From modern action classics to comedies packed with beloved stars, these are the R-rated '80s movies that were watched enough ...

That's not to say the '80s weren't full of artists with vision ... saw the start of a new sci-fi boom, kicked off by movies like Star Wars, Alien, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

But for every ‘80s sci-fi movie that has aged badly ... When James Cameron was hired to write and direct a sequel to Alien, he knew he couldn’t make a horror movie as fiercely effective ...