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Dec 3, 2021 - 4:20 PM
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Juanki
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Merry Christmas Adam! This is so generous, I am so grateful on this gentle offering. All the best for you, sir!
About the first point, I would like to participate on the following releases: Always, Extreme Prejudice, Glory, Legend, Lionheart, Somwhere in Time and Star Trek II.
Regarding the second point, I shall share my favourite eighties films: the jewel of the crown is Raiders of the Lost Ark, that movie is automatically a top ten for me of all time. I am very fond on Joe Dante's career and I consider that almost anything he did in the 80s deserves credit. Gremlins is, of course, the most popular one but I think Innerspace, The Howling and The 'burbs are wonderful films.
Time Bandits was another magnificent creative film, you can really appreciate how far did Terry Gilliam was and speaking of Monty Python, The Meaning of Life was released in 1983. Can you believe this movie got a high prize in Cannes festival? Pretty outstanding choice. Oh, and what a marvellous film was A Fish Called Wanda, so funny!
Jonathan Demme's Something Wild is one of a kind, an eighties screwball that really works, Martin Scorsese's After Hours was very funny and Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo or Broadway Danny Rose established him as king of comedy but take a chance at Crimes and Misdemeanors, it opened new paths for the director to do drama films taking the guilty as the main topic.
You know another top movie? Hoosiers. Today is a classic, great work by Jerry Goldsmith too whom elevated the pathos of the film with a score not that intrusive. In fact it is like a trasparent score for the basketball games! And Dennis Hopper is terrific on this, as he was in Blue Velvet, both performances the same year!
Last but not least, I want to recall James L. Brooks. I miss him nowadays and he was the king of cynical works as you can check on 'Tears of Endearment' and 'Broadcast News'. Also, the first Simpson episodes (those classics!) came on this decade.
That was all, sorry for the long post but I think the generous offering deserved it. Thanks a lot!
PS: I can't believe I said no word on Back to the Future. That movie is a classic, one of the best screenplays ever written. What a film, great Scott!
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Thanks for this holiday surprise, Adam! Please put me in the mixing bowl for Somewhere in Time.
My favorite 80s movies are all franchise numbers for some reason.
For Your Eyes Only
Superman II
Star Trek II
Rocky III
Aliens
They all came pre-packaged with familiar concepts and known heroes, and they drilled right into my exact idea, as a young man, of what a movie should be. I wasn't the greatest philosopher of the age, but Hollywood seemed to have my back. Boy, has that ever changed. Now I'm a little better and the big popcorn movies are a LOT worse. Thank God for home video.
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The 80s decade was my favorite for good old fashioned popcorn flicks.
I think the "Best Bang For Your Buck" film of the decade was (don't laugh) Revenge of the Ninja. I read that film cost less than $1 million to make but that 90 minute film has as much entertainment value as any $200 million Hollywood blockbuster.
Other faves of mine....
Indiana Jones trilogy
Rambo trilogy
Star Wars sequels
Star Trek trilogy II,III,IV
Heavy Metal
The Challenge
Road Warrior
Lone Wolf McQuade
Blue Thunder
The Terminator
Back to the Future
Just One Of The Guys
Ferris Bueller
Adventures in Babysitting
1987 action films Predator, Robocop, Extreme Prejudice, Lethal Weapon, The Hidden
Die Hard
Roger Rabbit
The Abyss
Great sequels - Empire, Aliens, Lethal Weapon 2
Actually Adam if you watch the Electric Boogaloo Cannon Films documentary, one of the films' producers David Womark said that that Menahem Golan wanted a sequel and give the production only 700,000 dollars to do it with. Then of course Golan screened the movie and hated it and right on the spot came up with the kick ass opening and everything. Of course, the film made about I want to say well over ten million. But it was Breakin' that was that company's and the biggest box office bang for your buck also on a budget well of less than a million and exploded to over 56 Million dollars.
As for my favorite 80's movies aside from the obvious (Die Hard, Rambo, Predator, Ghostbusters, Back To The Future) I will go for Legend, Star Trek II and Friday the 13th.
True Believer starring James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. in which Woods gives one of his greatest performances next to Cop as a New York lawyer who takes on the case of a Asian American framed for a murder he didn't commit and becomes an obsession to set him free leading into police corruption and taking on the D.A. played by RoboCop's Kurtwood Smith who was on the original case leading to a battle of wills in the courtroom.
Cop also starring James Woods in which Woods in another great performance plays a tough as nails LAPD detective on the search of a serial killer that may have ties to a woman (played by Lesley Ann Warren) whom the killer knows personally. Woods goes to great lengths to find him with the help of his partner (Charles Durning) and keeps getting stonewalled by his captain and the very woman who could bring him to justice. A very underrated thriller featuring a solid score by the late Michel Colombier that has a cult following.
Up The Creek starring Tim Matheson and Stephen Furst of National Lampoon's Animal House along with Dan Monahan from Porky's and Jennifer Runyon of Charles In Charge which is a fun comedy about four losers from the worst college in the country who are blackmailed into entering an all collegiate raft race against a pompous rich frat led by Jeff East (who played the young Clark Kent in Superman The Movie) and a psycho military school captain to try and win with the help of Matheson's dog and the very busty Runyon. The film features a great soundtrack and a score by William Goldstein that deserves a release which adds to fun of this movie. The first ten minutes pretty much sets up the enjoyment of this flick.
Shakedown Starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott. Directed with gritty fun by James Glickenhaus (who also directed The Exterminator and The Soldier) Weller plays a defense attorney who defends a drug dealer who shoots a dirty cop in Central Park in self defense who may turn out to be innocent and then has to battle a group of corrupt cops working with a major drug lord. Weller with the help of Elliott takes them on leading to unbelievable but very exciting conclusion.
Road House which needs no introduction and still one of the more entertaining action films of the 80's.
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Merry Christmas and thank you for your generosity!
Please put me in the running for Extreme Prejudice!
So many 80s favorites but today I’m thinking-
The Blues Brothers for its deadpan hilarity and great music
And The Road Warrior for Miller’s kinetic, unbelievably
professional mix of hero myths and auto action (and yes,
great music)
Thank you!
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1. I'd take The Running Man by Harold Faltermeyer.
2. My favorite movie of the 1980s would have to be Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was born in 1990 but that movie made a really huge impression on me growing up. I became a fiction author in large part because of my love of the Indiana Jones films.
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Dec 4, 2021 - 12:45 AM
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EasternFinn
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Awesome giveaway again! Thanks for the opportunity. As one of last year’s winners, I doubt lightning will strike twice but let’s still give it a shot.
Put me up for the following titles:
Extreme Prejudice, Friday the 13th, Legend, Lionheart, The Running Man and Star Trek II
As for the favourite 80s film, there are just too many to choose. My favourite director from the era is John Carpenter. Especially The Thing, They Live, Prince of Darkness and Big Trouble in Little China are all excellent in their own way. The mood of these films is entirely their own and the synth scores are the best ones in that style. I also have a sweet spot for cheesy 80s action à la Die Hard, Commando and Predator. Schwarzenegger is also a favourite actor of my significant other. One last unique 80s film I have to mention is Brazil: the atmosphere and visuals are stunning and the weird story sticks with the viewer.
Good luck to everyone!
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Most generous n kind hearted offer again.
I would like to be chucked in the hat for The Goonies and Somewhere in Time please Adam.
A lot of movies from the 80s havent stood the test of time very well, but plenty of iconic ones that have, like Raiders, Predator, Terminator, Blade Runner, Untouchables, Aliens. However my choice would have to be Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Comedy films are rarer for a start, and genuinely funny ones rarer still. This one has everything - its endlessly laugh-out-loud tear-streaming funny, endlessly quotable, poignant, moving and sad. It has exemplary music choices and impeccable leads having their finest hour with truly delicious line delivery. And it teaches you good shit about life (like tolerance, seeing past eccentricity to good souls, etc - but most of all, never accept lifts from shower-curtain ring salesmen, lol)
"You're going the wrong way....." 
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Dec 4, 2021 - 5:23 AM
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jacky
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Adam you are very generous as always, excellent give away!
Put me in the hat for those titles please:
*Extreme Prejudice by Jerry Goldsmith (Intrada 2CD Set)
*Friday the 13th - The Ultimate Cut by Harry Manfredini (LLL)
*Glory by James Horner (LLL 2CD Set)
*The Goonies by Dave Grusin (Varese)
*Legend by Jerry Goldsmith (Music Box 2CD Set)
*Lionheart by Jerry Goldsmith (Varese Deluxe Edition 2CD Set)
*The Running Man by Harold Faltermeyer (Varese Deluxe Edition)
*Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan by James Horner (LLL 2CD Set)
I like 80's movies a lot, there are so many great films released in that period: A few of my favorits are, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the lost ark, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Robocop (I even own a 16MM print of this movie), The Breakfast club, Planes, trains and automobiles, Blade Runner and Predator. When I saw predator in a theatre I really had no idea what to expect, the short trailer didn't gave away any info regarding the alien...So I was really blown away by his appearence..
Good luck to all!!
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