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

[aabattery]

3 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Not even touching The Last Emperor for this. Anything under 2 hours has the automatic advantage. Except for Maurice, which I've seen pretty high up on a few people's lists and which I've been interested in for a while, especially with James Ivory having just co-written Call Me by Your Name which is one of the major movies set to come this year. 

 

So many on my list are under 100 minutes. It pleased me greatly. Brevity is underrated.

 

I wouldn't feel too bad about skipping The Last Emperor. YMMV, of course, but it's a bit of a drag.

[Arlborn]

56 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

This isn't even the extended cut haha.

 

It's not doing too much for me. I will say the performances are very good, and I quite like the score but I dunno. Hasn't quite clicked, except the Peter O'Toole bits. I am enjoying the parts that he's in.

 

It's a fine movie with a nice pay-off as far as I remember it but any movie that has you begging for it to end half way through won't really be among one of my favorites. Maybe I was just too young and impatient back when I watched it but that's what I got from it.

[Jake Gittes]

51 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

So many on my list are under 100 minutes. It pleased me greatly. Brevity is underrated.

 

I wouldn't feel too bad about skipping The Last Emperor. YMMV, of course, but it's a bit of a drag.

 

Have you watched The Dead?

[Jake Gittes]

The hangout-movie part of Near Dark is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Was grinning like a happy idiot the entire time. Shame it loses some steam near the end by taking the safe dramatic route, but on the whole it's still terrific. I love Henriksen and Paxton even more than I did before, and that score is gonna be listened to. 

[CoolioD1]

gonna bump up last emperor a couple spots on my list because of this nonsense.

[CoolioD1]

I've worked up a top 25 i quite like. do i just send it to @Telemachos or grim as well again?

[CoolioD1]

i forgot what we decided about release dates? i just went by the year on IMDB. if that's not it then my entire list is fucked. i'm pretty sure a couple of them only played festivals in '87 too.

[Plain Old Tele]

7 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

I've worked up a top 25 i quite like. do i just send it to @Telemachos or grim as well again?

 

Both of us, if you please. 

[Plain Old Tele]

2 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

i forgot what we decided about release dates? i just went by the year on IMDB. if that's not it then my entire list is fucked. i'm pretty sure a couple of them only played festivals in '87 too.

 

We relaxed the rules for foreign releases to whenever they were released. I can't remember if we made a hard decision on festivals but go ahead and include them if you want. 

[CoolioD1]

cool. sent. now you can bear witness to my...

 

[aabattery]

7 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

Have you watched The Dead?

 

I have not.

 

That runtime. 

[Fancyarcher]

Best of 1987, my list.

 

1. Robocop

2. Empire of The Sun

3. Full Metal Jacket

4. The Princess Bride

5. Evil Dead II

6. Raising Arizona  

7. Planes Trains & Automobiles

8. Predator

9. Wings of Desire

10. Maurice

11. Lethal Weapon

12. Babette’s Feast

13. The Last Emperor

14. Au Revoir Les Enfants

15. Roxanne 

16. Good Morning Vietnam

17. The Hidden

18. The Dead

19. The Brave Little Toaster

20. Withnail & I

21. The Living Daylights

22. The Untouchables

23. Spaceballs

24. Innerspace

25. Extreme Prejudice  

Edited June 19, 2017 by Fancyarcher

[Kalo]

If we are doing 1997 next, please everyone watch Cats Don't Dance, it is one of the most under scene great animations of the 90s, it also strangely shaped who I am as a person and is the reason I was obsessed with floods as a kid, and Animal Crackers, it might be why I hated Shirley Temple as a kid too. please just watch it, it is so funny and original. 

[aabattery]

I did it. Got a full list now. Kinda collapses at the end but it's a full 25.

 

1 - Evil Dead II

2 - Full Metal Jacket

3 - Broadcast News

4 - Raising Arizona

5 - The Untouchables

6 - Withnail and I

7 - Cobra Verde

8 - Lethal Weapon

9 - Predator

10 - Empire of the Sun

11 - Robocop

12 - The Hidden

13 - The Princess Bride

14 - Extreme Prejudice

15 - Innerspace

16 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

17 - Radio Days

18 - The Dead

19 - The Living Daylights

20 - Near Dark

21 - Spaceballs

22 - The Last Emperor

23 - Overboard

24 - Brave Little Toaster

25 - Jaws: The Revenge

 

Now there's a lil' peak at 1987 on my all-time list thing on Letterboxd.

Edited June 20, 2017 by aabattery

[Plain Old Tele]

2 hours ago, aabattery said:

I did it. Got a full list now. Kinda collapses at the end but it's a full 25.

 

1 - Evil Dead II

2 - Full Metal Jacket

3 - Broadcast News

4 - Raising Arizona

5 - The Untouchables

6 - Withnail and I

7 - Cobra Verde

8 - Lethal Weapon

9 - Predator

10 - Empire of the Sun

11 - Robocop

12 - The Hidden

13 - The Princess Bride

14 - Extreme Prejudice

15 - Innerspace

16 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

17 - Radio Days

18 - The Dead

19 - The Living Daylights

20 - Near Dark

21 - Spaceballs

22 - The Last Emperor

23 - Overboard

24 - Brave Little Toaster

25 - Jaws: The Revenge

 

Now there's a lil' peak at 1987 on my all-time list thing on Letterboxd.

 

 

 

[Plain Old Tele]

2 hours ago, aabattery said:

 

Now there's a lil' peak at 1987 on my all-time list thing on Letterboxd.

 

That's a neat chart. How do you generate it? I can't seem to find an easy way.

[Tower]

3 hours ago, aabattery said:

Now there's a lil' peak at 1987 on my all-time list thing on Letterboxd.

I haven't watched as many films from recent years, so my peak is larger.

 

[Kalo]

6 hours ago, aabattery said:

I did it. Got a full list now. Kinda collapses at the end but it's a full 25.

 

1 - Evil Dead II

2 - Full Metal Jacket

3 - Broadcast News

4 - Raising Arizona

5 - The Untouchables

6 - Withnail and I

7 - Cobra Verde

8 - Lethal Weapon

9 - Predator

10 - Empire of the Sun

11 - Robocop

12 - The Hidden

13 - The Princess Bride

14 - Extreme Prejudice

15 - Innerspace

16 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

17 - Radio Days

18 - The Dead

19 - The Living Daylights

20 - Near Dark

21 - Spaceballs

22 - The Last Emperor

23 - Overboard

24 - Brave Little Toaster

25 - Jaws: The Revenge

 

Now there's a lil' peak at 1987 on my all-time list thing on Letterboxd.

 

How did you get that graphic to show? I've been trying to find a graphic like that on letterboxd for a while.

[Kalo]

On 6/19/2017 at 8:21 AM, aabattery said:

Good lord, The Last Emperor is long. 

 

I purposely decided not to watch becuase it's so long and the fact that it won BP made me extra sceptical of it. 

[Jake Gittes]

Maurice was quite good. My first Merchant-Ivory film and I was happy to see that its classical style never crossed over into tedium, it easily held my attention for the entire 140 minutes. A little thrown off by the climactic development appearing so late in the story -

Spoiler

I knew about a happy "reunion" ending going in, but assumed even after the middle of the film passed that the reunion would be between the main character and Hugh Grant.

The final minutes were still very affecting though. And cool HBC cameo outta nowhere.