Favoritest 50 Movies of the '80's!!!

Completely breaking format, I can't in good conscience put a poster on top of a list where only five non-genre movies even make this list.  Big deal that Empire is my favorite movie of the '80's.  That tells me nothing.  That embodies, nothing.  Recognizing that the '80's was to me, at the time the golden age of sci-fi movies, and one thing educated me, and opened my world to so much more than just watching Entertainment Tonight or waiting to see what would be the 'cool' movie accepted by the masses would be.  Every issue of Starlog was like a Con before I'd ever go to a convention, like a RSS feed before the internet.  Through Starlog, I fell in love with Blade Runner before having ever seen the movie.  To be fair, because of  the below photo in an issue of Starlog, I also fell in love with this series:

  Galactica 1980 !

I looked forward to this series. I couldn't wait to see it. I apparently missed it.  Actually, I had seen an episode, but had no idea that what I saw was Galactic 1980, I still have no idea that invisible Vipers and softball games are Battlestar Galactica! So, seeing this picture and dreaming of the day when I would behold this glorious show!  See, She's in a WHITE Colonial Warrior uniform.  Well, the only time Colonial Vipers were in white uniforms was when they were aboard the ship of lights!  So, naturally, my infantile fanboy self just assumed that the plot would deepen with 1980, that Galactica would become more mystery filled and epic.




So, as for the movies, and the magazine that brought me so much enjoyment related to them;

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Dune
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
5. Akira
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Heavy Metal
8. The Transformers: The Movie
9. Project A-ko
10. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
11. Blade Runner
12. 2010
13. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
14. The Dark Crystal
15. Highlander
16. Aliens
17. Superman II
18. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
19. RoboCop
20. Tron
21. Back to the Future
22. The Final Countdown
23. Battle Beyond the Stars
24. Die Hard
25. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
26. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
27. Ghostbusters
28. Gandahar
29. The NeverEnding Story
30. Predator
31. U2: Rattle and Hum
32. The Princess Bride
33. The Abyss
34. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
35. Flash Gordon
36. G.I. Joe: The Movie
37. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
38. No Way Out
39. Top Gun
40. The Terminator
41. Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
42. Willow
43. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
44. Labyrinth
45. Koyaanisqatsi
46. Henry V
47. Gremlins
48. Venus Wars
49. Spaceballs
50. The Living Daylights