’80s Movies You Should Watch

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
1 min readOct 21, 2017

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Die Hard, Top Gun, Trading Places, War Games, and more.

I asked Go Into The Story readers to post reflections about a favorite movie from the 1980s with two goals:

  • To provide background and analysis on movies from this decade
  • To inspire people to watch movies which is critical for learning the craft of screenwriting

48 Hrs.

A Christmas Story

A Fish Called Wanda

Back to School

Back to the Future

Better Off Dead

Blade Runner

Broadcast News

Caddyshack

Coming to America

Die Hard

Full Metal Jacket

Ghostbusters

Night Shift

Rainman

Real Genius

Reds

Repo Man

Robocop

Running Scared

Say Anything

Scarface

Scrooged

Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back

Tender Mercies

Teen Wolf

The Breakfast Club

The Karate Kid

Top Gun

Trading Places

Tron

War Games

Working Girl

My advice: Use the analysis and background provided above, then pick 10 of these movies and watch them.

This is one key to immersing yourself in the world of cinema which you MUST do in order to become a better screenwriter.

Tomorrow: ’90s Movies.

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