Temporal Top Ten – 1986

 

 

 

Number of movies seen from this year – 124
Number of movies reviewed – 111 (including 13 Encore Reviews)

Being that I was only 12 in 1986, only 5 of these movies were seen in the theater, the other 5 (#8, #5, #4, #2 and #1) were seen on cable or video in the few years afterwards.

I had a lot of trouble deciding between #1 and #2, so I truly believe that it’s close to a virtual tie between the two but my #1 is more powerful overall so it wins by a (very small) nose.

You will notice that only 1 Oscar Best Picture nominee appears on this list and that’s because I really found the other 3 that I’ve seen to not be as good as my other 9 choices.  The final BP nominee “A Room With a View” is still on my watchlist, so as of now, I can’t say whether it deserves to be on this list or not.

My Top Ten

10. Brighton Beach Memoirs

9. Three Amigos

8. Running Scared

7. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

6. Top Gun

5. Hoosiers

4. Aliens

3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off2. Platoon

1. Stand By Me

 

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 1986

1. 8 Million Ways to Die
2. 9½ Weeks
3. 52 Pick-Up
4. About Last Night…
5. The Adventures of Milo and Otis
6. Aliens    Encore Review
7. American Anthem
8. An American Tail
9. Armed and Dangerous
10. As Summers Die
11. At Close Range
12. Avenging Force
13. Back to School
14. Band of the Hand
15. The Best of Times
16. Big Easy, The
17. Big Trouble in Little China
18. Black Moon Rising
19. Blue City
20. Blue Velvet
21. The Boy Who Could Fly
22. Brighton Beach Memoirs
23. Children of a Lesser God
24. Choke Canyon a.k.a. On Dangerous Ground
25. Clan of the Cave Bear, The
26. Club Paradise
27. Cobra
28. The Color of Money
29. Crimes of the Heart
30. “Crocodile” Dundee
31. The Delta Force
32. Desert Bloom
33. Down and Out in Beverly Hills
34. Every Time We Say Goodbye
35. F/X
36. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off       Encore Review
37. Firewalker
38. Flight of the Navigator
39. The Fly
40. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
41. The Golden Child
42. Gothic
43. The Great Mouse Detective
44. Gung Ho
45. Hamburger… The Motion Picture
46. Hannah and Her Sisters
47. Haunted Honeymoon
48. Heartbreak Ridge
49. Heartburn
50. Heat
51. Highlander
52. Hitcher, The
53. Hoosiers
54. Howard the Duck
55. Iron Eagle
56. Jake Speed
57. Jean de Florette
58. Jo Jo Dancer
59. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
60. Just Between Friends
61. The Karate Kid, Part II
62. Labyrinth
63. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
64. Legal Eagles
65. Let’s Get Harry
66. Little Shop of Horrors
67. Lucas
68. The Manhattan Project
69. Manhunter
70. Manon of the Spring
71. Maximum Overdrive
72. Meatballs III: Summer Job
73. The Mission
74. Modern Girls
75. Mona Lisa
76. The Money Pit
77. The Morning After
78. The Mosquito Coast
79. Murphy’s Law
80. The Name of the Rose
81. ‘night, Mother
82. Night of the Creeps
83. No Mercy
84. Nothing in Common
85. One Crazy Summer
86. Opposing Force
87. Out of Bounds
88. Peggy Sue Got Married
89. Platoon                                   Encore Review       Encore Review 2
90. Police Academy 3: Back in Training
91. Poltergeist II: The Other Side
92. Power
93. Pretty in Pink
94. Quicksilver
95. Raw Deal
96. Robin Williams: A Night at the Met
97. The River’s Edge
98. Running Scared
99. Ruthless People
100. Salvador
101. Shanghai Surprise
102. She’s Gotta Have It
103. Short Circuit
104. Shtei Etzbaot Mi’Tzidon (aka Ricochets)
105. Sid and Nancy
106. Solarbabies
107. Something Wild
108. Soul Man
109. SpaceCamp
110. Stand by Me      Encore Review     Encore Review 2   Encore Review 3 Encore Review 4  Encore Review 5 6 7
111. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home  Encore Review
112. Stewardess School
113. Streets of Gold
114. Sweet Liberty
115. Sword of Gideon
116. That’s Life!
117. ¡Three Amigos!
118. Top Gun   Encore Review
119. Tough Guys
120. The Transformers: The Movie
121. Wildcats
122. Wisdom
123. The Wraith
124. Youngblood