10 Off My Head: Siri Says 1985

This morning when I asked my digital mistress Siri to give me a number between 1 and 100 so we can play our weekly movie game she coughed up one number and then another that we'd previously used - only on our third try did I get "85" out of her, but I'm glad I stuck around because The Movies of 1985 make for a fun year. 

My first pass through the films I managed to edit my faves down to a Top 5, but it didn't feel right -- it was all serious grown-up movies, without any of the movies that 9 year-old me loved at the time, so I just decided to go with a Top 10. Because I do what I want, dammit. If the President of the United States can spill confidential secrets to the Russians in the Oval Office and get a limp shrug from Congress then I can damn well do this much. (Chaos reigns, y'all.)

(dir. Robert Zemeckis)

-- released on July 3rd, 1985 --

(dir. Steven Spielberg)

-- released on December 16th, 1985 --

(dir. Terry Gilliam)

-- released on December 18th, 1985 --

(dir. Peter Weir)

-- released on February 8th, 1985 --

(dir. Tim Burton)

-- released on August 9th, 1985 --

(dir. Martin Scorsese)

-- released on October 11th, 1985 --

(dir. Stephen Frears)

-- released on November 16th, 1985 -- 

(dir. Richard Donner)

-- released on June 7th, 1985 -- 

(dir. Woody Allen)

-- released on April 19th, 1985 --

(dir. James Ivory)

-- released on December 13th, 1985 --

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Runners-up:  The Breakfast Club (dir. John Hughes), Cocoon (dir. Ron Howard), Lifeforce (dir. Tobe Hooper), Commando (dir. Mark Lester), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (dir. George Miller), Return to Oz (dir. Walter Murch), Day of the Dead (dir. George Romero), Clue (dir. Jonathan Lynn)...

... Once Bitten (dir. Howard Storm), Desperately Seeking Susan (dir. Susan Seidelman), The Legend of Billie Jean (dir. Matthew Robbins), Smooth Talk (dir. Joyce Chopra), Re-Animator (dir. Stuart Gordon), Red Sonja (dir. Richard Fleischer), Rocky IV (dir. Stallone), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (dir. Paul Schrader), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (dir. Jack Sholder)

Never seen: Kiss of the Spider Woman (dir. Hector Babenco), Come and See (dir. Elem Klimov),  Crimewave (dir. Sam Raimi), Flesh + Blood (dir. Paul Verhoeven), Ladyhawke (dir. Richard Donner), Ran (dir. Kurosawa), Lust in the Dust (dir. Paul Bartel)

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