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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The Rise and Fall of 'Deal of the Century' (1983): A Timeline of Hollywood Chaos
How Deal of the Century Became One of the 1980s’ Most Forgettable Hollywood Fiascos A fiasco is a funny thing. It takes many shapes. Failure has a million fathers, and that could not be more true of the 1983 feature-film flop Deal of the Century. Director William Friedkin, coming off The Exorcist and Sorcerer, was desperate to break out of the mold he’d built for himself. He envisioned a darkly comic takedown of the military-industrial complex — a thumb in the eye of the money-grubbing war-profiteers who thrived on perpetual conflict.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
The Lost Fourth Segment of a National Lampoon Film: Henry Jaglom’s Vanishing Act
A Title Hollywood Never Wanted Naming a movie The Bomb has always sounded like inviting disaster. In the film industry, the word “bomb” is shorthand for failure — the kind that wipes out profits and careers. The metaphor has existed almost as long as Hollywood itself, so it’s no surprise studios avoid it like a curse.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Cattle Annie and Little Britches: The Forgotten Outlaw Girls Who Became Western Myth
America loves mythology. We especially love creating our own—mythic heroes carved from nostalgia, grit, and the wide-open promise of the frontier. For decades, Hollywood’s simplest path to building larger-than-life heroes was to retell the legends of the Old West. Outlaws became icons; criminals became folk heroes; ordinary lives were inflated into something symbolic, something aspirational, something distinctly American.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
The Rise and Fall of Lion of the Desert: How an Epic Became a Box Office Tragedy
An Unlikely Hollywood Dreamer In 1981, reporter Bob Thomas of the Associated Press wrote of filmmaker Moustapha Akkad, calling him “an improbable success story.” Akkad spent the first half of his life in Syria before falling in love with Hollywood movies. He went to UCLA, studied filmmaking, and used his Middle Eastern connections to make his feature debut, The Message, about the origins of Islam. The movie never played in the U.S. after a disastrous screening in Washington D.C.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
The Echo of Tears in Rain: How Blade Runner Still Shapes the Future of Sci-Fi
Blade Runner didn’t just redefine sci-fi aesthetics—it rewrote the philosophical rules of the genre. This Movies of the 80s deep-dive explores how its questions about humanity, AI, and identity continue to shape modern science fiction from Ex Machina to Cyberpunk 2077.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Futurism
Ringo Starr’s Cinematic Side Quest: Caveman (1981) and the Mystery of a Mascot That Probably Wasn’t Him
Ringo Meets the Movies Ringo Starr has always been the Beatle most comfortable drifting into unexpected corners of pop culture. He’s funny, warm, unpretentious, and game for just about anything. So when he took the lead role in Caveman in 1981—a broad, slapstick prehistoric comedy from Jaws co-writer Carl Gottlieb—it felt like Ringo stepping naturally into the movies he seemed destined to make: strange, good-natured, and a little bit shaggy around the edges.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Beat
The Dead Zone: Book vs. Movie — What Stephen King’s Story Gains and Loses on Screen
Some stories feel like they belong to the era that produced them. Stephen King’s The Dead Zone is one of those stories. It came out in 1979, full of post-Watergate disillusionment and a creeping anxiety about how easily a political strongman could rise in America. Four years later, David Cronenberg adapted it into a film starring Christopher Walken, and suddenly King’s sprawling novel became something leaner, icier, and more tragic.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
The Right Stuff: How the 1983 Classic Rewrote Tom Wolfe’s Vision—and Sparked a Gus Grissom Controversy
The Right Stuff: Film vs. Book and the Fight for an Astronaut’s Legacy There was a time when astronauts were among the most beloved people on the planet. In my childhood, I went to a grade school named for Neil Armstrong, and our district included schools honoring Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White. These men weren’t just names on plaques—they were woven into the fabric of American heroism. When the Challenger tragedy struck, President Reagan said the astronauts had “slipped the surly bond of Earth to touch the face of God,” and regardless of how you feel about Reagan, the phrasing still hits with an undeniable, poetic power.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
How Knightriders Marked Ed Harris’s First Great Role — And Why It Still Matters to Me
My mother was wonderful, loving, warm — but we rarely connected on interests. She enjoyed movies, but she never understood my urge to dig deeper, to pick them apart, to talk about craft and choices and meaning. She liked every movie equally. I was the one who wanted to dissect them.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
8 Forgotten ’80s Movies Preserved Through Online Archives
There’s a wonderful thrill in finding an ‘80s movie you’ve never seen before — that tiny electric jolt, like discovering a loose tape on the shelf of a long-gone video store. Not the movies packaged into high dollar Blu-ray releases or algorithmically blessed on streaming services. No online archives are home to the lost, the overlooked, the movies that slipped between the couch cushions of the decade and stayed there.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
When Hair Met Latex: The Practical Magic of The Howling (1981)
Before CGI became the default language of movie magic, horror was built with sweat, latex, air pumps, and imagination. Joe Dante’s The Howling (1981) wasn’t just another monster movie — it was a statement. A howl of creative defiance from an era when filmmakers had to make nightmares real using their hands, not computers.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Horror
