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FFA Movie Poll - 1984 Lists Due 7/29 (1 Viewer)

Buckaroo Banzai is also streaming on Amazon Prime.  I saw it in the theater and didn't think that much of it.  Can anybody talk me into giving it another go 34 years later?

 
Eephus said:
Buckaroo Banzai is also streaming on Amazon Prime.  I saw it in the theater and didn't think that much of it.  Can anybody talk me into giving it another go 34 years later?
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I was just researching that one myself.  I haven’t seen it, and not one that I had set to look for, but the streaming options aren’t great for this year among movies that I haven’t seen that intrigue me.  Not really seeing a whole lot that I want to watch available streaming or with upcoming TV times.

 
Don Quixote said:
I was just researching that one myself.  I haven’t seen it, and not one that I had set to look for, but the streaming options aren’t great for this year among movies that I haven’t seen that intrigue me.  Not really seeing a whole lot that I want to watch available streaming or with upcoming TV times.
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I mentioned Choose Me above.  It's the kind of film that'll provoke strong reactions.  I like it, wikkidpissah doesn't. 

While researching last night, I found some other working steams that didn't trigger any malware alerts :shrug:

The Hit - A British crime movie about hitmen John Hurt and Tim Roth bringing stoolie Terence Stamp back to face the boss.  It was Stephen Frears' first feature.  I remember it as being good but a bit slow. 

Crackers - Louis Malle's remake of the great Italian heist movie "Big Deal on Madonna Street".  My primary interest is because it was filmed in the neighborhood where I lived in 1984.  It stars Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Sean Penn.  I watched the first half hour last night and so far it's earned the terrible reviews it got at the time. 

I also found a stream of the 84 version of "Carmen" but will have to search for the link again.  It's in Italian with Arabic subtitles but it's an opera so the English words are readily available if I'm interested in multitasking.  It stars  Placido Domingo and is supposedly one of the best opera to film translations.

Les Blank's Zydeco documentary is on Amazon Prime. 

so is Ray Davies' "Return to Waterloo"

The Natural

A Polish horror movie called "Medium"

The second Indiana Jones movie

Cheech & Chong's Corsican Brothers which I remember as having one really funny gag

the Hopkins/Gibson Mutiny on the Bounty remake

Neil Jordan's directorial debut Angel which looks interesting but may be a 1982 release

Dog Day (Canicule) One of Lee Marvin's final roles in a low budget French gangster movie.

 
Eephus said:
One of my obscure five point films this time out is going to be "Choose Me", an odd uncategorizable movie from writer/director Alan Rudolph.  Rudolph is a Robert Altman protege who worked with Altman during one of his most fertile periods in the early 70s.  "Choose Me" has some of the quirks of "The Long Goodbye" and "Nashville" (Rudolph was Assistant Director on both) but has a style all its own.

"Choose Me" is structured like a sex farce (or a porno) where the main characters randomly slip in and out of bed with each other.  The characters are partially developed with pasts that may or may not be fantasies.  Similarly, the settings have one foot in 1980s LA but the other in a film noir dream world.   I'd probably classify it as a comedy because it's too absurd to be a drama but Rudolph's characters are oblivious to this.  They're all 30-something survivors of the 70s sexual revolution living in a world just before it was changed by AIDS.  The center of the love polygon is played by Genevieve Bujold, who's fantastic in a double role, Keith Carradine and a smoking hot Lesley Ann Warren.  Rae Dawn Chong is just awful though.

The selection of 1984 movies available for streaming is poor but lucky for you  "Choose Me" is on Amazon Prime.  Fittingly for a movie where its characters constantly deceive, Amazon's synopsis is wrong.  "Choose Me" isn't an easy movie to describe but I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with undercover cops and drug cartels. 
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:thumbup:

Got this one coming from the library.  

 
This is freaking hard. Really freaking hard. So many movies I really enjoy in 1984.....just so many!!!

 
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Todem said:
This is freaking hard. Really freaking hard. So many movies I really enjoy in 1984.....just so many!!!
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How many have you seen recently?  These re-watches are really making my decisions easier.  I am finding out that there is probably a reason I haven't watched a bunch of these in years.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
How many have you seen recently?  These re-watches are really making my decisions easier.  I am finding out that there is probably a reason I haven't watched a bunch of these in years.  
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Oh I have seen a ton of the ones I am mulling over recently. And while some have not aged as good....I still enjoy them a lot. Nostalgia does indeed play a role but I don't care. It takes me back to my youth. 

Some of them are not very good and have been crossed off of course. But I have about 30 films on my list. I am trying to get down to 20 and then I have to figure out the points.....again so far this has been the toughest year hands down.

 
You know, I really do like 2010 much more than 2001.

I think A Space Odyssey is a pretentious bore. 2010 at least has a little humanity to it.

 
Ok here we go and it was hard and I made some very tough cuts too....I have three 30 point movies though and those 3 are no doubt my favorites from that year. Some true guilty pleasure films there as well.

The Natural - 30

The Terminator - 30

This Is Spinal Tap - 30

The Karate Kid - 20

Ghostbusters - 10

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 15

A Nightmare On Elm Street - 15

The Killing Fields - 10

Beverly Hills Cop - 10

Once Upon A Time In America - 5

Red Dawn - 5

2010 - 5

Dune - 3

Bachelor Party - 3

Sixteen Candles - 3

Gremlins - 2

Dreamscape - 1

Body Double - 1

The Last Startfighter - 1

Footloose - 1


 

 
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Todem said:
Oh I have seen a ton of the ones I am mulling over recently. And while some have not aged as good....I still enjoy them a lot. Nostalgia does indeed play a role but I don't care. It takes me back to my youth. 

Some of them are not very good and have been crossed off of course. But I have about 30 films on my list. I am trying to get down to 20 and then I have to figure out the points.....again so far this has been the toughest year hands down.
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Just curious which ones you don't have aged well.  

 
Before we started I would have thought Ghostbusters and Spinal Tap would be fighting for top spots, but yet again I will probably be wrong based off the first small wave of lists.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
I would think that even you could admit that either of those winning >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Major League getting 1st.  
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Unlike 4 of the 9 poletoppers so far, Major League (freakish a winner as it was) was actually in my Top 20

 
Andy Dufresne said:
wikkidpissah said:
Do i not have to quit these poles if Karate Kid or Terminator ends up the consensus #1 for 1984?!
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Everyone knows it's going to be The Terminator. YOU should know that.

But the best movie of 1984 is Once Upon A Time In America.
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I think your best bet to stop The Terminator is to travel back in time to 1953 and kill James Cameron's mother

 
KarmaPolice said:
Just curious which ones you don't have aged well.  
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Blind Date

CHUD

Revenge Of The Nerds

Purple Rain

Movies I loved as a 14 years old and can't really sit through anymore (well Blind Date has a lot of great moments but is aged).

Of course the cinematic brilliance of Friday The 13th The Final Chapter did not make the cut nor this....the most brilliant dance scene in the history of cinema:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgj9tewHso

 
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Andy Dufresne said:
Everyone knows it's going to be The Terminator. YOU should know that.

But the best movie of 1984 is Once Upon A Time In America.
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The problem is Once Upon a Time in America has little to no nostalgia factor.  I myself didn't see it until 4-5 years ago vs Terminator and the other movies from my youth, so while it is great, it is not tied to any positive childhood memories.

I am voting on quality first and foremost but don't expect most to follow that lead.

 
Saw Once Upon a Time in America in the theater when it came out and was rooting for it to offer a alternate Gothic template to gangster sagas which, with the characters mostly being non-Italians, it could do and largely did. It got bogged down in its sprawlingness, but the reason i never referred back to it was that i fell in movielove with an 11yo female character (sure, she was played by Jennifer Connelly, but still.....) in it and that, of course, creeped me out. I aint going back.

 
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I'm going to try and give Once Upon a Time in America another go before the deadline.  I vaguely remember watching it on VHS and thinking that Leone's mythologizing worked better in a Western setting than a more modern one.

 
Eephus said:
I'm going to try and give Once Upon a Time in America another go before the deadline.  I vaguely remember watching it on VHS and thinking that Leone's mythologizing worked better in a Western setting than a more modern one.
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It is a movie I have been wanting to see for 20 years and just never got to. I think I will take @Andy Dufresne and break it up though.

 
shuke said:
Body Double, Dreamscape, Top Secret, Starman all have probably been forgotten about.
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I loved Body Double - loved, loved.  Thanks for mentioning that one because it needs to be on my points list.  Have never heard of Dreamscape and will check it out!  I know I saw Starman but don't remember it much - might be worth a revisit.  Top Secret! was hilarious.

ETA:  will check out Night of the Comet and Runaway, too.  I have a nice little list now. :thumbup:  

 
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krista4 said:
I loved Body Double - loved, loved.  Thanks for mentioning that one because it needs to be on my points list.  Have never heard of Dreamscape and will check it out!  I know I saw Starman but don't remember it much - might be worth a revisit.  Top Secret! was hilarious.

ETA:  will check out Night of the Comet and Runaway, too.  I have a nice little list now. :thumbup:  
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I'm guessing Dreamscape might not have aged well, but I loved it as a kid.

Night of the Comet and Runaway are probably horrible.  Runaway has protagonist Tom Selleck vs. the evil Gene Simmons, and robot spiders!

 
I think I saw that Selleck-Simmons-Spiders movie unless it was another robot spider movie.

Razorback is a surprisingly good horror flick about a gigantic wild boar terrorizing the Australian Outback.  It was directed by music video director Russel Mulcahy and has nice visual style and a decent level of suspense.  I remember it was recommended by the guy at the video store back in the 80s.   I watched about half of it late night on TCM a few years ago and thought it held up well for a movie about killer pigs.

 
I watched Razorback and it's probably in line for a few points.  It's an excellent low budget horror movie for the first 3/4ths of its run time.  The Australian locations are striking and there's a colorful cast of supporting characters to propel the plot along. 

The last 20 minutes or so suffer from the problem that's plagued monster movies since the silent era--the filmmakers are required to eventually show the giant pig.  No matter how much smoke, darkness and artful editing they use, it's not a convincing model.  After punching above it's weight for most of the film, it ends up as just another silly movie about a killer pig.  But without a doubt, the greatest killer pig movie in the history of Australian cinema.

 
krista4 said:
I loved Body Double - loved, loved.  Thanks for mentioning that one because it needs to be on my points list.  Have never heard of Dreamscape and will check it out!  I know I saw Starman but don't remember it much - might be worth a revisit.  Top Secret! was hilarious.

ETA:  will check out Night of the Comet and Runaway, too.  I have a nice little list now. :thumbup:  
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Body Double made my list, Dreamscape made my list. Starmen was another one of those difficult cuts (I am a huge John Carpenter fan). Both Body Double and Dreamscape are delicious 80’s flicks. Starman has a ton of heart and Jeff Bridges is fantastic as usual. 

 
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Todem said:
Starman has a ton of heart and Jeff Bridges is fantastic as usual. 
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I re-watched this a couple nights ago, and think this will be a hard one to cut, but ultimately will be cut from point contention.  I think it would have been an easier decision, but like you said, the movie has a ton of heart and it pulls you in despite the flaws.  

Last night I watched C.H.U.D., and I no it's a surprise to everybody here, but that thing was pretty bad.  That was one that has always stuck in my head as really liking in HS (probably just because I thought I was cool because I still remember what C.H.U.D. was short for), but it's an easy cross off.  

 
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