Top 20 Kids Flicks from the 80′s

In No Particular Order:

The Goonies (1985)
Gremlins (1984)
Spaceballs (1987)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Uncle Buck (1989)
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
Labyrinth (1986)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
E.T The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
D.A.R.Y.L (1985)
Short Circuit (1986)
Transformers – The Movie (1986)
The Neverending Story (1984)
Willow (1988)
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
The Karate Kid (1984)
Explorers (1985)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Transformers – The Movie (1986)
Howard The Duck (1986)

Other Classics:
Care Bears Movie (1985)
Space Camp (1986)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

One of the Worst:
Garbage Pail Kids (1989)

Top Ten Art House Movies

Il Mare
House of Flying Daggers
Hero
Cashback
Garden State
Run Lola Run
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
Daywatch & Nightwatch
Brick
Pulp Fiction

Top Five Post Apocolypse Movies

Children of Men
28 Days Later
Escape from New York
Resident Evil
Mad Max

Top Ten Space Movies

Solaris
Red Mars
Star Wars
Imposter
Sphere – A space ship at the bottom of the sea
Aliens
The Abyss (honorary space movie), it’s the space under the water but shares the same themes.
Mission to Mars
Chronicles of Riddick
Moon (okay… so I haven’t seen it yet, cos its not out yet in Aus, but from the preview its going to be here)

Honourable Mention: The Muppets – Pigs in Space if they’d made it a movie – I would’ve seen it.

Top Ten Movie Buff Movies

The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Donny Darko
True Love and Chaos
Adaptation
American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Fight Club
The Matrix
Blade Runner

Top Ten Enchanting Kids Movies

Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
The Princess Bride
Lady Hawk
Willow
Mirror Mask
The Neverending Story
Cinderella
The Sword in the Stone
Arthur and The Invisibles

Top Ten Christmas Movies

So I guess this is my ultimate list to get you in the mood for christmas, there’s cartoons, romancy mush, comedy, action, a little bit of innocence (Elf) and a little bit of reality (Bad Santa).

Scrooged – Bill Murray a jaded tv exec is haunted on Christmas eve by the ghosts of past, present and future

Die Hard – Puts you in the Christmas spirit (1,2,3. only as 4.0 is about the 4^th of July)

The Nightmare Before Christmas – There’s singing, colourful decorations and Jack Skellington

Love Actually – Lots of romance, laughs to put you in the holiday mood  Check out the Christmas party with the soft porn ‘Christmas Art’ in the extra features

Bad Santa – Billy Bob Thornton stars as a drunk theif who does Santa gigs in big stores so he can get locked in and rob them

Elf – Will Farrell woos Zooey Deshanel as a human whos lived with Santa and the elves all his life only to discover… hes not a tall elf

Home Alone – Whats more Christmasy then Christmas without the family – most peoples fantasy

The Holiday – Who better to share your holidays with then Kate Winslet and Jack  Black, plus it has snow and cutesy poo English Cottages

The Grinch – Jim Carey gives the man in the red suit a run for his money

The Muppet Christmas Carol – A classic for the kiddies

Top Five – Cool Male Movie Characters

Jack Foley (George Clooney) – Out of Sight

Handsome Rob (Jason Stratham) – The Italian Job

Neo (Keanu Reeves) – Matrix

John McClane (Bruce Willis) – Die Hard

Porter (Mel Gibson) – Payback

Top Ten Taking The Piss Movies

Spaceballs
Clueless
Oss 117: Cairo Nest of Spies (Oss 117: Le Caire Nid D’Espions)
Austin Powers – Dangers my middle name!
Blades of Glory
Shanghai Noon
Mars Attacks
Robin Hood – Men in Tights
Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail
This is Spinal Tap

Top Ten B-Grade Movies Worth Watching

Stealth
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
Steal
Evil Dead
Extreme Ops
The Ghosts of Mars
The Brotherhood of the Wolf
Zombie Strippers
Big Trouble in Little China
My Name is Bruce

I do note that some of the above movies were supposedly A grade in that they had funding, famous actors and should have produced an A grade movie but lets face it, not A grade material.