Not necessarily offbeat movies, but ones that portray 80s life.

 

[Klaus]

Iron Eagle

 

[KenM]

Return of the Jedi (1983) No one saw it in theaters but it has a big cult following.

 

[Vigilance]

Adventures in Babysitting
Bloodsport
Best of the Best
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

 

[Taelorn76]

Wall Street is another Quintessential 80s movie.

You have big money, stock market, cocane, all the glory of the early 80s in one movie

 

[johnsemlak]

Did anyone mention CLUE?

Oh, yeah! Great comedy. Christopher Lloyd rocked.