Favorite box office champion: 1980s edition

[The Bus]

Egad! What a difference from the 1990s. So many more of these seem to be palatable. Out of all these movies, which is your favorite?

(The only one I haven't seen is Beverly Hills Cop).

I'll predict a tough battle between Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[KillerCannibal]

Tough call between Raiders and Empire, but I went with Raiders because it felt like the right choice. It's just so goddamn awesome.

[BlueCC]

Back to the Future

This might be the first poll where I've actually seen every movie from beginning to end.

[PopcornTreeCt]

Back to the Future. Good choices though. The 80's may have been the golden age of blockbusters.

[darkhawk]

Tough choice. Three Men and a Baby

[fumanstan]

Raiders. Of course I was never that big of a Star Wars fan.

[Rockmjd23]

Raiders just ahead of Jedi

[awil1026]

BTTF: My favorite movie of any decade!

[NoirFan]

Marginally better than the 1990s list, though other than Batman I can't think of a single film on this list I have any desire to see again. Raiders was a tremendously fun film though, and my ten year old self loved Beverly Hills Cop to death.

[McHawkson]

Now, that's tough choices. I had to flip coin on my four favorite movie! I picked Empire Strikes Back.

[Ginwen]

I picked Empire, but a tough call over Raiders and Back to the Future.

[Maxflier]

Batman.
I still love Tim Burton's Batman flicks the best of all of them.

[The Bus]

Marginally better than the 1990s list, though other than Batman I can't think of a single film on this list I have any desire to see again.

What films do you consider fun and rewatchable? :hscratch:

[Brack]

Now this is a poll I can get behind. I'm sick of these "best" polls. I don't care about best, it's the favorites that really matter.

[Mountain Biker]

Wow half of the choices rank amongst my all-time favorites...

Too tough to call so a coin flip between Raiders and Empire gives it to Empire.

[NoirFan]

What films do you consider fun and rewatchable? :hscratch:

Pre-Code films, screwball comedies, and John Carpenter flicks?

[Palaver]

Close call. Went with Empire.

[Charlie Goose]

Eight great movies.....and Star Wars. -ptth-

Have to go with Raiders.

[Goat3001]

Just like the 1990's thread I had to go with a personal favorite over the better movies. I love BTTF and watch it all the time. I love all the Star Wars films as well.

But nothing is as unintentionally ridiculous and 80's as Top Gun.

Slider: Hey Goose, whose ass did you have to kiss to get here?
Goose: The list is long and distinguished.
Slider: Yeah... so is my johnson.

rotfl

[lordwow]

Tough choices indeed. Empire is definitely the best movie on that list, but I am a big fan of Top Gun, but not enough to beat some of those.

[SoSpacey]

I picked Empire, but a tough call over Raiders and Back to the Future.

[rennervision]

This poll reminds me why I loved the 80s so much. The blockbuster has never been the same since. It wasn't just about the special effects. These movies also had great chemistry with their stars. (I like to refer to blockbusters today as "CGI Crapfests.")

Empire is a great movie, but I can't name it as the best one of that decade. I would like to point out back in 1980 no one thought this was better than Star Wars, and everyone was confused by the non-ending.

That leaves me with either Raiders or Back to the Future. It's hard to decide because I love them both equally. (And I'm also fond of Temple of Doom and BTTF II.)

I've seen Raiders more, so I guess I'll go with that one.

[Giles]

Tough call between Raiders and Empire, but I went with Raiders because it felt like the right choice. It's just so goddamn awesome.

I agree, difficult call, I'll say Raiders

[GradVT06]

Tough call for me as well, a bunch of good choices. But if all were to come on TV right now and I could only watch one, I'd choose Raiders of the Lost Ark. It would be close between that, Back to the Future, and the Star Wars movies.

[TheNightFlier]

Raiders.

[Michael Corvin]

Tough choice. Three Men and a Baby

rotfl

[hasslein]

Empire is a great movie, but I can't name it as the best one of that decade. I would like to point out back in 1980 no one thought this was better than Star Wars,.

I still don't. The dialog in the first half is excruciating (between HF & CF), and the sloppiness of pronouncing Han (rhymes with John) in the first half, then switching to Han (rhymes with Jan) in the second, irritating...Moby EEL... I thought it mediocre then and now... Didn't LOOVE any film on the list though.

[Double_Oh_7]

Empire. No contest.

[cardsfan111]

Based on how many times I've watched it, I'd go with Back to the Future as my favorite.

[The Bus]

Pre-Code films, screwball comedies, and John Carpenter flicks?

So, aside from the sporadic output of one director, there haven't been any "fun" movies in the last, what, seventy years?

That's almost as myopic as saying that all the best movies are from 1996 onward.

[mcfly]

Really? Beverly Hills Cop made more than Ghostbusters?

I chose Back to the Future.

[scott1598]

toss up between ESB or RotLA. i think RotLA is a little more rewatchable and hell of a lot of fun.

[NoirFan]

So, aside from the sporadic output of one director, there haven't been any "fun" movies in the last, what, seventy years?

I thought you were asking me which films I consider to be both fun and rewatchable. Those are the "fun" films that I enjoy. I cannot speak for others, nor was I attempting to.

[coli]

The 80's was when the blockbuster combined that rare aspects of a movie: good characters, good story, touch of humor, and still a fun ride that didn't cater to kiddies or people who just want to see CGI and explosions.

I would probably go with Back to the Future, as that is such a great movie. Empire & Raiders are a close #2 & #3. I was born in 1972, so I was the perfect age to enjoy these movies that came out in the 1980's.

[B5Erik]

For me it's a tough battle between Raiders and Empire, with Back to the Future a solid 3rd.

I voted Raiders because for me it's just a little better movie, but not by much.

So...

1. Raiders
2. Empire
3. BTTF

[Matt Millheiser]

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. The choice was made so effortlessly, somewhere in Oconomowoc Wisconsin, a woman's uterus just went PING!

[The Bus]

I thought you were asking me which films I consider to be both fun and rewatchable. Those are the "fun" films that I enjoy. I cannot speak for others, nor was I attempting to.

I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm faulting you but a lot of times (especially in "Post your favorite..." type threads) someone will make a snarky comment along the lines of "hey u ever seen movies made before 1980? lol".

[Doughboy]

Empire, followed very closely by Raiders.

[Puzznic]

It's really hard to pick from Back to the Future and Raiders but I have to go with BTTF.

[shizawn]

Raiders of the Lost Ark.