Quintessential but obscure 80s movies...?

[Joshua Randall]

"Gleaming the Cube"

The title is the coolest thing about it.

 

[buzzard]

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

buzzard

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Night of the Comet
Eating Raoul

(both start Robert Beltran, who is more well known for playing Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager)

Rock 'n' Roll High School (technically 1979)
Scanners

And a couple of movies I saw at a drive-in in 1981 or so:

Eager Beavers (I looked it up on the IMDB. It came up under a different name and is actually 1975. Not a single character has a last name--you know that's a quality script!)
Classroom Teasers (can't even find this one in the IMDB).

 

[Mark Hope]

The Sure Thing

Gotcha

The Outsiders

Body Organ Replacement Network

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers

(These last two fall into the 80s category of crappy acronym movies, respectively B.O.R.N. and C.H.U.D. 180 minutes of my life that I'll never get back...)

 

[Sir Brennen]

Brazil

Beastmaster

Flash Gordon

The Hunger

Krull

Near Dark (great vampire movie where the word "vampire" is never used)

 

[WayneLigon]

Besides a lot of the ones already mentioned...

The Blues Brothers (first SNL skit to movie, and probably the only good one)
Doctor Detroit
Airplane!
The Howling
Witches of Eastwick
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Raising Arizona
Videodrome

Ultimately, though, the 80's will be remembered for introducing the concept of sequelitis, where we take a film that did pretty darn good then proceed to beat the exact same concept to death over four, five, even six parts.

 

[IcyCool]

Leonard, Part 6.

 

[Particle_Man]

The Thing (1982)

 

[nyrfherdr]

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

 

[Arnwyn]

Corvette Summer