What Movie Should Freitag Watch This Weekend?

You're a brave man, Freitag, to confess to the lacunae in your cinematic literacy in an open forum (braver than I).

These movies have already been suggested, but they're well worth reiterating. They're certainly excellent movies and representative of their genres. They'll also provide great touchstones for other movies you'll see later.

• Airplane!
• Apocalypse Now
• Chinatown
• Duck Soup
• Eraserhead
• Fargo
• Goodfellas
• Psycho
• This is Spinal Tap
• Time Bandits
• Young Frankenstein

Hi Everyone!

So, in part 2 of Freitag's Movie Review Madness (yes, I just made that up!), I watched Back to the Future Part 1 last night!

This movie was laden with improbabilities, time stream pollution, and carelessness on the part of the main character! Does he have any concept of chaos theory, the butterfly effect, and so on!? The temporal prime directive was violated no less than 18 times, making him a worse offender than ..

oh wait, who am I kidding?

This movie was AWESOME! I really loved it. It was much better than I expected it to be, I laughed a lot, and there were twists I totally didn't see coming. The running gags were great (life-preserver, muahaha), and it was great to see everything end up on a positive note at the end!

One thing that struck me in particular was that it seems like Marty is in a stable relationship, which seems to be less and less common in movies these days. In general, characters (well, maybe not Biff [Side-Note, this is the first time I've seen someone named Biff since the Hardy Boys, and it's awesome!], but most people!) seemed a bit more mature, although Lorraine was a bit ... creepy T_T.

Anyway, I will watch number II and III in due time, but next up is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure! I've always been a fan of Keanu Reeves (yup, I said it!), so this should be a treat!

~Freitag

I can only say: "Excellent." /em airguitar.

Personally I'd make that into a full-on dudeathon with Bogus Journey, Point Break and Big Lebowski.

By the way... a strange thing I found via Twitter that made the inner teenage me desperately, joyously happy.

There really is a magical place called San Dimas, CA: and they really do have most excellent waterslides.

One day, I shall make pilgrimage there. Who's with me?

In case it was ommitted:
The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Also, no Stephen King movies?

The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile

Ah yes, The Green Mile. Interesting and good movie.

Here is a german one u have to see
WERNER - BEINHART!

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure... memories comes up. Go for it, Hoschi.

So, given there's a ton of movies in here and its getting hard to avoid posting duplicates, here's a list of every movie Frietag confirms having not seen in this thread, sorted in alphabetical order:

11 Minutes Ago
48 Hours
A Boy and His Dog
A Clockwork Orange
A Few Good Men
A Goofy Movie
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A View to a Kill
Absence of Malice
Adventures in Babysitting
Airplane!
Aladdin
American Werewolf in London
An Extremely Goofy Movie
Apocalypse Now
Arena
Bachelor Party
Back to School
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Beauty and the Beast
Beetlejuice
Better off Dead
Beverly Hills Cop
Big
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Black Dynamite
Blazing Saddles
Blind Fury
Brain Dead
Breakfast Club
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Caddyshack
Carrie
Casino
Caveman
Chaos Theory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chinatown
Christine
Clash of the Titans
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Clue
Cobra
Coming to America
Cujo
D.C. Cab
Dead Alive
Dead Heat
Dead Poets Society
Demonic Toys
Django
Doctor Detroit
Dodgeball
Dolemite
Dollman
Dollman vs Demonic Toys
Drive
Drop Dead Fred
Duck Soup
Edward Scissorhands
Enemy Mine
Eraserhead
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Excalibur
Fargo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Firestarter
Forrest Gump
Friday the 13th
Fright Night
From Dusk Till Dawn
Funny Farm
Galaxy Quest
Gamers
Ghost
Godzilla: Final Wars
Goodfellas
Goonies
Hackers
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
Heartbreak Ridge
Heat
Heathers
Hellraiser
Hook
Howard the Duck
IP Man
IP Man 2
It Came from Hollywood
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Jaws
Jaws 2
Johnny Dangerously
Judgment at Nuremberg
Jumanji
Kibakichi
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Krull
Kung Fu Dunk
Kung Fu From Beyond the Grave
LA Confidential
Ladyhawke
Lawnmower Man
Legend
Liar Liar
Lifeforce
Little Big Soldier
Little Shop of Horrors
Maniac Cop
Mortal Kombat
Murder by Death
My Future Boyfriend
My Name is Nobody
Mystery Men
Naked Lunch
Night of the Comet
Night Shift
Nothing but Trouble
One Crazy Summer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Outsourced
Pet Sematary
Pink Floyd the Wall
Platoon
Poltergeist
Porky's
Pretty in Pink
Private Benjamin
Project X
Psycho
Puppet Master series
Puppetmaster vs Demonic Toys
Purple Rain
Raising Arizona
Rawhead Rex
Red Dawn
Red Sonja
Remo Willaims: The Adventure Begins
Riki-Oh: the Story of Ricky
Risky Business
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robot Jox
Robot Jox 2: Robot Wars
Romancing the Stone
Schindler's List
Seven
Shark Night 3D
Short Circuit
Short Circuit 2
Sidekicks
Sixteen Candles
Sky High
SLC Punk
Sneakers
Some Like it Hot
Space Jam
Spaceballs
Stand by Me
Starcrash
Stephen King's It
Stir Crazy
Stripes
Subspecies series
Suburban Commando
Sucker Punch
Swingers
Tango and Cash
Taxi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension
The Breakfast Club
The Car
The City of Lost Children
The Day of the Dolphin
The Dirty Dozen
The Exorcist
The Experiment
The Firm
The Five Deadly Venoms
The Fly
The Frighteners
The Fugitive
The Gamers
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Outdoors
The Howling
The Hustler
The Infidel
The Inglorious Bastards
The Langoliers
The Last Dragon
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu
The Last Starfighter
The Last Unicorn
The Lazarus Project
The Lion King
The Lost Boys
The Man From Earth
The Mask
The Muppet Movie
The Neverending Story
The Quick and the Dead
The Rocketeer
The Secret of NIMH
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sword and the Sorcerer
The Untouchables
The Warriors
The Warrior's Way
They Live!
This is Spinal Tap
Time Bandits
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Toxic Avenger
Trading Places
Trancers series
Transylvania 6-5000
True Romance
Up in Smoke
Victor Victoria
Wargames
Warriors of Virtue
Weird Science
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow
Xanadu
Young Frankenstein
Zero Effect
Zu Warriors



And every movie Frietag confirms actually seeing:

12 Monkeys
2001: A Space Odyssey
300
Akira
All the Star Trek original cast movies
All the Star Wars movies
Apollo 13
Batman
Blade Runner
Blues Brothers
Brazil
Daybreakers
Dr. Strangelove; or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dune
Escape from New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Full Metal Jacket
Ghostbusters
Gladiator
Groundhog Day
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Johnny Mneumonic
Jurassic Park
Labyrinth
Lethal Weapon
Predator
Predator 2
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Repo Man
Reservoir Dogs
Robocop
Rocky
Scarface
Shaolin Soccer
Tank Girl
Terminator 2
The Dark Crystal
The Fifth Element
The Hunt for Red October
The Incredibles
The Name of the Rose
The Neverending Story
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Princess Bride
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Running Man
The Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Tron
Wag the Dog

(about 60 out of about 300, depending on how you count movie series)


And if you want to make a checklist of every 80s and early 90s movie, in the original spirit of the thread, then I believe this is the list of every US theater release movie originally released between 1980 and 1995, sorted by year and then by title:


Airplane! (1980)
Caddyshack (1980)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Private Benjamin (1980)
Stir Crazy (1980)
Xanadu (1980)
Absence of Malice (1981)
American Werewolf in London (1981)
Caveman (1981)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Excalibur (1981)
Stripes (1981)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
The Howling (1981)
Time Bandits (1981)
48 Hours (1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982)
It Came from Hollywood (1982)
Kung Fu From Beyond the Grave (1982)
Night Shift (1982)
Pink Floyd the Wall (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
Porky's (1982)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Victor Victoria (1982)
Christine (1983)
Cujo (1983)
D.C. Cab (1983)
Doctor Detroit (1983)
Krull (1983)
Risky Business (1983)
Trading Places (1983)
Wargames (1983)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Bachelor Party (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Firestarter (1984)
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Purple Rain (1984)
Red Dawn (1984)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
The Neverending Story (1984)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Toxic Avenger (1984)
A View to a Kill (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
Breakfast Club (1985)
Clue (1985)
Enemy Mine (1985)
Fright Night (1985)
Goonies (1985)
Ladyhawke (1985)
Legend (1985)
Lifeforce (1985)
One Crazy Summer (1985)
Red Sonja (1985)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Last Dragon (1985)
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
Weird Science (1985)
Back to School (1986)
Cobra (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Howard the Duck (1986)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Platoon (1986)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Rawhead Rex (1986)
Short Circuit (1986)
Stand by Me (1986)
The Fly (1986)
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
Project X (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Spaceballs (1987)
The Lost Boys (1987)
The Untouchables (1987)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Big (1988)
Coming to America (1988)
Dead Heat (1988)
Funny Farm (1988)
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
Maniac Cop (1988)
Short Circuit 2 (1988)
The Great Outdoors (1988)
They Live! (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Willow (1988)
Back to the Future II (1989)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Blind Fury (1989)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Tango and Cash (1989)
Back to the Future III (1990)
Brain Dead (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Ghost (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
Robot Jox (1990)
Stephen King's It (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Dollman (1991)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Hook (1991)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Nothing but Trouble (1991)
Riki-Oh: the Story of Ricky (1991)
Suburban Commando (1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (1991)
The Rocketeer (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Aladdin (1992)
Dead Alive (1992)
Demonic Toys (1992)
Lawnmower Man (1992)
Sidekicks (1992)
Sneakers (1992)
Dollman vs Demonic Toys (1993)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Robot Jox 2: Robot Wars (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time (1993)
The Firm (1993)
The Fugitive (1993)
True Romance (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Lion King (1994)
The Mask (1994)
A Goofy Movie (1995)
Casino (1995)
Hackers (1995)
Heat (1995)
Jumanji (1995)
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Seven (1995)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)

That is 152 movies, so Frietag if you watch two every weekend, you'll complete the list sometimes in June of 2013.

That feeling you'll be having sometime around September, that's the same feeling all badge hunters get eventually.

HEY!

He did mention he watched Back to the Future Pt. 1 last weekend, so it's a start. "D

Stuart Gordon's cult adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft Reanimator (1985), From Beyond (1986), and Dagon (2001) make a nice change from the usual psycho-slashers and killer toys drive-in fare.

Watching all those unseen movies of the 1980-1995 vintage sounds like only the kind of wacky activity one would do after losing a bet (which, incidentally, was a staple of mediocre comedies from that era). Sorting by some kind of quality consensus would make this project less Herculean, so here's the same list sorted in descending order by the aggregate score on Rotten Tomatoes, a site that's rather more lenient but otherwise more comprehensive than its rivals.

Obviously, these scores do not factor in pop cultural touchstones, nostalgia, genre representation, cult status, Ah-nuld, sarcasm, individual idiosyncracy, so-bad-it's-goodness, or the sheer abitrariness inherent in assigning numerical scores to written reviews.

98% Airplane! (1980)
98% Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
98% Risky Business (1983)
98% Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
97% Back to the Future (1985)
97% Goodfellas (1990)
97% Schindler's List (1993)
97% WarGames (1983)
96% Big (1988)
96% The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
96% Victor Victoria (1982)
95% A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
95% Night Shift (1982)
95% The Secret of NIMH (1982)
95% This is Spinal Tap (1984)
95% Time Bandits (1981)
94% 48 Hrs. (1982)
94% The Fugitive (1993)
93% Fright Night (1985)
92% Aladdin (1992)
92% Beauty and the Beast (1991)
91% Breakfast Club (1985)
91% Edward Scissorhands (1990)
91% Stand by Me (1986)
91% The Breakfast Club (1985)
91% The Fly (1986)
91% True Romance (1993)
90% Raising Arizona (1987)
89% Lik Wong (Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky) (1991)
89% Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
89% The Lion King (1994)
89% Trading Places (1983)
88% American Werewolf in London (1981)
88% Back to School (1986)
88% Sixteen Candles (1984)
88% Stripes (1981)
88% They Live! (1988)
87% Poltergeist (1982)
87% Private Benjamin (1980)
86% Absence of Malice (1981)
86% Dead Poets Society (1989)
86% Heat (1995)
86% Platoon (1986)
86% Romancing the Stone (1984)
86% The Neverending Story (1984)
85% Dead Alive (1992)
85% Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
85% Night of the Comet (1984)
85% Seven (Se7en) (1995)
84% A Few Good Men (1992)
84% Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
82% Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
82% Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
82% Ghost (1990)
82% The City of Lost Children (1995)
81% Beetlejuice (1988)
81% Pretty in Pink (1986)
81% Sneakers (1992)
81% The Untouchables (1987)
80% Casino (1995)
80% Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
80% The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
79% Excalibur (1981)
78% Project X (1987)
77% Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
76% The Firm (1993)
76% The Lost Boys (1987)
75% Caddyshack (1980)
75% The Mask (1994)
74% Purple Rain (1984)
74% The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
74% The Last Starfighter (1984)
71% Back to the Future III (1990)
71% Forrest Gump (1994)
71% Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
71% Stir Crazy (1980)
71% The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
70% Clue (1985)
69% Naked Lunch (1991)
65% Christine (1983)
65% Clash of the Titans (1981)
65% Coming to America (1988)
65% Funny Farm (1988)
65% Pink Floyd the Wall (1982)
64% Back to the Future II (1989)
64% Stephen King's It (1990)
63% Goonies (1985)
63% Hellraiser (1987)
63% Ladyhawke (1985)
63% Toxic Avenger (1984)
62% The Howling (1981)
60% Friday the 13th (1980)
60% One Crazy Summer (1985)
60% The Rocketeer (1991)
59% Cujo (1983)
59% Enemy Mine (1985)
58% The Last Unicorn (1982)
58% Weird Science (1985)
57% A Goofy Movie (1995)
57% Lifeforce (1985)
56% Red Heat (1988) (not “Dead Heat”)
55% Blind Fury (1989)
55% Short Circuit (1986)
55% The Quick and the Dead (1995)
54% Spaceballs (1987)
53% Red Dawn (1984)
50% Bachelor Party (1984)
50% Legend (1985)
50% Pet Sematary (1989)
48% Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
47% Johnny Dangerously (1984)
47% Jumanji (1995)
47% Lawnmower Man (1992)
46% Willow (1988)
44% Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
42% Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
41% Firestarter (1984)
41% Xanadu (1980)
40% Rawhead Rex (1986)
40% The Great Outdoors (1988)
39% A View to a Kill (1985)
39% Tango and Cash (1989)
38% Maniac Cop (1988)
38% Short Circuit 2 (1988)
36% Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (1991)
35% Krull (1983)
34% Mortal Kombat (1995)
33% Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982)
32% Porky's (1982)
31% Hackers (1995)
29% Hook (1991)
27% Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time (1993)
20% Caveman (1981)
20% Suburban Commando (1991)
20% Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
19% Red Sonja (1985)
17% Brain Dead (1990)
16% Howard the Duck (1986)
14% Sidekicks (1992)
13% Cobra (1986)
9% Nothing but Trouble (1991)
7% Drop Dead Fred (1991)
*84% The Last Dragon (1985)
*45% D.C. Cab (1983)
*45% Doctor Detroit (1983)
*40% It Came from Hollywood (1982)
*38% Dollman (1991)
*36% Robot Jox (1990)
*31% Demonic Toys (1992)
*29% Robot Jox 2: Robot Wars (1993)
*28% Dollman vs Demonic Toys (1993)
**n/a Kung Fu From Beyond the Grave (1982)

Tootsie!!

How could I have forgotten Tootsie?

and Mr. Mom...

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My movie suggestions for Freitag (and anyone else reading this.)

The Fountain
The Science of Sleep
Trainspotting
This is England
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
This is Spinal Tap
The Darjeeling Limited
The Royal Tenenbaums
A Scanner Darkly
The Wrestler
Bottle Rocket
The Life Aquatic
Rushmore

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