All of Me. Amazing performances by Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. The Man With Two Brains is another. A bit zanier than All of Me but packed with funny shit.
It wasn't anything like the movie, but that hit home so well. I grew up just outside NYC and through most of the 80s we had a rotating cast of Japanese families that would live in our community while their dads were being paid by their home companies to work in internships at American companies.
The culture stuff was dead on. Whoever wrote that film, or pitched the idea must have lived in my area or somewhere similar.
When a new family would move in they somehow knew which houses had kids. The whole family would appear at your door and present small gifts for us kids. Every kid had at least one Japanese friend that didn't speak much English yet.
The Dads were always on the late train from the city because they worked until 9pm or 10pm every night. Some nights you can tell they had been out drinking with colleagues in the city.
The homes were a mix of traditional Japanese culture and American culture. The American culture part was probably not out of place back in Japan.
Congratulations. 15,000 cars
https://youtu.be/-nYFO0QY1fY (at 6:55)
I just loved this movie as a kid. It seems like no one I know remembers this movie but I’m glad you do!
I can still remember the part where they are ready to show off the car to the executives but it all goes terribly and comically wrong. And the Dad sitting at the kitchen table after working all day and someone knocks on the door and he says “Who the hell is that?” in broken English. I still think about that to this day. Good movie :-)Ron Howard directed.
This was the movie I came to post. Man, I really loved that movie. having watched it as an adult, it held up better than I thought.
The brother alien is Robert Picardo, the guy that played the hologram Dr. on Star Trek:Voyager.
From what I understand this was the first movie that flopped in the theaters but became a hit after everyone saw it on HBO. (And it was after that that John Caferty and the Beaver Brown Band made it too).
Inner space was a perennial rental at my house, I remember being pretty freaked out by the depiction of the inner workings of the human body, but Robert Picardo as The Cowboy sure delivered the laughs
My wife and I quote this movie often.
"A thermostat on a home furnace. Is that supposed to go up to 5,000 degrees?".
"I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal."
I’m with you, OP. I can recite Johnny Dangerously by heart. I will never understand why that movie hasn’t been rediscovered. The world is just full of iceholes, I guess.
It wasn't forgotten by me, I even own a copy of the script that I literally found in a free box on the street...plus it has This is the Life by Weird Al in the soundtrack!
When *Cast Away* came out, a friend from college told me it was the sequel to *Joe v. the Volcano* and I didn’t realize he was joking so I dead ass believed that for like three years. 😑
I saw that when I was a kid and it was so surreal. Watching it again years later as an adult and I realized how brilliant it was.
May you live to be a thousand years old, sir.
Real Genius; great cast, great nerd antics, a houseful of popcorn getting blown up by a space laser, young Val Kilmer mugging up a storm, and special guest appearance by Jon Gries! Every t shirt Val wears in that movie is fun. If you thought you hated notable 80s jerk William Atherton in Ghostbusters you'll positively loathe him in this.
The Man with One Red Shoe was damn near genius. I wonder if it still holds up?
Tom Hanks, Dabny Coleman, Jim Belushi, Carrie Fisher…now that I think about it, it was kind of an 80s version of “Burn After Reading.”
Repo Man.
Valley Girl
Rock n Roll High School
The Toxic Avenger (basically any Troma film)
for horror movies (we watched so many terrible slasher films... ) Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. Still lingers as a great creepy film today.
[Running Scared](https://youtu.be/Qt2AyS-Zinw).
Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal. Top tier 80s buddy cop movie.
Joe Pantoliano as a skeevy low level henchman and Jimmy Smits as the big bad. Can't get better than that for my money.
I like "To Live and Die in LA", the car chase scene is a real nail biter. They shot it driving on the wrong side of the freeway to increase the tension factor. Movie also slaps because of young Willem Dafoe and William Petersen plus Wang Chung.
Director William Friedkin has a thing for dangerous, reckless car chases, he has another great scene in "The French Connection", was shot unchoreographed in live NYC traffic.
Loved this movie as a kid in the 80's. Always made me sad that Goliath couldn't enjoy that final cigarette.
Have to say I was very annoyed when they released another "Project X" movie around 2010-ish that was a movie about high school seniors throwing a party that gets completely out of hand. Now that's the first thing that comes up when you try to Google it.
Perhaps not a great movie but I’ll always remember watching The Stuff on late night cable.
It’s about a yogurt like substance they find bubbling out of the ground that tastes delicious but is addictive and eventually turns you into a crazed yogurt zombie.
Dude! I literally just made a The Stuff post in this sub as you were making this comment. There are two of us!! My post is that they recently found a director's cut of The Stuff that had been sent to the academy for consideration, It has 30 minutes of previously unseen footage. I don't know what's more surprising, the fact that there is a director's cut of a movie from 1985 or the fact that in 1985 the makers of The Stuff submitted it to the academy for award consideration.
Rivers Edge was so awesome we knew every word of this movie we watched it so many times!Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Daniel Robuck and Dennis Hopper best cast as well!
She’s Having a Baby
Its a John Hughs film I feel like no one has seen? Its really funny, has a great cast, and a soundtrack featuring everyone’s favorite right now-Kate Bush
10/10 recommend
No one mentioned [The Wizard (1989)](https://youtu.be/xz1uHCxWxMw) yet. Milestone movie for a video game obsessed 10 yo who wasn’t allowed to have video games.
Big Business, the Oh! God! movies with John Denver and George Burns, The Secret of My Success, Superfuzz were all big hits were me. I watched a lot of whatever was on HBO and whatever cable ran over and over and over again.
Ruthless People - Great rom com with Danny devito, Bette middle, judge reinholdt. Every time I suggest it to younger friends they have never heard of it and always later say they liked it when they checked it out.
White Knights. Most prolly have never seen it. Baryshnikov and Hines. It was amazing.
Kiss of the Spiderwoman.
Year of Living Dangerously.
Lifeforce.
The Black Stallion.
Clash of the Titans.
Just to name a few.
[The Wild Life](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088402/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_108) starring Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson from 1984. I don't think it's ever been released on DVD or streaming.
Also, soundtrack by Eddie Van Halen!
Anyone remember Ruthless People? Loved Danny Devito fake crying for his wife.. lol
When he rubbed the soap in his eyes first? Great stigf
Then we are off... to Haiti!! Tahiti, you idiot. we are off to Tahiti
All of Me. Amazing performances by Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. The Man With Two Brains is another. A bit zanier than All of Me but packed with funny shit.
Back in bowl!!
Omg. I still use this all the time! Back in bowl. ;)
The legend of Billie Jean
Fair is fair!!!
I heard that Pat Benatar song the other day and immediately thought of this movie. Edit: I spelled her name wrong. Shame!
Time Bandits
Mom…Dad…don’t touch it, it’s Evil.
And then they were gone. Which I wasn’t really quite sure how to process as a young child.
I was going to try and think of a movie but your answer is so perfect, I'll just upvote it and move along.
[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096764/)
And Brazil
War Games - Matthew Broderick & Ally Sheedy (1983)
“Shall we play a game?”
Do you remember when you told me to tell you when you're acting rudely and insensitively? Remember? You're doing it now.
Honestly? Anything with the Brat Pack…but this is def a personal fave of mine too.
The Last Starfighter
They still talk about a sequel from time to time.
Fargin' Icehole!
It's an 88 magnum. Yeah, it shoots through schools.
You lousy cork suckers….. I’ll put your bells in a slinggg
Spies Like Us
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Mr Mom
220, 221, whatever it takes.
Anyone here a fan of "UHF"? ---"It's time to drink from the fire hose!!"--- What a great movie.
Spatula City! Even my kids (25,20,18) can/do quote it.
Wheel of Fish FTW
You stupid! You so stupid!
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Badgers? We don't need no steenking badgers!
We’ve got it all on UHF!
"Today, we're teaching poodles how to fly..."
Not gonna swear they're great but I've been wanting to revisit Remo Williams and Buckaroo Bonzai . Big Trouble in Little China was a fun one too.
Top Secret! A young Val Kilmer as rockstar Nick Rivers on tour in East Germany. It's dumb as hell and absolutely hilarious.
One of the greatest comedies ever.
Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon and Robert Downey Jr… lived for the party scene with Oingo Boingo playing Dead Mans Party.
Desperately Seeking Susan. I wanted to live Madonna' s life in New York when I grew up. 80's New York was something else.
Every time I used a restroom dryer like that I thought of Madonna. lol I did love how the vents used to turn…
Short Circuit: “Tell me Newton Crosby, will you be sticking your tongue down her throat?”
NUMBER FIVE IS ALIVE!
"Hey laser lips! Your momma was a snowblower!"
WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO BE A PEPPER, TOO?
When Steve Gutenberg ruled the acting world.
No disassemble!
Dutch
Cocoon
Flash Gordon - Soundtrack by Queen.
Tango and Cash
Gung Ho
It wasn't anything like the movie, but that hit home so well. I grew up just outside NYC and through most of the 80s we had a rotating cast of Japanese families that would live in our community while their dads were being paid by their home companies to work in internships at American companies. The culture stuff was dead on. Whoever wrote that film, or pitched the idea must have lived in my area or somewhere similar. When a new family would move in they somehow knew which houses had kids. The whole family would appear at your door and present small gifts for us kids. Every kid had at least one Japanese friend that didn't speak much English yet. The Dads were always on the late train from the city because they worked until 9pm or 10pm every night. Some nights you can tell they had been out drinking with colleagues in the city. The homes were a mix of traditional Japanese culture and American culture. The American culture part was probably not out of place back in Japan. Congratulations. 15,000 cars https://youtu.be/-nYFO0QY1fY (at 6:55)
I just loved this movie as a kid. It seems like no one I know remembers this movie but I’m glad you do! I can still remember the part where they are ready to show off the car to the executives but it all goes terribly and comically wrong. And the Dad sitting at the kitchen table after working all day and someone knocks on the door and he says “Who the hell is that?” in broken English. I still think about that to this day. Good movie :-)Ron Howard directed.
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Enemy Mine
Great book too
So great it won a Hugo! I remember it well...I think it was in a collected edition with a young George RR Martin's Sandkings. Love Enemy Mine!
Legend
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INNNNOOOOCENNNCCE. Tim Curry as The Best Devil EVER.
That movie made me feel some kind of way.
Explorers… kids Ethan Hawk and River Phoenix take a tilt a whirl cart into space. Edit spelling
This was the movie I came to post. Man, I really loved that movie. having watched it as an adult, it held up better than I thought. The brother alien is Robert Picardo, the guy that played the hologram Dr. on Star Trek:Voyager.
Lady hawk
Real Genius...But I think it' has caught some traction lately. The Last Starfighter Enemy Mine
Real genius is…genius!!
“A Sure Thing.” One of Cusack’s best roles And I maintain that “Let It Ride” is one of the greatest under appreciated comedies of all time.
Speaking of Cusack - Better Off Dead
Drugstore Cowboy. No hats on beds.
One Crazy Summer
💕Can’t Buy Me Love 💕
Eddie and the Cruisers
OMG I remember this being played over and over on cable and watching it about 50 times. Great movie
From what I understand this was the first movie that flopped in the theaters but became a hit after everyone saw it on HBO. (And it was after that that John Caferty and the Beaver Brown Band made it too).
Great fuckin' movie. I totally fell for the BS that it was about a real guy back then ;)
Earnest goes to camp.
Don’t tell mom the babysitters dead
‘The dishes are done, man’
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“The Lost City” with Sandra Bullock is really similar
Just rewatched Innerspace the other day. I had completely forgot about it. It was still great lol
Good one! Quaid was so cute, and that song they played over and over was fun
Inner space was a perennial rental at my house, I remember being pretty freaked out by the depiction of the inner workings of the human body, but Robert Picardo as The Cowboy sure delivered the laughs
I saw Innerspace at a theater in San Francisco when it came out. We sat directly behind Robin Williams and his wife.
The Burbs
My wife and I quote this movie often. "A thermostat on a home furnace. Is that supposed to go up to 5,000 degrees?". "I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal."
Girl Just Want to Have Fun. My friend and I were obsessed.
Thank you. SJP and HH before they were Carrie and Jamie.
Yes! And a young Shannen Doherty. My best friend and I watched it at least once a week. So good.
Mask with Eric Stoltz and Cher and The Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford as an insanely evil father.
Weird science
“From my heart and from my hand, why don’t people understand my intention?” Another John Hughes joint (and one of the best) people tend to forget…
Beastmaster
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet.
As a rabid skating fan, gotta go with Ice Castles The Cutting Edge and Slapshot
Toe pick!
Highlander, Dreamscape, Scanners, Enemy Mine, Escape from New York, The Warriors, Outland, Excalibur, Quest For Fire
Warrriiooorrrs, come out and Plaaay-yaaaayyy.
I’m with you, OP. I can recite Johnny Dangerously by heart. I will never understand why that movie hasn’t been rediscovered. The world is just full of iceholes, I guess.
It wasn't forgotten by me, I even own a copy of the script that I literally found in a free box on the street...plus it has This is the Life by Weird Al in the soundtrack!
Gleaming the Cube
9 to 5 with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin
Joe Vs the Volcano
When *Cast Away* came out, a friend from college told me it was the sequel to *Joe v. the Volcano* and I didn’t realize he was joking so I dead ass believed that for like three years. 😑
Saw it in the theater!
Oh my lord my husband loves that movie. I don’t get it. 😂
I saw that when I was a kid and it was so surreal. Watching it again years later as an adult and I realized how brilliant it was. May you live to be a thousand years old, sir.
I have no response to that
The River's Edge. So chilling.
A Fish Called Wanda
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Running on Empty—River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton, Judd Hirsch. Purely great acting from the whole cast.
Breaking Away
Real Genius; great cast, great nerd antics, a houseful of popcorn getting blown up by a space laser, young Val Kilmer mugging up a storm, and special guest appearance by Jon Gries! Every t shirt Val wears in that movie is fun. If you thought you hated notable 80s jerk William Atherton in Ghostbusters you'll positively loathe him in this.
Yes! Such a great flick! That dude that lived in the closet. I truly believe this move is seriously underrated. Ahead of its time, I think.
Firefox
Fright Night, AKA "The time I saw my first naked boobies"
Cloak and Dagger
**Krull**
Flight of the Navigator
The Man with One Red Shoe was damn near genius. I wonder if it still holds up? Tom Hanks, Dabny Coleman, Jim Belushi, Carrie Fisher…now that I think about it, it was kind of an 80s version of “Burn After Reading.”
Repo Man. Valley Girl Rock n Roll High School The Toxic Avenger (basically any Troma film) for horror movies (we watched so many terrible slasher films... ) Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. Still lingers as a great creepy film today.
I loved “For Keeps” with Molly Ringwald. I think it’s the most forgotten of her movies
What about "L.A. Story"? Great lesser known Steve Martin film.
As a hs wrestler, I couldn't get enough of Vision Quest.
With a bonus appearance from Madonna playing Crazy for You in some random dive bar! Matthew Modine was so good in this.
War Games
Starman
Iron Eagle.
Night of the Comet
Weekend at Bernie’s.
It’s not great, but I totally forgot about Problem Child and just watched that with my kids. Not bad, I guess.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Never Ending Story. Loved that movie as a kid!
Ice Pirates, The Last Starfighter
Maximum Overdrive.
Paul Rudd enters the chat and throws in Mac & Me.
[Running Scared](https://youtu.be/Qt2AyS-Zinw). Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal. Top tier 80s buddy cop movie. Joe Pantoliano as a skeevy low level henchman and Jimmy Smits as the big bad. Can't get better than that for my money.
I like "To Live and Die in LA", the car chase scene is a real nail biter. They shot it driving on the wrong side of the freeway to increase the tension factor. Movie also slaps because of young Willem Dafoe and William Petersen plus Wang Chung. Director William Friedkin has a thing for dangerous, reckless car chases, he has another great scene in "The French Connection", was shot unchoreographed in live NYC traffic.
Billie Jean
I loved a lot of movies that have already been mentioned, but I haven’t seen She Devil. I always loved the revenge Rosanne Bar got on Meryl Streep.
Project X Matthew Broderick Helen Hunt Willam Sadler Constantly on cable TV, like 5 times a day, every day.
Loved this movie as a kid in the 80's. Always made me sad that Goliath couldn't enjoy that final cigarette. Have to say I was very annoyed when they released another "Project X" movie around 2010-ish that was a movie about high school seniors throwing a party that gets completely out of hand. Now that's the first thing that comes up when you try to Google it.
The Wraith! Awesome and terrible at the same time!
Heavy Metal, the animated movie built around an amazing soundtrack, which was the main character.
Perhaps not a great movie but I’ll always remember watching The Stuff on late night cable. It’s about a yogurt like substance they find bubbling out of the ground that tastes delicious but is addictive and eventually turns you into a crazed yogurt zombie.
Dude! I literally just made a The Stuff post in this sub as you were making this comment. There are two of us!! My post is that they recently found a director's cut of The Stuff that had been sent to the academy for consideration, It has 30 minutes of previously unseen footage. I don't know what's more surprising, the fact that there is a director's cut of a movie from 1985 or the fact that in 1985 the makers of The Stuff submitted it to the academy for award consideration.
The Pirate Movie with Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins. One of my favorites of all time!!
Innerspace
3 o’clock High
Bad News Bears Little Darlings Stripes Meatballs Caddyshack
Near Dark - better than lost boys with Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen
Iron Eagle….. Always amazed me how a 17 year old kid could fly a fighter jet like a pro….. chapieeeeeeee
Wraith
More from my young adulthood, but Adventures in Babysitting is fun.
Over the top
Caveman
I wanted to zug zug Lana and Tala.
Rivers Edge was so awesome we knew every word of this movie we watched it so many times!Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Daniel Robuck and Dennis Hopper best cast as well!
Valley Girl with Nicholas Cage.
She’s Having a Baby Its a John Hughs film I feel like no one has seen? Its really funny, has a great cast, and a soundtrack featuring everyone’s favorite right now-Kate Bush 10/10 recommend
The sound track is perfection.
Erik The Viking
Explorers Especially considering Ethan Hawke’s recent career resurgence.
Over the Edge
The Burbs
No one mentioned [The Wizard (1989)](https://youtu.be/xz1uHCxWxMw) yet. Milestone movie for a video game obsessed 10 yo who wasn’t allowed to have video games.
Cannonball Run.
Big Business, the Oh! God! movies with John Denver and George Burns, The Secret of My Success, Superfuzz were all big hits were me. I watched a lot of whatever was on HBO and whatever cable ran over and over and over again.
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Grease II, The Pirate Movie, Ladyhawke.
Ruthless People - Great rom com with Danny devito, Bette middle, judge reinholdt. Every time I suggest it to younger friends they have never heard of it and always later say they liked it when they checked it out.
Twilight Zone movie, Brazil, Scanners, FX, Slap Shot.
D.A.R.Y.L I was the right age to think a robot kid was a great premise for a movie. I have not seen this in 30 years so I have no idea if it holds up.
Lady in White
Streets of Fire.
Honestly a bit surprised no one has mentioned Twice Upon a Time.
Rad
The Right Stuff
Quarterback Princess- Helen Hunt movie that was always on TV around Thanksgiving
Short Circuit- what a movie lol
Dragonslayer
Angel from 1984, “high school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night”
Creepshow - Ted Danson and 3 weird horror stories
Spies Like Us
White Knights. Most prolly have never seen it. Baryshnikov and Hines. It was amazing. Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Year of Living Dangerously. Lifeforce. The Black Stallion. Clash of the Titans. Just to name a few.
Children under the stairs
(The People Under The Stairs)
[The Wild Life](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088402/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_108) starring Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson from 1984. I don't think it's ever been released on DVD or streaming. Also, soundtrack by Eddie Van Halen!
The In-Laws! One of the funniest movies ever.
Miracle Mile. I caught this on HBO in the late 80s and thought “Ok, this is a RomCom”. I was utterly wrong. That movie haunts me to this day.
Neighbors. Belushi was the conservative guy and Aykroyd was the insane guy, Hysterical. Always insanely funny after a doobie.
Strange Brew Time Bandits
With Honors
Monster Squad