Forgotten:

• WarGames - Drama - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567

I believe I've watched nearly all of those movies also, one or two are not familiar.

Thanks for having Brazil on that list! I loved it when it came to the movie theaters here.

For #Christmas: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097958

Cocktail - Romance - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094889/

Eighties films on my all-time-best list...
1980:
The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty) #23
The Dogs of War (John Irvin) #34
Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino) #75
In God We Tru$t (Marty Feldman) #124
The Fog (John Carpenter) #152
Zombi 2 (Lucio Fulci) #155
Cruising (William Friedkin) #291
Inside Moves (Richard Donner) #304
Altered States (Ken Russell) #522
Suur Toll (Rein Raamat) #644
Airplane! (Jim Abrahams) #686
The Changeling (Peter Medak) #916
A Legy (Ference Rofusz) #980

1981:
Scanners (David Cronanberg) #69
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski) #71
Arthur (Steve Gordon) #100
The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital (Joe Rees) #168
Escape from New York (John Carpenter) #175
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell) #392
The Road Warrior (George Miller) #421
High Risk (Stewart Raffill) #655
Dead and Buried (Gary Sherman) #673
Outland (Peter Hyams) #727
E tu Vivrai nel Terrore (Lucio Fulci) #758
An American Werewolf in London (John Landis) #774
Feherlofia (Marcell Jancovics) #905

1982:
Hammett (Wim Wenders) #49
The Thing (John Carpenter) #70
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker) #133
Bladerunner (Ridley Scott) #229
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi) #236
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) #290
Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman) #429
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank) #535
First Blood (Ted Kotcheff) #806
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace) #859
Bongo Man (Stefan Paul) #1000

1983:
XTRO (Harry Bromley Davenport) #26
A Christmas Story (Bob Clark) #32
Strange Invaders (Michael Laughlin) #123
Himself (Bill Cosby) #213
Bad Boys (Rick Rosenthal) #315
Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer) #317
Videodrome (David Cronenberg) #344
The Hunger (Tony Scott) #497
Passionless Moments (Jane Campion) #557
Angst (Gerald Kargl) #634
Scarface (Brian de Palma) #763
The Day After (Nicholas Meyer) #792
Get Crazy! (Allan Arkush) #966

1984:
Repo Man (Alex Cox) #88
Starman (John Carpenter) #196
The Terminator (James Cameron) #244
This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner) #271
Another State of Mind (Adam Small and Peter Stuart) #332
Birdy (Alan Parker) #369
Heimat: Eine Deutsch Chronik (Edgar Reitz) #464
Oszi Almanack (Bela Tarr) #612
Top Secret! (Jerry Abraham) #684
Comfort and Joy (Bill Forsyth) #950
Combat Shock (Buddy Giovinnazzo) #979

1985:
The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon) #30
Better Off Dead... (Steve Holland) #52
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin) #67
The Stuff (Larry Cohen) #103
Amadeus (Milos Forman) #258
Racetrack (Frederick Wiseman) #335
Antonio Gaudi (Hiroshi Teshigahara) #347
Day of the Dead (George A. Romero) #406
Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood) #410
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader) #412
Hard Rock Zombies (Krishna Shah) #456
Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon) #496
Manufraktur (Peter Tscherassky) #530
Agnes of God (Norman Jewison) #816
Silip: Daughters of Eve (Elwood Perez) #975

1986:
River's Edge (Tim Hunter) #27
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton) #78
Night of the Creeps (Fred Dekker) #107
Power (Sidney Lumet) #197
Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan) #220
Kin-dza-dza! (Georgiy Danieliya) #333
Aliens (James Cameron) #449
Blue Velvet (David Lynch) #487
The Fly (David Cronenberg) #581
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee) #598
Stand by Me (Rob Reiner) #620
Platoon (Oliver Stone) #768
Desu Pawuda (Shigeru Izumiya) #911

1987:
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow) #58
House of Games (David Mamet) #66
Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter) #166
Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth) #182
Dudes (Penelope Spheeris) #293
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner) #424
Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson) #473
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner) #580
Hellraiser (Clive Barker) #665
Aria (Ken Russell et al.) #825
Angel Heart (Alan Parker) #943

1988:
Hotaru no haka (Isao Takahata) #2
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore) #63
The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese) #77
School Daze (Spike Lee) #127
Neco z Alenky (Jan Svankmajer) #144
Paperhouse (Bernard Rose) #157
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo) #215
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg) #319
The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven) #336
Colors (Dennis Hopper) #403
The Cat Came Back (Cordell Barker) #434
Permanent Record (Marisa Silver) #485
Shan shui qing (Wei Te) #514
Karhozat (Bela Tarr) #561
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis) #570
Twisted Issues (Charles Pinion) #596
They Live (John Carpenter) #754
Hotel Terminus (Marcel Ophuls) #808
Shame (Steve Jodrell) #822
Manhoru no Naka no Ningyo (Hideshi Hino) #912

1989:
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky) #11
Dekalog (Krzyzstof Kieslowski) #86
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus van Sant) #115
A Grand Day Out (Nick Park) #174
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh) #263
Majjo no Takkubin (Hayao Miyazaki) #328
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) #448
Sweetie (Jane Campion) #624
Let It Ride (Joe Pytka) #658
Glory (Edward Zwick) #785
Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce) #891
Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men (David Hinton) #927
Trna/Svetlo/Trna (Jan Svankmajer) #932
Yaaba (Idrissa Ouedraogo) #947

#rank !

Great list, however the possibility of nuclear war is still a much more "real problem", as you called it, than coronavirus

@steelnomad@diasp.org I learned in history that the USSR never intended to attack the West. It was the West that unnecessarily provoked the East with exercises. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

The last Starfighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55LwfcPfWM

@anonymiss outside of the cool grafix, the first thing that comes to my mind with the last star fighter is always
"HE JUST HAD A BABY!"

What film?

What film?

@Robert Beveridge

Where is となりのトトロ (Tonari no Totoro)?

@anonymiss @David Everybody wants to rule the world and lets make popcorn.

Anyhow, I didn't like the silly movie challenge thing when it made it's rounds on the federation, so i'm gonna stop there and not even bother any further. I wanna stab that darn movie challenge game in it's move challenging heart until it is dead. Thing just kept going and going and going and to seemingly no real point or end. let it be dead. please just let it be dead.

What film?

@Alien (A23P)

I take it you're not a fan of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

@David Are you already reading "Player Two"?

@anonymiss @David
can't say I found Ready Player One bad per say, but no, certainly not a fan.
also, I'd already learned from synthesis that the Oasys, while offering an impressive first impression, was ultimately just totally overpriced and there were other, more fun, and just as effective (if not more so) ways to go about things, that were less expensive to boot.... literally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkZGerp7Kag

@anonymiss

Not yet.

@anonymiss I think I would highlight Quest for fire (history, adventure), a Canadian-French production about a paleolithic tribe and their travels while they struggle to survival.

tnx everybody, this thread is really good!

Had to look up lists of movies from said decade to know which movies to choose from. It can be challenging to place the year a movie was released. What was my favourite and what now is my favourite movie from that era has definitely changed.
In no particular order:

Amadeus
Cinema Paradiso
Blade Runner
Das Boot
The Abyss
Aliens
The Bounty

@TheFifthSeason Oh, yeah! I too love Amadeus and Cinema Paradiso.

my 4 kids loved going to the movies in big screen theaters in the 80's with me and the wife. After the movie, we'd stop at a bookstore across the street in a vertical mall. So it was movies and books on the weekend. We went to drive-in movies where it was even better because the wife used to make us all bentos, with rice, spam, fish or fried chicken with pickled asian veggies. That's how we taught them to use chopsticks. Plus, the kids could sit outside the van on beach chairs and run to the snack bar and playground. Best time for the kids. They still talk about it today, and they're all pushing 50.

@geotirebiter@pluspora.com IMHO : yes, big screens+bookstores are a key part of the cinema culture that now is a public health need

👍 @vlax 0°0