1980s

Hollywood Blockbuster films

- "High Concept films"
- Familiar plots that could be easily described
- Highly stylish and high quality production
- Aimed for mass appeal

Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer

- Top Gun
- Beverly hills cops
- Flashdance

Teenage comedy

- Revenge of the Nerds
- Porky
-Screw Balls\

John Hughes

"Coming of age"

- Ferris Bueller's day off
- The Breakfast club
- Weird Science

Sequels EVERYWHERE

few sequels before the 80s
- many

Horror

John Carpenters highly successful Halloween (1978) caused a revival in the horror genre.

- Halloween
- Friday 13th
- Nightmare on Elm street

Action Sequels

- Terminator
- Die Hard
- Rambo

Spoof movies

- Airplane
- Naked gun
- Spaceballs

Animation

- Tron = Mixed animation and live action film
- Who framed Roger rabbit = Most expensive film of the decade costing 70 million.

Science ficiton

- Blade runner
- The Thing
- Robocop
- E.T.
- Back to the future

War films

- Gallipoli
- Full Metal Jacket

Adventure

- Goonies
- Never Ending Story
- Labyrinth

Howard the duck

- Regarded as one of the worst and least successful big budget ever made.

Batman 1989

- directed by Tim Burton.
- opened the door for the current super hero film boom.
- Film was a success making 411 million and the merchandise 750 million.
- The film budget was around 35 million.


In your own experience, has there been a sequel that is worse than the original film?

- The matrix - over use of special effects, less character development and terrible story



In your own experience, has there been a sequel that is better than the original film?

- Empire strikes back - Irvin kershner (1980)
- The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan (2008)
- Terminator 2
- Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller (2015)
- Avatar: Legend of Korra - Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko (2012 - 2014)