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Are "Wall Street" and "The Natural" in your top 200 80s movies? (1 Viewer)

Are "Wall Street" and "The Natural" in your top 200 80s movies?

  • Yes, Of Course

    Votes: 27 64.3%
  • No

    Votes: 15 35.7%

  • Total voters
    42

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Are "Wall Street" and "The Natural" in your top 200 80s movies?

Subquestions: What in the hell are the FFA film rankers doing? Are you ashamed of the film rankers?
 
The omission Wall Street, Platoon and Parenthood have made it so I never value the opinion of the rankers ever again on anything. We just will never see eye to eye.

I've never seen The Natural. :bag:
 
Wall Street, maybe - I didn't officially rank out to 200. The Natural wouldn't make the cut. I found it a bit hokey, like I do many sports movies.
 
The fact 'A Very Brady Christmas' made the top 200, but the following films did not:

The Natural
Wall Street
Platoon
The Last Starfighter
Excalibur

makes this exercise completely bogus.
 
For my list, if you’re asking the question, “why wasn’t xxxxxxx listed?” Ask yourself if it’s a movie an 8-10 year old in the 80s would tend to watch. I made it clear that my criteria was nostalgia based on what I watched in the 80s.
 
I also firmly believe it when people say the 80s was the decade of the blockbuster. So if you’re asking why a random drama wasn’t on the list that might be another reason.
 
The fact 'A Very Brady Christmas' made the top 200, but the following films did not:

The Natural
Wall Street
Platoon
The Last Starfighter
Excalibur

makes this exercise completely bogus.
I’m so glad we determined that Brady Christmas is the ~130th best 80s movie.
 
Great line from each movie.

Gordon Gecko: it's all about the bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

Pops Fisher: all right Hobbs, knock the cover off the ball.
 
I also firmly believe it when people say the 80s was the decade of the blockbuster. So if you’re asking why a random drama wasn’t on the list that might be another reason.

these aren't "random dramas"

"The Natural' is considered one of the best baseball movies of all time and was universally loved by baseball/sports fans. Nominated for 4 academy awards with a star studded cast.

"Wall Street" is an iconic movie where Douglas won the Oscar for Best Actor...loved by the masses and critics alike. Also a star studded cast.
 
For my list, if you’re asking the question, “why wasn’t xxxxxxx listed?” Ask yourself if it’s a movie an 8-10 year old in the 80s would tend to watch. I made it clear that my criteria was nostalgia based on what I watched in the 80s.
Others might be: have I seen this movie lately and is it REALLY that good to argue over? ;)

We had a handful of lists, and even though it was movies from the decade people still had their own criteria and lists. My lists look a lot different if I am asked to rank "80s movies" vs. "best of the decade". It also looks different if I am asked to give a list of "best" movies or favorties or important/iconic. I thought it was interesting to see the different approaches to lists and where people were coming from.

I also would say that movies people are complaining about would normalize in ranking to what people would expect if we had a lot of lists - it would also be boring and look like an imdb or Rolling Stone list. That also could not be true because only a few of us had movies like Platoon and Caddyshack on there, so it's interesting to observe which ones around here are considered classics over other. I have no doubt Raiders would pop to the top as would comedies like Vacation. I looks like these two are further down more poeple's lists and are more polarizing. Those are probably the interesting movies to talk about why the difference in rankings.
 
I also firmly believe it when people say the 80s was the decade of the blockbuster. So if you’re asking why a random drama wasn’t on the list that might be another reason.

these aren't "random dramas"

"The Natural' is considered one of the best baseball movies of all time and was universally loved by baseball/sports fans. Nominated for 4 academy awards with a star studded cast.

"Wall Street" is an iconic movie where Douglas won the Oscar for Best Actor...loved by the masses and critics alike. Also a star studded cast.
And?
 
I also firmly believe it when people say the 80s was the decade of the blockbuster. So if you’re asking why a random drama wasn’t on the list that might be another reason.

these aren't "random dramas"

"The Natural' is considered one of the best baseball movies of all time and was universally loved by baseball/sports fans. Nominated for 4 academy awards with a star studded cast.

"Wall Street" is an iconic movie where Douglas won the Oscar for Best Actor...loved by the masses and critics alike. Also a star studded cast.
And?
We must have conformity. Please step back and let the man work.
 
No.
What movies has Elvis Costello starred in? They will be in my top 200 easily.

He's the worst...I wonder if the Costello fanboys are the same lot as the Rush fanboys? Bad taste gonna bad taste.
Oh…..your disdain for Rush is horribly out of style man…but haters gonna hate.

And I have incredibly great taste….so piss off hater!!!!
 
Anyway, to answer the poll question, probably, but I’m not bent out of shape that they didn’t show up in two threads that were based on five people’s opinions and nothing else.
Well, somebody's not taking this seriously enough! ;)

FTR, I'm just having fun with this. If somebody ranks Brave Little Toaster and Harry and the Hendersons and the Little Mermaid over Wall Street, Hoosiers and The Natural, good for them.
 
Anyway, to answer the poll question, probably, but I’m not bent out of shape that they didn’t show up in two threads that were based on five people’s opinions and nothing else.
Well, somebody's not taking this seriously enough! ;)

FTR, I'm just having fun with this. If somebody ranks Brave Little Toaster and Harry and the Hendersons and the Little Mermaid over Wall Street, Hoosiers and The Natural, good for them.
I get it. I take ownership of my snippiness and taking it too seriously sometimes. Probably stems from the video store days and having similar conversations and being told 100s of times my movie tastes suck. :lol:
 
The Natural is kind of dull.
I'd rather watch Major League.
No doubt. I like Redford but he was all wrong that part- or at least was all wrong in 1984. He was almost 50 at that point and it showed. The music made that movie.

The artistic side of that movie is a masterpiece IMHO.

I love baseball and the romanticism around it so I can see why I would rate the movie higher than a non-sports fan. This movie captures that romanticism so eloquently.
 
I saw both in the theater back in the day. I’d be fine not listing them in the Top 200 of the 80’s. I doubt either one would make my Top 10 movies for each actor. I didn’t rank or list any movies. Maybe they would end up making it if I made an actual list. But my initial thought would be I could come up with 200 movies I liked better.
 

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