I saw the film by myself in the theater when it was released, but a few years later, I saw it again with my father on television. He had been stationed in Iceland when he was in the army during the Korean War, and remarked that the landscape in the film reminded him of it, which was ironic, as the director, Wolfgang Petersen, originally wanted to film it in Iceland. Poor weather forced him to film it on a soundstage instead, but the production design mimicked the landscape of Iceland.
For a long time I considered Mathilda May, from the film Lifeforce, to be the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Perfect. Today she is 59 years old and still very beautiful.
Starman.....I just cannot talk about this movie enough, so amazingly well done (John Carpenter!!!), The Last Starfighter is still to this day one of my favorites, Outland is so criminally underrated, and Lifeforce just needs to be watched to be believed. Excellent video!
Thank you for including The Hidden! I remember being so pleasantly surprised by it. It had very little promotion and didn't get near the attention it deserved. A true "hidden" gem.
This is seriously one of the best movie lists i have ever seen. Underrated classics all along. I am an absolute fan of eighties sci-fi and horror and i only knew three of those movies.
One of my most favorite films of all time. I'm 52 years old and when it first came out I was blown away with the music and effects. Louis Rogan : Hear that, you slimes? I'm famous!
Dan O’Herlihy did a wonderful job playing the ever-patient, erudite Grig. A few years later, he had one of the best lines in film history: “Dick…YOU’RE FIRED!” 😫
Loved it. Magnificently written. It puts to shame all of this crap they make nowadays. What I mean to say is even a good film from the 80s is an Oscar winner nowadays.
The sandpit monster scene is hands down one of the most creepy things I ve ever seen. I wont spolier anything but when its hunting style is repeated in the most unexpected situation it totally surpasses the facehugger scene of alien by a long shot, IMHO
I was OBSESSED with Flight Of The Navigator as a kid. Joey Cranmer went through a lot of hardship and trauma as a kid, and is only just now starting to enjoy his fame as the star of the flick.
Enemy mine is such a touching and loving story about what it means to be when you strip away the prejudice and what you think is important. Always gets me.
It never touched on what the war was about, what cause did they fight for, or the reason for that hatred. So it is a rather shallow, dishonest take on the matter.
Enemy Mine starts as a relatively run-of-the-mill sci-fi romp, but then becomes something really special. It has so much to say about humanity and the struggles we often have interacting with one another across different cultures. Plus, the quality of the performances from Quaid and Gossett, Jr. are just outstanding. A great film that everyone should watch, not just sci-fi fans.
@@Vurt.451 Thats a great film with "batman" and ideas. Enemy mine is sort of two films and two sort of stories. Maybe would have better ended with his survival and the child and being picked up, instead it sort of drags on to unpleasant mining and killing and slavery; usual stuff.. but thats just me maybe, others have said same in their reviews.
"Lifeforce" had me going since the trailer, the practical and visual effects were excellent, soundtrack was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, very impressive.
Great list throughout, but I'm just so glad you included Batteries Not Included. That's a movie I tend to forget myself, but every time I remember, it gets me right in the feels and the nostalgia. It might be the first movie I found truly touching as a kid.
Here are some other 80's sci-fi/sci-fi horror movies: Dreamscape (1984), Moontrap (1989), Spacehunter: Adventures in The Forbidden Zone (1983), Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), Night of The Creeps (1986), Runaway (1984).
+1 for Spacehunter. It's a campy, ridiculous mess along the lines of The Ice Pirates, but it has some good action scenes and one of Molly Ringwald's earliest appearances.
The way the sets and back drops look in older movies is something I miss. I think sometimes CGI looks a bit too clean and polished and it impacts on the atmosphere of the movies.
"Ice Pirates" was an absolute blast - featuring the funniest robot characterisation you will ever see. "The Hidden" is a timeless sci-fi thriller, stacked with funny moments and excellent acting.
Despite it's obviously low budget I always liked Ice Pirates from the first time I saw it on cable, I guess I'm kind of biased because of him playing Rocky Bleier in the biopic about him plus he was always cool as Dan Tanna in Vega$, so naturally when I saw him in Ice Pirates I was gonna be a fan of it. I was thrilled about 6 years ago when I finally got to see it in it's correct format, like so many movies from back then that I only got to see chopped down into Full Screen, especially something like Blade Runner, finally getting to see them in their correct formats is like discovering them all over again. Urich died way too young in life at 55, his last great performance was Lonesome Dove then it seemed like he was gone, too bad to because he had a lot left in him.
Ice Pirates doesn't really hold up in modern viewings. I loved it back when it came out (actually saw it in theaters). There are some great scenes that still stand out, but it only stands out as a satire within it's era in most ways. It's kind of a lesser version of Spaceballs.
Outland is great -- a lot of fans consider it to be an unofficial film set in the Aliens 'verse, because the writers, set-designers, etc, all worked on Alien.
Fantastic list. All of these films are a joy to watch. I'm glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's when these films were either screened in theaters or for rent at the local video store.
@@bored1caI absolutely agree about Quatermass and the Pit (5 million years to Earth). Written by Nigel Kneale, who scared the crap out of a nation of TV viewers in the 1950s. He was a trailblazer.
"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by Barry B. Longyear. It was originally published in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Won Nebulla and Hugo awards for best novella. Not much in common with Hell in the Pacific other than the most general outline of two enemy's thrown together.
How about when that agent helped them escape, so Karen Allen said "Thank you" and kissed him... so then Jeff Bridges said "Thank you" and kissed him. It cracks me up every time I watch it.
This list has some really fantastic 80's Sci-Fi! Outland. Lifeforce. Ice Pirates. Starman (one of Jeff Bridges' best performances!). And of course, the best 80's Sci-Fi, bar none, The Last Starfighter!
The guy at the beginning of Outland who's yelling at the guy starting to freak out to get back to work, it's at 4:27 in this video is none other than Bull from Night Court, Richard Moll who we sadly lost just about a year ago.
Mathilda May is a beautiful french actress ! She was also in the movie "the Jackal" (1997) with Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Jack Black, J.K.Simmons and Sidney Poitier
Flight of the Navigator was a huge part of my childhood. Batteries Not Included was also memorable for me as I remember our theater letting kids in for free at a few showings. Enemy Mine is a severely underrated classic. I remember watching it with my dad when I was very young and it stuck with me. Such a powerful message in a sci-fi film.
Great compilation. Also love that you used the song Rivellon from the Divinity game. 😊 I walked down the aisle to that song, so its always heartwarming to hear it.
I'm happy every time I see "Lifeforce" in any kind of "top" list, also great addition with mostly forgotten "The Hidden" great list missing an 11th one, "Alien Nation"
@@rubberneckinc.8937 This is actually my 2nd reason to love this movie. That scene approaches "Sleepaway Camp" levels of WHATINTHEACTUALFUCKWASTHAT?!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Alien Nation" (1988) ; "Repo Man" (1984) ; "Leviathan" (1989); "On the Silver Globe" (1988); "Invasion of the body snatchers" (1979); "Salute of the Juggers" (1989), etc.
That's my youth right there; allmost all movies i have loved ever since i first watched them as a young kid. With a special nostagia mention to Outland, Tha Last Starfighter and The Hidden. These i have satched many many times
Of all the movies on this list, I loved "Enemy Mine" the most. Damned well done movie! Then again, Starman was ALSO fantastic, earning a very well earned Oscar nomination for Jeff Bridges.
Lifeforce is a marvel, a film that deserves deep analysis, especially for its depiction of an insurmountable passion between a man and a woman capable of ending our species. I was lucky enough to see it in the theater the year of its release and I have it on VHS, DVD and BluRay.
I am anxiously awaiting _Lifeforce_ on Ultra 4K Blu-ray; I hope _someone_ does it. The 4K transfer of _Ghostbusters_ is just _gorgeous,_ with the colors and film grain perfect, likewise with the transfer of _The Crow_ that just came out recently.
@@randyhavard6084 두형사. 에어리언이 작고 뇌와 육체를 지배하는 영화, 새 생명을 이어나가기 위해 새로운 몸을 찾는다. Two detectives. A film where the alien is small and dominates the brain and body, looking for a new body to continue a new life.
So many good movies, and while I was able to identify most of them immediately by name, the ones whose names I couldn't immediately remember were still familiar to me, having grown up in the late 80s and the 90s. I was thinking of "Outland" as a contender before it suddenly appeared on the list! The only two that I've never seen were Lifeforce and The Hidden, although they're iconic enough that I still recognized them, but they're on my list now! And you made the joke about Kyle MacLachlan stopping there before heading to Twin Peaks right after I thought of it, haha! So many great sci-fi movies were from the 80s, when I think cinema was really beginning to mature, but still had a kind of innocence whereby certain things hadn't been done yet, and so they were still fresh and innovative.
Imagine if you live in China and hear this big budget movie called Star Wars : Rise Of Skywalker and think to yourself, "Western barbarians are stupid. We are going to conquer the world!"
I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe. I watched Outland, The Last Starfighter, and Starman at the cinema. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Enemy Mine was one of my favorites of the decade. I watched it with my Dad who said the same. High praise coming from him.
Yep! Totally.
I saw the film by myself in the theater when it was released, but a few years later, I saw it again with my father on television. He had been stationed in Iceland when he was in the army during the Korean War, and remarked that the landscape in the film reminded him of it, which was ironic, as the director, Wolfgang Petersen, originally wanted to film it in Iceland. Poor weather forced him to film it on a soundstage instead, but the production design mimicked the landscape of Iceland.
@toddwilliams5782 I saw at at the theater when it came out. I didn't have a lot of expectations for it, but was impressed.
For a long time I considered Mathilda May, from the film Lifeforce, to be the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Perfect. Today she is 59 years old and still very beautiful.
Starman.....I just cannot talk about this movie enough, so amazingly well done (John Carpenter!!!), The Last Starfighter is still to this day one of my favorites, Outland is so criminally underrated, and Lifeforce just needs to be watched to be believed. Excellent video!
starman helps me sleep.
Thank you for including The Hidden! I remember being so pleasantly surprised by it. It had very little promotion and didn't get near the attention it deserved. A true "hidden" gem.
This is seriously one of the best movie lists i have ever seen. Underrated classics all along. I am an absolute fan of eighties sci-fi and horror and i only knew three of those movies.
The last starfighter is incredible, i watched for the first time along with my dad. He loved this film when he was a teenager
I'm a grandad and I still love that film
The last film that generated the wonder at the cinema for me 😔
One of my most favorite films of all time. I'm 52 years old and when it first came out I was blown away with the music and effects. Louis Rogan : Hear that, you slimes? I'm famous!
One of my all-time favourites... was so happy to show it to my kids about 10-15 years ago and to see them love it too!
Dan O’Herlihy did a wonderful job playing the ever-patient, erudite Grig.
A few years later, he had one of the best lines in film history: “Dick…YOU’RE FIRED!” 😫
"LifeForce" was great! A must watch of 80's sci-fi.
Still have it on dvd
Yeah, I really liked that one, too. Well, I am a Goth soul and I watch ever vampire film... except Twilight.
Some of the best female full frontal nudity.
I'm one of the 60 people who saw it at the theatre.
A truly beautiful woman👩🏻
I watched Lifeforce recently and it is absolutely bonkers. The final third of it had my jaw on the floor.
I watched it on Pluto the other day.
That girl’s tits had my jaw on the floor!
Fun movie.
Same! It looks and sounds amazing, and is - as you said - bonkers.
@@LippyHungstocking That's a long way to travel to watch a movie.
Enemy Mine is so freakin underrated its an old war story told in a Scifi setting and will always be among my favorites.
Yes, Hell in the Pacific
Loved it. Magnificently written. It puts to shame all of this crap they make nowadays. What I mean to say is even a good film from the 80s is an Oscar winner nowadays.
The sandpit monster scene is hands down one of the most creepy things I ve ever seen. I wont spolier anything but when its hunting style is repeated in the most unexpected situation it totally surpasses the facehugger scene of alien by a long shot, IMHO
Rip to Louis gosset Jr
удивительно, но он был в кинопрокате СССР, и был довольно популярным. Я помню, взрослые родственники горячо обсуждали его))
I was OBSESSED with Flight Of The Navigator as a kid. Joey Cranmer went through a lot of hardship and trauma as a kid, and is only just now starting to enjoy his fame as the star of the flick.
@magzdilluh still one of my favorites watched a lot
Batteries Not Included is one of my favourite films from childhood!
And Flight of the Navigatgor!
Saw them all. Lifeforce and The Hidden are epic
Enemy mine is such a touching and loving story about what it means to be when you strip away the prejudice and what you think is important. Always gets me.
It never touched on what the war was about, what cause did they fight for, or the reason for that hatred. So it is a rather shallow, dishonest take on the matter.
@@krisztianpovazson4535 same reason EVERY war is about
Common people dying because the rich and powerful wanted even more
@@drillerdev4624 Well said
but then again that alien wasnt trying to convert him to live in a latino based culture with day of the dead replacing halloween in your local town.
Enemy Mine starts as a relatively run-of-the-mill sci-fi romp, but then becomes something really special. It has so much to say about humanity and the struggles we often have interacting with one another across different cultures. Plus, the quality of the performances from Quaid and Gossett, Jr. are just outstanding. A great film that everyone should watch, not just sci-fi fans.
It's not a direct remake, but heavily "inspired" by 1964's "Robinson Crusoe on Mars".
@@Vurt.451 Thats a great film with "batman" and ideas. Enemy mine is sort of two films and two sort of stories. Maybe would have better ended with his survival and the child and being picked up, instead it sort of drags on to unpleasant mining and killing and slavery; usual stuff.. but thats just me maybe, others have said same in their reviews.
NO part of it was run of the mill.
"Lifeforce" had me going since the trailer, the practical and visual effects were excellent, soundtrack was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, very impressive.
Yeah, absolutely underrated. I watched it a few times. Mostly on VHS. Found it really good.
You're not fooling anyone...
i used to watch Enemy Mine on loop when I was a kid. One of the best sci-fi movies ever made. Everyone and everything is perfect in this movie.
I came to say the same thing
I still watch Lifeforce every now and again. That and American Werewolf in London were my first two horror flicks. Saw The Blob at a drive-in.
Loved the first two.Both had beautiful European leading ladies. Mathilda May and Jenny Agutter.
I immediately thought of “The Hidden” when I saw this video. It blew my mind - didn’t know movies could kick such ass!
That's a great movie. The bird from Babylon 5. Giggedy.
The Hidden is fantastic. One of my favorites from the 80's
Maybe the Greatest Sci-Fi Movie Ever (at least top 3)!!
A very memorable scene, indeed.
My first thought too, and upon watching it looks like it is the only movie in the entire video that truly qualifies as underrated.
Great list throughout, but I'm just so glad you included Batteries Not Included. That's a movie I tend to forget myself, but every time I remember, it gets me right in the feels and the nostalgia. It might be the first movie I found truly touching as a kid.
Here are some other 80's sci-fi/sci-fi horror movies: Dreamscape (1984), Moontrap (1989), Spacehunter: Adventures in The Forbidden Zone (1983), Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), Night of The Creeps (1986), Runaway (1984).
You missed Krull
@@cienturista The explorers as well. The Stuff, keepem coming. The Keep.
+1 for Spacehunter. It's a campy, ridiculous mess along the lines of The Ice Pirates, but it has some good action scenes and one of Molly Ringwald's earliest appearances.
And it was made in 3-D!
@@johnberry5296 I actually saw it in 3D on its original UK release.
Beautiful list. Batteries not included is the last film I ever watched with my auntie.
That city shot in Ice Pirates is from Logan’s Run.
The 80's were magical times. 🤗 Thank you for the memories.
The way the sets and back drops look in older movies is something I miss. I think sometimes CGI looks a bit too clean and polished and it impacts on the atmosphere of the movies.
Absolutely loved Starman and Enemy Mine.
"Alien Mine" is another forgotten classic, one of my all time favs, loved that movie as a child.
Great list. I have them all on blu-ray. Ice Pirates always cheers me up when I watch it and Mathilda May was absolutely stunning on Lifeforce.
glad 'the hidden' is getting some love. still watchable to this day. highly underrated
"Ice Pirates" was an absolute blast - featuring the funniest robot characterisation you will ever see. "The Hidden" is a timeless sci-fi thriller, stacked with funny moments and excellent acting.
Yes one of my favorite 80s movies.... It's hilarious especially the robots😂😂😂😂
Despite it's obviously low budget I always liked Ice Pirates from the first time I saw it on cable, I guess I'm kind of biased because of him playing Rocky Bleier in the biopic about him plus he was always cool as Dan Tanna in Vega$, so naturally when I saw him in Ice Pirates I was gonna be a fan of it.
I was thrilled about 6 years ago when I finally got to see it in it's correct format, like so many movies from back then that I only got to see chopped down into Full Screen, especially something like Blade Runner, finally getting to see them in their correct formats is like discovering them all over again.
Urich died way too young in life at 55, his last great performance was Lonesome Dove then it seemed like he was gone, too bad to because he had a lot left in him.
Ice Pirates doesn't really hold up in modern viewings. I loved it back when it came out (actually saw it in theaters). There are some great scenes that still stand out, but it only stands out as a satire within it's era in most ways.
It's kind of a lesser version of Spaceballs.
Man that takes me back. Maybe not all the sci-fi movies of the 80s were great but they were fun to watch unlike todays movies.
Outland is great -- a lot of fans consider it to be an unofficial film set in the Aliens 'verse, because the writers, set-designers, etc, all worked on Alien.
Yeah, it definitely feels like an Alien prequel.
Alien, Outland, Blade Runner all feel gritty AF and like the actual world we are heading to.
Batteries Not Included! I loved that movie! I remember seeing it at the drive-ins for the first time.
outland is brilliant, one of my favourites
Gotta love that sniper shotgun 😅.
Yes it's a Ridley Scott rip-off and 'High Noon' in space but I love it too!
@@seanisacnt Sure but even Ridley Scott said in interviews that he ripped off Star Wars when it came to the set design of Alien.
Oh yes. So tense! I watched it multiple times at the cinema and on VHS and on MP4. :) So good.
Fantastic list. All of these films are a joy to watch. I'm glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's when these films were either screened in theaters or for rent at the local video store.
This is quite a selection of movies. Starman, Lifeforce, Enemy Mine... makes me want to watch them again.
Nice picks! I'm definitely all for Lifeforce, Flight of the Navigator, The Blob, Starman, and The Hidden.
Starman is so sad 😞
"Lifeforce" is a great movie and its style is a nod to Hammer Horror Films which considerably adds to its charms.
If you like Hammer Horror, check out a film called Quatermass and The Pit (it's also known as Five Million Years to Earth).
@@bored1ca seen it severl times - likely before you were even born.
@@bored1caI absolutely agree about Quatermass and the Pit (5 million years to Earth). Written by Nigel Kneale, who scared the crap out of a nation of TV viewers in the 1950s. He was a trailblazer.
Emimy Mine reminds me of the John Boorman film 'Hell in the Pacific" which stars Lee Marvin and Toshirô Mifune.
Essentially a sci-fi remake.
@@SlickNik94 I must have missed the pregnancy in the Boorman film. Oh, weel, off to rewatch.
Star Trek Next Generation also had an episode with similar plot.
"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by Barry B. Longyear. It was originally published in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Won Nebulla and Hugo awards for best novella. Not much in common with Hell in the Pacific other than the most general outline of two enemy's thrown together.
@@CraigHocker I know. I read it when first published.
Man i loved flight of the navigator as a kid!
Check out the doc 'After the Navigator'
RUNAWAY (1984) starring Tom Selleck is one of those guilty pleasures.
Lifeforce is like a live action anime! Highly recommend! 🤯🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎👍👍👍👍
Brainstorm deserves an honorable mention too
Have grown up watching & loving Lifeforce from VHS to DVD to Blu-ray and beyond since first seeing it at age 16!
"Red light, stop. Green light, go. Yellow light... go very fast! " TBH, I don't remember much from Starman , but I'll never forget that line.
"He said greetings and melted his lug wrench?" Also the gas station/restroom scene is priceless.
How about when that agent helped them escape, so Karen Allen said "Thank you" and kissed him... so then Jeff Bridges said "Thank you" and kissed him. It cracks me up every time I watch it.
Clearly he was a quick study
Don't be honest. Make something up.
I've never seen it but I knew it had that line.
This list has some really fantastic 80's Sci-Fi! Outland. Lifeforce. Ice Pirates. Starman (one of Jeff Bridges' best performances!). And of course, the best 80's Sci-Fi, bar none, The Last Starfighter!
The guy at the beginning of Outland who's yelling at the guy starting to freak out to get back to work, it's at 4:27 in this video is none other than Bull from Night Court, Richard Moll who we sadly lost just about a year ago.
Mathilda May is a beautiful french actress !
She was also in the movie "the Jackal" (1997) with Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Jack Black, J.K.Simmons and Sidney Poitier
She was 20 when she starred in this and yes, she is beautiful.
The 1973 version of *"The Jackal"* with Delphine Seyrig is better, imo.
True. Her body, her face was perfection. I've never seen anyone else to match her.
She was just about the only good thing about that movie. Beautiful and yet creepy.
@@secondchance6603 If you mean in the movie Lifeforce, she was 18 actually.
Starman is one of the best movies of the '80s, I will die on that hill
When I first saw Starman I was very young and didn't really know what I was watching so I thought it was about a mentally disabled person.
Totally agree
100%! It's a must see for any Sci Fi fan, especially one, that wants to get to know, Sci Fi in the 1980s.
"I've watched. Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow means go faster!"😂😂
Wow. You just added a bunch of movies to my must watch bucket list
Some good picks. Starman, Hidden & Eneny mine were my favorites of those times. Starman was a surprise.
Mathilda May was beyond alluring in this. 🥰
Man, your videos are awesome, well writen and narrated, full of beautiful content full of great nostalgia. Thanks for the memories!
Flight of the Navigator was a huge part of my childhood. Batteries Not Included was also memorable for me as I remember our theater letting kids in for free at a few showings. Enemy Mine is a severely underrated classic. I remember watching it with my dad when I was very young and it stuck with me. Such a powerful message in a sci-fi film.
This with Time bandits was the best double feature I ever saw
huh?
@@rockero1313 forgot time stamp, damnit.
Typical me
@@adcaptandumvulgus4252 just edit it in 😁😁😁😁
Hey, Matilda May was the best part of Lifeforce. 😏❤
She does a remarkable job of rekindling my... lifeforce.
@teddybetts3254 It's a fun movie, but she was hell of a bonus.
Some really great forgotten gems here. Thanks for the nostalgia!
Everyone of those are great movies. Lifeforce is one of my all time favourites.
Great compilation. Also love that you used the song Rivellon from the Divinity game. 😊 I walked down the aisle to that song, so its always heartwarming to hear it.
Batteries Not Included one of my childhood's movies that I completely forgot about 😭
Saw it in the theater when I was five, was completely transported and thrilled
The lead actor and address also starred in Cocoon, good time :)
I'm happy every time I see "Lifeforce" in any kind of "top" list, also great addition with mostly forgotten "The Hidden"
great list missing an 11th one, "Alien Nation"
I'd throw in Earth Girls Are Easy, with its amazing cast, deliberate kitsch, and over the top musical numbers.
Fantastic film
I was obsessed with the 80s Lovecraft movies. Reanimator and From Beyond in particular.
OMG the girl from Lifeforce was smoking 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Maybe hot women don't change much during the last several decades, but yes, she was beautiful & blows away alot of these Only Fans girls of today!!
Watched Lifeforce when I was younger solely for Mathilda May 😂
I was young but I thought she was so stunning
I watched Last starfighter when I was a kid every summer,it was on TV.
Thanks! Nice entertaining clip!! Done with Love for these Movies!
"Lifeforce" is a crazy underrated movie.
Love the main score to this. Sci-fi scores are one of my favorite genres. Man, do I miss Live365.
If they didn't link it Haley's Comet, I think it would have had a longer shelf life. Plus the Railsback guy as the lead dude was a dud.
Agreed, you could use a superlative in front of "crazy underrated". Like "super" or "extra". It gets nuts.
Also this movie is Patrick Stewart's first on screen kiss. With Steve Railsback. 🫣
@@rubberneckinc.8937 This is actually my 2nd reason to love this movie. That scene approaches "Sleepaway Camp" levels of WHATINTHEACTUALFUCKWASTHAT?!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
that thumbnail.. is perfection, in its simplicity
Some great calls but I would say several of these are quite well known. But THE HIDDEN as an inclusion? That's pure class!
So glad to see The Hidden on this list.
Life Force... I gonna say one thing, and one thing only... Mathilda May!
😎😎
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Lifeforce is so freakin cool, clicked to watch just off the thumbnail. Good jorb
Great list! I had such a big crush on Mathilda May. She was perfection. ❤
Oh God yes, seeing her strut around naked was a joy to behold!
Lifeforce is criminally underrated.
Some people think it is criminal
@@carlbell2226
I tried to watch it , I thought it was facking dreadful.
"Alien Nation" (1988) ; "Repo Man" (1984) ; "Leviathan" (1989); "On the Silver Globe" (1988); "Invasion of the body snatchers" (1979); "Salute of the Juggers" (1989), etc.
Batteries Not Included and Enemy Mine were two of my favorite films from the 80's.
That's my youth right there; allmost all movies i have loved ever since i first watched them as a young kid. With a special nostagia mention to Outland, Tha Last Starfighter and The Hidden. These i have satched many many times
It's amazing how many of these films you can recognise just by their corridors.
Outstanding movie list!!!
Of all the movies on this list, I loved "Enemy Mine" the most. Damned well done movie! Then again, Starman was ALSO fantastic, earning a very well earned Oscar nomination for Jeff Bridges.
"They live" not on this list is criminal
Maybe he doesn't see it as underrated
Is not a sci fi movie. It's a documentary
I second this movie!! Underrated, great social commentary for its time
@@gusaltolaguirre
I don't think it's considered "overrated" enough for this list
Outland is superb. High Noon on a space base.
Lifeforce is a marvel, a film that deserves deep analysis, especially for its depiction of an insurmountable passion between a man and a woman capable of ending our species. I was lucky enough to see it in the theater the year of its release and I have it on VHS, DVD and BluRay.
Lifeforce absolutely lives up to its ambitions. In my top ten films of all time, of any genre.
Great choices. I'm surprised you didn't include Tron
Isn't Tron from the 70s? And it wasn't really underrated.
@@dddux '82
_LifeForce_ is the Doctor Who movie we didn’t know we needed.
Lifeforce , was my favorite movie back in the 80s, with return of the living dead
I am anxiously awaiting _Lifeforce_ on Ultra 4K Blu-ray; I hope _someone_ does it. The 4K transfer of _Ghostbusters_ is just _gorgeous,_ with the colors and film grain perfect, likewise with the transfer of _The Crow_ that just came out recently.
This video is like a stroll down memory lane. Thank you ❤
There's one thing I'm really missing here:
"Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone"
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The names of the soundtracks in this review is what I´m missing ! ! !
The Hidden is actually a solid movie, maybe I'll rewatch it one of these days?
Enemy Mine should be a requirement watch in schools, it teaches so much about humanity and prejudices.
I must have watched The Last Starfighter dozens of times when I was a kid
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@임석근-t5j what is hidden?
@@randyhavard6084 두형사. 에어리언이 작고 뇌와 육체를 지배하는 영화, 새 생명을 이어나가기 위해 새로운 몸을 찾는다. Two detectives. A film where the alien is small and dominates the brain and body, looking for a new body to continue a new life.
@@randyhavard6084 1987....한국에선 명사앞에 아무것도 넣지 않음. In Korea, nothing is placed before a noun.
So many good movies, and while I was able to identify most of them immediately by name, the ones whose names I couldn't immediately remember were still familiar to me, having grown up in the late 80s and the 90s. I was thinking of "Outland" as a contender before it suddenly appeared on the list! The only two that I've never seen were Lifeforce and The Hidden, although they're iconic enough that I still recognized them, but they're on my list now! And you made the joke about Kyle MacLachlan stopping there before heading to Twin Peaks right after I thought of it, haha!
So many great sci-fi movies were from the 80s, when I think cinema was really beginning to mature, but still had a kind of innocence whereby certain things hadn't been done yet, and so they were still fresh and innovative.
I loved Batteries Not Included. Had it on VHS in the day
i am from czech republic ....and i never heard about these films ...thank you ...
only enemy mine ...
Fantastic Planet is one of my favorites, there's really nothing else like it.
Czech/French production.
Imagine if you live in China and hear this big budget movie called Star Wars : Rise Of Skywalker and think to yourself, "Western barbarians are stupid. We are going to conquer the world!"
The one I had almost forgotten about is "Hidden", and I want to see it again !
I had completely forgot "The Hidden". Is that *Claudia Christian* and you failed to mention it?! I will have to re-watch it if I get the chance.
That’s Claudia Christian, alright!
Thank you for this! - would be interesting to see you cover the early 90‘s or the 70‘s next for sci fi and fantasy
I’ll definitely do a 90's fantasy and sci-fi compilation, and the 70's are also on my to-do list! Thank you for watching.
@@Underrated-Cinema I‘ d love to see that!
I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe. I watched Outland, The Last Starfighter, and Starman at the cinema. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
It was the drive-in for me!
Love them all... Will always be the best 80s culture classics..