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Top 101 Movies of the 80s (1 Viewer)

Ilov80s said:
otb_lifer said:
KarmaPolice said:
49/50:

SOMETHING WILD [prime]
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THERE IT IS!!!

one of the 5 i mentioned previous ... and the one i cited as following in "After Hours" wake - TOP 5 FOR ME.

btw, Ray Sinclair makes Henry Hill look like a lil' bisch ... you don't know Ray Liotta 'til ya know Ray Sinclair.
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I just saw this for the first time last summer after Liotta passed. That movie fn rules. It's a great movie and then Liotta shows up, completely flips the script and just catapults it to the stratosphere. What a pyscho.
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i had pimped that flick quite a bit up in the movie threads over the years, which you always populate - interesting that last year was your first sit - but it obviously won you over, as it will anybody who gives it a chance.

Demme took some chances here, and he was a bit ahead of his time ... can see some of the works of the 90s being influenced by this - it's "After Hours" goes horribly wrong - very wrong.

Liotta's mid-flick appearance shifts the arc as powerfully as Marge's does in "Fargo" - takes us to a whole next level.of awesome.

Daniels was so strong here, too ... the ultimate straight man, upstaged by the loony LuLu and the psychotic Ray ... but he finds his balls, ya kno?

i mean, he dined and dashed, man ... LuLu knew her mark - and Griffith made that role sensible, when it coulda been too cartoonish ... she nailed LuLu's repressed vulnerability so damn well.

can't say enough about the flick, i gush about this one, and unabashedly so.
 
Ilov80s said:
Scoresman said:
The thing is we're talking about nostalgia for movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goonies, and Ghostbusters. There's no metric where those movies can be considered crap and only holding up because of nostalgia. They are legit great movies, classics.

On the other hand, a good example for me of nostalgia holding up a bad movie is Gremlins. It's probably in my top 30 because of nostalgia, but I agree it's a pretty average movie otherwise.
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A) They are not crap, getting ranked at 60 for best of the tens of thousands of movies from a decade isn't saying it's bad. We are saying the movie is extremely good.
B) It's all subjective and for fun
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Plus my wonky rating system artificially props up movies just because they are on both our lists as well. Batman is a great example both of us had it right about 60, but it's in the mid-40s because it's on both lists, and only 40 movies were.
 
Andy Dufresne said:
Nothing has EVER made less sense than a guy slathered in vegetable oil who looks like a WWF heel having the less than imposing name of...Tim Cappello?...playing...a saxophone?...belting out a way more than respectable cover of the awesome song I Still Believe by The Call.
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Seriously. If he had a cool name, it would make sense. But that name is wonky. When I was young I thought it was the WWF wrestler Tatanka.
 
Andy Dufresne said:
Nothing has EVER made less sense than a guy slathered in vegetable oil who looks like a WWF heel having the less than imposing name of...Tim Cappello?...playing...a saxophone?...belting out a way more than respectable cover of the awesome song I Still Believe by The Call.
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I had just discovered The Call a couple months earlier via their song Everywhere I Go. When the movie came out, I couldn't quite place the song and then I did. Was both :thumbup: and :hot: at the same time.
 
otb_lifer said:
i had pimped that flick quite a bit up in the movie threads over the years, which you always populate - interesting that last year was your first sit - but it obviously won you over, as it will anybody who gives it a chance.

Demme took some chances here, and he was a bit ahead of his time ... can see some of the works of the 90s being influenced by this - it's "After Hours" goes horribly wrong - very wrong.

Liotta's mid-flick appearance shifts the arc as powerfully as Marge's does in "Fargo" - takes us to a whole next level.of awesome.

Daniels was so strong here, too ... the ultimate straight man, upstaged by the loony LuLu and the psychotic Ray ... but he finds his balls, ya kno?

i mean, he dined and dashed, man ... LuLu knew her mark - and Griffith made that role sensible, when it coulda been too cartoonish ... she nailed LuLu's repressed vulnerability so damn well.

can't say enough about the flick, i gush about this one, and unabashedly so.
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It was a movie that was on my radar to watch for a few years but I just never encountered. After Ray passed, TCM did a days worth of movies for a tribute and I saw Something Wild was scheduled so I was all over it.
 
Ilov80s said:
Andy Dufresne said:
Nothing has EVER made less sense than a guy slathered in vegetable oil who looks like a WWF heel having the less than imposing name of...Tim Cappello?...playing...a saxophone?...belting out a way more than respectable cover of the awesome song I Still Believe by The Call.
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Seriously. If he had a cool name, it would make sense. But that name is wonky. When I was young I thought it was the WWF wrestler Tatanka.
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Yeah, he should be named something like Digger Cruikshank.

Charlie Steiner said:
Andy Dufresne said:
Nothing has EVER made less sense than a guy slathered in vegetable oil who looks like a WWF heel having the less than imposing name of...Tim Cappello?...playing...a saxophone?...belting out a way more than respectable cover of the awesome song I Still Believe by The Call.
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I had just discovered The Call a couple months earlier via their song Everywhere I Go. When the movie came out, I couldn't quite place the song and then I did. Was both :thumbup: and :hot: at the same time.
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Everywhere I Go might be a top 10 song for me.
 
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FITZCARRALDO [peacock, tubi, kanopy]
CINEMA PARADISO [paramount+ , kanopy]

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. :lol: 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.
 
Andy Dufresne said:
Nothing has EVER made less sense than a guy slathered in vegetable oil who looks like a WWF heel having the less than imposing name of...Tim Cappello?...playing...a saxophone?...belting out a way more than respectable cover of the awesome song I Still Believe by The Call.
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Obviously trying to depict a dystopian type environment, but yeah...even as a kid I was like "WTF is this guy doing on the stage?"
 
KarmaPolice said:
44/45:

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

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. :lol: 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.
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Well 3 of the foreign movies I promised higher than Raiders dropped. I should probably try to sell them a little.
 
TripItUp said:
Andy Dufresne said:
Nothing has EVER made less sense than a guy slathered in vegetable oil who looks like a WWF heel having the less than imposing name of...Tim Cappello?...playing...a saxophone?...belting out a way more than respectable cover of the awesome song I Still Believe by The Call.
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Obviously trying to depict a dystopian type environment, but yeah...even as a kid I was like "WTF is this guy doing on the stage?"
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I was more distracted by Star in that scene as a kid, but whatever floats your boat. ;)
 
"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.
 
I will post our last pairing of the night in a while.

I will leave us with a clue: these are two very different movies that deal with the loss off a loved one.
 
Ok...so there were 3 foreign movies "better than Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Cinema Paradisio: A kid falls in love with movies while befriending the local projectionist in his small Italian town.
90 critic /96 audience on RT, a life-affirming ode to the power of youth, nostalgia, and the the movies themselves.

Fitzcarraldo: This crazy Euro wants to build an opera house in the middle of the Rain Forrest. To do so, he has to lift a massive boat over a mountain. There's no CGI here. Herzog (Grizzly Man) goes to the jungle and attempts to actually do it.
77/92 RT, With a production as audacious as the feat it's depicting, Fitzcarraldo comes by its awe-inspiring spectacle honestly.

Au Revoir Les Enfants: If you dig WW2 stories, this is a good one. It's not a war movie but is focused on an all boys Catholic school in France during the German Occupation.
RT 97/93 Louis Malle's autobiographical tale of a childhood spent in a WWII boarding school is a beautifully realized portrait of friendship and youth.
 
Andy Dufresne said:

Charlie Steiner said:
Andy Dufresne said:
Nothing has EVER made less sense than a guy slathered in vegetable oil who looks like a WWF heel having the less than imposing name of...Tim Cappello?...playing...a saxophone?...belting out a way more than respectable cover of the awesome song I Still Believe by The Call.
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I had just discovered The Call a couple months earlier via their song Everywhere I Go. When the movie came out, I couldn't quite place the song and then I did. Was both :thumbup: and :hot: at the same time.
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Everywhere I Go might be a top 10 song for me.
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Red Moon was on my list of songs from the Funeral/Wake songs draft thread.
 
Scoresman said:
"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.
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I wouldn't take my kids to see Silence of the Lambs or Schindler's List either.
 
Scoresman said:
KarmaPolice said:
I will post our last pairing of the night in a while.

I will leave us with a clue: these are two very different movies that deal with the loss off a loved one.
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Ha, I have a good guess for both, but will not spoil.
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I would be surprised if you got them both. Feel free to guess. I am not going to confirm/deny, but my dumb hints are also meant to generate discussion waiting between posts of selections.
 
TripItUp said:
JAA said:
Agree on Deep Star Six. I got to say though, I cant think of any underwater movie that did well except maybe Hunt for Red October (90's) and Operation Petticoat (50's)
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Crimson Tide and a host of other submarine movies that were well received. Michael Crichton's "Sphere" should have been better.

ETA, Abyss was an underwater oil rig not a submarine.
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Nemo was pretty good.
 
KarmaPolice said:
Scoresman said:
KarmaPolice said:
I will post our last pairing of the night in a while.

I will leave us with a clue: these are two very different movies that deal with the loss off a loved one.
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Ha, I have a good guess for both, but will not spoil.
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I would be surprised if you got them both. Feel free to guess. I am not going to confirm/deny, but my dumb hints are also meant to generate discussion waiting between posts of selections.
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Weekend at Bernie's
Sophie's Choice
 
Ilov80s said:
Ok...so there were 3 foreign movies "better than Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Cinema Paradisio: A kid falls in love with movies while befriending the local projectionist in his small Italian town.
90 critic /96 audience on RT, a life-affirming ode to the power of youth, nostalgia, and the the movies themselves.

Fitzcarraldo: This crazy Euro wants to build an opera house in the middle of the Rain Forrest. To do so, he has to lift a massive boat over a mountain. There's no CGI here. Herzog (Grizzly Man) goes to the jungle and attempts to actually do it.
77/92 RT, With a production as audacious as the feat it's depicting, Fitzcarraldo comes by its awe-inspiring spectacle honestly.

Au Revoir Les Enfants: If you dig WW2 stories, this is a good one. It's not a war movie but is focused on an all boys Catholic school in France during the German Occupation.
RT 97/93 Louis Malle's autobiographical tale of a childhood spent in a WWII boarding school is a beautifully realized portrait of friendship and youth.
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I would entertain Cinema Paradiso and Au Revoir as being "in the ballpark" of Raiders. They are fantastic movies. All deserve to be higher.

I haven't seen Fitzcarraldo so cant comment.
 
KarmaPolice said:
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FITZCARRALDO [peacock, tubi, kanopy]
CINEMA PARADISO [paramount+ , kanopy]

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. :lol: 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.
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YES, the jungle opera movie! Will it rank higher than Search For Spock?

:popcorn:
 
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landrys hat said:
KarmaPolice said:
44/45:

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

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. :lol: 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.
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YES, the jungle opera movie! Will it rank higher than Search For Spock?

:popcorn:
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I will just say it now, I don't do Star Trek. Put your hopes in KP on that one.
 
landrys hat said:
KarmaPolice said:
44/45:

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

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. :lol: 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.
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YES, the jungle opera movie! Will it rank higher than Search For Spock?

:popcorn:
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Is that the one with the nuclear wessels? That better be on the list.
 
Scoresman said:
landrys hat said:
KarmaPolice said:
44/45:

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

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. :lol: 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.
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YES, the jungle opera movie! Will it rank higher than Search For Spock?

:popcorn:
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Is that the one with the nuclear wessels? That better be on the list.
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is that the one with the whales too?
 
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KarmaPolice said:
Scoresman said:
landrys hat said:
KarmaPolice said:
44/45:

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

I guess this is the high falutin retort to the Rambo and Predator pairing. :lol: 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.
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YES, the jungle opera movie! Will it rank higher than Search For Spock?

:popcorn:
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Is that the one with the nuclear wessels? That better be on the list.
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is that the one with the whales too?
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Yup and the one with Captain Kirk saying “double dumbass on you”.

AKA the best Star Trek movie.
 
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@Ilov80s or anybody else that listens to pods, I just stumbled on yet another movie one and they have covered a lot of 80s. It's called The VHS Strikes Back, and it's two British guys watching random old movies. They are pretty funny. It was the pod I said was just talking about The Goonies for their newest episode. They had a great way to phrase it - the movie tickles the nostalgia berries. :lol:
 
Great guesses, and all still wrong, yikes that was a general clue. From my clues before we still have one "sports" movie and one foreign movie so....
 
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