Important Movies

THE "IMPORTANT" MOVIES OF 1980

9 TO 5 - You can tell CS! is full of dudes.
AIRPLANE! - An undisputed classic!
THE BLUE LAGOON - I'm sorry if this movie is too perverted for you.
THE BLUES BROTHERS - An undisputed classic!
CADDYSHACK - An undisputed classic!
THE ELEPHANT MAN - An undisputed classic!
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - An undisputed classic!
FRIDAY THE 13TH - It has its place in movie history.
RAGING BULL - An undisputed classic!
THE SHINING - An undisputed classic!
SUPERMAN II - Flawed... but a classic.

How do you even choose?

9 to 5 was an important women's rights movie and it's STILL relevant. That's how little society has changed in the past 34 years.

Airplane!, The Blues Brothers and Caddyshack are beloved comedy classics. You can't have ONE movie represent all three because each of these movies have their own style. Airplane! is a spoof. The Blue Brothers is a musical. Caddyshack is a collection of different comedians and comic actors doing their thing. I mean... if we HAVE to choose one, the obvious answer is Caddyshack. That one is more representative of the decade. It has Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield each performing their specific brand of humor.

The Blue Lagoon could be eliminated but where's Dracula, the defender of edgy filmmaking, when you need it? You do know this is a movie about two UNDERAGED actors "discovering themselves" in an island. Do you have any idea the balls in took to make this movie? You could never make this movie in 2014. At least not as sexually honest as the original. If Dracula truly believed what he preached, he would stick up for this one. But he's going with Heaven's Gate for false reasons.

The Elephant Man, The Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull and The Shining are bonafide classics.

Friday the 13th and Superman II have their place in movie history.

Then there's "smaller movies" that deserve a shoutout:

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST - I can tell you guys haven't seen this movie.
FAME - The beginning of the music video style teen movies of the decade.
FLASH GORDON - It's a camp classic made even more popular by Seth MacFarlene in 2012's Ted.
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY - South African movie that Dracula probably masturbates to.
LITTLE DARLINGS - Again, CS! is a sausage fest. We need some damn women in here!
MY BODYGUARD - The ultimate bully movie! This one is definitely an "important" movie. But it's not worth fighting for. You guys haven't seen it.
STARDUST MEMORY - This Woody Allen movie gets brought up a lot.

Like I've been saying for a while. Top 5 is stupid. I'm okay with Top 5 as a minimal requirement. But as the max? Nah. Some years have too many classics and noteworthy films to reduce them to a Top 5. But I'm talking to the walls now.

There's NO WAY other people are gonna fight for Cannibal Holocaust. There's nothing to drop.

I am certainly not of the opinion we only need one comedy. I think we've been shafting comedies a lot so far. But the one to pick certainly isnt Caddyshack, its Airplane.

I'm even surprised you're asking that question. Lynch is always taking a step forward in surrealistic filmmaking, while everyone else lags behind; he's always challenging himself to create even more dazzling, dreamy narratives. Many filmmakers, musicians, and novelists cite him as being a key influence. Did you also know George Lucas even considered him for Star Wars, but Lynch declined?

So yeah, he's definitely deserving. Blue Velvet kind of began the themes of Twin Peaks. Mulholland Drive was a creative dream-narrative in the same vein as Bergman's Persona; and, according to Wiki, Film Comment magazine voted it the best of the decade. Eraserhead changed cinema forever; it was also voted to be preserved in the National Film Registry. Inland Empire was voted one of the best films of the 2000s.

I don't think I need to keep going.

Courtesy of Wikipedia, to wit:

"While working on The Elephant Man, Lynch met American director Stanley Kubrick, who revealed to Lynch that Eraserhead was his favorite film. Eraserhead also served as an influence on Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining; Kubrick reportedly screened the film for the cast and crew to "put them in the mood" that he wanted the film to achieve. Eraserhead is also credited with influencing the 1990 Japanese cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, the experimental 1990 horror film Begotten, and Darren Aronofsky's 1998 directorial debut Pi. Swiss surrealist H. R. Giger cited Eraserhead as "one of the greatest films [he had] ever seen", and said that it came closer to realizing his vision than even his own films. According to Giger, Lynch declined to collaborate with him on Dune because he felt Giger had "stolen his ideas"."

No, I understand. I was just reiterating (to Ian, unsurprisingly) how important Lynch has been to cinema.

It just felt like we were honouring every single one of his movies so far. But now that I look on the master list, I guess it was just videodrone. But I do think that Airplane needs to be there before elephant man.

Videodrome is David Cronenberg.

Agreed on Blues Brothers.

Maybe. And it is the more controversial Brooke Shields movie.



You hate Airplane? Wow.



You're forgetting Mel Brooks. Not to mention John Landis' Kentucky Fried Movie.



Comedic movies existed at the dawn of cinema, and yet, it took 80 years for the "improv movie" to happen. So don't be so sure. Harold Ramis created something special here and launched Rodney Dangerfields career in the process.



It hasn't been imitated that much because it's difficult to pull off. Hence its status as a great movie. If it were easy to do, it wouldn't be unique.