A nerdy professor dresses up as a pimp with an annoying nasal voice in Doctor Detroit, a laughterless Jerry Lewis like total-waste-of-the-celluloid slapstick from Dan Aykroyd
80s-o-meter: 61%
Total: 4%
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#588 Heartbeeps (1981)
Too childish for adults and too weird and violent for the kids, Heartbeeps is one TV sketch stretched to 90 minutes that’s hard to fathom who it is actually targeted to
80s-o-meter: 30%
Total: 38%
#587 An Innocent Man (1989)
A convincing prison drama action movie in three acts, An Innocent Man follows an airplane mechanic’s journey from freedom to prison and back to freedom a changed man
80s-o-meter: 85%
Total: 87%
#586 Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Although more generic, Conan The Destroyer provides a well balanced, interesting array of characters, and ultimately delivers a pretty polished and entertaining piece of entertainment
80s-o-meter: 80%
Total: 80%
#585 Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Schwartzenegger plays the part of a barbarian perfectly, but the movie – despite standing above its rivals – never quite lives up to the sheer epicness of Basil Poledouris’ soundtrack
80s-o-meter: 30%
Total: 62%
#584 Urban Cowboy (1980)
Travolta delivers a solid blue collar, wanna-be cowboy performance, but the unlikeable, immature characters in this love triangle make one wish none of them never ended up together
80s-o-meter: 55%
Total: 58%
#583 Broadcast News (1987)
Smart without being smart-alecky, funny without being a farce and emotional without being sappy, James L. Brook’s Broadcast News is a love triangle well worth your time
80s-o-meter: 86%
Total: 93%
#582 Target (1985)
Although Hackman delivers his enjoyable trademark act, american action movies shot in the Europe always seem somehow off – and Target unfortunately is no exception.
80s-o-meter: 70%
Total: 59%
#581 The Howling (1981)
The FX guru Rob Bottin and his marvellous werewolf transformations are the real superstars of the otherwise outdated The Howling, clearly outshining everything else in the movie.
80s-o-meter: 45%
Total: 52%
#580 Private Benjamin (1980)
A waste of a very nice poster, Private Benjamin shows a limited potential as a girl-powered army farce, but side tracks far too many times to countless of uninteresting paths.
80s-o-meter: 50%
Total: 48%
#579 Heaven’s Gate (1980)
A victim of its own grandeur, Heaven’s Gate remains in the history as the expensive failure, but no doubt reaches greatness many times during its outstretched 3-hour running time.
80s-o-meter: 12%
Total: 68%
#578 The Seventh Sign (1988)
Years ahead of its many 90s descendants, Seventh Sign is a supernatural end-of-the-world thriller that builds up towards its eerie final in a convincing and visually pleasing way.
80s-o-meter: 87%
Total: 84%
#577 Evilspeak (1981)
A nerdish military cadet gets bullied and takes a revenge by summoning up the dark forces with his home computer in a slow paced horror film ending in a hilariously gory showdown.
80s-o-meter: 65%
Total: 60%
#576 Neighbors (1981)
The movie that was to be John Belushi’s last seems a mediocre slapstick at first, but soon outgrows its premise and manages to come up with one silly surprise after another.
80s-o-meter: 75%
Total: 80%
#575 Stripes (1981)
An 80s Beetle Bailey adaptation, Stripes starts falling apart after the 30 minute mark, and Murray’s one-dimensional wise-cracking smart alec character can do little to save the movie.
80s-o-meter: 62%
Total: 61%
#574 All Of Me (1984)
Steve Martin provides the comedic muscle that saves All Of Me, a very average and unbelievable beyond its own good body switching comedy from a total oblivion.
80s-o-meter: 80%
Total: 62%
#573 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
While it’s nice to see the gang back together, the ’surely to be a blockbuster, too’ sequel completely loses its comical pacing that made the first movie so uniquely entertaining.
80s-o-meter: 95%
Total: 79%
#572 Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
The movie that made Eddie Murphy a superstar, Beverly Hills Cop is a perfect combination of action and improvised humor making it the definitive buddy cop movie of the 80s.
80s-o-meter: 100%
Total: 98%
#571 Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Robert Vaughn, John Saxon and the FX team make a valiant effort here, but Battle Beyond The Stars’ vision is just so clumsy and blurry it all ends up a waste of the time and talent.
80s-o-meter: 58%
Total: 43%
#570 Wolf Lake (1980)
Wolf Lake surprises on the solid performances and the way it builds up the tension, but following that setup to the end is nowhere as stellar as one would’ve hoped for.
80s-o-meter: 35%
Total: 58%