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  • Brazil

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    Definitely one of the classics of 1985, and I loved watching it again — certainly one of the films that has aged the best. Ridiculous, funny, dark, maddening — it’s everything and more.

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

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    I haven’t been updating my Debaser diary with all of the movies I’ve continued to watch as part of my 1985 movie watching marathon, but I have been watching lots (26 and counting), and so time to catch up. Unlike Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (aka part 5), which was pretty much straight up a…

  • Good Nintentions: 1985

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    I’ve recently become excessively obsessed with Jeremy Parish’s fantastic YouTube Channel (yes, I’m ridiculously late to the party on this), and among everything I’ve been watching, I’ve been quite enjoying watching his “Good Nintentions: 1985” series (available in this handy playlist), which acts as a perfect accompaniment to my current 1985 movie marathoning (22 movies so far).…

  • Weird Science

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    I love this movie to death. It’s probably the movie I watched the most when I was a kid, and I even remember watching it 4 times in a row during 1 overnight rental. Watching it now, it’s still fun and funny, and I liked it pretty much like I did back then. Great cast,…

  • Rocky IV

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    Wow, this was such a disappointment. I wasn’t expecting something great, but so far I’ve been having a lot of fun even with the cheesiness of these 80s movies, but this, this is just kinda terrible. From the ridiculously long “memory lane” montage to the training montage, to the… huh… what was up with that robot?…

  • Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

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    Also known as Friday the 13th Part V, man was this funny – and I think I did the right thing in watching it after midnight. I mean, it’s hard to take it seriously as a horror movie, because it’s so tame in every sense of the genre, including the violence, gore, and level of…

  • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

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    I gotta say, this was pretty funny, and I was expecting it to be pretty horrible. I haven’t watched any of the Police Academy films since those days, but I do remember that they were pretty fun, at least for a while (it did get ridiculous the longer the series went). All the classic characters…

  • National Lampoon’s European Vacation

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    This will never be as good as the first Vacation movie (”don’t know why they call it ‘Hamburger Helper,’ does just fine by itself”), and it always bugged me that they changed the kids – and I didn’t like the replacements – but I had fun watching this. It’s ridiculous, filled with hits and misses…

  • The Jewel of the Nile

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    My 1985 movie watching marathon continued with The Jewel of the Nile. Yup, Romancing the Stone (released in 1984) was definitely the better film, but sticking to my guns, I watched this inferior sequel. It’s got its moments, but overall it wasn’t that fun to watch, and the story is even less interesting than I…

  • The Breakfast Club

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    Although it came out in 1985 and so fits in my current movie watching marathon, I usually watch it on an annual basis anyway, as it’s still one of my favorite movies. I never tire of it.