Top 6 Teen Comedies of the 80’s
When it comes to movies, there are two things that the early-to-mid-1980s are best known for: slasher films and teen comedies. Here is a list of my favorite teen comedies of the 1980’s.
7- Sixteen Candles (1984)
One of the many collaborations with John Hughes and Molly Ringwald, “Sixteen Candles” [...]
May 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Hard Target
For 20 years Hong Kong director John Woo was the driving force in film on the Pacific Rim. Following the success of The Killer, Woo’s 1989 masterpiece of operatic violence, he made out to Hollywood with his chop-socky. Hard Target. Woo’s American debut took the Belgium-born Jean-Claude Van Damme to new lows of [...]
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1. The Shining
Jack Torrance only kills one person yet he is the monster of the film. No one ever questions Wendy, who not only repeatedly hits Jack over the head with a baseball bat, but also lashes after him with a knife, finally leaving him to die of hypothermia. Clearly the so-called “victim” in perpetrates [...]
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5 – The Ring (2002)
Considering I didn’t find the original scary, it’s impressive that I was thoroughly creeped out by the nearly shot-for-shot remake. There is always something a little more interesting in the exploration of the unknown, so if your senses have been dulled by the formulaic slasher film, then its quieter take on [...]
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The definition of a slasher film varies depending on who you ask, but in general, it contains several specific traits that feed into the genre’s formula. Every slasher has a killer whose identity is often concealed (or at least his face in cases of characters such as Michael Myer and Jason Voorhees) and for no [...]
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Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)
1- The Shining
2- Evil Dead 2
3- Re-Animator
4- Halloween (1978)
5- 28 Days Later
6- Planet Terror
7- High Tension
8- The Thing
9- Dawn of The Dead (1978)
10- Audition
11- Dead Alive
12- The Host
13- Slither
14- From Dusk Till Dawn
15- The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
16- Alien
17- House of 1000 Corpses
18- Bride Of Re-Animator
19- [...]
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Top 25 Heroes in Zombie films
25- Tim Blake Nelson – Mr. Theopolis (Fido)
24 – Asia Argento – Slack ( Land of the Dead )
23 – Carla Green -Solitaire (Shadow – Dead Riot)
22 – Davis Warbeck – Dr. Mccabe (The Beyond)
21 – Mary Shelton – Dakota (Planet Terror)
20 – Ving Rhames – Kenneth (Dawn of the [...]
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Bale is known for his mastery of accents and harsh regimens of shedding and gaining weight. The primary examples of this would be seen in such films as The Machinist, Batman Begins and, most recently, Rescue Dawn.
He first caught the public eye when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg’s Empire of [...]
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10- The Happening – Bodies falling from the sky.
9- The Village – Dallas Bryce Howard almost falling in the pit.
8- Signs – Rev. Graham Hess tells us about the two different types of people in the world.
7- Unbreakable – The end.
6- Signs – The news report from the birthday party in Brazil.
5- The [...]
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Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film
10 – The sequence cutting back n forth between Burt Reynolds & Heather Graham in the limo and Mark Wahlberg getting beat up.
9- The first Dirk Diggler sex scene being filmed. The camera runs out of film but Jack Horner won’t call cut.
8- The car crash at [...]
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Top 5 Roy Scheider charaters
5- Naked Lunch (1991) …. Doctor Benway
4- The Seven-Ups (1973) …. Buddy – Seven-Up
3- Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) …. Don Falcone
2- The French Connection (1971) …. Det. Buddy Russo
1- Jaws (1975) [...]
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5 -Hellraiser
96 – INT. TORTURE ROOM – NIGHT
JULIA : What’s that?
FRANK : A puzzle. A conjuring box. I bought it in Singapore after I left here. It cost me a small fortune -
JULIA : Why?
FRANK : The man I bought it from told me it was a way to invoke powers. Forces from another level [...]
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WATCHMEN #1 (1986)
DAVE GIBBONS
This cover stands out as an early example of how the the look and marketing of comics began to change in the 80’s. The cover is simple and effective It gives you just enough to whet your curiosity. But what makes it so great when the reader realizes that the cover [...]
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Top Six Vietnam War Films
Hamburger Hill
The most remarkable traits of this realistically detailed chronicle of a crucial, bloody Vietnam War combat is that it steers clear of Stallone’s right-wing machismo in Rambo and of Oliver Stone’s metaphorical meanings (good versus evil) in Platoon.
“Emanuel Levy”
Sgt. Frantz: All right, listen up. You people will not die on [...]
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It’s a tradition each year on the week of Halloween for us to develop our list of the top 31 horror films of the past 31 years. We decide on not looking past 31 years to eliminate what would typically fall on any respectable “best horror movies of all time list“. So you will not [...]
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