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*kjm

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No love for musicals..... I would have thought The Wall or Heavy Metal at least.
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

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Nothing in that to make me mad. I don't agree with all of their choices...but it based on opinion...probably from people who were kids when most of those came out.
 
angminas

angminas

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*kjm said:
True but with RS I would have thought one would make it......

Top 100 they should make it at least The wall.
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Well, yeah, didn't think about it that way. I could probably do top 100. Lemme see if I can cobble together a really shitty top 25 real quick, in no particular order (the comments below the RS list help)...

Star Trek II
Aliens
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Wall Street
Terminator
Ghostbusters
The Breakfast Club
Die Hard
Robocop
The Untouchables
The Color Purple
Rain Man
The Princess Bride
Batman
Return Of The Jedi
The Karate Kid
Stand By Me
Full Metal Jacket
Places In The Heart
Gandhi
The Verdict
Good Morning, Vietnam
Stand And Deliver
Pretty Woman

Hmm, that didn't turn out too badly. Not perfect, but it kicks the shit out of the RS list.
 
SlickSnake

SlickSnake

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Huh, well, asking someone who grew up in that era what the best movies of the 80's are, may not match the list 20 somethings come up with who didn't experience the movies first hand.

That's all I got on the RS list.

And a lot of those movies were good, but great? Some of those in the list are fluff type films I consider date type movies, like Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, and St.Elmo's Fire. While they might have good stars in them, one watch is more than enough for one lifetime, thanks. And it's hard for me to consider any comedy movie really great, because since it's a comedy, it's obviously not taking itself seriously in the first place, like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Those films just don't measure up at all when compared next to Blade Runner, The Shinning or Full Metal Jacket.

And some movies I consider great like the Godfather part 3, were actually filmed in 1989. But it wasn't released until December 1990.
 
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SlickSnake

SlickSnake

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OverVolt said:
Yea what does an angry hipster look like? Throw their phone down in rage and when they look up they are totally bewildered at the world around them they were ignoring?

Ah... lols.
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Angry homeless Hipster sweat pants:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2370302

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Sho'Nuff

Sho'Nuff

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angminas said:
Well, yeah, didn't think about it that way. I could probably do top 100. Lemme see if I can cobble together a really shitty top 25 real quick, in no particular order (the comments below the RS list help)...

Star Trek II
Aliens
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Wall Street
Terminator
Ghostbusters
The Breakfast Club
Die Hard
Robocop
The Untouchables
The Color Purple
Rain Man
The Princess Bride
Batman
Return Of The Jedi
The Karate Kid
Stand By Me
Full Metal Jacket
Places In The Heart
Gandhi
The Verdict
Good Morning, Vietnam
Stand And Deliver
Pretty Woman

Hmm, that didn't turn out too badly. Not perfect, but it kicks the shit out of the RS list.
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Not a bad list you got there. But IMO Karate Kid has no business being in the same list as Return of the Jedi and Stand by Me.

Also - Pretty Woman was released in 1990.

Edit - Robocop was awful too. I know that is sacrilege to some of the older nerds here. But it had to be said. If only because it is true.
 
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SlickSnake

SlickSnake

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Sho'Nuff said:
Not a bad list you got there. But IMO Karate Kid has no business being in the same list as Return of the Jedi and Stand by Me.

Also - Pretty Woman was released in 1990.

Edit - Robocop was awful too. I know that is sacrilege to some of the older nerds here. But it had to be said. If only because it is true.
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Karate Kid was a bit too stupid, sappy and preachy at times. It was really more of a kiddie type date movie, too, than a serious drama.

Yea, Pretty Woman was made in 1989 but released the next year. That's normal for Hollywood unless a lot of special effects are involved. And that's a date movie (a romantic comedy, ugh) so I also wouldn't call it great, good yea, but not great.

And Robocop was interesting for the time, if only because it challenged some of the more benevolent preconceived notions of what the future of robotic law enforcement might be. But as a movie overall, I thought it was just good, not great, too. It needed a larger special effects budget, and the cheapness sure showed.
 
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thedarkwolf

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Kind of a mixed list. Some belong on the the list for greatest movies of the 80s while others belong on the greatest 80s movies list. If that makes any sense ;).
 
JManInPhoenix

JManInPhoenix

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Delta Force, Invasion USA, Commando, Death Wish 3 - all of the movies that are so bad that they are good...
 
SlitheryDee

SlitheryDee

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I don't think they were going for just straight up best movies in that list. A better title would be "Top 25 movies that were the most 80s".
 
vi edit

vi edit

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Odd. For some reason I thought The Shining was older than 1980.
 
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