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Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Hayden — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:03:48 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/30/2016 05:03

Aight, that'll be all 😄

List will be posted tomorrow. Thanks to all those who participated.

It's an interesting list. I think some people are going to be shocked on some of the stuff that didn't make it, along with a few surprisingly high placements.

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Hayden — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:13:40 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/29/2016 21:13

Thanks Ben 😄

I feel compelled to say that our current 101-115 (so, just outside the list), has some stellar films in it that I'm really hoping get bumped today in order to make it on the final list...

Hoping to see some last minute submissions 😨

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

benpaco — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:32:07 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 01/29/2016 20:32

I pieced this together kind of last minute (I'll do it this weekend, he said to himself, not realizing the deadline was before the weekend), but here's my list, hopefully I didn't forget too many important things:

1 Better Off Dead (1985)
2 The Princess Bride (1987)
3 True Stories (1986)
4 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
5 Raising Arizona (1987)
6 Star Wars V (1980)
7 A Christmas Story (1983)
8 Back to the Future (1985)
9 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
10 Star Trek IV (1986)
11 Amadeus (1984)
12 Ghostbusters (1984)
13 The Breakfast Club (1985)
14 The Blues Brothers (1980)
15 Blade Runner (1982)
16 The Abyss (1989)
17 Star Wars VI (1983)
18 Star Trek II (1982)
19 Critters (1986)
20 The Karate Kid (1984)
21 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
22 Die Hard (1988)
23 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
24 Back to the Future II (1989)
25 Beetlejuice (1988)
26 Re-Animator (1985)
27 The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
28 Turner and Hooch (1989) [mostly because it's all filmed in and around the town I was born so I'm mega biased]
29 Major League (1989)
30 Short Circuit (1986)

I wasn't able to find Brazil or After Hours in time and I'm still not convinced I've seen all of Wings of Desire or Repo Man in one sitting and I'm bummed about those. Same goes for any Cronenberg. In fact, just about the only 80s movie I was able to go out of my way to see was Raising Arizona.

EDIT: I love you guys to death but was I seriously the only one with Better Off Dead on my list or did I miss it somewhere else? It's so wonderfully campy while still having legitimately funny jokes and some actually interesting looks at the way people around a suicidal person ignore it.

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

pa — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:10:40 GMT

Author: pa

Posted: 01/29/2016 18:10

yay !!
I'm so excited to see the results!!
and thanks a lot for sharing your list guys, it was really helpful to me.
I was kind of surprised to not see Gandhi on your list, it's a really interesting movie.
and...I decided to throw in the battlefield some guilty pleasures such as Dirty Dancing, Flashdance...and muahahahaihih...I'm not going to say the other one!
I'm also a bit sad 'cause I didn't have the time to watch Sid and Nancy, I'm sure that it is a great one.

Mercury wrote:

Man, I haven't seen it. :(

man...you should really see that movie!

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Hayden — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:15:10 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/29/2016 15:15

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day to submit lists 😄

You got like.. 14 hours left of something.

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:37:11 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/29/2016 01:37

Hayden wrote:

Also, with the recent addition of the last submitted list, the first and second spots are separated by only 1 point. Which is crazy considering how many points both of them have, and how far ahead the #1 was just yesterday.

Argh! Hayden, you tease!!

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Mercury — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:09:37 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 01/28/2016 22:09

pa wrote:

hey guys!
my top ten:
6 - Back to the Future
8 - When Harry met Sally...
10 - Cinema Paradiso

Sexy beast!

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:04:35 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2016 22:04

dividesbyzero wrote:

I predict for #1 Grave of the Fireflies, secondary guesses for The Shining and Paris, Texas

pa wrote:

hey guys!
my top ten:
1 - Grave of the Fireflies
2 - Paris, Texas
3 - The Shining

I'm so fucking good at this I swear...

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

pa — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:48:21 GMT

Author: pa

Posted: 01/28/2016 21:48

hey guys!
my top ten:
1 - Grave of the Fireflies
2 - Paris, Texas
3 - The Shining
4 - Full Metal Jacket
5 - Once Upon a Time in America
6 - Back to the Future
7 - The Name of the Rose
8 - When Harry met Sally...
9 - Blue Velvet
10 - Cinema Paradiso

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:28:48 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2016 21:28

Just realized Do the Right Thing has a solid chance to take this. Come and See might be the dark horse

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Hayden — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:26:02 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/28/2016 21:26

dividesbyzero wrote:

did anyone even mention Henry outside of the two of us?

Due to the strict nature of the confidentiality that these lists and the submissions hold, I can't answer that.

But no 🙁 I might give it a watch though.

Also, with the recent addition of the last submitted list, the first and second spots are separated by only 1 point. Which is crazy considering how many points both of them have, and how far ahead the #1 was just yesterday. Just a reminder that even small lists matter 😜

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:57:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2016 18:57

CryingGameDahlin wrote:

1 Repo Man

4 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
5 Sans Soleil

Very nice. First two are mad underrated imo (did anyone even mention Henry outside of the two of us? Or Repoman for that matter...) and I can't really call Sans Soleil underrated seeing as film nerds are all over it, but I haven't seen it on nearly enough lists 'round these parts

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

cestuneblague — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:14:11 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 01/28/2016 18:14

Aight decided to put together something a little bit early. The 80s, man.

1 Repo Man
2 Fanny and Alexander
3 Come and See
4 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
5 Sans Soleil
6 Do the Right Thing
7 The King of Comedy
8 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
9 The Long Good Friday
10 Streetwise
11 Labyrinth
12 Robocop
13 E.T- the Extra Terrestrial
14 Pixote
15 Heathers
16 The Decline of Western Civilization
17 The Empire Strikes Back
18 Matewan
19 Kuroi Ame (Black Rain)
20 The Matador
21 Raging Bull
22 Paris, Texas
23 A City of Sadness
24 Sid and Nancy
25 Grave of the Fireflies
26 Kiss of the Spider Woman
27 Videodrome
28 Atlantic City
29 Beetlejuice
30 The Vanishing
31 This is Spinal Tap
32 Sherman's March
33 The Thing
34 Lucas
35 The Night of the Shooting Stars
36 The Times of Harvey Milk
37 Distant Voices, Still Lives
38 Better Off Dead
39 Celia
40 Das Boot
41 My Neighbor Totoro
42 Parting Glances
43 Alice
44 Ran
45 The Secret of Nimh
46 The Breakfast Club
47 Landscape in the Mist
48 Au Revoir Les Enfants
49 Hannah and Her Sisters
50 Full Metal Jacket
51 Mona Lisa
52 A Nos Amours
53 Angst
54 Time Bandits
55 Divine Horseman: Living Gods of Haiti
56 Betty Blue
57 Dogs in Space
58 My Left Foot
59 Never Cry Wolf
60 The Great Mouse Detective
61 My Beautiful Laundrette
62 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover
63 Barfly
64 The Gods Must Be Crazy
65 An American Werewolf in London
66 The Terminator
67 The Company of Wolves
68 Peking Opera Blues
69 The Neverending Story
70 Platoon
71 The Princess Bride
72 Revenge of the Nerds
73 A Christmas Story
74 Drugstore Cowboy
75 Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn
76 The Elephant Man
77 Sex, Lies and Videotape
78 The Last Temptation of Christ
79 High Hopes
80 Christiane F
81 Brazil
82 The Road Warrior
83 Re-Animator
84 Faces of the Enemy
85 Die Hard
86 Withnail and I
87 The Falls
88 Christine
89 Birdy
90 Poison for the Fairies
91 The Bear
92 Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
93 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
94 Dance of the Damned
95 Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
96 Phenomena
97 Noisy Requiem
98 Sleepaway Camp
99 Meet the Feebles
100 Mantsapala

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Mercury — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:35:01 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 01/28/2016 01:35

nutso42 wrote:

Oooooh... Paris Texas. Excellent possibility for #1.

Man, I haven't seen it. 🙁

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:21:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2016 01:21

dividesbyzero wrote:

I predict for #1 Grave of the Fireflies, secondary guesses for The Shining and Paris, Texas

Oooooh... Paris Texas. Excellent possibility for #1.

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Hayden — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:55:23 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/27/2016 20:55

Mercury wrote:

I'm really excited. Thanks for doing this, Hauden. You da bes'.

Good ol' Hauden.

And I'm also excited to see how the final list turns out 😄 Our current 1-60 is looking excellent. There's a few films that don't currently make it into our top 100 that I'm surprised about (pleasantly in some cases). I'm also glad to see a handful of non-forum regulars putting forward some excellent lists this time around.

ALSO, by the looks of it, our next poll will be the 70's, uncontested.

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Mercury — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:24:14 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 01/27/2016 20:24

I'm really excited. Thanks for doing this, Hauden. You da bes'.

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

pa — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:32:54 GMT

Author: pa

Posted: 01/27/2016 18:32

Hayden wrote:

I'm thinking of making Friday night the deadline... an extra day might help some people. Then the list would be posted Saturday. Any objections?

perfect!

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:31:13 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/27/2016 18:31

I predict for #1 Grave of the Fireflies, secondary guesses for The Shining and Paris, Texas

Re: Best Ever Films of the 80's Poll [Cutoff]

Hayden — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:29:38 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/27/2016 18:29

My personal list:

1. Grave of The Fireflies
2. Kiki's Delivery Service
3. The Princess Bride
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Down By Law
6. The Shining
7. Paris, Texas
8. Cinema Paradiso
9. Das Boot
10. Come and See
11. Heathers
12. A Nos Amours
13. Full Metal Jacket
14. Wings of Desire
15. Au Revoir Les Enfants
16. The Sacrifice
17. A Room With A View
18. Castle In The Sky
19. The King of Comedy
20. Back To The Future
21. Raging Bull
22. Insignificance
23. Koyaanisqatsi
24. Nostalghia
25. The Ballad of Narayama
26. Stop Making Sense
27. Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind
28. Rain Man
29. Drugstore Cowboy
30. Amadeus
31. Stand By Me
32. Full Moon In Paris
33. Sex, Lies and Videotape
34. Angel's Egg
35. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
36. A Short Film About Killing
37. Yeelen
38. Under The Sun of Satan
39. L'Argent
40. Broadway Danny Rose