The Top 20 Movies of 1987! (Fix #1)

THE TOP 20 MOVIES OF 1987  (Fix #1)



#20  Wisdom

Plot Summary: Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend (Moore) embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.

#19  Garbage Pail Kids



Plot Summary: Seven disgusting kids, but nevertheless of interesting personality, start  off as green slime from a  garbage pail. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts

#18  Lethal Weapon

Plot Summary: A veteran cop, Murtough, is partnered with a young homicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common, hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one and other to stop a gang of drug smugglers.

#17  A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Plot Summary: Survivors of undead serial killer Freddy Krueger - who stalks his victims in their dreams - learn to take control of their own dreams in order to fight back.

#16  The Hidden

Plot Summary: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in the chase.

#15  Adventures in Babysitting



Plot Summary: Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her "dread" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV... and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become!

#14 Bad Taste

Plot Summary: The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.

#13  Creepshow 2

Plot Summary: Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.

#12  The Principal

Plot Summary: A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violence and crime ridden high school.

#11  The Untouchables

Plot Summary: Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

#10  Wall Street

Plot Summary: A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

#9  Near Dark



Plot Summary: A young man reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group.

#8  Spaceballs



Plot Summary: Planet Spaceball's President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them.

#7  Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Plot Summary: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.

#6  Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

Plot Summary: The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

#5  A Better Tomorrow 2

Plot Summary: A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.



#4  Predator

Plot Summary: A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior. 

#3  The Running Man

Plot Summary: A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show.

#2  The Brave Little Toaster

Plot Summary: A toaster, a blanket, a lamp, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in their cabin in the woods. 

#1  Robocop

Plot Summary: In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. 

Top 25 Movies of 1996! (Fix #1)

Being an avid movie watcher, there will be many, new and old movies, added to my lists. Once I see a new movie and it is good enough to make it in my top "year" lists, then I will edit them and call them "FIX". As you can see here, in the first "fix" of 1996.



The Top 25 Movies of 1996 (Fix #1)

#25  Scream

Plot Summary: A killer known as "ghost face" begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

#24  Ransom

Plot Summary: When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

#23  Last Man Standing

Plot Summary: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

#22  The Adventures of Pinocchio

Plot Summary: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.

#21  Set it Off

Plot Summary: Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.

#20  Hellraiser: Bloodline

Plot Summary: In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions.

#19  Escape from L.A.

Plot Summary: Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.

#18  Beavis and Butthead do America

Plot Summary: Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it, and, who knows, maybe even score. On the way they encounter a murderous smuggler of a deadly virus and his treacherous wife, an FBI agent with a predilection for cavity searches, a couple of rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Dreesen singing "Lesbian Seagull", a little old lady and of course Mr. Anderson and his trailer.

#17  James and the Giant Peach

Plot Summary: An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.

#16  Daylight

Plot Summary: A runaway car hits a truck full of toxic waste causing an explosion that seals both exit of an underground tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey. It's up to Kit Latura, disgraced ex-chief of the city's Emergency Medical Services, to find a way in and bring out the survivors before air runs out or the Hudson river runs in.

#15  Joe's Apartment

Plot Summary: A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches. 

#14 Fargo

Plot Summary: Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.

#13  The Ghost and the Darkness

Plot Summary: Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period, while a bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter tried to kill them.

#12  Sling Blade

Plot Summary: Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town. 

#11  Sleepers

Plot Summary: After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge. 

#10  Harriet the Spy

Plot Summary: Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy business?

#9  The Cable Guy

Plot Summary: A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences. 

#8 Matilda

Plot Summary: Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable.

#7  D3: The Mighty Ducks

Plot Summary: In the third episode of this series, the Ducks get scholarships to Eden Hall Academy, a high ranking prep school. But as freshmen, they will have to face the snob varsity team.

#6  Happy Gilmore

Plot Summary: A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.

#5  The Frighteners

Plot Summary: After a car accident in which his wife, Debra, was killed and he was injured, Frank Bannister develops psychic abilities allowing him to see, hear, and communicate with ghosts. After losing his wife, he then gave up his job as an architect, letting his unfinished "dream house" sit incomplete for years, and put these skills to use by befriending a few ghosts and getting them to haunt houses in the area to drum up work for his ghostbusting business; Then Frank proceeds to "exorcise" the houses for a fee. But when he discovers that an entity resembling the Grim Reaper is killing people, marking numbers on their forehead beforehand, Frank tries to help the people whom the Reaper is after! 

#4  The Quest

Plot Summary: Chris embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery that spans the globe. Kidnapped and enslaved by gun smugglers, sold by pirates and thrust into the murky underworld of gambling and kickboxing, Chris' journey takes him to forbidding Muay Thai Island where deadly martial arts are taught, the colonial splendor of British East Asia, the dank back alleys of Bangkok, desolate deserts once trod by the warriors of Genghis Khan and finally, the ancient Lost City. There he must face the ultimate test of his manhood in the fabled Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats of martial arts skills ever displayed in order to win the prized Golden Dragon.

#3  Kingpin

Plot Summary: A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.

#2 Trainspotting

Plot Summary: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. 

#1 From Dusk till Dawn

Plot Summary: Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.