My Favorite Films of 1987

"Look at your reflection in the mirror. You're a creature of the night Michael, just like out of a comic book! You're a vampire Michael! My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire. You wait 'till mom finds out, buddy!"

Directed by Joel Schumacher
Written by Jan Fischer, James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography by Michael Chapman
Editing by Robert Brown

"Edwina's insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Written by Joel and Ethan Coen
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography by Barry Sonnenfeld
Editing by Michael R. Miller

"If it bleeds, we can kill it."

Directed by John McTiernan
Written by Jim Thomas and John Thomas
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography by Donald McAlpine
Editing by Mark Helfrich and John F. Link

"You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the Chicago way!"

Directed by Brian De Palma
Written by David Mamet
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by Stephen H. Burum
Editing by Gerald B. Greenberg and Bill Pankow

"You're not trying to draw a psycho pension! You really are crazy!"

Directed by Richard Donner
Written by Shane Black
Music by Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen
Cinematography by Stephen Goldblatt
Editing by Stuart Baird

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Directed by Rob Reiner
Written by William Goldman
Music by Mark Knopfler
Cinematography by Adrian Biddle
Editing by Robert Leighton

"Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"

Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner
Music by Basil Poledouris
Cinematography by Jost Vacano
Editing by Frank J. Urioste

"You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you... but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I'm not changing. I like... I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get."

Directed by John Hughes
Written by John Hughes
Music by Ira Newborn
Cinematography by Donald Peterman
Editing by Paul Hirsch

"Now, if there's anything I can do for you..."
"Well, I certainly hope you'll die soon."

Directed by James L. Brooks
Written by James L. Brooks
Music by Bill Conti
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Richard Marks

"We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"?"

Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Sam Raimi and Scott Spiegel
Music by Joseph LoDuca
Cinematography by Peter Deming
Editing by Kaye Davis

"They say there's enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love."

Directed by Alan Parker
Written by Alan Parker
Music by Trevor Jones
Cinematography by Michael Seresin
Editing by Gerry Hambling

"You are in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history."

Directed by Barry Levinson
Written by Mitch Markowitz
Music by Alex North
Cinematography by Peter Sova
Editing by Stu Linder

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

Directed by Emile Ardolino
Written by Eleanor Bergstein
Music by John Morris
Cinematography by Jeffrey Jur
Editing by Peter C. Frank

"We have such sights to show you!"

Directed by Clive Barker
Written by Clive Barker
Music by Christopher Young
Cinematography by Robin Vidgeon
Editing by Richard Marden and Tony Randel

"Welcome to prime time, bitch!"

Directed by Chuck Russell
Written by Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner, Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont
Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography by Roy H. Wagner
Editing by Terry Stokes and Chuck Weiss

"I think it's unwise to use movies as a guide for reality. Don't you, Inspector?"
"Depends what you mean by reality."

Directed by Dario Argento
Written by Dario Argento and Franco Ferrini
Music by Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Steel Grave, Claudio Simonetti and Bill Wyman
Cinematography by Ronnie Taylor
Editing by Franco Fraticelli

"Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none."

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Written by Kathryn Bigelow and Eric Red
Music by Tangerine Dream
Cinematography by Adam Greenberg
Editing by Howard E. Smith

"Because I'm driving you crazy and you're driving me crazy and I'd rather not see you and have you think good things about me than have you see me and hate me. 'Cause I can't afford to have you hate me, Keith. The only things I care about in this goddamn life are me and my drums and you."

Directed by Howard Deutch
Written by John Hughes
Music by Stephen Hague and John Musser
Cinematography by Jan Kiesser
Editing by Bud S. Smith and M. Scott Smith

"Where are you going?"
"I'm gonna kill the bitch. You want something?"

Directed by Danny DeVito
Written by Stu Silver
Music by David Newman
Cinematography by Barry Sonnenfeld
Editing by Michael Jablow

"I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you."

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford
Music by Vivian Kubrick
Cinematography by Douglas Milsome
Editing by Martin Hunter

"Suppose what your faith has said is essentially correct. Suppose there is a universal mind controlling everything, a god willing the behavior of every subatomic particle. Well, every particle has an anti-particle, its mirror image, its negative side. Maybe this universal mind resides in the mirror image instead of in our universe as we wanted to believe. Maybe he's anti-god, bringing darkness instead of light."

Directed by John Carpenter
Written by John Carpenter
Music by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Steve Mirkovich

"It's not your fault if you don't love me and its not my fault if I love you."

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Music by Ángel Luis Fernández
Cinematography by José Salcedo
Editing by Javier Fernández

"I think your sweetheart's been taking too many diet pills."

Directed by Deborah Brock
Written by Deborah Brock
Music by Richard Cox
Cinematography by Thomas L. Callaway
Editing by William Flicker

"I'll live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!"

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Written by Steven E. de Souza
Music by Harold Faltermeyer and Vassal Benford
Cinematography by Thomas Del Ruth
Editing by Mark Warner, Edward A. Warschilka and John Wright

"Well, what am I supposed to do? You won't answer my calls, you change your number. I mean, I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan!"

Directed by Adrian Lyne
Written by James Dearden
Music by Maurice Jarre
Cinematography by Howard Atherton
Editing by Peter E. Berger and Michael Kahn