The Best (and Worst) Movies of 1986

[Kaing of Kaings]

As we get smaller in the years, the movies I would have seen would be less since I was a wee child, but not your child unless you are the Wahs. The top two films of 1986 for me ironically have a tie in with the Vietnam War. Platoon is obviously a classic as it was written and directed by a guy who was actually there, in combat (Oliver Stone). The other film was James Cameron's take on Vietnam except for the VC, it was Aliens who were the enemy against the space troopers. Both are classics in their own right and while I won't get to a top 10 this year, the other 4 star movies were particularly strong. Here we go.
* = 5 Stars
Best of 1986

1. Platoon* - (Freedooom...wait a minute wrong movie...Get out of theeeere)
1. (Tie) Aliens* - ( I don't know if you have been keeping up on current events but we just got our asses kicked)
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - (Roooneeey)
3. Star Trek: The Voyage Home - (Wooowoo Wooowooo....eeeeuuuu...Sir...There Be Whales Here)
4. An American Tale - (Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moon light...Buckethead is thinking of me...and uuuhhh...he wants to kill me...tonight)
5. Poltergeist II - (Finally we know what happens when you drink the tequila worm)
6. The Fly - (Another body horror classic)
7. Stand By Me - (Stand By Lee)


The last shot of the UBSTUdios Film World War III is a direct rip off of this scene


Bill Paxton steals the show.

Docs:
1. Sting: Bring on the Night - (Sting blows some bluesy farts while recording the excellent album, The Dream of Blue Turtleheads)

The Worst of 1986
1. Ruthless People - (Danny Devito's fart becomes the wind beneath Bette Midler's Wings)
2. Howard the Duck - (No need to explain this one)
3. Maximum Overdrive -(So bad, its a classic of the bad kind. Inspired UBSTUdios movie, Maximum Bow)
4. Legend - (Tom Cruse dances with Tim Curry's scary devil)