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Socialism for Dummies
We are well past that at this stage.
Just waiting for the coup de grace ranking to make me go apoplectic.
I dont think even Howard the Duck or Leonard Part 6 would do it at the moment
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The 100 Greatest movies of the 80s # 14. The Breakfast Club (20 Viewers)
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Just waiting for the coup de grace ranking to make me go apoplectic.
I dont think even Howard the Duck or Leonard Part 6 would do it at the moment
Hastur
Footballguy
PlutoTV. Go to IMDB, search for the movie, then just a little scroll down are the places it streams. Click on the PlutoTV button, and it should start up.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I have decided to embrace this list and accept that there are likely a lot of good 80s movies I haven't seen.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Leonard Part 6 is, IMO, the worst movie ever made, and it always will be.
Hastur
Footballguy
For years I thought Best Defense with Eddie Murphy and Dudley Moore was, then I attempted to watch Leonard Part 6. Whew...
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Just making a prediction.
1. Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Directed by: Paul Weiland
Starring: Bill Cosby, Tom Courtenay, Joe Don Baker, Gloria Foster
Synopsis: Leonard Parker, a retired CIA spy who now operates a restaurant.
Frayn: This was, I believe, the first recorded instance of a CIA agent being eaten alive by a rainbow trout!
….- Tom Courtenay as Frayn
The film starts with Parker being called out of retirement by his CIA director Snyderburn (Baker) to save the world from evil vegetarian Medusa Johnson (Foster), who brainwashes animals to kill people.
This underrated masterpiece makes Woody Allen seem like Ed Wood. Laughed, I nearly shat myself.
The beautifully choreographed rape scene was perhaps a sign of things to come, but calls to attention the wonderful work of Jan De Bont who would go on to direct Speed and Twister to great success.
I know I may get some flak for this ranking, but when I see a genius at work, I will call it out.
1. Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Directed by: Paul Weiland
Starring: Bill Cosby, Tom Courtenay, Joe Don Baker, Gloria Foster
Synopsis: Leonard Parker, a retired CIA spy who now operates a restaurant.
Frayn: This was, I believe, the first recorded instance of a CIA agent being eaten alive by a rainbow trout!
….- Tom Courtenay as Frayn
The film starts with Parker being called out of retirement by his CIA director Snyderburn (Baker) to save the world from evil vegetarian Medusa Johnson (Foster), who brainwashes animals to kill people.
This underrated masterpiece makes Woody Allen seem like Ed Wood. Laughed, I nearly shat myself.
The beautifully choreographed rape scene was perhaps a sign of things to come, but calls to attention the wonderful work of Jan De Bont who would go on to direct Speed and Twister to great success.
I know I may get some flak for this ranking, but when I see a genius at work, I will call it out.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I’ve heard of it but don’t think I saw it - if I did I was too young to remember.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Great movie, very well done. I haven't seen it for years, though. Not a typical "Lynch" film.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Hastur
Footballguy
You should have included one of the most interesting facts about this movie: Mel Brooks was the Executive Producer.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I was expecting your link to be this.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Never seen it.
timschochet
Footballguy
In some ways it is though.
Great movie, very well done. I haven't seen it for years, though. Not a typical "Lynch" film.
For instance the scene where the camera enters the eyehole of the mask Merrick wears, and we see a world of odd factories and machinery: that’s pure Lynch, straight from Eraserhead. No other director would have included that sequence.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Atlantic City is a great movie from the 80s (barely).
Atlantic City is not a great 80s movie.
This wasn't a movie that shaped our formative youth and installed a 13yo boner for it through our lives like the rest of the movies people have been complaining about being too low. Most of those, if you saw today as an adult for the first time, you'd think we're lame.
Atlantic City is not a great 80s movie.
This wasn't a movie that shaped our formative youth and installed a 13yo boner for it through our lives like the rest of the movies people have been complaining about being too low. Most of those, if you saw today as an adult for the first time, you'd think we're lame.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
It's basically "outsider art." Imagine a film starring, written by and directed by an alien who doesn't really understand human behavior.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
I've heard of it and I get that it's supposed to be bad. Gonna watch it if it's streaming anywhere for free and review it.
timschochet
Footballguy
16. Broadcast News (1987)
Directed by: James Brooks
Starring: Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks
Synopsis: Romantic triangle develops in a newsroom
Wouldn’t it be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If “needy” was a turn on? - Albert Brooks as Aaron
Not only one of the great romantic comedies of all time, but an incisive look at the news media and our culture in general. The film is seen through the eyes of Hunter and Brooks as they are both repelled and attracted by Hurt’s shallow charisma. This is a fascinating character study and while some of the storyline is dated (given the tremendous changes to the news media in the last 40 years) the questions raised about popularity and what is truly important are pretty timeless.
Directed by: James Brooks
Starring: Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks
Synopsis: Romantic triangle develops in a newsroom
Wouldn’t it be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If “needy” was a turn on? - Albert Brooks as Aaron
Not only one of the great romantic comedies of all time, but an incisive look at the news media and our culture in general. The film is seen through the eyes of Hunter and Brooks as they are both repelled and attracted by Hurt’s shallow charisma. This is a fascinating character study and while some of the storyline is dated (given the tremendous changes to the news media in the last 40 years) the questions raised about popularity and what is truly important are pretty timeless.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I referenced this earlier in relation to The Accused... Albert Brooks makes light of date- rape here, for comedy sake.
Really well done movie and first time I remember peeking behind the curtain of news shows... Pretty eye opening for me.
When brooks gets to anchor..
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
one of my faves. Brooks at his best.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Lost in America, IMO... but also fantastic here.
timschochet
Footballguy
15. Rain Man (1986)
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise
Synopsis: A wheeler dealer discovers he has an older brother who is an autistic savant.
What you have to understand is four days ago I had a brother only in name. And today we had pancakes.
This funny and touching film about two very different brothers works in part because of the great script and in part because of the tremendous acting by the two leads. Everyone always talks about Hoffman’s great method performance (and it is) but Cruise, playing a selfish ******* who at first sees only the opportunities from his brother’s situation, has perhaps never been better.
This is the first film I can think of to deal with autism.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise
Synopsis: A wheeler dealer discovers he has an older brother who is an autistic savant.
What you have to understand is four days ago I had a brother only in name. And today we had pancakes.
This funny and touching film about two very different brothers works in part because of the great script and in part because of the tremendous acting by the two leads. Everyone always talks about Hoffman’s great method performance (and it is) but Cruise, playing a selfish ******* who at first sees only the opportunities from his brother’s situation, has perhaps never been better.
This is the first film I can think of to deal with autism.
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
82....82....82
FarFromHome
Footballguy
4 thousand 3 hundred and seventeen..
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I did not like this movie at all, probably because I found Hunter’s character annoying.
Brooks devolving into a sweaty mess when he tried to do the anchor job was funny, though.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Have always really enjoyed this movie. Not anywhere near my top-20, but a fantastic film that as tim notes above it hits on media topics that still are issues today.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
I accept that this is a great movie and many people enjoyed it thoroughly. Two personal peeves: 1) Cruise was way better than Hoffman in this movie, 2) as someone with an autistic cousin, aspects of the character resonated but in some ways the movie gave a very narrow impression or range of what autism looks like.
Anyway, quality film. Just not one that I love.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
More like it gave an impression of what one type of autistic expression can look like. The character is based on two real people.
Wikipedia has more details.
bigbottom
Footballguy
At the time, everyone raved about Dustin. But I always felt it was Cruise’s performance that was the masterclass.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I agree, and I can't stand Cruise.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Yeah, that’s a better way of saying what I was trying to say.
Shockingly I am over 50% (48/86) on having seen the movies and only one move (Atlantic City) that I have never heard of. This might be a record for me on these type lists...haha
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
The Breakfast Club
zamboni
Footballguy
Could you describe the ruckus?
timschochet
Footballguy
14. The Breakfast Club (1985)
Directed by: John Hughes
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estévez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Gleason
Synopsis: A group of high school students serve Saturday detention
We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. - Emilio Estévez as Andrew Clark
The Breakfast Club is probably the movie on this list that best defines the decade of the 1980s. That doesn’t make it the best movie of the 1980s (though at #14 I have it ranked pretty high.) it also may be the greatest film about high school of all time- certainly it would have to be at or near the top of any such list.
The ensemble cast is great but most of them play themselves, particularly Ringwald and Estévez. The real standout performance is by Judd Nelson, and I remember when I watched this for the first time thinking that he had the potential to become a major Hollywood serious actor along the lines of Robert DeNiro or Al Pacino- someone like that. If you had told me that he would essentially fade out of sight after a few films, but that Sean Penn of Fast Times would go on to have a long and highly respected acting career, I would have laughed and said “Dude…”
Directed by: John Hughes
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estévez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Gleason
Synopsis: A group of high school students serve Saturday detention
We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. - Emilio Estévez as Andrew Clark
The Breakfast Club is probably the movie on this list that best defines the decade of the 1980s. That doesn’t make it the best movie of the 1980s (though at #14 I have it ranked pretty high.) it also may be the greatest film about high school of all time- certainly it would have to be at or near the top of any such list.
The ensemble cast is great but most of them play themselves, particularly Ringwald and Estévez. The real standout performance is by Judd Nelson, and I remember when I watched this for the first time thinking that he had the potential to become a major Hollywood serious actor along the lines of Robert DeNiro or Al Pacino- someone like that. If you had told me that he would essentially fade out of sight after a few films, but that Sean Penn of Fast Times would go on to have a long and highly respected acting career, I would have laughed and said “Dude…”
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I knew it.
It's no Slumdog Millionaire
zamboni
Footballguy
Much less Class of 1984 - Oscar caliber performance by Salami.
timschochet
Footballguy
Lines that movie. Didn’t really consider it though. Remember when Salami bangs his head on a sink? Classic
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
screws fall out all the time. the world is an imperfect place.
Jayrod
Footballguy
My goodness. Never heard of that one.
Who said, "yes, I think this is a movie worth funding and making."?
Jayrod
Footballguy
If he gets up, we'll all get up. It will be anarchy!
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
What do you need a fake ID for?
So I can vote.
So I can vote.
Jayrod
Footballguy
zamboni
Footballguy
It was Canadian - they did those things back then.
Plus the opportunity to combine Salami and the fat camp counselor from Meatballs was probably too good to pass up.
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