What movies did you see in the 80s in theaters as a kid?

[Legato]

I can't remember how many, but I think my first might of been Little Monsters with Fred Savage and Howie Mandel. I was only 4 but the piss in the apple juice still made me cringe. My first big budget blockbuster wasn't until the 90''s(Jurassic Park).

Yeah even as a kid I was more disgusted by that scene than laughing at it.

[hulahulk]

Airplane!
Empire Strikes Back
ROTJ
Gremlins
Porky's 3
the first 3 Indy movies
Ghandi
Any Which Way You Can
Jaws 3
Supes 2 & 3
Batman
Goonies
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon 2 (90?)
Less Than Zero
Lost Boys
Time Bandits
Crocodile Dundee
Dead Poets Society
When Harry Met Sally
Rambo: First Blood Part II

These are just off the top of my head.


EDIT:
Ghostbusters
Little Shop of Horrors
E.T.
Dark Crystal
whatever Muppets movies came out then

[Frank]

My first movie going experience was Pinocchio's 84 re-issue when i was 3.

Pinocchio 84 re-issue.
The Last Dragon.
Ladyhawke.
The Goonies. (i just turned 4 when it came out and saw it 3 times)
Return to Oz. (3 times)
Back to the Future (5 times).
The Black Cauldron. (3 times)
Cocoon. (2 times)
Enemy Mine.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
ET re-issue. (4 times)
Godzilla 1985.
Gremlins 85 re-issue. (3 times)
Fright Night. (my first R-rated movie) (2 times)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. (2 times)
Better Off Deaed.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend.
Commando.
101 Dalmatians 85 re-issue. (3 times)
Starchaser Legend of orin in 3D. (2 times)
Rocky IV.
Translyvania 6-5000.
Clue. (2 times)
Young Sherlock Holmes.
Black Moon Rising.
Iron Eagle.
Gobots Battle of the RockLords.
The Adventures of Mark Twain.
The Hitcher.
Troll.
House. (3 times)
The Money Pit.
Critters. (2 times)
Care Bears Movie 2.
April Fool's Day.
Legend. (2 times)
Invaders from Mars. (3 times)
Cobra. (2 times)
Short Circuit. (3 times)
Back to School. (I just turned 5)
Spacecamp.
Poltergeist II. (2 times)
Karate Kid II. (2 times)
Labyrinth. (3 times)
Raw Deal.
Ferris Bueller. (2 times)
Top Gun. (2 times)
Psycho III.
Sleeping Beauty re-issue. (3 times)
Great Mouse Detective. (4 times)
Aliens. (4 times)
Vamp.
Maximum Overdrive.
Big Trouble in Little China. (3 times)
Haunted Honeymoon.
Howard The Duck. (2 times)
Transformers The Movie. (3 times despite i felt sad about Optimus)
One Crazy Summer.
The Fly. (3 times)
Making Contact (aka Joey).
Dead End Drive In.
Friday The 13th part 6 Jason Lives. (3 times)
Highlander. (2 times)
Crocodile Dundee. (3 times)
Link.
Deadtime Stories.
American Tail. (5 times)
Little Shop of Horrors (4 times)
Solarbabies.
The Golden child. (3 times)
Star Trek 4. (3 times)
Lady and The Tramp re-issue. (4 times)
Song of the South re-issue. (3 times)
King Kong Lives.
Three Amigos. (2 times)
Critical Condition.
The Stepfather.
Police Academy 4.
Lethal Weapon. (3 times)
The Kindred.
Raising Arizona.
The Aristocats. (3 times in it's 87 re-issue)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. (3 times)
Ernest Goes to Camp. (2 times)
Creepshow 2. (3 times)
Ishtar.
The Gate. (2 times)
Beverly Hills Cop 2. (2 times)
The Chipmunk Adventure. (2 times)
Harry and The Hendersons. (3 times)
Spaceballs. (4 times even on my 6th birthday)
Dragnet. (2 times)
Predator. (3 times)
The Witches of Eastwick. (2 times)
Roxanne.
The Untouchables.
The Living Daylights.
Innerspace. (2 times)
Benji The Hunted.
Snow White 1987 re-issue. (4 times)
Adventures in Babysitting. (3 times)
Jaws The Revenge.
The Lost Boys. (3 times)
Robocop. (4 times)
Masters of the Universe.
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
Born in East LA
House 2. (2 times)
Stakeout.
The Monster Squad. (2 times)
The Curse.
Teen Wolf Two.
Hellraiser. (3 times)
Near Dark. (2 times)
The Princess Bride. (3 times)
The Hidden.
Prince of Darkness. (2 times)
The Running Man. (3 times)
Planes Trains and Automobiles. (4 times)
Flowers in the Attic.
Cinderella re-issue. (2 times)
Pinocchio and The Emperor of the Night.
Batteries Not Included. (3 times)
Overboard.
3 Men and a baby.
Return of the Living Dead part II. (2 times)
The Serpent and The Rainbow. (2 times)
Action Jackson.
Pound Puppies and The Legend of Big Paw.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes.
Police Academy 5.
Critters 2. (2 times)
Beetlejuice. (5 times)
18 Again.
Colors.
The Wrong Guys.
Crocodile Dundee 2. (3 times)
Poltergeist III.
Rambo 3. (2 times)
Dead Heat.
Friday The 13th part 7. (3 times)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. (3 times)
Willow. (4 times)
Red Heat.
Shakedown.
The Presido.
License to Drive.
Funny Farm.
Great Outdoors. (2 times)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. (6 times with my first viewing on my 7th birthday)
Die Hard. (4 times)
Bull Durham.
Phantasm 2. (2 times)
Bambi 1988 reissue. (4 times)
Monkey Shines.
Coming to America. (3 times)
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka.
The Dead Pool.
Short Circuit 2. (2 times)
Young Guns. (2 times)
Cocktail.
The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking.
The Blob. (3 times)
Mac and Me.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4. (3 times)
Hot to Trot.
The Bear.
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.
Elvira Mistress of the Dark.
Pumpkinhead. (2 times0
Night of the Demons.
Alien Nation. (2 times)
Halloween 4. (2 times)
Vice Versa.
Child's Play. (2 times)
They Live. (3 times)
High Spirits.
The Land Before Time. (4 times)
Scrooged. (2 times)
Oliver and Company. (4 times)
Ernest Saves christmas. (2 times)
Twins. (2 times)
Cocoon the Return.
Naked Gun. (2 times)
Hellraiser 2: Hellbound (2 times)
Leviathan.
DeepStar Six.
The Fly II.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. (3 times)
Who's Harry crumb?
Adventures of Baron Munchausen. (3 times)
The Burbs. (2 times)
Cyborg.
Field of Dreams.
Pet Sematary. (2 times)
Lean on Me.
Renagade.
Bloodsport.
The Karate Kid III.
Major League.
Fright Night 2. (2 times)
Indiana Jones 3. (5 times)
Ghostbusters 2. (3 times even on my 8th birthday)
Honey I Shrunk the Kids. (3 times)
Batman. (7 times)
Lethal Weapon 2. (2 times)
License to Kill.
UHF. (twice)
Peter Pan 89 re-issue. (4 times)
Roadhouse.
Star Trek V.
Friday The 13th part 8. (2 times)
Elm Street 5. (2 times)
Parenthood. (2 times)
The Abyss. (2 times)
Little Monsters.
Babar the Movie.
No Holds Bar.
I, Madman.
Uncle Buck. (2 times)
Shocker. (3 times)
The Horror Show aka House III.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
Halloween 5. (2 times)
Weekend at Bernies.
Prancer. (2 times)
All Dogs Go to Heaven. (3 times)
The Little Mermaid. (3 times)
Christmas Vacation. (4 times)
Back to the Future 2 (5 times)
Harlem Nights.
Fletch Lives.

Yea Ditto.

[riffraff]

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Bachelor Party (1984)
Back To The Future (1985)
Breakin' (1984)
Cocktail (1988)
Creepshow (1982)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Going Ape! (1981)
Goonies, The (1985)

Hardbodies (1984)
Because it was R-rated and we were underage, we tried to convince my buddy's uncle to take us. We convinced him to go after telling him there was supposed to be a lot of T&A in the movie.

Joysticks (1983)
Another T&A R-rated movie my buddy and I wanted to see. Before his mom would let the theater know it was OK for us to see it, she asked what the movie was about. We told her it was about video games.

Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
Platoon (1986)
Police Academy (1984)

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
Was in high school and we snuck beer into the theater. Every time one of us finished a beer, we rolled the empty can down under the seats. All through the movie was the sound of cans rolling about 10 rows.

Porky's (1982)
Saw this in 7th grade with my mom, her boyfriend and my sister.

Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Red Dawn (1984)

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Group of us got permission from our parents to see this movie except for one person. Because he recently hurt his ankle and was on crutches, his parents wouldn't let him leave the house. They went out on Saturday night, so he came to the theater with us. Since he didn't have permission to get into the R-rated movie, we had him wait outside the back entrance and then let him in after entering the theater. When the movie was over, we raced back to his house before his parents returned home.

Sixteen Candles (1984)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Superman II (1980)
The Dead Pool (1988)
The Untouchables (1987)
Up the Creek (1984)

[J. Robb]

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Group of us got permission from our parents to see this movie except for one person. Because he recently hurt his ankle and was on crutches, his parents wouldn't let him leave the house. They went out on Saturday night, so he came to the theater with us. Since he didn't have permission to get into the R-rated movie, we had him wait outside the back entrance and then let him in after entering the theater. When the movie was over, we raced back to his house before his parents returned home.

This story could be its own 80s movie.

[Addams]

Too many to tell or can remember.

Hell, i couldn't even tell you for sure ALL the movie i watched in theaters during the last decade.

But here some i liked : Batman, Goonies, Back to the future, Ghostbusters, Lethal Weapon, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Beetlejuice, some Disney, some Asterix, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Willow.

[Motormouse]

Too many to mention all of them but the ones that stick out are:
Empire Strikes Back
RotJ
Evil Dead II
Topgun
Ferris Beullers Day Off
Breakfast Club
Aliens
Terminator
Commando
Predator
Uncommon Valour
Red Dawn
Rocky 3&4
E.T.
Back to the Future
The Thing
Big Trouble in Little China
Can't Buy Me Love
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Beat Street

[Surtur]

Too many to mention all of them but the ones that stick out are:
Empire Strikes Back
RotJ
Evil Dead II
Topgun
Ferris Beullers Day Off
Breakfast Club
Aliens
Terminator
Commando
Predator
Uncommon Valour
Red Dawn
Rocky 3&4
E.T.
Back to the Future
The Thing
Big Trouble in Little China
Can't Buy Me Love
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Beat Street

Your parents took you to see R rated movies as a kid? I remember being 7-8 and my babysitter took me to see "True Lies" in theaters and my parents were pissed over it..yet they always let me rent whichever horror movies from the 80's I wanted. There is a movie out there somewhere where a monster/demon eats a girls boob off..it's my life goal to find out which movie that was.

[GrifterWC]

Depends on how old you define a "kid" to be.

The first movie I saw in a theater without adult supervision was Star Tek: The Motion Picture.
Otherwise I probably saw most of the movies in the 80's either with my mother or with friends.

[Lee Kaye]

Short Circuit
Police Academy
ROTJ

That's all I remember. We didn't go an awful lot.

[Surtur]

Unfortunately I wasn't born when any of the original Star Wars films were in theaters. Granted they were eventually re-released, but I don't think they quite had the same magic. I'm not saying that because I'm one of those people who hate the changes GL made(I've never seen the originals in their true form), but rather simply because SW's had already been firmly cemented in pop culture by then. Oddly enough I didn't get heavily into Star Wars until about 10-11 years ago when I was 16.

Yeah even as a kid I was more disgusted by that scene than laughing at it.

I'll admit when I saw the movie a few years I thought to myself "they didn't need to make him look like a monster since a normal Howie Mandel coming out from under your bed would be utterly terrifying".

[The Black Guardian]

Your parents took you to see R rated movies as a kid?

Mine did, sure. They even used to get pleasure from my fear of horror movies (before I "toughened up"). Plus the times I saw R-rated movies without them. I really cannot ever remember being carded at the theatre. I was 13-ish when I started going to midnight shows of Rocky Horror alone.

I guess I should include 1982 movies (I was 16-17 at that point):
48 Hours
Airplane II: The Sequel
Amityville II: The Possession
Android
Annie
The Atomic Cafe
The Beastmaster
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Blade Runner
Cat People
Conan the Barbarian
Creepshow
The Dark Crystal
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Death Wish II
Diner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
First Blood
Friday the 13th Part III
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Hanky Panky
The Last Unicorn
Megaforce
An Officer and a Gentleman
Pink Floyd The Wall
The Pirate Movie
Poltergeist
Porky's
Rocky III
The Secret of NIMH
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Swamp Thing
The Sword and the Sorcerer
The Thing
Things Are Tough All Over
Tootsie
Tron
The World According to Garp
The Year of Living Dangerously
Young Doctors in Love
Zapped!

Fast Times, Porky's, The Wall, and Zapped... such a perfect time to be 16-17.

[Addams]

The first movie I saw in a theater without adult supervision was Star Tek: The Motion Picture.

Tough luck.

[Gaastra]

My family didn't have alot of money in the 80s so going to the movies was rare. It was a big event for us kids however.

I saw-

Care bears movie-School field trip. Hey i was a little kid.
ET (plus the rerelease years later for my little sister)
Gremlins
Tarzan legend of greystoke (i think thats what it was called. The 80s tarzan movie.)
Supergirl (at the drive in!)
Neverending story
Ghostbusters 2

We were going to see he-man secret of the sword and the first ghostbusters but didn't get to go.

[idlewildered]

My family didn't have alot of money in the 80s so going to the movies was rare. It was a big event for us kids however.

I saw-

Care bears movie-School field trip. Hey i was a little kid.
ET (plus the rerelease years later for my little sister)
Gremlins
Tarzan legend of greystoke (i think thats what it was called. The 80s tarzan movie.)
Supergirl (at the drive in!)
Neverending story
Ghostbusters 2

We were going to see he-man secret of the sword and the first ghostbusters but didn't get to go.

Greystoke was my favourite film as a kid. It was on UK Channel 5 last Sunday evening.

Just as enjoyable with a bottle of wine and some beef olives as opposed to ki-ora and gummy bears.