High-concept '80s hit movies

Anonus · 2016-12-15 03:29:36

I've seen Ghostbusters and Back to the Future, and while I understand their appeal, they didn't quite click with me and I honestly prefer the former's much-maligned sequel for being closer to what my idea of the original was.

But people seem to really revere these movies, and the people who made them.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-15 03:33:32

Honestly I saw Ghostbusters once when I was like 14 and I hated it.

Maybe I'd like it more now tho idk.

Anonus · 2016-12-15 03:38:00

I was just thinking about how frustrating it is for my fantasy-CEO self that, no, there are no modern-day Spielbergs, or Lucases, or Zemeckises, with their minds full of ideas, ready to just GIVE ME their delicious ideas to make Movie Magic™ from

No, Hollywood is busy running its potential new wunderkinds/licenses-to-print-money into the fucking ground, because they're idiots who care not a damn thing for making anything resonant anymore

Anonus · 2016-12-15 03:38:25

Guillermo del Toro tried though

Imipolex G · 2016-12-15 03:43:17

original Ghostbusters is pretty fun. It helps that I really liked the franchise when I was a wee lil calf.

Anyway, there are more high concept 80s hit movies than just those two.

eriophora zia · 2016-12-15 03:44:04

Anonus said:
I was just thinking about how frustrating it is for my fantasy-CEO self that, no, there are no modern-day Spielbergs, or Lucases, or Zemeckises, with their minds full of ideas, ready to just GIVE ME their delicious ideas to make Movie Magic™ from

No, Hollywood is busy running its potential new wunderkinds/licenses-to-print-money into the fucking ground, because they're idiots who care not a damn thing for making anything resonant anymore

Tarantino, maybe? He's more low-concept though

Anonus · 2016-12-15 03:49:11

Imipolex G said:
original Ghostbusters is pretty fun. It helps that I really liked the franchise when I was a wee lil calf.

Anyway, there are more high concept 80s hit movies than just those two.

they came to mind first though

I could throw in E.T. and Gremlins too

eriophora zia said:

Anonus said:
I was just thinking about how frustrating it is for my fantasy-CEO self that, no, there are no modern-day Spielbergs, or Lucases, or Zemeckises, with their minds full of ideas, ready to just GIVE ME their delicious ideas to make Movie Magic™ from

No, Hollywood is busy running its potential new wunderkinds/licenses-to-print-money into the fucking ground, because they're idiots who care not a damn thing for making anything resonant anymore
Tarantino, maybe? He's more low-concept though

Tarantino's movies are too adult in sensibility, too lacking in the kinds of things studios can "exploit"

Though the people who own Miramax these days keep pushing Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill merch to the hobbyist crowd

Anonus · 2016-12-15 03:50:57

basically this thread is about two things:

me feeling like I don't like these imagination-fuel movies enough
the studios' present-day lust for Franchise Properties® and doing anything but actually creating them, or how people who have ideas for them aren't willing to feed them to the Hollywood machine or are being shot down when they try

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-15 03:52:37

I want to contribute here but it's a known fact that Jane Doesn't Get Movies, so I'm not sure I can.

Obā-san · 2016-12-15 03:57:15

1. all these movies? i dont like them

2. trying to make more of them? not on board with this, because (point 1)

Anonus · 2016-12-15 04:01:20

Nah you can't just make more of them because it's not the '80s anymore

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-15 04:03:47

you could make an outrun movie though that would be cool

Anonus · 2016-12-15 04:05:46

outrun?

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-15 04:07:25

outrun

Anonus · 2016-12-15 04:10:04

how do you interpret an "outrun movie"

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-15 04:15:41

Iunno

I just kinda felt like saying it

Tre · 2016-12-15 04:17:05

wouldn't that basically be Drive but more neon

Fossilmaiden · 2016-12-15 04:17:41

Tre said:
wouldn't that basically be Drive but more neon

And less murdery.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-12-15 04:18:57

Tre said:
wouldn't that basically be Drive but more neon

what's Drive

Tre · 2016-12-15 04:24:13

a movie about a man who moonlights as a getaway driver and gets wrapped up in some dark criminal shit when a job goes bad

it's good

Tre · 2016-12-15 04:24:32

Fossilmaiden said:

Tre said:
wouldn't that basically be Drive but more neon
And less murdery.

yeah, though I figured that might have been implied

Fossilmaiden · 2016-12-15 04:29:55

Well, I mean, the murder is kind of a core part of Drive, so "not much like Drive at all". :P

Tre · 2016-12-15 04:31:24

yeah, true

Imipolex G · 2016-12-15 04:47:34

Outrun is a pretty fun game eh

my favorite high concept 80s hit movie is Raiders of the Lost Ark of course

Anonus · 2016-12-15 04:54:22

it does feel like all of this gushed out of Hollywood as an extension of the Star Wars ethos

I feel that the Original Trilogy, or at least its first installment, is the best iteration of what I'm talking about. It helps that there was no comfort in the original movie, it was Lucas's first and possibly only shot at the idea so he had to nail it

Odradek · 2016-12-15 04:58:50

Tamlin said:
1. all these movies? i dont like them

2. trying to make more of them? not on board with this, because (point 1)

Okay but what about Gremlins

Obā-san · 2016-12-15 04:59:31

dont like it

Odradek · 2016-12-15 05:00:14

Okay but what about Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Imipolex G · 2016-12-15 05:00:24

Okay but what about Howard the Duck

Anonus · 2016-12-15 05:03:39

Odradek said:
Okay but what about Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Odradek · 2016-12-15 05:05:48

It is a very Looney Tunesy movie

Anonus · 2016-12-15 05:09:24

I haven't seen the movie outside of those bits but Joe Dante is a big Tunes fan

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