15 Best Movie Quotes From The 80s
Movies in the 80s graced us with some totally righteous and memorable quotes. Many thanks to Like Totally 80s for your most bitchin’ suggestions on Facebook! They were totally helpful as I compiled the following list. So, how to judge if a movie quote is awesome? If you can remember exactly how the character sounded as he spoke the words AND if you can’t stop yourself from trying to impersonate him, then that quote’s a winner in...
Remember This Guy? Happy Birthday to Silver Spoons’ Ricky Schroder
Ricky Schroder had quite the audience in the early ‘80s thanks to his work as the spoiled yet still endearing 12-year-old Ricky Stratton. Beginning in 1982, Silver Spoons lasted for the majority of the ‘80s with its last episode premiering in 1987. In total, it lasted 5 seasons for a culmination of 116 episodes. If you opened up any 1984 teen magazine, you were sure to see AT LEAST one picture of Rick Schroder, if not a highly coveted...
This Guy Is Selling A Treasure Trove Of Tough-To-Find 80s & 90s Movie Posters On Craigslist
Some movie posters from the 80s and 90s are easy to find. You can’t go three steps in a college dorm with seeing a Scarface or Reservoir Dogs poster. Some are a little bitter tougher to come by. Possibly because they’ve all been hiding in this guy’s closet. From Craigslist: Hi there! For Sale is a collection of approximately 207 original video store posters. There are a couple original movie theater posters...
‘The Hogwarts Club’ Fuses Harry Potter with an 80s Classic The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club was a timeless coming of age film that pitted five unlikely students from different spectrums of the social hierarchy in high school, together in one room for detention. The 80s classic is over 30 years old and Mashable decided to have a little fun with it by fusing it with one of the most popular book and film series of the past two decades, Harry Potter. In the video posted to the Mashable Watercooler YouTube...
80s Bollywood Version Of Superman Is Like Kryptonite To My Eyes
Everyone wants to capitalize on the success of superheroes in cinema. Not just in 2016 but for as long as the comic book heroes have been a part of pop culture. Back in 1987, even Bollywood got in on the act. In this Bollywood film, Superman – and Spiderwoman for some reason – stumble across a gang of men hassling a woman. In true Superman style, the Man of Steel defeats the thugs using just his fingers, need just one hand...
This Karate Kid Read Along Book Is Fascinatingly Creepy
Read Along Books were big business in the 1980s. These days, not so much. They’re still around but it’s rare to see kids listening to books when they can either a) see the movie the book is based on or b) watch the movie on a phone or iPad. So really, Read Along Books were like the iPads of the 1980s. Take your favorite movie anywhere, in book form, because handheld technology didn’t really exist yet. This Karate...
This He-Man Reality Show Cut is Hilarious
With all of “The Real Housewives“ spin-offs online it’s hard to think that He-Man, one of the classic 80s cartoons, would be able to compete. Well, in The Real Masters of Eternia, a video cut by DreamWorksTV, He-Man happens to take on the reality television world. It’s a He-Man reality show we never saw coming. “Evil Wizard Moustache Wax” and “Keyboard Battle Cat” are particular highlights, though I expect...
Every Single 80s Cartoon You Loved Was Mashed Into One Massive TV Show
Dash Swordslash and the Defenders of Everything sounds like an actual 80s cartoon. It’s fictional, but funny as hell, in this 80s cartoon mashup from comedian Jared Jefferies. Jefferies took all the biggest cartoons of the 1980s and mashed into a very NSFW super show, creating characters like Chase Cockblock and the Creep Crew, Chainmail, Colonel Closeup, Abracabastard and Jansport the human backpack. The comedian uses footage...
Starman- John Carpenter’s 1984 Film And His Only Academy Award Nod – To Be Remade
John Carpenter’s 1984 sci-fi flick “Starman” is the latest one of his films slated to get a modern reboot, this time to be directed by Night at the Museum’s Shawn Levy and produced by none-other-than Michael Douglas. Though Levy is new to the film and therefore will bring a fresh perspective to the reboot, Douglas helped produce the 1984 version and will likely be there to try and not disappoint Carpenter...
Original MTV VJ Recalls The Insanity That Was Spring Break In The 80s
Thirty years ago, MTV VJ Alan Hunter hosted the first edition of what would become one of the tentpole occurrences on the young music network — MTV Spring Break. The first MTV Spring Break aired in 1986 from Daytona Beach, Florida. The program featured performances from the Beastie Boys a ton of drunk college kids and some moments that should have never made the air. Alan Hunter saw it all and can’t publicly talk about...
Walmart Employee Nails An Impression of Shaggy & Scooby Doo
Really wish all cashiers were like this guy. A Walmart employee was ringing up a couple of customers and decided to show off his amazing impressions of Shaggy and Scooby Doo. The beloved cartoon characters flourished in the 80s and we later on realized that they may have also been stoners, well, Shaggy at least, Scooby just had a great big appetite. He begins by telling the customers he’s going to tell them his life story. Then,...
New Spotify Ad Says ‘The NeverEnding Story’ Streamed Every Day
It’s been thirty years since the 1980s classic The NeverEnding Story hit theaters, but a clever new Spotify advertisement reminds us that while stories might end- songs are forever. At least one person every single day listens to the movie’s title track, The NeverEnding Story by English singer Limahl, Spotify says. It’s even hard to believe for the movie’s hero, Atreyu. who makes a brief cameo in the Spotify ad with none other than...
Voltron: Legendary Defender Is The Rebirth Of An 80s Cartoon Legend
Fresh off of the success of the critically acclaimed Nickelodeon series The Legend of Korra, showrunners, Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery found themselves looking for the next big move in their cartoon creating careers. The answer would come in the form of five interlocking lion robots from the 1980s — Voltron. VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENDER was born. “At one point in time, we heard that DreamWorks had acquired Voltron,...
The Super 8 ‘Star Wars’ Tribute Done Entirely With Hands You’ve Probably Never Seen
Fans show appreciation for their favorite films in all sorts of ways. This Super 8 hand version of Star Wars might be one of the coolest ways that a fan has shown respect for the film. The 80s classic has been reimagined in many ways but this one took some serious creativity and according to reports it sprung up around the 90s. “Elite Geek dug up this brilliant and hilarious low-budget Star Wars fan film from 1990, directed by...
‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ Was A Completely Different Movie Before This Happened…
In the new film Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, 80s icon Pee-wee Herman finds himself interacting with residents in his town of Fairville. The plot sounds slightly similar to the original idea for the 80s classic Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. The original script for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure looked nothing like the movie that premiered in theaters on August 9, 1985. The success of the Pee-wee Herman Show, a live production and HBO...
