All Angel Heart fans out there. Where do you rank Angel Heart in a list of the best movies of the 1980's. Feel free to post your list of your 10, 20, 50, 100 favorite films of the 80's decade.
What do you think was better than Angel Heart. What do you think was equal to Angel Heart?
number 1 of all time
sharePfff, is it a real question?
FE, Brazil was way much better.
Yes, it's a serious question.
I'm really interested in everyone's input.
My top 15 of the 80's are:
1. Robocop
2. Salvador
3. Platoon
4. predator
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Rumble Fish
7. Angel Heart
8. Suburbia
9. Blade Runner
10.Return OF The Jedi
11.Dead Ringers
12.Crimes Of Passion
13.Henry: Portrait Of A Killer
14.The Killing Fields
15.Wall Street
Brazil is good. I need to resee it and give it it's full due because I was interupted for about 10 or 15 minutes in the middle of it when I saw it.
blue velvet
videodrome
angel heart
robocop
aliens
brazil
dead ringers
the shinning
fatal attraction
nightmare on elm st.
dressed to kill
scarface
blow out
inferno
phenomena
4th man
white dog (not widely seen but is out on criterion dvd and is an amazing film)
elephant man
full metal jacket
wall street
platoon.......
just too name a few
"The Shinning" was the Simpsons' spoof. The actual film is "The Shining."
-There is no such word as "alot."
The Shining
Caddyshack
Melvin And Howard
Raging Bull
Escape From New York
Tootsie
Conan The Barbarian
48 Hrs.
Revenge Of The Ninja
The King Of Comedy
El Norte
The Times Of Harvey Milk
Blood Simple
Repo Man
Back To The Future
Lost In America
To Live And Die In LA
Ruthless People
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Howard The Duck
Angel Heart
Best Seller
Full Metal Jacket
Robocop
Street Smart
Spaceballs
Throw Momma From The Train
Alien Nation
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Hot To Trot
Married To The Mob
Eight Men Out
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
The Thin Blue Line
A Fish Called Wanda
Do The Right Thing
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Let It Ride
Angel Heart is not in my 80's top ten, but I always liked it. My list is:
1. Scarface
2. The thing
3. The color purple
4. Raiders of the lost ark
5. The Empire strikes back
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Raging bull
8. Back to the future
9. Temple of doom
10. Platoon
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I'm a fan but I don't think it'd fit my top ten, there are other films of Mickey's though that I might include like I think as a film Barfly is better, a more complete piece than Angel Heart and when it comes to style and atmosphere there are few movies that (to me) depict the 80's scene more than Nine and a Half Weeks; Diner and Rumble Fish are also great pieces.
Jonathan Demme's films Something Wild and Married to the Mob are two favourites. Up very high on a list would be Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law. Risky Business with Tom Cruise is very good. The Shining and Raging Bull obviously, I personally have love and admiration for Scorsese's King of Comedy as well as The Last Temptation of the Christ.
Someone mentioned Videodrome and Dead Ringers but The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken is a favourite of mine as well.
I'm not that familiar with the foreign/art cinema works of the 80's in particular, except for Tarkovski's last two films, of which I enjoy Nostalghia better (The Sacrifice is great too but quite a downer).
The Verdict with Paul Newman I'd have up there, Once upon a Time in America, maybe Peter Weir's Witness. Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed, Reds; Nicholson had a string of wonderful films.
Can't believe I forgot Blue Velvet; that's got to be the best right there.
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The color purple?????Aw give me a break what a waste of tape/film/time not one actor in the entire advert for colored folks! Larry Fish,Danny Glover ACTORS??? Oh no.....say it ain't so Joe! And it ain't.
Here's my favorite 50 of the '80s: http://www.imdb.com/list/s3X68VrsIss/
It ranks pretty good.
I dont know how anyone could like Angel Heart at all, I thought it was crap in the Theatre and it hasnt improved any over the years. Same can be said for The Shining, over rated crapola.
shareThe plot is way too convoluted to be a truly great movie.
It is a beautiful film, and the horror is really effectively paced throughout though.
Jacob's Ladder was a better film of the two.
"The plot is way too convoluted" .... then you recommend Jacob's Ladder?? Can you not see the disconnect here?
shareI'd say it was not a good film.
I didn't understand what the point of the movie was until the last 10 minutes.
The rest of the movie was just a boring chase...the main character, dressed in what looked like his dad's clothes (2 or 3 sizes too large), bumbling around from one person to another person trying to find some guy for some money.
There were also times in both the plot and the dialogue when I thought, "What? Did they just cut out 5 minutes of the movie and tape together two sections that don't go together?"
At the end, it seems that Angel realizes it's him WAY too soon.
He starts freaking out and crying before it should even occur to him that (SPOILER ALERT) Favorite is him.
Ethan Krusemark tells him all about Favorite's ritual of slicing open and eating the soldier's heart and sealing the dog tags of the soldier in a vase. Rourke then goes to Margaret Krusemark's apartment, smashes the vase and finds the dog tags with the named "ANGEL, HAROLD" on them. Hence, he realizes that he's Johnny Favorite. I think his conclusion in that situation is the logical one, especially since Lucifer pops up suddenly right after and begins taunting him.
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