The 1980s – Be the Movie, See the Movie

The Top 10 Movies of 1980

Welcome to the 80’s everyone! The great 2nd Golden Age of the movies gives way to the roller coaster Reaganomics era of moviemaking, sequelling us …

To get to the 90s you have to deal with some of the crap of the 80s. This is one of those years. I like …

1982 I caught up on during the pandemic, thank goodness! It’s sneaky great, with lots of movies that became templates for other great films later, …

The early 80s are when movie years can go off the rails. This year is one of the weaker ones so far, with one all …

We’re in the roller coaster 80s years now. Some are good, and some are bad. This is one of the good ones, with a great …

For my birth year, I’m not a spoiled brat: I don’t need an all time fantastic movie year (it is not, sadly). I was hoping …

Terrifying creatures and coming of age flicks dominated the top of 1986, not to mention shockingly great sequels out of nowhere: one 7 years after …

No real theme here for 1987’s top 10. For now, we get a batch of can’t missers, and a batch of weird, which at least …

This list is what you hope a top movies list for a year should be. It’s culturally well represented. It’s genre – ly well represented. …

As you can see the movie selections are starting to get really good now! Even though the Oscars remain out of touch (Driving Miss Daisy …