We’re The ’80s Movie Club and we love The Thing. You do too. Everyone does, surely. It’s the best horror film ever made. Fact. It may also be the best film ever made. It’s so good that it even spawned a fairly credible follow up (ssh! The Thing 2011 is […]
Best Movie Ever
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Despite owning Aliens multiple times (ex-rental VHS, retail VHS, DVD boxsets, Blu-ray Anthology), I ended up watching it over the weekend because it was on television. The the thing is that, much like Big Trouble in Little China, when it starts you can’t look away. Even if it means enduring […]
The ’80s has to be the golden age for fight flicks. Sure, the hardcore will go on about the kung fu films of the ’70s (and to be fair Enter The Dragon will always be the greatest fighting film of all time) and they still make all those post-Crouching Tiger […]
Ooh! Controversy! Debate! Aside from a good portmanteau, we’d say that ’80s vampire movies are our favourite thing. Now, there is plenty of debate to be had over which vampire film is the best ever. In the ’80s there were some true greats. The Lost Boys and Near Dark remain […]
So, we’ve ran quite a few of these ‘best movie’ articles and, in our hearts, they are all the best movie ever. Why pick when they are all equally strong and wonderful? It’s films like these that make us want to write about ‘80s movies in general. But if you […]
Die Hard is a special film for me. It was the first 18-rated movie I ever saw in the cinema (I was 13 and entirely blown away by the action). Since then, the series has had its ups and downs. Die Hard 2 is okay but a little forgettable, Die […]
We’ve done a bunch of ‘best ever’ articles here on T8MC, mainly because we are FICKLE as hell but this one is even a surprise to me. You see, I’ve always considered Stir Crazy to be the the best comedy film ever made, but The Man With Two Brains (1983) […]
The ‘buddy cop’ genre is the perfect vehicle for ’80s action comedy movies. You’ve got twice as many heroes to shoot, punch and kick the bad guys and then you’ve got the comedy dynamics that come from two different characters (who will initially dislike each other) as they work together […]
The early ’80s truly belonged to Eddie Murphy, an on-fire stand-up comedian who transferred from the stage to Hollywood and starred in several successful films that were obvious vehicles for him.
The Goonies is the best film ever made? We couldn’t possibly comment but our swell buddy Lorna from GamingLives certainly can. Here’s her reasons, pay attention. 1 – Adventure. To my mind, which is perhaps warped by nostalgia somewhat, no one’s done adventure like it since. Yes, there have […]
Bloodsport is, by some margin, the best film Jean-Claude Van Damme ever made and that’s no faint praise either. Van Damme’s ’80s and early ’90s output was excellent and far better (in our opinion) than Steven Seagal whose Aikido style just didn’t translate well to the big screen. It’s also […]
The partnership between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor only produced four movies and of those only two were any good but there’s a reason why the partnership feels some legendary and that reason is Stir Crazy.