Temporal Top Ten – 1986

 

 

 

Number of movies seen from this year – 128
Number of movies reviewed – 119 (including 17 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   Encore Review 2
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    Encore Review
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. The Golden Girls: It’s a Miserable Life
43. The Golden Girls: Ladies of the Evening
44. Gothic
45. The Great Mouse Detective
46. Gung Ho
47. Hamburger… The Motion Picture
48. Hannah and Her Sisters
49. Haunted Honeymoon
50. Heartbreak Ridge
51. Heartburn
52. Heat
53. Highlander
54. Hitcher, The
55. Hoosiers
56. Howard the Duck
57. Iron Eagle
58. Jake Speed
59. Jean de Florette
60. Jo Jo Dancer
61. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
62. Just Between Friends
63. The Karate Kid, Part II
64. Labyrinth
65. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
66. Legal Eagles
67. Let’s Get Harry
68. Little Shop of Horrors
69. Lucas
70. The Manhattan Project
71. Manhunter
72. Manon of the Spring
73. Maximum Overdrive
74. Meatballs III: Summer Job
75. The Mission
76. Modern Girls
77. Mona Lisa
78. The Money Pit
79. The Morning After
80. The Mosquito Coast
81. Murphy’s Law
82. The Name of the Rose
83. ‘night, Mother
84. Night of the Creeps
85. No Mercy
86. Nothing in Common
87. One Crazy Summer
88. Opposing Force
89. Out of Bounds
90. Peggy Sue Got Married
91. Platoon                                   Encore Review       Encore Review 2
92. Police Academy 3: Back in Training
93. Poltergeist II: The Other Side
94. Power
95. Pretty in Pink
96. Quicksilver
97. Raw Deal
98. Robin Williams: A Night at the Met
99. The River’s Edge
100. Running Scared
101. Ruthless People
102. Salvador
103. Shanghai Surprise
104. She’s Gotta Have It
105. Short Circuit
106. Shtei Etzbaot Mi’Tzidon (aka Ricochets)
107. Sid and Nancy
108. Solarbabies
109. Something Wild
110. Soul Man
111. SpaceCamp
112. Stand by Me      Encore Review     Encore Review 2   Encore Review 3 Encore Review 4  Encore Review 5 6 7 8 9
113. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home  Encore Review
114. Stewardess School
115. Streets of Gold
116. Sweet Liberty
117. Sword of Gideon
118. That’s Life!
119. ¡Three Amigos!
120. Top Gun   Encore Review
121. Tough Guys
122. The Transformers: The Movie
123. Wildcats
124. Wisdom
125. The Wraith
126. Youngblood