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The 100 Greatest movies of the 80s #1 Aliens (5 Viewers)
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
All I see is that catcher's mitt skin and cancer by the time they are thirty.
timschochet
Footballguy
12. Scarface (1983)
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
Synopsis: Cuban refugee Tony Montana becomes Florida drug lord.
The only thing in this world that gives orders is…balls. - Al Pacino as Tony Montana
So many great quotes to choose from but almost all of them would have been censored out, and “say hello to my little friend” is way too cliche at this point.
Such a classic gangster film, riveting from start to finish. Pacino is way over the top, completely opposite of the quiet, reserved Michael Corleone, and plays this role with tremendous energy. This may be his best acting performance. Love love love Michelle Pfeiffer in her break out role here as the coked out beauty. During one of the two club scenes they play Deborah Harry while focusing on Pfeiffer- perfect!
Ensemble cast is also all great including Loggia, Bauer, and an early appearance by the future Hector Salamanca, Mark Margolis. So good.
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
Synopsis: Cuban refugee Tony Montana becomes Florida drug lord.
The only thing in this world that gives orders is…balls. - Al Pacino as Tony Montana
So many great quotes to choose from but almost all of them would have been censored out, and “say hello to my little friend” is way too cliche at this point.
Such a classic gangster film, riveting from start to finish. Pacino is way over the top, completely opposite of the quiet, reserved Michael Corleone, and plays this role with tremendous energy. This may be his best acting performance. Love love love Michelle Pfeiffer in her break out role here as the coked out beauty. During one of the two club scenes they play Deborah Harry while focusing on Pfeiffer- perfect!
Ensemble cast is also all great including Loggia, Bauer, and an early appearance by the future Hector Salamanca, Mark Margolis. So good.
TripItUp
Footballguy
About where I'd have it. Great film.
TripItUp
Footballguy
Probably in my top 10 and arguably the best sports movie of all time.
A nearly perfect film for me, and certainly a timeless one.
Nice to see it get the appropriate recognition here.
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TripItUp
Footballguy
Unlike Scarface or Hoosiers by comparison, this was a great movie that I would think most of us grew out of. As such, not very rewatchable but have no problem with the ranking due to its iconic status...similar to a film like Fast Times.(snubbed)
TripItUp
Footballguy
would be significantly lower on my list, a very good, but not great film.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I think the staying power is because each character is a pretty timeless HS archetype. Watched it recently with my 13yo daughter, who liked it. But tbh, I was never a huge fan.. although I also liked it fine.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
This is another movie everyone loves, but I do not. I think Pacino is tremendously overrated as an actor and he seems like a cartoon character in this film.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Hoo-wah!
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I am hoping Fast Times still comes up. I think that is a much better movie than The Breakfast Club. The characters seem more real where TBC seems like a script written by someone doing a Psych 101 project which each character being such a simple archetype with such simple motivations.
Totally agree but for me it work for this movie and is what makes this movie pretty awesome. How else are you gonna sell somebody inhaling a metric "s" ton of coke before firing off 100's of rounds while also taking on lead like its going out of style? Now as El Floppo points out that same style slightly muted makes Scent of a Woman worse than it should be, imo.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Agree I love the over the top performance here. The whole movie is BIG and feels very welcome to the 80s. A break from the much grittier, methodical 70s. It’s an insane performance no doubt but I like it. Also if you’ve seen the original with Paul Muni, he’s locked in on 100 in that whole thing so it makes sense in the remake.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Wasn't fast times already shown much earlier/higher in this list?
And totally agree. The archetypes make BC timeless, but also limits it ceiling (for me at least) because of it. And the voice over explanation via the letter seemed so unnecessary.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Someday I'll watch Scarface again.
Be sure its the uncut one so you can watch the shower scene in all it's full g(l)ory.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Wait... We haven't seen The Lonely Lady starring Pia Zadora yet? Not many spots left.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Parlez-vous Dubonnet?
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
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Hastur
Footballguy
Fast Times was #61
zamboni
Footballguy
He just switched to Sanka, so have a heart.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Steven Bauer was another future Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul actor, playing Hector's boss Don Eladio. In Scarface he was Tony's right hand man Manny Ribera.
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
Bauer's tongue alone might have deserved an Oscar nod...
Gr00vus
Footballguy
This is a really good take on the Breakfast Club. Even when the movie came out, and I was in hIgh school, it didn't really click with me for this reason, and also because a lot of the dialog was pretty contrived. It didn't sound like anything anyone in the real world actually said.
Also this film converted me from being a big fan of the Simple Minds to almost completely losing interest in them from that point forward.
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I have no idea what movie that's from. And stop calling me Brewster.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
If it's any consolation, I was never much into John Hughes' stuff either.
And it's from Fright Night. Which also is apparently going to rank surprisingly high here.
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
And every film he's done other than the Godfather movies.
zamboni
Footballguy
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
Where do you think that one will fall in the top 10?
timschochet
Footballguy
11. Airplane! (1980)
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Neilson, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Graves
Synopsis: A passenger is forced to land a plane when the pilots are taken ill.
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? - Peter Graves as Captain Clarence Oveur
What amazes me about Airplane! is that, 45 years later with all the changes to our society and culture it still seems amazingly funny to me and not especially dated. So much of the humor seems timeless and even the stuff that IS dated (Barbara Billingsly speaks jive!) is still hilarious. So many great lines I wouldn’t even know where to start. My favorite character is probably Robert Stack (“You ever been kicked in the head Striker? With an iron boot?”)
One great story that was repeated on the Max show about the Lakers, Winning Time: Kareem was known to be an unfriendly k guy when this movie was made. The kid who played Joey was so excited to be in a scene with him that afterwards he approached Kareem and asked if they could take a photo together that he could show his family. Kareem looked down at him and said “**** off kid.” Lol
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Neilson, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Graves
Synopsis: A passenger is forced to land a plane when the pilots are taken ill.
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? - Peter Graves as Captain Clarence Oveur
What amazes me about Airplane! is that, 45 years later with all the changes to our society and culture it still seems amazingly funny to me and not especially dated. So much of the humor seems timeless and even the stuff that IS dated (Barbara Billingsly speaks jive!) is still hilarious. So many great lines I wouldn’t even know where to start. My favorite character is probably Robert Stack (“You ever been kicked in the head Striker? With an iron boot?”)
One great story that was repeated on the Max show about the Lakers, Winning Time: Kareem was known to be an unfriendly k guy when this movie was made. The kid who played Joey was so excited to be in a scene with him that afterwards he approached Kareem and asked if they could take a photo together that he could show his family. Kareem looked down at him and said “**** off kid.” Lol
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Watched it with my 15 year old over the holidays, he enjoyed it. It's funny some of the stuff that is dated - reference to JC Penny, atari 2600 basketball, Ethyl Merman for example, that I had to explain (along with the jive). Some racism in it too that probably would get cut if the film were made today (particularly the teaching natives basketball scene).Showed to my discerning 17yo last year... He loved it. Me too.
The scene where they pull Kareem out of the cockpit and he's in his Lakers kit..
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El Floppo
Footballguy
I think there's no way that film gets made today.Watched it with my 15 year old over the holidays, he enjoyed it. It's funny some of the stuff that is dated - reference to JC Penny, atari 2600 basketball, Ethyl Merman for example, that I had to explain (along with the jive). Some mild racism in it too that probably would get cut if the film were made today (particularly the teaching natives basketball scene).Showed to my discerning 17yo last year... He loved it. Me too.
The scene where they pull Kareem out of the cockpit and he's in his Lakers kit..
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Surely you can't be serious?!?
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Because it is so unfunny?I think there's no way that film gets made today.Watched it with my 15 year old over the holidays, he enjoyed it. It's funny some of the stuff that is dated - reference to JC Penny, atari 2600 basketball, Ethyl Merman for example, that I had to explain (along with the jive). Some mild racism in it too that probably would get cut if the film were made today (particularly the teaching natives basketball scene).Showed to my discerning 17yo last year... He loved it. Me too.
The scene where they pull Kareem out of the cockpit and he's in his Lakers kit..
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Of course not. It takes Leslie Neilson and his fart machines to make it awesome.I think there's no way that film gets made today.Watched it with my 15 year old over the holidays, he enjoyed it. It's funny some of the stuff that is dated - reference to JC Penny, atari 2600 basketball, Ethyl Merman for example, that I had to explain (along with the jive). Some mild racism in it too that probably would get cut if the film were made today (particularly the teaching natives basketball scene).Showed to my discerning 17yo last year... He loved it. Me too.
The scene where they pull Kareem out of the cockpit and he's in his Lakers kit..
Let 'er rip.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Showed to my discerning 17yo last year... He loved it. Me too.
The scene where they pull Kareem out of the cockpit and he's in his Lakers kit..
We call them "uniforms" here, Rooney.
I need to show this to my twins. It's time. Bosoms and all.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I vividly remember watching it on video around 10 years old with my parents, who were used to the TV edited version. They were caught off-guard when Jell-O boob scene came on.Watched it with my 15 year old over the holidays, he enjoyed it. It's funny some of the stuff that is dated - reference to JC Penny, atari 2600 basketball, Ethyl Merman for example, that I had to explain (along with the jive). Some racism in it too that probably would get cut if the film were made today (particularly the teaching natives basketball scene).Showed to my discerning 17yo last year... He loved it. Me too.
The scene where they pull Kareem out of the cockpit and he's in his Lakers kit..
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Did they explain Turkish prisons and gladiators to you?I vividly remember watching it on video around 10 years old with my parents, who were used to the TV edited version. They were caught off-guard when Jell-O boob scene came on.Watched it with my 15 year old over the holidays, he enjoyed it. It's funny some of the stuff that is dated - reference to JC Penny, atari 2600 basketball, Ethyl Merman for example, that I had to explain (along with the jive). Some racism in it too that probably would get cut if the film were made today (particularly the teaching natives basketball scene).Showed to my discerning 17yo last year... He loved it. Me too.
The scene where they pull Kareem out of the cockpit and he's in his Lakers kit..
El Floppo
Footballguy
I saw it in the theaters as a kid. I found the Ethyl Merman thing hilarious- just as an absurd moment. Had no idea who she was at the time.
What do you make of that?
titusbramble
Footballguy
Airplane not in the top ten? Surely you can't be serious
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