Yearly Consensus - 1980

[Spinal]

Submit your five favorite films and five favorite performances from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten in both categories. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

10.5 pts will be required to make either list.

There will be no restrictions on short films.

There will be no distinction made between male and female performances.
There will be no distinction made between lead and supporting performances.
Voice acting can be considered a performance.


I would like to be able to count votes as they come in. This means that if you change your vote, you need to make a new post. Please quote your old list and then add your new list so that I can easily track the changes. I will not be looking for edits. Once you make a post, consider your vote cast.

You may begin now.

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[elixir]

Yes, this will hard.

I can see that. :P

1. Times Square (Allan Moyle)
2. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams and David Zucker)
3. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
4. Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

1. Isabelle Huppert, Loulou
2. Gérard Depardieu, Loulou
3. Robin Johnson, Times Square
4. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
5. Isabelle Huppert, Sauve qui peut (la vie)

[Spinal]

1. The Elephant Man
2. Raging Bull
3. The Falls
4. The Shining
5. Airplane!

1. John Hurt, The Elephant Man
2. Robert Deniro, Raging Bull
3. Julie Hagerty, Airplane!
4. Terence Stamp, Superman II
5. Shelley Duvall, Popeye

[Spinal]

I can see that. :P


So you're saying you don't want to see that typo another 50 times?

[Pop Trash]

1. Times Square (Allan Moyle)


I really wanted to like this, being a huge Pump Up the Volume fan, but I found the lead actress unbearable. It's no Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains that's for sure.

[Pop Trash]

3. Robin Johnson, Times Square


Yeah, her. :|

[elixir]

Wow, you are so wrong. Just....

[Pop Trash]

Wow, you are so wrong. Just....

Yeah it might be some weird subjective thing. Not sure. I know a lot of people hate it, but I'd like to see Empire Records in its entirety, while we are on the Allan Moyle subject.

[baby doll]

Films:
1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
3. Gloria (John Cassavetes)
4. The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
5. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)

Performances:
1. Shelley Duvall, The Shining
2. Gena Rowlands, Gloria
3. Gérard Depardieu, Loulou
4. Lee Marvin, The Big Red One
5. Isabelle Huppert, Loulou

Some 1980 movies I want to see but haven't:

Airplane! (Jim Abrahams / David Zucker / Jerry Zucker)
Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Grownups (Mike Leigh)
Journeys From Berlin/1971 (Yvonne Rainer)
The Little Richard Story (William Klein)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)
Les Photos d'Alix (Jean Eustache)
Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Jean-Luc Godard)

[Watashi]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Big Red One
3. The Elephant Man
4. Raging Bull
5. Stardust Memories

1. John Hurt, The Elephant Man
2. Anthony Hopkins, The Elephant Man
3. Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull
4. Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man
5. Charlotte Rampling, Stardust Memories

This will finally give me motivation to watch The Shining.

[Pop Trash]

1. The Shining
2. Ordinary People
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Superman II
5. The Elephant Man

6. Raging Bull
7. The Gods Must Be Crazy
8. Airplane!
9. Xanadu
10. The Blues Brothers

Performances:
1. Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull
2. Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
3. Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People
4. Terence Stamp - Superman II
5. Shelley Duvall - The Shining

[B-side]

1. Golem (Piotr Szulkin)
2. Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
3. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
4. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams/David Zucker)
5. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

1. Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull
2. Jack Nicholson - The Shining
3. Robert Stack - Airplane!
4. Theresa Russell - Bad Timing
5. Shelley Duvall - The Shining

[Adam]

1. Raging Bull
2. Dressed to Kill
3. The Long Good Friday
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Popeye

1. Jack Nicholson, The Shining
2. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
3. Shelley Duvall, Popeye
4. Shelley Duvall, The Shining
5. Jason Robards, Melvin and Howard

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raging Bull
3. Airplane!
4. The Elephant Man
5. The Shining

1. Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull
2. Bill Murray, Caddyshack
3. Shelley Duvall, Popeye
4. Julie Hagerty, Airplane!
5. Cab Calloway, The Blues Brothers

EDIT: Thought I'd be the first to mention Hagerty. I love how eclectic MC is.

[Melville]

1. Stardust Memories
2. Raging Bull
3. The Big Red One

1. Robert Deniro, Raging Bull
2. Charlotte Rampling, Stardust Memories
3. John Hurt, The Elephant Man

[baby doll]

2. Charlotte Rampling, Stardust MemoriesI thought about voting for her, but she almost seems to be in a different movie than the other actors. In any event, between this movie and Bad Timing, it was quite a banner year for doomed relationships in flashback.

[Raiders]

1. The Big Red One
2. The Ninth Configuration
3. Dressed to Kill
4. The Long Riders
5. Raging Bull

Performances:
1. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
2. Joe Spinell, Maniac
3. Shelley Duvall, The Shining
4. Jack Thompson, 'Breaker' Morant
5. Julie Hagerty, Airplane!

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The Elephant Man
2. The Lathe of Heaven
3. Raging Bull
4. Stardust Memories
5. Breaker Morant

1. Jack Nicholson, The Shining
2. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
3. Bruce Davison, The Lathe of Heaven
4. John Hurt, The Elephant Man
5. Robert Hays, Airplane!

[Gizmo]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Shining
3. Raging Bull
4. Airplane!
5. The Elephant Man

1. John Hurt The Elephant Man
2. Robert De Niro Raging Bull
3. Jack Nicholson The Shining
4. Shelley Duvall The Shining
5. Timothy Hutton Ordinary People

[Russ]

1. The Stunt Man
2. Raging Bull
3. The Shining
4. Breaker Morant
5. Dressed to Kill


1. Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man
2. Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull
3. Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard
4. Ray Sharkey, The Idolmaker
5. Frank McRae, Used Cars

[EyesWideOpen]

1. The Shining
2. Stardust Memories
3. Raging Bull
4. The Elephant Man
5. Shogun Assassin

[Thirdmango]

This will finally give me motivation to watch The Shining.

I just watched it yesterday. Today or tomorrow I plan on watching Raging Bull.

Also Spinal, good staggering.

[StanleyK]

Performances:

1. Jack Nicholson (The Shining)
2. John Hurt (The Elephant Man)
3. Shelley Duvall (The Elephant Man)

[Spinal]

3. Shelley Duvall (The Elephant Man)

Which film is this supposed to be? Shining or Popeye?

[StanleyK]

Which film is this supposed to be? Shining or Popeye?

Oops, The Shining, sorry.

[Pop Trash]

1. The Shining
2. Ordinary People
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Superman II
5. The Elephant Man

6. Raging Bull
7. The Gods Must Be Crazy
8. Airplane!
9. Xanadu
10. The Blues Brothers


Switched the places of Raging Bull & Superman II.

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Stardust Memories
3. The Last Metro
4. Bad Timing
5. The Shining

Frank Oz - The Empire Strikes Back

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Elephant Man
3. Airplane!
4. Kagemusha
5. The Shining

1. John Hurt- The Elephant Man
2. Robert De Niro- Raging Bull
3. Tatsuya Nakadai- Kagemusha
4. Cathy Moriarty- Raging Bull
5. Jack Nicholson- The Shining

[Yxklyx]

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
5. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)

1. Jack Nicholson (The Shining)
2. Leslie Nielson (Airplane)
3. Shelley Duvall (The Shining)
4. John Hurt (The Elephant Man)
5. Bob Hoskins (The Long Good Friday)

[soitgoes...]

1. Who Sings Over There (Sijan)
2. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
3. Airplane! (Z/A/Z)
4. The Elephant Man (Lynch)
5. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)

1. John Hurt (The Elephant Man)
2. Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
3. Jack Nicholson (The Shining)
4. Julie Hagerty (Airplane!)
5. Bob Hoskins (The Long Good Friday)

Everyone should watch Tale of Tales before voting.

[Mysterious Dude]

Everyone should watch Tale of Tales before voting.
It's good, but it's 1979.

[soitgoes...]

It's good, but it's 1979.

Fucking IMDb and their constant date flipping.

[Mr. McGibblets]

Heaven's Gate
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Popeye
The Empire Strikes Back
Dressed to Kill


Performances:


John Hurt (Heaven's Gate)
Walter Matthau (Hopscotch)
Robin Williams (Popeye)
Shelley Duvall (The Shining)
Jeff Bridges (Heaven's Gate)

[Grouchy]

1. Raging Bull
2. The Shining
3. The Elephant Man
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. The Big Red One

And as a bonus, here is The Shining Sweden Remake (http://vimeo.com/46697239#at=0) by the Ramona Reyes team.

[dreamdead]

1. The Big Red One
2. Airplane
3. Raging Bull
4. Bad Timing
5. Ordinary People

Performances
1. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
2. Julie Hagerty, Airplane
3. Theresa Russell, Bad Timing
4. Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People
5. Lee Marvin, The Big Red One

I regret not getting to Heaven's Gate yet...

[Dukefrukem]

I've only seen six movies from 1980. :(


1. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Elephant Man
3. Raging Bull
4. The Shining
5. the Fog

[Spinal]

I've only seen six movies from 1980. :(



Three is the minimum number for any submitted list, so if, at any time, you feel like any of the films you have seen are not worthy of getting points, you don't have to list them.

[Dukefrukem]

Three is the minimum number for any submitted list, so if, at any time, you feel like any of the films you have seen are not worthy of getting points, you don't have to list them.

That's good to know. If it wasn't for the first 5 (which I all would say YAY to) the next movie on my list was Humanoids from the Deep. :|

[Spinal]

That's good to know. If it wasn't for the first 5 (which I all would say YAY to) the next movie on my list was Humanoids from the Deep. :|

Never seen Superman II? That surprises me.

[Dukefrukem]

Never seen Superman II? That surprises me.

I had that as a 1983 release in my spreadsheet. :lol:

[transmogrifier]

Not a vote, but more people should see

The Big Red One
The Long Good Friday
Dressed to Kill

[Raiders]

Dressed to Kill

Yeah, shame that one of De Palma's very best is getting such a poor showing.

[Thirdmango]

1. Stardust Memories
2. Popeye
3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Shining
5. Airplane!

6. The Gods Must Be Crazy
7. Can't Stop The Music
8. Superman II
9. The Blues Brothers
10. Flash Gordon

---

1. Woody Allen -- Stardust Memories
2. Jack Nicholson -- The Shining
3. Robin Williams -- Popeye
4. The Village People -- Can't Stop The Music
5. Herbie -- Herbie Goes Bananas

[Spinal]

4. The Village People -- Can't Stop The Music
5. Herbie -- Herbie Goes Bananas

So that's how it's going to be, is it? :lol:

[Thirdmango]

No you're right, I was being lazy. Multiple people can't win.

1. Woody Allen -- Stardust Memories
2. Jack Nicholson -- The Shining
3. Robin Williams -- Popeye
4. Steve Guttenberg -- Can't Stop The Music
5. Herbie -- Herbie Goes Bananas

:lol:

So I've been making lists for every year, and 1950 I have three movies seen but 1940, 1930 etc I've got nothing. How are you going to do the early years of film?

[Dead & Messed Up]

Some 1980 movies on Netflix Instant:

Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
Cruising
Heaven's Gate
The Long Good Friday
My Bodyguard
Somewhere in Time
Spetters (Paul Verhoeven)
Superman II
Urban Cowboy

And, of course, Xanadu.

[Sycophant]

I've got some serious deficiencies for this year, but I doubt I'll fix them soon. So here goes:

1. Kagemusha
2. Stardust Memories
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Hawk the Slayer
5. 9 to 5

[Spinal]

How are you going to do the early years of film?

The same way. Only the silent era is a little different. After much discussion we settled upon the following organization last time:

Pre-1920
1920-1923
1924-1925
1926-1927
1928-1929

I'll go ahead and do it the same way this time. There may be times when we fall short of 10 eligible films (meeting the 10.5 pt minimum), but I think that's ok. I'd rather have each item on the list receive a decent amount of support before including it.

[Yum-Yum]

1. Xanadu
2. Maniac
3. Flash Gordon
4. Cruising
5. Bare Behind Bars

1. Shelley Duvall, The Shining
2. Joe Spinell, Maniac
3. Marta Anderson, Bare Behind Bars
4. Nicholas Worth, Don't Answer the Phone
5. Franco Garofalo, Hell of the Living Dead

[Lazlo]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Shining
3. The Elephant Man
4. Raging Bull
5. Ordinary People

1. Jack Nicholson - The Shining
2. Sissy Spaceck - Coal Miner's Daughter
3. John Hurt - The Elephant Man
4. Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull
5. Harrison Ford - The Empire Strikes Back

[Llopin]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz
3. Arrebato
4. El Crimen de Cuenca
5. Zigeunerweisen

1. Günter Lamprecht, Berlin Alexanderplatz
2. Tatsuya Nakadai, Kagemusha
3. Jack Nicholson, The Shining
4. John Hurt, The Elephant Man
5. Sammo Hung, Encounters of the Spooky Kind

[Raiders]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz
3. Arrebato
4. El Crimen de Cuenca
5. Zigeunerweisen

1. Günter Lamprecht, Berlin Alexanderplatz
2. Tatsuya Nakadai, Kagemusha
3. Jack Nicholson, The Shining
4. John Hurt, The Elephant Man
5. Sammo Hung, Encounters of the Spooky Kind

:eek:

Is this the start of your annual flurry of posts before disappearing for 10 more months???

[Thirdmango]

Is this the start of your annual flurry of posts before disappearing for 10 more months???

Llopin loves lists.

[Pop Trash]

1. Forbidden Zone
2. Xanadu
3. Maniac
4. Flash Gordon
5. Cruising


You have seen The Apple right Yum Yum? I think I prefer Xanadu by a small bit, but The Apple is some glorious disco era trash.

[Russ]

1. Forbidden Zone

Hey Yums, I'm sure this will be somewhere in my top five...in the 1982 poll (according to IMDb).

[Yum-Yum]

Hey Yums, I'm sure this will be somewhere in my top five...in the 1982 poll (according to IMDb).

What the fuck, man. I swear it was 1980 a couple of years ago. Aw, whatever. I'll do the necessary edits.

[Yum-Yum]

You have seen The Apple right Yum Yum? I think I prefer Xanadu by a small bit, but The Apple is some glorious disco era trash.

While I prefer The Apple's costumes and story (a couple of squares from Moose Jaw battle against a disco-friendly form of fascism) to that of Xanadu, the latter's music, its pro-disco temperament, and Olivia Newton John's Australian thighs all manged to scratch my proverbial itch in a more vigorous, and, ultimately, a more satisfying manner.

[Llopin]

:eek:

Is this the start of your annual flurry of posts before disappearing for 10 more months???

As Thirdmango stated, I'm greatly lured by lists and list-making. Consensuses bring to mind the good ole days and don't require me to be all hip and constant with today's filmscene.

Have never stopped reading the boards, though.

[Thirdmango]

Have never stopped reading the boards, though.

I thought this might be the case. Llopin's been lurking something fierce.

[eternity]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Shining
3. The Elephant Man
4. Xanadu
5. Ordinary People

[Spinal]

Please keep those performance lists coming. I only have 5 eligible for the list so far.

[Boner M]

1. The Shining
2. Loulou
3. Raging Bull
4. Airplane!
5. Poto and Cabengo

RU: The Big Red One, Stardust Memories, The Elephant Man, The Fog

Performances:

1. Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull
2. Gerard Depardieu, Loulou
3. Isabelle Huppert, Loulou
4. Linda Manz, Out of the Blue
5. Shelley Duvall, The Shining

[Pop Trash]

4. Linda Manz, Out of the Blue


What are your thoughts on this in general? I haven't seen it.

[Boner M]

What are your thoughts on this in general? I haven't seen it.
Remember little about it aside from Manz, but it's a pretty good 'doomed youth' film ala Over the Edge.

[Thirdmango]

1. Stardust Memories
2. Popeye
3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Shining
5. Airplane!

6. The Gods Must Be Crazy
7. Can't Stop The Music
8. Superman II
9. The Blues Brothers
10. Flash Gordon

---

1. Woody Allen -- Stardust Memories
2. Jack Nicholson -- The Shining
3. Robin Williams -- Popeye
4. The Village People -- Can't Stop The Music
5. Herbie -- Herbie Goes Bananas

1. Ordinary People
2. Stardust Memories
3. Popeye
4. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
5. The Shining

1. Timothy Hutton -- Ordinary People
2. Judd Hirsch -- Ordinary People
3. Woody Allen -- Stardust Memories
4. Jack Nicholson -- The Shining
5. Robin Williams -- Popeye

[Irish]

Films:

1. Raging Bull
2. Breaker Morant
3. The Stunt Man
4. Altered States
5. Atlantic City

[Spinal]

A little over a day left for this one. Though you might have more time due to my busy weekend.

[Pop Trash]

It's obvious who's going to win best actor for this year.

Steve Guttenberg.

[Boner M]

This was a pretty bad year for cinema btw.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Raging Bull
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Blues Brothers
4. The Shining
5. Friday The 13th

Performances:

1. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
2. Jack Nicholson, The Shining
3. Shelley Duvall, The Shining
4. John Belushi, The Blues Brothers
5. Frank Oz, The Empire Strikes Back

[soitgoes...]

This was a pretty bad year for cinema btw.

This and 1990 are the worst years in their respective decades as far as I'm concerned.

[Watashi]

Quality > Quantity

[Boner M]

Quality > Quantity
Right, there's not enough quality in 1980.

[Watashi]

Right, there's not enough quality in 1980.
I dunno, my top 5 is pretty quality. Especially the top 3.

[Pop Trash]

Right, there's not enough quality in 1980.

I dunno, my top five is pretty awesome. '80 > '81, but not > '82 or '84.

[Pop Trash]

I dunno, my top 5 is pretty quality.

Or what Wats said.

[soitgoes...]

Let's put it this way, if I were take my top 5 from 1980 and merge the films with any other year from the 80's only two films (in some cases one) would make it on any of the other year's lists. There's great films every year, but 1980 has fewer of them. Still better than 1978 which is probably the worst year for cinema.

[kopello]

1. The Shining
2. Dressed to Kill
3. Raging Bull
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. The Ninth Configuration

[Derek]

1. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams)
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)

Performances:

1. Günter Lamprecht - Berlin Alexanderplatz
2. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
3. Al Pacino - Cruising
4. Gérard Depardieu - Loulou
5. Isabelle Huppert - Loulou

Makes me miss the days when DeNiro and Pacino weren't self-pardodies.

[transmogrifier]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Big Red One
3. The Long Good Friday
4. Dressed to Kill
5. Melvin and Howard

[Spinal]

Deadline extended. Just got back home. Won't be able to get to this until tomorrow earliest.

Keep the lists coming.

[Watashi]

I've never seen Airplane!.

How sad is that?

[Derek]

I've never seen Airplane!.

How sad is that?

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

[B-side]

I've never seen Airplane!.

How sad is that?

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

[Gizmo]

Do you like movies about gladiators?

[Pop Trash]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[EyesWideOpen]

This was a pretty bad year for cinema btw.

Yep. When a Star Wars movie is gonna end up in the top three you know it's bad.

[Spinal]

I will start the countdown sometime today. Sorry for the delay.

[Spinal]

Favorite Performances of 1980

#8 and #6 (tie)

"Loulou and Nelly don't say much or think things over clearly, and the film does only a minimal amount of saying things for them. But Mr. Depardieu and Miss Huppert are magnetic enough to make up for this, each of them offering grand, slightly foolish flourishes that go a long way toward shaping the roles ... [Depardieu] has a way of ending any argument with a woman by staring earnestly at her and saying, 'Kiss me.' Usually this works, though when it doesn't he is able to look absolutely bewildered. And Miss Huppert does a fine job of seeming exotic, vague, dazzling and also, somehow, unremarkable - all of this at the same time. The performances are much sharper than the film is as a whole." --- Janet Maslin

Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu, Loulou


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Did you know?

Huppert and Depardieu first appeared together on screen in Bertrand Blier's 1974 cult hit, Les Valseuses.

[Spinal]

As a reminder, there is a 10.5 pt minimum to make a list, which is why we are starting with #8.

[Spinal]

Favorite Performances of 1980

#6 (tie)

When I let myself feel, all I feel is lousy.

Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People


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Did you know?

This was Hutton's screen debut. His father, actor Jim Hutton, passed away prior to filming; but, he has said that he did not use his mourning as a basis for Conrad's depression.

[Spinal]

Favorite Performances of 1980

#5

There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

Julie Hagerty, Airplane!


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Did you know?

Once romantically involved with director/choreographer Bob Fosse, she was cast in a small role in his film All That Jazz. Her role ended up on the cutting room floor.

[Spinal]

Favorite Performances of 1980

#4

My life is full because I know I am loved.

John Hurt, The Elephant Man


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Did you know?

After the first day of shooting, when actor John Hurt was exposed for the first time to the inconveniences of having his make-up applied and walking around in it, he called his wife, saying, I think they finally managed to make me hate acting.

[Spinal]

Favorite Performances of 1980

#3 and #2

Stay away from me.
Why?
I just wanna go back to my room!
Why?
Well, I'm very confused, and I just need time to think things over!
You've had your whole FUCKING LIFE to think things over, what good's a few minutes more gonna do you now?
Please! Don't hurt me!
I'm not gonna hurt you.
Stay away from me!
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

Shelley Duvall and Jack Nicholson, The Shining


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Did you know?

Stephen King tried to talk Stanley Kubrick out of casting Jack Nicholson in the lead suggesting, instead, either Michael Moriarty or Jon Voight. King had felt that watching either of these normal-looking men gradually descend into madness, would have immensely improved the dramatic thrust of the storyline. Stephen King also disliked the casting of Shelley Duvall as Wendy. King envisioned Wendy as being a blond former cheerleader type who never had to deal with any true problems in her life making her experience in the Overlook all the more terrifying. He felt that Duvall was too emotionally vulnerable and appeared to have gone through a lot in her life, basically the exact opposite of how he pictured the character.

[Spinal]

Favorite Performances of 1980

#1

I'm gonna make him suffer. I'm gonna make his mother wish she never had him - make him into dog meat...

Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull


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Did you know?

When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."

[Spinal]

Favorite Performances of 1980

1. Robert Deniro, Raging Bull (78)
2. Jack Nicholson, The Shining (49)
3. Shelley Duvall, The Shining (40.5)
4. John Hurt, The Elephant Man (40)
5. Julie Hagerty, Airplane! (16)
6t. Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People (14.5)
6t. Gérard Depardieu, Loulou (14.5)
8. Isabelle Huppert, Loulou (13.5)

Not quite:
Gunther Lamprecht, Berlin Alexanderplatz (10)
Shelley Duvall, Popeye (9.5)

[Dead & Messed Up]

I still have my misgivings about how Kubrick changed the story (not that I'm denying him the right to, obviously), but Nicholson and Duvall work well for the flick they're in, and this clip reminds me of one irrefutable improvement. Ax > croquet mallet.

Now and forever.

[Dukefrukem]

Anyone else prefer this scene? "its like a piece of charcoal!" LOL


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[Spinal]

#9

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Ordinary People

Director: Robert Redford

Country: USA

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

The film and source novel's title comes from Judith Guest's book: "They are ordinary people, after all. For a time they had entered the world of the newspaper statistic; a world where any measure you took to feel better was temporary, at best, but that is over. This is permanent. It must be." The novel is a school text on the English curricula at many American high schools. The Last film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination.

"There are no cheap shots against suburban lifestyles or affluence or mannerisms: The problems of the people in this movie aren't caused by their milieu, but grow out of themselves. And, like it or not, the participants have to deal with them. That's what sets the film apart from the sophisticated suburban soap opera it could easily have become. " -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#8

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Dressed to Kill

Director: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

A sexually frustrated New York housewife, dissatisfied with her husband's sexual performance, has an affair with a stranger. A high-priced call girl is the only witness to a murder and becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target.

In the gay community, some felt De Palma was propagating negative stereotypes of gay and transgender people. Several feminist groups also said the film degraded women. De Palma said in defense that he made a film which itself was a dark sexual fantasy, a piece that was meant to be a fantasy to begin with. The film was the target of another mild controversy when it became known that the nude body in the opening scene, taking place in a shower, was not that of Angie Dickinson but of Penthouse model Victoria Lynn.

"De Palma is never content to merely imitate; he riffs on familiar themes like a virtuoso jazz musician. Even better, think of him as the quintessential cinematic mash-up artist, tossing bits of Psycho and Vertigo into Dressed to Kill, but also lifting elements from the Italian giallo and working in plenty of his own personal references." -- Budd Wilkins

[Spinal]

#7

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The Big Red One

Director: Sam Fuller

Country: USA

A US Army sergeant who participated in WWI now leads a WWII rifle squad. The squad participates in combat action from storming Vichy French Africa into the long seige of Sicily and Italy, into D-Day at Omaha Beach and onward through the push to Germany.

Warner Brothers Studio was interested in filming The Big Red One in the late 1950s, sending Fuller on a trip to Europe to scout locations. Fuller directed Merrill's Marauders as a dry run for the film. When Fuller argued with Jack Warner and his studio over cuts they made, the plans for The Big Red One were dropped. The film was shot on location in Israel and Ireland, with some snow scenes featuring Marvin shot in and around Big Bear National Park.

"... Fuller always found a way to shoot from the trenches. His films capture a world driven by conflict and punctuated by brutality that victimizes the innocent and the guilty alike. Only the survivors remain to enjoy the glimmer of hope that sometimes shows up at the end of it all. Fuller worked fast and cheap, never ascending to the Hollywood A-list, but putting his personal stamp on every film. When he dreamed, he dreamed big ..." -- Keith Phipps

[Spinal]

#6

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Stardust Memories

Director: Woody Allen

Country: USA

Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker, attends a festival conducted to honor his work. During the course of the weekend he reconsiders his cinematic accomplishments as well as his past relationships.

Stardust Memories opened in North America to an onslaught of bad reviews, but was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film's title alludes to the famous alternate take of 'Stardust' recorded in 1931 by Louis Armstrong, wherein the trumpeter sings 'oh, memory' three times in succession.

"[Allen] clearly intends Stardust Memories to be his 8 1/2, and it develops as a portrait of the artist's complaints ... If I'm so famous and brilliant and everybody loves me, then why doesn't anybody in particular love me?" -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#5

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Airplane!

Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Country: USA

An airplane crew snatch'd ill. Sho' manly de only sucka' capable uh landin' de plane be an 'es-pilot afraid t'fly. Slap mah fro! But duzn't call him Shirley.

The ambient noise of the plane is not that of a jet but a propeller driven plane taken from the soundtrack of Zero Hour!, making it the longest-running gag in the film. David Zucker explained that "the trick was to cast actors like Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, and Lloyd Bridges. These were people who, up to that time, had never done comedy. We thought they were much funnier than the comedians of that time were."

"Airplane! is more than a pleasant surprise... As a remedy for the bloated self-importance of too many other current efforts, it's just what the doctor ordered." -- Janet Maslin

[Spinal]

#4

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The Elephant Man

Director: David Lynch

Country: UK/USA

Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Hurt's makeup was made from casts of Merrick's body, which had been preserved in the private museum of the Royal London Hospital. The final make-up was devised by Christopher Tucker. It was so convincing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — which had earlier refused to give a special award to Tucker's work on The Elephant Man and received a barrage of complaints – was prompted to create a new category for Best Make-up for the Oscars.

"There's something indefinably erotic going on here; it's submerged in the film's rhythm and in the director's whole way of seeing. Scene by scene, you don't know what to expect; you're seeing something new-subconscious material stirring within the format of a conventional narrative ... perhaps the most beautiful example of black-and-white cinematography in about 15 years." -- Pauline Kael

[Spinal]

#3

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The Shining

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Country: UK/USA

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Jack Nicholson eventually became so frustrated with the ever-changing script that he would throw away the copies that the production team would give to him to memorize, knowing that it was just going to change anyway. He learned most of his lines just minutes before filming them. The initial European release of The Shining was 24 minutes shorter than the American version, and removed most scenes taking place in the world outside the hotel.

"There is one take involving Scatman Crothers that Kubrick famously repeated 160 times. Was that perfectionism, or was it a mind game designed to convince the actors they were trapped in the hotel with another madman, their director? Did Kubrick sense that their dismay would be absorbed into their performances?" -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#2

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Raging Bull

Director: Martin Scorsese

Country: USA

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

As of June 15, 2012 shooting had begun on Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake LaMotta with William Forsythe as an older LaMotta and Morjean Aria as the younger version (before the events of the first film). In July, MGM filed a lawsuit to keep the new film from being released. In August, the producers retitled the film The Bronx Bull, disassociating itself as a sequel to Raging Bull, and the lawsuit was subsequently dropped.

"... the real center of Raging Bull is the relationship between De Niro and Joe Pesci, playing LaMotta's put-upon brother. The two actors work off each other like veteran vaudevillians. Good-natured needling slips easily into outright hostility, while overheard conversations and muffled music bleed through the walls of Bronx tenement apartments and row houses, preventing the characters from having a quiet moment to collect their thoughts." -- Noel Murray

[Spinal]

#1

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The Empire Strikes Back

Director: Irvin Kershner

Country: USA

After receiving a vision from Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker travels to the marsh planet of Dagobah, where he is instructed in the ways of the Force by the Jedi master Yoda.

Character actor Treat Williams portrayed several background characters, including a trooper in the Hoth rebel base and a trooper in Cloud City. In designing the Jedi Master Yoda, Stuart Freeborn used his own face as a model and added the wrinkles of Albert Einstein for the appearance of exceptional intelligence

"George Lucas kept the first movie hopping by cutting it into short, choppy scenes; Irvin Kershner, who directed this one, is a master of visual flow, and, joining his own kinks and obsessions to Lucas's, he gave Empire a splendiferousness that may even have transcended what Lucas had in mind." -- Pauline Kael

[Spinal]

1. The Empire Strikes Back (84.5)
2. Raging Bull (79.5)
3. The Shining (74.5)
4. The Elephant Man (48.5)
5. Airplane! (35)
6. Stardust Memories (29)
7. The Big Red One (24)
8. Dressed to Kill (19.5)
9. Ordinary People (16.5)

Not quite:
Bad Timing (10)
Popeye (9.5)
Breaker Morant (9.5)

2008 MC poll:

1. The Empire Strikes Back (104.5)
2. Raging Bull (102.5)
3. The Shining (72)
4. Stardust Memories (53)
5. The Elephant Man (50.5)
6. Airplane! (42)
7t. The Big Red One (22)
7t. The Blues Brothers (22)
9. Kagemusha (19)
10. Dressed to Kill (15.5)

Near misses:
The Ninth Configuration (13)
The Falls (12)
Caddyshack (12)
Breaker Morant (11)
Ordinary People (10)

[Spinal]

I really thought Scorsese was going to pull this one out, but Empire came on strong in the end.

[Pop Trash]

I really thought Scorsese was going to pull this one out, but Empire came on strong in the end.

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Honestly, I prefer Empire to Raging Bull.

[Grouchy]

This is obviously a flaw in the voting system. Everyone knows that Raging Bull is THE movie of 1980.

[Russ]

This is obviously a flaw in the voting system. Everyone knows that Raging Bull is THE movie of 1980.
We are the flaw, goo goo g'joob.

[Spinal]

We are the flaw, goo goo g'joob.

Be the flaw you wish to see in the world.

[StanleyK]

Why are there less people voting now?

[Gizmo]

I think there are less every day posters now than there was then.

[baby doll]

This is obviously a flaw in the voting system. Everyone knows that Raging Bull is THE movie of 1980.I don't know that, but between the two, I'd much rather re-watch Raging Bull.

[StanleyK]

I think there are less every day posters now than there was then.

That's strange. I've always had the impression that MC membership/posting was continuously growing, not shrinking.

[baby doll]

That's strange. I've always had the impression that MC membership/posting was continuously growing, not shrinking.It's basically a Highlander situation.

[Raiders]

That's strange. I've always had the impression that MC membership/posting was continuously growing, not shrinking.

Posting has lessened somewhat over the years. Membership grows but active posting has probably gone down a little bit.

The life cycle of this site is limited for sure.

[Yxklyx]

Posting has lessened somewhat over the years. Membership grows but active posting has probably gone down a little bit.

The life cycle of this site is limited for sure.

What about logins?