Worst movies of the '80s

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Christopher Reeve and Mariel Hemingway in 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace’.

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The 1980s began with the election of President Ronald Reagan, and the new administration’s policies launched the country into an era of excess. From the malls to the shoulder pads and hairstyles, everything got bigger in the ’80s as the country waved farewell to the days of free love and disco that defined the preceding decades.

In the movie industry, the 1970s “New Hollywood” era inaugurated the careers of auteurs like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. However, the decade trickled out with the popularity of crowd-pleasers like “Jaws” and “Star Wars,” and the 1980s became the decade of action movies, blockbusters, and never-ending sequels. For instance, original action movies like the first “Rambo” film, “First Blood,” quickly became beloved hits. Meanwhile, follow-ups like “Rambo III” exasperated many critics.

Decades later, the ’80s lives on in new takes on old properties. That includes movies that were not very well regarded at the time, like 1982’s “Tron” and 1987’s “The Running Man.” Both got new installments in 2025, but neither fared particularly well with critics. Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man” received mixed reviews, with many critics disappointed by its departure from Wright’s signature style, while “Tron: Ares” earned a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, performing similarly to 2010’s “Tron: Legacy.”

To find those forgettable films and some iconic stinkers, Stacker used data from IMDb to rank the worst movies of the 1980s—some loathed, some loved, and some loathed and loved simultaneously. The rankings are based on user reviews—the lower the rating, the worse the film, ranking it higher on the list. In the case of a tie, the movie with more user votes ranks higher on the list. These films have at least 25,000 user votes and were released between 1980 and 1989. Each movie’s Metascore is provided for critical context but does not impact the ranking.

Read on to learn which ’80s movies are the worst of the worst.

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50 best 'Seinfeld' episodes of all time

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Actors Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards pose for a promotional photo for 'Seinfeld' in 1997.

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Throughout its nine-season run from 1989 to 1998, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David’s sitcom “Seinfeld” upended every conceivable norm society could throw its way. A sitcom landscape once dominated by family-oriented fare was taken over by four perennially single friends—Jerry (played by himself), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and Kramer (Michael Richards)—whose Manhattan-based misadventures made for some of television’s most memorable moments.

It’s no wonder the show still endures through reruns and streaming services like Netflix, which paid $500 million for the rights to “Seinfeld” for five years, from 2021 to 2026, after Hulu’s $180 million deal expired. The series’ cultural relevance is alive and well, too, with events like the Elaine Dance Contest amusing audiences at an August 2025 Brooklyn Cyclones game. And, as noted in a December 2024 report from CNN, many “Seinfeld” fans still celebrate Festivus, a Christmas-adjacent holiday made famous by a 1997 episode.

Frequently advertised as a show about nothing, “Seinfeld” was, in fact, quite the opposite. Specifically, the 180-episode series knits together multiple seemingly unrelated storylines to masterful effect within any given episode, ultimately leaving no subject unexplored. One might even say that “Seinfeld” was so adept at layering plots and jokes within jokes that it can be hard to remember which joke came from which episode.

Here, Stacker ranked the 50 best “Seinfeld” episodes of all time. The list was curated using IMDb user ratings as of April 2025; if multiple episodes have the same rating, they were sorted by the number of user votes. Counting down from #50 to #1, here are the best episodes from one of the most celebrated television comedies of all time.

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#50. The Cheever Letters

-IMDb user rating: 8.5
– Director: Tom Cherones
– Season 4, episode 8
– Air date: Oct. 28, 1992

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How to write an effective corporate travel policy

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Whether it’s for sales meetings, trade shows, or conferences, travel is important for any business. But with increasing costs and a remote work model, corporate travel has become more complicated than ever.

This is why a corporate travel policy, or a set of guidelines to ensure your team is efficient with costs, understands their limits, and stays safe while on the road, is essential.

‍But whether you’re creating a new corporate travel policy from scratch or revising a pre-existing one, there’s a lot to take into account. Here, Ramp walks you through the purpose of a corporate travel policy and what it should include, plus tips to encourage adoption in your organization.

What Is a Corporate Travel Policy?

A corporate travel policy is a document that describes a company’s policies and procedures for approving, booking, and expensing business travel. These guides typically cover topics like:

  • Booking guidelines and preferred vendors for transportation and lodging
  • Approved software for managing travel bookings and expenses
  • Guidelines and approval process for out-of-policy travel spend
  • Covered and non-covered travel expenditures
  • The travel expense reimbursement process
  • Trip extensions for personal travel
  • Business travel insurance details
  • Duty of care procedures and emergency contacts

In doing so, a travel policy sets consistent standards for everyone in the organization—including executives, managers, finance teams, and business travelers—regarding business travel.

How to Write a Corporate Travel Policy

Since a corporate travel policy should reflect a company’s culture and travel program, every company’s policy will look slightly different. But the approach will be consistent. These are four steps to getting started:

1) Define your goals

Before starting any project, you want to know why you’re doing it. What are the business goals you’re looking to achieve by documenting your corporate travel policy? 

If your top priority is keeping costs down, then you know to put an extra emphasis on that section and make sure there is enough specificity to meet those goals. If your team needs to travel internationally, you should make sure to understand policies around work visas, exchange rates, travel safety.

2) Understand your team’s needs

Since your employees are the ones actually going on the trips, you need to understand what their needs are. Consult your team to get a sense of the current process for booking and approving travel. What’s working and what’s not?

While meeting your business goals is crucial, it’s just as important to take into account the real world experience your team has with travel, which will ultimately result in a better understanding of the policy and overall morale. 

Longest-living dog breeds

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Pet ownership in the United States has exploded over the last few decades. As of 2025, about 74% of U.S. households own a pet, according to the American Pet Products Association; a significant increase from 56% in 1988. The biggest sector of pet owners is millennials, followed by Gen Xers and baby boomers. Dogs are by far the most popular pets for Americans, with 68 million households owning one.

It’s long been said that dogs are a human’s best friend. And for good reason: They provide company, unconditional love, safety, and best of all, they make us happy. There are a slew of factors that go into choosing a dog breed, including the size of your home and city; your family; your allergies; your wallet; and even your own memories of a previous companion—if you grew up with a golden retriever, for instance, maybe you want the same experience for your children.

Beyond boosting our happiness, owning a dog can increase our lifespans, according to a 2017 Swedish study in the Scientific Reports journal. Of course, dogs’ lifespans are another matter entirely, though modern medicine may soon give us more time with our four-legged friends. A new drug that promises to extend dogs’ lifespans received conditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration in February 2025, setting the stage for clinical trials and, hopefully, widespread availability in the future.

Without medical intervention, larger dogs generally have shorter lifespans than smaller ones. But that’s not always the case, as the forthcoming data indicates. To find out the 35 longest-living dog breeds, Stacker examined data from a 2024 study published in the journal Nature, which looked at nearly 585,000 dogs in the United Kingdom across 155 breeds. The top 35 breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club with the longest average lifespans were then ranked. Each breed’s 2024 AKC popularity ranking, released in 2025, is also included but did not impact the ranking.

Read on to find out which dogs are known for their longevity, and if your favorite breed made the list.

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#35. Australian shepherd (tie)

– Median lifespan: 13.7 years
– Popularity rank: 12

Biggest box-office bombs of all time

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Making an expensive Hollywood movie is kind of like steering a gigantic cargo ship through a thunderstorm.

On board are hundreds of crew members, each performing a specific function. At the vessel’s main helm are a handful of leaders, including the captain (the director), who may still be beholden to the powers that be. Tensions run high, and opinions can clash over the best course of action. It can seem like a miracle when the vessel arrives at its destination intact, but sometimes, it does not.

It’s easy to pinpoint where it all went wrong in certain situations. Perhaps unexpected bumps required a major change, such as bringing in a new director or having to recast the lead. Or maybe external controversies marred a film’s release—at least, that’s what actor Gal Gadot claims happened to 2025’s live-action “Snow White,” which failed to break even on its estimated $250 million budget. Similarly, it’s possible that backlash to Sydney Sweeney accounts for the disastrous underperformance of her biopic “Christy.”

Other 2025 releases, meanwhile, have no outside drama to blame: Despite big-name stars, movies like “The Alto Knights,” “Tron: Ares,” and “The Running Man” failed to break through. Of course, these are only a few recent examples of box-office disappointments. What about the most notable flops in film history?

Stacker is honoring the occasions when big-budget vehicles fail to deliver the goods by ranking the biggest box-office bombs of all time using estimates from The Numbers as of May 2025. More than 6,000 movies—every title with data available—were examined to find the biggest financial flops. Rankings were compiled by determining each movie’s estimated loss, which is the worldwide box-office earnings minus the reported production budget. The box-office gross does not incorporate video or other retail sales. The calculations also do not reflect that theaters receive a significant portion of ticket sales.

The estimated losses presented may underreport how much money studios were really out, as other expenses like marketing spend, distribution costs, and intellectual property rights are not factored in. Because studios keep those costs close to the vest, most of that data is not public and therefore can’t be factored into this ranking, which makes lists like these difficult to calculate. For example, Read more

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