Can you make another video when JD misses the top 5?Debate point for the thread - Johnny Dangerously is going to be in the top 5, so that isn't the issue, but here's the debate - was that Michael Keaton's best role?
Fight me.
I say it is.
Don't turn this into a political thread!Can we get @otb_lifer back in here for another Muppets hate take?
Blood SimpleSomebody give me suggestions on possibly overlooked 1984 gems? I'm not as enamored of this year as a lot of you seem to be. :(
ETA: @Eephus, I will watch The Go Between before any 1984 movies!
Excellent suggestion - loved this movie.Blood Simple
This is 1984. Nothing can be taken too seriously.
Not much I'm afraid. I know of nothing more obscure than Paris, Texas. Pope of Greenwich Village & Albert Finney's devastating performance in an otherwise messy version of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano that would be of any real interest to cinephiles.Even that year's Almodovar sucks. Jarmusch's debut Stranger in Paradise was ' 84 but i hated that cuz i was gambling for a living at the time and the gamblers in that ring totally false, but that wouldn't be a picking point for you. I loved Broadway Danny Rose & Starman (which i got a LOT of flak for) but i'd almost have to think you know those. The rest of 1984's treasures are painfully (and i mean painfully) obviousSomebody give me suggestions on possibly overlooked 1984 gems? I'm not as enamored of this year as a lot of you seem to be. :(
ETA: @Eephus, I will watch The Go Between before any 1984 movies!
Once Upon A Time In America is one of my all-time favorites.Somebody give me suggestions on possibly overlooked 1984 gems? I'm not as enamored of this year as a lot of you seem to be. :(
ETA: @Eephus, I will watch The Go Between before any 1984 movies!
Yeah, I've seen all the ones you've named. Love Under the Volcano and Stranger in Paradise in particular, so you and I might be at odds on this year.Not much I'm afraid. I know of nothing more obscure than Paris, Texas. Pope of Greenwich Village & Albert Finney's devastating performance in an otherwise messy version of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano that would be of any real interest to cinephiles.Even that year's Almodovar sucks. Jarmusch's debut Stranger in Paradise was ' 84 but i hated that cuz i was gambling for a living at the time and the gamblers in that ring totally false, but that wouldn't be a picking point for you. I loved Broadway Danny Rose & Starman (which i got a LOT of flak for) but i'd almost have to think you know those. The rest of 1984's treasures are painfully (and i mean painfully) obvious
Have not seen! Will do.Once Upon A Time In America is one of my all-time favorites.
That farging icehole!!!!Debate point for the thread - Johnny Dangerously is going to be in the top 5, so that isn't the issue, but here's the debate - was that Michael Keaton's best role?
Fight me.
I say it is.
Some of them will get points from me - Ghostbusters, probably Gremlins, and I don't know if Spinal Tap is cheese but it'll be a top point-getter. It's a quirk of mine that I don't have a sense of nostalgia. At all. So "I loved 16 Candles when I was a kid" doesn't do anything for me (just using that as a random example - I still kind of like that movie).@krista4 - just embrace the 80s cheese.
I remember liking both Dangerous Moves and Choose Me but remember very little detail of why. I might need to revisit. I'll add that Miyazaki to my list! Have not seen Sunday in the Country.@krista4 - have you seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind? I have it on tap for a re-watch, but remember thinking it was one of my favorite Miyazaki movies.
Also, have you seen any of: Choose Me, Dangerous Moves, or A Sunday in the Country? I haven't seen them, but wrote them down as I was digging deeper for this year and was going to order a couple through the library.
Oh come ON!I did some research last night, and I am sad to report that pts for The Last Starfighter from me would just be out of nostalgia. I still love the idea of the movie, but the f/x in the movie look Tron-level bad at times, and it's a bit cheesier than I remembered overall.
The computer graphics for the film were rendered by Digital Productions on a Cray X-MP supercomputer. The company created 27 minutes of effects for the film. This was considered an enormous amount of computer generated imagery at the time. For the 300 scenes containing computer graphics in the film, each frame of the animation contained an average of 250,000 polygons, and had a resolution of 3000 × 5000 36-bit pixels. Digital Productions estimated that using computer animation required only half the time, and one half to one third the cost of traditional special effects. The result was a cost of $14 million for a film that made about $21 million at the box office.
The Gunstar, the movie's final starfighter, comprises almost 400,000 polygons — four times the number of any object ever produced by computer graphics before then.
As a kid I just wanted somebody who looked like Maggie to be that excited that I was kicking ### at a video game.I'm still holding out hope that an alien in disguise will one day reach out to me with the phrase "Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
IT'S GONNA HAPPEN!
The European Cut is over 3 1/2 hours but doesn't seem like it and is worth it. Much better than the hackened U.S. version. PlusI am sure it is, it's just that when I looked at it, the movie has too many of my movie mental blocks to get over:
- gangsters
- Joe Pesci
- almost 4 hour run time.
I could just about re-watch CHUD, Footloose, AND Breakin' if that amount of time.
I actually agree with all of that. As I had kids, my barometer for movies from my childhood started becoming "could I show this to my kid and not be embarrassed and/or think he will genuinely like it?", and that factors into my ratings as far as if I think a movie holds up. As I watched LS last night I had the thought that I was glad I watched that one by myself.Oh come ON!
The effects are part of the charm. And it has much more of a soul and way better pace than the horrible Tron. The story is just all kinds of fun - a thing way too many sci-fi movies forget to be.
Thanks to Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom (oom knoshiba, oom knoshiba, CALIMARRRRR!!!!).I forgot that 1984 was the introduction of the PG-13 rating.
Was it this and Gremlins that forced them to re-think the ratings?Thanks to Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom (oom knoshiba, oom knoshiba, CALIMARRRRR!!!!).
Yep. Totally.Was it this and Gremlins that forced them to re-think the ratings?
You're right. It's probably top 3. I sold it short.
The movie within a movie, "Your [insert scientific word for a guy's nuts] and You," was the greatest sex-ed video ever made in the history of sex-ed.Well Weird Al did do the theme song....
Joe Bob Briggs would label Choose Me "Welcome to L.A. Fu". I was tired of Rudolph's whole City of the One Night Stand act from that '76 epic and find the music from each their only grace.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.
No. Not good. Interesting, hard to believe a flick where Harry Dean Stanton had so many lines would leave one cold, but far from necessary.Is Paris, Texas a must see?
I liked "Welcome to LA" too but I think "Choose Me" is the better film. They seem less pretentious if you watch them as comedies.Joe Bob Briggs would label Choose Me "Welcome to L.A. Fu". I was tired of Rudolph's whole City of the One Night Stand act from that '76 epic and find the music from each their only grace.
Gary Oldham was great as Mozart in Immortal Beloved.if they had cast Mozart better (Tim Curry was the right kind of brilliant in the play) Amadeus would be my favorite movie of all time
He was interesting, but wasn't until Humperdinck Cucumber's performance as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game that a person cursed by genius was properly portrayed on film.Gary Oldham was great as Mozart in Immortal Beloved.
I took my (at the time) 7 year old step son to see this in the theatre - we used to always watch the show together in reruns and on Sunday Nights. There were scenes we're he literally fell out of his seat and rolled on the floor laughing his ### off (ok the "### off" part wasn't literal).Spider Pig
Spider Pig
Does whatever a Spider Pig does
Can he swing from a web?
No he can't
He's a pig
Look out!
Here comes the Spider Pig
I thought they were excuses for ladies to watch Keith Carradine's Adam's apple bob up&downI liked "Welcome to LA" too but I think "Choose Me" is the better film. They seem less pretentious if you watch them as comedies.
We-he-hell that'll be the dayGary Busey was great in "The Woolly Mozart Story"
and I still like it - MST3K worthy, I think that's why I like it.On the other end of things I don't know if they could have made Dune worse if they'd actively tried.
The Baron Harkonnen is the vilest character I think I've ever seen. https://youtu.be/mWq15lDh8yM
Wait, what?Gary Oldham was great as Mozart in Immortal Beloved.
He was better as Mozart in Immortal Beloved than he was as BeethovenWait, what?