How many of these movies do you remember watching (probably too young) either at the movies or on VHS?
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AnonymouslyBored24@reddit
I was born in 1985, and I think the only movies I haven’t seen multiple times is Tootsie and Stir Crazy
bikeonychus@reddit
Same - '85, and it's definitely quicker to list what I haven't seen, and it's definitely Tootsie, Stir Crazy, and Coming to America.
discreetbeat@reddit
Dam born in 1980 n I seen them all. Mostly on VHS
CaptainObvious007@reddit
Yup. I still remember the guy's face melting off in Temple, so that might be the one. Although watching Rambo murder ten thousand people in like 4th grade probably wasn't healthy either.
Future_Prompt1243@reddit
Face melt is in raiders, not temple of doom.
Taupenbeige@reddit
Monkey brains or face melt. choose your childhood trauma
Taupenbeige@reddit
Now imagine moving back to the U.S. from going to school with predominantly children of diplomats working at the U.N. satellite office in Geneva, in the height of Rambo Fever.
Middle school kids walking around all day with commie blood lust in their hearts. Obsessed with attaining Rambo knives.
Open_Pineapple1236@reddit
The first Rambo is a very solid movie and more drama than the rest. The rest are all action flicks only. Love Weird Al's/UHF parody of those movies.
ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit
Mom loved movies so yeah I have seen virtually all of these, as a kid on HBO and stuff
MoviesFilmCinema@reddit
Me too
hardlurker123@reddit
Same
MaxMcLarenTBSL@reddit
I always remember E.T. because the piece of plastic that protected the tape was green.
LemurCat04@reddit
My dad bought it for me on VHS for some reason and I freaked out and refused to watch it because the scenes where he was fish-belly white scared me so badly.
auramaelstrom@reddit
I saw ET when I was 3 or 4 and it terrified me. I have never been able to watch it again.
LemurCat04@reddit
I will watch the Terrifier movies. I will watch Saw. I will watch the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. Name a scary ass horror movie and I’ve likely seen it. But I will not watch ET again.
Taupenbeige@reddit
Ok so bear with me. We were moving back from Europe in ‘83 so we missed the release by about 4 months, and saw it 5 months after release in theaters.
When we watched it last week, literally my first time in 42 years, it dawned on me how absolutely done that 5-month-old set of 35mm reels was way-back-when. I realized just how darkly-shot that thing was, and my memories were of fuzzy, dusty, bleached-to-fuck frames of cellulose and I really wasn’t immersed at all in the same way as I was seeing a perfectly-transferred version in HD.
This shit even had shotguns in cop hands instead of radios. 10/10 would recommend re-visiting.
MaxMcLarenTBSL@reddit
The foggy backyard scene with the tool shed made me cry. I think I was 3 when I saw it.
kingmitch84@reddit
Literally talked to my brother today about ET being a horror movie for us because of the scene at the start where Elliott sees him in the dark garden 😅
misterlakatos@reddit
I remember the same. My grandma had it on VHS and I watched it religiously at her house. I know practically every line to this day.
IndomitableAnyBeth@reddit
First movie I ever owned. Got it for my 4th birthday in 87. My parents had gotten an E.T. height chart when I was tiny and put it in my playroom. With the goofy figure of E.T. with his neck all stretched out always there when I played, I started to pretend he was playing, too, and that playroom was his room. And so started saying E.T.was my brother because why else would he have a room in my house?
WTFpe0ple@reddit
Movie and VHS, all off them. I lived next door to a BB, went in there every night and got something in the 90's
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
That meme is yet another one of those either UK/European or Global movie/music charts that keeps getting spread around as a domestic (US) chart. Going by actual domestic (US) charts it's instead (sometimes more the box office for the film was actually the next year but this goes by release year and eventual total even if that crosses to the next year) in order from 1 to 11 for each year:
1980: [The Empire Strikes Back, 9 to 5, Stir Crazy], Airplane!, Any Which Way You Can, Private Benjamin, COal Miner's Daughter, Smokey Bandit II, The Blue Lagoon, The Blues Brothers, Ordinary People, Popeye, Urban Cowboy, The Shining, Seems Like Old Times, Cheech And Chong's Next Movie, Caddyshack, Friday The 13th, Brubaker, Little Darlings, Dressed To Kill, The Jazz Singer, Flash Gordon, Lady And The Tramp (re-release) (then four spots down Xanadu then AMeican Gigolo then My Bodyguard then The Fog then Fame then Tess then Altered States then Song of The South (re-release) then farther down.... Herbie Goes Bananas, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind SE, Mary Poppins (re-release), Mad Max, Foxes)
1981: [Raiders Of The Lost Ark, On Golden Pond, Superman II], Arthur, Stripes, Cannonball RUn, Chariots Of Fire, For Your Eyes Only, The Four Seasons, Time Bandits, Clash Of The Titans, Absence Of Malice, Reds, The Fox And The Hound, Tarzan The Ape Man, Taps, Sharky's Machine, Excalibur, History Of The World: Part I, Bustin' Loose, The Great Muppet Caper, Endless Love, An American Werewolf In London, Neighbors (then two spots down Cinderalla (re-release), Halloween II, Escape From New York, Body Heat, Friday The 13th: Part 2, The Howling, Dragonslayer, Wolfen)
1982: [E.T., Tootsie, An Officer And A Gentlemen], Rocky III, Porky's, Star Trek II, 48 Hrs., Poltergeist, Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Annie, The Verdict, Gandhi, First Blood, The Toy, Firefox, The Dark Crystal, Conan The Barbarian, Best Friends, Richard Prior: Live On The Sunset Strip, Friday The 13th: Part 3, Tron, Young Doctors In Love, Sophie's Choice (three more spots down.... Blade Runner then Airplane II: The Sequel then Fast Times At Ridgemont High then farther down.... Bambi (re-release), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (re-release), Questo For Fire, The Thing,Zapped!, Grease 2, The Beastmaster, Cat People, The Last Unicorn, Paradise)
1983: [ROTJ, Terms Of Endearment, Flashdance], Trading Places, WarGames, Octopussy, Sudden Impact, Staying Alive, Mr. Mom, Risky Business, National Lampoon's Vacation, Superman III, The Big Chill, Never Say Never Again, Jaws 3-D, Scarface, Blue Thunder, Yentl, Silkwood, Psycho II, Proky's II: The Next Day, Uncommon Valor, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (re-release), Never Cry Wolf (four more spots down.... The Outsiders and farther down.... The Right Stuff, Cujo, Christine, Breathless, Valley Girl, Private School, Raiders Of The Lsot Ark (re-release), Rear Window (re-release), Joysticks, Videodrome)
1984: [Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom], Gremlins, Karate Kid, Police Academy, Footllose, Romancing The Stone, Star Trek III, Splash, Purple Rain, Amadeus, Tightrope, The Natural, "Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (yow a long title", Revenge Of The Nerds, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Breakin', Bachelor Party, Red Dawn, The Terminator, City Heat, All Of Me, Places In The Heart (four more spots down.... Conan The Destroyer and farther down The Gods Msut Be crazy, Starman, Sixteen Cnadles, Top Secret!, Hot Dog.... The Movie, The NeverEnding Story, Blame It On Rio, Firestarter, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, Children Of The Corn, Night Of The Comet, Supergirl, The Bounty, Streets Of Fire, Sheena, Electric Dreams, "Paris, Texas")
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
1989: [Batman, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2], Look Who's Talking, "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids", Back To The Future Part II, Ghostbusters II, Driving Miss Daisy, Parenthood, Dead Poets Society, When Harry Met Sally...., The War Of The Roses, The Little Mermaid, Steel Magnolias, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Turner & Hooch, Born On The Fourth of July, Uncle Buck, Field Of Dreams, Tango & Cash, Harlem Nights, Sea of Love, Pet Sematary, The Abyss (then Star Trek V: The Final Frontier then Major League then farther down.... Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Karate Kid Part III, The 'Burbs, Fletch Lives, License To Kill, Weekend At Bernie's, Road House, Peter Pan (re-release), Do The Right Thing, Glory, "Sex, Lies, And Videotape", A nightmare On ELm Street: The Dream Child, Say Anything, The Fly II, Her Alibi, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Leviathon, Kickboxer, Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michale Myers, Police Acadmey 6: City Under Siege, Henry V, Troop Beverly Hills, Dead Clam, Lawrence Of Arabia (re-release), Shag, UHF, Dream A Little Dream, Loverboy, The Phantom Of The Opera, Earth Girls Are Easy, The Adventures Of Milo And otis, Gleaming The Cube, Gone With The Wind (re-release), Valmont, Heathers, For All Mankind, Teen Witch)
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
1985: [Back To The Future, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rocky IV], The Color Purple, Out Of Africa, Cocoon, The Jewel Of The Nile, Witness, The Goonies, Spies Like Us, Police Acadmey 2: Their First Assignment, Fletch, A View To A Kill, Nationla Lampoon's European Vacation, Mask, The Breakfast Club, White Nights, Pale Rider, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Brewster's Millions, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (re-release), Jagged Edge, St. Elmo's Fire, Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome (seven spots down.... Desperately Seeking Susan and seven more down.... Weird Science and way down more.... Ladyhawke, The Sure Thing, Vision Quest, Real Genius, Lifeforce, Just One Of The Guys, Gotcha!, Better Off Dead, Tuff Turf, Mischief, Secret Admirer, The Man With One Red Shoe, RedSOnja, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, etc.))
1986: [Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Platoon], The Karate Kid Part II, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Back To School, Aliens, The Golden Child, Ruthless People, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Down And Out In Beverly Hills, The Color Of Money, Stand By Me, Legal Eagles, Cobra, An American Tail, Police Academy 3: Back In Training, Heartbreak Ridge, Peggy Sue Got Married, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Short Circuit, Pretty In Pink, The Fly, Three Amigos! (then Little Shop Of Horros then About Last Night then farther down.... The Money Pit, Hannah And Her Sisters, Hoosiers, A Room With A View, Song Of The South (re-release), Howard The Duck, Legend, Sleeping Beauty (re-release), The Mosquito Coast, One Crazy Summer, Labyrinth, Club Paradise, Big Trouble In Little China, SpaceCamp, Lucas, The Boy Who Could Fly, The Name Of The Rose, 91/2 Weeks, Highlander, Invaders From Mars, My Chauffeur, King Kong Lives, The Manhattan Project, The Wraith, Rad, The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Modern Girls, 16 Days Of Glory)
1987: [Three Men And A Baby, Fatal Attraction, Beverly Hills Cop II], "Good Morning, Vietnam", Moonstruck, The Untouchables, The Secret Of My Success, Stakeout, Lethal Weapon, The Witches Of Eastwick, Dirty Dancing (probably #1 for high school students though), Predator, Throw Momma From The Train, Dragnet, La Bamba, RoboCop, Outrageous Fortune, Broadcast News, The Living Daylights, Eddie Murphy: Raw, "Planes, trains & Automobiles", Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (re-release), Full Metal Jacket, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warrior (then The Last Emperor then Wall Street then Mannequin then Roxanne then Blind Date then The Running Man then Spaceballs then Summer School then No Way out then Like Fatyher Like Son then Adventures In Babysitting then Cinderalla (re-release) then *batteries not included then The Lost Boys the Can't Buy me Love then Nuts then The Princess Bride then Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise then farther down.... Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol, Innerspace, Black Widow, Raising Arizona, Empire Of The Sun, Jaws: The Revenge, Some Kind of Wonderful, Project X, The Big Easy, Bron In East L.A., Masters Of The Universe, Angel Heart, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, Radio Days, Back To The Beach, Less Than Zero, Teen Wolf Too, Who's That Girl, Jean de Florette, Hot Pursuit, Manon Of The Spring, North Shore, The Allnighter, Amazon Women On The Moon)
1988: [Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Coming To America], Big, Twins, Crocodile Dundee II, Die Hard, The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!, Cocktail, Beetlejuice, Working Girl, A Fish Called Wanda, Scrooged, Willow, Beaches, Rambo III, Oliver & Company, Bull Durham, A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, The Land Before Time, Colors, Young Guns, Biloxi Blues, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (then The Great Outdoors then Tequila Sunrise then farther down.... Bambi (re-release), Dangerous Liasons, Mississippi Burning, The Accused, Gorillas In The Mist, License To Drive, Married To The Mob, Tucker: The Man And His Dream, Police Acadmey 5: Assignment Miami Beach, Friday The 13th: The New Blood, Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers, Frantic, For Keeps?, "Bright Lights, Big City", She's Having A Baby, Big Top Pee-wee, Stand And Deliver, My Stepmother Is An Alien, Mystic Pizza, D.O.A., Bloodsport, The Blob, A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon, Eight Men Out, Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark, Little Nikita)
Philly_3D@reddit
Wow... 84 and 85 are tough to beat.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Yeah for sure.
These charts are not for the US though.
The US chart for top movies released in 1984 going by eventual totals (it's tricky since some like BHC were released late in 1984 and had a lot of their box office also in 1985 so you can't even just look at US yearly charts) is (some had more of their total in 1985 though):
1. Beverly Hills Cop
2. Ghostbusters
3. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
4. Gremlins
5. The Karate Kid
6. Police Academy
7. Footloose
8. Romancing The Stone
9. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
10. Splash
11. Purple Rain
12. Amadeus
13. Tightrope
14. The Natural
15. Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (yow long title)
16. Revenge Othe Nerds
17. 2010: The Year We Make Contact
18. Breakin'
19. Bachelor Party
20. Red Dawn
21, The Terminator
22. City Heat
23. All Of Me
24. Places In The Heart
25. The Killing Fields
26. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (final chapter LOL)
27. Dune
28. Conan The Destroyer
29. The Gods Must Be Crazy
30. Starman
....
35. Pinocchio (re-release)
....
44. Sixteen Candles (crazy how some iconic stuff ends up so low but also Hughes stuff tended to be seen by far most by high school kids while a lot of others were all ages or adults and had much huger market to draw from)
45. The Jungle Book (re-release)
....
53. Hot Dog.... The Movie
54. The NeverEnding Story
....
65. Night Of The Comet
66. Supergirl
....
86. The Bounty
....
90. Streeets Of Fire
....
104. Sheena
.....
138. Electric Dreams
139. Paris, Texas
....
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Actual domestic charts for 1985:
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Yeah for sure.
These are not the US charts though. Either European, UK or Global.
US chart for 1984:
Basic-Pair8908@reddit
And 89 as well
Prossdog@reddit
I’m just an amateur I guess. Only 20/30.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
One thing though this chart is not actually accurate. As with most of these charts for movies or music, for some reason they end up being either European, UK or Global and then passed around and claimed to be US charts.
For instance here is actual US chart for 1984:
awe2D2@reddit
I'm shocked to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom earned more than Ghostbusters
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Also this chart is wrong. I think it might be total global. It's unfortunate that top movie and music charts for Europe or global keep getting spread around and taken as US charts.
Ghostbusters was #1 in the US (Indy #2).
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
BHC was big but didn't really compare to Indy or Ghostbusters.
SpaceAgeBadger@reddit
I asked my mother what bunny boiler meant after hearing it somewhere and she let me watch Fatal Attraction. I was not old enough for that.
lemonheadlock@reddit
I saw Last Crusade in the theater. I remember whispering (much too loudly) to my dad, "what's a bastard?"
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
"you son, you"
soshea979@reddit
Spielberg owned the 80’s
Nisi-Marie@reddit
When I think back to the 80s, I think of all the John Hughes movies and I never realized that they weren’t the top grossing at any point. Yet they are so iconic.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Hughes movies tended to be mostly just watched by high school kids, some middle school and college while the other stuff here tended to be all ages or adults so had much bigger markets to draw from. Also stuff like Spielberg also got lots of I saw it 8 times in theaters stuff going on too.
scrotanimus@reddit
ET scared me more than Aliens.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
ET did creep me out
LemurCat04@reddit
Correct.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
In theaters opening week: ESB, Raiders, For Your Eyes Only, Superman II, E.T., ROTJ, Flashdance (second run theater like a year later), Octopussy, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Ghostbusters, BTTF, Rambo First Blood Part II (not opening week, later in the summer), Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, BHC II, Dirty Dancing, Roger Rabbit, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Batman, BTTF II
On video early on: BHC, Aliens
so 22 in theaters or early in VHS release window
then 4 more a bit later on home video
I've actually still never seen 4.
AskTheAdmin@reddit
All of them! Mostly on vhs
iGingerBeard@reddit
1984 is a banger of a lineup!
SpaceLemur34@reddit
The only one I saw in the theater was Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
mrmadchef@reddit
Pretty sure I still own some of these on VHS. And a working vcr too!
PhaseEquivalent3529@reddit
14/30 are sequels (if you count the Bond movies as sequels."
Wonder how that compares to the last 10 years.
spinereader81@reddit
9 to 5, E.T, part of Tootsie, Back to the Future, Coming to America, and part of Back to the Future II. But I didn't see any of them when they were new.
-Fahrenheit-@reddit
I've seen every one of these movies and several of them are pretty much yearly watches.
All three OG Indiana Jones, Star Wars & Back to the Future movies. Alien and Aliens, both Ghostbusters, Top Gun, throw Goonies in there too.
_Maui_@reddit (OP)
Yeah I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit at the movies. I too have fuzzy memories of it. I have clear memories of Hook though. Saw it with my mum and older brother while on holiday. I think my dad went to see something else at the same time.
slitbodmodthe1st@reddit
Seen all except tootsie and 9 to 5.
wvtarheel@reddit
We grew up in the true golden age of movies and we didn't even know it
_SundaeDriver@reddit
When movies were good
Crans10@reddit
I have seen them all. A few in the theater and the rest at home. Stir Crazy was likely the last one of them all I saw. Being the youngest in the family you see some movies early.
No_Literature666@reddit
I've watched all of these movies. However, I did see the first two Indiana Jones movies, Rocky 3&4, and Batman in the theater
Pinkkorn69@reddit
Born in 82 but have older siblings so I saw all of these before 90 rolled around.
IamTroyOfTroy@reddit
I don't remember 9 to 5
FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit
It's too rainy fo go outside but have a VCR starter pack
superschaap81@reddit
17 of them I watched as a kid. I, nor my family, were Stallone fans, so Rocky and Rambo were never watched in our house. (Only watched First Blood at 30yo because it was shot down the road from where I grew up).
weedtrek@reddit
8 on VHS, 8 on TV, 1 in theaters when I was 2. Also I apparently have memories from being 2, but not much.
Open_Pineapple1236@reddit
ET was the first movie I remember seeing in the theater and I dozed off and woke up when the gubment was probing ET. Frightening at that age. The rest I think I saw on VHS. Coming to America I saw with my sister and dad, only like 11 so probably too young to see it. Saw first movie breasts though, "the royal penis is clean sir".
NoShop2268@reddit
However much John Williams gets paid, it's not enough
cecil021@reddit
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the first VHS I owned. Got it and Dances with Wolves later on at McDonald’s.
tekfunkdub@reddit
Well if you include HBO then all of them
intrntvato@reddit
Saw 18 of them in the theater or on VHS back in the 80s. 1 of them (ET) at a drive-in. Since the 80's, I've seen all of them.
RVABarry@reddit
You mean watch on Betamax.
kaest@reddit
Everything, except Stir Crazy, for some reason.
DigitalMunkey@reddit
Stir Crazy and 9 to 5 are the only ones I don't particularly remember. Outside of those and dirty dancing, I've watched the rest.... A LOT
LemurCat04@reddit
9 to 5 is banger. Still holds up.
gerardkimblefarthing@reddit
Agreed, still great.
DigitalMunkey@reddit
Alright, I'll give it a viewing
gerardkimblefarthing@reddit
I have seen all of these, 14 in the theater on original release. Several stars with multiple here: Harrison Ford with four, Eddie Murphy and Stallone with three each, even Roger Moore twice.
CaptZombieHero@reddit
Everything on VHS. Back to the Future 2 and Batman in theatres
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
Born in January of 84, so missed out on a good chunk of these even being in the theater. The only two on the list I saw at the movies were Roger Rabbit and Batman. The rest I rented or I saw on tv.
wafair@reddit
Surprised by the lack of Schwarzenegger
CSWorldChamp@reddit
Just look at how the Spielberg/Lucas/John Williams juggernaut dominated the early 80’s. It was really something special. If Harrison Ford had been in E.T., that would have been 5 in a row for those four.
Incidentally, if you love music, go watch the John Williams Documentary on Disney+.
SometimesUnkind@reddit
all of them. at least half of them at the theater.
LowerCourse2267@reddit
10/10 on both original cinema run and VHS ownership.
Prollyjokin@reddit
Funny how often people complain about how it’s all the same ip, a sequel, or remake…
misterlakatos@reddit
At a young age I definitely watched E.T., Temple of Doom and Back to the Future the most.
Bosley@reddit
ET is the first of those I remember watching in a movie theatre. Return of the Jedi was my first memory of a drive in. Ghostbusters was the first movie I was I remember my mom saying the jokes would go over my head, but allowed me to see it in the theatre anyways. I was born in Oct of 79. Most of the rest I watched on HBO, VHS or later on streaming. Only one I don't think I've ever watched is Stir Crazy.
gonzagylot00@reddit
1988 was an outlier year.
LooksLikeAWookie@reddit
Roger Rabbit is the first of these I saw in the theater, then all of '89.
LifePedalEnjoyer@reddit
I remember crying when Han got frozen in carbonite, but it was certainly later than 1980.
I cried too when Spock died. This was at a drive-in, and ST III played right after. The family was in dad's Nova.
Rocky IV and Batman were both very memorable trips, went with a friend to each of those.
JayRay_44@reddit
E.T. was the first movie I remember watching in a movie theater. Return of the Jedi was another early movie theater memory. (Born in ‘78.) We really had some awesome movies during our childhood…
Captain3leg-s@reddit
Roger Rabbit beat Coming to America?! I genuinely like Roger Rabbit but I can't believe it did
BoltsGuy02@reddit
Only one I haven’t seen is Return of the Jedi
Critical_Liz@reddit
The only movie I saw in the theater was ET, and I cried to be let out because I was so bored.
I did see Batman and Raiders on a big screen years later at midnight showings.
As for VHS, Empire, Jedi, all the Indiana Jones, Octopussy, Roger Rabbit, Ghostbusters, and Aliens.
This last one I watched the shit out of on a VHS with a friend of mine, who thought Michael Biehn was hot.
Fair_Blood3176@reddit
Most of these movies I've only seen on cable television
Not_So_Bad_Andy@reddit
According to my mom I saw the original Star Wars at two months old at a drive in theater.
HillsofcentralTX@reddit
The 80s are the GOAT for movies.
GoonieMcflyguy@reddit
I really missed out on this area of Bond. The rest are kind of staples. Some I was too young to watch even on VHS, but watched them during adolescent and college years.
NoAnnual3259@reddit
All of them, though a lot were just broadcast on TV or on cable during my childhood all the time. I’d say Flashdance is actually the one I’ve seen the least.
WorkingRecording4863@reddit
At least 16 of them.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I only missed one.
adjperiod@reddit
I would’ve never guessed Indy beat out Batman
Neither-Principle139@reddit
All of them
anOvenofWitches@reddit
I’ve only seen 19 of these 😬
One_Waxed_Wookiee@reddit
The first movie I saw at the cinema was ET, when I was four years old.
The next one I remember is Ghostbusters when I was six. Memorable for then sleeping over at my aunt's place that night and having a bunch of nightmares 😀
pink_faerie_kitten@reddit
I remember Ghostbusters at the drive in. My mom made popcorn and we ate it out of a paper bag. We weren't allowed to turn around because the other screen was playing an adult movie (iirc).
BTTF we saw in a theatre. I remember being surrounded by the sound of the ticking clocks in the beginning on the big speakers.
Many of the rest we rented from Blockbuster or saw on Showtime.
One of the first movies I ever remember watching was when one of the Star Wars made it to tv before we even had cable. So early '80s. I was really little but I enjoyed watching it.
MightyCaseyStruckOut@reddit
In the theaters: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (my first movie-going experience), Batman and Back to the Future II.
On VHS: all the others except Stir Crazy.
cantwejustplaynice@reddit
I don't think I saw any of them at the cinema but almost all of them on VHS at some point. But I've never watched a Stallone film to this day. No Rambo, no Rocky. Just bits and pieces over the years, enough to get the jist and to know I don't want to see the entire film.
mangoman39@reddit
Born in 80. I've seen every one except the Bonds and Stir Crazy. Everything on VHS. No theaters, as far as I can remember
calebdume2@reddit
Born in 1980. I can remember seeing most of these movies
GordonCole19@reddit
Saw E.T. and Return of the Jedi at the drive in. Dirty Dancing and Ghostbusters at the cinema and all the rest of VHS.
Step_Aside_Butch_77@reddit
ET, Ghostbusters and BTTF are core childhood memories for me of going to the theatre. The first two may or may not have contributed to me sleeping at the foot of my parent’s bed on more than a few occasions.
Positron14@reddit
I've seen exactly half of those movies.
DustedGorilla82@reddit
Who framed Roger rabbit is the first movie I remember seeing in the theaters
Flat-While2521@reddit
Seen them all, mostly on cable or VHS
Round_Ad_1952@reddit
I've never seen Stir Crazy, Fatal Attraction, or Rain Man.
hardlurker123@reddit
Holy shit. You gotta watch rain man. I don’t remember it in the 80s but watched it as a young adult. One of the greatest. And I have also never seen stir crazy.
HottKarl79@reddit
I've seen five of these movies in my entire life, to this day.
small___potatoes@reddit
Every single one on VHS except Stir Crazy. Never saw that.
Traditional_Entry183@reddit
I've seen most of them, but none at the cinema until 88. I feel like my family rarely went to the movies before that, but then for the next five years or so we saw a ton. The late 80s and early 90s were just packed with movies we went out to see.
Skipptopher@reddit
All of them. Movies were such a bigger deal back in the day.
pilates_mama@reddit
I have seen all of these except Stir Crazy. I am an old millennial but guess I just watched a lot of movies on tv lol or renting for a cheap weekend activity as a kid. I remember seeing Dirty Dancing pretty early and not fully understanding the whole pregnancy situation, several years before I got that.
FatReverend@reddit
By 1989 (when I was eight) there were none of these that I wasn't allowed to watch and in fact was already watching nightmare on elm Street and Friday the 13th movies for a few years by then. My mother drew the line at Hellraiser, I wasn't allowed to watch that one until I was 12 or 13.
ModBabboo@reddit
Didn't see any of these in theatres. Certainly Empire and Jedi on VHS, taped off the TV. Ditto Superman II, Back to the Future, Batman, and Last Crusade. Ghostbusters, Raiders, and Roger Rabbit I have memories of watching at friends' houses. I don't quite remember seeing ET for the first time - I think my parents turned it off after Elliot screamed, "It was nothing like that, penis breath!" But it was the first movie I owned - got it on VHS for my 10th birthday. I didn't see a lot of these until was older: 9 to 5, For Your Eyes Only, Tootsie, Octopussy, Rocky III and IV, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Aliens, Dirty Dancing, Fatal Attraction, even BTTF II. I've seen bits and pieces of Crocodile Dundee. Still haven't seen Stir Crazy, Flashdance, Rambo 2, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Rain Man, or Coming to America.
RegularCommonSense@reddit
Nine movies for me. I was too young to watch them at the cinema, but saw them on TV and VHS in the early and mid 1990s. What a legendary decade the 1980s was for movie productions, btw. In retrospect, it’s no wonder VHS rental was so big back in the day.
graveybrains@reddit
sleepwalkfromsherdog@reddit
Most of them (does TV edit on channel 11 count?)
Rabbitrules87@reddit
Batman was my first movie that I watched in the theaters. Blew my mind.
spaceporter@reddit
I think I've watched 10 in the last year and there are another 5 or 6 I plan to watch soon. I don't remember watching Flashdance, 9 to 5 or Stir Crazy.