Top 10 80s Films
Simply my faves. No Breakfast Club. No Pretty in Pink. In fact, this list is 100% Molly Ringworm-free!!!
- Videodrome (Deborah Harry, James Woods, Sonja Smits)
- Dune (Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Virginia Madsen, Sting)
- Brain Storm (Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Natalie Wood)
- Brazil (Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Robert DeNiro)
- Salvador (James Woods, Jim Belushi)
- Vampire's Kiss (Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals)
- Barfly (Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway)
- Homeboy (Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken)
- Less Than Zero (Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Gertz, Andrew McCarthy)
- Blue Velvet (Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper)
posted by K-Dough at 4:30 PM
25 Comments:
Happy snowy V-Day, K and everyone else.
I cant say I'm eager for movie night at your place.
There must be at least 3 on the list I could not sit through. Man I could not stand Videodrome and Brazil. I just don't get weird for weird sake. Wrong decade but you must love Eraserhead?
I would say the noticable exceptions to you list would be.
RAN and Kagemusha,
gotta love Akira Kurosawa movies
Henry the V- Branagh - pehaps the best Shakespeare flick ever.
Glory-
Hellraiser-
No Ruthless People? The Big Chill? I have not seen very many of your picks, but I really liked Less Than Zero.
Happy snowy day to you, Joanne.
You missed a movie near and dear to one of Globor's 16 hearts - Better off Dead.
Gotta have Raising Arizona on there.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, anyone?
GAB: love Kurosawa!
I have to say I'd add Do The Right Thing to the list as well.
The ice cube on Rosie Perez's tits scene was worth it alone. Not to mention the social commentary.
Eugene- Love that movie as well...
I would have loved to include Wild at Heart (my all time fave) as well, but that was 1990.
Noel- if I had to pick cheese it would be Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Phoebe Cates boobs!!!)
Or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Classics dude!
Pam - so many movies, so few brain cells. That said, never was a big fan of the yuppie melodrama ala Big Chill.
Candy stripers- the first porn I ever saw.
Since you're obviously a Rourke fan, I'm a bit miffed that you excluded Rumble Fish. (What a great soudtrack too....if you're a Stan Ridgeway fan.)
Having said that, Barfly made me want to slit my wrists. My nominee for mainstream blockbuster movie of the decade has to be Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's just damn great from start to finish.
Letaher- I remenber not really getting Rumblefish- I think I was either too stoned or the black and white and mumbled script just put me to sleep.
Letaher? I like it!
BTW Leather- Barfly is probably my favourite movie on the list.
I love the scene when Rourke wakes up in the prissy editor's luxury condo the morning after drunkenly boinking her. She tries to beg him to stay as he is putting on his soiled pants:
Editor: You know. In the guesthouse you could write in peace.
Rourke: Hey, tell me baby, nobody who could write worth a damn could ever write in peace.
Editor: I take it, you don't care for my world.
Rourke: Baby, look around it's a cage with golden bars.
Snow? What's that?
Sheena- you don't know Snow?
Inforrrrrmer badadadababadadadp
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nyah nyah
K-Man, that's because you are a drunken poet at heart. He's you. Or you're him, or whatever...
Sheena, I hope you're flying back soon, cause of, you know..
Yes, Leatherhands.. I know I know.
Counting on the weather to clear up by tomorrow. Don't think anyone will be getting up to the north east today.
Sheena- did you receive the details I sent out on Monday?
Yes ma'am.
Fine then, good sir.
That list is depressing. Now, here are some great 80's movies:
- Stranger than Paradise
- Wild Thing
- I Heard the Mermaids Singing
- La Cage aux folles
- Le Déclin de l'empire américain
- Personal Services
...though on second thought, Blue Velvet was very good. I loved hearing Isabella Rossellini sing: "She wore bwoo...welwet... bwooer than welwet...were her eyes..."
Anon- I'm with you on this one
Le Déclin de l'empire américain!!!
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