I do have to praise Scanners for being an interesting concept and a valiant effort to do something different, but the remaining 89 minutes of the movie just never live up to its famous head explosion bit
80s-o-meter: 78%
Total: 68%
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#584 Urban Cowboy (1980)
Travolta delivers a solid blue collar, wanna-be cowboy performance, but the unlikeable, immature characters in this love triangle make one wish none of them never ended up together
80s-o-meter: 55%
Total: 58%
#583 Broadcast News (1987)
Smart without being smart-alecky, funny without being a farce and emotional without being sappy, James L. Brook’s Broadcast News is a love triangle well worth your time
80s-o-meter: 86%
Total: 93%
#407 Some Kind of Hero (1982)
A P.O.W. returns from Vietnam to find out nothing is going his way back home in a badly paced mess of a movie that tries a bit of everything and misses all of its opportunities.
#385 Mutant aka Forbidden World (1982)
Mutant, a 1982 Alien ripoff replaces the alien with a fatter one and throws in some tits, and at times seems to work, but the lack of originality and inspiration soon get the best of it.
#326 Xmas 2015: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
This infamous C-grade cult sequel would be rated so-bad-it’s-good if it didn’t recycle almost 40 of its material from the original movie. But it does – and hence the score.
#192 So Fine (1981)
Starts a little slow, gets disoriented fast, wonders around without direction for an hour and desperately tries to fill the remaining 30 minutes with whatever nonsense.
#191 Prince of Darkness
Unrelenting, eery and above all entertaining, John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness is heads and shoulders above the slasher horror movies of the era.
#190 White Water Summer (1987)
A wilderness instructor takes a bunch of kids too far in a adventure film that, although a bit eventless, manages to bring something new to the genre.
#189 Who’s That Girl (1987)
A totally underappreciated comedy gem with Madonna’s amazing soundtrack, some great action, wonderfully crafted characters and electric chemistry between the two leads.