Eighties Movies

The film was the most successful, in terms of box office gross, of the three pictures taking $252.5 million.

4. Platoon

Platoon was Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam movie and Best Picture Oscar winner. Platoon is an unsympathetic film it doesn't gloss over the troubles in Vietnam to suit and American cinema going audience.

Stone depicts some soldiers as violent killers who struggle with seeing their friends injured and killed and take out their rage on a nearby village.

Stone also showed controversial issues within the U.S. army such as drug abuse, which has largely been speculated upon in recent years, the bullying behaviour by more experienced soldiers on the new, inexperienced recruits and the killing of unpopular officers.

Since it's release Platoon has widely become to be regarded as one of the finest war movies ever brought to the big screen.

5. Batman

Gotham City is suffering under the iron grip of Carl Grissom, a mob boss. And stories of a masked crusader are being investigated by journalists Vicki Vale and Alexander Knox.

Grissom's second in command Jack Napier is sent to carry out a raid on a chemical factory but is set up by Grissom over an affair with his mistress.

After an altercation with Batman Napier falls into a vat of toxic waste which shapes his face into a hideous and permanent grin, turns his skin white and his hair green.

Adopting the name of The Joker he kills Grissom and takes over his empire.

Despite fans of the comic voicing their disapproval over the casting of Keaton the film grossed over $400 million at the worldwide box office, breaking the $100 million in just ten days.

The film was backed by the biggest marketing campaign in film history at the time, the film itself only costing $40 million to make.

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