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

Todem said:
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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Nice, Body Double is on my short list. I am not sure I will be able to find it though.

 
I won't post my whole list, but the top 5 are:

Ghostbusters                            30

The Terminator                        28

Johnny Dangerously                  26

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  25

The Neverending Story            24
 
You guys are some serious nerds 

(I mean that in a nice way, totally self aware I am posting on a thread where we are ranking old movies on a fantasy football message board where I have like a million posts about black and white films, zero RB strategy and big band music)

 
KarmaPolice said:
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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Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers.

I did not even google it for this post.....did I remember it Karma?

 
Ilov80s said:
You guys are some serious nerds 

(I mean that in a nice way, totally self aware I am posting on a thread where we are ranking old movies on a fantasy football message board where I have like a million posts about black and white films, zero RB strategy and big band music)
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I am in there so much, and it's a small town,  that the librarians give me a little #### about how many movies I go through.  Yesterday the exchange was some on the lines of..

- you get a lot of movies, and they seem to be oddly clustered.  Didn't you just have a pile of B&Ws?

- yeah, but we are on to a different year now.  

- oh, you and your wife like to skip around.  

- no, she doesn't watch any movies with me.  

- :mellow:   (then I realized that I said "we" ) 

-  Let's just say that I am part of a movie club online, and we randomly skip from year to year and talk about movies from that year.  

- ah, so you try to catch up on some classics you might not have seen before.  

- something like that 

-  So.... C.H.U.D. fits into that how..?  

-  :bag:

 
1984 will be the toughest poll year so far for me. There are so many excellent ones and some very good ones that I rarely hear mentioned such as:

The Bounty

The Flamingo Kid

 
KarmaPolice said:
I am in there so much, and it's a small town,  that the librarians give me a little #### about how many movies I go through.  Yesterday the exchange was some on the lines of..

- you get a lot of movies, and they seem to be oddly clustered.  Didn't you just have a pile of B&Ws?

- yeah, but we are on to a different year now.  

- oh, you and your wife like to skip around.  

- no, she doesn't watch any movies with me.  

- :mellow:   (then I realized that I said "we" ) 

-  Let's just say that I am part of a movie club online, and we randomly skip from year to year and talk about movies from that year.  

- ah, so you try to catch up on some classics you might not have seen before.  

- something like that 

-  So.... C.H.U.D. fits into that how..?  

-  :bag:
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I've still never explained this to my wife.  She probably thinks I'm constantly up late watching porn after she goes to bed.  I, for some reason, find that preferable to explaining what I'm actually doing.

 
KarmaPolice said:
I am in there so much, and it's a small town,  that the librarians give me a little #### about how many movies I go through.  Yesterday the exchange was some on the lines of..

- you get a lot of movies, and they seem to be oddly clustered.  Didn't you just have a pile of B&Ws?

- yeah, but we are on to a different year now.  

- oh, you and your wife like to skip around.  

- no, she doesn't watch any movies with me.  

- :mellow:   (then I realized that I said "we" ) 

-  Let's just say that I am part of a movie club online, and we randomly skip from year to year and talk about movies from that year.  

- ah, so you try to catch up on some classics you might not have seen before.  

- something like that 

-  So.... C.H.U.D. fits into that how..?  

-  :bag:
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:lmao:

 
Don Quixote said:
I've still never explained this to my wife.  She probably thinks I'm constantly up late watching porn after she goes to bed.  I, for some reason, find that preferable to explaining what I'm actually doing.
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Honey, remember that movie about the gigantic man-eating pig I made you watch in the 80s?  Well, I'm watching it again for a best movies of 1984 poll.  I'll see you in the morning.

 
Mr. Mojo said:
1984 will be the toughest poll year so far for me. There are so many excellent ones and some very good ones that I rarely hear mentioned such as:

The Bounty
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Does anybody think this one is better than the two previous Mutinies on the Bounty?

 
This is Spinal Tap - 25

Body Double - 21

Top Secret - 19

The Terminator - 18

Nightmare on Elm Street - 16

Blood Simple - 15

Ghostbusters - 15

Gremlins - 15

Dreamscape - 12

Sixteen Candles - 10

The Karate kid - 9

Red Dawn - 5

Starman - 5

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 5

Bachelor Party - 3

Revenge of the Nerds - 2

Children of the Corn - 2

Johnny Dangerously - 1

Firestarter - 1

Runaway - 1

 
Eephus said:
Does anybody think this one is better than the two previous Mutinies on the Bounty?
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I don't remember much about the original ones, but the casting in this one is great. Mel and Anthony Hopkins, but also Daniel Day Lewis, Liam Neeson and Laurence Olivier in supporting roles. Add in the Vangelis soundtrack and it's a fine film.

 
Wow this truly is a tough year. Perhaps no classic all-time greats but so deep.

A few I haven't seen mentioned in the thread yet that I really like:

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Romancing the Stone

The Lonely Guy

All of Me

Children of the Corn (ok this one is not very good, but I like it for some reason)

Broadway Danny Rose

Stranger than Paradise

Streets of Fire

And there's many mentioned already that I need to fit in

 
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So I thought of this as going through my list and looking at some movies

Rob Reiner is the greatest director of the 80s. I never really think of him as a great director but nobody can match him for 80s films: Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride. 

 
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Ilov80s said:
So I thought of this as going through my list and some movies

Rob Reiner is the greatest director of the 80s. I never really think of him as a great director but nobody can match him for 80s films: Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride. 
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Laurence Kasdan was another good director for the 80s:

Body Heat

The Big Chill

Silverado

The Accidental Tourist

 
Ilov80s said:
Honestly, I am not sure I have seen any of those movies.
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I haven't seen Body Heat in like 30 years but, damn, that movie was aptly named in the 80s. I need to see that again to see if it holds up. Great cast.

Speaking of "holding up", I can't imagine The Big Chill does that very well. Another great cast (& soundtrack), but it's a Baby Boomer time capsule that would probably interest almost no one these days.

Silverado is a freaking blast. Outside of Costner - whose character annoys the hell out of me - and a pointless Rosanna Arquette character, everyone is pretty great in this. Gave Danny Glover his first big mainstream role. Linda Hunt and Brian Dennehy (sp?) were on major rolls at this point and play their roles to the hilt. Great musical score. You could do a whole lot worse than spending two hours with this movie.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I haven't seen Body Heat in like 30 years but, damn, that movie was aptly named in the 80s. I need to see that again to see if it holds up. Great cast.

Speaking of "holding up", I can't imagine The Big Chill does that very well. Another great cast (& soundtrack), but it's a Baby Boomer time capsule that would probably interest almost no one these days.

Silverado is a freaking blast. Outside of Costner - whose character annoys the hell out of me - and a pointless Rosanna Arquette character, everyone is pretty great in this. Gave Danny Glover his first big mainstream role. Linda Hunt and Brian Dennehy (sp?) were on major rolls at this point and play their roles to the hilt. Great musical score. You could do a whole lot worse than spending two hours with this movie.
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Is this also your way of saying The Accidental Tourist stinks?

 
krista4 said:
I think The Accidental Tourist is the best of the four listed.
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Interesting. They all sound pretty good but I don't think they come close to what Reiner did in the 80s. Princess Bride and Spinal Tap are two of the great cult classics and routinely pop up on lists of funniest movies, most quotable movies. Stand By Me is one of the best coming of age films ever made. When Harry Met Sally is pretty much the universally agreed upon as one of the standard bearers for the romantic comedy. I feel like Reiner doesn't get a ton of credit for those films. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Interesting. They all sound pretty good but I don't think they come close to what Reiner did in the 80s. Princess Bride and Spinal Tap are two of the great cult classics and routinely pop up on lists of funniest movies, most quotable movies. Stand By Me is one of the best coming of age films ever made. When Harry Met Sally is pretty much the universally agreed upon as one of the standard bearers for the romantic comedy. I feel like Reiner doesn't get a ton of credit for those films. 
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The Sure Thing is a good road movie that manages to avoid the obvious cliches

 
I absolutely worshipped Kasdan for capturing so many gestalts with those first four movies. Since Altman/Gould brought noir into the modern day, i yearned for someone to style one up for my gen. Speaking of gen, Woody Allen was about the only one doing Boomer/hipster stuff, but that was very place-specific and didnt address W of Hudson. Since Star Wars made the western loveable, i wanted someone to bring it back to the west. Pretty damn fine jobs of each in Body Heat, Big Chill and Silverado and, for a cherry on top he & Anne Tyler made a comedy about the autism in all of us. That's a killer batch.

 
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I watched "The Hit" last week and highly recommend it.  It's a black comedy about the kidnapping and planned murder of an informant who turned on his bosses ten years earlier.   The film casts against type with Terrence Stamp playing the philosophical informant  and John Hurt as the more malevolent of the two hitmen.  Both are terrific as is a very young Tim Roth. 

It's extremely dark and almost everyone ends up dead in the end but there's still a fair bit of humor.

I started watching "Once Upon a Time in America" but man it is long. 

 
Brony said:
Breakin' and Breakin' 2 were in the same year?!!?  who knew? 
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The documentary "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" (streaming on Netflix) is a entertaining look at Menachem Golan & Yoram Globus who produced these and scores of other quickie films of the 80s.

 
Scoresman said:
Google shows a different result, unless one has international vs. US or whatever.  
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I see Box Office mojo has another movie. Some other site has the movie I marked as the answer. It might depend on North America vs International- IDK, just going to keep my answer I guess 

 
Ilov80s said:
So I thought of this as going through my list and looking at some movies

Rob Reiner is the greatest director of the 80s. I never really think of him as a great director but nobody can match him for 80s films: Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride. 
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Spielberg might.  

 
Short Corner said:
Spielberg might.  
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I think Spielberg had the best run in the 90s: Schindlers, Saving Private Ryan and Jurassic Park are all time classics. He won 2 Best DIrector Oscars in the 90s. AI and Hook are pretty good 2nd/3rd tier Spielberg films too. 

He certainly had a great 80s as well. Raiders and ET were classics. Are the 2 other Indiana Jones, Color Purple, Amistad and Empire of the Sun great? Maybe. I think they are fine but I tthink they are going to fade into shadows of film history. In many ways, they already have. I think it's clearly Reiner, but Spielberg did have an amazing decade. 

 
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