The 80s movie countdown competition signup thread

[SCClassof93]

Eh, leaving the movie poster up is fine, that way everyone can see right away what placed where.

I'm thinking about joining, but I'm not sure. Considering I was only born in 1987, the hell if I'm gonna know how popular things were back then (compared to being popular these days due to being "classics"). I just went through the list, and while I've seen a lot, out of the list of 200, there's 84 that I haven't seen, so besides not knowing how popular of movies they were during the 80s (or when this list was compiled) compared to these days, I would have no clue how to even go about ranking them. Some of them obviously were huge and popular, but naturally that probably means they'll all be listed and gone before the top 25.

Votes were taken from over 3000 folks about 10-11 years ago. Unlike the music, not much "foreign" stuff made it in.

[skipwondah33]

I'm in...for the back to back

[ram29jackson]

this didnt make the list ?

[ram29jackson]

or this ?

[ram29jackson]

or this classic ?

[ram29jackson]

LOL or this beauty ?



sobriety test at 2:09, but listen to Fishbones tune at the beginning haha

[SCClassof93]

Repo Man was in the 220s somewhere. The rest of that stuff is out of my realm. So are you playing ram?

[SCClassof93]

I'm in...for the back to back

[ram29jackson]

Repo Man was in the 220s somewhere. The rest of that stuff is out of my realm. So are you playing ram?

I suppose

[SCClassof93]

I will start the top 150 countdown on 9/13

[morsdraconis]

There's no way I could play this. This is my top 25 in no particular order:

Aliens
Back to the Future
Die Hard
The Empire Strikes Back
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghostbusters
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Karate Kid
Lethal Weapon
Once Upon a Time in America
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Predator
Conan The Barbarian
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky IV
Scrooged
The Shining
Spaceballs
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Terminator
They Live
The Thing
WarGames

I mean, some of these movies are in my personal top 25 of all time greatest movies, yet, I can almost guarantee that they aren't when you ask the average person that grew up in the 80s.

[morsdraconis]

And that's leaving shit off like Sixteen Candles, Brazil, St Elmo's Fire, The Breakfast Club, and other shitty 80s movies like that are guaranteed to be on the top 12 list.

[SCClassof93]

There's no way I could play this. This is my top 25 in no particular order:

Aliens
Back to the Future
Die Hard
The Empire Strikes Back
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghostbusters
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Karate Kid
Lethal Weapon
Once Upon a Time in America
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Predator
Conan The Barbarian
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky IV
Scrooged
The Shining
Spaceballs
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Terminator
They Live
The Thing
WarGames

I mean, some of these movies are in my personal top 25 of all time greatest movies, yet, I can almost guarantee that they aren't when you ask the average person that grew up in the 80s.

I think you should 1. join the game, then 2. send me your top 12.....look at the music list, this stuff will for the most be main stream. Give it a shot Sunshine

[Marlowe]

I'm in.

[gschwendt]

Go ahead and count me in... though I suck with 80s movies. Unless it's Spaceballs, 3 Amigos or the like.

[ram29jackson]

Go ahead and count me in... though I suck with 80s movies. Unless it's Spaceballs, 3 Amigos or the like.

[SmoothPancakes]

Go ahead and count me in... though I suck with 80s movies. Unless it's Spaceballs, 3 Amigos or the like.

Ah yeah, The Three Amigos, that is a great movie. We got a classic like Throw Momma from the Train, but how the hell did Three Amigos not make it? It is a GREAT movie.

[CLW]

I'm in.

[psusnoop]

Im in too.

[SCClassof93]

Up to 7 now playing. Three Amigos was #203.