Some forgotten movies from the eighties you may (or maybe did) enjoy

[Scurvy Dog]

Hey all.

I know we talke about a few obscure movies on this board from time to time. Here's a few recommendations, open for comment.

"Hot Stuff", from 1979, with Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise, and Suzanne Plechette, as three undercover cops who open a pawn shop/fencing operation in order to bust thieves.

"Super Fuzz", Italian, 1980 - about a cop who gets superpowers from an explosion of some kind, but the color red renders him powerless. Cheesy movie, but I liked it when I was 10. They played it on HBO all the time. It had a different title in Italy.

"My Bodyguard", from 1980 - with Matt Dillon as a school bully who harasses a rich kid attending his first public school. Rich kid hires Adam Baldwin, the school "psycho" to be his bodyguard.

Any of you see any of these movies? What did you think? I watched them all quite a few times in the early 1980s while I was growing up, but haven't seen any of them in decades.

[theSleepiLizzie_of_2006]

I have seen My Bodyguard which is a cool movie...the kid's grandmother (Ruth Gordon) is really funny...I like that she's a quirky old gal and doesn't care what her age is...she's living life!  Similar to her role in "Harold and Maude" (1971)...another great cult classic!

How about 3 o' clock high (1987)? Haven't seen that movie in a long time...but its about a bully who has to fight a nerd after school after they bump into each other...and the nerd tries to get out of it...

Everyone knows Bettlejuice (1988) with Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alex Baldwin and Winona Ryder...

Blind Date (1987) with Bruce Willis...he meets a beautiful woman but the night goes extremely wrong

Heaven help us (1985) with Andrew McCarthy who transfers to a Catholic School and falls in love with a girl who works across the street...

Educating Rita (1983) with Michael Cann and Julie Walters about a woman who seeks to get her education with the help of a professor

A Christmas Story (1983) about a boy who desires to get a BB gun for Christmas but everyone tells him he'll "shoot his eye out"...

Batteries Not Included (1989) with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (who also did Cocoon together)...neighbors who are seeking a miracle from having their building demolished...

Turk 182! (1985) with Timothy Hutton and Robert Ulrich...its about an off-duty firefighter who gets injured during a fire rescue and doesn't get any help from the city...his brother does all he can by advertising with graffiti all over the city...

Who's that girl (1985) with Madonna and Griffin Dunne...I was recently introduced to this movie about a year ago...definitely a good New York movie...a lawyer who is about to wed has to escort a prisoner to the bus stop but everything goes wrong in the process...

Babycakes (1989) with Ricki Lake...she's a chubby girl who tries to win the heart of a man who at the end realizes they made for each other...

whew! thats all I have right now... 8)

[The Swan]

Well very funny topic...

... so "Super Fuzz", sure I know it. In italian it's "Polizziotto SuperPiù", something like "Super Cop"... so the same, I know cop=fuzz. The actor is Terence Hill, I think you american know him and Bud Spencer.
They both, apart from some movie where they played alone, in '80 have played a lot of italian movies in USA... mostly in Miami (Super Fuzz, only with T. Hill) and many others, I don't remember all the titles in english.
Maybe you know "Trinity", if I remember well, or that one where they pretend to be CIA Agents in Miami.
Another it's "Miami SuperCops" (B. Spencer and T. Hill), and about 20+ movies.
Anyway they're very famous in Italy, they're Italian (Hill from Venice-today he lives in USA, Spencer from Naples-today still in Italy) and even their director E.B. Clutcher is. All of 3 changed their names in english just 4 making movies in USA... you know in '80 it was a winning move!!!
Check this out... too funny... from "Altrimenti ci arrabiamo", movie set: Brazil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOFM_T3Uo0
Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies... I was a kid... but we still watch them!!!... WOOOOOOOOOOW!!!


Well "Beetlejuice", I think it's famous... Michael Keaton, Geena davis... there's also a cartoon series!!!

What about "The Vampires", there's also a forum topic, where a IRS Agent has to come back home during the night from The Bronx. (About in 1980).

"The Principal", with a very young James Belushi, movie set in LA (I think)... where he as the principal fights against some kinda gang, 4 helping his students. (I don't rem when, but it should be about in '85).

4 Australian friends, a movie about a real story, as they said.
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" 1975: an early Peter Weir film about the disappearance in 1900 of schoolgirls who went for a picnic at Hanging Rock... and I repeat it's based on a true story.
I love it!!! 8)

 

[Ninth Delegate]

Back in the eighties, i was big on anything that featured Ninjas.  Sakura killers, American ninja, The domination, Enter the ninja.  Utter tripe if you watch them today, but they kept me entertained.  Ninjas need to make a movie comeback.

Blind fury with rutgar Haur.  Bit of a rip off of the zatoichi series but it was good for its time.

Anything that featured b-movie actor Michael Berryman; cut and run, armed response etc.

I remember watching a film which i believe was called "dark night of the scarecrow".  It was about a young retarded man named Bubba, who played with all the local children, as he had the same mental age as them.  When a couple of dobermans escape from a back yard and kills a young girl, the locals think it was Bubba that killed her, and hunt him down.  Bubba hides in a farmers field and pretends to be a scarecrow.  The locals arnt fooled and kill him with a pitchfork.  Bubba comes back from the dead, dressed as a scarecrow, and kills the ones responsible for his murder.  The tape that belonged to the store which i rented the film from, snapped.  Ive never seen onother copy of the film since.

Its not just the films of the eighties that i miss; its going into a store and seeing some brilliant fully painted cover art on the box.  We only get mediocre photoshop covers nowadays.  It takes part of the fun out of it.

[Lion]

Just One Of The Guys was a favorite of mine.  Streets Of Fire and Summer School were others.  Steel Of Justice with the evil Sensei from The Karate Kid.  Also Real Genius, Hidin' Out, and Disorganized Crime.

[ajax the warrior]

I would have to say the old rocky movies they were great i really miss the rocky movies i have seen all of them except number 5 i hope they make another rocky.

[TheNewfieWarrior]

Turk 182!!! The thing that inspired the title for that movie was my man Taki 183