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?”
The Thing
The Money Pit
The Last Starfighter
Ruthless People
The Shining
The Terminator
Clue
Heathers
Akira
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
A Fish Called Wanda
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Uncle Buck
Blade Runner
Aliens
Glory
When Harry Met Sally…
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Coming to America
Top Gun
First Blood
