What's everyones top movies of 1980?

[DenOfEarth]

A fine new beginning for a fine decade and that is when the best Star Wars film came to the scene as it introduced us to Yoda including one of the best twists in a film ever.

My top 25:
1. The Empire Strikes Back.
2. The Elephant Man.
3. Airplane!
4. Blues Brothers.
5. Raging Bull.
6. The Final Countdown.
7. Animalympics.
8. The Shining.
9. Friday The 13th.
10. The Fog.
11. Caddyshack.
12. Watcher in the Woods.
13. Flash Gordon.
14. Cannibal Holocaust.
15. The Changeling.
16. The Gods Must be Crazy.
17. Altered States.
18. Used Cars.
19. Shogun Assassin.
20. Bon Voyage Charlie Brown.
21. Alligator.
22. Stir Crazy.
23. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie.
24. Terror Train.
25. Superman 2. (Donner's cut)

Honorable mentions:
House on The Edge of the Park.
The Monster Club.
Motel Hell.
Inferno.
City of the Living Dead aka Gates of Hell.
Maniac.

My guilty pleasures:
Popeye.
Without Warning.
Prom Night.
Cannibal Apocalypse.
Nightmare City aka City of the Walking Dead.
Saturn 3.
New Year's Evil.
Contamination aka Alien Contamination.
Humanoids from the Deep.

My bottom of the year:
Heaven's Gate.
The Hearse.
The Apple.
The Children.
Hangar 18.
Don't Answer the Phone.
The Jazz Singer.
Bloodeaters aka Toxic Zombies.

[Astro Zombie]

Favorites:

Airplane!
Caddyshack
The Empire Strikes Back
Flash Gordon
The Fog
Friday the 13th
Humanoids from the Deep
Motel Hell
Raging Bull
The Shining

[dallywhitty]

01. Raging Bull
02. Inferno
03. The Empire Strikes Back
04. Cannibal Holocaust
05. The Elephant Man
06. The Shining
07. Altered States
08. Flash Gordon
09. Friday the 13th
10. The Fog

[AKORIS]

my top 10

The Shining
Ordinary People
The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
The Fog
Airplane!
The Changeling
Dressed To Kill
Somewhere In Time
Motel Hell

[SammymeBlu]

1 - Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
2 - The Blues Brothers
3 - Friday the 13th
4 - Airplane
5 - The Shining
6 - Caddyshack
7 - Raging Bull
8 - Stir Crazy
9 - Smokey & the Bandit 2
10 - The Final Countdown
11 - The Big Red One
12 - The Hunter
13 - Any Which Way You Can
14 - Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
15 - Seems Like Old Times
16 - Urban Cowboy
17 - Used Cars
18 - Prom Night
19 - Flash Gordon
20 - Nine to Five
21 - Brubaker
22 - Dressed to Kill
23 - Bronco Billy
24 - The Fog
25 - Altered States

[Elvis]

No particular order...

The Empire Strikes Back
Fade to Black
The Last Metro
Kagemusha
The Shining
Airplane
Raging Bull
The Blues Brothers
Urban Cowboy
Used Cars
The Long Good Friday
Somewhere in Time
The Big Red One
Superman II
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
The Elephant Man
Flash Gordon
Ordinary People

[Kevin Holly]

The Elephant Man
The Shining
Raging Bull
Heaven's Gate
Ordinary People
Dressed to Kill
Cruising
Altered States
Caddyshack
The Blue Lagoon
Look Back in Anger
City of the Living Dead
Contraband
Eaten Alive!
Inferno

[benbess]

Empire Strikes Back
Altered States
Airplane!
Bronco Billy
Stardust Memories
The Elephant Man
Ordinary People
Coal Miner's Daughter
Tess
Atlantic City
Flash Gordon
Kagemusha
The Shining
Heaven's Gate
Caddyshack
Somewhere in Time
Fame

I still haven't seen but might like to see someday: Tribute with Jack Lemmon, Tom Horn with Steve McQueen, The Long Riders with James and Stacy Keach, The Final Countdown with Kirk Douglas, Xanadu with Olivia Newton-John, One Trick Pony with Paul Simon, and....?

[qb2333]

Pretty good year:

1. Raging Bull
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Shining
4. Caddyshack
5. The Elephant Man
6. The Blues Brothers
7. Airplane!
8. Stir Crazy
9. American Gigolo
10. 9 to 5

[cinemaphile]

Fairly weak year for film. Beyond a few really good ones, there wasn't much that I could call favorites.

My favorites of the year:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
Airplane
The Shining

There were some other okay films, but nothing that impressed me much

[iank]

Airplane
The Fog
Alligator

[qb2333]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

Fairly weak year for film. Beyond a few really good ones, there wasn't much that I could call favorites.

My favorites of the year:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
Airplane
The Shining

There were some other okay films, but nothing that impressed me much

I think Raging Bull and Elephant Man were more than Ok movies that didn't even make your list, but to each his/her own

[DenOfEarth]

What are your bottom of 1980?

[qb2333]

Originally Posted by DenOfEarth

What are your bottom of 1980?

I'd rather remember the good ones, but The Blue Lagoon would probably be there

[benbess]

Originally Posted by DenOfEarth

What are your bottom of 1980?

I really wanted to like Popeye. And it seems like it should have been a winner. What could go wrong with a big-budget adaptation done by a top director (Altman) and starring Robin Williams? Well, it has a few good moments, but basically it's painful. I tried to watch it again recently for the first time since 1980, and it was worse than I thought it would be. Again, there are some neat moments, and some good productions design, but....?

Raise the Titanic
The whole idea is absurd. What a turd of a movie.

Here's one that'll get me some hate: The Blues Brothers. Has some great moments ("Are you policemen? No Ma'am. We're musicians."), but basically it's a great big, expensive, not very funny mess imho. Belushi did better. I think Continental Divide, his last movie, is better than this one.

Oh God, book II, Smokey and the Bandit II, Eastwood and Monkey book II. Yuck. Just saw snatches of these on tv, but....

When Time Ran Out is an all-star disaster of a movie, with William Holdman and Paul Newman. Total dreck.

Heaven's Gate was one of my favorites, sort-of, but it's also an indulgent mess sometimes, and just goes on and on. If you think of it like a miniseries, it's actually something quite impressive at times. Some beautiful camera work, great production design, important themes, shards of brilliance everywhere, but.....even as a fan I agree that it doesn't quite come together. And you really have to have a lot of patience. The blu-ray of this one has really good PQ.

[Hazel Motes]

[aiman04]

[SimBelm]

1. The Shining
2. City of the Living Dead
3. Every Man for Himself
4. Kagemusha
5. The Age of the Earth

[wonkavision]

I was a wee kid in 1980 and these movies left a mark (I know some are not oscar material, but I don't care)....

Empire Strikes Back
Superman II
The Elephant Man
Airplane!
Nine to Five
Terror Train
The Changeling
Xanadu
My Bodyguard
Private Benjamin
Saturn 3
Friday the 13th
The Shining
The Blues Brothers

[CaptainYoda]

The Empire Strikes Back!

also:
The Blues Brothers
Airplane!