The Film Thread

[kurtsimonw]

Watched The Book of Eli tonight, I'd not watched it until now because the religious tone really put me off. Weren't half bad and didn't expect the ending.

[Ingram85]

Saw The Breakfast Club for the first time last night. Not sure what to make of it. It was awful yet strangely awesome at the same time. All I know is that I want to put my penis in 1980's Molly Ringwald.

[BOF]

Watched The Dictator last night. I kind of knew what I was in for, but even for Sacha Baron Cohen it wasn't great. There were a few laugh out loud moments but they were much too few and far between.

Playing his wii game 'The Munich Olympics' which starts by knocking on the Israeli hotel room door and shooting whoever answers. That was classic SBC and an 'omglol'.

The part where he convinces America that if it was a dictatorship it would be able to [and he then proceeds to list out loads of things that America is already doing to its people]. I wouldn't say it was subtle but it got the point across.

Luckily, or perhaps intentionally, mercifully the film is only barely more than an hour long.

[mikeyp102]

Saw The Breakfast Club for the first time last night. Not sure what to make of it. It was awful yet strangely awesome at the same time. All I know is that I want to put my penis in 1980's Molly Ringwald.

Yep it is terrible but you have to keep watching..And yep you can see why she was the darling of 80's films

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

The Breakfast Club is not terrible. It is amazeballs.

[Ginko]

I prefer Dazed & Confused and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but The Breakfast Club is still a pretty iconic 80's movie.

[BOF]

I watched Dazed & Confused in the past year.  If I grew up in America I imagine it would be an epic movie tbh.  As it was, it was still very good*.  My Canadian mate still has "The Judge" as his dream car because of this movie

 

 

 

* and is Matthew McConaughey's best role to date (and one of his earliest) that I've seen anyway.

[choffer]

I prefer Dazed & Confused and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but The Breakfast Club is still a pretty iconic 80's movie.

How does a film made in 1993 make it into your list of 80's movies?

Would have to agree though D&C is one of my favourite films. Wish Linklater would make another decent film some time soon.

Edited February 20, 2013 by choffer

[Designer1]

 * and is Matthew McConaughey's best role to date (and one of his earliest) that I've seen anyway.

Killer Joe says hi.

[kurtsimonw]

The Breakfast Club is not terrible. It is amazeballs.

Yep.

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

'The White Ribbon' is on iPlayer. Watch it!

[hogso]

~~Top 5 films of the 1980's~~ by hogso

 

+ Short Circuit

+ Flight of the Navigator

+ Innerspace

+ The Brave Little Toaster

+ Batteries Not Included

 

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[Brumerican]

~~Top 5 films of the 1980's~~ by hogso

 

+ Short Circuit

+ Flight of the Navigator

+ Innerspace

+ The Brave Little Toaster

+ Batteries Not Included

 

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The Running Man

Die Hard

Robocop

Ferris Buellers day off

Ghostbusters.

[Brumerican]

I could have have made a load of 80's top lists as it happens. It was such a great decade for films.

[choffer]

Some random top 100 of the 80's list. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing but this list does make you realise how many good films there were that you'd forgotten about.

1. Raging Bull - (1980, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci)

2. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - (1982, Steven Spielberg) (Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace)

3. Raiders of the Lost Ark - (1981, Steven Spielberg) (Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman)

4. Amadeus - (1984, Milos Forman) (F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce)

5. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)

6. Cinema Paradiso - (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore) (Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio)

7. Once Upon a Time in America - (1984, Sergio Leone) (Robert DeNiro, James Woods)

8. Blade Runner - (1982, Ridley Scott) (Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer)

9. Ran - (1985, Akira Kurosawa) (Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao)

10. Do the Right Thing - (1989, Spike Lee) (Spike Lee, John Turturro)

11. Blue Velvet - (1986, David Lynch) (Kyle MacLachlin, Dennis Hopper)

12. The Empire Strikes Back - (1980, Irvin Kershner) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)

13. The Elephant Man - (1980, David Lynch) (John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins)

14. The Shining - (1980, Stanley Kubrick) (Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall)

15. Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick) (Mathew Modine, Adam Baldwin)

16. Brazil - (1985, Terry Gilliam) (Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro)

17. Airplane! - (1980, Jim Abrahams) (Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty)

18. Das Boot - (1981, Wolfgang Peterson) (Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer)

19. Tootsie - (1982, Sydney Pollack) (Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange)

20. The Untouchables - (1987, Brian De Palma) (Kevin Costner, Sean Connery)

21. The Terminator - (1984, James Cameron) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton)

22. Die Hard - (1988, John McTiernan) (Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman)

23. The Last Emperor - (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci) (John Lone, Joan Chen)

24. Gandhi - (1982, Richard Attenborough) (Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen)

25. Raising Arizona - (1987, Joel Coen) (Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter)

26. The Princess Bride - (1987, Rob Reiner) (Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn)

27. The Big Chill - (1983, Lawrence Kasdan) (Kevin Kline, Glenn Close)

28. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - (1982, Amy Heckerling) (Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh)

29. Scarface - (1983, Brian De Palma) (Al Pacino, Steven Bauer)

30. A Christmas Story - (1983, Bob Clark) (Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon)

31. Poltergeist - (1982, Tobe Hooper) (Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams)

32. Terms of Endearment - (1983, James L. Brooks) (Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine)

33. This Is Spinal Tap - (1984, Rob Reiner) (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest)

34. Crimes and Misdemeanors - (1989, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Martin Landau)

35. sex, lies, and videotape - (1989, Steven Soderbergh) (James Spader, Andie MacDowell)

36. Back to the Future - (1985, Robert Zemeckis) (Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd)

37. Rain Man - (1988, Barry Levinson) (Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise)

38. Ordinary People - (1980, Robert Redford) (Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore)

39. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - (1988, Robert Zemeckis) (Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd)

40. Hannah and Her Sisters - (1986, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Mia Farrow)

41. When Harry Met Sally - (1989, Rob Reiner) (Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan)

42. Henry V - (1989, Kenneth Branagh) (Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi)

43. Blood Simple - (1984, Joel Coen) (John Getz, Frances McDormand)

44. The Right Stuff - (1983, Philip Kaufman) (Scott Glenn, Ed Harris)

45. The Color Purple - (1985, Steven Spielberg) (Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg)

46. Kagemusha - (1980, Akira Kurosawa) (Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki)

47. Wings of Desire - (1987, Wim Wenders) (Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin)

48. The Little Mermaid - (1989, Ron Clements, John Musker) (Jodi Benson, Sam Wright)

49. Tender Mercies - (1983, Bruce Beresford) (Robert Duvall, Tess Harper)

50. Chariots of Fire - (1981, Hugh Hudson) (Ben Cross, Ian Charleson)

51. Salvador - (1986, Oliver Stone) (James Woods, James Belushi)

52. Atlantic City - (1980, Louise Malle) (Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon)

53. My Left Foot - (1989, Jim Sheridan) (Daniel Day Lewis, Fiona Shaw)

54. Glory - (1989, Edward Zwick) (Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman)

55. Jean de Florette - (1986, Claude Berri) (Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand)

56. The Killing Fields - (1984, Roland Joffe) (Sam Waterston, John Malcovich)

57. The Last Metro - (1980, Francois Truffaut) (Gerard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve)

58. A Room With a View - (1986, James Ivory) (Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter)

59. A Passage to India - (1984, David Lean) (Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee)

60. Missing - (1982, Costa Gavras) (Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek)

61. Places in the Heart - (1984, Robert Benton) (Sally Field, John Malcovich)

62. A Soldier's Story - (1984, Norman Jewison) (Adolph Caesar, Howard E. Rollins)

63. Prizzi's Honor - (1985, John Huston) (Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner)

64. A Fish Called Wanda - (1988, Charles Crichton) (Kevin Kline, John Cleese)

65. Witness - (1985, Peter Weir) (Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis)

66. Driving Miss Daisy - (1989, Bruce Beresford) (Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy)

67. Fanny and Alexander - (1982, Ingmar Bergman) (Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve)

68. Return of the Jedi - (1983, Richard Marquand) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)

69. A Nightmare on Elm Street - (1984, Wes Craven) (John Saxon, Robert Englund)

70. Broadcast News - (1987, James L. Brooks) (William Hurt, Holly Hunter)

71. The King of Comedy - (1983, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Jerry Lewis)

72. Bull Durham - (1988, Ron Shelton) (Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins)

73. The Vanishing - (1988, George Sluizer) (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets)

74. Hope and Glory - (1987, John Boorman) (Sebastian Rice Edwards, Sarah Miles)

75. My Dinner with Andre - (1981, Louise Malle) (Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory)

76. Field of Dreams - (1989, Phil Alden Robinson) (Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones)

77. Hoosiers - (1986, David Anspaugh) (Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper)

78. Ghostbusters - (1984, Ivan Reitman) (Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray)

79. The Breakfast Club - (1985, John Hughes) (Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez)

80. Big - (1988, Penny Marshall) (Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins)

81. Caddyshack - (1980, Harold Ramis) (Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield)

82. Arthur - (1981, Steve Gordon) (Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli)

83. Kiss of the Spider Woman - (1985, Hector Babenco) (William Hurt, Raul Julia)

84. The Color of Money - (1986, Martin Scorsese) (Paul Newman, Tom Cruise)

85. She's Gotta Have It - (1986, Spike Lee) (Tracy Camilla Johns, Spike Lee)

86. Body Heat - (1981, Lawrence Kasdan) (William Hurt, Kathleen Turner)

87. The Executioner's Song - (1982, Lawrence Schiller) (Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette)

88. Moonstruck - (1987, Norman Jewison) (Cher, Nicolas Cage)

89. The Stunt Man - (1980, Richard Rush) (Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback)

90. Local Hero - (1983, Bill Forsyth) (Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert)

91. Melvin and Howard - (1980, Jonathan Demme) (Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat)

92. Dangerous Liaisons - (1988, Stephen Frears) (Glenn Close, John Malcovich)

93. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - (1986, John Hughes) (Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck)

94. The Road Warrior - (1981, George Miller) (Mel Gibson, Syd Heylen)

95. The Last Temptation of Christ - (1988, Martin Scorsese) (Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel)

96. Mona Lisa - (1986, Neil Jordan) (Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine)

97. Fatal Attraction - (1987, Adrian Lyne) (Michael Douglas, Glenn Close)

98. Out of Africa - (1985, Sydney Pollack) (Meryl Streep, Robert Redford)

99. Stand By Me - (1986, Rob Reiner) (River Phoenix, Corey Feldman)

100. Lost in America - (1985, Albert Brooks) (Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty)

[Brumerican]

Beetlejuice

Weird Science

Planes , Trains and Automobiles

Spaceballs

Beverly Hills Cop

 

All mssing from the list and are all top films IMO.

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

The 80s had plenty of great films, but for a period the 70s was so far ahead of its time and importantly producers didn't dictate what a director can and cannot do.

[Meath_Villan]

 * and is Matthew McConaughey's best role to date (and one of his earliest) that I've seen anyway.

Killer Joe says hi.

A time to kill ?

[mikeyp102]

Just seen Aon Flux is on... Watched it a few yrs ago and god is it awful... But Miss Theron does look extremely delightful in it

[Meath_Villan]

Just seen Aon Flux is on... Watched it a few yrs ago and god is it awful... But Miss Theron does look extremely delightful in it

Id suck farts out of her underpants