Best of the 80s Film Poll!
Added 2024-08-01 02:34:17 +0000 UTCHelp pick the 80s movie we will react to!
Please feel free to suggest other options in the comments for future polls!
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Yes, Get Carter (1971) is a great movie
christopher brown
2024-08-21 00:53:20 +0000 UTCI pre-ordered it too, one of my favorite British gangster films along with Get Carter
Ken Veader
2024-08-20 23:38:11 +0000 UTCTotally.
Neal Romanek
2024-08-19 12:57:46 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Neal Romanek
2024-08-19 12:56:51 +0000 UTCOutland (1981)
christopher brown
2024-08-12 16:01:52 +0000 UTCOh, 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.
Tyler Foster
2024-08-11 12:53:10 +0000 UTCJust 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.
Paul Cox
2024-08-11 11:44:22 +0000 UTCWell, 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
2024-08-08 19:18:09 +0000 UTCRisky Business
Tyler Foster
2024-08-04 06:41:40 +0000 UTCAs often as it comes up around here, there may come a point when they decide to just throw it on the schedule
mikethemotormouth
2024-08-04 02:28:28 +0000 UTCwhich one haven't you seen?
Birdie Num Num
2024-08-03 23:29:14 +0000 UTCIt 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.
Birdie Num Num
2024-08-03 23:25:32 +0000 UTCI 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.
Mark Kelso
2024-08-02 22:33:51 +0000 UTC"Silverado" is my favorite "fun" western. I think I smiled just about thru that whole movie.
Athos Count de la Fère
2024-08-02 22:32:49 +0000 UTCDefinitely just Daniel.
Tyler Foster
2024-08-02 22:27:17 +0000 UTCI 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).
Tyler Foster
2024-08-02 22:26:07 +0000 UTCI 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.
FischerMax98
2024-08-02 22:06:42 +0000 UTCits sad but true
Luetin
2024-08-02 14:24:02 +0000 UTCit 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
2024-08-02 11:41:40 +0000 UTCjust checked youtube, there are 12 reactions to fast times. someone even made a playlist of them.
Birdie Num Num
2024-08-02 11:32:56 +0000 UTCA Blow-up / Blow-Out double feature week would be incredible in the future 🙌
Look out, Arbogast!
2024-08-02 05:50:55 +0000 UTCFast Times At Ridgemont High! Haven't seen any reactions to this classic. Hell yeah. Vote cast.
FischerMax98
2024-08-02 03:35:42 +0000 UTCI’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.
David Wilkins
2024-08-02 01:43:30 +0000 UTCNah , its a classic and one of the best comedies of the 80's
Ken Veader
2024-08-02 01:32:14 +0000 UTCI 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
2024-08-01 19:38:53 +0000 UTCDo 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 :-)
Analytical Guy
2024-08-01 19:35:21 +0000 UTCI 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...
Mark Kelso
2024-08-01 18:39:51 +0000 UTCA Fish Called Wanda please for future polls!! :)
Anna H
2024-08-01 16:05:51 +0000 UTC@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
2024-08-01 15:35:22 +0000 UTCLove Do the Right Thing. Highly recommend checking out my Schmitt Wheel submission Blindspotting (2018) if you like Do the Right Thing.
Tyler Foster
2024-08-01 15:33:42 +0000 UTCAs 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.
Tyler Foster
2024-08-01 15:32:46 +0000 UTCHope you enjoy it. It has a great making of on it
christopher brown
2024-08-01 15:29:50 +0000 UTCI 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.
Silencedogood
2024-08-01 15:16:39 +0000 UTCI've ordered the Criterion Blu-ray. I'll be getting it in September.
John Fitzpatrick
2024-08-01 15:09:46 +0000 UTCBlow Out is so underappreciated, My favorite Brian DePalma film, I hope it gets seen someday
Ken Veader
2024-08-01 14:28:39 +0000 UTCAre you talking about Damone? They are both in high school. Plus, she kinda seduces him. *spoiler alert*
Rudy Hernandez
2024-08-01 14:27:42 +0000 UTCRisky Business because Samantha will enjoy it!!
Charles Mitchell
2024-08-01 13:44:44 +0000 UTCRiver's Edge or Heathers
JayRamone Was
2024-08-01 12:50:04 +0000 UTCA great 80s movie is The long good Friday (1980)
christopher brown
2024-08-01 12:20:50 +0000 UTCI may have to put "Brazil" as my pick for the monthly Schmitt Spin Wheel draw.
Guston Zimasheen
2024-08-01 10:44:12 +0000 UTCBrazil and Videodrome outdone by Fast Times??? okkkkkkkk then :/
Luetin
2024-08-01 10:11:39 +0000 UTCIt's not only the best movie on this poll, it's probably the best movie of the 80s
Kevin Charley
2024-08-01 09:16:20 +0000 UTCGood 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
Florian Meier
2024-08-01 05:14:06 +0000 UTCHell yeah Videodrome!!
Hunter DeRensis
2024-08-01 04:56:55 +0000 UTCfor real. I hope reactors start to take pick it up and take note of it's greatness.
djKENTO
2024-08-01 03:34:05 +0000 UTCOGB Reacts did it justice not too long ago if you didn't see 👍🏽
mikethemotormouth
2024-08-01 03:33:22 +0000 UTCOh you guys have to watch Innerspace (1987), such a fun movie.
Domino
2024-08-01 03:33:11 +0000 UTCThe fact that it's still a hot potato after 35 years proves its own point.
Paul Cox
2024-08-01 03:29:31 +0000 UTCOh, goodness…quite a few great ones.
David Wilkins
2024-08-01 03:29:05 +0000 UTCListen 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.
djKENTO
2024-08-01 03:23:45 +0000 UTCWow! 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.
Vwlss Nvwls
2024-08-01 03:23:09 +0000 UTCAll these movies are essential. I say watch them all!
Robert Boyd
2024-08-01 03:16:20 +0000 UTCI went with Blow Out and Videodrome, but it is very difficult not to click on Blue Velvet, Brazil, or Paris, Texas as well
kbobravo
2024-08-01 03:14:08 +0000 UTCAh. Well the years go by and you start to forget. Probably was when it was just Daniel.
Athos Count de la Fère
2024-08-01 03:12:26 +0000 UTCWould love to get Do the Right Thing on the channel but you can’t go wrong hanging with Spicoli!
Richard
2024-08-01 03:05:11 +0000 UTCSince 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 😉
Smooticus
2024-08-01 02:57:56 +0000 UTCNot 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).
Tyler Foster
2024-08-01 02:52:29 +0000 UTCI think that's one of the earliest reactions on the channel.
Paul Cox
2024-08-01 02:51:41 +0000 UTCBlue Velvet!
iliketostayhome
2024-08-01 02:50:48 +0000 UTCI 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).
Jimmie V
2024-08-01 02:48:08 +0000 UTCMore great selections I try to keep myself to only 3 votes, but it was impossible this time
Smooticus
2024-08-01 02:48:01 +0000 UTCAirplane. At the end of the 80's it won best comedy for the entire decade. Many of the jokes still hit
Athos Count de la Fère
2024-08-01 02:47:34 +0000 UTCLOVE the Right Stuff :)
Chris Bruneau
2024-08-01 02:47:14 +0000 UTCAs a Chicagoan, I MUST vote for risky business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris Bruneau
2024-08-01 02:46:54 +0000 UTCI 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.)
Paul Cox
2024-08-01 02:45:51 +0000 UTCYou can't have everything.
John Fitzpatrick
2024-08-01 02:45:10 +0000 UTCRight Stuff, yes. Red Dawn, no.
John Fitzpatrick
2024-08-01 02:44:38 +0000 UTCFast Times doesn't really hold up, people. Some 26 year old dude has sex with a 15 year old girl. It's gross.
Ray Johnson
2024-08-01 02:43:04 +0000 UTCI'd love to see The Right Stuff and Red Dawn make it onto an 80s poll sometime.
Ed R
2024-08-01 02:42:28 +0000 UTCLicense to kill is my favorite Bond movie and is perfect 80s cinema
Brian Anthony
2024-08-01 02:41:46 +0000 UTCI was kinda expecting to see The Big Chill or St Elmo's Fire
mikethemotormouth
2024-08-01 02:40:37 +0000 UTCWe 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)
Paul Cox
2024-08-01 02:37:33 +0000 UTCIt 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.
Rudy Hernandez
2024-08-01 02:37:07 +0000 UTCAll of them are a good choice. You also need to include The Right Stuff and Dressed to Kill.
John Fitzpatrick
2024-08-01 02:37:07 +0000 UTCThe only movie on this poll I didn't vote for is the one I haven't seen. Oops! All bangers.
Tyler Foster
2024-08-01 02:36:47 +0000 UTCWow, I love this list of films! I picked every one of them.
Allen S.
2024-08-01 02:36:06 +0000 UTC
