1985: Movies Sorted By Tier

Submitted by jim on Tue, 02/01/2005 - 11:16
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  • Loved

  • Back to the Future

  • Brazil

  • Ran

  • Tampopo

    ... If you love movies, the first scene is for you. If you love food, you'll devour the rest. A marvelous conveyance of lust for life, and if this doesn't make you want to be a better cook, nothing will. The story revolves around our heroine's quest to master the art of cooking Japanese noodles, and you really (likely) have no idea what that entails until you watch this movie. Interspersed are a pile of food vignettes that run from funny to tragic to sexy. Ooo, the egg yolk scene! It's just a kiss, the lovers are fully clothed at all times, and yet it's oh-so-steamy. A one-of-kind scene. I saw this movie years ago and liked it much better this time around. The rewatch was prompted by stooky's excellent review, which says all this so much better. Oh, the business lunch was a hoot too! It's a bit goofy at times, but hey, it's the world's only noodle western.

  • Witness

    ... It's been too long, but I remember liking almost everything about this movie: the performances, the fish-out-of-water dramatic and comedic themes, and the romantic tension. Could this be Ford's best non-SF/swashbuckler/action role? I haven't seen all his movies, but I think so.

  • Really Liked

  • Cocoon

  • The Color Purple

  • Fandango

  • Fletch

  • Mask

  • Pale Rider

  • A Room with a View

  • Silverado

  • Glad I Saw

  • The Breakfast Club

  • Enemy Mine

  • Fright Night

  • My Life As a Dog

    ... Quirky, bittersweet, and charming. A little boy learns to cope and have fun in the face of adversity.

  • Young Sherlock Holmes

  • Guilty Pleasures

  • Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

    ... Liked it when I was 15. I bet it's awful.

  • Rocky IV

  • Could Have Missed

  • None Yet

  • Should Have Missed

  • None Yet

  • El Sucko Grande

  • The Black Cauldron

    ... Shockingly bad. When feature-length theatrical animated Disney releases go bad, they're usually just hovering around "unremarkable", but this one makes a mad dash for the basement. Horrible animation, asinine characters, a true despoilment of beloved books of my youth. On the bright side, I believe this marks the first appearance of a prostitute in a Disney animated feature, and we get not one, but two fat women with huge breasts and copious cleavage. Yes, in case you're wondering, of course a frog gets wedged between two breasts (belonging to the same woman). Would you have it any other way?

  • Unranked (many likely awful, but it's been too long)

  • Brewster's Millions

  • Commando

  • Desperately Seeking Susan

  • The Emerald Forest

  • The Falcon and the Snowman

  • The Goonies

    ... This was going to be our family movie night movie, but in the first five minutes we got to share in the experience of Corey Feldman saying "shit", a subtitled joke about various hard drugs, a suicide (ultimately fake), and an erection joke, complete with closeups! It involved breaking the dick off a reproduction of Michelangelo's David and then trying to stick it back on upside down, but still. Maybe some other time. The lesson (again, you'd think I'd learn by now), is that you can't safely rent PG movies from the pre-PG-13 era.

  • Jagged Edge

  • The Jewel of the Nile

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman

  • Ladyhawke

  • Legend

  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

  • The Man with One Red Shoe

  • A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

  • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

  • Rambo: First Blood Part II

  • Real Genius

  • St. Elmo's Fire

  • Teen Wolf

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

  • A View to a Kill

  • Vision Quest

  • Volunteers

  • Weird Science

  • White Nights

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1986: Movies Sorted By Tier
Cosgrove02/06/2005

Well, what did you expect from a so-called family film directed by Richard "Lethal Weapon" Donner? (Confession: "The Goonies" was one of my favorite films as a kid. Maybe that's why I grew up so warped...)

jim02/06/2005

Ahh! Richard Donner! I knew that raised some kind of red flag. I was standing in the store, "Donner... Donner... Donner... Die Hard? No. Ah well, what's the worst that could happen?"

stooky03/18/2005

I hadn't noticed (I'm kind of a stranger around these parts lately) but I'm flattered for your mention of the word excellent in the same sentence with "stooky's review". I'm also glad you liked it even better this time and I can't help but feel I am somewhat responsible for that. What do you think made you like it much better this time around?

I loved The Goonies when I was about 12 as well, watched it about 20 times. I actually didn't mind the whole erection joke either, written by a person who is obviously not a father. :?)

:?)

jim03/18/2005

I had noticed and lamented a certain dearth of stookiness around here. You can go ahead and address that any time. :-)

You probably did help me view Tampopo in a different light, but the intervening 10 years helped a lot too. My taste has changed significantly in that time.

I wouldn't have disapproved of the Goonies erection joke at 12 either!

stooky03/18/2005

I've been wondering, did you turn off Goonies or did you watch it all the way through or shut it off?

:?)

jim03/18/2005

Shut it off. After the first 15 minutes wasn't willing to go any further with the three- and seven-year-olds. And I wasn't sufficiently piqued to finish it myself after they'd gone to bed.

stooky03/18/2005

Goodness, you didn't get to the best part in which Chunk explains how he made an entire theatre barf. Or the collapsing piano room, and stuff.

I guarantee Porco Rosso however, a much better film with a much better moral. Have you seen Naussica In the Valley Of The Wind?

:?)

jim03/18/2005

Yup, a buddy of mine showed me an import of Naussica a few years ago. Definitely one to rewatch with the young'uns.