Movies of the 80s
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We love the 1980s. Everything on this page is all about movies of the 1980s. Starting in 1980 and working our way the decade, we are preserving the stories and movies of the greatest decade, the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/@Moviesofthe80s
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Top 10 Shameless 80s Movie Ripoffs, Ranked by IMDb Audience Scores
Hollywood blockbusters ruled the 1980s—but they didn’t rule alone. Hot on the heels of films like Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Escape from New York, Alien, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Predator, a wave of low-budget exploitation movies—many produced in Italy—raced into theaters and video stores with suspiciously familiar plots, costumes, and action beats.
By Movies of the 80s6 days ago in Geeks
Batman in 1983: The Movie We Almost Got Before Tim Burton Changed Everything
By the time Batman arrived in theaters in 1989, it felt inevitable. The black suit. The gothic skyline. Danny Elfman’s operatic score. Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Tim Burton’s vision was so dominant it rewired how pop culture saw the character.
By Movies of the 80s9 days ago in Geeks
Blue Skies Again (1983): A Feminist Sports Movie That Trips Over Its Own Ideals
There are forgotten movies because they’re bad, and forgotten movies because they arrived too early, too late, or with the wrong instincts. Blue Skies Again, a modest 1983 baseball comedy, belongs uneasily in all three categories. It presents a premise that still unfortunately feels timely today — a teenage girl with the talent and drive to become a professional baseball player — yet consistently loses confidence in that very idea. What remains is a curious, frustrating time capsule: a film that should champion equality and instead clumsily trips over the very sexist ideals it should be upending.
By Movies of the 80s15 days ago in Geeks
'To Be or Not to Be' (1942 vs. 1983): When Comedy Laughs in the Face of Fascism
In 1942, Ernst Lubitsch released To Be or Not to Be into a world already at war with itself. The ink on the headlines was still wet. Europe was in flames. Hitler was not a punchline — he was a living, breathing catastrophe.
By Movies of the 80s19 days ago in Geeks
Did Vic Morrow Know He Was Going to Die on the Set of Twilight Zone: The Movie?
It has become part of the lore surrounding the horrific accident that killed Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Din Le and Renee Shin Ye Chen that Morrow somehow predicted his own death.
By Movies of the 80s21 days ago in Geeks
The Director Who Killed His Own Movie: Lawrence Turman and the Most Honest Press Tour of 1983
Hollywood runs on illusion. Directors sell confidence. Producers sell certainty. Even bad movies are promoted like misunderstood masterpieces waiting for their audience to catch up.
By Movies of the 80s22 days ago in Geeks
John Travolta’s Lost Decade: Fame, Flops, and Survival in the 1980s
Few people will ever know what it feels like to become famous overnight. Not internet famous. Not viral-for-a-week famous. Real, unavoidable, nationwide celebrity. The kind where your face is suddenly everywhere and you don’t get a say in the matter.
By Movies of the 80s22 days ago in Geeks
Uncommon Valor and the Screenplay That Disappeared
A Hit Arrives — and a Trend Is Born When Uncommon Valor opened in theaters on December 16, 1983, it was immediately embraced as both a commercial hit and a cultural corrective. Gene Hackman was praised for his granite-solid performance, Patrick Swayze emerged as a rising star, and the film joined a growing wave of early-’80s movies determined to reshape how Americans viewed the Vietnam War.
By Movies of the 80s24 days ago in Serve
The Keep (1983): How Michael Mann’s Ambitious Horror Epic Became Hollywood’s Great Orphan
“Success has a thousand fathers… while defeat is an orphan.” — ancient proverb Released in December 1983, The Keep should have been a prestige genre event. Instead, it became one of the most infamous misfires of the decade — a big-budget sci-fi/horror/war hybrid that collapsed under the weight of its ambition.
By Movies of the 80s25 days ago in Horror
The Karen Silkwood Mystery: The True Story Behind Silkwood (1983)
In 1983, director Mike Nichols released Silkwood, a political drama rooted in one of the most disturbing real-life stories of 1970s America. Starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher, the film dramatizes the final months of Karen Silkwood — a nuclear plant worker whose death remains officially ruled an accident, but widely questioned.
By Movies of the 80s26 days ago in Criminal
Threshold, the Artificial Heart, and the Blurred Line Between Medicine and Science Fiction
When I was researching the very much-forgotten early 1980s medical drama Threshold — starring Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum — I wondered why it’s often tagged as both drama and science fiction. At first glance, Threshold feels like a serious medical story grounded in real-world cardiac science, not a genre-bender. But perhaps history itself has reframed the story.
By Movies of the 80s26 days ago in Geeks
