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iLikebeer
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Jul 12, 2005, 01:31 AM
 
I went to Best Buy to get a USB 2.0 hub for my parents so they don't have to figure out where to plug in their iPods. I was browsing the movies, and there it was, The Ice Pirates DVD, for $6.99! http://imdb.com/title/tt0087451/?fr=...c=1;ft=21;fm=1
Robert Urich, Anjelica Huston, and Ron Perlman goodness. What a great movie.

What other lame 80's movies do you have great memories of?
I have a few more, such as:
Flash Gordon
Transformers: The Movie
Return of the Jedi
G.I.Joe: the Movie (This movie and the original episodes are painful to watch now)
Tron
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Weird Science
The Dark Crystal
The 'Burbs
and a bunch of action movies in the Iron Eagle and Navy Seals class.

Still looking for:
Strange Brew
Prayer of the Rollerboys
Some movie with a bluish-purple orb and everyone rides around on roller-skates in a post-apocolyptic world (Solar Babies, found it on IMDb)
Troll
Some skating movie where jocks and criminal skaters duel on skateboards, and Anthony Keatis plays some club and has hardly any tatoos
Joe vs the Volcano
Heman: Masters of the Universe.......

I'd like to get a comprehensive list of great horrible movies that are watchable over and over.
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 01:33 AM
 
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 01:40 AM
 
Surf Nazi's Must Die!

Look out for Leroy's mum

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iLikebeer  (op)
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Jul 12, 2005, 01:40 AM
 
Originally Posted by ManOfSteal
Nice list. Thanks.
It's kind of short though, there were way more than 25 cheesy movies made throughout the 80's.
Also, I would put Goonies, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller on a good 80's movies list.
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 01:41 AM
 
Originally Posted by ManOfSteal
Did you read that list? Full of crappy preppy teen ar se.
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Jul 12, 2005, 04:12 AM
 
Originally Posted by iLikebeer
What other lame 80's movies do you have great memories of?


The Dark Crystal
.
Saw a Dark Crystal boxed set at Sams Club last week.
May have to get a copy.
Definately snagged the Holy Grail boxed set.


What was the Val Kilmer movie where the cows wore
rubber boots?
aaaargh; senior moment.

I liked Real Genius.
Erik the Viking should make the list too.
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 04:31 AM
 
Originally Posted by iLikebeer
Still looking for:
Strange Brew
....
I got that one!

I want "Revenge of the Nerds"!
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Jul 12, 2005, 04:57 AM
 
Night of the Comet
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 05:01 AM
 
Originally Posted by JustAnOl'Broad
What was the Val Kilmer movie where the cows wore
rubber boots?
aaaargh; senior moment.
Top Secret?

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iLikebeer  (op)
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Jul 12, 2005, 05:31 AM
 
Originally Posted by exca1ibur
Night of the Comet
Heh, sweet. That reminded me of Earth Girls Are Easy
I definately have to pick up MP's S ft Holy Grail and Real Genius.
Better Off Dead
Legend
American Ninja
Bloodsport
Breakin'
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, in fact I think I'm going to watch Bruce Campbell vs. The Army of Darkness right now. Insomnia sucks.
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 06:41 AM
 
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Thats what I was gonna list It's now a classic joke

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Jul 12, 2005, 08:07 AM
 
Repo Man
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 08:24 AM
 
Critters.
The Last Starfighter.
License To Drive.
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 08:27 AM
 
Y'all forgot

The Lost Boys

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Breakfast Club

Ghostbusters

Stripes

Dragonslayer

History of the World part 1

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Jul 12, 2005, 08:31 AM
 
Originally Posted by Ω
Did you read that list? Full of crappy preppy teen ar se.
Yeah, pretty cheesy stuff.
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 12:23 PM
 
Don't forget Buckaroo Banzai
     
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Jul 12, 2005, 09:05 PM
 
Amazon Women on the moon

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Jul 12, 2005, 09:54 PM
 
I saw Ice Pirates in the theater when it was released
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Jul 12, 2005, 09:59 PM
 
Hahaha... Ice Pirates. I vaguely remember that movie. Something about space herpes and a castration machine.

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Jul 12, 2005, 10:17 PM
 
It's strange to see what people think are "lame". Ghostbusters?

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Jul 13, 2005, 08:56 AM
 
Originally Posted by starman
It's strange to see what people think are "lame". Ghostbusters?
Only Ghostbusters 2
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Jul 13, 2005, 11:17 AM
 
Time Bandits

Legend

Risky Business

Labrynth

Top Gun (puke)

Dune (wasn't cheesy, but the 80's)
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 11:24 AM
 
What about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I & II. The third one sucked and could be titles cheesy/lame. Back To The Future I, II & III. I wouldn't title all these lame, but ya know, they're 80's movies.
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 11:39 AM
 
Originally Posted by iLikebeer
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Return of the Jedi
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Sorry, I cannot, in good conscience, consider Return of the Jedi "Cheezy." Classic maybe, never cheezy.
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 12:05 PM
 
The Dungeonmaster - so cheesy it even has W.A.S.P. in it.
The Beastmaster.
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 01:48 PM
 
Conan the Barbarian, I almost forgot about that one.

It's sequal, Red Sonja.
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 01:48 PM
 
Oh yeah,

Neverending Story
     
iLikebeer  (op)
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Jul 13, 2005, 04:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by BoomStick
Conan the Barbarian, I almost forgot about that one.

It's sequal, Red Sonja.
I'll give you Red Sonja and definately Conan the Destroyer, but Conan the Barbarian is one of the best movies to come out of the 80's.
Originally Posted by CKr
What about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I & II.
TMNT came out in 1990, another one that would make the list from that year would have to be Godfather Part III
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 09:05 PM
 
Originally Posted by iLikebeer
I'll give you Red Sonja and definately Conan the Destroyer, but Conan the Barbarian is one of the best movies to come out of the 80's.

TMNT came out in 1990, another one that would make the list from that year would have to be Godfather Part III
Opps I guess I got caught up in the moment.
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 09:31 PM
 
How about the Mad Max movies? I've cought them on cable a few times and damn those are some odd movies.
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 09:40 PM
 
Galaxy of Terror

Caveman

National Lampoons Vacation
     
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Jul 13, 2005, 10:07 PM
 
For some reason I really liked "The Last Dragon". It was pretty cheesy, but who cares... it was the 80's
     
   
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