Revenge of the 80's!

As children of the 80s (which all of us regular blog contributors are) it's sometimes hard to find love for the films of our birth decade because no decade in film is more reviled than the 1980's. It's the epilogue to every narrative of 1970's filmmaking. It's viewed as the decade when all of the auteurs were put in their place for getting too indulgent and the money-men took over and started churning out empty prestige films, gory slasher flicks, fascist action pics and sequels upon sequels.

While at first blush this might seem to be an accurate description of the decade in question, it ignores the fact that filmmakers like David Lynch, Spike Lee, The Coen Brothers and Jim Jarmusch were all coming into their own during this decade. It also ignores the great World Cinema being made around the globe. And lastly it ignores the fact that a fair number of those slasher pics and teen flicks are pretty damn fulfilling and enjoyable.

So in the interest of kicking against the picks, we're doing yet another one of our polls! All you need to do to participate is to send us a list of your personal Top-10 favorite films released in the 1980s. You can leave it as a comment on this post, you can message us on our Facebook or you can e-mail us at cinemanerds@gmail.com. The deadline is 10pm PST on Sunday, July 7th and the results will be announced the on Wednesday the 10th . Can't wait to see what you all come up with!