Step right up and get your fill of 80s nostalgia with the movie bible toend all movie bibles. We`ve diligently compiled a list of 140 of the mostinfluential movies of the 1980s that`s sure to please popcorn gobblers andhighbrow chin-strokers alike. The 80s was a time for adventurers, an era ofexcess, pomp, and bravado. In the era when mullets and shoulder pads wereall the rage, moviegoers got their kicks from flicks as wide-ranging asBlade Runner, When Harry Met Sally, and Blue Velvet. Without a doubt,sci-fi was the most important genre of the decade, with non-humancharacters like E.T. winning the hearts of millions while the slimycreatures from Aliens became the stuff of nightmares and movies likeGhostbusters and Back to the Future fused comedy and sci-fi to the delightof audiences everywhere. In fact, the 1980s saw the invention of a newreality, a movieworld so convincingly real - no matter now far-fetched -that spectators could not help but abandon hemselves to it. Now that`sentertainment, folks.