30 year old movies that stand the test of time…
 

Was just reading through the Back to the Future thread and remembering some good laughs…

I did watch Back to the Future a few years back and I still enjoyed it.

Made the mistake of watching all 3 of the original Star Wars several years ago and now cannot stand any of them.

Goonies I watched last year and was still laughing pretty hard. Love Sloth!

Blazing Saddles

I watched Tombstone a couple of months ago. It is about 25 years old and I thought it still held up well.

Oh! I watched The Jerk a couple months ago. Was still laughing.

Watched Rocky series earlier this year, had never seen it before. There were ups and downs but overall was pretty good.

better off dead is still great. Fast Times At Ridgemont High is still a movie I might watch if it's on one of the cable channels. All the old Die Hard movies are still good. Lethal Weapon..

And I still like all the 1st Star Wars films

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now

+ Platoon :2 cents:

The first Die Hard is still THE benchmark action movie.

Caddyshack

Great fucking movie.

If you had to choose with a gun to your head, which would it be?


1. the Boot Camp part

or

2. the Vietnam part.

I'm going to have to go with Vietnam. So many quotable lines.


Whenever someone uses the "no plot" criticism about any movie, you can always bring up Full Metal Jacket as proof that plot is not needed for a great movie. Sure, it has a narrative structure and theme, but there's not A to B plotting. And it's considered one of the great films of all time.

Airplane! still holds up very well. it's unreal how good that movie is



we're talking stictly 1980s movies right?

Totally 80s!

Alien and Aliens

Watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail recently and...I laughed at all the same dumb shit.

That popped on TV the other day and I watched it and was surprised how much I still enjoyed it, hilarious.

back to the future pt 1
next year: the sequel and tango & cash will be in the same basket

watch Rambo First Blood. Only watched it as a kid a dozen times or so. Finally saw it again as an adult a while ago, and realized how good that movie is. It surprised me!

Does anybody know Fantozzi here?

The Thing (1982), Alien (1972), Die Hard (1988)

Home alone (1990), we watch it every Christmas with family, still funny :)

And also almost any Bud Spencer+Terence Hill movies.

Was just going to name those first 2.

Withnail & I (1987)
If (1968)

Too many to mention, aside from Kubrick movies you guys are mentioning the first one that comes to my mind is "The French Connection" . . .

throw mama from the train
planes, trains, and automobiles
goonies
e.t.
creepshow
the hills have eyes
there are tons! and they are full length not a hour and a few minutes

Blade Runner

Tombstone and Young Guns for me!

yep add back draft and escape from new york :) and the untouchables

Am I really the first one mentioning Terminator 2???

:thumbsup
...and Christmas movie!

My all-time favourite comedy.


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Live Aliens. I tried watching Alien again a few times in the last few years and sadly it just doesn't hold up. It was scary at the time though. And Ash's talking head on the table is just too awful for me to believe anymore.


The thing is one of my all-time favourite horror movies. Great story, amazing tension, and some of the best special effects in any movie.


of course.


Here's mine:

They Live
Altered States
Prince of Darkness

Stand by Me
The Goonies
Ferris Beullers Day Off

christmas story? you'll shoot your eye out! hahahaha!!!!!!

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Absolutely! :thumbsup

+
stir crazy
back to school
brewsters millions
trading places

some nice lists

Terminator
bloodsport

Lol.. that is an absolute classic! :winkwink: Especially Fantozzi contro tutti (the third part I believe)



R.I.P. Paolo Villagio

BTW, do you know Renato Pozzetto alias Artemio?



He used to co-star with Paolo Villagio, his movie "Il ragazzo di campagna" is a must see for all who like these Italian comedies.

:thumbsup

of course

"Trinity is still my name" is one of the best comedies, another Italian classic :thumbsup



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R.I.P. Bud Spencer

Over Memorial Day Weekend they had the original Star Wars, Jaws and Raiders Of The Lost Ark on - all at the same exact time! I ended up switching between Star Wars and Raiders...maybe I have a Harrison Ford man crush (OK - I know I have a Harrison Ford man crush).

Field Of Dreams is great too. Just sayin'. :)

I like all those as well but Jaws is one of my all time favorite movies. I read the book when I was about 12 and it scared the hell out of me.

Emmanuelle (1974)

My dad took me to see it when I was 10 but the show was almost sold out. So he had to sit a few rows back. When my mom found out she was so pissed! I was scared shitless and did not go in the ocean again for ten years. LOL

Also: A Fish Called Wanda.
Funny as fuck.

The In-Laws too (the original from 1977).

1977 (a movie about Red Heat for children):


1970 (1973 the US release) the movie that all cosmonauts and astronauts watch before they go to the outer space:


1968 (a comedy):


1967 (yet another comedy):

I do remember it. Was watching this movie when I was a kid. Maybe something about 12 year old or so.

I was also scrolling in surprise of how is it possible such a classic was not yet mentioned by anyone :)

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I liked this one...

Some stellar picks.

I'd argue that at least 75 pct. of all the movies I ever watched and even more that I prefer to re-watch are now 30 or more years old.

If you'd want to be punctual then 1988 was also the year of many stellar Action movies:

Red Heat



- very well produced movie from the Golden Schwarzenegger era with major pace

Rambo III



- not that bad for a third installment and a trademark bow scene

Nico



- Steven Seagal debut and far better than 95 pct. of what his acting career produced

Action Jackson



Carl Weathers in a leading role, I wonder why he never got more leading roles. Also Vanity plays in the movie, and Sharon Stone.

Bloodsport



Van Damme in his prime

I've got a big archive of action movies, many on original DVD's that nobody else would ever buy.

Yep, I liked "Bloodsport", "Red Heat" and "Commando" of course. My mom liked "Nico". "Rambo III" was a circus of one clown - never liked it, while "Rambo the First Blood" was a very good movie. And course "Star Wars"! For some absolutely unknown reason it was forbidden in the Soviet Union (you were unable to see it in the cinema), so we were watching it in co-called video-saloons from a TV screen, via pirate cable TV (yes, in the Soviet Union we had a pirate cable TV) or from a VHS of your friend (I've bought my first VHS player only in 1992).

To be honest, the most popular VHS movies in the Soviet Union in 80s were German porn movies. Every Soviet kid knew the phrase: "ja, ja, das ist fantastisch!" ))))))))))

Plenty of decent movies from the 80s

One more scene from the Soviet Eastern. The Russian Easterns are like the US Westerns, but they are about East (Asia). Those guys are similar to the US Clint Eastwood personages (or maybe Chuck Norris, but filmed 2 years before the "Way of the Dragon"):



The Soviet soldier was going home to his wife after the Civilian War, but he's got a task to protect a harem of some Asian bandit.