Salty
Chewbacca is back!
When
it comes to movies, trilogies are always the best. After a successful first
tournament in 2013, in which Hoosiers
defeated Teen Wolf to claim greatest
basketball movie of all time, and an even more successful second tournament in
2014 where The Little Mermaid
defeated Beauty and the Beast to earn
greatest Disney Movie of all time ... my third tournament is here to decide
which is the greatest eighties movie of all time.*
Well
... more like 2nd greatest eighties movie of all time. In my opinion,
Back to the Future is the greatest eighties movie ever; it’s probably
one of the best movies ever. So when deciding which 32 movies I was going to
watch and review to determine a champion, I decided to leave Back to the Future out. I would have a
hard time being fair to the other 31 movies, and everyone would have known I
would choose it as the tournament favorite.
As
you read my reviews you may think I have left some of your favorites out. It
was really hard to narrow the list down to 32. I decided to leave the most
critically acclaimed movies of the decade out because I feel like you could do
a bracket just including those; so no Do
the Right Thing, Platoon, Raging Bull.... I also decided to keep
it light and not scary, to make it family friendly; so no Dead Poets Society, Stand By
Me, Big ...
So
then the list got a little smaller. I then figured I would try to limit one
movie per huge actor/actress. Harrison Ford and Eddie Murphy could have had
several movies each, so I tried to pick the one that represented them best. So
no Blade Runner or Coming to America. I also left out some
of my girlfriend Rebecca’s favorites so I would not be tempted to advance those
movies in the bracket to make her happy. So no Big Trouble in Little China, The
Thing, or The Last Unicorn.
After
that the list was easy to make. Oh, and I decided not to include Hoosiers or The Little Mermaid, even though they are both deserving; they both
already had their one shining moment in past blogs/tournaments. I feel like it
is a well-rounded list, including movies from all different genres.... Except I
realized after making my final cuts, I had no John Cusack movie! But don’t be
sad ... next year may be an all John Cusack blog/tournament!!!!!
So
let the reviews begin, and let the excitement build to what I hope is the best
Salty Chewbacca Tournament Challenge ever!
Hooray! It's been a long summer of checking Salty weekly to see when he would return. Now he's back and I'm hungry for a three-peat. I smell dynasty!
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