1980: Movies I've Seen

Submitted by AJDaGreat on Wed, 10/01/2003 - 11:18
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  • A

  • Airplane!
  • The Empire Strikes Back

  • A-

  • B+

  • B

  • The Long Good Friday
  • Raging Bull
  • The Shining

  • B-

  • The Elephant Man
  • Ordinary People

  • C+

  • The Blues Brothers
  • Gates of Heaven
  • Melvin and Howard
  • Nine to Five
  • Stardust Memories
  • Superman II

  • C

  • The Gods Must Be Crazy
  • Kagemusha
  • Stir Crazy

  • C-

  • Caddyshack
  • Private Benjamin (I feel bad shafting so many Goldie Hawn movies. I think she is quite talented, but I just realized I only really liked one of the five movies I've seen her in.)
  • Used Cars

  • D+

  • Hey Babe!
  • Oh God! Book II

  • D

  • D-

  • Wholly Moses!

  • F

  • Should See

  • Atlantic City
  • Breaker Morant
  • Dressed to Kill
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C+ or higher = all movies I liked to some degree and would probably recommend
C = average
C- or lower = all movies I disliked to some degree and would probably not recommend

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1981: Movies I've Seen
lbangs10/02/2003

Boy, that certainly is one low bottom tier. I remember a couple of friends loving both those films. I never finished Oh God! Book II, and Wholly Moses was a really bad comedy.

I think I finally saw Moses the same week I saw Hawmps!. That was hardly a banner week for me.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

AJDaGreat10/02/2003

I may have told this story before somewhere else on this site, but when I originally made plans to tape "Wholly Moses!" off the TV, the TV Guide plot summary of the movie was simply, "Tired religious satire." It's the only time I've ever seen the TV Guide summary actually criticize a movie.

And of course, I wished I'd listened to the summary. Even in the era when "Dirty Work" was one of my favorite movies, I was not amused by "Wholly Moses!"