There's something unsatisfying about this. Yay, the popular movie won... Back to the Future isn't a geeky movie or a nerdy movie. It's the geek movie that your parents liked too. I was kinda rooting for Starchaser, but then things like honesty creep into the equation. As much as I do enjoy Starchaser, it's far from Back to the Future, and that can be said for pretty much every movie except Explorers in 1985. I'd do a gag about the perfect 1985 movie, but you're looking at it. A teen involved in some screwy science stuff, nearly a dozen on just my list.
The real shocker is second place, A View to a Kill. This is far from my favorite Bond movie, and I was shocked, even almost ashamed when I saw that it scored so high. But, there is a remnant of remembering the ad for it in the newspaper, wanting to see it in the theater, and not getting to. My first theatrical Bond would be The Living Daylights. A shock, a surprise, and somehow it fits. It's aged better than many movies on this list, plus, I really dig The Saint and John Steed running around for a bit.
Even though so many titles from these year seem almost scared because of the age we were, or the memories they're attached to, when they have to compete with each other, most of these movies become mortal. The Breakfast Club is a legendary movie, and seminal to our generation, but St. Elmo's fire wants that spot too.
- Back to the Future
- A View to a Kill
- Explorers
- Vampire Hunter D
- Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
- Brazil
- Enemy Mine
- Silverado
- Ran
- Legend
- Pale Rider
- Clue
- Young Sherlock Holmes
- Return to Oz
- Commando
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
- The Breakfast Club
- The Black Cauldron
- The Goonies
- Cocoon
- Weird Science
- The Quiet Earth
- Red Sonja
- St. Elmo's Fire
- Ladyhawke
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
- The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
- King Solomon's Mines
- Fletch
- My Science Project
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure
- Real Genius
- Transylvania 6-5000
- Here Come the Littles
- Fright Night
- Jagged Edge
- Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
- Rocky IV
- Teen Wolf
- Rambo: First Blood Part II
- The Jewel of the Nile
- Silver Bullet
- Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird
- European Vacation
- Witness
- Desperately Seeking Susan
- Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
- The Care Bears Movie
- Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
- Prizzi's Honor
- Murphy's Romance
- Out of Africa
- Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
- The Peanut Butter Solution
- The Man with One Red Shoe
- Mask
- El caballero del dragón
- A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
- Day of the Dead
- Once Bitten
- Creature
- Santa Claus
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- Invasion U.S.A.
- Summer Rental
- Heaven Help Us
- Death Wish 3
- Turk 182!
- The Falcon and the Snowman
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