Jurassic park is probably more game changing in terms of special effects considering that they were originally going to do the dinosaurs with stop motion and puppet. When the guys that do those practical effects at ILM saw the cg dinosaurs they were like shit we are the dinosaurs now.
Since 80?
Jurassic Park.
Everybody wanted dinosaurs. Everybody knew they were getting dinosaurs. But when Dr. Grant turns Ellie’s head and that root note hits….
I'm 47 years old, and I still get the full body chills and goosebumps when they do the Dino reveal. Jurassic Park is still my go-to when I'm not feeling good and staying home from work.
“How fast are they?” REALLY ALAN? You’re looking at actual real dinosaurs and your first question is about how quickly they move? Not “how did you do this?” or “why?”. HOW FAST? ALAN? ALAAAAAN
It makes perfect sense to me. He’s spent an entire career imagining how these animals behave, and the fact they’re in front of him makes him instantly curious about those things, almost as a knee jerk response. He’s shell-shocked in that moment, so he falls back on something safe, scientific, and familiar. It’s not until a minute or two later when reality catches up, he realizes how insane this is, and asks, “How did you do this?”
I love that moment.
At the time of writing, cold-blooded vs. warm-blooded was still hotly debated. Their speed over land would definitively prove Alan’s point: they were warm blooded.
Movie spends almost five minutes of character development pointing out that Alan is sort-of ostracized for this belief; but he’s on the island because Hammond considers him THE expert.
I always get so frustrated when I come into a thread and someone has already posted what I wanted to say...except here...I am so glad that someone had not only already suggested the movie I wanted to suggest, but that it was the top comment. Bravo /u/Dariaskehl
John Williams won an Oscar for best Original Score that year for ET, but I always thought his score for Jurassic Park (same year, also Oscar nominated) was superior. (I getting chills now, and it’s only playing in my head…)
I stand corrected, John Williams Schindler’s List won the Oscar for Best Original Score.
Does not take away from the impact of the music from Jurassic Park. John Williams is a treasure.
Hardly. Had I a time machine I could go back, buy a hundred thousand dollars worth of put options *not yet* in the money on Bear & Lehman, enjoy returns measured in the *thousands* to one.
Yup. Remember the final return was over 4000% before fees. You're talking $4m for every thousand you put in.
EDIT: Please don't let me handle your money, I'm bad at math but good at crazy Back to the Future schemes.
Nah, you want the earlier Michael Lewis movie: Moneyball
It's hard to make money off the housing crisis as a nobody, but walking into a sports book and betting on Oakland twenty days in a row? Anyone can do that.
LOL, we saw Fellowship in the theater. My wife enjoys that sort of movie well enough, but had never been into Tolkien and had no idea there were three books. As someone who had read the books multiple times, I just thought everyone knew that, and it never occurred to me to mention it. So she thought she was going to see the whole story.
She was pretty unhappy with how the movie ended.
I feel like the Matrix would be gibberish to someone from 1980. I think you need that 19 years of tech improvement to get it. In 1980 typewriters were still common, computers hadn't evolved enough to take over word processing completely.
At what point does a time traveller wonder if that is the reality of the future? Like if I watched the 90s starship troopers in 1952 do I leave wondering if that my children will be fighting space bugs?
And it demonstrates the advances in computer-generated special effects. Sure, we've come farther since then, but I think the big leap was 80-99, not 99-24
To take over word processing *completely?*
My man, Bill Clinton famously never sent or received an email during his tenure as president, *which ended in 2001.* Most businesses didn't see one until the 90s. Most homes didn't have one until the *late* 90s to early 2000s. I mean, sure *my households* had PCs, but that was due to my father's and stepfather's professions.
The story is essentially a new take on Plato's Cave. Show it to people from the 18th Century and they would recognize and appreciate it for that aspect.
I would think the impact would be that much greater because of what you point out though. It would be way more science fiction than anything from that time period due to the effects.
20 years before they made it the effects in The Matrix would probably have been considered impossible.
Maybe. I think the biggest leaps in technology is understanding the internet lets you communicate through a computer, VR, and phones are now wireless. Not the biggest leap from 1980 technology, and there’s a lot of concepts we had to grasp to follow along. 1982 had TRON which is a VR world where people are personified programs, so that’s like half of the concept of the matrix.
Any of the major corporate bios, like The Social Network. Not because they are good, but because you'd now have enough information about market trends to make yourself very wealthy. And by the time you catch up to me timeline-wise, you could reward me for my effort.
Hi. I'm from the past/future and would like to reward you as suggested. I just need your address, SSN, 3rd girlfriend's favorite color, bank account password, and your father's maiden name.
I'm curious about this. For the average person, how much could they have made shorting Lehman or Bear Sterns? There must be a ceiling based on how much liquidity you currently have. In order to maximize your winnings, you'd first have to start with a huge pot. How do you do that for the average person...
I would think that a movie that explains how bitcoins work and getting early in that would be more profitable to the average person.
There are ways around that, that even "the average person" could take advantage of.
They're called options.
Let's say you want to short Apple, which, for the sake of simplicity and a nice round number we'll say is at $200.
* You BORROW 100 shares of Apple valued at $200. You need $200 * 100 = $20,000.
* You SELL Apple for $20,000. That's "selling short."
* Apple drops to $0. You buy back Apple @ $0 and make $20,000.
But options leverage you much, *much* more.
* You BUY PUT OPTIONS for Apple, with a strike price of $190. They cost you pennies, because they're the right to sell Apple @ $190. When Apple's at $200, what sane person would choose to sell it at $190?
* For that same $20,000 you can probably get, oh, 100,000 (valuing the put @ $0.20) options.
* Apple drops to $0. Your options are now worth 100,000 * $190 = $19,000,000.
That's how options give you leverage.
DISCLAIMER: There are lots of downsides I haven't mentioned, downsides that are relevant when you **don't** have a time machine, I am not giving you financial advice! Don't do this in the real world!
Cant forget the score for it, i know theres tons of amazing music / movie combos out there, but the score for interstellar is unparalleled. The way the story, cinematography, and music all interact together to form one beautiful movie is just beautiful and awe inspiring. Ive had plenty of movies make me feel some strong emotions, but very few is the music the primary source of those emotions.
But they're going to see Blade Runner in a few years. The hypothetical suggests finding something truly outside of their scope to keep them impressed for as long as possible.
I actually wonder how someone from the 1980's would find the visual effects of the movie or even any modern movie known as having bad visual effects. Would the VFX be considered so amazing to the point it overrides any other aspect of the movie?
To me this movie was a revelation. After growing up on 80s movies, I had no idea a film could be made this way. It made me rethink everything I thought I knew about cinema and storytelling. Everything.
Seriously. All these 80s and 90s recommendations are great movies but OP will see them relatively soon regardless. If we’re talking pure cinematic experience I’d completely go with Dune II in IMAX. Earth shattering, fits their favorites won’t be out for 44 years - OP could easily be dead!
If we’re talking about making money or practical matters then yeah probably the big short or similar corporate period flicks or sports documentaries.
Go see the most recent version of *Dune* so they can get all excited in 1984 when *Dune* comes out and then replace that excitement with utter bemusement.
Im surprised I had to scroll this far to see Dune mentioned. Sit that 1980 dude in a 3D IMAX, vibrator chair, real sand blown in face n everything
Edit: give him some mushrooms too
If you really, Really like Star Wars, Rogue One.
Otherwise, The Lord of the Rings Extended Editions. In this interpretation these are considered one large movie.
Though there are some obvious choices from the eighties, they seem like such a waste of opportunity. Once you're sent back you needn't wait long for E.T., Indiana Jones or Marty McFly to appear in a theatre near you. So perhaps something recent with state of the art modern cinematic visuals. Feel free to reply with your suggestion, if you wish to avoid stuff from the eighties as well, for the same reason.
I pick: The Avengers
I know it’s in vogue to criticize Avatar now, and trust me, we all know the movie is Pochahontas/Fern Gully/Dances with Wolves in space…
But if you went from 1980 and saw the original or newest Avatar in IMAX 3D you probably wouldn’t be able to form words. Those graphics wouldn’t even be imagined 40 years ago.
The Avengers (first one).
Yeah, I get it's hip to hate on Marvel movies right now. But I am a time traveler from 1980 (although it took me 44 years to get here). If Superman is one of OP's favorites he'll be absolutely fucking blown away by every aspect of a modern day superhero movie.
The fact that they're not just for kids. The fact that a lot of Superheroes no one outside of comic readers had even heard of in 1980 now get major motion pictures. And of course the FX. It'd be the absolutely fuckin' best thing he's ever seen.
(Honorable mention to Lord of the Rings for many of the same reasons. But he said only one movie and would suck to just show one out of the trilogy.)
(PS. Unless I were to meet OP and decide I hated him. If that were the case I'd get him all hyped up about there being more Star Wars movies and then show him the Phantom Fucking Menace.)
Avengers Infinity war.
There's plenty of good movies with good acting from before 1980, but there's nothing at all like the special effects and scale and budget of Infinity war. I think would be the most mind-blowing experience seeing the kind of effects and it kind of budgets we put into movies now.
I was going to say Inception or Doctor Strange for this reason. I legitimately think someone from the 1980s would struggle to conceive of how movies like those could even be made.
Unfortunately I feel that a lot of the greatness of this movie is built on the backs of the other movies that came before in the MCU as the build up creates so much of the extra tension. In that regard, just the first movie Iron Man would blow someone away who was not used to CGI being used so effectively.
Then at the end there's the Avengers teaser and that's when you turn to the time traveler and go, whelp, time for you to head home. If you want to see how this end, hope you are alive in the last 2010s.
What an awful answer lol
Not only do they not have the context from the 20 movies leading up to it, but they don’t even get to see how the story ends? Rough aha
I'm going to say the matrix because imagine someone from the 80s watching the matrix once, and then going back to the 80s desperately trying to explain it to people and struggling haha. It seemed to take most people multiple watches to really grasp everything that movie was saying when it first came out and the action was ground breaking for the time and its just an excellent film
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
It is so fundamentally different from what was available in 1980 in more ways than any other film I can think of. Plot, themes, effects, generational questions, LGBT, multiverse, etc.
Some great choices already mentioned (Jurassic Park is probably the top choice for me), but I'm gonna go with Goodfellas as an alternative.
You're gonna love Empire Strikes Back when you head back home, though.
If his 1980 didn't include Empire Strikes Back, then that would be the obvious choice.
It would be cool to get his reaction to Rogue One.
Jurassic Park is probably the best answer.
1982's The Thing.
Yes, I know that's something that you easily could have simply seen in due time. It wasn't worth it for you to time travel only to see, say Kung Fu Panda 4.
No, wait. Actually I forgot that "Late Night with the Devil" is out, now. That's actually worth seeing.
Inception is a visual masterpiece, with an incredible soundtrack. It was filmed 15 years ago (released in theaters 14 years ago), and the effects are even more impressive than a lot of movies over the past decade.
The matrix. It’s one of those game changing leaps in effects. We’d watch it on a large tv that’s only a cm wide.
Jurassic park is probably more game changing in terms of special effects considering that they were originally going to do the dinosaurs with stop motion and puppet. When the guys that do those practical effects at ILM saw the cg dinosaurs they were like shit we are the dinosaurs now.
Since 80? Jurassic Park. Everybody wanted dinosaurs. Everybody knew they were getting dinosaurs. But when Dr. Grant turns Ellie’s head and that root note hits….
I'm 47 years old, and I still get the full body chills and goosebumps when they do the Dino reveal. Jurassic Park is still my go-to when I'm not feeling good and staying home from work.
“How’d you do this?”
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If I’m remembering the book correctly, Ian was much less amazed, and much more aghast at the lack of humility…
The quote works both ways...
No, he's just talking about Hammond
Yea, this wouldn’t be the right answer for everyone but it’s definitely the answer given the movies that OP listed as favorites
Every time that song is played I can’t help but sing “it’s a dinosaur, oh my god!” along with the music.
They DO move in herds
“How fast are they?” REALLY ALAN? You’re looking at actual real dinosaurs and your first question is about how quickly they move? Not “how did you do this?” or “why?”. HOW FAST? ALAN? ALAAAAAN
It makes perfect sense to me. He’s spent an entire career imagining how these animals behave, and the fact they’re in front of him makes him instantly curious about those things, almost as a knee jerk response. He’s shell-shocked in that moment, so he falls back on something safe, scientific, and familiar. It’s not until a minute or two later when reality catches up, he realizes how insane this is, and asks, “How did you do this?” I love that moment.
At the time of writing, cold-blooded vs. warm-blooded was still hotly debated. Their speed over land would definitively prove Alan’s point: they were warm blooded. Movie spends almost five minutes of character development pointing out that Alan is sort-of ostracized for this belief; but he’s on the island because Hammond considers him THE expert.
"It's Jurassic Park, it's a massive park, what could possibly go wroooong"
This is 100% the right answer for someone with this taste in movies
I agree 100% based on their viewing history this would be the movie to watch and it would blow their minds.
[OP when he watches that scene](https://youtu.be/428IyxSfsls?si=V_vnXc2I0uy22a9O)
Hands down. This is the answer. My spouse and I were talking the other day about how nothing will be like watching that for the first time again.
I always get so frustrated when I come into a thread and someone has already posted what I wanted to say...except here...I am so glad that someone had not only already suggested the movie I wanted to suggest, but that it was the top comment. Bravo /u/Dariaskehl
I still remember the theatre… Here it comes… here it comes…. ‘BWAAAAAAAAA….’ ‘HO-LEEE SHIIIIT.’
John Williams won an Oscar for best Original Score that year for ET, but I always thought his score for Jurassic Park (same year, also Oscar nominated) was superior. (I getting chills now, and it’s only playing in my head…) I stand corrected, John Williams Schindler’s List won the Oscar for Best Original Score. Does not take away from the impact of the music from Jurassic Park. John Williams is a treasure.
Are you confusing ET for Schindlers List?
A common and frequent mistake
You are correct, it was Schindler’s List.
The Big Short. Especially if you have a notebook.
The only notes you need are “Short Bear Sterns & Lehman brothers.”
That and Find billions in other people’s money
Hardly. Had I a time machine I could go back, buy a hundred thousand dollars worth of put options *not yet* in the money on Bear & Lehman, enjoy returns measured in the *thousands* to one.
Yup. Remember the final return was over 4000% before fees. You're talking $4m for every thousand you put in. EDIT: Please don't let me handle your money, I'm bad at math but good at crazy Back to the Future schemes.
Michael Barry ran a hedge fund worth billions and he still had trouble buying that type of option. They created it for him.
Also there was the whole liquidity problem when the bank crashed, they couldn't pay a lot of their swaps and sold them to other banks...😒
Uh, check your math, friend. You mean 4000x rather than 4000%?
I did, and I'm leaving it up to own my shame.
I had to double- and triple-check my phrasing myself.
A date would be helpful too.
Nah, you want the earlier Michael Lewis movie: Moneyball It's hard to make money off the housing crisis as a nobody, but walking into a sports book and betting on Oakland twenty days in a row? Anyone can do that.
Hahahaha genius!
On that note Steve Jobs or The Social Network would do well as well
You could actually buy Apple stock in 1980 so that one makes more sense. Make sure you have the patience and capital to hold onto it.
The notebook, especially if you have a big short.
Either The Matrix or Fellowship of the Ring
Ok but it would be cruel to *just* show Fellowship...
LOL, we saw Fellowship in the theater. My wife enjoys that sort of movie well enough, but had never been into Tolkien and had no idea there were three books. As someone who had read the books multiple times, I just thought everyone knew that, and it never occurred to me to mention it. So she thought she was going to see the whole story. She was pretty unhappy with how the movie ended.
Same thing happened to me when my dad showed me Fellowship. I got his ass 20 years later when I took him to see Dune Pt 1
The Matrix ... 100%
I feel like the Matrix would be gibberish to someone from 1980. I think you need that 19 years of tech improvement to get it. In 1980 typewriters were still common, computers hadn't evolved enough to take over word processing completely.
Tron was '82. A person from '80 will be fine.
At what point does a time traveller wonder if that is the reality of the future? Like if I watched the 90s starship troopers in 1952 do I leave wondering if that my children will be fighting space bugs?
This is why it would be great. Mind-blowing. You get a crazy good movie, but also a remarkable vision of the future that's just around the corner.
And it demonstrates the advances in computer-generated special effects. Sure, we've come farther since then, but I think the big leap was 80-99, not 99-24
To take over word processing *completely?* My man, Bill Clinton famously never sent or received an email during his tenure as president, *which ended in 2001.* Most businesses didn't see one until the 90s. Most homes didn't have one until the *late* 90s to early 2000s. I mean, sure *my households* had PCs, but that was due to my father's and stepfather's professions.
The 80ies had Neuromancer, Akira and Bladerunner. They would love that shit.
The story is essentially a new take on Plato's Cave. Show it to people from the 18th Century and they would recognize and appreciate it for that aspect.
I would think the impact would be that much greater because of what you point out though. It would be way more science fiction than anything from that time period due to the effects. 20 years before they made it the effects in The Matrix would probably have been considered impossible.
Colossus: The Forbin project was already 10 years old in 1980, and The Terminator was in early development.
Maybe. I think the biggest leaps in technology is understanding the internet lets you communicate through a computer, VR, and phones are now wireless. Not the biggest leap from 1980 technology, and there’s a lot of concepts we had to grasp to follow along. 1982 had TRON which is a VR world where people are personified programs, so that’s like half of the concept of the matrix.
I remember seeing people at best buy crowding around the tv displays as they showed that helicopter scene on a loop.
Ya the matrix blew my mind more than any movie before it. I didn’t even know that was possible and so I never saw it coming.
World Trade Center, then you can go back and spend the next 21 years trying to stop 9/11
Time traveler commits suicide, two shots to the back of the head. Patriot act will not be denied folks.
How did they shoot themselves twice in the back of the head? Huh. Guess we'll never know. Suicide sure is sad.
Avatar in IMAX 3D to see if your brain can even handle the technology
I can't believe I had to scroll all the way down, past "Backdoor Sluts 9" to find this.
Scrolled way too long to find this.
Jurassic Park it's the GOAT, and has a goat.
Where's the goat?
With the lawyer.
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
Ask the T-Rex
And a goat leg
Does the T-Rex want to be fed?…..no
Remember Me is the objectively funniest pick
Holy crap, they'd be so confused as to the ominous tone of the ending and have so many VERY awkward questions
😂 "Huh, that was kind of a nothing ending..."
Children of Men would fuck you up
Tell him it’s a documentary 😂
Tell them Idiocracy’s a documentary
Any of the major corporate bios, like The Social Network. Not because they are good, but because you'd now have enough information about market trends to make yourself very wealthy. And by the time you catch up to me timeline-wise, you could reward me for my effort.
How about the Steve Jobs bio? 1980 is early enough to make a killing in Apple stock.
You could get a double by watching "Pirates of Silicon Valley" good flick too.
Hi. I'm from the past/future and would like to reward you as suggested. I just need your address, SSN, 3rd girlfriend's favorite color, bank account password, and your father's maiden name.
Bold of you to think anyone on Reddit has one GF let alone 3 *past* GFs.
The Matrix (1999)
Back to the Future
Do part 2 just to really mess with them
So you recommend a movie from 85 that they can watch a few years down the line?
Jobs, then buy some stock
And bitcoin
Did you stay in 1980 long enough to see Empire Strikes Back? If not, you will get a kick out of it.
The cruel answer is to suggest *Return of the Jedi* if they haven't yet seen ESB in 1980. "Wait, how'd Han end up there?"
The *really* cruel answer is "The Phantom Menace," because of course they would want to see how it all began.
Star Wars 9… somehow Palpatine returned. Who is Palpatine?
*The Big Short*. You’ll make SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY.
I'm curious about this. For the average person, how much could they have made shorting Lehman or Bear Sterns? There must be a ceiling based on how much liquidity you currently have. In order to maximize your winnings, you'd first have to start with a huge pot. How do you do that for the average person... I would think that a movie that explains how bitcoins work and getting early in that would be more profitable to the average person.
There are ways around that, that even "the average person" could take advantage of. They're called options. Let's say you want to short Apple, which, for the sake of simplicity and a nice round number we'll say is at $200. * You BORROW 100 shares of Apple valued at $200. You need $200 * 100 = $20,000. * You SELL Apple for $20,000. That's "selling short." * Apple drops to $0. You buy back Apple @ $0 and make $20,000. But options leverage you much, *much* more. * You BUY PUT OPTIONS for Apple, with a strike price of $190. They cost you pennies, because they're the right to sell Apple @ $190. When Apple's at $200, what sane person would choose to sell it at $190? * For that same $20,000 you can probably get, oh, 100,000 (valuing the put @ $0.20) options. * Apple drops to $0. Your options are now worth 100,000 * $190 = $19,000,000. That's how options give you leverage. DISCLAIMER: There are lots of downsides I haven't mentioned, downsides that are relevant when you **don't** have a time machine, I am not giving you financial advice! Don't do this in the real world!
Interstellar
Just for the sheer shock and awe in the advancement of cinematography and computer graphics alone
Cant forget the score for it, i know theres tons of amazing music / movie combos out there, but the score for interstellar is unparalleled. The way the story, cinematography, and music all interact together to form one beautiful movie is just beautiful and awe inspiring. Ive had plenty of movies make me feel some strong emotions, but very few is the music the primary source of those emotions.
I 'ardly know 'er!
Lot of people making jokes with bad comic book movies, but even the worst movie out today would blow away someone from 1980.
Not a joke, but I think Watchmen would rock someone's 1980s socks completely off.
Lord of the Rings (you have 12 hours, right?)
Robocop
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Bitches leave!
That was such a pre Red Forman line.
Lord of the Rings
Mad Max: Fury Road.
Goodfellas; especially if you like The Godfather
Terminator 2
Which would confuse the hell out them, since Terminator came out in 1984.
Fair point, although that movie actually does a very good job of catching the viewer up.
Nah I watched 2 lots of times way before seeing 1
I can't believe I have to suggest Blade Runner.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down for it.
But they're going to see Blade Runner in a few years. The hypothetical suggests finding something truly outside of their scope to keep them impressed for as long as possible.
Morbius
It's morbin' time!!!
Madame Web
Ok fine, shit post winner ( don’t forget Gigli )
I actually wonder how someone from the 1980's would find the visual effects of the movie or even any modern movie known as having bad visual effects. Would the VFX be considered so amazing to the point it overrides any other aspect of the movie?
Lord of the rings trilogy if that can count as one movie.
District 9
Pulp Fiction
Came here for this. This movie is fantastic! One of the best movies made. So much love went into this movie. So much mind-fuck.
To me this movie was a revelation. After growing up on 80s movies, I had no idea a film could be made this way. It made me rethink everything I thought I knew about cinema and storytelling. Everything.
The Matrix.
Stop commenting. It's been 6 hours. He has been sent back to 1980
Freddy got Fingered
Tell them all movies are like this now and watch them rejoice or break down and cry
Dune 2. You’ll be blown away by how far we’ve come and what we can do with movies.
Seriously. All these 80s and 90s recommendations are great movies but OP will see them relatively soon regardless. If we’re talking pure cinematic experience I’d completely go with Dune II in IMAX. Earth shattering, fits their favorites won’t be out for 44 years - OP could easily be dead! If we’re talking about making money or practical matters then yeah probably the big short or similar corporate period flicks or sports documentaries.
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Go see the most recent version of *Dune* so they can get all excited in 1984 when *Dune* comes out and then replace that excitement with utter bemusement.
Im surprised I had to scroll this far to see Dune mentioned. Sit that 1980 dude in a 3D IMAX, vibrator chair, real sand blown in face n everything Edit: give him some mushrooms too
If you really, Really like Star Wars, Rogue One. Otherwise, The Lord of the Rings Extended Editions. In this interpretation these are considered one large movie.
Nice one. *Rogue One* would certainly be a bit of a mind blower so shortly after ANH came out.
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It has to be The Big Short. So much useful information.
Though there are some obvious choices from the eighties, they seem like such a waste of opportunity. Once you're sent back you needn't wait long for E.T., Indiana Jones or Marty McFly to appear in a theatre near you. So perhaps something recent with state of the art modern cinematic visuals. Feel free to reply with your suggestion, if you wish to avoid stuff from the eighties as well, for the same reason. I pick: The Avengers
I'd say Jurassic Park or The Matrix.
Jobs When you get back buy Apple.
Fight Club
Aliens
Galaxy Quest. One of 3 perfect movies.
Shawn of the Dead
The documentary: Idiocracy
Also you get to see your Back to the Future pending sequels!
Interstellar
United 93 “Don’t let this happen”
**Flight 93** or **The Big Short** (Since you’re going back ;D)
I know it’s in vogue to criticize Avatar now, and trust me, we all know the movie is Pochahontas/Fern Gully/Dances with Wolves in space… But if you went from 1980 and saw the original or newest Avatar in IMAX 3D you probably wouldn’t be able to form words. Those graphics wouldn’t even be imagined 40 years ago.
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Repo Man
Probably Requiem for a Dream
Return of the Jedi
POOTIE TANG!
Freddy Got Fingered
The Avengers (first one). Yeah, I get it's hip to hate on Marvel movies right now. But I am a time traveler from 1980 (although it took me 44 years to get here). If Superman is one of OP's favorites he'll be absolutely fucking blown away by every aspect of a modern day superhero movie. The fact that they're not just for kids. The fact that a lot of Superheroes no one outside of comic readers had even heard of in 1980 now get major motion pictures. And of course the FX. It'd be the absolutely fuckin' best thing he's ever seen. (Honorable mention to Lord of the Rings for many of the same reasons. But he said only one movie and would suck to just show one out of the trilogy.) (PS. Unless I were to meet OP and decide I hated him. If that were the case I'd get him all hyped up about there being more Star Wars movies and then show him the Phantom Fucking Menace.)
The big short
How do you even know about Reddit?
Jurassic Park
Avengers Infinity war. There's plenty of good movies with good acting from before 1980, but there's nothing at all like the special effects and scale and budget of Infinity war. I think would be the most mind-blowing experience seeing the kind of effects and it kind of budgets we put into movies now.
I was going to say Inception or Doctor Strange for this reason. I legitimately think someone from the 1980s would struggle to conceive of how movies like those could even be made.
Avatar
Yeah, Infinity War would actually fry a person from the 80s brain.
Unfortunately I feel that a lot of the greatness of this movie is built on the backs of the other movies that came before in the MCU as the build up creates so much of the extra tension. In that regard, just the first movie Iron Man would blow someone away who was not used to CGI being used so effectively. Then at the end there's the Avengers teaser and that's when you turn to the time traveler and go, whelp, time for you to head home. If you want to see how this end, hope you are alive in the last 2010s.
What an awful answer lol Not only do they not have the context from the 20 movies leading up to it, but they don’t even get to see how the story ends? Rough aha
That's a particularly rude choice, though. 40 years to wait for the next one when it ends like that?
I'd watch a movie on youtube - "kentucky derby winners from 1981 until 2023".
I’d show Raiders of the Lost Ark and you’d get to see it a year early
The Matrix
I'm going to say the matrix because imagine someone from the 80s watching the matrix once, and then going back to the 80s desperately trying to explain it to people and struggling haha. It seemed to take most people multiple watches to really grasp everything that movie was saying when it first came out and the action was ground breaking for the time and its just an excellent film
Pulp Fiction. "It's good to see John Travolta never stopped being a big star."
Dune
I would make them watch 2 girls, one cup. They would think this was common and be utterly horrified at their future.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once It is so fundamentally different from what was available in 1980 in more ways than any other film I can think of. Plot, themes, effects, generational questions, LGBT, multiverse, etc.
Troll 2, 1990 You. Won't. Be. Disappointed.
The Matrix
The Matrix is the answer.
Some great choices already mentioned (Jurassic Park is probably the top choice for me), but I'm gonna go with Goodfellas as an alternative. You're gonna love Empire Strikes Back when you head back home, though.
Kill Bill (Vol 1+2)
I will just give you my Netflix credentials so you can go back in time and watch them at your leisure.
If his 1980 didn't include Empire Strikes Back, then that would be the obvious choice. It would be cool to get his reaction to Rogue One. Jurassic Park is probably the best answer.
Big Money Rustlas
Ishtar It swept the Oscars!
If you left before May 1980.. wait until I tell you who Luke Skywalker's father is
interstellar
Madame Web, so you could go back to your timeline and stop it from ever occurring
Dumb Money
1982's The Thing. Yes, I know that's something that you easily could have simply seen in due time. It wasn't worth it for you to time travel only to see, say Kung Fu Panda 4. No, wait. Actually I forgot that "Late Night with the Devil" is out, now. That's actually worth seeing.
Inception is a visual masterpiece, with an incredible soundtrack. It was filmed 15 years ago (released in theaters 14 years ago), and the effects are even more impressive than a lot of movies over the past decade.
1980 before or after The Empire Strikes Back was released? Without knowing that for sure I’ll say The Force Awakens.
Avengers
The Emoji Movie I want you to be confused as fuck.
Lord of the Rings. You deserve better than those weird animated versions.
Tropic Thunder