Best Film of 1985 (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 1985 (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 1985 (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 -- Back to the Future

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) -- (currently) 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) Usual Suspects
1994 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175192) -- (currently) 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) -- (currently) 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)

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

*Poll closed, winner declared.

[JonTurner]

I've only seen 9 films myself from '85, but here's what I can say so far:

1) Back to the Future - 9/10
2) Brazil - 8/10
2) Breakfast Club - 8/10

[stupid observation]the year of the B[/stupid observation] - I really need to see Blood Simple!

For the heck of it,

Ebert:
1) The Color Purple
2) After Hours
3) The Falcon and the Snowman
4) Prizzi's Honor
5) Ran
6) Witness
7) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
8) Lost in America
9) Streetwise
10) Blood Simple

Siskel:
1) Shoah
2) Ran
3) The Color Purple
4) Streetwise
5) Prizzi's Honor
6) The Official Story
7) Mishima
8) The Falcon and the Snowman
9) Back to the Future
10) The Purple Rose of Cairo

[das Monkey]

<B>Back to the Future</B>

das

[Jango Fett II]

Back to the Future

[evenflow]

Blood Simple.

[DarthMarino]

Back to the Future

[LBPound]

For once, my selection isn't to be laughed at:

B A C K T O T H E F U T U R E

Gotta go back in time...

:up:

[wildcatlh]

BTTF.

I'm getting too young for these threads. :)

[CitizenKaneRBud]

Prizzi's Honor

[explosivej]

After Hours

[RobCA]

The Color Purple

[LBPound]

Now I gotta go back in time to see if JonTurner did really have a 10/10 for BTTF originally, since it's 9/10.... :whofart:

[Robert]

<b>Witness</b>

[Ergyu]

back to the future

[Eddyhazkel]

Back to the Future!

Wonder how long until this vote will be finished?

[JonTurner]

Originally posted by Eddyhazkel
Back to the Future!

Wonder how long until this vote will be finished?

:) Eh, it's no surprise where this is going... I space them out intentionally though, so I'll wait at least 4 or 5 days before starting the next one... but yeah, this is the biggest landslide yet.

[funstan]

Easy pick for me.

RAN

[randy1320]

Well it looks like Back to the Future is going to win in a landslide.
That's my pick too but here are some honorable mentions:

Young Sherlock Holmes
Real Genius
Legend
The Breakfast Club
Better Off Dead

[kian69]

BACK TO THE FUTURE rules!!!

[drc]

Ran

[swamptours]

I'm going to go with Ran also. One of my favorite movies.

[dave955]

It's hard to know whether I should vote when I haven't seen so many of the movies.

Witness would be my choice from what I've seen.

[Smidget]

BTTF definitely, Brazil is really close behind tho......awww and Goonies is on there too...... lol that's just nostalgia talking tho..... and Peewee's Big Adventure:

Back to the Future :)

[conscience]

Back to the Future is just an awesome movie.

For serious(right word?) fare...my pick would be Prizzi's Honor.

[DrRingDing]

technically (in a literal sense) speaking, Ran is a better movie, but i think i'll follow the flow and go with <b>BTTF</b> on this one.

on a different note, JonTurner, when you going to do the best film of 2001 thread?! :)
-di doctor-

[Trout]

I would choose RAN. An amazing and epic film. I would like to see more films like that.

[JonTurner]

Originally posted by DrRingDing
on a different note, JonTurner, when you going to do the best film of 2001 thread?! :)
-di doctor-

Probably by the end of the summer (it'll be at least that long 'til I get a good sense of my pick for the best of 2001 ;) - heck I won't have seen Monster's Ball 'til June or Lord of the Rings 'til August just to name a few)... it'll be one of the last, if not the last best of thread :)

[Sunday Morning]

1985

#1 AFTER HOURS

02. to live and die in l.a.
03. back to the future
04. brazil
05. blood simple
06. ran
07. prizzi’s honor
08. just one of the guys (!)
09. the purple rose of cairo
10. re-animator

11. seven minutes in heaven
12. creator
13. lost in america
14. phenomena
15. dance with a stranger
16. desert hearts
17. into the night
18. the sure thing
19. mala noche
20. no end

of note:
the angelic conversation
better off dead
big trouble
the breakfast club
the color purple
desperately seeking susan
flesh & blood
fright night
the funeral (itami)
girls just want to have fun
the goonies
hail mary
heaven help us
the journey of natty gann
key exchange
kiss of the spider woman
the legend of billie jean
lust in the dust
mask
murphy’s romance
my beautiful laundrette
the official story
once bitten
one woman or two
pee-wee’s big adventure
real genius
secret admirer
silverado
the slugger’s wife
smooth talk
st. elmo’s fire
static
streetwise *added
the stuff
sweet dreams
that was then...this is now
the trip to bountiful
tuff turf
vagabond
weird science
what happened to kerouac?
witness
a zed & two noughts

[Sunday Morning]

Originally posted by JonTurner

Ebert:
1) The Color Purple
2) After Hours
3) The Falcon and the Snowman
4) Prizzi's Honor
5) Ran
6) Witness
7) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
8) Lost in America
9) Streetwise
10) Blood Simple

Siskel:
1) Shoah
2) Ran
3) The Color Purple
4) Streetwise
5) Prizzi's Honor
6) The Official Story
7) Mishima
8) The Falcon and the Snowman
9) Back to the Future
10) The Purple Rose of Cairo

Ebert was smoking something in 85...
He picked my favorite high on his list which is cool, but, why mad max beyond thunderdome #7?

the falcon and the snowman made it on both their lists.
I'm not getting that. I didn't care much for that picture.
Am I missing something?

[raithen]

Legend

-matt

[KJROD20]

back to the future

[Philzilla]

Ran

[Frank TJ Mackey]

----------The Color Purple------------

[Johnny Zhivago]

Brazil.

HMs to The Color Purple, Blood Simple, Witness and Re-Animator.

[grunter]

There's absolutely no contest here:

BRAZIL

[Jaymole]

Ran (edging out Brazil by a hair)

[Geofferson]

1. Back to the Future
2. After Hours
3. Brazil

[D-Ball]

Back to the Future

[ToddSm66]

1. Brazil
2. Back to the Future
3. The Goonies
4. Better Off Dead
5. Real Genius
6. Pale Rider
7. Remo Williams
8. Explorers
9. Lost in America
10. Cocoon

[Meatpants]

Man this year was lost.

I'll go w/ Brazil

[Gdrlv]

Back to the Future...

Followed by Brazil, Better off Dead and the Goonies

[Red Dog]

Weird Science

[cineman]

The Color Purple

[Damfino]

Brazil.

[LBPound]

Time to start a thread for 1984, methinks.

[JonTurner]

Yup, it's open.

Back to the Future cleaned up here with 18 votes... this one's ready to close.

1) Back to the Future (18)
2) Brazil / Ran (5 each)
4) The Color Purple (3)