1980s Movies – Page 5 – Movie Valhalla

DIE HARD (1988)

Some people have called this the “perfect action movie,” and it launched the careers of Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman. But is it a Christmas movie?

A Christmas Carol for the 1980s, extremely cynical and with more people getting hit in the face with toasters.

I have many questions about this animated musical and its story about oppressed Jewish immigrant mice.

A classic of all-encompassing paranoia, with some of the best practical effects you’ll ever see.

Scorsese’s “masterpiece” about a boxer whose life falls apart because of his toxic masculinity.

A romantic comedy about two people who should not, under any circumstances, get together. An interesting exercise, or completely insufferable? Both?

Is it a hard hitting drama about small town life? Is it a musical? The answers lie in Kevin Bacon’s angry dancing.

A live action cartoon from the Coen Brothers about Nicolas Cage kidnapping babies, but for love. A personal favorite.

The first Indiana Jones movie defined its genre for more than one generation of moviegoers.

The Muppets take their act to Broadway in one of the definitive movies of my childhood.