The MoFo Top 100 of the 80s: Countdown

Aaand, here's my totally non-strategic list. Seems like I'm the only one who voted for Peking Opera Blues, A Taxing Woman, The Brother From Another Planet, Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain, and The Disco Dancer.

Akira
Peking Opera Blues
Throw Momma From the Train
Three Crowns of the Sailor
Gremlins
A Taxing Woman
The Brother From Another Planet
Casualties of War
My Dinner With Andre
The Untouchables
Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain
Repo Man
Mishima
The Draughtsman's contract
Starstruck
Die Hard
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Body Double
The Fly
The Disco Dancer
Full Metal Jacket
Withnail & I
Tampopo
A Zed & Two Noughts
The Empire Strikes Back

1980's > 1990's in terms of movies. After the fall of the Soviet Union, western popular culture appears to have entered a phase of terminal decline in film and music.

EXCUSE ME! But there was NO NEED to quote that whole list like that!

Care to elaborate?

Oh Hell.

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Naw. If you love it, include it. Even if it doesn't make it, it's better to have an honest list.

you're right, i've got a good handful of 70s movies to catch up on before i feel good about my list, so we'll see

everyone should read this post.

Why?

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because it's better to have an honest list of your favorites than changing your list to manipulate the outcome.

I'd like to mention a film that's not from the 80s that deserves some recognition. The Phantom Carriage. It provided some inspiration for a very well done scene.

People were strategically voting in here? You gotta be kiddin' me. It's supposed to be an honest list.that shows our real favorites.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Yeah I even posted some gifs in Horror thread to compare them.

Soo... the ratings!

1. The Shining
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Back to the future
4. The Terminator
5. Star Wars episode V - The Empire strikes back
6. Blade Runner
7. Raging Bull
8. Die hard
9. Blue velvet
10. Full metal jacket
11. Aliens
12. The thing
13. The Breakfast Club
14. Scarface
15. Do the right thing
16. Once upon a time in America
17. Ran
18. Star Wars episode VI - Return of the Jedi
19. The elephant man - the very best
20. Ghostbusters
21. Brazil
22. Fanny and Alexander
23. Ferris Bueller's day off
24. Amadeus
25. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
26. Rain man
27. The princess bride
28. An American werewolf in London
29. The king of comedy
30. Platoon
31. Who framed Roger Rabbit?
32. Come and see
33. This is Spinal Tap
34. Grave of the fireflies
35. After hours
36. Predator
37. ET the extraterrestrial
38. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
39. Paris, Texas
40. Raising Arizona
41. First blood
42. A nightmare on Elm Street
43. Airplane!
44. Robocop
45. My neighbor Totoro
46. Gremlins
47. Das Boot
48. The cook, the thief, his wife & her lover
49. The evil dead
50. The Blues Brothers
51. Poltergeist
52. Batman
53. The Purple Rose of Cairo
54. The fly
55. Stand by me
56. The karate kid
57. Cinema Paradiso
58. Evil dead II
59. Jean de Florette
60. Akira
61. The lost boys
62. Tootsie
63. The sacrifice
64. Crimes and misdemeanors
65. Blow out
66. Mad Mad 2: The road warrior
67. Au revoir les enfants
68. Castle in the sky
69. Star Trek II: The wrath of Khan
70. Glory
71. Planes, trains & automobiles
72. Lethal weapon
73. Repo man
74. A city of sadness
75. Dead poets society - Watched it a couple times, but it's been too long
76. Wings of desire
77. The Goonies - Watched it, but again, too long ago
78. Manhunter
79. The vanishing
80. Christmas vacation
81. Diner
82. The time to live and the time to die
83. Three crowns of the sailor
84. Back to the future part II
85. Heathers
86. Shoah
87. Beetlejuice
88. Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind
89. The Decalogue
90. A Christmas story
91. The outsiders
92. Blood simple
93. The untouchables
94. A visitor to the museum
95. Stranger than paradise
96. Near dark
97. Rocky IV
98. Modern romance
99. Stop making sense
100. Hannah and her sisters

Watched - 40/100
From my unsent list (page 8 of this thread) - 16/25

A nice list, but nowhere impressive from what I've watched. Then again, I should watch a lot more. I have this decade very unexplored and have missed many relevant and defining movies.

I had two John Sayles films that were in my mix but didn't make the twenty-five, in Matewan and Eight Men Out. And I actually had My Dinner with Andre as my number twenty-five, but switched it with Full Metal Jacket at the last second. Not that a single point would have helped much, but I feel ya.

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i don't see a problem with strategizing, as far as boosting movies -that you aren't sure will make the list- higher than you may normally put them.. while putting movies you know will show up and high on the list anyways, lower... examples from my 80's list:

i like Terminator, Raiders, Empire, & Back to the Future, more than:

#7. They Live
#8. Fright Night
#10. Escape from New York
#12. the Last Starfighter
#13. the NeverEnding Story
#15. Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home
#17. Caddyshack
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#18. the Terminator
#20. Raiders of the Lost Ark
#21. the Empire Strikes Back
#22. Back to the Future

in these cases, my strategy failed to make a difference, as the above all missed out. while i knew that Empire, Terminator & Raiders weren't going to take a hit beforehand, & they all ended up finishing Top 5

didn't get those particular movies in, but i don't see that the strategy i had as particularly dishonest.. bc i wanted those movies to make the list.. & the only power i had to increase their chance was to sacrifice certain movies i already knew would do well

Love the card trick on the train in Brother from Another Planet...

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Really great to see the Shining top the list. I had it at 6 and in all honesty i thought it'd finish 4th or 5th with Raiders topping the list.

My list:

1.The King of Comedy (29)
2.Platoon (30)
3.Full Metal Jacket (10)
4.The Burbs
5.Raising Arizona (40)
6.The Shining (1)
7.The Breakfast Club (13)
8.Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (5)
9.Amadeus (24)
10.Poltergeist 2
11.The Outsiders (91)
12.A Nightmare on Elm Street (42)
13.Back to the Future (3)
14.Trading Places
15.The Terminator (4)
16.Kagemusha
17.Die Hard (8)
18.Back to the Future Part 2 (84)
19.Poltergeist (51)
20.Rain Man (26)
21.Once Upon a Time in America (16)
22.The Changeling
23.Blue Velvet (9)
24.Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (18)
25.After Hours (35)

YAY!

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My list:

1. The Breakfast Club (#13)
2. Footloose
3. Scarface (#14)
4. Batman (#52)
5. The Shining (#1)
6. Full Metal Jacket (#10)
7. Blade Runner (#6)
8. The Evil Dead (#49)
9. The Outsiders (#91)
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark (#2)
11. Temple of Doom (#25)
12. Terminator (#4)
13. Die Hard (#8)
14. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
15. Robocop (#44)
16. A Nightmare on Elm Street (#42)
17. Red Dawn
18. The Thing (#12)
19. Predator (#36)
20. Poltergeist (#51)
21. The Lost Boys (#61)
22. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (#31)
23. The Children of the Corn
24. Road House
25. Raging Bull (#7)