GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1987

[CiG]

1. Predator (John McTiernan)


2. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)


3. Bad Taste (Peter Jackson)


4. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)


5. Barfly (Barbet Schroeder)


6. Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner)


7. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)


8. The Hidden (Jack Sholder)


9. Extreme Prejudice (Walter Hill)


10. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (Hiroyuki Yamaga)

 

[rms]

Predator
Opera
Full Metal Jacket
Planes, Trains and automobiles
Robocop
Evil Dead II
Prince of Darkness
Hellraiser (gotta rewatch, been awhile)
Lethal Weapon
The Gate

What an adolescently foundational year for me. Think opera was the only one I didn't grow up on

 

[CiG]

Is that in order?

 

[rms]

Yep

 

[Bloopy]

1. Bad Taste
2. White of the Eye
3. Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
4. The Brave Little Toaster
5. House of Games
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
7. The Running Man
8. RoboCop
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Predator

HM:
Creepshow 2

 

[Bourbon]

1. Robocop
2. Predator
3. Evil Dead 2
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Barfly
6. Lethal Weapon
7. Wings of Desire
8. Au revoir les enfants
9. The Untouchables
10. The Running Man

HMs: Bad Taste and Hellraiser

 

[CiG]

 

[CiG]

12 lists works for me, wrapping this up tomorrow. Wimps that couldn't get a list together for a classic year like this either suicide out of shame or get one in asap.

 

[Krow]

1. Evil Dead II
2. Hellraiser
3. Predator
4. The Lost Boys
5. Bad Taste
6. Nightmare on Elm Street 3
7. Howling 3
8. Opera
9. Slaughterhouse
10. Street Trash

epic year. I could keep going.

 

[challenge_everything]

3. Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds

This would seem to be 1989.

 

[Bloopy]

This would seem to be 1989.

Err, fuck not this again? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098373/releaseinfo

In these poll threads we already discovered and flogged to death the need to stick strictly to IMDb years (well, no harm in a bit of personal choice I guess but trying to satisfy ourselves that our own lists are consistent). RYM's data gets a bit more lax sometimes but even they have this one as 1987 (correct per their standards). It's simply a losing battle to even attempt to search for all the films I've seen that got their 'wider' release in 1987. I mean, yeah I could search all the pages and pages of films under 1985 & 1986 in IMDb and peruse the release dates of every single one I've seen to see if they actually hit theatres in 1987. But then I'm still missing the weirdly delayed ones that premiered at festivals in 1984 or earlier. It makes a hell of a lot more sense just to look through one year per year, especially when I'm already doubling up by checking both websites.

I made an exception for the 2019 poll since everyone saw the need for some kind of rule of thumb for recent years, and I rarely even see films in the year they get their wider release.

 

[CiG]

Whether you go by festival dates or dates they became available to the public is entirely up to the discretion of the poster, also we've done 1989 and nobody listed that film then.

 

[challenge_everything]

Err, fuck not this again? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098373/releaseinfo

In these poll threads we already discovered and flogged to death the need to stick strictly to IMDb years (well, no harm in a bit of personal choice I guess but trying to satisfy ourselves that our own lists are consistent). RYM's data gets a bit more lax sometimes but even they have this one as 1987 (correct per their standards). It's simply a losing battle to even attempt to search for all the films I've seen that got their 'wider' release in 1987. I mean, yeah I could search all the pages and pages of films under 1985 & 1986 in IMDb and peruse the release dates of every single one I've seen to see if they actually hit theatres in 1987. But then I'm still missing the weirdly delayed ones that premiered at festivals in 1984 or earlier. It makes a hell of a lot more sense just to look through one year per year, especially when I'm already doubling up by checking both websites.

I made an exception for the 2019 poll since everyone saw the need for some kind of rule of thumb for recent years, and I rarely even see films in the year they get their wider release.

No argument from me, I was trying to go by IMDB too. I was just confused because the main page for IMDB listed the premiere date as 29 June 1989. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098373/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt

Never mind!

 

[Bloopy]

Hmm, the old version of IMDb pages had the 1987 and 1989 close together near the top of the page, but the new version has the 1989 on its own further down the page just to add to the confusion.

also we've done 1989

 

[CiG]

My bad I was thinking of 1988.

 

[CiG]

10th) The Running Man directed by Paul Michael Glaser



Voted for by:
@Slayed Necros (4th place)
@TageRyche (4th place)
@Bloopy (7th place)
@Bourbon (10th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger

TOTAL POINTS: 19

 

[CiG]

9th) Hellraiser directed by Clive Barker



Voted for by:
@Krow (2nd place)
@Slammed (5th place)
@Slayed Necros (7th place)
@rms (8th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (10th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Doug Bradley


Andrew Robinson


Clare Higgins

TOTAL POINTS: 23

 

[CiG]

8th) Bad Taste directed by Peter Jackson



Voted for by:
@Bloopy (1st place)
@CiG (3rd place)
@Krow (5th place)
@Slammed (10th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Pete O'Herne


Mike Minett


Terry Potter


Peter Jackson

TOTAL POINTS: 25

 

[CiG]

7th) Opera directed by Dario Argento



Voted for by:
@rms (2nd place)
@Oblivious Maximus (3rd place)
@zabu of nΩd (5th place)
@Krow (8th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Cristina Marsillach


Ian Charleson


Urbano Barberini

TOTAL POINTS: 26

 

[CiG]

6th) The Lost Boys directed by Joel Schumacher



Voted for by:
@dwellerINTHEdark (1st place)
@Slammed (3rd place)
@Krow (4th place)
@zabu of nΩd (6th place)
@zerostatic (9th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Corey Haim


Jason Patric


Corey Feldman


Kiefer Sutherland


Jami Gertz

TOTAL POINTS: 32