yeah, and your looks are kind of pretty...when your face isn't screwing it up.

I just read that this year marks...wait for it....the 25th anniversary of Goonies. WHAT YOU TALKIN' 'BOUT GURL??? That does kind of blow my mind. Twenty five years ago. Cripes.
Anyway, instead of looking back wondering where all the years have gone, I thought we could lighten the mood and take a stroll down memory lane.
I give you my list of the top 25 films from the 80's (I seriously tried 10 at first...impossible).
I actually realized in doing this how far superior 80's films are to any of the two decades since. FAR superior. I'm not real sure what it is. It can't be originality can it? I really can't compare it any of the decades prior to the 80's because I simply haven't seen enough. Maybe we just owe it all to John Hughes? It really weird, though, to think back through a lot of those films. I could probably easily name 25 more that I thought were great.
If I were to compile of list of my top 100 of all time (which is bound to pop up somewhere down the road), I wonder how films made in this particular decade would make the cut. I'm willing to go with close to half. Seriously.
I don't feel like going into much detail about why these made the list and others didn't. I think that's because most of them simply made it for the reason that I absolutely loved them as a kid.
There are so few newer movies that I could watch over and over again. I would say there is probably a good 15-20 of these that I could watch once a year or more and never get sick of.
Sooooooooooooo........here. we. go.
25) The Shining
24) The Terminator
23) Big
22) Adventures in Babysitting
21) Big Trouble in Little China
20) When Harry met Sally
19) Short Circut
18) Hoosiers
17) A Christmas Story
16) Spaceballs
15) Breakfast club
14) The Money Pit
13) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
12) Princess Bride
11) Spies Like Us
10) Planes, Trains and Automobiles
9) Stand By Me
8) Footloose
7) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
6) Raising Arizona
5) Goonies
4) Indiana Jones (trilogy)
3) Clue
2) Back to the Future
1) Ghostbusters

Yep. ALL 80's. Really. That's how good they were. I was really excited to go back through this list once it was completed and think, wow, how awesome is it going to be to go sit with my kids while they watch all these for the first time....maybe we'll wait awhile on 'The Shining.' I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night with little Timmy standing at the foot of my bed pretending to talk with his finger saying, "Redrum. REDRUM!"
I will, however, be thrilled when helping him with his math assignment and out of nowhere he yells, "One point twenty one gigawatts!?"
By the way, the choice of Ghostbusters or Back to the Future was decided by coin toss.