Top 101 Movies of the 80s (3 Viewers)

[jdoggydogg]

If you're looking for the worst (yet somehow great) movies of the 80s, Tubi is the place to go. Lots of gems in there.

 

[Ilov80s]

39/40:

RAISING ARIZONA
E.T.

Our #16 picks on our list. Remember the post from last night - basically all the movies we will see today were only on one of our lists, but when ranked they were in our top 20: so one of us love it, and the other not so much. I was laughing a little last night thinking about my experience in the theaters in the early 80s. I was terrified of E.T., and then Gremlins scared me. It's a wonder I bothered continuing to watch movies, but maybe that set me up for a love of horror later? Everybody cooing about E.T. but me having flashbacks fof ET in the closet, screaming, and looking like a piece of white dog ****. I didn't get the love at the time, but it has warmed my heart over the years.

Gonna be honest here, I thought E.T. was going to be #1.

Raising Arizona is what put the Cohens on my radar, and I still love quoting this film, as do a lot of folks around here, I see.

Maybe I’ll give ET another shot. I saw it when I was really young and enjoyed it. When I watched again in my 20s I thought it was lame. I should give it another watch.

I’ve added to my watchlist:
The Stepfather
The Vanishing
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Sex, Lies and Videotapes (I think I saw this when I was too young originally)

 

[KarmaPolice]

What I like about the Abyss was there really is no other movie like it. Solid script, solid cinematography, solid special effects(for the time), great acting for the genre, great ending and original story.

I recall Deepstar Six coming out around the same time but that movie is trash and not in the same stratosphere. Abyss is a good movie.

I looked forward to The Abyss for weeks before it came out and saw it the first day.
All I could say was Meh.
It was good but didn't come close to meeting my expectations.

I could see that at the time. The movies before The Abyss had a different feel to them.

 

[otb_lifer]

39/40:

RAISING ARIZONA
E.T.

Our #16 picks on our list. Remember the post from last night - basically all the movies we will see today were only on one of our lists, but when ranked they were in our top 20: so one of us love it, and the other not so much. I was laughing a little last night thinking about my experience in the theaters in the early 80s. I was terrified of E.T., and then Gremlins scared me. It's a wonder I bothered continuing to watch movies, but maybe that set me up for a love of horror later? Everybody cooing about E.T. but me having flashbacks fof ET in the closet, screaming, and looking like a piece of white dog ****. I didn't get the love at the time, but it has warmed my heart over the years.

Gonna be honest here, I thought E.T. was going to be #1.

Raising Arizona is what put the Cohens on my radar, and I still love quoting this film, as do a lot of folks around here, I see.

Maybe I’ll give ET another shot.

don't.

39/40:

RAISING ARIZONA
E.T.

Our #16 picks on our list. Remember the post from last night - basically all the movies we will see today were only on one of our lists, but when ranked they were in our top 20: so one of us love it, and the other not so much. I was laughing a little last night thinking about my experience in the theaters in the early 80s. I was terrified of E.T., and then Gremlins scared me. It's a wonder I bothered continuing to watch movies, but maybe that set me up for a love of horror later? Everybody cooing about E.T. but me having flashbacks fof ET in the closet, screaming, and looking like a piece of white dog ****. I didn't get the love at the time, but it has warmed my heart over the years.

Gonna be honest here, I thought E.T. was going to be #1.

Raising Arizona is what put the Cohens on my radar, and I still love quoting this film, as do a lot of folks around here, I see.

When I watched again in my 20s I thought it was lame.

it is ... time will not change that.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Raising Arizona is a top 3 Cohens for me. It just gets funnier and funnier every time I see it. It deserves the same appreciation and legacy that Lebowski has.

I will agree with you a little on the bolded. I knew it was coming up today, so I watched it last night. For whatever reason I start to lose interest and don't like it as much about 1/2 way through. It's growiing on me, so who know where it would land if we do this in 10 years. There are already a few that surprised me at the top of my list for this countdown.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

39/40:

RAISING ARIZONA
E.T.

Our #16 picks on our list. Remember the post from last night - basically all the movies we will see today were only on one of our lists, but when ranked they were in our top 20: so one of us love it, and the other not so much. I was laughing a little last night thinking about my experience in the theaters in the early 80s. I was terrified of E.T., and then Gremlins scared me. It's a wonder I bothered continuing to watch movies, but maybe that set me up for a love of horror later? Everybody cooing about E.T. but me having flashbacks fof ET in the closet, screaming, and looking like a piece of white dog ****. I didn't get the love at the time, but it has warmed my heart over the years.

Gonna be honest here, I thought E.T. was going to be #1.

Raising Arizona is what put the Cohens on my radar, and I still love quoting this film, as do a lot of folks around here, I see.

Maybe I’ll give ET another shot. I saw it when I was really young and enjoyed it. When I watched again in my 20s I thought it was lame. I should give it another watch.

I’ve added to my watchlist:
The Stepfather
The Vanishing
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Sex, Lies and Videotapes (I think I saw this when I was too young originally)

I don't like E.T.; I just made a wild guess based on KP's approximate age compared to when it came out.

I was a junior in HS when it came out and took a girl I had met roller skating (cooler then than it sounds now) to see it. She liked it, I thought it was schmaltzy and I completely disengaged with it when they found him in a ditch and he looked like a cat turd.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Sorry, not used to working Thursdays, was in a rush, and forgot my list at home. I THINK I know the next couple, but I am not going to post without being 100%. I will post a few at around 3:30 quick when I get home, and then the rest tonight.

 

[KarmaPolice]

39/40:

RAISING ARIZONA
E.T.

Our #16 picks on our list. Remember the post from last night - basically all the movies we will see today were only on one of our lists, but when ranked they were in our top 20: so one of us love it, and the other not so much. I was laughing a little last night thinking about my experience in the theaters in the early 80s. I was terrified of E.T., and then Gremlins scared me. It's a wonder I bothered continuing to watch movies, but maybe that set me up for a love of horror later? Everybody cooing about E.T. but me having flashbacks fof ET in the closet, screaming, and looking like a piece of white dog ****. I didn't get the love at the time, but it has warmed my heart over the years.

Gonna be honest here, I thought E.T. was going to be #1.

Raising Arizona is what put the Cohens on my radar, and I still love quoting this film, as do a lot of folks around here, I see.

Maybe I’ll give ET another shot. I saw it when I was really young and enjoyed it. When I watched again in my 20s I thought it was lame. I should give it another watch.

I’ve added to my watchlist:
The Stepfather
The Vanishing
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Sex, Lies and Videotapes (I think I saw this when I was too young originally)

I don't like E.T.; I just made a wild guess based on KP's approximate age compared to when it came out.

I was a junior in HS when it came out and took a girl I had met roller skating (cooler then than it sounds now) to see it. She liked it, I thought it was schmaltzy and I completely disengaged with it when they found him in a ditch and he looked like a cat turd.

I have a very specific sweet spot of movies from June'84 through 1985. I was a touch too young to really love ET at the time.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

To this day, I can't see Drew Barrymore in any way other than as she appeared in E.T., even when she was taking of her top for David Letterman.

I have a very specific sweet spot of movies from June'84 through 1985. I was a touch too young to really love ET at the time.

That time period was just a sweet spot in general for movies.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I would love to hear what movies people have watched from the decade that maybe they once loved, but don't quite hold up now, or vise versa - what has grown on you as an adult. That was a huge theme and struggle when I was doing my top 100. I have more coming up, but the examples of Ghostbusters and E.T. are that for me. If we did this 30 years ago, Ghostbusters would probably be in the top 10 minimum, and E.T. might not have shown up.

 

[Brony]

I didn't see it coming that Hardbodies would potentially break the top 40, but here we are. Pretty great day.

 

[KarmaPolice]

ALSO - now is about the time in the 90s countdown where people started really thinking about their list, seeing how many we have left, and starting to realize there are going to be more big titles left off than they thought, or ones they rank very high. We have 38 left, and I was pretty clear that foreign and artsy fartsy will be represented in the top 30 as well.

Will any Hughes movies show up? Any 80s horror staples? Is there going to be any 80s cheese? With our surprises and movie snob lean, I would guess for many of you it's basically a top 20-25 left after you cross those off.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

I would love to hear what movies people have watched from the decade that maybe they once loved, but don't quite hold up now, or vise versa - what has grown on you as an adult. That was a huge theme and struggle when I was doing my top 100. I have more coming up, but the examples of Ghostbusters and E.T. are that for me. If we did this 30 years ago, Ghostbusters would probably be in the top 10 minimum, and E.T. might not have shown up.

I'm the other way around when it comes to movies, in that movies I had a knee-jerk negative reaction to may grown on me when giving them a second chance after a few or even many years. The first one that comes to mind hasn't been listed yet so I won't spotlight. Off the top of my head, though, I can't think of any that haven't held up. I think that's because I stopped maturing when I was 11.

 

[JAA]

#48: BULL DURHAM [hbo max]

My #22 pick. I think I took this in a draft as best sports movie. I don't like a ton of sports movies, or Keven Costner movies for that matter, so this it's a rare one that I love like this movie. My wife and I watched it last night and had a blast.

Kevin Costner is way overrated. Bill Durham is way overated.

I doubt Bill Durham would be in my top 20 of sports movies in the 1980s.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Nothing really to do with the plot, but E.T. to me had among the best residential neighborhoods. Totally wanted to live in a neighborhood like that when I first saw it as a kid.

Last time I watched it, I was high and was way too obsessed with the geography of the neighborhood. WTF are they that they have that much room in the back yard, but when they show the streets it looks like there are a ton of houses.?

 

[Scoresman]

I have an interesting relationship with E.T.

It was the first movie I ever saw in theaters at a tender age of 4 years old. Now imagine being 4 and your first big screen experience is a big scary alien looking thing. That one scene early in the movie with the jump scare in the plants sent me into a fit of screaming and crying like my parents had never seen and they had to take me home. That scene still gives me slight PTSD symptoms to this day.

That said, to this day, ET is the only movie to make me bawl like a child at the end. When he says "I'll... be... right... here" it just triggers the waterworks. Every time.

I could probably have multiple therapy sessions on how this movie affects me.

 

[JAA]

49/50:

SOMETHING WILD [prime]

Exhibit B that Jeff Daniels is underrated.

#48: BULL DURHAM [hbo max]

My #22 pick. I think I took this in a draft as best sports movie. I don't like a ton of sports movies, or Keven Costner movies for that matter, so this it's a rare one that I love like this movie. My wife and I watched it last night and had a blast.

Still arguably my favorite baseball movie to this day. Used to love quoting the "Nuke's uptight because his eyelids are jammed" speech whenever there was a conference at the mound during my son's games, as well as other lines at other appropriate times. At least once in travel ball, I yelled Get a hit, Crash! at my son; he told me to shut up.

There is no world where Bill Durham makes it into the top 2 sports movies of the 80s. The 2 best baseball movies of all time are in the 80s and Bill Durham isnt one of them.

No spoilers here



PS - all this typing and clicking has broken my Amazon Basics mouse. THANK YOU!

 

[KarmaPolice]

59/60:

ORDINARY PEOPLE [prime, paramount+]
THE ABYSS


Our #32 picks. Cameron getting his underwater boner on starting in the 80s. I was surprised how much I loved this one on a rewatch and love the idea of underwater ETs. Ending was cheesy, but that goes for a lot of movies so I don't knock it too much. I had forgotten about Ordinary People. Great movie that I would have had in the 70s-100 range.

The Abyss?

In all seriousness, I never understood the love for this movie? Was it the plot? Was it the acting? Was it the cinematography? Was it the rat-in-fluid?

I've never understood the draw to this movie. I doubt it would make my top 100 and it is now currently ranked ahead of ROTLA

Yeah we are not letting Raiders go.......sorry Karma and Ilove80’s you deserve a load of shade for this disaster of Raiders of the Lost Ark.....argulby one of the most iconic action films of all time.....not even in the top 10 of your 1980’s top 101 films of all time.

I mean I am floored on just that one.

Oh well......let the countdown roll on!!

We were talking yet again that Raiders would be the biggest road bump in this. There are a couple "odd" ones coming up, but at least one of us had them high up. Raiders had the distinction of not being on one of ours and having a middling ranking with the other.

Again, I've posted many times in various threads that I don't click with Raiders and why. IMO this was fairly predictable. Before this started, I thought E.T., Raiders, Ghostbusters, and comedies would get the biggest WTF??s

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Nothing really to do with the plot, but E.T. to me had among the best residential neighborhoods. Totally wanted to live in a neighborhood like that when I first saw it as a kid.

Last time I watched it, I was high and was way too obsessed with the geography of the neighborhood. WTF are they that they have that much room in the back yard, but when they show the streets it looks like there are a ton of houses.?

They live at the edge of suburban sprawl. I think that adds to the sense of isolation and the "where do I belong" dilemma that Elliot feels.

 

[KarmaPolice]

39/40:

RAISING ARIZONA
E.T.

Our #16 picks on our list. Remember the post from last night - basically all the movies we will see today were only on one of our lists, but when ranked they were in our top 20: so one of us love it, and the other not so much. I was laughing a little last night thinking about my experience in the theaters in the early 80s. I was terrified of E.T., and then Gremlins scared me. It's a wonder I bothered continuing to watch movies, but maybe that set me up for a love of horror later? Everybody cooing about E.T. but me having flashbacks fof ET in the closet, screaming, and looking like a piece of white dog ****. I didn't get the love at the time, but it has warmed my heart over the years.

Gonna be honest here, I thought E.T. was going to be #1.

Raising Arizona is what put the Cohens on my radar, and I still love quoting this film, as do a lot of folks around here, I see.

Maybe I’ll give ET another shot. I saw it when I was really young and enjoyed it. When I watched again in my 20s I thought it was lame. I should give it another watch.

I’ve added to my watchlist:
The Stepfather
The Vanishing
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Sex, Lies and Videotapes (I think I saw this when I was too young originally)

Oh brother. Sorry I didn't bring better movies to the table that are new for you.

My prediction for your level of enjoyment is: Vanishing, Sex, Stepfather, Serpent.

 

[JAA]

46/47:

AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS [hbo max, criterion]
BATMAN [hbo max]

80s' #21 pick, and Batman was on both at #63 and #59. What cultural phenomenon Batman was. I must have seen it 4 or 5 times.

wha?



Did you mistype Au Bon Pain?

Sure, 46 to "Who are you?" Batman is a solid ranking. Just that its how many spots ahead of ROTA and ROTJ? You can make a case Jack Nicholson setup the character for Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (and Ledger), but other than that, what does the movie bring?

 

[Scoresman]

ALSO - now is about the time in the 90s countdown where people started really thinking about their list, seeing how many we have left, and starting to realize there are going to be more big titles left off than they thought, or ones they rank very high. We have 38 left, and I was pretty clear that foreign and artsy fartsy will be represented in the top 30 as well.

Will any Hughes movies show up? Any 80s horror staples? Is there going to be any 80s cheese? With our surprises and movie snob lean, I would guess for many of you it's basically a top 20-25 left after you cross those off.

I am patiently waiting to see what spot Muppets take Manhattan lands at.

 

[KarmaPolice]

To this day, I can't see Drew Barrymore in any way other than as she appeared in E.T., even when she was taking of her top for David Letterman.

I have a very specific sweet spot of movies from June'84 through 1985. I was a touch too young to really love ET at the time.

That time period was just a sweet spot in general for movies.

For me. I could see people 4-5 years older than me thinking stuff like Ghostbusters and Karate were lame though. Probably some of you Raiders dorks.

 

[Scoresman]

I would love to hear what movies people have watched from the decade that maybe they once loved, but don't quite hold up now, or vise versa - what has grown on you as an adult. That was a huge theme and struggle when I was doing my top 100. I have more coming up, but the examples of Ghostbusters and E.T. are that for me. If we did this 30 years ago, Ghostbusters would probably be in the top 10 minimum, and E.T. might not have shown up.

One I can think of is Romancing the Stone. I really liked it when I was younger for whatever reason, but watched it again recently, and it's just awful.

Also, many of the Friday the 13th movies are just bad. When you're a kid watching them, all you focus on is the next kill and how awesome it will be. Then you go back as an adult and wonder what you were thinking.

 

[JAA]

44/45:

FITZCARRALDO [peacock, tubi, kanopy]
CINEMA PARADISO [paramount+ , kanopy]

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. First is 80s' #20 selection. Paradiso was on both of our lists at #54 and #67. I would be curious to see people's lists of movies that showed up here they haven't seen. If Cinema Paradiso is one and you are open to sub titles, that would be one of ours that I suggest. I think most movie lovers would get something out of this movie.

Am I in the wrong thread?

 

[JAA]

You guys keep mentioning songs from these movies. Maybe I'm blanking but has there ever been a best movie soundtrack thread in this forum?

Another countdown where Ghostbusters should be #1.

I aint afraid of no ghosts

 

[Andy Dufresne]

44/45:

FITZCARRALDO [peacock, tubi, kanopy]
CINEMA PARADISO [paramount+ , kanopy]

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. First is 80s' #20 selection. Paradiso was on both of our lists at #54 and #67. I would be curious to see people's lists of movies that showed up here they haven't seen. If Cinema Paradiso is one and you are open to sub titles, that would be one of ours that I suggest. I think most movie lovers would get something out of this movie.

Am I in the wrong thread?

Very clearly, yes.

 

[JAA]

"Hey kids, get in the car! We're going to the movies! We're going to get popcorn, red vines, M&Ms and then sit down to watch something really epic....

"What are we gonna watch mom?! Indiana Jones? Star Wars? Rambo?"

"No, Au Revoir les Enfants...."

said no mom from the 80s ever.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Nothing really to do with the plot, but E.T. to me had among the best residential neighborhoods. Totally wanted to live in a neighborhood like that when I first saw it as a kid.

Last time I watched it, I was high and was way too obsessed with the geography of the neighborhood. WTF are they that they have that much room in the back yard, but when they show the streets it looks like there are a ton of houses.?

They live at the edge of suburban sprawl. I think that adds to the sense of isolation and the "where do I belong" dilemma that Elliot feels.

That's what I thought, but then sometimes it didn't look that that. Keep in mind the state I was in as well. It just felt like sometimes they were at the end of a culdesac, and sometime it's shot like a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

 

[JAA]

#43: THE RIGHT STUFF

80s' #18 pick. This was an oversight by me, as I for some reason think of it as a 70s movie. Great one, and it would have made my list and overall been higher up overall.

Solid pick, prolly a little high. My gut tells me too many other sports movies will be left off

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Nothing really to do with the plot, but E.T. to me had among the best residential neighborhoods. Totally wanted to live in a neighborhood like that when I first saw it as a kid.

Last time I watched it, I was high and was way too obsessed with the geography of the neighborhood. WTF are they that they have that much room in the back yard, but when they show the streets it looks like there are a ton of houses.?

They live at the edge of suburban sprawl. I think that adds to the sense of isolation and the "where do I belong" dilemma that Elliot feels.

That's what I thought, but then sometimes it didn't look that that. Keep in mind the state I was in as well. It just felt like sometimes they were at the end of a culdesac, and sometime it's shot like a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

I will concede...it makes no sense that there's a cornfield in their back yard.

 

[El Floppo]

I have an interesting relationship with E.T.

It was the first movie I ever saw in theaters at a tender age of 4 years old. Now imagine being 4 and your first big screen experience is a big scary alien looking thing. That one scene early in the movie with the jump scare in the plants sent me into a fit of screaming and crying like my parents had never seen and they had to take me home. That scene still gives me slight PTSD symptoms to this day.

That said, to this day, ET is the only movie to make me bawl like a child at the end. When he says "I'll... be... right... here" it just triggers the waterworks. Every time.

I could probably have multiple therapy sessions on how this movie affects me.

lol... that was the original Willy Wonka for me.

I can still clearly see my mom- who thought she was taking me to a slight, little kids' movie- laughing at me as ran crying up the aisle to the exit... the first time (when Augustus Gloop gets stuck in the pipe- and yeah, still have profound psychology wrapped into semi-submerged things that I know link back to this). thank god I was in the lobby crying for the subsequent tunnel o' bad acid trip freak out boat ride . she eventually talked me back into the theater, where I lasted until Violet starts turning Violet, Violet and begins plumping. That was it for me. she didn't catch me that time until I was halfway down the block bawling... and her, still laughing.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I would love to hear what movies people have watched from the decade that maybe they once loved, but don't quite hold up now, or vise versa - what has grown on you as an adult. That was a huge theme and struggle when I was doing my top 100. I have more coming up, but the examples of Ghostbusters and E.T. are that for me. If we did this 30 years ago, Ghostbusters would probably be in the top 10 minimum, and E.T. might not have shown up.

One I can think of is Romancing the Stone. I really liked it when I was younger for whatever reason, but watched it again recently, and it's just awful.

Also, many of the Friday the 13th movies are just bad. When you're a kid watching them, all you focus on is the next kill and how awesome it will be. Then you go back as an adult and wonder what you were thinking.

Was thinking of that one last night. I probably haven’t seen it in 35 years. Maybe I’ll do a double feature with Jewel of the Nile

 

[otb_lifer]

Will any Hughes movies show up?

better not ... nothing left in his oeuvre deserves a seat at the remaining table, especially with what is left out there.

 

[El Floppo]

Nothing really to do with the plot, but E.T. to me had among the best residential neighborhoods. Totally wanted to live in a neighborhood like that when I first saw it as a kid.

Last time I watched it, I was high and was way too obsessed with the geography of the neighborhood. WTF are they that they have that much room in the back yard, but when they show the streets it looks like there are a ton of houses.?

They live at the edge of suburban sprawl. I think that adds to the sense of isolation and the "where do I belong" dilemma that Elliot feels.

That's what I thought, but then sometimes it didn't look that that. Keep in mind the state I was in as well. It just felt like sometimes they were at the end of a culdesac, and sometime it's shot like a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

I will concede...it makes no sense that there's a cornfield in their back yard.

there was a cornfield in ET? wow... I don't remember that at all. or are we still talking about Field of Dreams?

 

[JAA]

44/45:

FITZCARRALDO [peacock, tubi, kanopy]
CINEMA PARADISO [paramount+ , kanopy]

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. First is 80s' #20 selection. Paradiso was on both of our lists at #54 and #67. I would be curious to see people's lists of movies that showed up here they haven't seen. If Cinema Paradiso is one and you are open to sub titles, that would be one of ours that I suggest. I think most movie lovers would get something out of this movie.

YES, the jungle opera movie! Will it rank higher than Search For Spock?

Is that the one with the nuclear wessels? That better be on the list.

No, thats Voyage Home (tied for first best - no spoilers)

 

[Charlie Steiner]

49/50:

SOMETHING WILD [prime]

Exhibit B that Jeff Daniels is underrated.

#48: BULL DURHAM [hbo max]

My #22 pick. I think I took this in a draft as best sports movie. I don't like a ton of sports movies, or Keven Costner movies for that matter, so this it's a rare one that I love like this movie. My wife and I watched it last night and had a blast.

Still arguably my favorite baseball movie to this day. Used to love quoting the "Nuke's uptight because his eyelids are jammed" speech whenever there was a conference at the mound during my son's games, as well as other lines at other appropriate times. At least once in travel ball, I yelled Get a hit, Crash! at my son; he told me to shut up.

There is no world where Bill Durham makes it into the top 2 sports movies of the 80s. The 2 best baseball movies of all time are in the 80s and Bill Durham isnt one of them.

No spoilers here



PS - all this typing and clicking has broken my Amazon Basics mouse. THANK YOU!

Never said it was one of THE top sports movies, rather it's one of MY.TOP.BASEBALL.MOVIES. I have my own reasons for rating it so high and I don't hold anyone to that standard. I don't expect anyone else to see it the way I do. See if this helps:



sub·jec·tive


adjective
adjective: subjective

1. 1.
   based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
   "his views are highly subjective"

 

[otb_lifer]

Nothing really to do with the plot, but E.T. to me had among the best residential neighborhoods. Totally wanted to live in a neighborhood like that when I first saw it as a kid.

Last time I watched it, I was high and was way too obsessed with the geography of the neighborhood. WTF are they that they have that much room in the back yard, but when they show the streets it looks like there are a ton of houses.?

They live at the edge of suburban sprawl. I think that adds to the sense of isolation and the "where do I belong" dilemma that Elliot feels.

That's what I thought, but then sometimes it didn't look that that. Keep in mind the state I was in as well. It just felt like sometimes they were at the end of a culdesac, and sometime it's shot like a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

I will concede...it makes no sense that there's a cornfield in their back yard.

there was a cornfield in ET? wow... I don't remember that at all. or are we still talking about Field of Dreams?

pretty amaizeing, no?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

My traumatic movie experience was earlier...Bambi.

I declared loudly to my hunter type dad that I would NEVER shoot a deer. It wasn't true of course because...mmmm, venison.

 

[El Floppo]

Will any Hughes movies show up?

better not ... nothing left in his oeuvre deserves a seat at the remaining table, especially with what is left out there.

I have a very soft spot for 16 Candles and still love it (sheesh!)... but at this point, yeah- there are a LOT of great movies left. I'd have put it in the bottom 25 of my 100. the rest of his, including one that might appear here, I didn't completely dig.

 

[JAA]

41/42:

FIELD OF DREAMS
SPOORLOS (aka The Vanishing) [criterion]

These are our #17 picks. I watched The Vanishing for the first time in a decade or more last fall and was blown away by how tense I was and how good the movie was. The woman who played Saskia was great.

Field of dreams - arguably the best sports movie of all time, ranked #41 in best movies of the 80s.

Is there a best sports movies draft? Im so in

 

[JAA]

Tomorrow we will be on 31-40. In this pack we have 1 on both lists, 5 are 80s' and 4 are mine. Of mine, I have one artsty fartsy black and white movie and 3 other 80s staples that I THINK might get 80s some ****. He has 1 I will get **** for , one I think we might have done during a movie club, and 3 more I haven't seen.

I think it was @JAA who said that he was going to do similar, but since there have been so many I am planning on picking 5 of @Ilov80s movies that I haven't seen and watching them soon since I am in 80s mode. I've already decided on Something Wild, Mystery Train, his #10, and #3. The other will be To Live and Die in L.A., House of Games, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, or all 3.

Based on the last few picks Im gonna need to * my promise

* - Need to speak the English, I HATE cc

 

[Charlie Steiner]

I have an interesting relationship with E.T.

It was the first movie I ever saw in theaters at a tender age of 4 years old. Now imagine being 4 and your first big screen experience is a big scary alien looking thing. That one scene early in the movie with the jump scare in the plants sent me into a fit of screaming and crying like my parents had never seen and they had to take me home. That scene still gives me slight PTSD symptoms to this day.

That said, to this day, ET is the only movie to make me bawl like a child at the end. When he says "I'll... be... right... here" it just triggers the waterworks. Every time.

I could probably have multiple therapy sessions on how this movie affects me.

When I was 4, we went to a drive-in (the one and only time, as they were on their way out by then), and it was a Disney double-feature of Song of the South and 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I fell asleep toward the beginning of 10,000 Leagues but woke up during the octopus attack scene. Scared the bejesus out of me, and I still haven't watched it to this day.

 

[JAA]

I’ve never seen field of dreams

You are less than 32 years old

 

[El Floppo]

41/42:

FIELD OF DREAMS
SPOORLOS (aka The Vanishing) [criterion]

These are our #17 picks. I watched The Vanishing for the first time in a decade or more last fall and was blown away by how tense I was and how good the movie was. The woman who played Saskia was great.

Field of dreams - arguably the best sports movie of all time, ranked #41 in best movies of the 80s.

Is there a best movies draft? Im so in

there's much better sports movies from the 80s that will likely feature soon. I like Field of Dreams too, but in this case, it seems about right to me.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

there was a cornfield in ET? wow... I don't remember that at all. or are we still talking about Field of Dreams?

Yep, Elliot's first encounter with E.T. is when he goes out looking for him in the field behind their house. That's the screaming scene that freaked out a lot of kids, apparently.

 

[otb_lifer]

Will any Hughes movies show up?

better not ... nothing left in his oeuvre deserves a seat at the remaining table, especially with what is left out there.

I have a very soft spot for 16 Candles and still love it (sheesh!)... but at this point, yeah- there are a LOT of great movies left. I'd have put it in the bottom 25 of my 100. the rest of his, including one that might appear here, I didn't completely dig.

would also be my top choice from what is left from him, no question.

i just hope not to see that smarmy lil' pr1ck we both have no use for - uihgghhhhhh.

 

[JAA]

39/40:

RAISING ARIZONA
E.T.

Our #16 picks on our list. Remember the post from last night - basically all the movies we will see today were only on one of our lists, but when ranked they were in our top 20: so one of us love it, and the other not so much. I was laughing a little last night thinking about my experience in the theaters in the early 80s. I was terrified of E.T., and then Gremlins scared me. It's a wonder I bothered continuing to watch movies, but maybe that set me up for a love of horror later? Everybody cooing about E.T. but me having flashbacks fof ET in the closet, screaming, and looking like a piece of white dog ****. I didn't get the love at the time, but it has warmed my heart over the years.

ET is interesting. I never really liked the movie, but as far as generational definition, it defined a bunch of the 80s. There not being a sequel will keep the nostalgia going. I mean Reeses Pieces and Speak and Spell?

Im not a RA fan, but I know a lot of people love those types of movies. Just not for me but the ranking fits.

 

[El Floppo]

and I've told this story before somewhere...

My dad lost his dad when he was 2. They have no idea what happened to him, but the prevailing thought is that after kissing my dad and grandma goodbye to head off to where he ran the family business, Murder Inc rubbed him out and tossed him into the Meadowlands swamp.

so... my dad had profound dad-issues- and ongoing fantasies about his dad somehow showing back up. he had also never seen Field of Dreams. I remember visiting at some point as a young adult- and it was on TV, so we started watching... after I convinced him it was a good movie (he wasn't a Kevin Costner fan). at the "have a catch" scene, I look over and he's doubled over bawling. I can't watch or even think about that scene without doing the same and thinking about him (RIP dad).

 

[Charlie Steiner]

41/42:

FIELD OF DREAMS
SPOORLOS (aka The Vanishing) [criterion]

These are our #17 picks. I watched The Vanishing for the first time in a decade or more last fall and was blown away by how tense I was and how good the movie was. The woman who played Saskia was great.

Field of dreams - arguably the best sports movie of all time, ranked #41 in best movies of the 80s.

Is there a best movies draft? Im so in

there's much better sports movies from the 80s that will likely feature soon. I like Field of Dreams too, but in this case, it seems about right to me.

Field of Dreams, despite it having baseball and baseball players in it, is not a sports movie. It's about reconciling your past and present selves.