The 80s movie countdown competition signup thread

[SCClassof93]

This thread is for signups, comments and jokes. Post here if you plan on playing.

I will begin the countdown at #150 in another thread in a week or so.

You must pm me your TOP 12 BEFORE I reach #100, there will be a pause after #101, but do keep up.

As far as clues here is an alphabetic list of the top 200. I will only countdown 150 however , so pick carefully.

I am going to offer a two year subscription to TGT for the person with the most points. So if you have not registered now is the time to do so

Here is the top 200

48 HRS.
Abyss, The
Airplane
Aliens
All the Right Moves
Amadeus
American Werewolf in London, An
Angel Heart
Bachelor Party
Back to the Future*
Bad Taste
Batman
Beetlejuice
Better Off Dead
Beverly Hills Cop
Big Chill, The*
Big Red One, The
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Biloxi Blues
Blade Runner
Blind Date
Blood Simple
Blue Lagoon, The
Blue Velvet
Blues Brothers, The
Boot, Das
Born on the Fourth of July
Brazil*
Breakfast Club, The
Bull Durham
Caddyshack
Cannonball Run, The
Casualties of War
Chariots of Fire
Child's Play
Christine*
Christmas Story, A*
Clash of the Titans
Color of Money, The*
Color Purple, The
Coming to America
Commando
Conan the Barbarian
Creepshow
'Crocodile' Dundee
Dangerous Liaisons
Dark Crystal, The
Day of the Dead
Dead Poets Society*
Die Hard
Dirty Dancing
Do the Right Thing
Dragonslayer
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy
Dune
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Eight Men Out
Elephant Man, The
Empire of the Sun
Empire Strikes Back, The
Endless Love
Escape from New York
Evil Dead, The
Excalibur
Fame
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fatal Attraction
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Field of Dreams
First Blood
Fish Called Wanda, A
Flash Gordon
Flashdance
Fly, The
Fog, The
Footloose
Friday the 13th
Fright Night
Full Metal Jacket
Ghostbusters
Glory
Goonies, The*
Gremlins
Halloween II
Hamburger Hill
Heartbreak Ridge
Heathers
Hellraiser
Highlander
History of the World: Part I
Hitcher, The
Hoosiers
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*
K-9
Karate Kid, The
Killer, The
Labyrinth
Ladyhawke
Last Emperor, The
Lean on Me
Legend
Less Than Zero*
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lost Boys, The
Major League
Manhunter
Mannequin
Midnight Run*
Mission, The
Mississippi Burning
National Lampoon's Vacation
Natural, The
Night Shift
Nightmare on Elm Street, A
Officer and a Gentleman, An
Once Bitten
Once Upon a Time in America
Pale Rider*
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Platoon
Police Academy
Poltergeist
Porky's
Predator
Pretty in Pink
Prince of Darkness
Princess Bride, The (1987)
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
Raising Arizona
Rambo: First Blood Part II*
Raw Deal*
Re-Animator
Red Dawn
Red Heat
Return of the Jedi*
Return of the Living Dead Part II*
Return of the Living Dead, The
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business*
Road Warrior, The
Robocop
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Romancing the Stone*
Running Man, The
Say Anything.
Scarface*
Scrooged
Sea Wolves, The
Shining, The
Short Circuit*
Sid and Nancy
Silent Rage
Silverado
Sixteen Candles
Some Kind of Wonderful*
Southern Comfort
Spaceballs
St. Elmo's Fire
Stand by Me
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Steel Magnolias
Stripes
Superman II
Swamp Thing
Taps
Teen Wolf
Terminator, The
They Live
Thing, The
Throw Momma from the Train
Time Bandits
To Live and Die in L.A.
Tootsie
Top Gun
Trading Places
Tron
Turner & Hooch
Twins
Untouchables, The
Used Cars
Valley Girl
Vision Quest
Wall Street
War of the Roses, The
WarGames
Weekend at Bernie's
Weird Science
When Harry Met Sally.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Witches of Eastwick, The
Year of the Dragon
Young Guns

Players:
1. JBHuskers
2. skipwondah33
3. ram29jackson
4. Marlowe
5. gschwendt
6. psusnoop
7. CLW

[SCClassof93]

How will your lists be scored?

Matching #1 =150points, #2=149, #3= 148, #4=147, #5=146, #6=145, #7=144, #8=143, #9=142, #10=141, #11=140, #12=139
Listing anything in the top 12 without a direct match =125 points
Listing anything from #13-#25 = 100 points
Listing anything from #26-#50 = 75 points
Listing anything from #51-#75 = 50 points
Listing anything from #75-#100 = 25 points
Listing anything outside the top 100 = 0 points

[JBHuskers]

I'm in.

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[SCClassof93]

BTW, I have no clue why there are * next to some of the titles, ignore them.

[SCClassof93]

I'm in.

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You may be playing with yourself......again...

[JBHuskers]

You may be playing with yourself......again...

I always score high when I play with myself.

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[SCClassof93]

BTW the reigning countdown champion is skipwondah33

[SmoothPancakes]

I'm assuming you're just posting movie posters or something. All those Youtube videos were hell on my laptop to load up.

[SCClassof93]

I'm assuming you're just posting movie posters or something. All those Youtube videos were hell on my laptop to load up.

Planning on posters AND embed original trailers.

[SmoothPancakes]

Planning on posters AND embed original trailers.

Ugh, this is gonna end up being another bitch to load up each time I open it.

[SCClassof93]

Ugh, this is gonna end up being another bitch to load up each time I open it.

Did not think you would play anyway

[gschwendt]

If you spoiler the youtube videos then I don't believe it opens them until you open the spoiler.

[SCClassof93]

If you spoiler the youtube videos then I don't believe it opens them until you open the spoiler.

I can try that

[SmoothPancakes]

Did not think you would play anyway

Well, I wasn't playing in the music thread, but I was still following along whenever I would get the chance to check out the thread, just to see what songs were ranked where.

[SCClassof93]

Spoiler: show

See if this works?

Long way from Lord of the Rings for Peter Jackson

[SCClassof93]

Well, I wasn't playing in the music thread, but I was still following along whenever I would get the chance to check out the thread, just to see what songs were ranked where.

LMK if you think G's spoiler idea will work.

[SmoothPancakes]

LMK if you think G's spoiler idea will work.

That should work. The movie posters are fine, and then have the videos in spoilers underneath the movie posters.

[SCClassof93]

That should work. The movie posters are fine, and then have the videos in spoilers underneath the movie posters.

Can probably hide both with titles, one for "poster" one for "trailer"

Spoiler: show

[SmoothPancakes]

Eh, leaving the movie poster up is fine, that way everyone can see right away what placed where.

I'm thinking about joining, but I'm not sure. Considering I was only born in 1987, the hell if I'm gonna know how popular things were back then (compared to being popular these days due to being "classics"). I just went through the list, and while I've seen a lot, out of the list of 200, there's 84 that I haven't seen, so besides not knowing how popular of movies they were during the 80s (or when this list was compiled) compared to these days, I would have no clue how to even go about ranking them. Some of them obviously were huge and popular, but naturally that probably means they'll all be listed and gone before the top 25.

[SCClassof93]

Eh, leaving the movie poster up is fine, that way everyone can see right away what placed where.

I'm thinking about joining, but I'm not sure. Considering I was only born in 1987, the hell if I'm gonna know how popular things were back then (compared to being popular these days due to being "classics"). I just went through the list, and while I've seen a lot, out of the list of 200, there's 86 that I haven't seen, so besides not knowing how popular of movies they were during the 80s (or when this list was compiled) compared to these days, I would have no clue how to even go about ranking them. Some of them obviously were huge and popular, but naturally that probably means they'll all be listed and gone before the top 25.

Well let me know, going to leave registration open until next Tuesday at least. Does not cost you anything, just go with your gut. The last day of the music thread got interesting I think.