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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 5, 2023 18:53:10 GMT -5
I watched I Are You, You Am Me just last night. It’s pretty great! It has a bit of a feel of a Disney movie like Freaky Friday or something like that, but it goes to a lot of places that a Disney movie would never go. So it’s much stronger than one of those movies could ever be.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 5, 2023 19:01:17 GMT -5
I rented Doberman Cop off Apple TV, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. Probably tomorrow.
SONNY CHIBA!!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 7, 2023 12:26:58 GMT -5
And we're at 1982. Blade Runner - Deeply misunderstood when it first came out, the film has gone on to be regarded as a classic and one of the best SF films ever with wide-ranging influence. The look of the film is outstanding. The visuals and FX still hold up well. I believe this is Harrison Ford's best work and Rutger Hauer is absolutely astounding as Roy Batty. There is just so much depth here and so much to think about. I personally didn't hate the original voice-overs, though I think it does work better without them. And...NO...Deckard is absolutely not a replicant. Sorry, Ridley Scott...but you're wrong. And Philip K. Dick agrees with me. The Thing - 1982 was a great year of cynical, nihilistic SF. It was also a year in which those films weren't well understood in an era of saccharine fair like E.T. John Carpenter's (he has said it's his favorite film he's directed) re-imagining of John W. Campbell's SF/horror short-story "Who Goes There?" is simply a masterwork of SF/Horror. An excellent meditation on the themes of isolation and mistrust. Kurt Russell again shows why he was one of the great genre stars of the time-period.
The King of Comedy - I've seen a few people argue that this is Scorsese's best film. I would definitely not go that far. I would probably argue it's his most unjustly ignored film. It's a brutally bleak satirical non-comedy. Jerry Lewis is probably as good as he's ever been. This is honestly a wonderful follow-up and counter-point to Taxi Driver. Fast Times a Ridgemont High - This movie was a formative part of my teenage years. And it still feels like one of the best movies about teenage life. Add in a number of laughs, some brilliant performances, particularly by Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and you have a classic teen comedy. "People on ludes should nooot drive."
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - This is by far my favorite Star Trek movie. It's just so damn much fun watching William Shatner and Ricardo Montalbon hamming it up and chewing their dialogue. Is it a great movie? No. But at least it isn't boring. 48 Hours - I feel like this is pretty unjustly overlooked (there's a theme for this year). This feels like a pretty important step in the "Buddy Action" genre. This was a pretty big hit and did well with the critics. It showed that Eddie Murphy could make the transition from stand-up and TV to films. Nolte was great (before he went nuts). Just a solid action cop film. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - Steve Martin and Carl Reiner doing a neo-noir mystery comedy. Oh Hells Yeah! You know I'm gonna be all over this. And even if it is a one-joke movie, that joke is funny as hell and it's incredibly well executed. Honkytonk Man - Clint Eastwood stars and directs this film about a Jimmie Rodgers like country singer. Red Stovall has an opportunity to make it big on the Grand Old Opry, but he's also suffering from tuberculosis. The story mostly centers around Stovall and his nephew Whitt trying to get to Nashville and Stovall trying to make a few records before he dies. It's kind of weird, but it totally works for me. As usual there are many films I've either not seen or not seen in far too long. Including; most of the big foreign language films; The Verdict; Diner (I really need to see this again); Missing; The Year of Living Dangerously; So what's my favorite film of 1982? C'mon...it's Blade Runner. Another film that's probably in my top ten of all time. Certainly in my top 25. One of the great dystopian SF movies. And 1982 in film for those as need a look. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 7, 2023 16:39:17 GMT -5
Yeah. Blade Runner.
There’s several other great movies from 1982. Like Wrath of Khan. And Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.
But yeah. Blade Runner.
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Post by arfetto on Apr 8, 2023 15:56:07 GMT -5
My top three of 1982:
1. Blade Runner
2. Tenebrae
3. The Thing
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2023 16:36:10 GMT -5
I lost track of this thread, didn't realize we were in the 80's. My favorite decade, I grew up during this time and saw so many of these in the theater. I'll go back to 1980 and catch up, and I'll limit to my absolute favorites as I could go on forever with each of these years.
1980:
Empire Strikes Back - My favorite movie of all time. I still watch it a couple of times a week on average.
Blues Brothers - Not only one of my favorite comedies of all time, but the actual reason I started playing guitar. I thought the band itself was so cool and all the songs they played.
Airplane! - "I'm sorry, son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock." This is flat out just one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, classic one-liners for days.
1981:
Raiders of the Lost Ark - My 3rd favorite movie of all time (after ESB and Star Wars). Just watched it 2 nights ago. About as good as it gets.
1982:
Tron - Probably my favorite movie of 1982. Talk about capturing the imagination of the times perfectly, such a fun movie and visual spectacle.
Rocky III - Apollo Creed turning friend to Rocky was my favorite development ever (Carl Weathers is more the draw to me than Stallone to be honest), Mr. T was great, the Hulk Hogan scene was great, I just love this movie.
Wrath of Khan - "He tasks me"...where do you even start with this one? A Star Trek classic of the highest order.
Gandhi - This movie had a profound impact on my when I saw it, not the usual lighter adventure or comedy fare I was used to. It made me THINK very hard in idealistic ways at a young age. A very important movie to me still to this day.
Dark Crystal - Stunning evolution of Jim Henson's storytelling in a darker fantasy setting, a very well known and highly regarded classic.
Evil Under the Sun - While David Suchet will always be the defining Poirot to me, Peter Ustinov is such a fine actor I think he still channeled his wonderful charisma in a way that worked and I enjoyed this and Death on the Nile in particular.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - It's a terrible movie really, and I now cringe at some of the more mature content. As my wife reminds me, I really just watch for the Spicoli parts, but didn't he steal the show? For better or worse, he was a bit my role model for high school.
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Post by commond on Apr 8, 2023 17:34:55 GMT -5
Which cut of Blade Runner are people referring to?
My favorite film from 1982 is probably Ingmar Bergman's swan song, Fanny and Alexander, though it's been a long time since I've watched it. Herzog's Fitzcarraldo is fun, especially if you watch Burden of Dreams, the behind-the-scenes documentary that accompanies it. I remember enjoying Koyaanisqatsi a lot. Very poetical with a great soundtrack.
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Post by arfetto on Apr 8, 2023 18:15:34 GMT -5
Which cut of Blade Runner are people referring to? My favorite film from 1982 is probably Ingmar Bergman's swan song, Fanny and Alexander, though it's been a long time since I've watched it. Herzog's Fitzcarraldo is fun, especially if you watch Burden of Dreams, the behind-the-scenes documentary that accompanies it. I remember enjoying Koyaanisqatsi a lot. Very poetical with a great soundtrack.
I am referring to the '82 theatrical version with voice-over narration and "happy ending" and all. I like the Director's Cut, the Final Cut, all that, but even the problems with the original version do not diminish much my appreciation of the movie and I would rank it up there regardless.
I've only seen Fanny and Alexander as a mini-series, never saw the movie version.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 8, 2023 20:26:08 GMT -5
I saw the theatrical cut of Blade Runner once, in the late 1980s, and I didn’t think much of it.
However, I was interested enough with what I had seen that when I heard there was a directors cut, I saw it at a theater. Two or three times, as I recall. Since then I’ve seen the directors cut a bunch of times, and I really love it.
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Post by commond on Apr 9, 2023 16:18:19 GMT -5
I watched I Are You, You Am Me just last night. It’s pretty great! It has a bit of a feel of a Disney movie like Freaky Friday or something like that, but it goes to a lot of places that a Disney movie would never go. So it’s much stronger than one of those movies could ever be. I finished Obayashi's "Onomichi trilogy" last night (I Are You, You Am Me, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Lonely Heart.) I had no idea that the director who gave us House also created these heart-warming, coming-of-age stories. In a lesser director's hands, they would have been schmaltz, but in Obayashi's hands they were poetry. And such a loving tribute to his hometown, which he was fighting to save. I'm so glad I watched these films as now I recognize Obayashi as one of the key Japanese directors of the 80s. |
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Post by badwolf on Apr 9, 2023 19:51:36 GMT -5
1982
Koyaanisqatsi
The Plague Dogs
Brimstone & Treacle
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 14, 2023 12:01:30 GMT -5
Onward to 1983. And to get it out of the way, I hate Scarface. So this is the only place it's going to show up. Return of the Jedi - I've already stated that I'm not a Star Wars Nut. So I'll say that I mostly don't care that much for this movie. I don't outright hate it, like Scarface, so I feel like I should address it. Harrison Ford was given almost nothing to do. Boba Fett was a huge nothing-burger. Ewoks...bleh. I'm honestly not a big fan of everyone being a Skywalker. It's an okay movie with great special effects. A Christmas Story - The movie kind of disappeared when it was released, only to be thrust into the public eye by the various Turner networks playing it incessantly during the Christmas season. And I could understand someone getting tired of it. But I don't. The movie just makes me howl. Darren McGavin is absolutely brilliant as The Old Man. Honestly, he may be a huge amount of why I love the movie, because he reminds me a lot of my Dad (add in a bit of Red Foreman and some Ben Cartwright and you pretty much have my Dad). The stupid stuff the kids do all rings true. The disappointing Christmas presents. And it's infinitely quotable (Fra-gee-lay. It must be Italian). I just love this movie.
Trading Places - I think people sleep on this movie. It's just damn funny. And it has a lot to say about our society...both in 1983 and still today. Eddie Murphy was a very funny man...and a pretty good actor at this point in his career. I still think this may have been Dan Ackroyd's best performance. Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche are both hilarious as the Duke Brother. Jamie Lee Curtis is beautiful and effective. John Landis was just on fire in the late 70s and early 80s. The Meaning of Life - I like this movie. I don't love it though, even though I want to. I think the first half is absolutely hilarious. I think the second half is not nearly as funny. But man I will never stop singing "Every Little Sperm is Sacred" and giggling like a fiend. That shit is hilarious. Strange Brew - This movie just makes me laugh. I know it's lowbrow and silly. I don't care. I watched it a zillion times in college and can still quote huge swathes of it. Any movie that is basically about a quest for beer...I'm in for that. As usual there are many films I've either not seen or not seen in far too long. Including; most of the big foreign language films; Videodrome; The Right Stuff (I remember liking it but it's been a very long time); The Dead Zone; Valley Girl So what's my favorite film of 1983? It's A Christmas Story. That movie just makes me happy and makes me laugh. And I hate Christmas. I do feel like I need to re-watch both The Right Stuff and Videodrome, because it's been eons since I've seen either of them. And 1983 in film for those as need a look. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 14, 2023 13:56:48 GMT -5
(...) Trading Places - I think people sleep on this movie. It's just damn funny. And it has a lot to say about our society...both in 1983 and still today. Eddie Murphy was a very funny man...and a pretty good actor at this point in his career. I still think this may have been Dan Ackroyd's best performance. Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche are both hilarious as the Duke Brother. Jamie Lee Curtis is beautiful and effective. John Landis was just on fire in the late 70s and early 80s. Absolutely love this one - funny, intelligent and yes, the critique of capitalism is just as valid today. And it's one of my favorite Christmas movies.
Yes, one of many silly, lowbrow, often juvenile movies that I love nonetheless. Favorite line: "I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it!"
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2023 14:12:06 GMT -5
I do love A Christmas Story, although I don’t watch it every Christmas season like I used to.
But my favorite movie from 1983 is Rumble Fish.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2023 14:13:33 GMT -5
This reminds me I’ve been meaning to watch Strange Brew for 40 years, and haven’t yet gotten around to it. I’ll see if the library has it.
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