Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

[kingrat]

I have never seen some of the better-known films of this year, like The Last Emperor, Hope and Glory, and Empire of the Sun.

Movie Dialogue of the Year, from Broadcast News:

Producer (sarcastically, to Holly Hunter): It must be wonderful, always being the smartest person in the room.
Holly: No. It's terrible.

Favorites:

Broadcast News
Moonstruck
Babette's Feast
Raising Arizona
The Princess Bride
Black Widow

Stinky the Skunk Award:

Made in Heaven

[LawrenceA]

Lawrence, you have made my day. I never knew that there was a movie called Crazy Fat Ethel, but knowing that there is a sequel called Crazy Fat Ethel 2 restores my faith in humanity!

I'm not sure of the provenance, but part 1 was generally released as Criminally Insane in 1975. The sequel's original title was Criminally Insane 2, but it was released on video as Crazy Fat Ethel 2.

[Swithin]

1987, ten favorites, in alphabetical order. One of the great years, with three all-time favorites:*

Au Revoir les Enfants
Babette’s Feast
Crazy Love (The best Belgian movie ever made.)
The Dead*
Full Metal Jacket
Hellraiser
The Last Emperor
Maurice*
Prick Up Your Ears
Radio Days*



Extra nod to:

The Whales of August, for assembling a great, classical cast.
Ishtar, for that scene with the vultures.

[Feinberg]

1987

Of the 158 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ...

Raising Arizona
Full Metal Jacket
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Barfly
Pelle the Conqueror
The Fourth Protocol
Radio Days
Wall Street
Moonstruck
Broadcast News
The Last Emperor
Tin Men
Little Dorrit
Hope and Glory
Robocop
White Mischief
Dark Eyes
The Princess Bride
The Untouchables
Matewan
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Prick Up Your Ears
Personal Services
Gardens of Stone
Three O'clock High
Suspect
The Grand Highway
House of Games
Cry Freedom
Nadine
Street Smart
Babette's Feast
Lethal Weapon
No Way Out
The Witches of Eastwick
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll!
Au Revoir Les Enfants

and here are some that I did not care for at all ...

Blind Date
Straight to Hell
Ishtar
Empire of the Sun
The Darkside
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Zombie Nightmare
The Gate
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
Anna
Goofballs
White of the Eye
Track 29
Into the Fire
The Trouble With Spies
Man on Fire
Drowning by Numbers
A Month In the Country
Deadly Descent
The Interrogation of John
A Prayer For the Dying
Moscow Elegy
Yeelen
Stagefright
The Belly of an Architect
Nice Girls Don't Explode
The Key

[LawrenceA]

Barfly

Every time I see that title, instead of "Bar-fly", I read it as "Barf-ly".

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Films seen 1987- 66. I was seeing a lot of films during this time, so my worst list is longer than usual because I going to see anything that came out.

Best

Full Metal Jacket
The Untouchables
Robocop
Angel Heart
The Hidden
Dragnet
The Fourth Protocol

Worst

Fatal Beauty
Siesta
Burglar
Creepshow 2
The Monster Squad
The Lost Boys
I've Heard The Mermaids Singing
The Sicilian
Innerspace

[skimpole]

I've seen at least 52 movies from 1987. Here are my favorites:

1. Angel Heart
2. The Princess Bride
3. The Last Emperor
4. The Empire of the Sun
5. Hope and Glory
6. My Life as a Dog*
7. Inner Space
8. Where is the Friend’s Home?
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Housekeeping
11. Yeelen
12. Radio Days
13. House of Games
14. Wings of Desire

[CinemaInternational]

Now we go deep into the era of the flavorful early talkies with the stand-out year of 1932. The next year up will be 1963.

1932

Films Seen:161

The Best:

1 Trouble in Paradise
2 Broken Lullaby
3 Jewel Robbery
4 Red Dust
5 Three on a Match
6 Million Dollar Legs
7 Hot Saturday
8 Grand Hotel
9 Emma
10 Horse Feathers
11 Blonde Venus
12 Love Me Tonight
13 Forbidden
14 Frisco Jenny
15 Make Me a Star
16 One Hour with You
17 One Way Passage
18 If I Had a Million
19 Merrily We Go to Hell
20 A Bill of Divorcement
21 A Farewell to Arms
22 Rain
23 The Trial of Vivienne Ware
24 The Sign of the Cross
25 The Old Dark House
26 Life Begins
27 Movie Crazy
28 Once in a Lifetime
29 The Penguin Pool Murder
30 Strange Interlude
31 So Big
32 Polly of the Circus
33 Prosperity
34 Shanghai Express
35 American Madness
36 I Was Born, But....
37 Back Street
38 The Animal Kingdom
39 Smilin' Through
40 Night After Night
41 Two Seconds
42 The Purchase Price
43 As You Desire Me
44 Downstairs
45 I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
46 Speak Easily
47 You Said a Mouthful
48 Freaks
49 Shopworn
50 Madame Butterfly

No Worst this year. Everything is enjoyable at the least.

[LawrenceA]

1932 (158 seen)

Favorites
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Scarface
Downstairs
Fanny
Freaks
Grand Hotel
Horse Feathers
I Was Born, But...
Island of Lost Souls
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy
The Old Dark House
One Way Passage
The Red Head
So Big
Vampyr
Wooden Crosses

Likes
Air Mail
American Madness
The Animal Kingdom
Arsene Lupin
The Beast of the City
Blonde Venus
The Blood of a Poet
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Chandu the Magician
Cynara
The Dark Horse
Devil and the Deep
Doctor X
Forbidden
Hell's Highway
If I Had a Million
Kongo
Love Me Tonight
The Man Who Played God
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Me and My Gal
Merrily We Go to Hell
Million Dollar Legs
The Mistress of Atlantis
Night After Night
Night Court
No Blood Relation
No Man of Her Own
One Hour with You
Payment Deferred
The Penguin Pool Murder
Red Dust
Red-Headed Woman
Shanghai Express
Smilin' Through
State's Attorney
Strangers in Love
Tarzan the Ape Man
This Is the Night
Three on a Match
Trouble in Paradise
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Two Seconds
Virtue
The Wedding Rehearsal
What Price Hollywood?
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
White Zombie
Young America

Least Favorites
Get That Girl
Haunted Gold

[Detective Jim McLeod]

1932 films seen-21

Best

The Old Dark House
Horse Feathers
Three On A Match
The Most Dangerous Game
Blessed Event

Worst

The Death Kiss
Sinners In The Sun

[Feinberg]

1932

Of the 73 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ...

Scarface
Shanghai Express
Grand Hotel
Horse Feathers
I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Million Dollar Legs
Rain
If I Had a Million
What Price Hollywood?
Trouble In Paradise
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Island of Lost Souls
Air Mail
Boudo Saved From Drowning
The Mummy
The Old Dark House
One Hour With You
The Phantom President
American Madness
A Farewell to Arms
Love Me Tonight
Blonde Venus
Red Dust
Movie Crazy
Freaks
Madame Butterfly
The Most Dangerous Game

and here are some that I did not care for at all ...

Chandu, the Magician
Rich and Strange
Three on a Match
White Zombie
The Spirit of the West
Who Killed Harvey Forbes

[kingrat]

1932:

Name of the Year: Moonyean (the heroine of Smilin' Through)

Favorites:

Shanghai Express
Trouble in Paradise
Horse Feathers
Grand Hotel
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Scarface
Three on a Match

Also liked:

A Farewell to Arms
Jewel Robbery
Me and My Gal
One Way Passage
Penguin Pool Murders
Red Dust
So Big
Thirteen Women

Stinky the Skunk Award:

Smilin' Through

[LostHorizons]

For 1932

*Hyppolit the Butler (It has a 1932 release date for US and rest of Europe. It is by far my favorite film of this year.)
*Virgins of Bali
*Kriss
*The Mummy
*Red Dust
*Freaks

My tastes tend more towards B movies and foreign fare as you may tell. I have also seen “I was Born But” by Ozu but I didn’t like it very much. It was a melodrama, family film I found boring.

[Swithin]

1932: Ten Favorites

Blonde Venus
Frisco Jenny
Freaks
Grand Hotel
Horse Feathers
Island of Lost Souls
Love Me Tonight
The Mummy
The Old Dark House
One Way Passage


Noteworthy for some aspect of the film:

Las Hurdes, an early mockumentary
Million Dollar Legs for Lyda Roberti and her song
Shanghai Express for Eugene Pallette and Warner Oland on the train
The Son-Daughter for its portrayal of a strong woman
Vampyr for its dreamlike quality
White Zombie for its portrayal of a funeral at the crossroads

[kingrat]

CinemaInternational, are we ready to begin with 1963?