22 Movies From the ‘80s That Actually Aged Pretty Well
We don’t mean to alarm you, but 1980 was 44 years ago. Not 15 years ago, not 20 years ago, not even 30 years ago. Forty-four. That’s an adult that’s passed “fully functional” right back around to “can’t move very well.” They have children that are adults themselves, they have net worths that would be devastating to lose and their bones hurt. Specific ones.Society has changed so much in the intervening years that just about every movie from that time aged like boogers, drying to a crust on somebody’s sleeve. Like, there’s a near certainty that if you popped your favorite ‘80s movie into the old VCR for the first time in 25 years, you’d be horrified to find out the romantic hero straight-up sexually assaults someone in the first 20 minutes. You’ll probably see people bullied for their race or gender expression, and everyone else just standing around, not arresting anyone for hate crimes. It’s a trip.Not every movie is like that, though. A fact that we discovered when user magiceyes2 asked r/AskReddit, “What ‘80s movies hold up and are still worth watching 30-40 years later?”
22 The Thing
21 The Money Pit
20 The Last Starfighter
19 Ruthless People
18 The Shining
17 The Terminator
16 Clue
15 Heathers
14 Akira
13 Monty Python’s Life of Brian
12 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
11 A Fish Called Wanda
10 Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
9 Uncle Buck
8 Blade Runner
7 Aliens
6 Glory
5 When Harry Met Sally…
4 The Indiana Jones Trilogy
3 Coming to America
2 Top Gun
1 First Blood
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