Top 100 80's Films...

[Munkiki]

Stripes is my 6th horse to fall. Again I'm interested to know who else had it? Craig, are you gonna put everybody's individual lists up after we reach the #1 spot, so we know who's votes went where?? Think that would be a nice touch at the end of proceedings.

I had Stripes on mine. Think it's the third of mine to fall (with Uncle Buck and Short Circuit).

Looking through some of the ones that have gone out already, kinda feel I should have done some research before sending in a list. But then again, I'd have had the same problem as you guys trying to cut down a huge list of great films.

 

[Craig]

Joint 63rd - 14 points on 1 list.

Akira (1988) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Dressed to Kill (1980) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080661/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Heartbreak Ridge (1986) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091187/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Superman II (1980) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081573/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Joint 62nd - 14 points on 2 lists.

The 'Burbs (1989) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096734/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Sixteen Candles (1984) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088128/?ref_=nv_sr_1

61st - 14 points on 3 lists.

Escape from New York (1981) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[Spirederman]

Sixteen Candles was still in my list at the 30 marker. Great film.

 

[Cas]

Fook. Forgot Superman 2.

 

[This Charming Mike]

Sixteen Candles is one of mine I think.

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

The burbs is one of mine, I love that film, nice easy viewing and good plot although i always hoped the neighbours had not killed anyone and seen where it went.

 

[Craig]

I voted The 'Burbs too, still one of my go to films when there's nothing on and I'm relaxing with a beer.

Also had Escape from NY which I thought would feature a little higher.

 

[Spirederman]

Sixteen Candles is one of mine I think.

Similar tastes in Music AND Movies it would seem Nike.

Edit - Just spotted the error, but the Nihikist in me transcends any urge I have to correct it.

 

[SALTIRE]

Whoah, Shoah!! 9 and a half hours???

Jesus. Who is admitting to having sat through that?

Shoah regularly gets regarded as the greatest documentary of all time, but 9 and a half hours of hearing horrific tales of what happened to Jews and others is probably more than I could take tbh.

Akira was on my list; its a masterpiece.

 

[Spirederman]

I'm basically about 75% confident that the only person's list that Shoah could have made it on to is Carel. Or MK as he is on here.

Would be happy to be shown to be wrong on that assumption though.

 

[Craig]

Joint 60th - 15 points on 1 list.

An American Werewolf in London (1981) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082010/?ref_=nv_sr_3

The Outsiders (1983) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086066/?ref_=nv_sr_1

59th - 15 points on 2 lists.

Flash Gordon (1980) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Joint 58th - 16 points on 1 list.

Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The Belly of an Architect (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092637/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Dead Poet's Society (1989) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Witness (1985) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090329/?ref_=nv_sr_2

 

[Spirederman]

Very glad Koyaanisqatsi (Meaning "Life Out Of Balance" in Native American 'Hopi' Language)has made the list. I dropped it from my own list at around the number 25 mark, so was extremely close to making the cut from me. Easily the best of Reggio's Qatsi Trilogy, with an amazing accompanying soundtrack from Phillip Glass which ebbs,flows, and meanders with the film in perfect harmony. A truly mesmerisingly hypnotic film, and one that I'd urge anyone to watch if they've a spare Hour and Half.

Extremely interested to know who had it as their Number 5. I'm gonna stick my neck out and say Martino Knockavelli again??

Also very happy that The Outsiders made the list, I cut it at number 22, so just missed out on my personal top 20 also.
Would also like to know who regarded this so highly that it made their list in 6th spot?

 

[Craig]

I'm not angry that nobody else voted for the best werewolf film ever made, I'm just disappointed...

 

[Oaf]

Only one of mine down thus far, The Land Before Time. Of all the films I watched as a kid, that may have been the one I watched the most. Fucking obsessed with it. This being said, I think I only ever watched it and The Land Before Time 2... never bothered with the rest. There are like 19 of the fuckers now, though.

But naw, what a classic. I saw it was on netflix the other day and quickly had a look at some of it... even though I hadn't seen it in what must be over 15 years or so, I could still remember every part of it that I saw nearly word for word.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Latest mines:

Spoiler: TLDR

Joint 65th - 13 points on 1 list.
Shoah (1985) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090015/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Mega holocaust doc. Hours long and years in the making, consisting entirely of eye witness testimony. Not a factual or narrative explanation in a World at War sort of a sense, but an accreted mosiac of memory and observation. That it's difficult to watch goes without saying, but it's difficult in ways one might not expect. Lanzmann presses on with interviewing clearly distressed individuals, and an interview with a former camp guard is recorded surreptitiously, so it's an invitation to ponder documentary ethics as well as the subject matter. There's probably no comfortable, uncontroversial way to make a documentary about the Holocaust, and maybe that'd be inappropriate even if one could, but still, it's tough. A great historical document.

Joint 63rd - 14 points on 1 list.
Dressed to Kill (1980) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080661/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Escape from New York (1981) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The 80s might be where my personalised rot sets in, but quite a few of my pantheon types did their best stuff during the decade, De Palma being one of them. Could've gone for several of his, but this and Body Double are my favourites most days. Post-giallo, post-Hitchcock, but original too. Gleefully perverse, and containing at least one REALLY? moment (GUM clinic letter in the draw). Another perfect intersection of genre auteur.

We all know this one. Is this the one thing 80s cinema did better than that of any other decade? Mordant, moody pulpy sf satire, daft and weird but never overplaying its hand in either regard...

Joint 60th - 15 points on 1 list.
The Belly of an Architect (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092637/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Another personal pantheon (arf) auteur who did his best stuff during the decade. The usual Greenaway fare, fleshy bacchanalia inverwoven with an art historical background, in this instance the architecture of Rome, classical vs Mussolini and EUR, and the steroidal neoclassicism of Boullee. More or less made to order with stuff wot I like, except I wouldn't have had the imagination to order it. Banging soundtrack too.

 

[Craig]

Happy birthday Oaf, 80's kid #blessed...

Joint 57th - 17 points on 1 list.

Diner (1982) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083833/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Footloose (1984) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087277/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Where is my Friend's Home? (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093342/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094006/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Willow (1988) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096446/?ref_=nv_sr_2

The Last Starfighter (1984) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Joint 56th - 19 points on 1 list.

Flight of the Navigator (1986) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Big (1988) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Ran (1985) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089881/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The Killing Fields (1984) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087553/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Evil Dead II (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/?ref_=nv_sr_3

 

[Craig]

So we've reached the point now where all films will have at least 20 points and appear on more than one list so from here on in each film will get it's own post (or have to share with another film, I haven't decided yet) and there'll be trailers and all sorts, well trailers at least any road.

Would have loved to make an individual post for every film nominated but I'm looking to finish this before CF's PL players one.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Spoiler: \O/

Where is my Friend's Home? (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093342/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

This is beautiful. Kiarostami has gone on to become a high arthouse darling (inc 2 films that revisit this part of Iran and form a loose trilogy) but this is a short and simple little tale, essentially neorealist, about a kid trying to retrieve his school book from a friend's house in a neighbouring village. Shot with a kind of quiet remove, a child's view of the world, a little boy in a landscape. The performance by the kid is brilliant unaffected too. Such a lovely film.

 

[Craig]

55th - 20 points on 2 lists.

Ghostbusters II (1989) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097428/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Fuck me there's only one thing better than 80's films, the trailers...

 

[Craig]

Joint 54th - 21 points on 2 lists.

Highlander (1986) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/?ref_=nv_sr_1

"There can be only one!!"

Great shout this one. Christopher Lambert (he isn't Scottish, he's french) is an immortal locked in a neverending game of mortal kombat with other immortals who can only kill each other by lopping off their opponents head thus absorbing his/her immortal energies type dealy. So yeah, they're not really immortal, but who gives a fuck when Clancy Brown is in it??


Child's Play (1988) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Andy gets more than he bargained for on his birthday. Spawned a couple of decent sequels and a few shit ones. Horror classic though no doubt about it.

 

[Craig]

Joint 53rd - 22 points on 2 lists.

Trading Places (1983) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Tenebrae (1982) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084777/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Sorry, no uber-witty comments on either of these, I ant seen em.

 

[Gladders]

Another three of mine down (total 12 already gone )
Heartbreak ridge is an excellent Clint Eastwood film I thought with some excellent lines

"My name is Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I've drunk more beer and pissed more blood, banged more quiff and busted more ass, than all you numbnuts put together."

The last Starfighter was great as a kid, imaging getting a highest score on an arcade game would lead you to end up fighting in an interstellar conflict!

Flight of the Navigator I distinctly remember because my dad kept renting it constantly from the video rental store down the road, every time he went to rent something for us to watch he would come back with the same damn film, always used to moan about it at the time but looking back now it was a great film I would happily watch again now. "So you need ME and my inferior brain to fly that thing?"

 

[Ginola14]

Hold on....no-one else voted for Superman II???

 

[Cardsfan]

So we've reached the point now where all films will have at least 20 points and appear on more than one list so from here on in each film will get it's own post (or have to share with another film, I haven't decided yet) and there'll be trailers and all sorts, well trailers at least any road.

Would have loved to make an individual post for every film nominated but I'm looking to finish this before CF's PL players one.

Haha, seriously?

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

Ah what a shame only me voting Willow, I think its a superb film which has been sadly forgotten due to the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit stuff which is superior and can understand as such why, but it should not stop that superb 80's fantasy film being recognised.

if you ain't seen it it is one I recommend.

 

[mistermagic]

Haha, seriously?

I'd take him seriously. Craig is gonna finish his thang before our supper dupper lists. Let's get to work!

 

[Cardsfan]

I'd take him seriously. Craig is gonna finish his thang before our supper dupper lists. Let's get to work!

So unprofessional isn't he Been following yours all the way even though I didn't get round to sending a list in.

 

[Oaf]

55th - 20 points on 2 lists.

Ghostbusters II (1989) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097428/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Fuck me there's only one thing better than 80's films, the trailers...

Yeah, that's probably fair enough. That's the second of mine to go out... I still love it because it's Ghostbusters, but it's so much worse than the first one.

 

[SALTIRE]

They are remaking Highlander again with Ryan fucking Philippe this time in the lead role! I loved Highlander and Highlander II (if you take the second one as a film in its own right and ignore the first film). Used to watch the telly series as well.

That Belly Of An Architect looks decent, Brian bloody Dennehy in it though, he's like a Yank Jim Broadbent, everywhere around that time, and acts the same all the time, though he's a better actor the the dreadfully overrated Broadbent.

 

[Ginola14]

Ryan Philippe?? Is he still in the film making business??