"Everything got bigger in the 1980s: the music, the drugs, the hair and certainly the movies. And for a long time, that wasn't thought of as a good thing – particularly when it came to the movies. It was the era of the blockbuster, when budgets exploded and mainstream films were broader and louder and more violent than ever before. After the '70s New Hollywood revolution, it felt like a glossy and superficial time in the moment, full of easily disposable entertainment that would be quickly forgotten. In retrospect, however, it's easier to see how important and influential the period was. It was a time when the biggest movies were also some of the best. Audiences became more attuned to international cinema and the American indie movement began to bubble under the surface. Declaring any decade the 'best' for movies is always a matter of generational bias, but if nothing else, the films of the '80s were certainly the most idiosyncratic, and these 50 films define the era." - timeout.com
