1985: Movies Sorted By Tier
Submitted by stooky on Wed, 06/16/2004 - 04:46
Tags:
- Great
- 28 Up
- Anne Of Green Gables (TV)
- Back To The Future
- Brazil
- Come And See
- Lost In America
- Men…
- My Life As A Dog
- The Official Story
- Ran
- Re-Animator
- Turtle Diary
- Vagabond
- Very Good
- After Hours
- Bliss
- The Breakfast Club
- Cocoon
- The Color Purple
- Dreamchild
- The Emerald Forest
- The Goonies
- Jackie Chan’s Police Story
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- Out Of Africa
- Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
- Prizzi’s Honor
- The Return Of The Living Dead
- Runaway Train
- The Trip To Bountiful
- Twice In A Lifetime
- Witness
- Good
- Brewster’s Millions
- Day Of The Dead
- Desperately Seeking Susan
- Explorers
- The Falcon & The Snowman
- Fright Night
- Into The Night
- The Journey Of Natty Gann
- Kiss Of The Spider Woman
- The Long Hot Summer (TV)
- Mask
- Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters
- **An oddly aloof film that was far too distant for me to be extremely interested. Structured in a self-conscious way that seeks to communicate the artists contradicting view-points it just doesn't coalesce. Yet the performances kept my interest and certain set pieces work extremely well.
- Pale Rider
- The Quiet Earth
- Real Genius
- Silas Marner
- Static
- The Stuff
- Subway (only sub-titled)
- The Sure Thing
- Trouble In Mind
- Wetherby
- Yellow Earth
- A Zed And Two Noughts
- Guilty Pleasures
- Commando
- Fletch
- Ghoulies
- Ladyhawke
- The Peanut Butter Solution
- Rambo: First Blood Part 2
- Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
- To Live And Die In L.A.
- The Toxic Avenger
- Young Sherlock Holmes
- Average
- Agnes Of God
- Better Off Dead
- Blue Money
- The Coca-Cola Kid
- Compromising Positions
- Death Of A Salesman
- Enemy Mine
- Insignificance
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
- Murphy’s Romance
- My American Cousin (TV)
- Red Heat
- St. Elmo’s Fire
- Summer Rental
- Teen Wolf
- Trancers
- Vampire Hunter D
- A View To A Kill
- Warriors Of The Wind
- Dissapointing
- All Creatures Great And Small II
- American Flyers
- Bad Medicine
- The Bad Seed
- The Black Cauldron
- Call Of The Wild
- Chiller
- Creator
- Defcon 4
- Dungeonmaster
- Ewoks: The Battle For Endor
- Flesh + Blood
- Girls Just Want To Have Fun
- Godzilla 1985
- Hitman
- Howling 2
- Jagged Edge
- The Legend Of Billie Jean
- A Nightmare On Elm Street 2
- Nomads
- Once Bitten
- Police Academy 2
- Robotech: The New Generation--Volume 14: Hollow Victory (80-85)
- **One of my favorite shows of my childhood doesn’t carry the same weight 15 years later. It now seems silly, badly drawn and really episodic (even for a television show), proof that the endless glow of Robotech is something to be left alone...ouch.
- Silver Bullet
- Silverado
- Starchaser
- Vision Quest
- Volunteers
- White Nights
- Wizards Of The Lost Kingdom
- Year Of The Dragon
- Cellar Dwellers
- 9 Deaths Of The Ninja
- Baby: Secret Of The Lost Legend
- The Bride
- The Care Bears Movie
- A Chorus Line
- Clue
- Code Of Silence
- Creepers
- Crimewave
- D.A.R.Y.L.
- Death Wish 3
- Demons
- Entrails Of A Virgin
- **Atrocious porn-ish slasher flick with some seriously naughty sex involving a massively hung killer, not enough plot to clothe one of it’s characters and a smidgen of ultra-gore. Apparently this style of soft-core porn and gore was all the rage in Japan circa 1985, which doesn’t make this film any better or more appealing. The pointless amount of sex in the film is slightly distracting, and sometimes very hot (who am I to judge), and the gore is pungent enough to merit not eating spaghetti, but other than that it’s pretty tame by today’s standards. I would avoid it unless your idea of good time is a chubby, an upset stomach, a dose of moanin' chicks and subtitles.
- Invasion U.S.A.
- King Solomon’s Mines
- Missing In Action 2
- Mission Kill
- My Science Project
- National Lampoon’s European Vacation
- No Man’s Land
- No Surrender
- Porky’s Revenge
- The Protector
- Red Sonja
- Spies Like Us
- Transmutations
- Transylvania 6-5000
- Weird Science
- The Big Stink
- American Ninja
- Creature
- Friday The 13th, Part V
- Legend
- Lifeforce
- Return To Oz
- Rocky IV
- TerrorVision
- Unfortunately Haven’t Seen
- 3 Men And A Cradle
- Angry Harvest
- Colonel Redl
- Dim Sum: A Little Bit Of Heart
- An Early Frost (TV)
- The Funeral
- Himatsuri
- Mother Teresa
- Pumping Iron 2
- The Purple Rose Of Cairo
- Shoah
- Smooth Talk
- When Father Was Away On Business
Cloned From:
Brazil had a huge impact on me when I first saw it (at the cinema, I'm happy to say). I've seen it again recently on dvd and it's still great.
I like how often you include what I call a 'courageous choice' in your 'great' category. I refer this time to Re-Animator.
The Emerald Forest, another interesting Boorman work.
Disagree with you on Silverado; it's a very entertaining western in my book.
Lifeforce. Is that the one in which an alien usurps the body of a beautiful woman and goes around the city naked?
I'm happy to hear about your love of Brazil. I bought the criterion collection with the 3 discs and watched every single one. Definately worth a watch is the 98 minute hack-job that was shown on American television in which most of the violence and the sub-plot about terrorism was cut out. Lots of jump-cutting and seriously confusing nonsense in that version. It's still a great film.
Re-Animator is not courageous, it's brilliant. I'm a horror movie junkie and it rates up there along with the best of 'em. I refer to the amazing scene involving a headless Dr. Hill (David Gale) being escorted by his own body through his nefarious goings-on. All hail to the green gloop, the dead cat and the revival of the screaming, rampaging zombie. It's a hoot and a half. Onward to Bride Of Reanimator which is twice as disgusting and almost as good.
Definately. A great movie except for the silly action ending, I'm guessing studio interference.
Silverado, just makes my bum hurt. An aching please-no-more-western-cliches-cheesy-overblown-too-serious-of-an-ending hurt.
Yes it is that movie but you're forgetting she's a very nubile, naked energy vampire who stalks the moors in several sequences. Kinda like The Hound Of The Baskervilles except with a foxy naked mama and not a hound. What was Tobe Hooper thinking? Is the acting horrible? I can't quite tell. What an ending though, a living dead orgy in which a Steve Railsback does the nasty with the arch vamp (the hottie, Mathilda May) whilst a light show worthy of Kiss plays about them. Tobe used early CGI to accomplish that magnificent moment. Wow.
Tallyho
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