What is the best movie of the 1980s?
What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#3re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:14pmFRIDAY THE 13TH, PART 3
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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#4re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:17pmis that because it was in 3-D?
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ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#5re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:20pm
Well, I'm only half kidding. The 3D is superb in that film. I have to think about my favorite 80's film. Oh, no I don't, it's BLOW OUT.
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Updated On: 7/11/05 at 06:20 PM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#6re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:21pm
10 of my favorites:
Law of Desire (Almodovar)
What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Almodovar)
Parting Glances
My Beautiful Launderette
Withnail & I
Stranger Than Paradise
Raging Bull
Ordinary People
This Is Spinal Tap
Aliens
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#7re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:26pmStand By Me (1986)
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#8re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:31pm3-D is never really superb. It drains the color out of the images and really only functions as a gimmick. It never enhances the story.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#9re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:32pmI am going to pick Betty Blue, aka 37.2 Le Matin.
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#10re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:33pm
Wow. So many...
Ordinary People
The Color Purple
The Breakfast Club
When Harry Met Sally
Hannah and Her Sisters
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
A Passage to India
A Room With a View
Moonstruck
The Accidental Tourist
Working Girl
My Left Foot
Kagemusha
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WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#11re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:37pm
I vote for E.T.
(I was thinking the masterpiece that is "Kramer vs Kramer" which opened in 1979)
#12re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:45pm
E.T.
Ordinary People
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Elephant Man
Tootsie
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Fatal Attraction
The Color Purple
Witness
The Accidental Tourist
Rain Man
#13re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:47pm
Kagamusha
Raging Bull
Blue Velvet
#14re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:01pm
The Breakfast Club
Spinal Tap
Little Shop hehe =P
#15re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:03pmI also love "Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown" and "Dreamchild" -- for the art house set.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#16re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 8:16pm
DREAMCHILD was awesome!!!!!!
But my vote for the best-eighties-movie-no-one-saw would have to be SHOOT THE MOON with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton. Brilliant.
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ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#17re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 8:26pm
3-D is never really superb. It drains the color out of the images and really only functions as a gimmick. It never enhances the story.
Then you've never seen really good showings of FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART 3, HOUSE OF WAX, KISS ME KATE or DIAL M FOR MURDER, because all of them had excellent 3D, in brilliant color and in each case, the film-going experience was superior to its 2D version.
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#19re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 9:36pm
yes, LOTS of faves from the 80s!
especially ORDINARY PEOPLE, which had an extremely profound effect on me.
but i must say ... MAURICE, which also had a (different) profound effect.
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#20re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:17pm
It's a tie:
16 Candles
Pretty in Pink
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#21re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:55am
Silkwood
Coal Miner's Daughter
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Aliens
Scandal
Fitzcarraldo
A Fish Called Wanda
Atlantic City
Spinal Tap
Body Heat
Paris, Texas
Star 80
Raging Bull
Raising Arizona
On Golden Pond
Sex Lies & Videotape
The Elephant Man
Sid & Nancy
The Killing Fields
Drugstore Cowboy
Last Temptation of Christ
Manon of the Spring
War of the Roses
The Abyss
A Trip to Bountiful
Say Anything
Santa Sangre
Dangerous Liaisons
Blood Simple
Cyrano de Bergerac
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Hannah and Her Sisters
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Updated On: 7/12/05 at 01:55 AM
bongoboy
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#22re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:07amApartment Zero. I started smoking again while watching this on video.
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#24re: What is the best movie of the 1980s?
Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:46amField of Dreams and Little Mermaid, my two all time favs.
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