Excellent Eighties - 50 Movie Pack: Bail Out - Hunk - Cave Girl - My Chauffeur - Toby McTeague - Tomboy - Night of the Sharks - The Kidnapping of the President + 42 more!

This review assumes that you have seen other 50 packs or have read some of the other reviews and are aware that these are B to Z grade movies with sub-par picture quality. The way I handle those problems is to just lower my expectations and enjoy. I have ten other 50 packs including all of the "decades" packs except the '70's, and so far the Excellent Eighties is my favorite. I think this is more of a "guy" set than the other decade collections.This set has some risque content that I note in my descriptions. I use "nudity" to mean female toplessness, which is gratuitous but mostly in a non-sexual context. "Frontal" means private body hair is visible. A couple of the movies have simulated sex scenes and those are noted, but none show graphic sex. One movie shows female genitalia. The action films of course have violence and often crude language.1. DEAR MR. WONDERFUL, drama. Joe Pesci is a bowling alley owner who dreams of becoming a Las Vegas lounge singing star, but isn't quite good enough. Hardly a must-see but a good depiction of New Jersey lower middle class family life. Sort of like a Stephanie Plum novel but without the humor. Very brief nudity.2. INTIMATE AGONY, bland drama. There is endemic herpes on a resort island where casual sex is the norm. A doctor who tries to publicize the health issue encounters resistance from local leaders.3. SECOND SIGHT: A LOVE STORY, bland drama. Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched) is here with a much better hairdo and less nose twitching. A blind woman gets a guy and a dog.4. A MINOR MIRACLE, family fare. A soccer star (Pele) teaches orphans soccer and life lessons. Good job by Pele.5. AGENCY, bland thriller. An ad agency is producing subliminal political ads.6. THE TRAIN KILLER, odd drama about a sociopath in 1930's Europe whose hobby is de-railing trains. Nudity.7. LAMB, drama. An emotionally unstable priest bonds with an unwanted boy and kidnaps him from reform school. Good acting by Liam Neeson and even better by 10 year old Hugh O'Conor, but the shocking ending ruined it for me.8. MY MOM'S A WEREWOLF, light teen humor. Girl has to save her vegan mom from becoming a hairy carnivore.9. BAIL OUT, average action. Bail bondsmen try to rescue a client who has been kidnapped. The guys hang out at a strip club so some sleaziness & a funny motel scene with a nudist clerk. Nudity & frontal.10. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, drama. Psychiatrist uncovers a group of pedophiles who run a children's institute.11. THE LADY AND THE HIGHWAYMAN, from a Barbara Cartland romance. I just can't buy Hugh Grant as the Robin Hood type character here, but this is one for the ladies.12. LIAR'S MOON, brother-unknowingly-marries-sister melodrama. Brief amusing nude scene helps. Nudity.13. TOBY MCTEAGUE, family fare. Canadian teen disobeys father and causes hardship and loss of family income, but makes up for it by winning a dogsled race with the help of a magical wolf. Idiotic but good scenery.14. DOG DAY with an aged and ill Lee Marvin, crime drama. Very black humor and often just black without the humor. Loads of nudity & murder. Violence against women and children, woman violence against men, simulated sex scenes, death-nudity, whipping of bare male child rear, child cigar smoking, child fondling prostitutes' breasts. Fascinating, funny and repugnant. Not sure it's even all legal.15. SCANDAL SHEET, depressing melodrama. A journalist goes to work at a tabloid and sells out friends for lucre.16. HUNK, a nice light deal-with-the-devil comedy, set on the beach.17. CHOICES, melodrama. Emotionally unstable hearing-impaired teen boy acts out.18. A HAZZARD OF HEARTS, another one from a Barbara Cartland romance. Helena Bonham Carter is the plucky heroine but is too childlike to be sexy imo, however Diana Rigg saves the day as she hams it up as the ultra evil mother-in-law. I really liked it and nothing has fallen off yet.19. HIGH RISK, action. Some suburban guys fail to notice that their plan to rob a South American drug lord is really stupid. Spoiler: the dog gets away at the end, yes!20. THE KIDNAPPING OF THE PRESIDENT, non-thriller. A terrorist with a bomb handcuffs himself to the prez. It's William Shattner to the rescue! Ava Gardner's talents are wasted as the grasping wife of the VP.21. THE DAY TIME ENDED, sci-fi. A family living on an isolated ranch is visited by lights, tiny aliens, creatures from a Japanese monster movie, fog in the living room and a space/time warp, but it's not a comedy!22. LASER MISSION, silly comedy action. Agents must rescue scientist. Atrocious accents all round. Bad but fun.23. BLUNT THE FOURTH MAN, spy drama. Ian Richardson is excellent as the British traitor Richard Blunt.24. SHADOWS IN THE STORM, drama. Ned Beatty plays a frumpy middle age loser who lets himself be seduced and fooled by a woman con artist. Totally predictable and embarrassing to watch. My least favorite flick in the whole set.25. CAVE GIRL, a nice light comedy with plenty of feminine pulchritude and not so pulchritude (some of the toplessness is for comedic effect and not pretty). Nudity.26. SHAKER RUN, car chase film with Cliff Robertson as the aging driver. Set in New Zealand. Okay but dumb plot.27. HARD KNOX, family fare. A Marine pilot (Robert Conrad) brings his brand of tough love to his old military academy. I particularly liked the performance of character actor Red West as master sergeant "Top" Tuttle.28. REBORN, murky mystical drama. A young holy woman with stigmata gets involved with a televangelist and his thuggish allies but her boyfriend helps her get away. Nudity & frontal, and an oddly funny scene in which the guy is unable to withdraw from the holy woman when she goes into a trance or something during sex.29. SAIGON: YEAR OF THE CAT, so-so melodrama about the last days of Saigon before it fell to the North Vietnamese. An Englishwoman (Judi Dench) gets involved with an American defense analyst.30. ACT OF LOVE, drama in which a young man (Ron Howard) promises to put his brother out of his misery and then does it! Lawyer struggles to understand boy's motivation so he can try to get him acquitted. Weird.31. DELTA FORCE COMMANDO, buddy action. Guys bond as they try to recover (what else?) an atomic bomb.32. TAUREG: THE DESERT WARRIOR, a sword & sand flick with Mark Harmon playing an Arabian Rambo. Harmon had not yet developed his flinty taciturn style (ala Jethro Gibbs) that might have helped out this film.33. MY CHAUFFEUR, a nice light comedy with plenty of feminine pulchritude. Nudity.34. TWISTED OBSESSION. Dreary melodrama about a screen writer (Jeff Goldblum) living in Paris who becomes sexually obsessed with a manipulative teen. This film is unique in this set because it has a scene of a shaved female genitalia, supposedly a 16 year old, and a sex scene featuring simulated cunnilingus. To be clear, the sex scenes do not have nudity. The genital scene is separate and obviously was meant to be integral to the plot, but it just left me confused (I mean about the plot). This is another one that I am not sure is all legal.35. PORTRAIT OF A SHOWGIRL, a drama about 3 Las Vegas dancers. Rita Morena is pretty good as an older down-to-earth dancer, and Tony Curtis as the husband, but the movie could have benefited from a tad more grit.36. NIGHT OF THE SHARKS, a not-bad light action adventure. Brief nudity and bloody shark violence.37. TOMBOY, light comedy with plenty of feminine pulchritude. Lots of nudity, some of it presented in a sleazy way.38. CALLIE & SON, depressing melodrama about a nice young waitress (Lindsay Wagner) who eventually becomes a ruthlessly powerful woman whose manipulation of her son's life has drastic consequences. A waste of a good cast.39. SLIPSTREAM, sci-fi. A very decent post-apocalyptic with good acting and actual character development.40. THE COLD WAR KILLERS, good British spy-mystery. Little action but well done, but suffers from a too pat ending.41. WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU, a light British drama about a man who becomes attached to his ex-lover's dog, which causes complications with the lover's parents and wife. Interesting at first but eventually runs out of ideas.42. CHRISTABEL, drama. Elizabeth Hurley is perfect as a young Englishwoman who raises her family in Nazi Germany with her anti-Hitler husband. Excellent BBC production but the ending was a bit rushed.43. MESMERIZED, period melodrama. Prim school girl (Jodie Foster) becomes trapped in marriage to a man whose crudity and kinkiness repulse her. Guys watching this film will be puzzled as to why she disliked him so much. I mean he's just an average guy, right? Ha-ha. Ladies, be prepared for total gross out (or fast-forward thru the dental scene).44. SOMEWHERE, TOMORROW, teen girl fantasy. Girl with bad hair (Sarah Jessica Parker) falls off a horse and in love with a ghost. I thought it was cute.45. A TIME TO DIE, revenge drama. A man pursues ex-Nazis with aid from a prostitute. Predictable, but the film is elevated a notch by the presence of Norwegian beauty Linn Stokke. Nudity & frontal.46. SAVAGE JOURNEY, bio of the prophet Joseph Smith and apostle Brigham Young. Mormon movie that is accurate about the broad history, yet manages to turn a very dramatic story into another bland and cliched melodrama.47. CASABLANCA EXPRESS, so-so action. Two agents try to prevent Nazis from kidnapping Churchill. Brief nudity.48. SCARECROWS, horror. Bad guys are terrorized in a field of kudzu. The usual gore and horror ensues. Fun.49. THE PATRIOT, so-so action. Aging ex-Seal must recover (what else?) a nuclear weapon. Brief nudity.50. DEATHROW GAMESHOW, comedy. Killers are after the host of a popular game show where death row inmates get to play for their lives. Uneven but fun and funny and outrageous. Nudity. Good end to the 50 pack!

Great collection of those Extremely Changing Times - Fruition of George Orwell's 1984 the BEGINNINGS OF EXTREME CHANGES to Our Own Lifestyles. So Sorry to see this - Humanity has Lost It's Innocence. Movies showed what is happenning AS WELL AS where we WERE. MTR

I really bought these as a kind of yearbook for the eighties. I enjoy getting a flashback to the styles of the 80s: the hairstyles and clothing, etc. of the era. Maybe you can remember when spandex shorts were in style and men wore them to the mall in bright colors with a stripe the sides, and those short nylon tricot running shorts? I shows men were more comfortable with their bodies and it showed through the fashion.Sometimes, I just have these playing on the TV in the background as I am doing other things around the house. Ok, the movies are not that fantastic, but they are rather like those Time Life memory books of the decades: 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s -- we get to look back at those times through these films -- and it's a rather inexpensive way to look back as well.

I have not gotten through half of the films but they are the B rated movies a few of them that I saw were not bad. My favorite is HUNK. I have not watched them in order but ther is a guide and a synopsis of the movies so you can decide which to see but its 50 movies and I just saw maybe 9 so far and they were ok its your favorite stars just starting out into acting and so they are not at the top of there game but they will get there. SO its ok but not what I thought some of the movies would be. If you like watching B-rated movies and some C movies then this is for you some of the film quality is not good and some is. If I were you I would wait until it was a bit cheaper or skip it all together. But for me the movies that I bought it for to watch was great and the rest was extra.

I was a teenager during throughout the 80's. Awkward years, with cheesy fashion fads, ugly square cars, where the rock musicians were better looking than the women- it was hard to discern between the two as it was! But, I really enjoy these 50 pack movies. There are some good ones I never heard of. One of my favorites is My Chauffer. The script is genuinely funny, not relying on stupid sight gags, or tacky toilet humor. Since I lived through what I consider the worst decade for EVERYTHING, it's OK now to enjoy it from a distance.

You can't go wrong with any of the 50 packs! You may get a couple of duds, but who cares! Show me a better deal! Some reviews mentioned picture or sound quality being an issue. Hey! This is before they had dolby, hi-fi and all that! I assume most of the negative reviews come from younger folks who were raised on HD TV! I haven't had any problem listening or watching any of these movies! Sure there are a few places where there might have been a film splice, or the sound may be less than 2015 standards, but it's nothing that's really going to bother anyone except for the spoiled younger generation! I own close to 20 of these 50 packs and I'm glad I bought every single one of them!

I would recommend this set to any lover of 1980's B and C grade movies. Seems like a few movies have overlapped from other echo bridge sets. Most notably the Too Cool For School set. Of the 20 or so I have watched from this set, the picture quality is average. some widescreen transfers, but some are downright terrible. Most notably Scarecrows, that is the worst.All in all worth it. Good price, not all so great movies. Give it a try, you will find some that are worth it.

A great collection of over the top cheesy films, and surprisingly some powerful forgotten about gems among the many that is forgettable. Fans of 80's movies, fans of TV movies, over the top dramas or down right funny cheesy pieces of cinema, will appreciate the vast array of films displayed on this product. I for one, loved it.

great value

Yep, that's a 50 movies set in paper sleeve, but at least these are not flippers but dual layer discs. With still 4 movies crammed on each discs, the video suffer but it seems a lot of these movies, unlike a lot of other MillCreek set, are presented in anamorphic widescreen from a descent transfer, at least the 3 movies that I've watched so far : Tomboy, Hunk and Cave Girl (fun little comedies). And even if it's secondary, I think the menu of the disc is kind of cool, way better than the others I've seen.

I watched only a few films in this set. The footage looked old & deteriorated has of it was transferred from old video cassette.

Not bad for the price, although the quality in some is not the best

Absolutely awful. Not heard of any of the movies and the picture and sound un watchable. Straight into the bin