GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1988

Film Poll Game?

  • Good idea

    Votes: 12 100.0%
  • Shit idea

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Meh

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    12
haha yeah right, as if there isn't a line of anal pricks here just waiting to tell you how badly you fucked the count up!
 
TIED FOR 10th PLACE:

i) Midnight Run directed by Martin Brest

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Voted for by:
@rms (3rd place)
@challenge_everything (5th place)

IMDB
Main cast:
  • Robert De Niro
  • Charles Grodin
  • Yaphet Kotto
  • Joe Pantoliano
  • Dennis Farina
  • John Ashton






ii) A Fish Called Wanda directed by Charles Crichton

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Voted for by:
@challenge_everything (4th place)
@Burkhard (4th place)

IMDB
Main cast:
  • John Cleese
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Kevin Kline
  • Michael Palin






iii) Willow directed by Ron Howard

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Voted for by:
@dwellerINTHEdark (2nd place)
@MetalAges (6th place)

IMDB
Main cast:
  • Warwick Davis
  • Val Kilmer
  • Joanne Whalley
  • Jean Marsh






TOTAL POINTS: 14

Unlike music, it's important to let the viewer experience as much of a movie in total surprise as is possible, so I won't be providing random quotes from people who have talked about the movies listed, instead I'll provide a link to a trailer and something behind-the-scenes like interviews with actors or directors in relation to the film or 'making of' mini-docs etc.

If anybody has any suggestions in terms of what they would like to see or not see in these results posts, let me know as I'm open to suggestions.
 
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Haha I associate the name Wayans with complete swill, but happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

I genuinely love The Glimmer Man and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood is one of my favourite comedies (especially of the 90's) so I can't explicitly shit on those guys, but they do get involved in a lot of shite.

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka seems to be a parody of blaxploitation cinema, which sounds really interesting since blaxploitation is already so niche.
 
TIED FOR 5th PLACE:

i) Child's Play directed by Tom Holland

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Voted for by:
@TechnicalBarbarity (2nd place)
@Bloopy (4th place)
@rms (8th place)
@Slammed (8th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (9th place)

IMDB
Main cast:
  • Brad Dourif
  • Alex Vincent
  • Catherine Hicks
  • Chris Sarandon






ii) The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! directed by David Zucker

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Voted for by:
@Slammed (1st place)
@Burkhard (2nd place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (6th place)

IMDB
Main cast:
  • Leslie Nielsen
  • Priscilla Presley
  • Ricardo Montalbán
  • George Kennedy
  • O.J. Simpson








iii) Spoorloos (The Vanishing) directed by George Sluizer

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Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (1st place)
@rms (2nd place)
@Bloopy (6th place)

IMDB
Main cast:
  • Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
  • Gene Bervoets
  • Johanna ter Steege







TOTAL POINTS: 24
 
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Spoorloos is another film I need to see going by the high ratings it got, and Child's Play is a classic blindspot of mine. I think it scared the shit out of me as a kid and I've subconsciously put off buying it ever since then lmfao.