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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 1987?

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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 1987? 31 votes

Lethal Weapon
3%
DerekJohnson 1 vote
The Last Emperor
6%
Doog_de_Jouralopeciadawg 2 votes
Wall Street
12%
RaceBannonAtomicDawgTequillaBleachedAnusDawg 4 votes
The Untouchables
0%
Raising Arizona
3%
chuck 1 vote
Full Metal Jacket
41%
SwayeRoadDawg55greenblooddfleaBad_MotherDuckerGrundleStiltzkinhuskyhooliganspudenNEsnake12YellowSnowRDRUSMChawkFishpo31 13 votes
Empire of The Sun
6%
Gladstonebiak1 2 votes
Good Morning Vietnam
0%
The Princess Bride
22%
Mad_SonYouKnowItalumni94PurpleThrobberLaocoönJoey1to392831weretaken 7 votes
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
3%
Neighbor2972 1 vote
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Full Metal Jacket
    Stronger year than I’d expected. Bride/Vietnam/Weapon. Last emperor is what it is, well made, never care to see again.

    I loved Untouchables back in the day, watched over & over as a kid. I saw it in the last five years, and did not feel like it holds up.
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,858
    The Princess Bride
    Too many classic quotes.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,673 Founders Club
    Wall Street
    Lunch is for wimps was a company motto
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,207 Founders Club
    Full Metal Jacket
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Stronger year than I’d expected. Bride/Vietnam/Weapon. Last emperor is what it is, well made, never care to see again.

    I loved Untouchables back in the day, watched over & over as a kid. I saw it in the last five years, and did not feel like it holds up.

    Untouchables has a little bit of Hollywood cheese but overall I think it holds up.
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,623
    Full Metal Jacket
    R. Lee Ermey.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    Empire of The Sun
    '37 was the Marco Polo bridge incident, '31 was the formal invasion and occupation of Manchuria though and the establishment of the Manchukuo regime. Shoutout to @Doog_de_Jour 's vote. I'm a massive Pacific Theater buff and will jump into the history board some day and roll the sleeves up.
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,858
    The Princess Bride
    YellowSnow said:

    Gladstone said:

    My real answer is The Princess Bride, but I had to cast a sentimental vote for this one.

    In my youth I was an expat kid living in Shanghai so I massively over-identified with this movie, and I find that time period (1920s-1945) in APAC endlessly fascinating. And horrifying.

    People forget WWII started in 1937. Am I right @CarlinHistoryBuff69 or am I right?

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,673 Founders Club
    Wall Street
    WW2 started at the end of WW1
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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2021
    The Last Emperor
    Gladstone said:

    '37 was the Marco Polo bridge incident, '31 was the formal invasion and occupation of Manchuria though and the establishment of the Manchukuo regime. Shoutout to @Doog_de_Jour 's vote. I'm a massive Pacific Theater buff and will jump into the history board some day and roll the sleeves up.

    Thanks Gladdy! Yes, the Pacific theater and APAC history needs mor pub...especially since countries like China, India, Vietnam, Russia, etc. are going to keep being such big influences on the globe. Important for people to understand how things got to how they currently are.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,670 Swaye's Wigwam
    Raising Arizona
    Rather easily.

    Full Metal Jacket and Princess Bride are also worthy.
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  • Neighbor2972
    Neighbor2972 Member Posts: 4,330
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,916 Swaye's Wigwam
    Full Metal Jacket
    Shout out to @89ute (and cake eating peter puffer rowers) for 3 o'clock high!



    Also Hooligan was a big fan of The Secret of my Success


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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,559
    Full Metal Jacket
    Normally, I'd think this lead should hold up, but after watching that 1988 Die Hard bullshit, I have zero faith in this board.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    The Princess Bride
    I expected to be called a pussy and be forced to lean in and own it. Shocked to see I'm not alone. I'm glad Raising Arizona got a vote: under the radar classic.

    FMJ is rad and quotable, but I quote TPB more than all but maybe two or three movies.

    I agree on The Untouchables. Used to be one of my favorites, but I watched it last year after learning my brother and his whole family/friend circle had never heard of it. I was all excited to bring them this kickass movie, then... thud. And I didn't blame them. Didn't hold up as well as I expected.
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  • biak1
    biak1 Member Posts: 4,237
    Empire of The Sun
    Gladstone said:

    My real answer is The Princess Bride, but I had to cast a sentimental vote for this one.

    In my youth I was an expat kid living in Shanghai so I massively over-identified with this movie, and I find that time period (1920s-1945) in APAC endlessly fascinating. And horrifying.

    Cadillac of the Sky!
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,744 Founders Club
    Good Morning Vietnam!!! I'm mean really there are good movies on the list but this comedy is as good today as it was then. When we were blowing the game against Utah this year and had the fucked up punt fiasco i had to put the game on pause and mix a bourbon and watch GMV with my wife to cheer myself up before watching the rest of the game.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,673 Founders Club
    Wall Street
    Kids died at Parris Island

    That first half of the movie is must watch
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Full Metal Jacket
    Swaye said:

    The deal with FMJ is it is the closest you can ever get to Marine Corps boot camp experience in that era. I know this because my Dad (RIP) was a Marine who arrived in Parris Island in 1961 for fun times with DIs. I watched this movie with him many years ago and he told me Boot Camp was EXACTLY like they filmed it. No Hollywood bullshit. Exact interpretation of that experience. Nobody but R Lee Ermey, or some other REAL former DI, could have pulled it off. It's perfection.

    Add to that 2 Live Crew sampling the hooker for "Me So Horny" and a legend is born.

    R Lee had an amazing appearance on Carolla pod in 2015, including stories of running a whorehouse not from the Marine base on Okinawa.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Full Metal Jacket
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Swaye said:

    The deal with FMJ is it is the closest you can ever get to Marine Corps boot camp experience in that era. I know this because my Dad (RIP) was a Marine who arrived in Parris Island in 1961 for fun times with DIs. I watched this movie with him many years ago and he told me Boot Camp was EXACTLY like they filmed it. No Hollywood bullshit. Exact interpretation of that experience. Nobody but R Lee Ermey, or some other REAL former DI, could have pulled it off. It's perfection.

    Add to that 2 Live Crew sampling the hooker for "Me So Horny" and a legend is born.

    R Lee had an amazing appearance on Carolla pod in 2015, including stories of running a whorehouse not far from the Marine base on Okinawa.
    * not far from, fyfmfe

    Anyone wants to listen, PM. I've save that one.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    Empire of The Sun
    biak1 said:

    Gladstone said:

    My real answer is The Princess Bride, but I had to cast a sentimental vote for this one.

    In my youth I was an expat kid living in Shanghai so I massively over-identified with this movie, and I find that time period (1920s-1945) in APAC endlessly fascinating. And horrifying.

    Cadillac of the Sky!

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  • spuden
    spuden Member Posts: 374
    Full Metal Jacket
    As everyone else has stated, opening of FMJ is amazing. But, I think the whole movie is great and will watch if I see it’s on regardless of where in the movie I happen to join. Princess Bride a not too distant second place for me.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    Wall Street
    Good Morning Vietnam and The Untouchables are great ...

    But have you not seen my avatar?
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