re: UNSTICKY PLEASE - 100 Movies We Agree Don't Suck: 80's Edition

I'm a little late to the party...

a) I assume it is not too late to post?
b) Is it alphabetical or by preference? If is the latter, I am not sure I can one favorite 80's movie over nineteen plus others. It's hard enough narrowing it down to twenty!

Freaux,

I'm posting to you because I want you to know I haven't changed my original list.

This is just something I am doing to let you guys who were kids in the 80's know how lucky you were. This is the list of my favorite movies from age four through 14 (1963-1973). There aren't too many fun movies here. Lots of westerns & WWII movies. You'll also notice I saw a lot of R rated movies at a young age. I guess they didn't check at the theater. The only real kids movies back then were really lame Disney ones.

I grew up in small towns in Louisiana and Mississippi so a lot of the period's more progressive movies didn't make it to our theaters. People that were killing black men for dating white women didn't show To Kill a Mockingbird, Yellow Submarine, A Hard Days Night, Sounder and a few more great movies from the 60's & 70's.



Here's the list:

1. Bonnie & Clyde(1967) -Yes I saw it at the age of 10 or 12 IMDB
2. Planet of the Apes (1968) IMDB
3. Patton (1970) IMDB
4. Blazing Saddles (1974) IMDB
5. Dirty Harry (1971) IMDB
6. A Man Called Horse (1970) IMDB
7. Jeremiah Johnson (1972) IMDB
8. Von Ryan’s Express (1965) IMDB
9. King Rat (1965) IMDB
10. Little Big Man (1970) IMDB
11. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) IMDB
12. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
13. Serpico (1973) IMDB
14. True Grit (1969) IMDB
15. Deliverance (1972) IMDB
16. The Call of the Wild (1972) IMDB
17. The Incredible Journey (1963) IMDB
18. The Good the Bad & the Ugly (1966) IMDB
19. Where the Red Fern Grows (1974) IMDB
20. My Name is Nobody IMDB

Here, in no particular order, are the one's I cut from my list:

Kelly’s Heroes(1970), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Zulu (1964), Easy Rider (1969), Young Frankenstein (1974), Cool Hand Luke (1968), Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969), The War Wagon (1967), Follow Me Boys (1966), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), The Jungle Book (1967), The Reluctant Astronaut (1967), Frosty the Snowman (1969), The Doberman Gang (1972), Spencer’s Mountain (1963), The French Connection (1971), The Last Detail (1973), The Professionals (1966), The Sting (1973), Shampoo (1975), Chinatown (1974), Enter the Dragon (1973), The Birds (1963)

Somebody has to be wondering, "Why no Godfather?".
For some reason our theater didn't show it. Maybe the owners were Italian. I didn't see it until I was in college and wanted to be honest. With all of the killing I'm sure both I & II would have been in my top five or six.

I'm thinking we've probably got one more MWADS left to go as far as these decade things go. The '70s might be the greatest decade in movie history. Maybe we could lump the '60s in with the '70s edition.

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I'm thinking we've probably got one more MWADS left to go as far as these decade things go. The '70s might be the greatest decade in movie history. Maybe because we could lump the '60s in with the '70s edition.

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Hell no! I hope we make it to the 1890s because I've anticipated making a list, and lost a lot of sleep narrowing down the best Auguste and Louis Lumière 45 second cinématographe clips

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I'm thinking we've probably got one more MWADS left to go as far as these decade things go. The '70s might be the greatest decade in movie history. Maybe we could lump the '60s in with the '70s edition.

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I can keep going to 30s. Though I have seen a handful of silent films. 50s is my favorite movie decade.

I use my imdb account to keep track of my movies in the my movies section. I keep the ones I rated 8/10 or greater by list according to decade. They currently stand at:

MyMovies: 1930s (135 Titles)
MyMovies: 1940s (239 Titles)
MyMovies: 1950s (276 Titles)
MyMovies: 1960s (166 Titles)
MyMovies: 1970s (164 Titles)
MyMovies: 1980s (177 Titles)
MyMovies: 1990s (229 Titles)
MyMovies: 2000s (170 Titles)
MyMovies: 2010s (16 Titles)

I did my list by what I liked as a kid.

The one's I would recommend from your "haven't seen" list are:

The Sand Pebbles-. It's about the 1920's Nationalists Chinese forcing westerners out (including missionaries & U.S. military); shows how it affected personal relationships between Chinese & Westerers,; great cast

Spencer’s Mountain-just a good clean family movie; I think The Waltons was derived from it

Where the Red Fern Grows-very similar to Old Yeller; about a boy and his hunting dogs

The Incredible Journey-kid's movie about two dogs and a cat

The Call of the Wild-done from a Jack London book. another dog movie. I was a sucker for them as a kid

Deliverance-John Boorman directed serious Burt Reynolds movie about "city boys" canoeing down a river in Georgia

Von Ryan’s Express-WWII movie about English & American POW's in Italy being put on a train to Germany; one of the few Sinatra movies I like

Purple Rain should be at the top of the 80's movie list.

Cool just added The Sand Pebbles to my queue. I already had Deliverance in there and I added Von Ryan’s Express awhile back when Kafka was talking about it here.

I'm sure the family ones are good too I really just don't get into those kinds of movies as much anymore. I think I'm far too cynical at this point in my life, and I'm not really a dog person.

So the 80's may not be the best cinematic decade but for those of us who grew hair in special places during the era it holds a special place in movie lore. Picking 20 of the top non-suckage is no easy task. I feel like I am dis-owning the ones I am leaving off the list. After much consideration and much off air editing, here goes:

1) Back to the Future (but only the first)
2) No Way Out
3) Real Genius
4) A Fish Called Wanda
5) Die Hard
6) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7) Bull Durham
8) E.T.
9) Beverly Hills Cop
10) War Games
11) The Sure Thing
12) Highlander
13) Gotcha!
14) Romancing the Stone
15) Stand By Me
16) Johnny Dangerously
17) Risky Business
18) Fletch
19) Blues Brothers
20) The Flamingo Kid

Shows that could have made my top twenty on any other given day: Lethal Weapon, Coming to America, Big, Top Gun, Major League, Eight Men Out, Superman 2, Cocoon