Quintessential but obscure 80s movies...?

Taelorn76 said:
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.
 

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Mark Hope said:
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
 

"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.
 

werk said:
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.
 

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.
 




Wall Street is another Quintessential 80s movie.

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


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