Topic: 80s MOVIE DRAFT - Sign up and discussion

[El Lobo]

Looking back on these films and then realising that they are over 30 years ago and I was in my teenage years is disturbing, it only seems like yesterday!

Delete that and post in this one Joe Thats just for selections

[tubby]

Weird Science = all my votes.

[El Lobo]

Ahhh Mad Max 2, the best of all the Maxes. A fine pick

[Sheer Magnetism]

Weird Science = all my votes.

"Peter, your son was lurking outside a classmate’s window with this boom box, playing Peter Gabriel. He’s being charged with felony stalking."

"I also tried to use science to make a sex slave from a magazine photo."

[Betty Blue]

Back on the grid today. So many picks I've wanted have gone in the last couple of rounds, but a special fuck you to Musketeer for taking The Lost Boys. My favourite vampire movie ever. Dammit, I thought that would last awhile yet. Also took A Fish Called Wanda, which is an excellent film. Watched it recently and it still holds up well.

Brazil is also an amazing pick, which I had hoped would go under the radar a bit longer. De Niro's off the wall cameo role is fucking exquisite. 

[Betty Blue]

Ahhh Mad Max 2, the best of all the Maxes. A fine pick

Big personal favourite of mine. Remember first watching it with my Dad and loving every second of it. Loved Fury Road too though. Saw it in the cinema in 3d and could barely walk straight afterwards.

Genre question on Mad Max... I put it in Sci-Fi, but would it be better as a Thriller?

[Chakan]

Big personal favourite of mine. Remember first watching it with my Dad and loving every second of it. Loved Fury Road too though. Saw it in the cinema in 3d and could barely walk straight afterwards.

Genre question on Mad Max... I put it in Sci-Fi, but would it be better as a Thriller?

Meh it could be anything really, action, sci fi, thriller, adventure.

[red mongoose]

Big personal favourite of mine. Remember first watching it with my Dad and loving every second of it. Loved Fury Road too though. Saw it in the cinema in 3d and could barely walk straight afterwards.

Genre question on Mad Max... I put it in Sci-Fi, but would it be better as a Thriller?

It works in Sci-Fi better, I would think, but whatever suits your own list best is the way to go. Not that our lists are anything but tatters at this point. It's impossible to predict how this will go.

[Musketeer Gripweed]

Back on the grid today. So many picks I've wanted have gone in the last couple of rounds, but a special fuck you to Musketeer for taking The Lost Boys. My favourite vampire movie ever. Dammit, I thought that would last awhile yet. Also took A Fish Called Wanda, which is an excellent film. Watched it recently and it still holds up well.

Brazil is also an amazing pick, which I had hoped would go under the radar a bit longer. De Niro's off the wall cameo role is fucking exquisite. 

I didn't think any of my films would be that popular compared with the other picks. I've not picked any massive box office films or particularly critically acclaimed, I don't think, and I've never ever been able to convince anyone to spend 4 hours to watch Once Upon A Time In America.

[Sheer Magnetism]

A few overrated films picked so far but Blow Out might be on the other end of the scale. De Palma's best IMO, and superior to the original too.

[Lastrador]

A few overrated films picked so far but Blow Out might be on the other end of the scale. De Palma's best IMO, and superior to the original too.

Agree completely on all accounts. I was completely blown away (no pun intended) when I first watched it and mystified by how little recognition it got on its release and how's not widely considered De Palma's finest work. A dark, thrilling and devastating masterpiece I couldn't let slide.

[Crosby Nick]

Weird Science! 

[Lastrador]

Paris Texas (1984) - Drama/Romance

I knew this was coming. 

I recently bought the Criterion Collection Blu-ray (which looks amazing), as I've only watched it once a few years ago, and I loved it even more. A gorgeous movie, Robby Muller is easily one of my favourite DPs, and an amazing pick.

[Betty Blue]

It works in Sci-Fi better, I would think, but whatever suits your own list best is the way to go. Not that our lists are anything but tatters at this point. It's impossible to predict how this will go.

Yep, that was my feeling too. As a sci-fi fanatic, it was tempting to have it as a thriller just so I could squeeze one more piece of sci-fi madness in. But I'd rather keep my films in their best categories if possible. I've always got the wildcard for that anyway.

I knew this was coming. 

I recently bought the Criterion Collection Blu-ray (which looks amazing), as I've only watched it once a few years ago, and I loved it even more. A gorgeous movie, Robby Muller is easily one of my favourite DPs, and an amazing pick.

Yep, fantastic film. Sheer is on fire here. The opening desert scene is incredible. Alice in the Cities is probably my favourite Wenders film. I recommend seeing it if you haven't already.

[Lastrador]

Stand By Me is a great pick. I must have watched it a dozen times as a kid, which is pretty remarkable as it's pretty fucked up, and I can still remember most of it even though I haven't watched it in decades. A great coming-of-age movie, with all the beauty and sadness that it entails. 

[tubby]

Love that Near Dark pick.

[Lastrador]

Bill Paxton is the coolest fucker ever in that movie.

[Sheer Magnetism]

Paxton's been in four of these films so far, five if you count the split-second where he's one of the air traffic guys in Commando.

[Betty Blue]

Dammit, I thought Near Dark would go under the radar a bit longer. File with Repo Man under cult classic.

[Hazell]

Weird Science = all my votes.

Love that Near Dark pick.

Bill Paxton is the coolest fucker ever in that movie.

Nice. I wasn't sure whether people would have seen it but glad that people like it as well

[Max_powers]

Sheer you have taken both of  my next two picks. Gotta do some thinking now.

Both great films though.

[Sheer Magnetism]

Still two of maybe my top ten of all time left in this. One will probably go before it gets back round, I'd be surprised if enough people have seen the other one to go for it. Great decade for cinema though, just underrated because the 70s and 90s were on either side.

[Betty Blue]

Still two of maybe my top ten of all time left in this. One will probably go before it gets back round, I'd be surprised if enough people have seen the other one to go for it. Great decade for cinema though, just underrated because the 70s and 90s were on either side.

One of them is definitely Mac and Me.

[dis_1]

"glory" and "blow out" on download now, ashamed to say i'd never even heard of these - but really looking forward to watching these now!!!
all the other picks are true nostalgia blasts that i was hoping to get the chance to pick. it's going to be slim pickings soon.....

[Sheer Magnetism]

One of them is definitely Mac and Me.

Haha, you know me too well: https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=314834.msg16801896#msg16801896

[Crosby Nick]

Great pick Bobby. Gene Hackman is an absolute boss in that film. Watched it in school and seen it loads of times since.

[Betty Blue]

Haha, you know me too well: https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=314834.msg16801896#msg16801896

Haha that's brilliant. I'd have never have got it. Don't even know if I ever sat through Mac and Me. If I did I scrubbed it from my brain.

[Max_powers]

Grave of the Fireflies is such a beautiful piece of work and haunting at the same time. I cried so much after watching it.

[Hazell]

Great pick Bobby. Gene Hackman is an absolute boss in that film. Watched it in school and seen it loads of times since.

Agreed, brilliant pick that.

[Betty Blue]

It's hard to think of a pick that hasn't been great at this stage. Such is the brilliance of the 80s.

[Chakan]

It's hard to think of a pick that hasn't been great at this stage. Such is the brilliance of the 80s.

My next pick will test that... assuming mongoose doesn't pick it.

[Chakan]

Stunned silence ...

[Musketeer Gripweed]

Nah, that's a great movie. Female lead as well?

[Betty Blue]

Stunned silence ...

Another great one in the horror genre for me. Fits your goth rep too. Love the Gifs you posted 

[Sheer Magnetism]

Stunned silence ...

The way you were setting it up, I was expecting this:


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[Chakan]

Nah, that's a great movie. Female lead as well?

I would say so, I mean obviously Freddy is the main bad, but the hero of the movie is Nancy, and she does “overcome” Freddy at the end. I can change it if people disagree.

Another great one in the horror genre for me. Fits your goth rep too. Love the Gifs you posted 

I watched it at a sleep over when I was like 9/10 yrs old, scared the utter poop out of me. I love them really, Freddy has to be the most charismatic villain ever.

I’ve watched them all, except the new one, which I refuse to watch, nightmare without Robert Englund just seems very wrong.

[Betty Blue]

The way you were setting it up, I was expecting this:

Not a patch on the pillow fight scene in Jason X. Or as I like to call it, Jason in Space.

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[Chakan]

Lol the Jason movies are comical to me though, always preferred Freddy since it was a lot more believable as a bad guy.

[Lastrador]

Belting pick Samie, my favourite from Mann the man.

I really struggled to choose between Blow Out and Thief for my crime/thriller pick, as I really love both, but Blow Out just about edges it. Really glad someone picked it though, as it's a stunning film with amazing cinematography, a boss soundtrack and James Caan's best performances ever.

[Hazell]

dis knocking it out of the park again with the second best Christmas film of all time.

'You are so pathetic, that was the Little House on the Prairie'