Movies Turning 25 in 2010

[Catman]

1985 was perhaps the best year for guilty pleasure movies. It also produced some great ones as well. So, let's have a thread to honor those movies celebrating a quarter of century in 2010. Happy Anniversary to:

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After Hours
American Ninja
Back to the Future
The Black Cauldron
Brazil
The Breakfast Club
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Cocoon
Code of Silence
The Color Purple
Commando
Death Wish 3
Desperately Seeking Susan
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Explorers
Fletch
Follow That Bird
Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning
Fright Night
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
The Goonies
The Jewel of the Nile
Ladyhawke
The Last Dragon
Legend
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mask
National Lampoon's European Vacation
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Once Bitten
Out of Africa
Pale Rider
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Porky's Revenge
Private Resort
Prizzi's Honor
The Protector
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
Rambo: First Blood, Part II
Real Genius
Red Sonja
Return of the Living Dead
Return to Oz
Rocky IV
Santa Claus: The Movie
Silverado
St. Elmo's Fire
Teen Wolf
To Live and Die in L.A.
A View to a Kill
Weird Science
Witness
Year of the Dragon
Young Sherlock Holmes

^ the list

 

[Episode29]

Yeah.... I really don't think the lives of Weird Science, Rocky IV, Teen Wolf or The Goonies are really a cause for celebration.

 

[Mace Dolex]

Damn, movies nowadays can never capture that magic one felt as a kid in the 80's, in fact I'm noticing that I'm going less and less to the movies than when I was a kid.

I'm noticing that Chevy Chase, Micheal J. Fox, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris had more than one movie in that year.

Chevy actually had three with European Vacation, Fletch and Spies Like Us.

 

[san15]

Sylvester Stallone had back to back blockbusters in 1985 and imo was at the height of his career. t:

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah.... I really don't think the lives of Weird Science, Rocky IV, Teen Wolf or The Goonies are really a cause for celebration.

Shame on you.

 

[Catman]

Yeah.... I really don't think the lives of Weird Science, Rocky IV, Teen Wolf or The Goonies are really a cause for celebration.

How dare you?

Sylvester Stallone had back to back blockbusters in 1985 and imo was at the height of his career. t:

Rambo II and Rocky IV were the 2nd and 3rd highest grossing movies of 1985. Also, Rambo II was the first movie to open in 2,000 theaters. So, yeah, a great year for Stallone. And now he's celebrating a quarter century of his best year with the release of The Expendables in August.

 

[Episode29]

Shame on you.

When seen without the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, The Goonies is pretty bad.

 

[Catman]

When seen without the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, The Goonies is pretty bad.

Are you hungover from last night or something? Cause you ain't thinking straight!

 

[Dr. Evil]

When seen without the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, The Goonies is pretty bad.

Maybe so, but one of them has turned into a very good actor 25 years later, probably one of the better ones out there right now. And it was a good movie.

And Pee Wee Herman is making a comeback in 2010.

 

[Episode29]

Are you hungover from last night or something? Cause you ain't thinking straight!

LOL. I don't drink, so no.

I imagine alcohol would probably make The Goonies way more fun, though.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Damn, movies nowadays can never capture that magic one felt as a kid in the 80's, in fact I'm noticing that I'm going less and less to the movies than when I was a kid.

I'm noticing that Chevy Chase, Micheal J. Fox, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris had more than one movie in that year.

Chevy actually had three with European Vacation, Fletch and Spies Like Us.

And Chevy has made an acting comeback the last few months. He's back to being funny again. Also, European Vacation was not as great as Vacation or Christmas Vacation.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Wow, I totally forgot all about Return to Oz. I need to go back and rewatch that. Brazil and Back to the Future are as good as ever.

 

[Catman]

European Vacation was not as great as Vacation or Christmas Vacation.

Fletch was better than all of them.

 

[Octoberist]

Return to Oz on DVD has the WORST DVD ART EVER. Dorothy's right arm is clearly missing. But man, I love that movie.

 

[Octoberist]

Fletch was better than all of them.

To be honest, I saw Fletch this past summer and it was okay. It wasn't a full on comedy..more like..I don't even know.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Fletch was better than all of them.

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[Octoberist]

i really think the magic years for movies were 1982, 1985, 1989, and 1999.

Now I'm debating what was the magic year for the 00s. 2008?

 

[Catman]

To be honest, I saw Fletch this past summer and it was okay. It wasn't a full on comedy..more like..I don't even know.

Fletch is like Beverly Hills Cop, but better. It allows Chevy Chase to do his comedy routine and improvise but it's also a well-written mystery thriller that keeps moving the plot forward as opposed to it getting lost in Chase's schtick. That's what makes the movie stand-out. Chase and the plot are able to co-exist. Unlike in BHC where Eddie messing with Tagger and Rosewood becomes the focus and the murder mystery is set to the side.

 

[Watchman]

Brazil

My favorite film of all time. I think I'll watch it tonight.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Brazil

My favorite film of all time. I think I'll watch it tonight.

I actually picked up the 3-DVD Criterion release today through eBay

 

[xwolverine2]

Cocoon feels waaay older than 25.... pun intended. lol

 

[Mace Dolex]

Fletch is like Beverly Hills Cop, but better.

Not to mention Harold Faltermeyer did the themes to both movies but Fletch's theme is way better.

 

[darkseid26]

For 25 years of Teen Wolf!

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[Watchman]

I actually picked up the 3-DVD Criterion release today through eBay

Great buy, you won't regret it. A amazing DVD set for an amazing film.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Back to the Future. God I love it.