Best Film of 1988 (ongoing survey)

JonTurner · 02-23-02, 10:45 PM

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!

Winner - Die Hard

All Years:
2000 -- Requiem For a Dream*
1999 -- (currently) Fight Club
1998 -- (currently) Thin Red Line
1997 -- (currently) L.A. Confidential
1996 -- Fargo*
1995 -- (currently) Braveheart
1994 -- (currently) Pulp Fiction
1993 -- Schindler's List*
1992 -- Unforgiven*
1991 -- (currently) Silence of the Lambs
1990 -- Goodfellas*
1989 -- (currently) Do the Right Thing
1988 -- Die Hard*
1987

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

*Poll closed, winner declared.

JonTurner · 02-23-02, 10:47 PM

My short list (since I've only seen 17 from the year)

1) Rain Man - 10/10
2) Unbearable Lightness of Being - 9/10
3) Last Temptation of Christ - 9/10

Just for some more choices, though again, please don't turn it into a thread discussing their lists:

Siskel:
1) Last Temptation of Christ
2) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3) Bull Durham
4) Little Dorritt
5) Accidental Tourist
6) Midnight Run
7) Thin Blue Line
8) Hotel Terminus: Life & Times of Klaus Barbie
9) Unbearable Lightness of Being
10) Working Girl

Ebert:
1) Mississippi Burning
2) Accidental Tourist
3) Unbearable Lightness of Being
4) Shy People
5) Salaam Bombay!
6) A Fish Called Wanda
7) Wings of Desire
8) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
9) Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam
10) Running on Empty

Sunday Morning · 02-24-02, 12:10 AM

1988

#1 the accidental tourist

02. permanent record
03. dead ringers
04. the chocolate war
05. wings of desire
06. talk radio
07. married to the mob
08. running on empty
09. dance of the damned
10. elvira, mistress of the dark
promised land (tie)
12. stealing home
13. dangerous laisons
14. hairspray
15. the unbearable lightness of being
16. a fish called wanda
17. eight men out
18. beetlejuice
19. women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
20. decline of western civilization part II the metal years

of note:
and god created woman
apartment zero
the accused
another woman
bengali night
bird
the blob
brain damage
bright lights, big city
bull durham
chocolat
coming to america
crossing delancey
death in the siene
distant voices, still lives
dominick and eugene
drowning by numbers
far north
frantic
a handful of dust
hanussen
heart of midnight
high hopes
homeboy
hotel terminus
i’m gonna git you sucka
intruder
jack’s back
lady in white
lair of the white worm
landscape in the mist
let’s get lost
license to drive
made in USA
midnight run
mississippi burning
monkey shines
mr. north
mystic pizza
the naked gun
never on tuesday
paperhouse
pascali’s island
patty hearst
pelle the conquerer
the possessed
powaqqatsi
rain man
salome’s last dance
the serpent and the rainbow
spike of bensonhurst
stormy monday
story of women
testsuo the iron man
tequila sunrise
they live
things change
the thin blue line
torch song trilogy
track 29
the vanishing
who framed roger rabbit
a world apart
working girl

Robert · 02-24-02, 12:15 AM

Die Hard!

Goat3001 · 02-24-02, 01:30 AM

Rain Man

Copenhagen · 02-24-02, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Robert
Die Hard!

I agree.

Keyser_Soze2 · 02-24-02, 02:57 AM

A Fish Called Wanda, probably.

CrashMan · 02-24-02, 03:39 AM

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Phyre · 02-24-02, 04:25 AM

Dead Ringers
Thin Blue Line
Last Temptation of Christ

swamptours · 02-24-02, 10:20 AM

Gotta go Die Hard too. One of the best action movies of all time

cwwallace · 02-24-02, 11:47 AM

Ebert's #9 pick, Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam is my favorite from that year.

ToddSm66 · 02-24-02, 12:27 PM

Die Hard

Just out of curiosity, why was there no poll for 2001?

Sierra Disc · 02-24-02, 01:09 PM

Last Temptation of Christ.

JonTurner · 02-24-02, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ToddSm66
Just out of curiosity, why was there no poll for 2001?

Many reasons... mainly b/c I wait and see practically everything on DVD I highly doubt I've yet seen what I'll consider to be the best from 2001. While I know this isn't the case for everyone here, it's probably true for more people than you'd think - after all, this is DVDTalk. Anyway, I figure that once we go as far as we do with the years, I'll go back and end with 2001.

Oh yeah, and we all know LOTR will win it, so why bother

Steveweiser · 02-24-02, 02:13 PM

Die Hard, simple as that.

evenflow · 02-24-02, 02:26 PM

Die Hard!

Geofferson · 02-24-02, 03:10 PM

Die Hard

paratize · 02-24-02, 04:13 PM

1. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
2. THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
3. MISSISSIPPI BURNING
4. DIE HARD
5. RAIN MAN

Honorable mention: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Brak55 · 02-24-02, 10:57 PM

Last Temptation of Christ

Hey, it was my choice for best film of the decade!

dave955 · 02-24-02, 11:43 PM

Dekalog

randy1320 · 02-25-02, 12:07 AM

Beetlejuice!

skuehl34 · 02-25-02, 12:46 AM

A Fish Called Wanda..

Wanted to say Die Hard but that damn shirt color change just pissed me off for years because I knew something had been cut from the film...had to wait until DVD came out to see why...

Jeremy517 · 02-25-02, 04:21 AM

Die Hard

LBPound · 02-25-02, 10:28 AM

1988 was a good year, as there are a handful of movies from that year, that I really, really love.

MY PICK:

SCROOGED

Runners-up:

Big
Rain Man
Midnight Run
Funny Farm

Johnny Zhivago · 02-25-02, 01:59 PM

The Last Temptation Of Christ

02-23-02, 10:47 PM	#2
JonTurner DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 2,709	My short list (since I've only seen 17 from the year) 1) Rain Man - 10/10 2) Unbearable Lightness of Being - 9/10 3) Last Temptation of Christ - 9/10 Just for some more choices, though again, please don't turn it into a thread discussing their lists: Siskel: 1) Last Temptation of Christ 2) Who Framed Roger Rabbit 3) Bull Durham 4) Little Dorritt 5) Accidental Tourist 6) Midnight Run 7) Thin Blue Line 8) Hotel Terminus: Life & Times of Klaus Barbie 9) Unbearable Lightness of Being 10) Working Girl Ebert: 1) Mississippi Burning 2) Accidental Tourist 3) Unbearable Lightness of Being 4) Shy People 5) Salaam Bombay! 6) A Fish Called Wanda 7) Wings of Desire 8) Who Framed Roger Rabbit 9) Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam 10) Running on Empty Last edited by JonTurner; 02-23-02 at 10:50 PM.

02-24-02, 12:10 AM	#3
Sunday Morning DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: A little bit here and a little bit there. Posts: 2,644	1988 #1 the accidental tourist 02. permanent record 03. dead ringers 04. the chocolate war 05. wings of desire 06. talk radio 07. married to the mob 08. running on empty 09. dance of the damned 10. elvira, mistress of the dark promised land (tie) 12. stealing home 13. dangerous laisons 14. hairspray 15. the unbearable lightness of being 16. a fish called wanda 17. eight men out 18. beetlejuice 19. women on the verge of a nervous breakdown 20. decline of western civilization part II the metal years of note: and god created woman apartment zero the accused another woman bengali night bird the blob brain damage bright lights, big city bull durham chocolat coming to america crossing delancey death in the siene distant voices, still lives dominick and eugene drowning by numbers far north frantic a handful of dust hanussen heart of midnight high hopes homeboy hotel terminus i’m gonna git you sucka intruder jack’s back lady in white lair of the white worm landscape in the mist let’s get lost license to drive made in USA midnight run mississippi burning monkey shines mr. north mystic pizza the naked gun never on tuesday paperhouse pascali’s island patty hearst pelle the conquerer the possessed powaqqatsi rain man salome’s last dance the serpent and the rainbow spike of bensonhurst stormy monday story of women testsuo the iron man tequila sunrise they live things change the thin blue line torch song trilogy track 29 the vanishing who framed roger rabbit a world apart working girl Last edited by Sunday Morning; 02-24-02 at 12:13 AM.

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02-23-02, 10:45 PM	#1
JonTurner DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 2,709	Best Film of 1988 (ongoing survey) 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! Winner - Die Hard All Years: 2000 -- Requiem For a Dream* 1999 -- (currently) Fight Club 1998 -- (currently) Thin Red Line 1997 -- (currently) L.A. Confidential 1996 -- Fargo* 1995 -- (currently) Braveheart 1994 -- (currently) Pulp Fiction 1993 -- Schindler's List* 1992 -- Unforgiven* 1991 -- (currently) Silence of the Lambs 1990 -- Goodfellas* 1989 -- (currently) Do the Right Thing 1988 -- Die Hard* 1987 If you haven't voted on the previous years, feel free to go back and do so. Poll closed, winner declared. Last edited by JonTurner; 03-07-02 at 12:48 AM.*

02-24-02, 12:15 AM	#4
Robert DVD Talk Ultimate Edition Join Date: Jun 1999 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,057	Die Hard!

02-24-02, 01:30 AM	#5
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02-24-02, 03:39 AM	#8
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02-24-02, 04:25 AM	#9
Phyre Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: NYC Posts: 480	Dead Ringers Thin Blue Line Last Temptation of Christ

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ToddSm66 DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 1,437	Die Hard Just out of curiosity, why was there no poll for 2001? __________________ photos \| dvds

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02-24-02, 02:13 PM	#15
Steveweiser Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Carmel, California Posts: 154	Die Hard, simple as that.

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paratize DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 1,410	1. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST 2. THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING 3. MISSISSIPPI BURNING 4. DIE HARD 5. RAIN MAN Honorable mention: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? __________________ My Top 20 Favorite Films List: http://www.ymdb.com/user_top20_view.asp?usersid=3024

02-24-02, 10:57 PM	#19
Brak55 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Penfield, NY, USA Posts: 702	Last Temptation of Christ Hey, it was my choice for best film of the decade!

02-24-02, 11:43 PM	#20
dave955 DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,437	Dekalog

02-25-02, 12:07 AM	#21
randy1320 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 373	Beetlejuice!

02-25-02, 12:46 AM	#22
skuehl34 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: "Worst cost of living in US" Posts: 442	A Fish Called Wanda.. Wanted to say Die Hard but that damn shirt color change just pissed me off for years because I knew something had been cut from the film...had to wait until DVD came out to see why...

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02-25-02, 10:28 AM	#24
LBPound DVD Talk Legend Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 16,666	1988 was a good year, as there are a handful of movies from that year, that I really, really love. MY PICK: SCROOGED Runners-up: Big Rain Man Midnight Run Funny Farm __________________ ultimatedisney.com

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