Cable TV is stuck in the 80s too

Between the hours of 4 p.m. and  7 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, the pay channel world of cable was Stuck in the 80s. These were all on TV at the SAME time:

• Raising Arizona (1987)
• The Goonies (1985)
• Weird Science (1985)
• The Hand (1981)
• Dead Calm (1989)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Excalibur (1981)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Midnight Run (1988)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• High Road to China (1983)
• The Hitcher (1986)
• Britannia Hospital (1982)
• Barbarosa (1982)

Fourteen movies to choose from, including two that I'd never heard (The Hand and Britannia Hospital) and two more that I never plan on seeing (The Goonies and High Road to China).

Which one would you pick to watch?

Comments

[Walter Cox]

"Back to the Future" is one of those movies that I always stop on when I see it on tv.

And you saw "Full Metal Jacket" on that early in the evening?

[Hamptune]

Heard of the Hand, but never heard of the Hospital.

Probably pick Full Metal Jacket, good call on the Goonies (awful)

[Spiky Sandy]

I love the Goonies! It's a very silly movie that I would allow my son to watch. Full Metal Jacket would be a great evening movie to watch with my husband. We love to quote quotes from that one! I love Nicholas Cage, but I have yet to see Raising Arizona. Maybe next time it's on, I'll watch.

[Walter Cox]

How can you not like "The Goonies"? As punishment, you must do the Truffle Shuffle.

[Max]

I'd pick Midnight Run, since it's one of the few on the list that I've never seen.

[Spears]

I actually picked Excalibur, since it was close to the ending, and I'm usually napping by that time of the movie.

[jon]

Back to the Future and Midnight Run are movies I can watch any time.

You should check out The Goonies. It's actually a lot of fun.

[Christina]

I love the Goonies! Steve, don't mock what you don't know. It's a great movie.

[bassnote]

Definitely Midnight Run. I love that movie.

[firedancer]

I must 2nd the Truffle Shuffle comment from Walter! For me, I'd be torn between The Goonies, Wierd Science and Dirty Dancing. Thank goodness for TIVO so I wouldn't have to choose!

[Douglas Arthur]

Britannia Hospital was okay, kinda weird British black comedy starring Malcolm McDowell and Mark Hamill and an all-British cast that includes Joan Plowright and Robbie Coltrane. I don't remember too much about since it has been years since I have seen it. The Hand on the other hand, is unique in that it is one of Oliver Stone's first directing chores. As an out and out horror flick it is decidedly out of place in his overall canon, though it is more psychological than gory. Michael Caine stars as a comic book artist who loses his hand in an accident (quite literally....they can't find it) and the hand comes back and kills (or is it all in his mind?) An interesting diversion, and worthy of your time if you haven't seen it, just so you can be reminded that Oliver Stone didn't just show up and make Platoon, Wall Street and JFK. Certainly better than the Goonies.

[Douglas Arthur]

Oh yeah, my pick would have been Full Metal Jacket. Vincent D'onofrio totally rocks the house in that movie. Kubrick should have let this be his swan song instead of Eyes Wide Shut, but then I wouldn't have gotten to hear Nicole Kidman say, "F**K"

[Clark Brooks]

"Back To The Future" is a truly great film but I feel compelled to watch "Raising Arizona" every chance I get.