Hokeyboy

"Classic"

It's a fun movie in an 80s-throwback sorta way, but we're talking in a "Weekend At Bernies" sorta way.

Matthew Chmiel

My vote:

Hokeyboy

I... loved Soul Man. I mean it was a POS movie but it had its moments. I especially loved James Earl Jones's line about "If you have to work twice as hard as these little white shits, THEN YOU WILL DAMN WELL WORK TWICE AS HARD" when Howell was complaining about racism being unfair.

Terrell

Adam Sandler jumped the shark a very long time ago.

inri222

If you decide to that, here is some more ammunition.

Raging Bull
Damnation
Videodrome
The Big Red One
The Verdict
From the Life of Marionettes
The ballad of Narayama
Nostalghia
Cobra Verde
The Seventh Continent
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Cinema Paradiso
Once Upon a Time in America
Mon Oncle d'Amérique
The Sacrifice
Black Rain (Shôhei Imamura)
Blade Runner
Law of Desire
El Norte
Ran
Do the Right Thing
Blow Out
Blue Velvet
The Elephant Man
House of Games
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Brazil
Das Boot
Identification of a Woman
The Last Emperor
This Is Spinal Tap
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Prince of the City
The Ninth Configuration
Matador
sex, lies, and videotape
The Element of Crime
Ordinary People
Hannah and Her Sisters
Fitzcarraldo
When Harry Met Sally
The Killer
Insignificanse
Melvin and Howard
Mississippi Burning
Confidence
Blood Simple
Scanners
Kagemusha
Wings of Desire
Tender Mercies
Coal Miner's Daughter
Stranger Than Paradise
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Fly
Coup de torchon
Drugstore Cowboy
Atlantic City
Dead Ringers
Sophie's Choice
My Left Foot
Jean de Florette
Reds
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Mystery Train
The Killing Fields
Breaker Morant
Dekalog
Manhunter
The Mission
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Zelig
The Last Metro
Missing
The Long Good Friday
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Prizzi's Honor
Fanny and Alexander
The King of Comedy
Withnail & I
Paris, Texas
Veronika Voss
Full Metal Jacket
The Dead
Gloria
The Vanishing
Hope and Glory
Altered States
My Dinner with Andre
Sid & Nancy
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Color of Money
The Last Temptation of Christ
Mona Lisa
Bad Timing
The Blues Brothers
Shogun Assassin
Out of the Blue
Gallipoli
Dressed to Kill

JTH182

What's next, a PRIVATE SCHOOL remake?

Jaymole

Nice try, but the fact that you had to throw in so many foreign films, proves my point

Hokeyboy

^That everyone else in the world outside of North America went directly from 1979 to 1990?

Jaymole

No, I was talking about American film only in making my statement that the 1980's was the worst decade for films overall, especially creative & intelligent ones.

FYI: I do consider worldwide cinema today to be stronger than it was in the 80's, but that is another debate.

Hokeyboy

I've always felt that the 80s had MUCH better writing, directing, and acting in their "big blockbuster movies" than the 90s or 00s. Generally speaking, the filmmakers trusted their audiences' intelligence a whole lot more. Mainly because people were smarter back then, and they didn't need as much ADD-catering idiocy and explosions for their entertainment.

On the other hand, smaller independent and art films were not as strong or memorable in the 80s as they were when filmmaking became a lot more accessible to voices outside the system.

All I know is, in the summer of 1988, right before I left for college, I caught Die Hard, A Fish Called Wanda, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit all in the same week. And it was pretty much the greatest week of first-run in-theater movie watching in my life.

Lastdaysofrain

I saw Summer School in theaters, it came out the same week as Revenge of the Nerds II if I remember correctly. Summer of 87 was a good time.

Also, if you are on Twitter, please help the cause to get me cast as Mr Shoop in the remake #kenreidasmrshoop

Groucho

Come on dude, I voted for you to be Leesburg District Supervisor -- isn't that enough?

Lastdaysofrain

I actually get email for that dude on occasion, I always answer it. I'm surprised I haven't set off a political fire storm yet.

Yeti4623

Off topic sort of:

I remember this trend in a lot of 80's/early 90's comedies: The ending turns into some kind of action and/or chase sequence. Usually played straight. I wonder what that was all about.

Solid Snake

it was about the 80s, man. The 80s.

eton rifles

" My Zipper got stuck".