What are your favorite 80's comedies?

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I think movies now try to be funny for the first 20 minutes then they turn into romantic crap for the last hour. It's boring.

Do something new, like a Matthew McConaughey movie that's romantic for the first hour til she cheats on him and he tortures her and her lover for the last 20 minutes.

That would be funny.
 
I was having a difficult time pairing my choices down to the 80s because so many shows spanned mid 70s to mid 80s or mid 80s to mid 90s....I think decades should start with 5s...1965-1975 etc...David Crosby said it makes more sense in music history to break it down in 5s instead of 0s..Barney Miller was one show that started in the 70s and ended in the 80s
 
That movie where everyone pretended Reagan still retained enough mental acuity to lead a nation and wasn't a total puppet of the MIC...oh wait, that was real life, and not very funny in the end.

So I guess I'll go with Beetlejuice.
 
80's movies:
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Evil Dead II
American Werewolf in London
Gregory's Girl
Police Story, Project A part II, Wheels on Meals, Dragons Forever (basically anything by Jackie Chan in the 80s, but especially if Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao are in it too)
I re-watched Raising Arizona recently and it didn't hold up as well as I hoped. I think the bit in the last episode of Fargo season II, where Lou's wife imagines the future is a reference to the end of it, though.

80's TV: all the Blackadders.
 
Gotta say though that the 80s were probably the shittiest of all decades for movies, especially in contrast to the 70s. And I truly do not get the John Hughes love. Pervy hack. I hated the Breakfast Club when I was the target demographic and I only hate it more now.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Gotta say though that the 80s were probably the shittiest of all decades for movies, especially in contrast to the 70s. And I truly do not get the John Hughes love. Pervy hack. I hated the Breakfast Club when I was the target demographic and I only hate it more now.
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I didn't own a tv in those days so if I saw a movie, it was in the theater or tv that was on in a pub or friends place. When I think 80s I think MTV and all the big hair and spandex
 
I grew up in the 80s and thought it was the shit, but in hindsight it was just shit. Reagan ruined everything. At least in England we had an anti-Thatcher cultural moment, but Punk had already started before she got elected.
 
riverman said:
Spinal Tap...now that's probably my favorite
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I loved it at the time, but again, it's probably best not to revisit it. Actually in general everything looks much slower-paced when you re-watch it. All movies have to be super rapid-fire to hold peoples' attentions these days.

The only exception is the Airplane! movies. The first one is still amazing. (But that's the 70s, isn't it?)
 
While I'm spewing bile: Ghostbusters joins the Blues Brothers as being the most overrated unfunny pieces of shit ever. I think Bill Murray (who is a God) acknowledges this because he only did the second one so that the studio would fund The Razor's Edge. Maybe it's Dan Aykroyd. Although John Belushi (while better than his brother) is also wildly overrated.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I loved it at the time, but again, it's probably best not to revisit it. Actually in general everything looks much slower-paced when you re-watch it. All movies have to be super rapid-fire to hold peoples' attentions these days.

The only exception is the Airplane! movies. The first one is still amazing. (But that's the 70s, isn't it?)
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I was wondering the same thing about a lot of Mel Brooks movies and the Naked Gun stuff...lazy to look them up
 
Razor's edge is one of my favorite movies ever...I agree about the Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters..
 
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