Favourite of these 80's movies that are on TCM quite often

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Bad Influence was released on 9 March 1990 and so is technically not an 80's movie, but it still feels like an 80's movie, I think

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Eight Men Out (John Sayles, 1988)	3
Diner (Barry Levinson, 1982)	2
The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson, 1987)	1
Taps (Harold Becker, 1981)	0
Mystic Pizza (Donald Petrie, 1989)	0
Working Girl (Mike Nichols, 1988)	0
Steel Magnolias (Herbert Ross, 1989)	0
Bad Influence (Curtis Hanson, 1990)	0

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 09:39 (eleven years ago)

Mystic Pizza should say 1988, not 1989.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 09:40 (eleven years ago)

Diner easily. Bad Influence is okay trash. Working Girl has good bits. The rest are trash.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 September 2013 12:45 (eleven years ago)

Yeah Diner by far. Eight Men Out is quite good but yeah the rest are terrible. Would be interested in seeing The Whales of August

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 28 September 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago)

I've only seen 4 of these (Alfred otm, plus 8MO is probably the most overrated baseball film of all time)

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 September 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago)

Remember enjoying Mystic Pizza more than expected but couldn't tell you why.

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago)

Aw, I love all of these movies, I didn't think people would be so down on them. Does no one else like Taps?

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago)

Any movie that's about young people transitioning into adulthood, and getting swept up into a romantic idea of adult life with maybe dangerous consequences, I'm a sucker for any sort of movie based around that theme, and Taps delivers. But their project is a childish fantasy of adult life, it's actually the opposite of facing up to/transitioning to adult life and that's why I find it moving, I think? And Tom Cruise is so good at playing creeps and arseholes, I don't think I've ever seen him not be great in a role where he's playing a jerk.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago)

Eight Men Out is sort of like this as well? John Cusack's character, with this childish belief in this noble, fantasy world of sportsmanship, you see him chatting with the 'say it ain't so, Joe' kid. Like, it's sort of touching, but he shown to be essentially a child, almost pathetic.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago)

Are these films middlebrow? I worry about liking middlebrow things, sometimes.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago)

diner's the best but i'll give EMO some love

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago)

i'm far too aware that 8MO is not the way it happened to like it, on top of everything else

(the book it's based on, published in '63, has been pretty discredited as history at this point)

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago)

I don't know the first thing about baseball, maybe that's why I enjoy the movie.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago)

likewise

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 28 September 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago)

i'm an anderson fan so intrigued by 'whales of august' -- is it really that bad?

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago)

It's not bad, just dull and Oscar-worthy. Davis aged worse than Gish, surprisingly.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 4 October 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 5 October 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Silent majority of Eight Men Out fans.

― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Saturday, 5 October 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago)

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