80’s Cult Classics

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May 9, 2021 at 5:35 pm #221939
Mustangride1
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Cult Classics of the 80’s

There just some movies that even now I hit the breaks and just end up watching and till smile when I do. Here are a few of mine and kicking it off with the one that did it today.

Xanadu, ok if you were a boy in the 80’s you did not care about the Movie you watched for one reason and she was it.

Then there was:
“Eddie and the Cruisers” oh ya and “EDDIE LIVES”
Streets of Fire….. A true 80’s RocknRoll fantasy
Fame
Who framed Roger Rabbit
Dune 1984
Labyrinth
Flash Gordon.

Ok so what are some of yours?
May 9, 2021 at 6:26 pm #221945
DigiCat
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Before I start my list of favorite 80s movies, I need to ask once and for all, what does cult classic mean exactly?? 😅 I’ve literally heard this term being used forever, but never got why it’s a cult classic and not just a classic ???

Here are some of my favorite 80s movies:

Star Wars Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi

Gremlins

The Breakfast Club

Coming To America

Back To The Future 1 and 2

The Shining

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Also, I got to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit in the drive-in last summer 📺🚗🐰
May 9, 2021 at 7:37 pm #221954
Mustangride1
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@Digicat
cult classic
n.
A work of fiction that is extremely popular with a select audience but may or may not be successful at the time of the work’s original publication.

Xanadu for instance barely made anything in the Box Office and Streets of Fire flopped, they have been very popular too a small “cult” but have since become successful with age to a much broader audiance. Taking them to the Cult Classic which actually makes them more popular now than at release. These would also be movies people had not heard about because how “bad” they were at the time but now people are finding and really liking them

Basically proving later down the road critics were wrong as Nostalgia for an era shows how truly good a show or music was.

Empire, was and is a block buster of Gigantic proportion and in no way would be looked at as a “CULT” classic. Same with Breakfast,
May 9, 2021 at 7:48 pm #221959
DocPhibes
A “cult classic” is a film that wasn’t popular or well regarded in it’s time but has developed loyal following over the years.

80’s films that probably would fall under the cult classic label: Flash Gordon, Motel Hell, Ms .45, Blade Runner, Videodrome, Toxic Avenger, Repo Man, Brazil, The Hitcher, Rad, Near Dark, Barfly, Miracle Mile, Heathers, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, UHF, and so on…
May 9, 2021 at 8:29 pm #221966
Mustangride1
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OMG REPOMAN…. lmao,
Flash Gordon I still chuckle at and watch, lord it was stupid but you can sit back and let the brain cells relax. Big Trouble in Little China was another that you could just enjoy.

RIP Freddy, there will never be another like you and nothing will ever match Wimbley
May 9, 2021 at 8:33 pm #221967
Mustangride1
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And because I pulled that video another CC came up
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
May 9, 2021 at 11:02 pm #221980
BlindEye
Evil Dead 1 & 2. So ridiculously cheesy and yet so great.
May 10, 2021 at 3:00 am #221995
DragonLady
I would’ve said about ‘The Breakfast Club being one of my faves.

(This artwork I did through a 80’s themed wallpaper app which lets you do your own wallpaper and there’s even a awesome synthwave radio on it too!):

There’s also a lot of Disney films that are now considered cult classics including ‘The Black Cauldron’ which is Disney’s most darkest film aside from ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ back in 1996.
May 10, 2021 at 6:57 am #222020
Mustangride1
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@Dragonlady, kinda shocked on the Cauldron, I actually thought “The Black Hole” was darker, Hunchback was another good one. Your breakfast club art is More what I would envisioned being from southern Cali, nicely done.
May 10, 2021 at 6:58 am #222021
Mustangride1
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Oh and probably the biggest cult classic of the 80’s now more popular than ever.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/
May 10, 2021 at 7:01 am #222022
DragonLady
@Mustangride1

Thanks! The app I used is called ‘Retrowave Wallpapers’. As I’ve said, it’s a really good app and the radio is cool too. I like to listen to it and think that I’m in the 80’s even though I was born in 1989 so, yeah, I missed out on the 80’s😅😥.

This is another one I did but for the mobile wallpaper size:
May 10, 2021 at 7:11 am #222023
Mustangride1
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80’s had the best movie soundtracks… maybe not the best movies but they new how to do soundtracks and Music…. No auto-tune, no lipsync and it defined the times. Remember we also had Freddy and Jason
May 10, 2021 at 7:47 am #222033
Legatus_Legionis
For an 80’s cult classic I would have:

Conan The Barbarian (1982)

Along with The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

Both had a great film score, great action/fight scenes, and have become much beloved years AFTER their theatrical release.
May 10, 2021 at 10:14 am #222047
Captain_Cronos
Streets of Fire….. A true 80’s RocknRoll fantasy

Love this movie. How did this not do well but then again, I could say the same thing to Starship Troopers but that was for the 90s. I don’t know if Big Trouble in Little China or They Live count as cult classics but they’re definitely some of my favorites.
May 10, 2021 at 11:33 am #222056
reignoffire
- Escape from New York
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Teen Wolf (I think)
- Road Warrior
- Heathers
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