What kind of a list is this?

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/ ... 4-1299985/

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Videodrome
3. Raging Bull
4. Blue Velvet
5. Ran
6. Shoah
7. Blade Runner
8. Stranger Than Paradise
9. The Thin Blue Line
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark

No Empire Strikes Back and Raiders is #10?

The Name of the Rose belongs on that list. So does Amadeus. Amadeus gets an 8.4 on IMDB. That's very high.

Man I was just thinking of a nice Friday night chilling with an 80s movie. Now I got one to watch, “Shoah”! Thanks Rolling Stone!

Gotta have a John Hughes film in the top 10 + Aliens, Full Metal Jacket. Tho FMJ kinda drags 2nd half, like most Kubrick films. But first half is endlessly re-watchable.


Rolling Stone does this on purpose to generate traffic, publish inane best of lists.

I’d keep Raiders, Blade Runner, Raging Bull and add

Wall Street
Die Hard
This Is Spinal Tap
The Empire Strikes Back
Trading Places or The Blues Brothers
Back to the Future
Aliens

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Breakfast Club
Batman

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the premise itself is flawed. "Top Ten 80's Films"? Films that define the 80's, or the best films of the 80's? It's always subjective; but including sobering documentaries alongside rollicking fun movies makes no sense. I remember that's what Roger Ebert said about his omission of "Shoah" (speaking of) in his Best of 1985 list. Siskel had it as his #1. Roger didn't include it at all, justifying his decision because of what I said above. It was in a class all its own.

"The Thin Blue Line" is a great documentary, also, but the 80's had a bunch of great documentaries.

I'm actually surprised they didn't include "The Shining".

Ultimately, you'd have to come up with Top Ten lists that have specific categories. Top Ten Dramas, Comedies, Documentaries, Sci-Fi, Horror...just like any decade. This list doesn't at all represent the decade in a comprehensive way.

so does Rube

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Your list is better than that pos from the rolling stone..


Predator
Scarface
Mississippi Burning
Die hard
Blues Brothers
Wall Street
Fast times at Ridgemont high
Mad max.. Road warrior
The natural
Young guns

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Hmm, off the top of my head

Empire
CaddyShack
Better off Dead
Back to the Future
One Crazy Summer
Top Gun
Never Ending Story
Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Ghostbusters

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Aliens and Trading Places…I need to swap out two…

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Some of these movies. Many need to expand their minds.

I'd probably swap young guns with colors.. let's see your list

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Rolling Stone does stupid shit like this all the time. Stupid fucking lists so we all go like oooh they have Brian May ranked whaaaaaaaa 8th?! that's madness. Fuck Rolling stone, fuck their stupid click bait lists and fuck man!

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I have that, too....it sucks. Good to have some company!

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Roger & Me. (I can't stand Michael Moore now, but that was great.) Shoah was amazing.

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I didn't know Rolling Stone was still in publication.

Not #1, bit Do The Right Thing does deserve mention on a list of great 80's movies.

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Wall Street used to be in my top five all time, but it's probably been 15 to 20 years since I've seen it. Something tells me that if I watched it now, it wouldn't hold up.

The original Red Dawn. What a cast.

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Yikes

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Danny Parkins once said he ages like a Jewish avocado, a phrase I think could be applied to most 80s movies.

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That’s an interesting question. Do movies revolving around specific eras hold up? Even Spinal Tap, for instance. Half the board didn’t live in the 70s when drummers were dying and excess was essential to the rock & roll lifestyle.

I work with 3 women between 25-32, and I’d be willing to bet that none of them have seen the movies listed in this thread.

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Pics?

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Indeed.

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It's not just the "movies revolving around specific eras" dynamic. I think Stone's heavy handed direction probably hasn't aged well.

The right stuff

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Good call.

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Much better book than movie. RIP Tom Wolfe.

I saw it as a kid and loved it. Sometimes that influences the perception. The music was great and there were a lot of future excellent actors, including Anthony Munoz.

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You know, Rolling Stone, you don't even count. I mean if you disappeared forever it wouldn't make any difference. You may as well not even exist.

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80s movies I thought were over-hyped:

Do the Right Thing
Blood Simple

Do the Right Thing was made for people in 80s Naperville. Sorry, Brad, Chip, Taylor, and Brooke, it was a decent film (and it's not the film's fault that it is still over-hyped), but it's fake-complex, like most Spike Lee movies.

The worst movie of the 80s was Caddyshack. One of the funniest, but as a movie, garbage.

Best film soundtrack???

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