Silly list. What about:
Three Men and a Baby
Lethal Weapon
Good Morning, Vietnam
First half good; second half crap. Why did Matthew Modine speak like he had some sort of brain injury throughout the film?
I REALLY miss 1987, Reagan, Hair Bands, Lots of wine women and song... It was so much simpler back then. No internet and 24/7 connectivity with every other person place and thing on the planet. PC BS was only in it’s infancy. You didn’t have some nanny type chasing after every so-called ‘wrong’ and inventing plenty of their own. Kids these days have no idea how much fun they missed. God I am getting old...
Sure there were problems. Lots of’em. But I’d bet most of us who lived that era prefer it to this one. Anyone got the URL for the time machine the jock in Napoleon Dynamite ordered? ;)
Ugh, I can honestly say I would never care to see any of those films again. My 1987 list:
The Untouchables
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Robocop
The Running Man
The Princess Bride
These are part of the culture, probably to stay:
Ernest Goes to Camp
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Princess Bride
Robo Cop
Wall Street
Sometimes, the films that people are still watching and quoting matter more than the ones the critics loved at the time.
The ONLY time anyone ever heard about Olympia Dukakis was when Michael Dukakis was running for the Presidency. And the media pretended HE had a good chance at winning.
Ugh
But looking back, which film left the most enduring mark on the culture, on the era?
Nobody puts Baby in a corner! :-)
List of 1987 movies:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/index1987.php
Some notables...to me:
Lethal Weapon
Roxanne
Predator
Spaceballs (quotable)
Full Metal Jacket
Dirty Dancing
Fatal Attraction
The Princess Bride (quotable)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Good Morning Vietnam
I miss the 80’s :(
1987...Two years before The Simpsons hit the big time after The Tracey Ullman Show.
“No Way Out”. Best film from 1987.
Moonstruck is one of my all time favorite movies. It is a gem. Although Nicholas Cage, as usual cannot act his way out of a paper bag. Even he couldn’t ruin it for me!
Moonstruck is one of my all time favorite movies. It is a gem. Although Nicholas Cage, as usual cannot act his way out of a paper bag. Even he couldn’t ruin it for me!
I must have watched Dirty Dancing 50 times, the others I don’t even remember.
I’ve never seen one of those movies.
Well, I didn’t like any of the movies on your list and I have never seen a Coen brothers movie that I didn’t HATE, but I do like lists of movies, so way to go.
Indeed it is.
My Top Faves from ‘87:
Barfly - My second favorite Mickey Rourke movie after The Pope of Greenwich Village.
Hellraiser
The Last Emperor
Predator - Maybe not Oscar-worthy cinema, but a heck of a lot of fun!
Robocop
The Untouchables
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Honorable mentions:
Tin Men
Full Metal Jacket
The Running Man - another fun Arnie flick. The scene with Maria Conchita Alonzo working out in her lingerie is reason enough to watch (yowza!)
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My least faves from 87:
Wall Street
Fatal Attraction
Superman IV: Pee-YEW!
1987? Seems like a different world, now. What’s funny is that I remember thinking in the early 80’s about how edgy we kids were compared to my WWII era parents.
Now, looking back on it, compared to today and what my kids face, the 80’s seem like Mayberry.
Just watched “The Untouchables” again recently. Great flick.