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.