Tuesday, August 16, 2016

5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1984

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Welcome back, tis the time to talk to the little lady housed inside my phone and ask her to tell me a number between one and one hundred - Hark, today it is 84! So The Movies of 1984 it is. (Coincidentally 1984 is also the "Year of the Month" over at The Film Experience - you should go see an ode to Jeff Bridges' gorgeousness that literally just got posted a minute ago.)

(Oh and you can see more of that in an old post of ours here, by the way.) Anyway I usually have had a tough time narrowing down my list to just five when it's been a year I look back upon nostalgically - two of my toughest bouts were 1988 and 1996. But 1984 turned out to be kind of easy! I have a lot of runners-up, but the five top titles were all like, "Duh." So now that I've thrilled you with high expectations of shock and awe, let's do it!

My 5 Favorite Movies of 1984

(dir. Brian De Palma)
-- released October 26th 1984 --

(dir. Wes Craven)
-- released November 16th 1984 --

(dir. Pedro Almodovar)
-- released March 30th 1984 --

(dir. James Cameron)
-- released October 26th 1984 --

(dir. Ken Russell)
-- released October 19th 1984 --

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Runners-up: Gremlins (dir. Joe Dante), Ghostbusters (dir. Ivan Reitman), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (dir. Steven Spielberg), Romancing the Stone (dir. Robert Zemeckis), Blood Simple (dir. Coens), Broadway Danny Rose (dir. Woody Allen), The Company of Wolves (dir. Neil Jordan)...
...  The Muppets Take Manhattan (dir. Frank Oz), Night of the Comet (dir. Thom Eberhardt), Silent Night Deadly Night (dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.), Sixteen Candles (dir. John Hughes), Starman (dir. John Carpenter), Supergirl (dir. Jeannot Szwarc)
What are your favorite movies of 1984?
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9 comments:

  1. joel659138:25 PM

    Crimes of Passion is one strange film and The Terminator is a propulsive joyride.

    My five:

    American Dreamer
    Romancing the Stone
    Repo Man
    The Times of Harvey Milk
    Starman

    Runner-up-Amadeus

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  2. Jason Adams8:29 PM

    DAMN I can't believe I forgot HARVEY MILK -- amazing amazing film, that!

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  3. remy8:30 PM

    Paris, Texas
    The Terminator
    Blood Simple
    A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Body Double

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  4. remy8:31 PM

    and yeah, The Times of Harvey Milk obviously

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  5. par31829:04 PM

    amadeus
    another country
    paris, texas
    this is spinal tap
    the times of harvey milk

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  6. Pierce9:33 PM

    This is Spinal Tap
    The Times of Harvey Milk
    The Neverending Story
    Broadway Danny Rose
    Repo Man

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  7. Rincon Rubio11:09 PM

    Mrs Soffel, 16 Candles, Choose Me, Repo Man, The Bostonians, Paris Texas, Once Upon a Time in America, This is Spinal Tap, Birdy, Another Country, A Passage to India, Stranger Than Paradise, The Killing Fields, Stop Making Sense, Amadeus, Starman, Against All Odds, Crimes of Passion, Romancing the Stone, All of Me, Body Double, Splash, Country, The Bounty, The River, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story, Swing Shift, Greystoke, A Sunday in the Country, Broadway Danny Rose, Under the Volcano, The Flamingo Kid, Ghostbusters, Purple Rain, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Times of Harvey Milk, The Natural, El Norte, Cal, A Private Function, The Company of Wolves

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  8. Rincon Rubio11:14 PM

    What Have I Done didnt come out in SF until 1985 so I couldn't put it on my list..

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  9. Anonymous2:34 PM

    Blood simple
    The terminator
    This is spinal tap
    Broadway Danny Rose
    Once upon a time in America

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