Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART 3
is that because it was in 3-D?
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
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
Stand By Me (1986)
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
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.
I am going to pick Betty Blue, aka 37.2 Le Matin.
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
I vote for E.T.
(I was thinking the masterpiece that is "Kramer vs Kramer" which opened in 1979)
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
Kagamusha
Raging Bull
Blue Velvet
The Breakfast Club
Spinal Tap
Little Shop hehe =P
I also love "Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown" and "Dreamchild" -- for the art house set.
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.
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.
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.
It's a tie:
16 Candles
Pretty in Pink
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
Apartment Zero. I started smoking again while watching this on video.
Field of Dreams and Little Mermaid, my two all time favs.
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