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Best of the 80s Film Poll!

🕑 Added 2024-08-01 02:34:17 +0000 UTC

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christopher brown

Yes, Get Carter (1971) is a great movie

Ken Veader

I pre-ordered it too, one of my favorite British gangster films along with Get Carter

Neal Romanek

Totally.

Neal Romanek

This is a great list. It's not so much a BEST of the 80s, it's more like a MUST SEE of the 80s. Almost every film on there is essential viewing.

christopher brown

Outland (1981)

Tyler Foster

Oh, I am not opposed to seeing it. Wasn't able to grab the Criterion 4K in the last B&N sale a week ago, so it'll have to keep waiting for a bit, though.

Paul Cox

Just circling back to read comments and saw this. Tyler! If all know is Tom Cruise dancing in his underpants to Bob Seger please know that the movie goes other places. I wouldn't even call it a teen movie, even though it centers on him. If Tangerine Dream is doing your score, you know some shit's going down lol.

Tyler Foster

Well, look at it this way: Fast Times is important, and it can only be done once. So, none of these other movies will ever have to compete against it again!

Tyler Foster

Risky Business

mikethemotormouth

As often as it comes up around here, there may come a point when they decide to just throw it on the schedule

Birdie Num Num

which one haven't you seen?

Birdie Num Num

It won't do well in polls I imagine, but Once a Time in America placed very highly in many critics polls for best of the 80s.

Mark Kelso

I agree that Fast Times is a good movie, and a topical one. I just personally feel there are at least six movies on this list (it's a very good list!) that are more noteworthy. It all boils down to taste: what you personally find entertaining, engaging, and important. And, the people have spoken... well, they are speaking.

Athos Count de la Fère

"Silverado" is my favorite "fun" western. I think I smiled just about thru that whole movie.

Tyler Foster

Definitely just Daniel.

Tyler Foster

I think all four of these movies are great. Fast Times is also an important movie about legitimate topics, it's not all Spicoli. One of the best and most important high school comedies of the 1980s (and IMO infinitely better than any of John Hughes' output).

FischerMax98

I didn't say there aren't any reactions to it, just that I haven't seen any. I don't subscribe to those channels. So I'm hoping to see a reaction to it here. That's all I meant. Thanks though.

Luetin

its sad but true

Birdie Num Num

it seems that a lot of people, maybe even the majority (not just here, but youtube in general) prefer comedy reactions or reactions to escapist action fare to reactions to more serious fare. someone here even said they would pass on both reactions last week since they weren't fun movies. guessing he would steer pretty far from a blue velvet or do the right thing reaction, which is totally fine. I get it, even though I'm kind of the opposite - comedy reactions are a bit boring to me.

Birdie Num Num

just checked youtube, there are 12 reactions to fast times. someone even made a playlist of them.

Look out, Arbogast!

A Blow-up / Blow-Out double feature week would be incredible in the future 🙌

FischerMax98

Fast Times At Ridgemont High! Haven't seen any reactions to this classic. Hell yeah. Vote cast.

David Wilkins

I’m equally disappointed, but it isn’t a matter of “guidance”. That’s the bugaboo of mass opinion, and another reason why the monthly drawing is so excellent.

Ken Veader

Nah , its a classic and one of the best comedies of the 80's

Analytical Guy

I think this film just unflinchingly shows us the decisions the girl makes. God knows why I would bother to defend the 26 year-old guy who works in the stereo store, but she does tell him she's 19.

Analytical Guy

Do we only get two votes? It happens that I voted for Videodrome and Blue Velvet, but I just made myself stop there before I voted for them all :-)

Mark Kelso

I am amazed that we could be choosing Blue Velvet, or King of Comedy, Do The Right Thing, for God's sake, stunning movies... and we're choosing Fast Times as the Best of the 80s? smh. I am severely questioning our guidance here...

Anna H

A Fish Called Wanda please for future polls!! :)

Tyler Foster

@Rudy: No, someone else. And whether or not she seduces him doesn't necessarily matter that much if it's morally or ethically wrong. Teenagers are reckless, but the person who is older is supposed to be smart enough to act more responsibly.

Tyler Foster

Love Do the Right Thing. Highly recommend checking out my Schmitt Wheel submission Blindspotting (2018) if you like Do the Right Thing.

Tyler Foster

As great as Brazil is, I do feel like it's more likely to be a spin wheel winner than a Patreon Poll winner. TBR's community is better than most but as with all Patreons, the tip of the iceberg poking above the water is still *very* popular stuff, and so Brazil is definitely beneath that level of familiarity even if film nerds know it well.

christopher brown

Hope you enjoy it. It has a great making of on it

Silencedogood

I was goin to vote then I realized I’ve never seen any of these movies. That’s never happened before. Not a single film on the list.

John Fitzpatrick

I've ordered the Criterion Blu-ray. I'll be getting it in September.

Ken Veader

Blow Out is so underappreciated, My favorite Brian DePalma film, I hope it gets seen someday

Rudy Hernandez

Are you talking about Damone? They are both in high school. Plus, she kinda seduces him. *spoiler alert*

Charles Mitchell

Risky Business because Samantha will enjoy it!!

JayRamone Was

River's Edge or Heathers

christopher brown

A great 80s movie is The long good Friday (1980)

Guston Zimasheen

I may have to put "Brazil" as my pick for the monthly Schmitt Spin Wheel draw.

Luetin

Brazil and Videodrome outdone by Fast Times??? okkkkkkkk then :/

Kevin Charley

It's not only the best movie on this poll, it's probably the best movie of the 80s

Florian Meier

Good Poll, But i recommend other 80's Films you must watch ... "Fatal Attraction", "The War of the Roses", "Wall Street", "No Way Out", "Silverado", "Black Rain", "Tightrope", "Sea of Love", "48 Hours", "Overboard" .... All Classics

Hunter DeRensis

Hell yeah Videodrome!!

djKENTO

for real. I hope reactors start to take pick it up and take note of it's greatness.

mikethemotormouth

OGB Reacts did it justice not too long ago if you didn't see 👍🏽

Domino

Oh you guys have to watch Innerspace (1987), such a fun movie.

Paul Cox

The fact that it's still a hot potato after 35 years proves its own point.

David Wilkins

Oh, goodness…quite a few great ones.

djKENTO

Listen tome say when I say DO THE RIGHT THING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF AMERICAN CINEMA EVER MADE. Nobody does reactions to it. Your comment section will be a mess... but it is worth it. I don't even care if you react to it. Watch it. Do that for yourself.

Vwlss Nvwls

Wow! Say Anything and Risky Business should do so much better. They are both must see 80s movies. Both are referenced in so many other things, it would suck to have never seen them.

Robert Boyd

All these movies are essential. I say watch them all!

kbobravo

I went with Blow Out and Videodrome, but it is very difficult not to click on Blue Velvet, Brazil, or Paris, Texas as well

Athos Count de la Fère

Ah. Well the years go by and you start to forget. Probably was when it was just Daniel.

Richard

Would love to get Do the Right Thing on the channel but you can’t go wrong hanging with Spicoli!

Smooticus

Since you have Brazil on the list, might I also recommend Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen- that way you see the whole trilogy 😉

Tyler Foster

Not that it isn't gross, but showing an experience like this is also one of the things the movie is *about*. Unlike so many other teen comedies (including the passive and arguably endearing presence of Wooderson in this week's upcoming Dazed and Confused), Heckerling knows the guy is gross, but also that this happens frequently, and the scene is told from the girl's perspective as part of a story where she has various tough learning experiences. A similar movie was made more recently by the up-and-coming director Marielle Heller, an adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's autobiographical comic/novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl. It is about a young girl who sleeps with her mother's boyfriend, and it's a story told from her perspective, about what it's like to be in that kind of relationship. We tell stories about murders and assaults and all sorts of nasty behavior, this is also something that happens and I think it's worth considering that both of these movies were directed by women who seem to relate to, understand, or find some sort of dramatic value in depicting this experience of creepier adult men (and with actors who are just acting).

Paul Cox

I think that's one of the earliest reactions on the channel.

iliketostayhome

Blue Velvet!

Jimmie V

I didn't realize Blow out was this popular... I'd recommend checking out Blow-up instead (the groundbreaking '60s Antonioni film that inspired it in part).

Smooticus

More great selections I try to keep myself to only 3 votes, but it was impossible this time

Athos Count de la Fère

Airplane. At the end of the 80's it won best comedy for the entire decade. Many of the jokes still hit

Chris Bruneau

LOVE the Right Stuff :)

Chris Bruneau

As a Chicagoan, I MUST vote for risky business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul Cox

I agree it's an extremely "1982" type of film, but compared to Porky's or Zapped it's basically a thesis statement on 2nd wave feminism. (Also, it's directed by Amy Heckerling who's deserving of continued admiration.)

John Fitzpatrick

You can't have everything.

John Fitzpatrick

Right Stuff, yes. Red Dawn, no.

Ray Johnson

Fast Times doesn't really hold up, people. Some 26 year old dude has sex with a 15 year old girl. It's gross.

Ed R

I'd love to see The Right Stuff and Red Dawn make it onto an 80s poll sometime.

Brian Anthony

License to kill is my favorite Bond movie and is perfect 80s cinema

mikethemotormouth

I was kinda expecting to see The Big Chill or St Elmo's Fire

Paul Cox

We finally have a chance to get some Spike Lee in the reactorsphere. Let's take it. (But also, I voted for like almost all of the other choices too lol)

Rudy Hernandez

It won’t go crazy in the polls, but Parenthood is one of the best movies out there. It’s heartfelt, heartbreaking, funny, and just great. Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Keanu Reeves, Joaquin Phoenix, Dianne Weist.