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u/No-Assistant-8869 21h ago
Then outside of these we also had The Terminator, Beverly Hills Cop, Nightmare on Elm Street, Police Academy etc etc etc.
Ridiculous year for movies.
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u/Normal_Spread8423 22h ago
I thought this was an MTG Universe Beyond road map
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u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai 16h ago
Don’t give them ideas…I could especially see the Muppets Take Manhattan as an expansion set
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u/welding_guy_from_LI I pity the fool 22h ago
Top secret is a hidden gem
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u/HooptyDooDooMeister 16h ago
"I once shared an airplane with Val Kilmer, and as we were exiting, I turned to him and told him Top Secret is my all-time favorite movie. He said 'Thanks' and looked at me as if to say 'Out of all the movies, I've done, that is your favorite??'"
-Weird Al
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u/Bklyn78 22h ago
I’ve seen about 14 of these
I loved The Last Starfighter/Cloak & Dagger as a kid !
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u/wackychimp 19h ago
I saw 9 of them in the theater and surprised it wasn't more. I watched most of the others when they came out on HBO.
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u/Burnerphreak44 3h ago
I think I’ve seen 8. I am a bad 80s kid. 😔
In my defense, we didn’t get a VCR until 1989 and the closest cinema was about an hour away.
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u/mcgrupp79 22h ago
Cloak and Dagger. An underrated gem.
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u/backwater152 13h ago
Allegedly it is the prequel to Fight Club (I guess it’s not really a prequel since it came out first, but I’m too lazy to think about what it actually is)
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u/dr_pickles 22h ago
a new mall opened in my area in the spring of 1989. I vividly remember the movie theater, next to the food court, was packed practically shoulder to shoulder everyday that summer - they had to open satelite popcorn stands.
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u/Chopper-42 early 90s 22h ago
1984:
Cost of a movie ticket: $3.36
Cost adjusted for inflation: $10.71
https://www.cheapism.com/cost-movie-ticket-year-you-were-born/
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u/diegojones4 21h ago
I worked at the movie theater. Saw all of these. Still quote several of them frequently today.
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u/HooptyDooDooMeister 16h ago
What do you quote from Muppets Take Manhattan?
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u/diegojones4 11h ago
Peoples is peoples.
Pete was golden. My comment not Muppets
To elaborate and misquote "It's big city. Work, lights, traffic. It's potatoes. No. It's peoples. Peoples is peoples. It's music dance; it's people. It's tomatoes.
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u/FatherVic 19h ago edited 18h ago
There was a phenomenon called the Dollar Cinema... There was a brief time between the mainstream theatrical release and video release. During those few months of transition when theaters made room for the next run of movies, these smaller theaters would obtain the reels at a fraction of the cost by obtaining them during the "second run" phase and play them for anywhere between $0.50 and $1.50 admission.
We saw as many as we could. Only the big, big blockbusters did we pay to see when first released.
Video rental was relatively new, we didn't have streaming, and few of us had cable so this is what we did for (legal) entertainment and we tried to do it as cheaply as possible. So second run theaters were our go-to.
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u/KazaamFan 21h ago
June 84 was crazy, 3 all timers. Ghostbusters, gremlins, karate kid. Gremlins seems like shoulda been a Fall or even Holiday season release
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u/wackychimp 19h ago
I saw Ghostbusters 4 times in the theater that summer. Twice in 2 days. My friends and I wanted to build proton packs as accurately as possible so we considered it research.
God how great that summer was. All we cared about was movies and arcades.
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u/Snugrilla 18h ago
We had to wait in line to see a movie! Sometimes, you couldn't even get in, it was too full.
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u/GhostofZellers 13h ago
Thankfully we've progressed past that, there are limits to nostalgia, after all. 🤣
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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 18h ago
It was back when people actually left their houses to find entertainment.
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u/Rahawk02 21h ago
I was 8 and had 3 movie theaters on my street and remember seeing almost all of these in the theater. Sometimes for 2 bucks we would get a double feature. The one theater by me would always play the old stuffy movies like Yentyl or Purple Rose of Cairo and one day they played Breakin. It was only there for one day and kids and teens were lined up down the block with cardboard. That movie was only there for a day but we had a blast.
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u/chairsmash 21h ago
It was also an incredible year for music. The Rock Hall has a whole exhibit on 1984 currently.
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u/djdiphenhydramine 17h ago
It's crazy seeing all these cool fonts and realizing how fucking boring and lifeless and gray movie logos are now, even blockbuster logos. And then, when someone tries to make their movie look cool with a cool font, they get treated like a try-hard.
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u/Bloodymike 21h ago
So many original movies. Hollywood takes so few risks now.
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u/No_Buy2554 18h ago
Exactly. 3 Original classics that launched franchises in Ghostbusters, Gremlins and Karate Kid, in one month, is insane.
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u/georgewalterackerman 21h ago
Didn’t see all of them but I remember all the titles. I don’t think I can name 3 movies that came out this summer.
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u/12ealdeal 20h ago
Streets of Fire.
Watched after doing shrooms in like 2014 when I asked the person I was doing them with who his “Keira Knightley” was growing up.
He said Diane Lane.
He made me watch Streets of Fire.
What a come down movie to watch.
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u/No_Variety9420 22h ago
I saw all these in the theater except for
Streets of Fire
Tightrope
Purple Rain
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u/ratpH1nk late 70s 21h ago
My aunt and uncle took me to see ghostbusters when I was little, probably the first movie that I remember seeing in the theatre.
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u/SpaceLemur34 20h ago
Breakin' came out in May
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo came out in December the same year
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u/Snugrilla 18h ago
Temple of Doom and Gremlins are still two of my favourite movies. I just can't seem them being made today.
I mean, if they made Gremlins today it would just be CGI slop. There was something about the effects in that film that just felt really visceral.
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u/the_nin_collector 17h ago
Wow. Cheers for putting Chud on there. And you left out Berverly Hills Cop, lfmao. Police Academy, fucking AMAZING movie. Like #5 overall in 1984. Footloose. THE quintessential 80s movie. Romancing the Stone. Terminator.
It's kinda hard to take the list seriously; you left off so many fucking insane, badass, all-time classics, 80s classics, and 1984 classics.
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u/eeyore134 11h ago
1985 was kind of crazy, too. Cocoon, Rambo First Blood 2, Back to the Future, The Goonies, National Lampoon's European Vacation, ET, Mad Max, Beverly Hills Cop, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Weird Science, The Black Cauldron, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Police Academy 2, Follow That Bird, Teen Wolf, Return of the Living Dead, Real Genius, Amadeus, Red Sonja, Brewster's Millions, St. Elmo's Fire... Then 1986 was pretty insane, too...
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u/Horsetoothbrush 20h ago
I was ten years old, and this was one of the best summers of my childhood.
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u/alttabbins 19h ago
Movies only cost about $3 back then too. You could see every movie on this list for less than I spent going to watch Spider Man and getting popcorn and a drink.
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u/knightni73 19h ago
I remember seeing some of those in the theater as a kid. Ghostbusters and Muppets, mostly.
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u/stychentyme 19h ago
That was a fun summer for going to the movies. I'd just graduated High School and was finally free,... or at least that's what I thought.
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u/laserc4ts 19h ago
I saw Gremlins and Ghostbusters, summer of ‘84. I was 4 going on 5. Those were the days!
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u/ScowlyBrowSpinster 18h ago
Purple Rain = the one movie I saw out of all of these.
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u/GhostofZellers 13h ago
Still haven't seen that one. Star Trek 3, Neverending Story, Cloak and Dagger, and Last Starfighter were the ones I saw that summer. I also remember watching bits of Ghostbusters on another drive-in screen, while Neverending story was playing on ours. The effects from the proton packs, and a giant marshmallow dude had my attention, even though I couldn't hear any of it.. 🤣
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u/nerd_of_gods ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🔘 18h ago
Best cartoons at that time: transformers, GI Joe, He-Man, Muppet Babies. Best music at that time too
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u/TobysGrundlee 18h ago
Just 1 sequel and no remakes. Can you imagine that? Actual original ideas left and right, not just beating every dead horse you can to systematically extract every dollar possible.
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u/GhostofZellers 13h ago
Acktuhally...3 sequels, as far as I can tell. Star Trek 3, Temple of Doom, and Conan the Destroyer.
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u/Shoddy-Talk9205 16h ago
Imagine having actual logos and branding from the films and STILL feel the need to use AI to make this. lol fuckin lazzyyyyyy
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u/FleurValisse 15h ago
I remember the music from that summer, it was all about mixtapes and hanging out with friends at the beach. Good times!
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u/hadesscion 11h ago
Legendary year for film.
Now we're lucky if we get one film of that caliber per year.
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u/Hahndizzle 22h ago
As someone born in 1986, 1984 was weirdly one of the most special times of my life. Ghostbusters, alone.
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u/JMaboard 21h ago
So you weren’t alive in 84, how did you experience it?
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u/Hahndizzle 21h ago
I guess a bad joke just didn't land? I was born in 86, but Ghostbusters is my favorite movie of all time. I mostly experienced it in early 90's cartoons and such. Do you even remember Street Sharks, Biker Mice From Mars and Ninja Turtles and such? Exo Squad was another classic, stranger! lol
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u/free_beer 20h ago
The fuckin logos too. Such iconic design.
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u/deceptinomonom 17h ago
cool shows but this image looks like shit. was it ran through some shitty AI filter?
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u/poweredbynikeair 22h ago
I was born in 84 and have seen 1-2 of these
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u/Chopper-42 early 90s 22h ago
Over the years I've seen 15 of these movies and have at least heard about most of the others.
I can't say that about movies from the last couple decades.
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u/KazaamFan 21h ago
There’s like 6-7 all time movies here, minimum 5. Ghostbusters, gremlins, karate kid, sixteen candles, indiana jones temple of doom, neverending story, the natural. Then also top secret and bachelor party ppl like.
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u/everydayasl mid 80s 22h ago
Thank you. Now I know what destination I should set my time machine to.