Depicting the rise and the fall of a immigrant drug lord, Scarface’s huge foot print in the pop culture is admirable, but the same vast fame outshines the film itself.
Category: 1983
#295 Easy Money (1983)
Rodney Dangerfield plays his trademark mouth-running bum role in an absolutely irresistible way, too bad everything else in this shoddy movie is sub average.
#292 Dirty Harry: Sudden Impact (1983)
Notable for coining the phrase ’Go ahead, make my day’, Sudden Impact is the 80s sequel to the 70s Dirty Harry series and survives total oblivion only due to amazing Eastwood.
#286 All the Right Moves (1983)
All The Right Moves captures well the essence of a small steel town and its inhabitants, but as a movie it’s suffers from being on the dull side with no high nor low points.
#283 Sahara (1983)
Cheesy and soap-opera like, Sahara takes after old black and white romance adventure movies of the 1930’s and is to movies what Harlequin novels are to the books.
#260 Cujo (1983)
While the plot isn’t anything special, Cujo pulls off the almost impossible task of turning a lean shot-in-the-daytime saint bernhard into a vicious killer in a scaringly convincing way.
#256 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
More Muppet Show and uneven than the previous installation, Return of the Jedi is without a doubt a great scifi adventure and a glorious ending for the saga.
#241 Christine (1983)
A movie about a demonic killer car, Christine’s story is literally so unbelievable that not even Carpenter’s convincing direction can make the plot feel plausible.
#228 Q The Winged Serpent (1982)
A monster movie very much in the vein of Godzilla and King Kong, Q The Winged Serpent is an unique experience that succeeds to make the best out of its low budget and the shoddy manuscript.
#216 Jaws 3-D (1983)
Made solely to demonstrate an obscure 3D tech and to milk on its predecessor, Jaws 3D is made for all the wrong motives and remains a forgotten film for a very good reason.
#183 Tender Mercies (1983)
Robert Duvall excels as a drunken retired country singer in a modern cowboy drama that does everything in its own beautiful, slow-paced, subtle and non-underlining way.
#175 Get Crazy (1983)
Get Crazy cooks up a mix of crazy comedy, backstage madness and musical numbers in a fascinating and fun way. It’s a party and everybody’s invited!
#169 Dorothy Stratten trilogy: Star 80 (1983)
Released two years after the tragic incident, Star 80 is clearly more refined and superior one of the two feature movie made about the story of Dorothy Stratten.
This time around the ground work is well made and both Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts portray the characters faithfully. Hemingway has that innocent small town girl look and feel to her and Roberts gets much deeper to the Snider’s persona of a small time crook with his sickly fixation to make it big.
Roberts’ stellar performance encapsulates Snider not only as an unlikeable and possessive creep, but also as a man struggling with his sense or inferiority and there are many scenes you can’t help but to feel sorry for him, even knowing what he did in the end.
The tragic story of Dorothy Stratten, the playmate and a star on the rise deserved to be told the right way – and Star 80 does just that
#153 The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Sure, The Man with Two Brains sometimes feels more like a collection of loose jokes instead of an actual movie – but the jokes alone are funny enough to justify watching the movie.
80s-o-meter: 85%
Total: 83%
#72 The Right Stuff (1983)
An epic and glorious adventure film and a story of some incredibly heroic individuals pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
80s-o-meter: 13%
Total: 87%
#66 Christmas 2014: A Christmas Story (1983)
A modern classic that encapsulates in a beautiful and hilarious way what it feels to be a kid during the Christmas better than any movie before or after it.
80s-o-meter: 15%
Total: 94%
#59 The Outsiders (1983)
Although a bit uneven and rushed in some scenes, Coppola’s young all-star coming-to-age movie is a beautiful story of rebellion, friendship, forgiveness – and loss.
80s-o-meter: 5%
Total:81
#25 D.C. Cab (1983)
Harmless eighties fun with a top notch cast and a nonexistent plot. Should be on your watch list for the Mr. T alone!
80s-o-meter: 89%
Total: 68%
#5 Full Moon High (1981)
Like the t-shirt in the poster suggests, Full Moon High is a werewolf movie based on the campy 50s I Was a Teenage Werewolf teen flick, and a some kind of parody at that.
Not having seen the original movie, the parody part escapes me, but otherwise Full Moon High is kind of a crazy comedy done in the vein of Airplane. There are a few small chuckles to be had, but the writing is nowhere sharp enough to warrant all the nonsense we’re seeing on the screen.
The comedic concept of Full Moon High was picked up again four years later with pretty much the same, uninspired concept in perhaps even more mediocre, but more commercially succesful Teen Wolf. People’s fascination with werewolves has always totally escaped me, and Full Moon High nothing but strengthens my opinion at the subject.
80s-o-meter: 55%
Total: 58%