JESSE WENTE TOP FIVE '80S MOVIES THAT SHOULD NEVER BE REMADE
 
1/ The Breakfast Club - likely a film the studios would love to remake, this movie so perfectly captures the era in terms of it stars, the music, teen culture - it's perfect, so don't touch it
 
2/ Silkwood - one of my all time favorites and a film that not even a movie studio could bring itself to be remade
 
3/ Down by Law - Jim Jarmusch's second film is the type of auteur cinema that makes it impossible to remake, that and Tom Waits
 
4/ Brazil - Terry Gilliam's terrific political and social satire is a visual wonder that thankfully was such a fraught production that no one would dare revisit it
 
5/ Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee's masterpiece is one of the decade's most searing statements
 
Other hands off titles: Raging Bull, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Platoon, Ghostbusters

JESSE WENTE'S TOP FIVE 80S MOVIES THAT SHOULD BE REMADE
 
1/ Top Gun - perfect, loud, star making vehicle, set it in space or something and you have yourself a movie
 
2/ The Last Starfighter -  a '80s Star Wars rip-off that had a good central premise and could use a digital effects reworking
 
3/ War Games - video games have come a long way since this '80s classic, and an update would be even more relevant, if not as prescient
 
4/ Back to the Future - family fun, with better effects could make this one work, although you'll never replace Chris Lloyd or Michael J Fox
 
5/ Terms of Endearment - a classic, but would work with Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan style combo