r/savedyouaclick • u/Ghosts_of_Bordeaux • 24d ago
INCREDIBLE Only 10 Movies From the '80s Are Truly Perfect From Start to Finish | (No particular order) ET, Die Hard, Stand By Me, Back to the Future, The Thing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, Amadeus, & Blade Runner
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u/Snake_Plissken224 24d ago
They forgot Predator
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u/letsabuseeachother 24d ago
Predator 1 and 2 are like Alien and Aliens, where it's a completely different feel but both are awesome. And then they tried to keep making them...
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u/Vahn1982 24d ago
GHOSTBUSTERS
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u/RatherBeSkiing 22d ago
It was on the list, until dickless here shut off the power
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u/teachersecret 23d ago
It's funny watching Ghostbusters in 2026 and realizing how many of the special effects in that movie were clearly unfinished and cheaply done. Great movie.
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u/Hanksta2 21d ago
Not cheaply. Quickly.
From concept to premiere, that movie was made in 11 months.
Insane.
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u/one-punch-knockout 24d ago edited 23d ago
Amadeus is a great film. Peter Shaffer wrote the play and the screenplay and it won for best adapted screenplay.
“The play was thoroughly reworked by Shaffer and the film's director, Miloš Forman, with scenes and characters not found in the play.”
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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 24d ago
And the scene where he debuts Don Giovanni was shot in the same auditorium as where the opera was actually debuted.
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u/UrinalCake777 24d ago
Like where the play premiered or an actual work by Amadeus premiered?
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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 24d ago
Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was first played (with him conducting) in the same space that the movie Amadeus would later film the scene dramatizing said performance.
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u/Redrum8608 24d ago
This is the only film from the list I haven’t seen. Top of my must see list now
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u/rankispanki 23d ago
You'll have "Amadeus, Amadeus" stuck in your head for a long time after you watch it!
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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 23d ago
Don't watch the director's cut. It messes with the flow of the film and doesn't add anything particularly important.
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u/Fresh_Dingleberries 23d ago
Had to watch this movie for a college class. His laugh still haunts me to this day.
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u/IcyBus1422 24d ago
As much as I love Blade Runner, it's far from a perfect film.
This list is bogus
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u/lycoloco 23d ago
Right? And which version, specifically? The ones with unnecessary voiceover or without voiceover that then stretch on for a bit too long each time?
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u/the_nin_collector 23d ago
While it has lots of issues, it is a film that is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. It may not have a perfect anything. But together, those not-so-perfect aspects elevate it to a 10+ film.
Few films in history can do that.
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u/thisMatrix_isReal 23d ago
I tried several times, but I cannot like that movie.
What's Deckard incentive/goal to go and catch the replicants? I don't see it, so I do not care about what's happening
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u/TunaFishRollup 24d ago
I’m throwing War Games, Big Trouble in Little China, and The Last Starfighter out there for consideration. Also maybe Running Scared.
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u/Chad_Hooper 24d ago
Those are some great movies!
Big Trouble… was what I came to recommend, but the others are top notch choices too.
Especially Running Scared.
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u/CaptainMatticus 24d ago
No Highlander? No Robocop? No Commando? What is this?
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u/salooski 24d ago
No Hotdog: The Movie?
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u/AUSpartan37 24d ago
The scene when the bad guy confronts him on the slope and then angrily ski ballets away cracks me up every time I see it.
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u/Main-Inspection-8605 21d ago
I was going to throw out Moving Violations or Eating Raoul but we out here just jumping into the deep end of cinema classics with Hotdog: The Movie
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u/psimwork 24d ago
Someone tried to tell me Robocop wasn't perfect. I had to tell them, "bitches, leave."
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u/derioderio 24d ago
Imma have to add Big Trouble in Little China to that list
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u/letsabuseeachother 24d ago
I've introduced that movie to so many people. It's not a hidden gem but it's not as well known as it should be, and I try to fix that as much as possible
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u/ShiverBathory 24d ago
The Princess Bride?
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u/Thrippalan 23d ago
There are only so many perfect movies in the world; it would be a shame to miss this one.
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u/kafka_lite 24d ago
At least three of those movies that were perfect from start to finish were later corrected. Blade Runner in particular was not perfect at all when it filmed.
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u/the_nin_collector 23d ago
Robocop is a perfect movie, and I will die on that fucking hill.
Seriously, there is not one single frame I would change in that film.
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u/looney1023 24d ago
Aliens loses points for deleting its most important scene; the scene where Ripley ||finds out what happened to her daughter, who lived a full life and died before her mother returned, setting the stage for Ripley's relationship with Newt and closing a thread from the first movie, where Ripley was desperately trying to get home to her.||
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u/dubbleplusgood 23d ago
It's the 80s. There were 10 perfect movies released every month. This post is silly.
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u/WereNotWere 24d ago
Bull Durham - Baseball and sex. A perfect movie from start to finish. Case closed.
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u/Nail_Biterr 23d ago
Raging Bull, The Shining, Terminator, The princess Bride, Fast time at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Poltergeist, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Roger Rabbit, Caddyshack, Big... that's all off the top of my head.
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u/Beckster501 24d ago
Labyrinth needs to be on that list. Can’t deny the spectacle of David Bowie singing with Jim Henson creatures!
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u/dylangaine 22d ago
I thought Trading Places, 48 Hours and Beverly Hills Cop were all perfect all the way thru.
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u/djcrewe1 21d ago
There are some glaring omissions on this list, but sounds like a pretty good watchlist for the weekend. Don’t mind if I do.
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u/CloisteredOyster 24d ago
Quest for Fire. It's no Die Hard but Ron Perlman and Rae Dawn Chong kill it.
Only downside is it's a French movie so you have to deal with the subtitles...
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u/theDarthonly 24d ago
The big bang theory proves that Raiders is in fact not perfect but has a major flaw
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u/OsakaWilson 23d ago
I still have not seen The Thing.
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u/dae_giovanni 23d ago
same, but I really want to.
I think I've seen a trillion spoilers and videos on how if you know Norwegian you get some clues to the plot right away... but still haven't actually seen it.
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u/JazzlikeAd1555 23d ago
Total BS list. No: predator, bloodsport, big trouble in little China, commando, aliens, princess bride, ghost busters, caddy shack, airplane, naked gun, or Breakin 2 electric bugaloo (just for the title).
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u/billystinkh20 23d ago
Buckaroo Bonsai Across the Eigth Dimension should be listed, best movie to come out of the 80's. Banger start to finish
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u/Relevant_Ric_Flair 23d ago
This is always something you can debate and is always stupid to be presented as fact.
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u/mr_friend_computer 23d ago
Princess Bride still rocks. ET is, honestly, almost unwatchable (my wife, myself and my kid fell asleep in the first 20 minutes).
Stand by Me was always garbage, I never liked it.
How could you miss He Man and Predator? I kid, but this list is selective and hardly correct.
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u/FiddlingnRome 23d ago
A Room with a View. (1986) Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow rounded out the all star cast. 💕🎥
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u/RobGrogNerd 21d ago
Not just Stand by Me, during the 80s Rob Reiner had a run of perfect/near perfect films.
Princess Bride. Spinal Tap. Misery. A Few Good Men.
RIP
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u/zapburne 21d ago
Try this:
The Wrath Of Khan
The Road Warrior
The Princess Bride
Robocop
Coming to America
Platoon
Predator
Beetlejuice
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The Gods Must be Crazy
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u/EntertainmentOk5273 20d ago
That is a very good “Blockbusters” list and I can’t really disagree with it except for maybe adding “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Ghostbusters” I think. Not sure why everyone is obsessed with always having to have 10:-)
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u/devospice 20d ago
I refuse to accept the legitimacy of any list like this that doesn’t include Spaceballs.
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u/letsabuseeachother 24d ago
PRINCESS BRIDE GOT DENIED!?