What 5 movies exemplify the 80s?

[Loyal]

“Anything with Ginger Lynn in it“ @Loyal

You forgot to include Amber Lynn and Seca...

 

[IowaRam]

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[LARams_1963]

Empire Strikes Back
E.T.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Terminator
Top Gun

 

[XXXIVwin]

Lotta great movies mentioned here.

But in terms of sticking closely to the thread title? "Exemplify" the 80s?

Number one on my list has to be The Breakfast Club. If I'm gonna put one movie into the Time Capsule that conveys, "this is what it felt like to live in the 80s", that would be it.

 

[Selassie I]

A few more...

Better Off Dead
The Last Dragon (one of the all time best bad movies)
Teen Wolf
Against All Odds
The Sure Thing
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
This is Spinal Tap
Rain Man

I love that movie Better Off Dead. LOVE IT.

Especially the Camaro...

 

[Dodgersrf]

Many great movies to choose from.

But, John Hugh's was King.

Vacation
European Vacation
Christmas Vacation
Uncle Buck
Plains Trains and Automobiles
Weird Science
Breakfast Club
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Pretty in Pink
16 Candles
Mr. Mom

He made more, but those movies were hits.

He owned the '80s.

He did the Home Alone movies, but they didn't start until 1990


Many of my favorite 80s movies are already listed.

I'm not sure if anyone posted Top Gun yet.
I loved it when it came out.
I watched it a couple years ago and it didn't seem to hold up well.
Unlike movies like Fast times and Caddyshack which to me, are still amazing.

 

[snackdaddy]

For me the first two that comes to mind are:

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket

After that I think of:

Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Better Off Dead
Weird Science

 

[RhodyRams]

War Games
Dirty Dancing
Salems Lot or The Shining
Airplane
Platoon

A little bit for everyone

 

[Selassie I]

 

[Selassie I]

And of course the final race with the 67 SS...

 

[12intheBox]

To exemplify means to be a typical example of.

Movies that came out in the 1980s but are set in the 1960s can be great movies - but can they exemplify the 80s?

Focus, people - this topic is too important for y'all to keep fucking it up.

 

[Loyal]

To exemplify means to be a typical example of.

Movies that came out in the 1980s but are set in the 1960s can be great movies - but can they exemplify the 80s?

Focus, people - this topic is too important for y'all to keep fucking it up.

Actually it does. Look at western movies made in the 1950's vs western movies made in the late 1960's/70's. Often, hairstyles, attitudes and actors belong to the decade in which they were filmed. It gives insight as to how the time period looks at the subject matter, which is often different than in other decades...

 

[12intheBox]

Actually it does. Look at western movies made in the 1950's vs western movies made in the late 1960's/70's. Often, hairstyles, attitudes and actors belong to the decade in which they were filmed. It gives insight as to how the time period looks at the subject matter, which is often different than in other decades...

I suppose I'll award partial credit for that answer - but the no one would say that a western made in the 50s exemplifies the 50s.

To borrow a phrase from the 80s movie Wildcats - its not "linguistically correct"

 

[Loyal]

I suppose I'll award partial credit for that answer - but the no one would say that a western made in the 50s exemplifies the 50s.

To borrow a phrase from the 80s movie Wildcats - its not "linguistically correct"

Why not? A 1950's western exemplifies a proud look at the pioneers who settled the West. It romanticized tough strong independent men who defeated evil. In the High Plains Drifter portrayed Eastwood's character as an antihero. John Wayne refused to work on the movie or with Eastwood because of the way it portrayed the West and the personna that he spent a lifetime developing. 1950's vs 1970's.

 

[12intheBox]

Why not? A 1950's western exemplifies a proud look at the pioneers who settled the West. It romanticized tough strong independent men who defeated evil. In the High Plains Drifter portrayed Eastwood's character as an antihero. John Wayne refused to work on the movie or with Eastwood because of the way it portrayed the West and the personna that he spent a lifetime developing. 1950's vs 1970's.

Because of what the word exemplifies means. As you said - a 1950s western exemplifies the old west. It doesn't exemplify the 1950s.
You get partial credit because it could exemplify the lens through which we looked at the old west during the 1950s, but it is still a period piece.

Can a period piece belong on a list of "best movies from the 80s?" Absolutely. In fact, much of the top 10 on such a list may not take place in the 80s. But if I wanted to show my kids what the 80s was like, I wouldn't pull out Young Guns or Stand by Me.

 

[Loyal]

Because of what the word exemplifies means. As you said - a 1950s western exemplifies the old west. It doesn't exemplify the 1950s.
You get partial credit because it could exemplify the lens through which we looked at the old west during the 1950s, but it is still a period piece.

Can a period piece belong on a list of "best movies from the 80s?" Absolutely. In fact, much of the top 10 on such a list may not take place in the 80s. But if I wanted to show my kids what the 80s was like, I wouldn't pull out Young Guns or Stand by Me.

No, I said a 1950's Western exemplifies attitudes and beliefs, reflects the 1950's itself and not the Old West. The same is true about High Plains Drifter exemplifying the angst and distrust of authority in the 1970's. Even more direct example is MASH reflecting the Viet Nam era feelings and attitudes, rather than the early 1950's and the Korean War. To a varying degree, the movie's subject matter is just a vehicle to express the culture/attitudes of the deade in which they were made...

 

[12intheBox]

@Loyal - be happy with the partial credit. I respect the skilled smithing to try and make it work, but in the end, words have definitions and that's how language works.

Hey Dad, what were the 1980s like? Let me throw on the Empire Strikes Back on and I'll show you.

 

[AvengerRam]

When I started the thread, I was thinking more in terms of movies set in the 80s.

 

[Neil039]

Keep changing the rules....forwarding this to the rules committee lol

 

[12intheBox]

Nothing changed. Words matter!!!!