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Tag: 1987

  • Wall Street

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    This is still a pretty entertaining movie, and after watching it it actually made me want to re-watch the sequel that came out a few years ago — I’ve seen that sequel, and don’t remember thinking it was particularly great, but having the original fresh in my mind I’m more interested now in seeing the…

  • Less Than Zero

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    I was reminded while watching this how strange it is that I enjoy so many movies that are based on novels by Bret Easton Ellis, yet I’ve never read any of his novels (I really should rectify this). But it doesn’t change that this was a movie that I loved back then, and still really…

  • Full Metal Jacket

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    This is still and amazing film. This is the point in the 80s where we get a lot of movies about Vietnam (Platoon in ’86, and for ’87 you also have Good Morning, Vietnam and Hamburger Hill), and this is probably my favorite. It still feels like you have two films here, the first half…

  • The Running Man

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    The funniest thing about watching this is that it starts out in the futuristic year of… 2017 (at the start of the film, and then it jumps to 2019). This film is filled with an ungodly amount of cheese, and it’s still and absolute joy to watch. From the genius casting of Richard Dawson —…

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

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    It’s not my favorite of the Hughes films (and he produced/wrote this, didn’t direct it), but it’s still a film I enjoyed re-watching. Sure, everything in this movie is telegraphed a mile ahead, but hey, the music is good, and I like seeing these actors together, and at that age. Mary Stuart Masterson was especially…

  • Prince of Darkness

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    I had completely forgotten what this movie was about — in fact, when I started watching it, I was expecting On the Mouth of Madness. It comes up with some interesting ideas — suggesting that “the devil” is of alien origin — but it doesn’t really go far enough. It wasn’t horrible, but definitely not…

  • Evil Dead II

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    Since it’s Halloween season, I’ve been focusing the start of my 1987 movie marathon on horror films from that year, and there’s probably none more classic than this. I’d say it’s still the best Sam Raimi film, and oh boy is this one hell of an insane film (in a good way) — even more…

  • Hellraiser

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    There was definitely a phase in my life where I loved what Clive Barker was doing (like this and Nightbreed). Sure, the effects are of the era, but this film is still incredibly creepy, and I can still appreciate how different this felt from most of the horror films of the era — body and…

  • Beverly Hills Cop II

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    I think this, for me, is arguably the movie that represented 1987 the most for me. Eddie Murphy was at his peak, and I probably watched it a million times — re-watching it now, it was crazy how many of the lines came back to me (like with The Golden Child). It’s not a great…

  • The Lost Boys

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    This is one of those movies that I remembered very fondly from the era, but hadn’t watched since then, and so was a bit worried at how it might have aged. I can happily say that I very much enjoyed revisiting this — oh yeah, it’s 80s as hell, but in a lovable way, and…