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 :nod:

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...
http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs4/1877133_o.gif

[JBHuskers]

You may be playing with yourself......again...
http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs4/1877133_o.gif

I always score high when I play with myself.

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[SCClassof93]

BTW the reigning countdown champion is skipwondah33 :nod:

[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 :dunno:

[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 :nod:

[SmoothPancakes]

Did not think you would play anyway :dunno:

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]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPYTfS8Kuw

See if this works?

Long way from Lord of the Rings for Peter Jackson :D

[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" :nod:
http://i2.listal.com/image/222790/600full-bad-taste-poster.jpg

[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.

[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 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.

Votes were taken from over 3000 folks about 10-11 years ago. Unlike the music, not much "foreign" stuff made it in.

[skipwondah33]

I'm in...for the back to back

[ram29jackson]

this didnt make the list ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zsWrE2yNiQ

[ram29jackson]

or this ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9hqwGs48bM

[ram29jackson]

or this classic ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9k09WPpNeo&feature=related

[ram29jackson]

LOL or this beauty ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku_wLVbIUA4

sobriety test at 2:09, but listen to Fishbones tune at the beginning haha

[SCClassof93]

Repo Man was in the 220s somewhere. The rest of that stuff is out of my realm. So are you playing ram?

[SCClassof93]

I'm in...for the back to back

:D
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj263/gfurgi/Motivational%20Posters/Overconfident.gif

[ram29jackson]

Repo Man was in the 220s somewhere. The rest of that stuff is out of my realm. So are you playing ram?

I suppose

[SCClassof93]

I will start the top 150 countdown on 9/13 :nod:

[morsdraconis]

There's no way I could play this. This is my top 25 in no particular order:

Aliens
Back to the Future
Die Hard
The Empire Strikes Back
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghostbusters
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Karate Kid
Lethal Weapon
Once Upon a Time in America
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Predator
Conan The Barbarian
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky IV
Scrooged
The Shining
Spaceballs
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Terminator
They Live
The Thing
WarGames

I mean, some of these movies are in my personal top 25 of all time greatest movies, yet, I can almost guarantee that they aren't when you ask the average person that grew up in the 80s.

[morsdraconis]

And that's leaving shit off like Sixteen Candles, Brazil, St Elmo's Fire, The Breakfast Club, and other shitty 80s movies like that are guaranteed to be on the top 12 list. :smh:

[SCClassof93]

There's no way I could play this. This is my top 25 in no particular order:

Aliens
Back to the Future
Die Hard
The Empire Strikes Back
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghostbusters
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Karate Kid
Lethal Weapon
Once Upon a Time in America
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Predator
Conan The Barbarian
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky IV
Scrooged
The Shining
Spaceballs
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Terminator
They Live
The Thing
WarGames

I mean, some of these movies are in my personal top 25 of all time greatest movies, yet, I can almost guarantee that they aren't when you ask the average person that grew up in the 80s.

I think you should 1. join the game, then 2. send me your top 12.....look at the music list, this stuff will for the most be main stream. Give it a shot Sunshine :D

[Marlowe]

I'm in.

[gschwendt]

Go ahead and count me in... though I suck with 80s movies. Unless it's Spaceballs, 3 Amigos or the like.

[ram29jackson]

Go ahead and count me in... though I suck with 80s movies. Unless it's Spaceballs, 3 Amigos or the like.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxTFqPET5I

[SmoothPancakes]

Go ahead and count me in... though I suck with 80s movies. Unless it's Spaceballs, 3 Amigos or the like.

Ah yeah, The Three Amigos, that is a great movie. We got a classic like Throw Momma from the Train, but how the hell did Three Amigos not make it? It is a GREAT movie.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qXM0nZq0RA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mTUmczVdik

[CLW]

I'm in.

[psusnoop]

Im in too.

[SCClassof93]

Up to 7 now playing. Three Amigos was #203.

[CLW]

I went with what I thought the masses would vote for. My top 5 movies of all-time are on this list and not one of them made my Top 12 predictions. Damn Commies! :smh:

[SCClassof93]

I went with what I thought the masses would vote for. My top 5 movies of all-time are on this list and not one of them made my Top 12 predictions. Damn Commies! :smh:

What are you talking about? The game has not begun yet....

[CLW]

Votes were taken from over 3000 folks about 10-11 years ago. Unlike the music, not much "foreign" stuff made it in.


What are you talking about? The game has not begun yet....

See above (I assumed you took a list from a survey done somewhere else a long time ago)

[morsdraconis]

I went with what I thought the masses would vote for. My top 5 movies of all-time are on this list and not one of them made my Top 12 predictions.

That's why I can't play this game. I'm gonna be tempted to put movies like Predator and Conan The Barbarian in the top 12, even though I know they won't be in the top 12 (but they are both two of my favorite movies ever).

[skipwondah33]

:D
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj263/gfurgi/Motivational%20Posters/Overconfident.gif

Hahaha nah, but can't go back to back unless I play

Got lucky in the 80's music one...likely will need to be extremely lucky in this one as well.

So many movies

[SCClassof93]

I see, well what are your five that are on the list that you did not think would make top 12?

[SCClassof93]

That's why I can't play this game. I'm gonna be tempted to put movies like Predator and Conan The Barbarian in the top 12, even though I know believe they won't be in the top 12 (but they are both two of my favorite movies ever).

fixed for ya ;)

[SmoothPancakes]

Up to 7 now playing. Three Amigos was #203.

This list is a total sham. Anything that would have Three Amigos outside of the top 100 is a complete and total sham.


That's why I can't play this game. I'm gonna be tempted to put movies like Predator and Conan The Barbarian in the top 12, even though I know they won't be in the top 12 (but they are both two of my favorite movies ever).

Yep, that's my problem. I'd want to list Spaceballs, Airplane, Back to the Future, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Blue Brothers, Caddyshack, A Christmas Story, Crocodile Dundee. That's just through the C's on the list (with Spaceballs added), and that's already 8 movies that I'd want to list, yet I can probably guaranteed that 75% of them won't even be in the top 20.

[SCClassof93]

Just going to play a few movie themes while we wait :nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6frI0Xjufg

[SCClassof93]

This list is a total sham. Anything that would have Three Amigos outside of the top 100 is a complete and total sham.



Yep, that's my problem. I'd want to list Spaceballs, Airplane, Back to the Future, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Blue Brothers, Caddyshack, A Christmas Story, Crocodile Dundee. That's just through the C's on the list (with Spaceballs added), and that's already 8 movies that I'd want to list, yet I can probably guaranteed that 75% of them won't even be in the top 20.

I now know how J.B. feels with all the whining and bellyaching in the Country Club :D

[SCClassof93]

May have to watch this again, soon :nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r7VXr40fuQ

[SmoothPancakes]

May have to watch this again, soon :nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r7VXr40fuQ

That was just on TV on AMC, two weeks ago maybe? Two or three. Always a great movie to watch.

[SCClassof93]

Hell of a flick with great music :nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Hp2WANepc

[SCClassof93]

A movie that stands the test of time, super creepy tune :nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meU2gAU7Xss

[morsdraconis]

A movie that stands the test of time, super creepy tune :nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meU2gAU7Xss

One of the best movies EVER. I will be VERY pissed if that movie isn't in the top 5.

[SCClassof93]

One of the best movies EVER. I will be VERY pissed if that movie isn't in the top 5.

Mors my friend I found you your own theme song :nod:, enjoy :D;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zx27dP1mTg

[SCClassof93]

The theme of themes :nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzntZLHcYy0

[SCClassof93]

:fdown:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cngbVQk2qG0

[SCClassof93]

:nod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpwWYOE3Y9o

[SCClassof93]

:up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_yzb4LLaE

[SCClassof93]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZIEUPudUDk&feature=related

[ram29jackson]

not the actual scene...but



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE21JpdBshk

[CLW]

So when does the actual countdown begin?

[SCClassof93]

So when does the actual countdown begin?

As soon as I get caught up with some work. Been out of town a few days. Probably around 9:30-10 am today