Best movie of the 1980's?
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pcgrind2001 — 14 years ago(April 06, 2011 06:08 AM)
Yes, it's a serious question.
I'm really interested in everyone's input.
My top 15 of the 80's are:- Robocop
- Salvador
- Platoon
- predator
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Rumble Fish
- Angel Heart
- Suburbia
- Blade Runner
10.Return OF The Jedi
11.Dead Ringers
12.Crimes Of Passion
13.Henry: Portrait Of A Killer
14.The Killing Fields
15.Wall Street
Brazil is good. I need to resee it and give it it's full due because I was interupted for about 10 or 15 minutes in the middle of it when I saw it.
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mulholland_empire — 14 years ago(May 23, 2011 12:28 PM)
blue velvet
videodrome
angel heart
robocop
aliens
brazil
dead ringers
the shinning
fatal attraction
nightmare on elm st.
dressed to kill
scarface
blow out
inferno
phenomena
4th man
white dog (not widely seen but is out on criterion dvd and is an amazing film)
elephant man
full metal jacket
wall street
platoon.
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OrestMercator — 13 years ago(February 03, 2013 12:34 PM)
The Shining
Caddyshack
Melvin And Howard
Raging Bull
Escape From New York
Tootsie
Conan The Barbarian
48 Hrs.
Revenge Of The Ninja
The King Of Comedy
El Norte
The Times Of Harvey Milk
Blood Simple
Repo Man
Back To The Future
Lost In America
To Live And Die In LA
Ruthless People
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Howard The Duck
Angel Heart
Best Seller
Full Metal Jacket
Robocop
Street Smart
Spaceballs
Throw Momma From The Train
Alien Nation
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Hot To Trot
Married To The Mob
Eight Men Out
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
The Thin Blue Line
A Fish Called Wanda
Do The Right Thing
The Fabulous Baker Boys
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gregorik — 13 years ago(March 06, 2013 08:35 AM)
Angel Heart is not in my 80's top ten, but I always liked it. My list is:
- Scarface
- The thing
- The color purple
- Raiders of the lost ark
- The Empire strikes back
- Return of the Jedi
- Raging bull
- Back to the future
- Temple of doom
- Platoon
"Don't just DO something, STAND there!"
Pastor Charlie Bing
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jimmy_miller — 12 years ago(May 11, 2013 02:52 AM)
I'm a fan but I don't think it'd fit my top ten, there are other films of Mickey's though that I might include like I think as a film Barfly is better, a more complete piece than Angel Heart and when it comes to style and atmosphere there are few movies that (to me) depict the 80's scene more than Nine and a Half Weeks; Diner and Rumble Fish are also great pieces.
Jonathan Demme's films Something Wild and Married to the Mob are two favourites. Up very high on a list would be Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law. Risky Business with Tom Cruise is very good. The Shining and Raging Bull obviously, I personally have love and admiration for Scorsese's King of Comedy as well as The Last Temptation of the Christ.
Someone mentioned Videodrome and Dead Ringers but The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken is a favourite of mine as well.
I'm not that familiar with the foreign/art cinema works of the 80's in particular, except for Tarkovski's last two films, of which I enjoy Nostalghia better (The Sacrifice is great too but quite a downer).
The Verdict with Paul Newman I'd have up there, Once upon a Time in America, maybe Peter Weir's Witness. Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed, Reds; Nicholson had a string of wonderful films. -
bear022013-909-645034 — 11 years ago(August 28, 2014 06:33 PM)
The color purple?????Aw give me a break what a waste of tape/film/time not one actor in the entire advert for colored folks! Larry Fish,Danny Glover ACTORS??? Oh no..say it ain't so Joe! And it ain't.
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Cleon29 — 12 years ago(June 20, 2013 07:12 PM)
Here's my favorite 50 of the '80s: http://www.imdb.com/list/s3X68VrsIss/
It ranks pretty good. -
jondavid888 — 11 years ago(August 18, 2014 07:59 PM)
I'd say it was not a good film.
I didn't understand what the point of the movie was until the last 10 minutes.
The rest of the movie was just a boring chasethe main character, dressed in what looked like his dad's clothes (2 or 3 sizes too large), bumbling around from one person to another person trying to find some guy for some money.
There were also times in both the plot and the dialogue when I thought, "What? Did they just cut out 5 minutes of the movie and tape together two sections that don't go together?"
At the end, it seems that Angel realizes it's him WAY too soon.
He starts freaking out and crying before it should even occur to him that (SPOILER ALERT) Favorite is him. -
Disardor — 11 years ago(August 19, 2014 12:14 AM)
Ethan Krusemark tells him all about Favorite's ritual of slicing open and eating the soldier's heart and sealing the dog tags of the soldier in a vase. Rourke then goes to Margaret Krusemark's apartment, smashes the vase and
finds the dog tags with the named "ANGEL, HAROLD" on them. Hence, he realizes that he's Johnny Favorite.
I think his conclusion in that situation is the logical one, especially since
Lucifer pops up suddenly right after and begins taunting him. -
tenantennae — 11 years ago(August 23, 2014 05:02 PM)
The 80s were a golden age for movies in a lot of ways. If I really sat down and started ranking all the great films from that time, I don't think Angel Heart would be anywhere near the top, and I love this movie.
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rascal67 — 11 years ago(August 24, 2014 07:46 PM)
The 80's had many films that are now considered classics and favourites. Claiming something "The Best" is always subjective and it depends on what you connect with. Haven't seen 'Angel Heart' in quite some years and while visually arresting, I have never considered it to be one of my favourites from this decade. Prefer to watch '9 1\2 Weeks'-86 with Mickey Rourke and an 80's gem that I would rate higher than 'Angel Heart'.
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Edward_de_Vere — 11 years ago(October 23, 2014 07:22 AM)
Overall the 80's was, in my opinion, a lousy decade for movies. It was dominated by generic feel-good fluff, completely mindless paint-by-the-boxes action films, and teen-oriented sex comedies and slasher movies. There were some exceptions, however,
Angel Heart
being one of them. The early 80's also gave us two of my favorite sci-fi films,
The Thing
and
Blade Runner
.
Other films from the 80's that I greatly admire include
Manhunter
,
The King of Comedy
,
Full Metal Jacket
,
Fatal Attraction
, and Radford's adaptation of Orwell's
1984
. Not sure if
The Shining
,
The Long Good Friday
,
The Ninth Configuration
or
The Elephant Man
qualify, as they were released in 1980 but made in 1979.
So
Angel Heart
is certainly one of my top films from the 80's, but overall, it's a very short list compared favorites from the 1960's and 1970's. -
rascal67 — 11 years ago(October 26, 2014 05:20 AM)
Overall the 80's was, in my opinion, a lousy decade for movies. It was dominated by generic feel-good fluff, completely mindless paint-by-the-boxes action films, and teen-oriented sex comedies and slasher movies.
I agree that the 80's, was the start of a grand flux of popcorn\blockbuster entertainment; but there were also ground breakers and original films too, in that they weren't rehashes like today. Film technology was still developing and in inceptive phases. SFX could still be considered awesome, as each new SFX laden film that came out had something new to witness and filmmakers had some wonderful fresh faces and excellent talent, (old & new), to work with in the acting arena and gave us something differentDebra Winger, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Sigourney Weaver, Cher, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Tom Cruise, Glenn Close etc and Streep's finest decade, IMHO. Even the teenage, John Hughes style films, had plenty of value and still do.
There was also much charm and even a sprinkling of naivety and the foreign market had plenty of excellent films on offer also. I can't agree that it was "lousy". -
Edward_de_Vere — 11 years ago(October 28, 2014 06:02 AM)
wonderful fresh faces and excellent talent, (old & new), to work with in the acting arena and gave us something differentDebra Winger, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Sigourney Weaver, Cher, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Tom Cruise, Glenn Close etc and Streep's finest decade, IMHO
Seems to me that many of the names on your list just prove my point. If the best the new crop of actors can do is Cher and Tom Cruise, it's no wonder that the 80's was the decade of mindless popcorn flicks. -
rascal67 — 11 years ago(October 28, 2014 09:23 AM)
Seems to me that many of the names on your list just prove my pointCher and Tom Cruise
I suppose it depends on what you are looking for in a film, what you connect with and what your expectations are. Cher and Tom Cruise have their detractors; but to single them out from the other names I listed, in an attempt to prove a point, is subjective and maybe a tad pompous.
I enjoy many films from the earlier eras; but I also like to see film as representative of the era in which they were made and I don't feel you may have dug deep enough into the 80's, perhaps. The earlier part of the 80's, still had a feel of the 70's imbued into them, then like you have mentioned, popcorn entertainment started to take over in droves; but I still find they have a certain charm and magic, that is lacking in today's films. Since I was a teenager during the 80's, I may be a tad biased and see a nostalgic value in them.