Movies of 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987

There are about four weeks left in this year, 2019. I am a big fan of movies, but I've rarely been to the movies in the past five years. There have been some great movies, like The Joke, Darkest Hour, Wind River, The Revenant, and others, but when I think back to the past I remember the massive wave of quality and fun movies in the mid-80s. I was ten years old and I had the good fortune of seeing many awesome movies during that time, many of which I've seen many times since.

In my mission to introduce (or reintroduce/reinspire) cool stuff, today I'm going to post a list of significant movies of many genres from that awesome era. I wish this many great movies came out now, but times have changed and creativity has waned.

A list of good movies from the mid-80s:

Against All Odds

Aliens

Amadeus

Angel Heart

At Close Range

Back To The Future

Birdy

Blue Velvet

The Bounty

The Breakfast Club

A Christmas Story

Cocoon

The Color Purple

Commando

Conan The Destroyer

Country

Crocodile Dundee

Day Of The Dead

The Dead Zone

Dune

Empire Of The Sun

Enemy Mine

Explorers

Fatal Attraction

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Fly

Footloose

Fright Night

Full Metal Jacket

Ghostbusters

The Goonies

Gorky Park

Gremlins

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan

Hellraiser

Highlander

The Hitcher

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

Jagged Edge

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid part 2

The Killing Fields

Labyrinth

The Last Emperor

The Last Starfighter

Legend

Lethal Weapon

The Lost Boys

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

The Mission

The Mosquito Coast

The Natural

Never Say Never Again

The Neverending Story

Night Of The Comet

Nightmare On Elm Street

Nightmare On Elm Street 2

Nuts

Octopussy

Once Upon A Time In America

Out Of Africa

The Outsiders

Pale Rider

Paris, Texas

A Passage To India

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Platoon

Police Academy 2

Poltergeist 2

Predator

Pretty In Pink

The Princess Bride

Rambo 2

The Razor's Edge

Red Dawn

Red Sonja

Remo Williams

Repo Man

Return of The Jedi

The Right Stuff

The River

River's Edge

Rocky 4

Romancing The Stone

A Room With A View

The Running Man

Running Scared

Salvador

Scarface

Sixteen Candles

St. Elmo's Fire

Stand By Me

Star Trek 3

Star Trek 4

Sudden Impact

Tender Mercies

The Terminator

Terms of Enderarment

Top Gun

Under Fire

The Untouchables

A View To A Kill

Vision Quest

Wall Street

Weird Science

White Knights

Witness

The Year Of The Dragon

2010

etc.

That is a list that far exceeds the film industry of the past five years.

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