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I'll start first with "Real Genius". Just watched it the other day, and was surprised at how the jokes were still funny, and the message still relevant. The final 5 minutes of the film, with Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" as the kids play in the popcorn and William Atherton rolls up to the house is one of those perfect blendings of song and film.

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Bad Taste

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I still use many lines from Real Genuis in my day to day life. Whenever anyone asks me if I run, I reply "only when chased."

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Pretty in Pink

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Ahh, but have any of your dates asked if you could hammer a nail through a board with your penis???

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Vision Quest is the first I can think of
Top Secret (as long as we're hailing Val Kilmer comedies)

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Pretty in Pink gets plenty of respect when 80's films are brought up. We are looking for less likely choices.

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Vision Quest is solid.

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Real Genius is one of those movies that I watch any time I catch it on the tube, I love it.

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I'll throw out "Streets of Fire." A scorching Ry Cooder score, a soundtrack featuring the Blasters and songs written by Tom Petty and others, a leather-clad Willem Dafoe as the bad guy, Michael Pare (Eddie Wilson from Eddie and the Cruisers) as the good guy, Diane Lane looking sooooooooooo hot, Amy Madigan punching out Bill Paxton, and Walter Hill's seamless action movie direction, capped with a climactic fight between the two leads using sledgehammers. Look for Robert Townsend as one of the members of The Sorels.

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Easy Money (this might be from the 70's though)
Brewsters Millions

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Heh. I use this one too.

Always wanted someone to ask if I could hammer a six-inch spike thru a board w/ my penis...because I can.

Also, if I'm saying something is history, gone, I'll throw in "Casper."

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Paris, Texas
Drugstore Cowboy

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It gets respect, or are you out-deadpanning me?

Actual nomination:

Eating Raoul. Its always gets me.

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Hollywood Shuffle
Amazon Women on the Moon

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Add

Killer Klowns from Outer Space for kitsch category.

Less than Zero. Though maybe it already gets enough respect, but still the most prescient casting in the world. I mean, Robert Downey, Jr. as a coke addict? How did they ever get him to play it so convincingly?

Last American Virgin. For spawning an entire genre of 80s teen movies.

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GREAT FLICK! Forgot about this one. My good friend growing up and I would watch this and "Turk 182" on his stepfathers Betamax every weekend...

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To Live and Die in LA

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don't exist.

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Less than Zero. Though maybe it already gets enough respect, but still the most prescient casting in the world. I mean, Robert Downey, Jr. as a coke addict? How did they ever get him to play it so convincingly?

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Less Than Zero is the movie that got him addicted to coke. I guess method acting fucks you up sometimes.

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Yeah, I was being sarcastic, but its still the one film that makes me wish he would act in other movies.

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Awesome, awesome movies, the both of 'em. I just watched Hollywood Shuffle the other day. Been a while since I saw Amazon Women, have to pick it up again.

"I'm president of the David Hartman fan club here in Glendale. I've even met David Hartman once. What a neat guy!"

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Big Trouble In Little China! This is a must-watch classic.

"Two gulls with greeeeen eyez!?" "Nothin' or double, Jack"

Used Cars

Best of Times

Pretty much any Kurt Russell film.

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Fletch
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how about Better Off Dead

never seen Real Genius

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mmm Cobra, don't miss Rambo IV when it comes [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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how about Better Off Dead

never seen Real Genius

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Awesome, awesome movies, the both of 'em. I just watched Hollywood Shuffle the other day. Been a while since I saw Amazon Women, have to pick it up again.

"I'm president of the David Hartman fan club here in Glendale. I've even met David Hartman once. What a neat guy!"

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"I expected a little more from you, Ray!"

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Eating Raoul.

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Great flick.

I'd add The Razors Edge

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

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Awesome, awesome movies, the both of 'em. I just watched Hollywood Shuffle the other day. Been a while since I saw Amazon Women, have to pick it up again.

"I'm president of the David Hartman fan club here in Glendale. I've even met David Hartman once. What a neat guy!"

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"I expected a little more from you, Ray!"

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"Ain't no Thelma here, man! Look, the bitch don't live here."

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lol

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This movie is also a riot.

I don't think Better Off Dead can count as underrated, I don't know anyone that doesn't think it's hilarious.

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just one of the guys. seriously.

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No Retreat, No Surrender (1985)

Actually bought the VHS at Best Buy a few years ago... Still makes me laugh... I think that this was Jean-Claude Van Damme's first US movie.

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I sincerely thought I was like the only person in the world that liked this movie.

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Rumble Fish

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Pope of Greenwich Village
Heaven Help Us
Three O'clock High