Siskel & Ebert - Best of 1984 

1984 great year for movies.

I saw Stranger than Paradise in film class in college. It's a great independent film that tells a great story and uses the music well.

1.984 was THE YEAR of the movies. Come on! Once Upon a Time in America, Amadeus, Terminator, Ghostbusters, Paris Texas, Dune, Bachelor Party, Broadway Danny Rose, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Killing Fields, The Cotton Club, Stranger than Paradise, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Blood Simple, Starman, Streets of Fire, Godzilla Returns, The Neverending Story, Dreamscape, A Passage to India, Karate Kid, Police Academy, Revenge of the Nerds, Beverly Hills Cop, Wheels on Meal, Gremlins, Tightrope, This is Spinal Tap, Top Secret, Romancing the Stone, 16 Candles, Love Streams, Body Double... WHAT A YEAR❗❗❗❗❗👀

Whenever I see Prince now I immediately think of Charlie Murphy's story about him and start laughing...

One of the greatest years for cinema: Ghostbusters, Terminator, Karate Kid, Gremlins, NeverEnding Story, Temple of Doom, Beverly Hills Cop, Footloose, This Is Spinal Tap, Romancing the Stone, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Splash, The Natural, Red Dawn, Last Starfighter, Sixteen Candles, Top Secret, Purple Rain, Amadeus, Once Upon a Time in America, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, etc...

wow the commerials bring back sooooo many memories omg 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

Wow wasnt expecting to find mickey and maude on one of the lists

Thank you for uploading this!

Purple Rain shows how the talent of Prince carries the film. The story is basically a simple one.

Thanks for this upload! It looks like some of the reviews that were in the recap were left out of your recording. But I love that you kept some of the commercials which made the experience feel even more like you were back in the 80s.

Haing S Ngor was a real survivor of the killing fields.

The director's cut of Once Upon A Time In America is a real masterpiece, so is Amadeus. My other favourite of '84 is Gremlins which is crude in comparison, but I've loved it since it scared the pants off me in theaters as a little kid.

Purple Rain it's one of the best films of the 80s.

I was only listening at 19:42 when it switches from Mozart to a Clorox commercial and I thought that the kid's statement "Mom I need that leotard for my recital!" was a joke about the way he dresses.

Wow I was in the 11th grade when this came out.

I'm sorry, but if you don't giggle when you hear "Pipin' Hot Loaf" we probably wouldn't get along lolll

one of the best lists from these 2....

Gremlins was great fun and I dont know if it was an oversight or they just didnt think it was a top 10.

i was 12, what a let down the future has been.

I like how the thumbnail for this video was taken from the "Green Giant" commercial which played during the show

Gremlins was my number 1 All-Time Favorite Movie of the year 1984

Gene's other favorite films of 1984 were Woody Allen's "Broadway Danny Rose," Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap," the 1983 French film "L' Argent," the 1983 Japanese film "The Ballad of Narayama," "Strangers Kiss," "Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense" (which was also one of his listed runners-up for 1985), Taylor Hackford's "Against All Odds," John Carpenter's "Starman," the black and white "Stranger Than Paradise," "Sugar Cane Alley," the 1983 Spanish remake of "Bizet's Carmen," the Scottish comedy "Comfort & Joy," "Romancing the Stone," "A Soldier's Story" and "Places in the Heart." (SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, December 23, 1984)

My favorite films of 1984: 1. Broadway Danny Rose 2. Sixteen Candles 3. Paris Texas 4. Amadeus 5. Country 6. Moscow on the Hudson 7. The Natural 8. Ghostbusters 9. Under the Volcano 10. Tightrope So there.

They wanted to go in the more pretentious direction but The Karate Kid, Nightmare on Elm Street, Terminator, Beverly Hills Cop and Revenge of the Nerds are classic movies.

Ebert & Siskel? Is this some alternate universe?

The full version of Once Upon A Time In America was my best of 1984.

My top 10 for 1984 10) Repo Man 9) Suburbia 8) This Is Spinal Tap 7) Grandview USA 6) The Flamingo Kid 5) The Brother From Another Planet 4) Racing With The Moon 3) Roadhouse 66 2) The Pope Of Greenwich Village 1) Once upon A Time In America Honorable mentions Making The Grade The Wild Life Body Double Children Of The Corn A Nightmare On Elm Street Friday The 13th : The Final Chapter Savage Streets C.H.U.D Silent Night, Deadly Night Stop Making Sense Teachers The Terminator Exterminator 2

My Favorite Flims of 1984 was Ghostbusters, 16 Candles, Nightmare of Elm Streets, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Cloak and Dagger, Firestarter and especially Gremlins

That was a period when I actually still enjoyed going to the movies.

Sorry, but Amadeus was NOT the best film of 1984. So many of the best movies aren't on their lists. My best friend worked on The Cotton Club! So sad about Ngor's death, murdered here in the U.S.

My Top 10 from 1984, plus 5 honorable mentions: 1) The NeverEnding Story (1984) 2) The Terminator (1984) 3) Ghostbusters (1984) 4) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 5) The Last Starfighter (1984) 6) Starman (1984) 7) Amadeus (1984) 8) Paris, Texas (1984) 9) The Company of Wolves (1984) 10) Blood Simple (1984) ----------------------------------- 11) Cloak & Dagger (1984) 12) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 13) The Killing Fields (1984) 14) A Passage to India (1984) 15) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Now I know where Jerry stole the Puffy Shirt from!

1. Broadway Danny Rose 2. Amadeus 3. This is Spinal Tap 4. A Christmas Story 5. The Terminator 6. The Natural 7. The Razor's Edge 8. The Bostonians 9. Paris, Texas 10.Dune

Where is the Terminator?

I can’t take any 1984 list seriously if “The Terminator” is not on it 😉

no sixteen candles, no ghostbusters, footloose, BH Cop I, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Dune, Karate Kid, Romancing the Stone or Terminator....how could you not have Terminator on a best of 1984 list!

Of their selections, I saw only "The Natural" in a theater and "This Is Spinal Tap" on video.

My list (based on North American release dates): 1. Paris, Texas 2. Amadeus 3. Stop Making Sense 4. The Killing Fields 5. Secret Honor 6. Streetwise 7. L'Argent 8. A Sunday in the Country 9. The Terminator 10. The Bounty

Amadeus is a masterpiece.

No Repo Man?

George Orwell was wrong. 1984 was a great year.

where Nightmare on Elm Street

I never got why Amadeus didn't make their best of decade list. (Since it was Roger's choice for the best of '84.)

RIP

What's up w the first 2 mins??

The story is about a country that has turned into a death factory and the yellow man has been given equal time with the white man in the telling of the story (11:30), isn't that special, Gene ... This crep from almost 40 years ago, oh man times have changed.

19:45 in 1984 even the detergents were getting sequels!

I'm trying to find their review of The Natural, but it's not on here. Funny that the opening from "stinkers of the year" is spliced together with "best of the year."

Great music, sure - but Purple Rain has no business anywhere near these lists.

These guys were James Cameron haters, Didn’t have The Terminator or Aliens on their lists.

Filled with boring movies that only Siskel & Ebert could love.

Purple Rain Terminator Ghostbusters Grelims Amadeus Micki & Maude Paris, Texas Blood Simple Secret Honor A Passage to India The Killing Fields The Cotton Club Stranger Than Paradise Choose Me Comfort & Joy Karate Kid Sixteen Candles The Breakfast Club The Never-ending Story Nightmare on Elm Street

Micki and Maude funnier than This is Spinal Tap? Siskel was nuts.

Funny how these so called critics don’t like the “real” classics of 1984: ghostbusters, the karate kid, Beverly Hills cop, Indiana Jones and temple of doom, terminator, nightmare on elm street, romancing the stone, gremlins. Half of the films I never heard or bombed so badly 🤣🤣

The natural

Best of 1984 is either Amadeus or Once Upon A Time In America. No other film that year surpassed those two.

Thank you for keeping in the ads...There was a time when ads weren't so annoying.

even the commercials were better

That 'piping hot Pillsbury' ..Oooooh, Ahhhhh ..commercial 😂😂😂 White Loaf !

19:08

That was a bit of a bait and switch. First you show clips from their _Worst Of_ show for that year and then awkwardly segue into the _Best Of_ show lol.

Some of my favourite movies 🍿 of 1984 include: -Ghostbusters -The Neverending Story -The Terminator -Places In The Heart -The Bounty -This Is Spinal Tap -The Last Starfighter -Gremlins -Night Of The Comet 💫 -Star Trek III The Search For Spock -Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom -The Killing Fields -C.H.U.D -Revenge Of The Nerds -Batchelor Party -Amadeus -The Razors Edge -Paris Texas -Philadelphia Experiment -Beverly Hills Cop -Police Academy -Firestarter

Purple Rain is not a good film.

I'm surprised they both liked Purple Rain. I didn't care for it or Prince.

Cotton Club? Those guys were high when they picked that.

That bread looks terrible

Purple Rain is a piece of CRAP with incredibly BAD acting , lame "story" , etc.

The Cotton Club was awful.

Purple Rain is not a good film.