The Best and Worst of 1985

 

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Another year of Thoughts On has come to an end. Read my ballot and post your own (or question my choices) in the comments.

Thoughts on A Chorus Line (and some Chicago)

 

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"First of all, let's get one thing straight: I never heard of The Red Shoes, I never saw The Red Shoes, I don't give a shit about The Red Shoes ..."

Thoughts on Trouble in Mind

 

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"Well, I'll say this for you: when you decide to be a jerk, you really do it well."

Thoughts on Smooth Talk

 

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"I look at you, I look right in your eyes ... and all I see are a bunch of trashy daydreams."

(Connie (Laura Dern), recipient of a major dismissal by mom Katherine (Mary Kay Place), is later warned about the consequences of promiscuity. She takes the opportunity to also hit below the belt.)

"You were none too careful yourself, were you? Like you're some example to try to tell me. *is slapped* ... You make me wanna laugh."

Thoughts on The Bride

 

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"A better piece of work altogether, my dear Baron, than your previous efforts."

Thoughts on The Stuff

 

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"Is that dinner?"

"We're dieting! I've lost five pounds this week and I've never felt better."

"Why are you talking like you're on a commercial?"

Thoughts on The Trip to Bountiful

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"I didn't used to worry. When I was young, I was so carefree. I had lots to worry me, too. Everybody was so poor back in Bountiful, but we got along. I said to my papa once, after our third crop failure in a row, 'Who ever named this place 'Bountiful'?" He said his papa did. In those days, it was the land of plenty. You just dropped seeds in the ground and those crops would spring up. We had cotton and corn and sugar cane. I think it's the prettiest place I ever heard of. Jessie Mae says it's the ugliest, but she only says that to bother me. Now, she only saw it once, and that was on a rainy day at that. She says it's nothing but an old swamp. 'That may be,' I said, 'but it's a might pretty swamp to me.'"

Thoughts on Brazil

 

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"He hadn't done anything. He was good! *tears refund check* What have you done with his BODY?! *prolonged hysterical sobbing*"
"This isn't being very helpful. ... I didn't have to come here you know, Mrs. Buttle."

Thoughts on The Color Purple

 

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*Easter 1936. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) has spent nearly 30 years in an abusive marriage to Mister (Danny Glover) and she's had it. Mister tells Shug (Margaret Avery), who both he and Celie love, that the latter will leave over his dead body.*
"(to Celie) ... Now what's wrong with you?"
"You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. It's time for me to get away from you and into creation. And your dead body be just the welcome mat I need."

Thoughts on Out of Africa

 

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"I don't know the scientific basis for it, but I know you can see further in the African night than any other place. And the stars are brighter."

Thoughts on The Jewel of the Nile

 

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*Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) and Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), suspended over a pit, have learned the ropes that bind them will be gnawed on by blood-hungry rats and destroyed by acid, respectively.*

"What kind of sick pervert would go to this trouble? Why don't you shoot us?"

"Jack ..."

"I mean, what kind of ... demented psychopath would even think of this?"

"The Savage Secret."

"What?"

"It was my biggest seller."

Thoughts on Clue

 

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"Just checking."
"Everything alright?"
"Yep. Two corpses. Everything's fine."

Thoughts on Young Sherlock Holmes

 

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"What have I got myself into?"
"The adventure of a lifetime, Watson."

Thoughts on Spies Like Us

 

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"You know, I must really like you, because I don't like horses and I hate guns!"

Thoughts on Santa Claus: The Movie

 

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"The prophecy has come to pass, that there would come to us a chosen one. And that he, having no child of his own, would love all children, everywhere. And that he himself would be an artisan and a craftsman and a skilled ... maker of toys. And now, chosen one, come forth. ... *takes him in* Hmm ... From this day on, now and forever, you will bring our gifts to all the children in all the world. And all this to be done on Christmas Eve."

Thoughts on One Magic Christmas

 

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"If anyone says another thing about Christmas to me, I'm gonna throw something at them and I mean it!"

Thoughts on Rocky IV

 

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"The National Board of Education's 'Write the Script to Rocky IV Before You See the Movie" contest had to be cancelled this week when 1,752 entries tied for first place, correctly duplicating the written screenplay right down to the last comma." -- Dennis Miller, SNL, 1985

Thoughts on White Nights

 

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*Raymond (Gregory Hines) has bet Nikolai (Mikhail Baryshnikov) in order to get him to do some ballet*
"Eleven rubles. Eleven pirouettes."
"Eleven rubles. ... Okay. ... Can you count?"
"Yeah. Don't worry. Just spin."

Thoughts on Runaway Train

 

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"Hey, look. Look here."
"What?"
"There's my limousine to Broadway right there."
"Why? ... Why that one?"
"'Cause I want it."

Thoughts on Once Bitten

 

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"How many days left until Halloween, Sebastian?"
"Oh, a little more than a week, Countess. I told you not to worry."
"Not to worry? How amusing. But then, you're not the one who needs to have the virgin blood of a young man not once, but three times before All Hollows Eve. Not to worry? Being a vampire in the 20th century is a nightmare!"
"Did we get up on the wrong side of the coffin this evening?"