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re: The 1987 Box Office is bonkers, never would have guessed the #1 film
Posted on 5/13/25 at 2:43 pm to Jack Ruby
Posted on 5/13/25 at 2:43 pm to Jack Ruby
The Untouchables is such a weird movie.
Kevin Costner is an American treasure.
Sean Connery is awesome.
DeNiro (used to be) great.
Multiple iconic moments like the baby carriage, throwing the dude off the roof, “we put two of his in the morgue,” etc.
And yet…
It isn’t a good movie. The acting is mostly over the top bad. The dialogue is cheesy. It honestly looks like a TV movie production-wise.
I want to like it.
Also, I don’t know what movie won best picture in 1987, but it unironically should have been Predator.
Kevin Costner is an American treasure.
Sean Connery is awesome.
DeNiro (used to be) great.
Multiple iconic moments like the baby carriage, throwing the dude off the roof, “we put two of his in the morgue,” etc.
And yet…
It isn’t a good movie. The acting is mostly over the top bad. The dialogue is cheesy. It honestly looks like a TV movie production-wise.
I want to like it.
Also, I don’t know what movie won best picture in 1987, but it unironically should have been Predator.
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Posted on 5/13/25 at 2:45 pm to msap9020
Fox got pidgenholed as a light comedic actor - which to be fair, he is - and he made a couple of bad dramatic movies. He ended up back on TV, then he got Parkinson's. It's a shame what happened to him, he might have ended up getting the right dramatic script, or he could have settled into playing a lot of lightly comedic dads.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:13 pm to thenza
quote:I just don't get De Palma. I never have. Untouchables was entertaining but silly, especially as anything close to a historical drama. Never got his Hitchcock homages.
It isn’t a good movie.
I guess Carrie is okay. Just not a fan.
But I can kill an afternoon watching The Untouchables, but only for the broad comic bookish performances.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:42 pm to Jack Ruby
If you would have asked me as a multiple choice which movie was the highest grossing in 1987:
3 men/ baby
Fatal Attraction
Good Morning Vietnam
Lethal Weapon
I would have definitely said Lethal Weapon.
If I had to choose 4 films I could only watch from 1987 - 3 man/ baby would not have been one of them but I'm not a chick.
3 men/ baby
Fatal Attraction
Good Morning Vietnam
Lethal Weapon
I would have definitely said Lethal Weapon.
If I had to choose 4 films I could only watch from 1987 - 3 man/ baby would not have been one of them but I'm not a chick.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:50 pm to Zephyrius
Never underestimate Selleck, women swoon over the man. Dude has a 40 year library of B level movies/TV shows you’ve never heard about but if you ask woman 50 years old and above they know every single one of em.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:58 pm to Zephyrius
quote:
would have definitely said Lethal Weapon.
Really tough for a rated R movie to top the charts back then. Fatal attraction was only really that high for the shock factor at the time.
This post was edited on 5/13/25 at 5:59 pm
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:03 pm to auyushu
quote:
Yeah Danson in his Cheers heyday, Magnum PI, and Guttenberg was huge at that time, it was pretty much a guaranteed hit.
It also had a young Nancy Travis in it.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:18 pm to timbo
Yeah, Bright Lights and the movie with Joan Jett didn't work.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:27 pm to Zephyrius
quote:
3 man/ baby would not have been one of them but I'm not a chick.
Was more of a dude movie than a chick movie but really wasn’t either. The first part establishing the guys as upper level bachelors was cool. Then it was single dudes reacting to a baby being thrust upon them. Well acted and written.
The movie is pretty underrated today if you think about it.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:44 pm to Jack Ruby
There are five or six movies on that list that deserve consideration for a theater trip. Nowadays, that's one or two movies per year.
That's not even considering the great movies that didn't make that chart.
Did Hollywood just run out of ideas?
That's not even considering the great movies that didn't make that chart.
Did Hollywood just run out of ideas?
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:53 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:
I remember interviews where Danson and Guttenberg would talk about how they considered themselves big stars at the time, and they'd walk in some public place with Tom Selleck and realize that every eye was on him.
I believe they said that about them/him and women as well.
quote:
3 Men and a Baby was massive. It was funny and charming, and I still remember all the hype surrounding this movie.
Don’t forget the hype around the ghost of that boy that killed himself (with a shotgun) and you could see his ghost in the window and a shotgun leaning against the wall.
And it turns out that it was just a cardboard cutout of Ted Dansen in a tuxedo. Man urban legends were so fun before the internet was ubiquitous.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:01 pm to Jack Ruby
I've never seen Stakeout.
Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez & Madeleine Stowe.
Was that good?
Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez & Madeleine Stowe.
Was that good?
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:02 pm to auyushu
quote:
Good Morning Vietnam
It was last month that I found out that the person IRL who would replace Adrian Cronauer and continue to say that each morning was Pat Sajak
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:03 pm to Jack Ruby
Saw all of that list in theater except for Moonstruck and Stakeout.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:03 pm to msap9020
quote:
I'm going to have to go back and do a rewatch of this one. Pretty sure I've seen it but the plot line is not ringing a bell. Sort've reads like the Mary Poppins version of the darker Bright Lights Big city?? I do remember that one.
It is ok. Given a mail room position by his uncle to work his way up he finds empty room, answers phone, and ends up making himself a fake executive while shuffling back and forth with his real job. It has a young Helen Slater as his romantic interest and co-worker (with his fake executive position) and also unknowingly beforehand gets seduced by his aunt (thru marriage) played by actress who played the owner in major league a couple of years after this movie.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:22 pm to cinemaguy23
quote:
I watched Fatal Attraction and I did not like it all. Glenn Close is not someone I would cheat on my wife with. Very ghastly looking.
Especially when your wife is prime Anne Archer
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:54 pm to msap9020
quote:
Also that year: Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Robocop, Predator, Full Metal Jacket, Broadcast News and Harry and the Hendersons. Helluva year for sure.
Also
The Lost Boys
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Spaceballs
Raising Arizona
Summer School
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:58 pm to skullhawk
I think it’s just so different now, with streaming and people having 85 inch TVs they paid $800 for. That’s had an impact on movies like the rise of TV did in the 50s and 60s
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:56 pm to Jack Ruby
look at that variety, now look at a similar list from 2024/25. I’m sure it’s mainly comprised of sequels or remakes. Original content vs mainly trash.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 6:48 am to cinemaguy23
quote:
I watched Fatal Attraction and I did not like it all. Glenn Close is not someone I would cheat on my wife with. Very ghastly looking.
Like Arsenio Hall famously said (paraphrasing), "It is like owning a BMW motorcycle and saying, 'Every once in a while, I need to feel a moped between my legs'."
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