The 1980s were an era defined by certain things. Rubik’s cubes. The rise of MTV and music videos. The Walkman. The boom box. Leg warmers. The Reagan Era of American politics. Cabbage Patch Dolls. Atari. Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The end of the Cold War. Personal computers. Miami Vice. That Billy Joel song about starting fires. And ... awesome movies.

At ScreenCrush, obviously that’s what pings our nostalgia radar the most. The 1980s were perhaps the last great era of big-time Hollywood filmmaking, when the studios still took repeated risks on subjects and directors, and made movies of scale with ideas and themes and didn’t spend every minute of every day thinking about how they could squeeze each and every last drop of juice from the IP under their control. You look at the best

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