To paraphrase an outstandingly great 1940s movie, "This looks like the END of a beautiful friendship." Starring the delicious Humphrey Bogart, saying the line to an equally delicious Claude Raines. I think the likes of Schwartzenegger and Willis have nothing on men like Bogart and Raines, not to mention the delightful absence of explosions in old movies that make them so much better than the ones in the 1980s.
Oh wait... I see now what the "problem" is.. You were still too young to really experience the 80's...
The 80's was the birth of the blockbuster action movie and the blockbuster action movie hero. Before that we only had westerns, war movies and seriously tacky-fake-flying-badly-dubbed-in-english kung fu movies (and I don't mean Bruce Lee movies
)..
Also, the 80's was the height of disco (Saturday Night Fever) and the explosion of the 'teen heartthrob' era.. Every teenage girl had posters and magazines of their favorite celebrity crushes (Rob Lowe, John Stamos, Marky Mark a.k.a. Mark Wahlberg, Tom Cruise (believe it or not lol), Patrick Swayze, Emilio Esteves, Thomas C Howell, Ralph Macchio, etc...)
Also... the 80's was the birth of modern pop music, new wave style music and heavy metal (INXS, U2, Boston, The Bangles, Duran Duran, The Police, Rush, Def Leppard, Journey, AC/DC. Van Halen, Micheal Jackson, Phil Collins, Bon Jovi, etc...)
It was a really fun decade!