Best Film of 1987 (ongoing survey)

[JonTurner]

I know we've got polls like this all the time around here, but I figure this one will be a little more comprehensive and perhaps even informative.

This thread will be for your pick for best film released during 1987 (think Oscar considerations for what's eligible). I'm not making it a poll because whether you like it or not, that would influence some people's choice.

Results will be posted in this thread, and all subsequent threads for each year, and they will be ongoing... so you can still vote here even weeks after other year's polls have begun.

Please start your post with your #1 film from 1987 (try to limit it to one - after all, that's the point - two at the most (I'll split the vote)), and yes, discussions are more than welcome!

Current Leader -- Full Metal Jacket

All Years:
2000 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169768) -- Requiem For a Dream*
1999 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170274) -- Fight Club*
1998 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171440) -- (currently) Saving Private Ryan
1997 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=172054) -- (currently) Boogie Nights
1996 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=173057) -- Fargo*
1995 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174141) -- (currently) Braveheart
1994 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175192) -- Pulp Fiction*
1993 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176491) -- Schindler's List*
1992 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177944) -- Unforgiven*
1991 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=179517) -- Silence of the Lambs*
1990 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182060) -- Goodfellas*
1989 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183974) -- (currently) Do the Right Thing
1988 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=186578) -- Die Hard*
1987 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=189840) -- Full Metal Jacket*
1986 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=193610) -- (currently) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1985 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=195894) -- Back to the Future*
1984 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=197576) -- (currently) Ghostbusters
1983 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199215) -- Return of the Jedi*
1982 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201052)

If you haven't voted on the previous years, feel free to go back and do so.

*Poll closed, winner declared.

[JonTurner]

1) Full Metal Jacket - 8/10
2) The Big Easy - 8/10
3) The Untouchables - 8/10

I'm sure I'll eventually find something I like better from this year, but that the best I've seen so far.

Again, just for the heck of it (and since I haven't had complaints yet ;)), Siskel and Ebert's lists:

Siskel:
1) Last Emperor
2) Full Metal Jacket
3) House of Games
4) Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring
5) Broadcast News
6) Radio Days
7) River's Edge
8) Prick Up Your Ears
9) Roxanne
10) Big Easy

Ebert:
1) House of Games
2) Big Easy
3) Barfly
4) Last Emperor
5) Moonstruck
6) Prick Up Your Ears
7) Radio Days
8) Broadcast News
9) Lethal Weapon
10) Housekeeping

[paratize]

1. <b>EMPIRE OF THE SUN</b>
2. FULL METAL JACKET
3. HOUSE OF GAMES

[dave955]

DEKALOG

[Jeremy517]

Full Metal Jacket

[Robert]

1. <b>Lethal Weapon</b>
2. The Untouchables
3. Wall Street

[Sierra Disc]

Raising Arizona is my favorite film of 1987 by far.

Full Metal Jacket is my #2 choice - it'd probably be #1 if Kubrick had maintained the amazing quality of the first half of the movie in the second half, but except for the "sniper" scene I thought the Vietnam scenes of the movie lacked the power of the boot camp section.

Runners-up: Evil Dead 2,Princess Bride,River's Edge, Roxanne, The Untouchables. '87 was a damned good year!

[Geofferson]

1. Raising Arizona
2. The Untouchables
3. Lethal Weapon
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. House of Games

[Sunday Morning]

#1 roxanne

[randy1320]

The Princess Bride

[Johnny Zhivago]

The Last Emperor

[ToddSm66]

Pretty good year...

1. The Untouchables
2. House of Games
3. The Princess Bride
4. Raising Arizona
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
7. Evil Dead 2
8. Robocop
9. Throw Momma From the Train
10. Predator
11. Innerspace
12. Spaceballs
13. Lethal Weapon

[drc]

Raising Arizona

[travis_bickle]

Full Metal Jacket.

[swamptours]

I'll have to go with Robocop

[funstan]

Good year for movies, my vote goes to:
The Dead

[evenflow]

The Untouchables.

[Goat3001]

Full Metal Jacket

[Hulkabrgr]

Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
Wall Street


Ernest Goes to Camp :)

[explosivej]

Full Metal Jacket

[CrashMan]

Full Metal Jacket

[pdinosaur]

someone has to say last emperor. so it will be me. very good.

[Scot1458]

Evil Dead 2

[SirPablo]

Full Metal Jacket

[TheTalkingFish]

1: Raising Arizona
2: Full Metal Jacket
3: Evil Dead 2
4: Predator
5: The Princess Bride

-Fish

[KJROD20]

even though my fave movie of all time is spaceballs, the best movie of that year was full metal jacket

[Keyser_Soze2]

Full. Metal. Jacket.

[JonTurner]

Quick little bump as this one seems to have dissappeared a little quickly.

[LBPound]

<font size="4">1) ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING</font>

2) Planes, Trains & Automobiles
3) The Princess Bride
4) Full Metal Jacket

[Copenhagen]

Full Metal Jacket

[matome]

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Predator
Full Metal Jacket
Lethal Weapon
Moonstruck

[wildcatlh]

The Untouchables

[Damfino]

The Last Emperor

[conscience]

Fatal Attraction.....

[Three Day Delay]

The Last Emperor

[Low RG]

The Untouchables

[cortan]

definately

princess bride

[cwwallace]

The Last Emperor

[randy1320]

It's time for 1986...

[JonTurner]

Yes it is...

Full Metal Jacket's got a commanding lead with 10 votes... I'll leave this one open a little while though since it's still on the first page.

1) Full Metal Jacket (10)
2) Last Emperor (5)
3) Untouchables / Raising Arizona (4 each)
5) Empire of the Sun / Princess Bride (2 each)

[kian69]

Robocop

[raithen]

The Princess Bride

-matt

[ctyankee]

Raising Arizona

[lordzeppelin]

As much as I love FMJ, I've gotta say the Last Emperor was a better film.

[Anthony Soprano]

Full Metal Jacket

[grunter]

River's Edge

[RobCA]

Radio Days

[Sem]

Full Metal Jacket. It was a pretty good year for the movies, though...

[Lothaerius]

Really tough call between Princess Bride and Raising Arizona and Empire of the Sun and The Last Emperor. But, when it comes down to it, I've just got to go with . . .

The Last Emperor

[BearFan]

Gotta go with Last Emperor

[Endy]

The Last Emperor!

[B.A.]

Empire of the Sun

[JonTurner]

With The Last Emperor catching up...

1) Full Metal Jacket (12)
2) Last Emperor (9)
3) Raising Arizona (5)
4) Untouchables (4)
5) Empire of the Sun / Princess Bride (3 each)

[Ergyu]

full metal jacket

[Eddyhazkel]

Can I vote for only the first half of FMJ?

My vote goes to Raising Arizona

[Bcolon]

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION NUMBNUTS?????

The best movie of 1987 is...

Full Metal Jacket!!

[Morf]

The Princess Bride

[Jaymole]

Full Metal Jacket

[cineman]

I know it won't win but I vote Broadcast News

[mst3k man]

The Untouchables

[garmonbozia]

Somebody voted for The Decalogue which is my favorite film, but I always see that listed as a 1988 film, so I'll vote for:

Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources

[Masoo]

A Better Tomorrow 2

[DVD Smurf]

Radio Days

[victant]

The Princess Bride

[gcribbs]

The Last Emperor was a very good movie. However i must vote for

Full Metal Jacket!

[JonTurner]

New tally:

1) Full Metal Jacket (16)
2) The Last Emperor (9)
3) Raising Arizona (6)
4) Princess Bride / Untouchables (5 each)
6) Empire of the Sun (3)

Gradually building up a bigger lead, I'm gonna go ahead and call this one - giving Kubrick his first win.