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Which should be the next bracket formed and played?

70s US
80s US
90s Europe

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Next Bracket: 80s US
« on: November 30, 2008, 10:55:26 AM »
perhaps this list will jog some memories:

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A Christmas Story
A Fish Called Wanda
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Soldier’s Story
A Time of Destiny
Adventures in Babysitting
After Hours
Airplane!
Alamo Bay
Alien Nation
Aliens
All of Me
Altered States
Amadeus
American Gigolo
An American Werewolf in London
Angel Heart
Another State of Mind
Another Woman
Apartment Zero
Arabic Series

Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Bad Boys
Ballad of Narayama
Barfly
Basket Case
Batman
Beaches
Before Stonewall
Beetlejuice
Better Off Dead
Beverly Hills Cop
Big
Big Time
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Bird
Birdy
Blade Runner
Blind
Blood Simple
Bloodsport
Blow Out
Blue Velvet
Body Double
Body Heat
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
Border Radio
Born in Flames
Born on the Fourth of July
Breakin’
Broadcast News
Broadway Danny Rose
Broken Rainbow
Brooklyn Bridge
Bull Durham
Burden of Dreams

Caddyshack
Can’t Buy Me Love
Casualties of War
Cat Chaser
Cat People
Central Park
Chameleon Street
Chan is Missing
Children of a Lesser God
Children of the Corn
Child’s Play
China Girl
Choose Me
Christine
Chronos
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
C.H.U.D.
Clash of the Titans
Class
Class of Nuke ‘Em High
Clownhouse
Clue
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Cocktail
Cocoon
Combat Shock
Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Coming to America
Commando
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Conan the Barbarian
Creepshow
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes of Passion
Crossing Delancy
Crossroads
Cruising
Cutter's Way

Dangerous Liaisons
Day of the Dead
D.C. Cab
Dead Poets Society
Deaf
Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam
Death Wish II
Desert Hearts
Desperately Seeking Susan
Die Hard
Diner
Directed by William Wyler
Dirty Dancing
Dirt Rotten Scoundrels
D.O.A.
Do the Right Thing
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down by Law
Dressed to Kill
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy
DuckTales: Treasure of the Golden Suns
Dune

Earth Girls Are Easy
Eat a Bowl of Tea
Eating Raoul
Eight Men Out
El Norte
Empire of the Sun
Enemies: A Love Story
Escape From New York
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Excalibur
Extreme Prejudice
Eyes on the Prize

Fade to Black
Fame
Fandango
Far From Poland
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fatal Attraction
Fear City
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Field of Dreams
First Blood
Flashdance
Fletch
Fool for Love
Footloose
For All Mankind
Fort Apache - The Bronx
Frances
Frankenweenie
Freeway
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th: Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
Full Metal Jacket

Gaby: A True Story
Genocide
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Gloria
Glory
Good Morning, Vietnam
Gorky Park
Gremlins
Gung Ho

Hairspray
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hansel and Gretel
Harry and the Hendersons
Heat and Sunlight
Heathers
Heaven's Gate
Heavy Petting
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Hellraiser
He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Highlander
Hollywood Shuffle
Honkytonk Man
Hoosiers
Hopscotch
House of Games
Housekeeping
Huey Long

Identity Crisis
I'm from Hollywood
Imagine: John Lennon
In Heaven There Is No Beer?
In the King of Prussia
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Innerspace
Inside Moves
Ishtar
It’s My Turn

Jagged Edge
Jimi Plays Monterey
Just One of the Guys

Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Brazil/US?)
Koyaanisqatsi
Krush Groove

Labyrinth
Landscape Suicide
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Lean on Me
Legend
Less Than Zero
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Let's Get Lost
Lianna
Lifeforce
Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy
Lion of the Desert
Liquid Sky
Little Shop of Horrors
Living on Tokyo Time
Look Who’s Talking
Lost in America
Love Streams
Loverboy
Lucas

Major League
Mala Noche
Manhunter
Maniac
Maniac Cop
Mannequin
Mask
Matewan
Melvin and Howard
Metropolitain**
Mickey and Maude
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Midnight Run
Miracle Mile
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Missile
Missing
Mississippi Burning
Model
Modern Romance
Mommie Dearest
Moonstruck
Mr. Hoover and I (UK/US?)
Ms. 45
Music Box
My Brother’s Wedding
My Dinner With Andre
My Favorite Year
Mystic Pizza
Mystery Train

Naked Spaces: Living Is Round
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Near Dark
Near Death
Never Cry Wolf
New York Stories
Night of the Comet
Night Shift
No Way Out
Nomads

On Golden Pond
On the Edge
Once Upon a Time in America (Italy/US?)
One Crazy Summer
One From the Heart
Ordinary People
Out of Africa
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Over the Top

Pale Rider
Parenthood
Paris, Texas
Parting Glances
Patty Hearst (UK/US?)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Peggy Sue Got Married
Pennies From Heaven
Permanent Vacation
Personal Best
Places in the Heart
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Platoon
Polyester
Poltergeist
Popeye
Powaqqatsi
Power
Predator
Pretty in Pink
Prince of Darkness
Prince of the City
Private Benjamin
Prizzi's Honor
Pumping Iron II: The Women
Pumpkinhead
Purple Rain
Puss in Boots

Radio Days
Raging Bull
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
Raising Arizona
Rate It X
Re-Animator
Reassemblage
Red Heat
Reds
Repo Man
Resurrection
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Secaucus 7
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
River's Edge
Robocop
Rocky II
Roger & Me
Romancing the Stone
Romero
Rumble Fish
Runaway Train
Running on Empty

Salvador
Say Amen, Somebody
Say Anything…
Scarface
School Daze
Scrooged
Secret Honor
Seeing Red
Seems Like Old Times
September
Serpico
Seventeen
sex, lies, and videotape
Sherman's March
She’s Gotta Have It
Shock Treatment
Short Circuit
Shy People
Sid & Nancy
Sidewalk Stories
Signal 7
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Silkwood
Silverado
Sixteen Candles
Sleepwalk
Slumber Party Massacre
S.O.B.
Soldier Girls
Some Kind of Wonderful
Something Wild
Somewhere in Time
Songwriter
Sophie's Choice
Soul Man
Southern Comfort
Spaceballs
Splash
Stand and Deliver
Stand by Me
Star 80
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Stardust Memories
Starman
Static
Stop Making Sense
Straight to Hell
Stranger Than Paradise
Streamers
Streets of Fire
Streetwise
Stripes
Style Wars
Suburbia
Sudden Impact
Superman II
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Surf Nazis Must Die
Surname Viet Given Name Nam
Surviving Desire
Sweet Dreams
Swimming to Cambodia

Talk Radio
Tanner '88
Tapeheads
Teen Wolf
Tender Mercies
Terms of Endearment
Testament
That's Dancing!
The Abyss
The Accidental Tourist
The Accused
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Atomic Cafe
The Beast of War
The Big Chill
The Big Red One
The Blues Brothers
The Border
The Brave Little Toaster
The Breakfast Club
The Brother From Another Planet
The ‘Burbs
The Chipmunk Adventure
The Color of Money
The Color Purple
The Compleat Beatles
The Cotton Club
The Dark Crystal
The Day After Trinity
The Dead
The Dead Zone
The Decline of Western Civilization
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II
The Dream Team
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
The Evil Dead
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Flight of Dragons
The Fly
The Fog
The Fox and the Hound
The Funhouse
The Glass Menagerie
The Goonies
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Outdoors
The Hitcher
The Howling
The Ice Pirates
The Karate Kid
The Killing of America
The King of Comedy
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Unicorn
The Legend of Billie Jean
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
The Little Mermaid
The Long Riders
The Loveless
The Mighty Quinn
The Moderns
The Money Pit
The Monster Squad
The Mosquito Coast
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Naked Gun
The Natural
The NeverEnding Story (Germany/US?)
The New Kids
The Ninth Configuration
The Outsiders
The Pirates of Penzance
The Plague Dogs
The Princess Bride
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Return of the Living Dead
The Right Stuff
The Secret of NIMH
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Shining
The Statue of Liberty
The Store
The Stunt Man
The Sure Thing
The Terminator
The Thin Blue Line
The Thing
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Transformers: The Movie
The Trip to Bountiful
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbelievable Truth**
The Untouchables
The Verdict
The War of the Roses
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
The Whales of August
The World According to Garp
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
They All Laughed
They Live
Thief
Things Change
This is Elvis
This is Spinal Tap
Three Bewildered People in the Night
Tightrope
Tin Men
To Live and Die in L.A.
Top Gun
Top Secret!
Tootsie
Torch Song Trilogy
Tough Guys Don’t Dance
Trading Places
Tremors
Tron
Trouble in Mind
True Stories
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Turk 182!
Twice Upon a Time

U2: Rattle and Hum
Uncle Buck
Under Fire
Under the Volcano
UHF
Used Cars

Valley Girl
Vampire’s Kiss
Variety
Vernon, Florida
Victory

Waiting for the Moon
Walker
Wall Street
WarGames
Weekend at Bernies
Weird Science
What Sex Am I?
When Harry Met Sally...
White Dog
Who Am I This Time?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Whose Life is it Anyway?
Wild Style
Willow
Witness
Working Girl

X: The Unheard Music

Year of the Dragon
Youngblood

Zelig
Zoot Suit
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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 12:27:21 PM »
I was just thinking yesterday (possibly as a result of those year-by-year polls) how maybe it's not too early to start brainstorming titles for the 80s US bracket.  I might personally be more interested in the Europe one, but I think it's better to always have one US bracket going on, where people are more likely to have preexisting rooting interests in multiple films.

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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2008, 12:49:30 PM »
After seeing the year-by-year polls, I'm most interested in the 80s. I had seen most of the films from the 90s and it was more interesting to read the verdicts having seen them before.
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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2008, 01:23:22 PM »
I'm probably most interested in doing 90's Europe, but 80's US would be good too.

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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2008, 02:27:21 PM »
Well we all know that Trainspotting will win the 90's Europe bracket so...

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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2008, 02:32:40 PM »
The 70s and 80s are awful.

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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2008, 03:05:21 PM »
The 70s and 80s are awful.

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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2008, 03:13:24 PM »
Well we all know that Trainspotting will win the 90's Europe bracket so...

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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2008, 04:05:28 PM »

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Re: Next Bracket
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2008, 04:16:04 PM »
80s US sounds like fun. The 70s have been done to death.
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