thanks mixed. I hope someone can make a movie about lee and capote.

Okay you have to add, Airplane to the list of 70's movies and the towering inferno and the orginal poseindon(spelling) and shaft, and foxy brown, carwash too! great fun movies from the 70's

I heard about that! Zac Efron is playing Ren. Should be interesting. I actually saw Footloose for the first time last week because thats what our musical is going to be this year. Its totally different though since the musical version has, shocker, a lot of more songs haha. I'm debating on whether or not to try out for a lead.

Once school starts i can go back to going to the movies every week ALL ALONE i could squee! But no good movies coming out yet, imo

Another good movie is The Natural with Robert Redford and Glenn Close. Robert looks amazing. Sorry you're not doing so well, black cat.

I never saw Diner, but I hated An Officer and a Gentleman. I hated Pretty Woman too - a hooker hooks a man. Yeah, right.

One of my favorite movies ever is Eddie and the Cruisers. Great music, good story. Streets of Fire is another one with good music; it's a little dark but funny at times. Rick Moranis is fabulous as a buffoon in that one. Ooooh, and Adventures in Babysitting. No matter how many times I watch it, I still laugh.

I found this list of movies for the 80's.........

(E.T. was my very first date with a boy named Jay, I was 11 he was 12 )

1980
The Blues Brothers
Caddyshack
Private Benjamin
Fame
The Blue Lagoon
Urban Cowboy
Airplane!
9 To 5
The Empire Strikes Back
Friday The 13th
Stir Crazy
Coal Miner's Daughter
Xanadu
Somewhere In Time


1981
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Heavy Metal
Arthur
The Fox & The Hound
Stripes
On Golden Pond
Porky's
For Your Eyes Only
Dragonslayer
Chariots Of Fire
Raging Bull


1982
Tron
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Creepshow
Tootsie
Poltergeist
Rocky III
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
The Dark Crystal
An Officer & A Gentleman
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
Victor/Victoria
The Pirate Movie
The Last Unicorn


1983
Flashdance
Risky Business
WarGames
Terms of Endearment
Mr. Mom
Octopussy
Return of the Jedi
Trading Places
National Lampoon's Vacation
First Blood (Rambo)
A Christmas Story
Yentl


1984
Ghostbusters
Sixteen Candles
Gremlins
The Karate Kid
Nightmare On Elm Street
The Big Chill
Footloose
Splash
Johnny Dangerously
Beverly Hills Cop
Electric Dreams
This Is Spinal Tap
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Dune
The Neverending Story


1985
Back To The Future
The Breakfast Club
Ladyhawke
The Goonies
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Desperately Seeking Susan
St. Elmo's Fire


1986
Pretty In Pink
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Top Gun
Short Circuit
Crocodile Dundee
Ruthless People
Platoon
Aliens
Howard The Duck
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
An American Tale
Maid To Order


1987
Dirty Dancing
The Lost Boys
Date With An Angel
Roxanne
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Princess Bride
Full Metal Jacket
Lethal Weapon
Spaceballs
RoboCop
Fatal Attraction
Three Men & A Baby
Mannequin
Project X
Moonstruck


1988
Earth Girls Are Easy
Scrooged
Rain Man
The Land Before Time
Cocktail
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Big
Die Hard
Coming To America
A Fish Called Wanda
Beetlejuice
Willow
Bull Durham
Hairspray
The Accused


1989
Heathers
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
Field Of Dreams
Do The Right Thing
Weekend At Bernie's
Batman
When Harry Met Sally
Dead Poets Society
Glory
Driving Miss Daisy
Look Who's Talking
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
Steel Magnolias
Say Anything

So, was Jay your first kiss????

I didn't see Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) or Adventures in Babysitting (1987) on that list.

*bowing to OH* the list is powerful and grand. I've copied to my friends email...for her 80's movies list.

Great list OH, great ideas for stuff to go back an watch again.

Hubby and my first date was to go see Ghandi, in 1982, (we had an English assignment on nonviolent civil disobedience, ). I locked my keys in the car.

I LOVE Moonstruck!!!!

I love that movie!! I had the book and I used to act out scenes in the bathroom mirror. Yes, I was that kind of kid.

Lea Thompson was super hot in that movie. I watched it just for her, but ended up liking the movie.

Yeah, but she was super annoying. I didn't find her character sympathetic at all--she was a snob, in my opinion.

I love "The Departed" (or "The Depahted" as I call it).

That is all.

It was a good movie, but the scene with three guys getting shot in the head within five minutes was too much for me. I would have liked the movie much more with out that scene.

Leo was freakin' hot in that movie!!

Agreed. She was a total snob and generally lacking in character. But I was a superficial young man and I ignored these bad traits because she was so hot.

Good choice of the spoiler bars for that comment, RC. **shakes head**. I'm disappointed in you!

You caught me before I could delete that comment!

I have to admit, after getting dumped by my girlfriend (the one I drove to Wisconsin to see) dating became 'all about me'. I went after what I wanted on date night, not meaningfull relationships. Thankfully this time period only lasted 2 years until I moved on to 'serious girlfriend, version 3.0'.

I stayed up to watch some of the extras on the starwars dvd, not that great.

I didn't see the Fly on the list? that was a cool movie then. remember Beetlejuice too?

I'm a sucker for St. Elmos fire. I have to watch it everytime it comes on, and the Breakfast club as well. There are so many movies I will watch like that.

I'm not disappointed in you--I had this happen to me, on a much larger scale that even the best spoiler bars could not contain. The ex boyfriend is an ex for a LOT of reasons.

Oh no!!! This happened to you Wedd? I'm sorry! Now I really feel like a total jerk!

No, don't feel like a jerk!! What you did was on such a small scale compared to what was going on with me. The ex just wasn't "interested" and instead of being a man and saying so, orbreaking up with me, he was insistent on using visual aids in order to help the process along. At first I thought it was fun and daring, then I realized that his eyes were on the screen the whole time and never on me. Not the greatest thing for the self-esteem. Like I said, there's a good reason he is my ex. You were just being a silly teenager--I shouldn't have even said anything--I'm not in a good mood today, sorry! And, this is the movie thread, so let me try to recover it:

Brad Pitt

I have not been a big fan of all of his movies, but Legends of the Fall is one of my favorite movies. He looks SO hot in that movie, and the scene when he is fighting with his brother and he says something like, "I will forgive you that once because you are my brother. ONCE!"--I love that scene. And I didn't see Troy, but I saw a pic of him with no shirt on in that and he looked awesome, too. Wait, that's not really movie related, is it?

The Wedding Singer is my favorite movie--it is just too sweet and funny! And on the opposite note, I will NEVER watch My Girl again because I cannot ever see that scene again when she cries over Thomas Jay's coffin. It would kill me. I have never cried so hard at a movie in my life.

That's terrible Wedd! That guy is a total jerk for doing that to a nice person like you!

I have an amusing Brad Pitt in Troy story. The singer for my band is very much like Micheal Scott, complete with the man-crushes. He saw some pre-production photos from Troy and got very excited.

Singer - "We need to write a song about this!"
Me - "We're not recording a 'Brad Pitt' song on this album"
Singer - "How about a song about Achilles?"
Me - "That's ok"

Despite this clarification, the song became known as the 'Brad Pitt' song during the album recording. So we record the song and it actually is a really cool song. I only glance at the lyrics and they seem to be about Achilles.

It turned out that the lyrics were not exactly about Achilles, but rather that movie version, complete with some bad historical accuracies. So guess who does the interviews? ME! So I deal with a barrage of questions about why we are basing lyrics on Brad Pitt characters!

Speaking of 80's movies, I did like some of the one mention earlier like the following:

Some kind of Wonderful
The Fly
Beetlejuice


Others that I liked:

Aliens
Lucas
Karate Kid
48 hours
Back to the Future pt 1
Teen Wolf
Swamp Thing
Creepshow
Revenge of the Nerds

I could go on and on.

Why don't you just turn it over to him when it gets to that point? "Well, Michael hear can explain the song better, it's really his baby".

No way Wedd. I just can't agree with that. That scene brought the entire movie together. That's the only time I've ever walked out of a theater shocked. Scorsese's gruesome but oh so awesome.

And by the way, it was 4 in 5 minutes, not 3.

I must have closed my eyes after 3!

You saw how Micheal deals with press at Dunder-Mifflin.

My singer goes no where near any journalists! He isn't permitted! I keep a tight reign on the press. If I didn't I'd read things like "I don't really like men, but if I did it would be Brad Pitt. Especially how hot he was in Troy. He was also hot in Fight Club too'. Seriously, that's what he would have said.

^^^^^Not that there's anything wrong with that!!

You lasted 45 minutes during Out of Africa??? You're my hero! I also adore Some Kind of Wonderful! I was horrified to learn recently that hubby had never seen it. No wait, he had seen it but couldn't remember it. That's even worse! I had a huge crush on Eric Stoltz for a long time.



Thanks for this list, Mixed! I've seen some of these (Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Blazing Saddles are two of my favorites!), but definitely need to check out the rest of these. And I'm also glad you wanted to slap RR in Out of Africa...



Thanks, V! It's been a really rough summer, but I'm slowly getting better. I've never seen Eddie and the Cruisers or Streets of Fire--I'll add them to my queue! Thanks!



OH, thank you SO much for this list! Wow! This will make browsing at Netflix much easier. You had your first date at age 11? Good for you!

Liz, I think I left you out of this, but I love the movie Airplane! Especially when the old lady starts talking "jive" to those dudes...

Yes first date at 11, he was a neighbor and my mom knew his parents and he was a nice boy. But we only 'went together' for about 6 months and maybe had as many kisses, nothing big. But I didnt date again till I was 14, I refused to date any boys that were shorter than me, so I had a dry spell


oh BIG p.s. none of my kids are dating any time soon, EVER! Yes its 'do as I say not as I do' in my house

How about ...Say Anything. This movie made me fall in love with John Cusack.

I had my first boyfriend when I was 11. We started "going together" the day Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married. Wait, that means I was 10...anyway, in "going together" for a year, all I got was one lousy kiss on the cheek! I also had some dry spells because of my height, but eventually had to get over it. Hubby's an inch shorter than I am.

My first date movie (well, the first with someone I actually LIKED) was Fatal Attraction. He kept apologizing to me after it was over. "Sorry about the boobs. Sorry about the sex. Sorry about the boiled bunny." I thought he was a genius for taking me because I kept clinging to him and burying my head in his shoulder--I thought that was the point!

The only thing I liked about that movie was the song by Peter Gabriel (In your eyes?). I think that was the name. I like some of the other John Cusack movies from the 80s.


I forgot about Weird Science, Platoon, and Biloxi Blues.

I quite agree. I suggested "The Departed" to someone who'd never seen it and their reaction was amazing. I should suggest it more often.

She beat me to it! I was going to say, "Not that there's anything wrong with that."

I also liked D.A.R.Y.L. - that was a really good movie.

I watched The Thin Red Line yesterday, really just to see Nick Stahl (who has a small role in which he dies). But it was an ok movie, very well shot just a little to poetic. And I found out that John Savage (who plays Nick Stahl's character in Carnivale's father), so that was cool .

Tonight I have a few movies planed. Re-watching A Very Long Engagement (in french), it's a fabulous movie, and The Danish Poet, a short (15 minutes) film, and maybe the third disc of this collections of the first movies ever made, which is really cool to watch--at least for movie buffs or those who like the late 1800s and early 1900s (like me ).

That sounds really interesting! I love silent movies- so seeing some of the first movies ever made would be awesome!

I'm going to start watching the BBC miniseries Wives and Daughters tonight (you all know how I feel about BBC miniseries ) I've heard it's really good- so I'm looking forward to it!

It really is, it's called 'The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913' if your interested and there are 6 volumes in all. It's really cool to see the progression of film!

Have fun with your BBC miniseries, I too love BBC (masterpieces are my soft spot ).

I saw the Nanny Diaries the other night. I can't even remember what it was about. It was totally forgettable. About an hour after I saw it I couldn't even remember the storyline.

Well, I watched The Danish Poet and it is marvelous! Super cute short film (only 15 minutes) you HAVE to see! Then I went from super cute and heart warming to totally depressing but brilliant 21 Grams (with Clea DuVall, who plays in Carnivale--she is brilliant). The other movies will have to wait till tomorrow. I was thinking I'd rent Girl Interrupted (Clea DuVall plays in that too) so maybe I'll watch that tomorrow or this weekend, has anyone seen it? Is it good?

I like silent films. Zorro is one of my favorites. I like to give them my own narration, though. This used to drive my former roommates nuts.

That is exactly how they described it on Ebert & Roeper!

OMG, I love the Natural. Robert is really good in that film and there is waaaay more that that movie than baseball. The end makes me soo happy! And yes, he does look fantastic!

I will review 'Blades of Glory' by re-enacting a conversation with actor Jon Heder and his agent

Agent - "What did you think of the script?"
Jon Heder - "It was pretty good"
Agent - "1 million?"
Jon Heder - "So they're offering me 1 million dollars?"
Agent - "No, you have to pay 1 million dollars"
Jon Heder - "WTF?"
Agent - "You get to make out with Jenna Fisher"
Jon Heder - "Keep talking.."
Agent - "Her role and look is very Pam-like"
Jon Heder - "Get my checkbook"

Funny and amazing film!!!

I rented Girl, Interrupted yesterday (because Clea DuVall, who plays in Carnivale, is in it) and it's a fabulous movie! The cast was amazing too, they all did such a brilliant job! And the editing and cinematography are great too! And the day before that I watched 21 grams (also with Clea DuVall) which is also fantastic. And The Danish Poet, which supper cute and heart warming.

has anyone seen the movie, lonely hearts with travolta and hayek? some say it's good.

bubble wives and daugthers is so good I loved it. You'll love it too enjoy

Bubble's watching Wives and Daughters?! That's one of my all-time favorites. You'll love it bubs.

Yep- I finished it last night. As usual- the BBC is perfection I loved it

Really? I was interested in this, but it sat for so long in my queue, eventually I took it out. Should I watch it?

rented some dvds, got blades of glory but I also got this JOHN K movie. A NEW WAVE.

I watched infamous. Not that great. interesting but didn't go deep enough for me