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Fish Called Wanda, A 6/30/05 83.37%[29.18/35]        Comments
This crime-caper film with the unwieldy title seemed an unlikely hit when it quietly made its way into theatres in 1988. Most of the cast was unknown on these shores, and the recognizable faces weren't huge box office draws.
Flash Gordon 8/8/07 53.84%[13.46/25]        Comments
It's the ultimate guilty pleasure that you don't have to feel guilty about watching again and again.
Fletch 1/14/10 81.07%[24.32/30]        Comments
Fletch was the high point of Chevy Chase's film career, and one of the comedic classics to come out of the 1980s.
Footloose 10/13/11 76.40%[19.10/25]        Comments
Ren moves from (question 25) to small town (question 1) where he finds that (question 5) has been banned.
Footloose 10/11/11 79.36%[19.84/25]        Comments
Footloose launched the career of Kevin Bacon, who has spent the past two decades trying (unsuccessfully) to get the world to forget about it.
For Your Eyes Only 9/1/09 73.36%[18.34/25]        Comments
Roger Moore returns for the fifth time, and the first of three movies where he was really too old for the role.
Friday the 13th 7/15/09 77.16%[19.29/25]        Comments
Friday the 13th was released in 1980, spawning a masterfully never-ending franchise and cementing the early '80s as slasher film heaven.
Fright Night 8/18/11 82.16%[20.54/25]        Comments
Soon, Charley Brewster and his friends are in a fight for their lives.
Full Metal Jacket 11/7/16 45.04%[11.26/25]        Comments
Kubrick's war masterpiece Full Metal Jacket proved that no film, not even Oliver Stone's Platoon, could offer the definitive word on Vietnam.
Funny Farm 8/13/14 86.00%[21.50/25]        Comments
What??? George Roy Hill directed Chevy Chase in a late 80s comedy? Indeed, this actually happened! But if you're taking this quiz for Funny Farm, you probably already know that.
Gandhi 8/23/12 52.77%[15.83/30]        Comments
Here's a quiz on one of the more critically acclaimed bio-pics in recent decades. Gandhi won Ben Kingsley an Oscar and featured a number of surprising cameos.
Ghostbusters 6/23/10 77.16%[19.29/25]        Comments
What do you get when you combine paranormal researchers with highly charged nuclear reactors on their backs, an apartment building possessed by evil spirits, a beautiful musician, a nerdy accountant, a gluttonous green blob, and an evil giant marshmallow?
Ghostbusters II 1/11/17 77.81%[24.12/31]        Comments
It's the follow-up to the original 80s smash, which finds the Ghostbusters reunited in a widely-debated sequel.
Good Morning Vietnam 5/10/11 49.04%[12.26/25]        Comments
Come try the quiz and "if you do" and "if you do" succeed you'll have no one but yourself to blame.
Goonies, The: 6/13/07 64.30%[12.86/20]        Comments
Filled with laughs, scares, booby traps, an ancient map to lost treasure, and a dastardly trio of villains, what more could a kid ask for?
Great Mouse Detective, The: 7/6/16 68.65%[13.73/20]        Comments
It's one of the products of the period considered to be lesser-Disney, but 1986's The Great Mouse Detective still has its charms.
Great Outdoors, The: 8/27/10 79.63%[23.89/30]        Comments
Ah yes, time for some R & R with the family. A beautiful lake a real campfire and nature all around. And here comes the relatives from hell
Gremlins 7/15/10 65.47%[19.64/30]        Comments
They're mean and green, and out of control. But let's be honest - everyone still wanted a Gizmo.
Harlem Nights 2/19/14 86.70%[17.34/20]        Comments
One of Eddie Murphy's last great comedies (?), this late 1980s crime comedy teams Murphy with the great Richard Pryor, the underappreciated Danny Aiello, the sublime Della Reese and.....Jasmine Guy.
Hoosiers 4/6/09 79.60%[19.90/25]        Comments
Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper all give wonderful performance in this, one of the great sports movies.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 5/15/08 82.92%[20.73/25]        Comments
Somehow along the way, however, someone struck upon the key to another sequel: the introduction of Sean Connery as Indiana Jones' father. The result was magical.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 5/7/08 83.00%[20.75/25]        Comments
And yet, for those of us who like to take a walk on the dark side now and then, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is an action classic
Jumpin' Jack Flash 5/2/13 82.48%[20.62/25]        Comments
A forgotten gem from the mid 80s, Whoopi Goldberg continued her string of comedy success in Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Karate Kid, Part II, The: 5/29/13 77.44%[19.36/25]        Comments
Before Hilary Swank and Jaden Smith took the franchise in strange new directions, The Karate Kid, Part II featured Ralph Macchio reprising his role as Daniel LaRusso under the tutelage of Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi.
Karate Kid, The: 6/8/10 70.57%[21.17/30]        Comments
A teenage boy, thrashed frequently by karate-wielding badasses, learns karate from a quite old maintenance man.
           
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