BOT: THE REVISITING -- now up, 1987! MINI-EXTENSION, deadline is tonight, June 25!

[Dementeleus]

I'm gonna extend ballot acceptance through today. There were a couple stragglers we will count, and that means anyone who hasn't submitted has a few hours to get a list in. 

[Amadeus]

4 hours ago, Telemachos said:

I'm gonna extend ballot acceptance through today. There were a couple stragglers we will count, and that means anyone who hasn't submitted has a few hours to get a list in. 

How many lists have been sent in?

[Dementeleus]

9 minutes ago, Amadeus said:

How many lists have been sent in?

 

I think it's 21 at the moment.

[Amadeus]

1 hour ago, Telemachos said:

 

I think it's 21 at the moment.

Enough!

[Dementeleus]

A few that just missed my list:

 

Ishtar

Fatal Attraction

Stakeout

Withnail & I

A Chinese Ghost Story

The Last Emperor

Beverly Hills Cop II

[baumer]

Can I send in a second list?  

[75Live]

3 minutes ago, baumer said:

Can I send in a second list?  

 

stop plagiarizing my ideas!!!

 

 

[Jake Gittes]

44 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

A few that just missed my list:

 

Withnail & I

 

[Amadeus]

This thread's gonna be all like this when Superman IV is 6th because that is the only 1987 movie most of this community know of.
Meltdowns here we come

[Dementeleus]

18 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

 

It's been a long time and I didn't have time to see it again (it's also not easily available on streaming, unfortunately.)

[TalismanRing]

20 hours ago, Telemachos said:

A few that just missed my list:

 

Ishtar

Fatal Attraction

Stakeout

Withnail & I

A Chinese Ghost Story

The Last Emperor

Beverly Hills Cop II

 

[Dementeleus]

ISHTAR's pretty good. 

[CoolioD1]

ishtar is good and was on my list. it's shitty reputation is a manufactured media narrative because it's no fun to make fun of flops that are good.

[BadAtGender]

3 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

ishtar is good and was on my list. it's shitty reputation is a manufactured media narrative because it's no fun to make fun of flops that are good.

Several years ago I think Comedy Central did one of those play the same movie over and over again all day things for Ishtar. Their main advertising tag line was "it's not that bad of a movie." 

[Jake Gittes]

14 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

 

I had that reaction to Fatal Attraction. After its first 40 minutes it's a textbook case of a dumb as shit movie masquerading as a serious adult drama

[CoolioD1]

kinda amazing that anyone would give fatal attraction a pass in 2k17. regressive conservative trash.

[TalismanRing]

11 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

I had that reaction to Fatal Attraction. After its first 40 minutes it's a textbook case of a dumb as shit movie masquerading as a serious adult drama

 

FA starts off good and then degenerates into boogy woman horror.  Ishtar isn't Manos The Hands of Fate - but it's not good - it's unfunny and laborious.  I'm not buying into the revisionism that it's it not that bad - let alone actually good.

[Jake Gittes]

23 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

kinda amazing that anyone would give fatal attraction a pass in 2k17. regressive conservative trash.

 

Especially considering the whole backstory regarding the script and revisions made to it, it's much more valuable as a document of mainstream Hollywood and its messages circa the mid-80s than it is as an actual movie. The ways it continually goes off the rails are very revealing. 

[CoolioD1]

wasn't de palma the one who made those revisions? bummer but at least his version would have some flair to it. Lyne at least gives us the "HE'S DESCENDING INTO HELL" red lighting when douglas first goes to her apartment. was that less of an eye roll move in the 80s? 

[Dementeleus]

I think FA is reasonably effective as a movie. Granted most of this is because of the first half.