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only 4 of the titles on this list, were on MY list. told you we should have had a top 20, val. i too, am curious about all the other titles that were submitted. what-do-ya-say valley? yes...no...maybe so?? Posts: 4807 | Registered: Oct 2002 | Site Updates: 39
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No ET, Say Anything or Revenge of the Nerds that made my list???
Heathers was a #2 pick for me...so it wasn't only Smayt....
I would like to know the others too Valley...very cool job though! Goonies will always be #1 with me.
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I for one wouldn't mind seeing the entire list myself, if that can be done. Only Ferris and BTTF made it from my list, but it's better than a complete shutout. We should do something like this again from time to time like the AFI does, counting down our favorites from the decade.
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WOW!! I am glad that 16 Candles made it right up there near the top. Can't go wrong with #1 though, Goonies is an excellent choice. Kind of sad that Fire with Fire didn't make it.
So Valley, What is the next great poll going to be????????????????
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Great poll! I culled my picks from a list of 115 faves. Only two ended up making the Top 15 altho' ten from my longer list did.
It was way tough eliminating some of them. I very nearly put Lost Boys in my top 15 except that I had just discovered it this year so it didn't seem like an 80s movie.
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Hey Valley, How many people voted for "Just One Of The Guys"?
That ranks high on my list although I didn't give you my list. I just had such a hard time ranking the movies I love. Couldn't bring myself to do it. Posts: 2242 | From: Here | Registered: Aug 2002 | Site Updates: 0
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Valley I love your work! Ignore any criticism. I am all for a democratic system and I think that if people are unhappy about the way that Valley's vote panned out then they should conduct their own poll. I think the summaries were great and I think that (let's be honest here) because most of us are between 25 & 40 (MOST of us) then the eighties movies that we watched were teen movies. If we were going to socially critique the academy award winners of the decade then that would be a different thing (it would be like applying Jung to Beverley Hills 90210 or Freud to the OC). The feeling that i got from Valley was: which were the movies that really meant something to you back then - which were the movies that you loved renting on video? Or were the movies that had at least one character that you idolised or (and now I REALLY am showing my age) was a movie that didn't have gratuitous violence or sex just to make it appealing to kids under the age of 18?
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I don't think anyone was criticizing Valley, kat27. I think it's more like they really want to know what people think - which is why the differences between US and non-US voters is cool to know - and also that from 32 voters, given 15 movies each, we managed to name 208 different movies. That meant that each movie was mentioned less than 2.5 times on average, which reflects the wide range in tastes and preferences we have here. That's interesting to geeks like me..... Posts: 3646 | From: Shermer, IL - where else? | Registered: Mar 2001 | Site Updates: 37
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Thanks for the kind words everyone. A poll is an opinion by a group, so it will never be exactly what an individual should think the results should be anyway.
I will say that every person that turned in a poll had at least ONE movie make it in the Top 15. There were 2 people that had EIGHT movies from their poll make into the Top 15 and 4 others that had SEVEN movies make it.
If you have specific questions on a particular movie, I'll do my best to answer it.
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Just One Of The Guys received votes from four different people with a high vote of #5 on Ronnie's list.
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Rocksteady and others I'm not ignoring your question on all the movies, but naming 208 movies will take alot of time and there is a good chance I'll name some movies twice. Plus I don't have much time to work on it.
My biggest problem right now, is my website that stores my pictures keeps changing my URL address. I think the pictures are working right now, so if you missed them before, take a few minutes to check them out. Some of them are way cool.
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Here are the top 30 movies polled in order:
The Goonies (1985) Sixteen Candles (1984) The Breakfast Club (1985) Valley Girl (1983) Back To The Future (1985) Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) Pretty In Pink (1986) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) The Lost Boys (1987) Weird Science (1985) Can't Buy Me Love (1987) Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) St. Elmo's Fire (1985) Return Of The Jedi (1983)
------------------------------------------------- Remember any movie from this point down is not necessarily the movie that would have came in 16-30 because everyone only submitted 15 movies, but it is how they came out based on the votes submitted.
Heathers (1989) Terminator(1984) The Karate Kid (1984) Breakin'(1984) Aliens (1986) Streets Of Fire (1984) Ghostbusters (1984) E.T. (1982) Raider's Of The Lost Ark (1981) Top Gun (1986) The Sure Thing (1985) License To Drive (1988) Stand By Me (1986) Better Of Dead (1985) Electric Dreams (1984)
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i think we should have more polls around here. not just with movies, but music: singers, groups, songs, .....la la la Posts: 4807 | Registered: Oct 2002 | Site Updates: 39
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Hey Ronnie, that was my original plan to expand it to favorite song in a movie or favorite dance scenes, but I'm just not sure it would work because the voting might be too spread out to really determine a winner, plus how many people will actually send a poll in where it takes so much thought. Movies was the easiest, the rest get harder, but it might be fun to try.
Paul did a multiple choice poll once like the Academy Awards which was cool, however it only lets you vote on the small list of choices. But that kind of thing would be way easier compared to 208 movies, so that might be the route to go. I'm open for suggestions.
Are enough people interested to do more of this kind of stuff?
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Very well done....I like your summaries of the movies too. I can't view the pictures though... :
Only 2 movies that were on my list made the top 15. Valley Girl and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Fire with Fire and April Fool's Day and Breakin were up there on my list.
I like polls too. I think that doing a music one would be hard, because of how many songs there really are in comparisson to movies, like Valley said. I bet ya everyone would have a totally different list.
How about favorite movie characters...or even favorite top 10 scary movies...(you know-different categories of movies)..that's my input...I thought Valley did a great job...I would have been completely Clueless on how to even begin decifering all of that...and he did it perfectly..and then some. Posts: 13484 | Registered: Aug 2003 | Site Updates: 0
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Great write-ups from my wingman Val, no mention of ‘Scarface’ I see, good list overall though (I actually wrote mine out but forgot to send it). Good to see ‘Breakfast Club’, ‘Ferris’ and others all present and accounted for.‘The Goonies’ is just one of those movies that I’ve never really enjoyed for some reason, always thought ‘Monster Squad’ was ‘Goonies’ for people who didn’t like ‘The Goonies’.
Val...you do realise that 'Top Gun' didn't make the list either: "you jerk" Posts: 2041 | From: The Ice Planet Hoth | Registered: Jul 2001 | Site Updates: 0
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Below are the rest of movies nominated in no particular order, except for a couple I knew weren't 80's movies which I didn't list. There are a few more that are question marks '79 or '80, but I listed them anyway because they are on the Smartmenu of The Rewind. Could be a few duplicates listed as well, but hopefully this is what everyone has asking about....
The Heavenly Kid Fire With Fire (1986) Trick Or Treat (1986) Batman (1989) Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987) Ladyhawke (1985) Evil Dead II (1987) Withnail & I (1987) Last American Virgin Footloose Blues Brothers Spaceballs Uncle Buck Christmas Vacation Moving Violations Scrooged Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Howard The Duck Spies Like Us Naked Gun Honey I Shrunk The Kids Clue Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom Gremlins Blade Runner Crocodile Dundee Tron Spring Break Star Trek II: The Wraith Of Khan Escape From New York Superman II The Cannonball Run Caddyshack Flash Gordon Megaforce The Boy That Could Fly Made In Heaven Teen Witch Dirty Dancing Say Anything Just One Of The Guys Labyrinth Evil Dead Little Monsters Die Hard Private School Riskey Business Vision Quest Wild Life Willow Airplane April Fool's Day Flight Of The Navigator Mannequin Revenge Of The Nerds Mystic Pizza Coming To America Earth Girls Are Easy Little Shop Of Horrors Tremors American Werewolf In London The Dead Zone Look Who's Talking Terminator 2 Splash Transylvania 6-5000 The Princess Bride Into The Night Amazon Women On The Moon Volunteers Making The Grade Class Modern Girls Beetlejuice The Wizard Peewee's Big Adventure The Neverending Story Rainman Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade Goodmorning Vietnam Back To The Future Part II Big Summer School The Burbs After Hours Nightmare On Elmstreet About Last Night The Money Pit Scarface Lethal Weapon The Little Mermaid Beverly Hills Cop Beverly Hills Cop 2 Christine Night Shift National Lampoon's Vacation Chariots Of Fire Ruthless People UHF Krush Groove Reform School Girls The Outsiders The Shining Fright Night Malcolm Adventures In Babysitting Dirty Rotten Scoundrels My Science Project Amadeus Fletch Poltergeist Clash Of The Titans La Bamba Dream A Little Dream Little Darlings Meatballs Lucas She's Out Of Control For Keeps Halloween II Grease II Purple Rain Jumpin' Jack Flash Return Of the Living Dead Shag: The Movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Big Trouble In Little China Full Metal Jacket The Delta Force Beastmaster This Is Spinal Tap Robocop Mad Max 2 Casualties Of War War Games Witchboard Angel Dead Poets Society Little Darlings The Stepfather Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo License To Drive Friday The 13th: Part 2 Girl's Just Want To Have Fun Xanadu Somewhere In Time Fame Less Than Zero Easy Money Mischief Near Dark Night Of The Comet Once Bitten Cry Baby Flowers In the Attic Killer Klowns From Outerspace North Shore 48 Hours The Abyss Born On The 4th Of July Strange Brew Bull Durham Soul Man Teen Wolf Eddie & The Cruisers Karate Kid Part II Back To The Beach Raising Arizona Back To School
This post is almost as long as one that Isis does everyday.
Valley Signing Out!
Enjoy
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Ooh! Ooh! Believe it or not, Little Monsters was mine.
Thanks for the list, Val!
Ignore the fact that I basically used the nickname for Valerie in Earth Girls.
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