From one of the best comedies ever to a bona fide Christmas classic, these 10 1980s movies are the best the decade had to offer.
While high on a pot cookie while presenting at the 1979 Oscars, Francis Ford Coppola boldly predicted a communications revolution: “The movies of the ‘80s are going to be amazing beyond what any of you can dream.”
Where 1957’s Zero Hour! took seriously the premise of a battle-scarred airman forced into piloting a passenger jet when the pilots both become ill, Airplane! — made by the comedy collective of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker — uses it as a jumping-off point for a series of sight gags and puns that begin at bonkers and escalate to the breathlessly superb.
8. The Shining Reviled in its time, The Shining has come to be understood as a standout in Stanley Kubrick’s filmography, with its imagery second in the public consciousness only to 2001: A Space Odyssey. A highly revisionist adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name, The Shining’s tale of ghost-incited familial breakdown is occasionally as harrowing to watch as it was to film, but its open secret is that it’s frequently sharply funny.
In 2016, James L. Brooks said the greatest work of his career was Albert Brooks’ character’s speech in which he predicts what the devil will be like if he ever arrives: “He will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they’re important.” That seems more spot-on every day. 5. Die Hard This action classic may be disguised as a shoot-‘em-up blue-collar hero flick, but that’s just on the surface, but Die Hard is in fact a “What-if-We’d-Won-Vietnam” movie. Eastern European villains are kept from destroying a tower that serves as a symbol of Pacific Rim capitalism and democracy by John McClane , the personification of down-to-earth American know-how.
3. My Dinner with André There are very few completely unique films. My Dinner with André, in which actor Wallace Shawn and theater director André Gregory, playing themselves, discuss the nature of performance and contemporary alienation over an uninterrupted 111-minute dinner at Café des Artistes in New York, is one such film.
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