The Viewing Files: The 80s Edition... Again

The 80s'.  The era of sequels and good soundtrack music.  Or at the very least a good theme song...

Beverly Hills Cop

Starring: Eddie Murphy

Original release: 1984

Synopsis: An LA story with a touch of murder

 

It works.  And that's pretty much all you want or need from a non-serious action movie.

Beverly Hills Cop II

Starring: Yep it's him again

Original release: 1987

Synopsis: He's back

 

Slightly edgier than the 1st BHC which makes me like it just a little bit more.  Forget about Axel, Billy is my man.

Big Trouble in Little China

Starring: Kurt Russell

Original release: 1986

Synopsis: I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

 

Another one of those B movies that is actually better than it should be.

 

Crazy and fun and all kinds of silly and totally worth watching.  You just know that everyone making this film was having a blast.

Crocodile Dundee

Starring: Some Aussie guy

Original release: 1986

Synopsis: Now that's the knife

 

An Aussie movie that pokes fun at itself and everything else.  It's a bit problematic in some parts but seen through an 80s lens it's a movie very much of its time.

Top Gun

Starring: Tom before he went all weird

Original release: 1986

Synopsis: I Feel the Need... The Need for Speed

 

Alpha men acting all macho and fooling nobody.  Probably would have worked better as a gay rom-com-actioner but luckily the bromance's and fighter plane scenes at least make it a half way decent movie.

Lethal Weapon

Starring: Danny and Mel

Original release: 1986

Synopsis: You Really Are Crazy

 

Filled with so many cliches.  And Riggs wild mullet hair was seriously distracting... and not in a good way.

Danny G and his family saved this movie for me.

Lethal Weapon 2

Starring: Same as before

Original release: 1989

Synopsis: Bad cop, good cop

 

Slightly better than the 1st due to sax and style and Sam the dog.  

 

I really could have done without Joe P being in this though.

Back to the Future

Starring: Michael J Fox

Original release: 1985

Synopsis: Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?

 

2 and a half stars for nostalgia reasons, Einstein the dog for having such a cool name, that opening sequence and Christopher Lloyd's mad scientist impersonation which he carried on doing for the rest of his career.

Field of Dreams

Starring: Kevin Costner

Original release: 1989

Synopsis: If you build it he will come

 

The beauty of hopes and dreams and the courage of stepping into the unknown.

I'm just having all the feels right now.