1987: My Top Ten Favorite Movies By Year

1136   8   8.4 

"How tall are you private?"
"Sir, five foot nine, sir!"
"Five foot nine? I didn't know they stacked sh#t that high! You tryin' to squeeze an inch in on me somewhere, huh?"
" Sir, no sir!"
"Bullsh#t! It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you been cheated! Where in the hell are you from anyway, private?"
"Sir, Texas, sir!"
"Holy dog sh#t! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?"
"Sir, no sir!"
"Are you a peter puffer?"
"Sir, no sir!"
"I'll bet you're the kinda guy that would f#ck a person in the ass and not even have the godd@mn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you."



With dialogue like that, that's all I need to make this movie number one on this list.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

350   6.7   7.5 

For me, this is John Candy's best movie role (& yeah, that includes Uncle Buck). He does an excellent job of portraying a pain in the ass who can touch a person's last nerve & yet in the end, have just enough pull at their heartstrings to make him endurable. Plus, his comedic chemistry here with Steve Martin is impeccible.
For me, this is the only holiday movie that I consider as a true Thanksgiving movie. Therefore, in addition to the football game,
I consider Planes, Trains & Automobiles as a must see on my television set every year on that final Thursday of November.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

603   6.7   7 

Okay, let's just forget the vampires in this movie for a second.....
Any movie that can feature a Corey in it, let alone two, & still come off as cool,
well, that would be a movie that surely had to have been touched by the hand of God.
I wouldn't be surprised if the director, Joel Schumacher was actually the Christ in his Second Coming ( I mean seriously.... Jesus did rise from the dead after 3 days, often spoke of drinking his blood, & simple logic would dictate that he would have developed an aversion to wooden crosses....
so, you'know.... it all fits....)

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

341   7.2   7.9 

The end of not just an ancient & epic era in Chinese history, but probably in world history, also. Depicted through the life a young boy, then man, born into the role of monarchy, yet powerless but to sit on a thrown & watch it happen in front of him.
Told with expansive & colorful scenery, The Last Emperor is an almost quiet yet sweeping story of a life that begins royally in a dynastic palace & yet ends modestly in a humble garden.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

73   6.5   7 

A funny and smart inside-out look into the dynamics of stilted relationships within the modern (well, modern for it's time) workplace of the media.
A love triangle consisting of three career-minded personalities in the fast-paced & often frenetic atmosphere of a newsroom, trying to walk a tightrope between love & ladder-climbing.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

234   6.7   7.3 

Greed is good.
But only if you don't take on a young punk upstart like Charlie Sheen as a prodigy, only so's he can frame you later on after you screw him on a big business deal.
But beyond that,
it's still good.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

437   7.1   7.5 

Babynapping (napping as as in kidnapping, not baby napping) at it's finest. By far, my favorite Nick Cage performance. And also by far, the funniest movie in the whole of the sublimely funny hick movie genre. (Which, BTW, is a genre that I really don't how to clearly define. Which is why I like to categorize Coen Bros. film in it.)

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

92   6.7   6.7 

Uhmnnn....
on this site, it's cool to admit to liking a John Hughes movie, right?
If it isn't, then I'm hoping I guessed right when I figured that by puttin' up a buncha "my top ten favorite movie" lists here on Listal, with so many favorite lists by another members up already, no one would really read mine, & therefore, I can feel completely safe with expressing some of these guilty pleasures without fear of being pointed & then laffed at.
And if by the rare chance, someone out there IS reading this, pleease don't tell me.
Cuz, I would literally die of embarrassment.
Or at least, suffer a massive corony of embarrassment.
And even though I do have one of the made-for-the home emergency mini difibulator kits in the house, I can't find the instructions anywhere.
It came with the kit, but I just don't know what I did with it.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

721   7.6   8 

I'll be honest; I've never held Brian DePalma in as high regard as his reputation as a filmmaker has become. Mind you, I don't think he's bad. I just don't think that he's at the pantheon level of directors that he seems to be held at.
To me, his skills as a director, though usually capable, mostly seems a bit simplistic, particularly when it comes to intrepreting the story on screen.
This simplicity, however, merges well with the feel & attitude of this particular movie. Under other hands, the Untouchables could've easily come off as a shallow noir-ish mess. But with DePalma's method of storytelling, in the end, it becomes something more like a film version & modern update of those old EC crime comicbooks from the 1950's.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

124   6.3   6.6 

A biopic of Ritchie Valens, one of the musical artists who's aspiring career was cut short on the day that the music died.
It's not only a story of how a teenage boy rose from migrant worker to rock star by winning the hearts of the music world with songs like "La Bamba", but also of how Valens won the heart of the love of his all too brief life, which provided the inspiration for his biggest hit "Donna".

The Mighty Celestial's rating: