5 Obscure, Badass 80's Movies

Quicksilver, Best of the Best, Side Out, Gotcha!, Gung Ho

Quicksilver - Kevin Bacon plays a stockbroker who loses everything, and becomes a bike messenger on the mean streets of New York. Or Chicago. Or Los Angeles. Something grey, and city-like.

Best of the Best - Julia’s cousin, Eric Roberts, and Sean’s brother, Chris Penn, play karate masters who get chosen to the U.S. Olympic Karate Team. This totally makes sense, as they are two, extremely white, guys from the south. They get matched up against the U.S.’s archrival, the Koreans—they train, they do battle.

Side Out - Milwaukee based basketball player goes to his Uncle’s law firm for the summer, and trades his basketballs for volleyballs to impress a girl. In less than a month, he does a training montage with an ex-volleyball champ, and makes it to the biggest final of the summer—The Grand Classic. It’s Point Break for volleyball, and instead of guns, they eat spicy food.

Gotcha! - Goose, aka the other doctor on E.R. that isn’t Clooney, is a young college tourist in Europe. As he pursues drinking and seductive women, his paintball games get mixed-up in some dangerous, international espionage. Yes, the exclamation point is in the official title—it’s that good.

Gung Ho - The original Bruce Wayne is a manager of a car plant in Detroit, and is reluctantly forced to collaborate with a partner Japanese team. Their methods are different than those of his and his crew, and an international conflict arises. But as the factory begins to go under, and the town falls apart, it is a truce that will be needed to save the day. Can they make it?

Which ones did I miss?