The Worst ’80s Movies, According to Letterboxd

I really like Letterboxd, the social community web site and app for film lovers. I take advantage of it to log the films I watch, preserve lists of titles, and to see what my mates are as much as (cinematically talking, after all). And I additionally like to make use of its database to see what movies are common and unpopular with customers.

For instance, with only a couple clicks, it’s very simple to type each single film on Letterboxd — all 791,369 titles and counting — by yr of launch, their score, reputation, style, and even by streaming service availability. Need to know what’s highest-rated horror film on Letterboxd? No drawback. (It’s John Carpenter’s The Factor, by the best way.) Questioning what comedy is the most-despised? You bought it. (That may be Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas.) You possibly can spend hours exploring these items.

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I just lately took a deep dive into ’80s films on the location. In line with Letterboxd, 49,330 movies have been launched within the Eighties. The very best-rated title out of all of them is Elem Klimov’s Come and See, adopted by Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Eduardo Coutinho’s Twenty Years Later, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Decalogue, and the Speaking Heads live performance doc Cease Making Sense. 

After which, on the reverse finish of the spectrum, are the movies beneath; the 15 lowest-rated films on Letterboxd launched through the Eighties, ranked from the very best rating (properly, finest relative to the remainder of this disasters) to the worst. The titles embody infamous sequels, bombs starring a number of the Eighties’ greatest movie and tv stars, and a few extraordinarily obscure sci-fi movies. This listing is a great tool when attempting to determine what ’80s movies to keep away from — or perhaps to trace down in case you’re planning a foul film evening with mates.