Since I had a fun time making a top 50 movie of all time list. I might as well share my list of my top 50 from a decade where I almost watched every major movie so here is my top 50 movie of the 1980's list:
1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. Aliens (1986)
3. Back to The Future (1985)
4. E.T. (1982)
5. Platoon (1986)
6. Das Boot (1981)
7. Raging Bull (1980)
8. Die Hard (1988)
9. Grave of The Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) (1988)
10. The Elephant Man (1980)
11. The Thing (1982)
12. Glory (1989)
13. The Right Stuff (1983)
14. This is Spinal Tap (1984)
15. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
16. First Blood (Rambo Part I) (1982)
17. Airplane! (1980)
18. Police Story (1985)
19. Police Story 2 (1988)
20. Lethal Weapon (1987)
21. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
22. Poltergeist (1982)
23. The Goonies (1985)
24. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
25. The Shining (1980)
26. Amadeus (1984)
27. Scarface (1983)
28. Rain Man (1988)
29. Gremlins (1984)
30. Footlose (1984)
31. The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
32. Evil Dead 2 (1987)
33. The Evi Dead (1981)
34. The Neverending Story (1984)
35. The Terminator (1984)
36. Predator (1987)
37. Tootsie (1982)
38. The Fly (1986)
39. My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) (1988)
40. Back to The Future Part II (1989)
41. RoboCop (1987)
42. The Lost Boys (1987)
43. The Karate Kid (1984)
44. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
45. The Princess Bride (1987)
46. Rocky IV (1985)
47. Ghostbusters (1984)
48. Born on the Fourth of July (1983)
49. The Outsiders (1983)
50. Batman (1989)
Feel free to post your own list of your favorite movie of the 1980 it doesn't have to be a top 50 and you don't have to rank them if you don't feel like it.
A few honarable mentions most of which haven't been mentioned yet: The Dark Crystal (1982), A Christmas Story (1982), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Gandhi (1982), Spaceballs (1987), The Last Unicorn (1982), They Live (1988), The Dead Zone (1983), Do The Right Thing (1989), Coming to America (1988), Mask (1985), Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and Police Academy (1984).
