Top 30 Films of the 80's

[numbersix]

John, I'm happy to absorb your astute snark is you don't have time to do so. You've got a lot on your hands at the moment.

[JohnErle]

I probably wouldn't have been very snarky about a list of 80s movies anyway. It was a simpler, more innocent time, so snark wouldn't seem appropriate unless someone started picking Revenge Of The Nerds, Police Academy sequels, or Weekend At Bernie's. I don't think snark was invented until the 90s.

[numbersix]

Spoiler alert: my top 5 consists only of Police Academy sequels.

But you'll be surprised by the order...

[Buscemi2]

6, 5, 4, 3, 2?

[transformers2]

I probably wouldn't have been very snarky about a list of 80s movies anyway. It was a simpler, more innocent time, so snark wouldn't seem appropriate unless someone started picking Revenge Of The Nerds, Police Academy sequels, or Weekend At Bernie's. I don't think snark was invented until the 90s.

Way to spoil 8 of my top 10 early!

(In all honesty, at least a handful of my picks including #30 selection could be prime targets for snark....)

Edit: Wait, they really released a Police Academy movie every year from 1984-89?!?!?! Was it like the slapstick answer to Saw where just enough people continued to show up to the increasingly inferior sequels to keep the franchise chugging along until somebody stepped in and killed it after a while (before it was inevitably brought back of course, but unlike Saw, the initial reboot was the true end of the road for those goofy cops)

[Buscemi2]

Tran's already made fun of at least one of my picks in the past.

[JohnErle]

Edit: Wait, they really released a Police Academy movie every year from 1984-89?!?!?!

Yup. There was even a TV series I have no memory of, and an animated series I vaguely remember. The producers of this series could teach Marvel a thing or two about milking an IP until it's dry. At least they took a few years off before delivering the 7th film in the series, Mission To Moscow. I guess they wanted to take the time to get that one right.

[numbersix]

Edit: Wait, they really released a Police Academy movie every year from 1984-89?!?!?!

Yup. There was even a TV series I have no memory of, and an animated series I vaguely remember. The producers of this series could teach Marvel a thing or two about milking an IP until it's dry. At least they took a few years off before delivering the 7th film in the series, Mission To Moscow. I guess they wanted to take the time to get that one right.

Mission to Moscow is the Endgame of the Police Academy CU

[Buscemi2]

Edit: Wait, they really released a Police Academy movie every year from 1984-89?!?!?!

Yup. There was even a TV series I have no memory of, and an animated series I vaguely remember. The producers of this series could teach Marvel a thing or two about milking an IP until it's dry. At least they took a few years off before delivering the 7th film in the series, Mission To Moscow. I guess they wanted to take the time to get that one right.

The milking of Police Academy until the teat was chafed makes me think of God's Not Dead. After the first became the meme movie of 2014, the second grossed about a third of the first film, then somehow got a third installment which made less in its entire run than the first made on opening weekend, and then still got a fourth entry which barely cleared a million at the box office.

The first made over $60 million while the sequels combined failed to clear half that. And I bet they'll eventually make a fifth one if Angel Studios asks them to.

[transformers2]

Alright gang, final notes on the countdown before I retreat into a football haze for the rest of the day:
-The thread is going to be posted in The Movie Club section of the forum
-The initial posts will be up sometime between 10 AM and noon EST tomorrow. On most other days, they'll be up late morning/early afternoon EST-save for Saturdays where they'll be up late afternoon/early evening
-StarLord, email me your initial picks ASAP
-Format will be the same as our other countdowns where everyone's #30-2 will be posted together and the #1's will be revealed individually once per day

Really looking forward to getting this started

[Ron Burgundy]

Ah crap, i missed this. Normally skryke would have emailed me half a dozen times before i noticed. (fyi tranny- me email is jmishnu@gmail.com)

Im gonna compile my top 20 and join u guys then

[transformers2]

Sorry for not reaching out, but glad you're joining us for the top 20.