Best Movie of 1986

[miraclefan]

It figures that "Aliens" would run away with this poll right after I watched it for the second time in my life and realized I don't like it much anymore Does it really hold up for you after watching it multiple times? I still like Sigourney Weaver's performance, but now I find the whole movie a lot more shallow, more action-packed, and less character-oriented than the first Alien movie...

To be fair, I may have just become exhausted and impatient because I watched the longer director's cut this time, but I now think it's a serious step down from the original, though not a disastrously huge drop in quality.

If you're not sold by the character development in the longer version, watching the shorter version won't help. Many character bits (such as the scene where Ripley finds out about here daughter's death, and the scene where "Dwayne" and "Ellen" call each other by their first names) are gone.

I think it holds up as well as when I first saw it. It's different than the first film, but still, nearly as good.

I prefer the Director's cut. And to me ALIENS still holds up very well for me. Infact it's one of the FEW movies I have ever given my perfect 10 score to.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Yeah, I really liked that scene about her daughter and with her in the conference room during the meeting. I would have preferred more scenes like that showing her to be more humane and a voice of reason amongst more closed-minded men, as she was in the first movie. Like I said, I still think it's good, but eventually I got worn out by the excessive action and I didn't like the supporting cast around Ripley as much as the one in "Alien".

 

[Reverend]

Oh that's just cruel, making me choose between Aliens and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Has to be Aliens though I'm afraid and looking at the results so far, it appears to be winning by a mile!

 

[Stardate]

Aliens and Top Gun as runnner up.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Though choice.

I went with Big Trouble in Little China for the sentimental value.

For artistic value, Mission and Platoon. Aliens, Top Gun and Crocodile Dundee for the sheer awesomeness for them.

 

[DevilEyes]

I can't believe I'm the first one to vote for The Fly.

I have several other favorites there: Platoon, Aliens, Blue Velvet (just one vote?!), Salvador...

but not The Voyage Home. Sorry, but I hate it. Well, I don't exactly hate it, but I have problems with it and find it incredibly overrated.

Why do you like the Fly enough to vote for it? I mean it's a GREAT (and scary as HELL!) film, but there where many other Better movies that year.

Why do you like those other movies so much to vote for one of them?

 

[auntiehill]

Platoon
The Mission
A Room With a View
Hannah and Her Sisters

 

[Orac Zen]

Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources.

Runners up: Aliens, The Mission, and A Room With a View.

 

[Admiral2]

I pick Aliens

 

[DostoyevskyClone]

I have to say I'm a little surpised 'Aliens' is running away with it (when I did the pre-poll, there was a lot of support for 'Platoon'). I'm not disappointed though - 'Aliens' is just a brilliant movie because of the desperate, eerie mood throughout the whole film and the sense of hopelessness once the marines actually encounter the aliens. It's got a little bit of everything - good screenplay, action, and horror/suspense.

Absence of 'Highlander' - I had a pre-poll where people could nominate a movie that was left off of the initial list. I'll make sure to retitle my pre-poll to make it clear that you can nominate movies to be included in the actual poll. While I feel bad that a movie was left off, is it safe to say that 20+ people wouldn't have voted for it?

miraclefan - yeah, I have the 1987 list complete. I'm just waiting for this poll to fall down the forum a bit then I'll post.

 

[miraclefan]

I have to say I'm a little surpised 'Aliens' is running away with it (when I did the pre-poll, there was a lot of support for 'Platoon'). I'm not disappointed though - 'Aliens' is just a brilliant movie because of the desperate, eerie mood throughout the whole film and the sense of hopelessness once the marines actually encounter the aliens. It's got a little bit of everything - good screenplay, action, and horror/suspense.

Absence of 'Highlander' - I had a pre-poll where people could nominate a movie that was left off of the initial list. I'll make sure to retitle my pre-poll to make it clear that you can nominate movies to be included in the actual poll. While I feel bad that a movie was left off, is it safe to say that 20+ people wouldn't have voted for it?

miraclefan - yeah, I have the 1987 list complete. I'm just waiting for this poll to fall down the forum a bit then I'll post.

WOO HOO! I already know who I'm voting for! And your comments about aliens is spot on! but you forgot the art design! everything from that tank (APC) to the sulaco & the alien QUEEN was amazing!

 

[Pemmer Harge]

The Fly. Disgusting but also kind of sweet.