Why were 80s movies so awesome?

Why were they so awesome? Sure, they were often cheesy as hell, but they were fun as hell to watch.

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[etherealunessence]

You should check out the Screamer series it brings back memories of the 80's with flair

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/

[drnkntst]

I grew up in the 80's and hated them, but you're right, the movies were awesome. Batteries not included, Back to the Future, Die Hard, Return of the Jedi. There were some awful ones too though, like the original TMNT (which was 1990, but was full 80's style) or Masters of the Universe. Some of the movies were legendary, which is weird, because the art, cars, music, and style (which seems to be coming back for some unknown reason) were all terrible. Although, I did like the fact that every advertisement seemed to include some scantly clad woman or three. Perfect example being the Budweiser girls.

[LordMentat]

Robocop, the original Ghostbusters, and the Indiana Jones trilogy.

[Wild Zontars]

A whole bunch of things came together just right. Technology, politics, and recent history gave them a bunch of material to work with (you can have Soviets or Nazis for enemies, computers and rockets are new and cool, etc). Hollywood was pushing "tits and beer liberalism" over political correctness, so (as long as it passed the ratings board) anything goes. They'd worked out how to do sequels and remakes just right: do the parts people liked bigger and better, and drop the crappy parts. (Seriously, watch Alien and Aliens back to back, or Terminator and Terminator 2. They started over with the same movie, cut the slow bits, made the action bigger, and made the bad guys scarier.)

[Bigd2k]

Because people didn’t care about every little thing making sense, no one tried to make political statements in the movies, and the idea of being politically correct hadn’t reached such an extreme yet.

[Falconwolf1116]

Cuz back then movies didn’t use just crappy CGI to make awesome scenes.