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Movie of the Year: 1985 Finale: Part: Two It’s the final four! Only four movies – out of every movie that came out in 1985 – remain in the bracket: Back to the Future, Brazil, The Breakfast Club, and Come and See! Four all-time classics with basically the same plot, but only one can move on and be knighted…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 Finale: Part: One The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most epic decision: what is 1985’s Movie of the Year? We have talked about these movies. We’ve joked about them, yelled about them, recommended them, chided them, held them gently, and suckled them from our bosoms. Now all but four must die,…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 GenreBlast The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most epic ‘tweener, GenreBlast! GenreBlast is where we finally get to…I wanna say…maybe we blast something, a genre I guess? When did we record this? Like when did anything even happen? Really though, we get to talk about the less-celebrated genres. Action! Comedy! Family!…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 Ran The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most epic movie, Ran! It’s the last movie of the 1985 bracket, and boy-howdy has this been a dandy of a season. Will Ran be another movie that blows the guys away? After all, it features a timeless story and amazing feats of filmcraft. Or…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1985 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most obscure movie, Mishima! Almost no one has heard of this movie. Outside of Japan most people don’t even know the incredible story of Yukio Mishima, the most famous Japanese author of his day, and his stranger-than-fiction life. Mishima…
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Movie of the Year: 1985 The Goonies The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s VHS babysitter, The Goonies! Perhaps no other movie of the 1980s captured what it was to be, in that time or an other, a Goonie. Goony? I don’t know how to do just one of them. That actually kind of works with the…
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Movie of the Year: 1985 Horror Fright Night Continuing the Movie of the Year spinoff, the Taste Buds tackle the horror movies of 1985! Up next: Fright Night! There were too many horror movies in 1985, and literally none of them made the Elite 8, so Ryan and his good friend Tompkins decided to give them their…
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Movie of the Year: 1985 State of the Franchise The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s franchises! 1985 had its fair share of franchises, not all of them great: looking at you, Rambo. Others had been the peak of cinema and yet had fallen to new lows: that’s you, Police Academy. But no matter how good or bad the…
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Movie of the Year: 1985 Come And See The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s answer to typical Hollywood war movies, Come and See! Come And See is probably not the first movie you think of when you think of 1985. That’s an obvious major strike against it for winning Movie of the Year. But what if it…
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Movie of the Year: 1985 Breakfast Club The Taste Buds discuss 1985’s most teen movie, The Breakfast Club! The Breakfast Club isn’t just some movie about being a teen; it is the movie about being a teen. In 1985 every teenager could identify with the characters in this movie, and that should have changed–this movie should…
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