Boardsies Great Movie Star of the 80s - Live Thread

Kolido

Semi Final 2



Michael Keaton - Movie highlights

Night Shift https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084412/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_76
Gung Ho https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_73
Beetlejuice https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_69
The Dream Team https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097235/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_67
Batman https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_66

Dan Aykroyd - Movie highlights

The Blues Brothers https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_100
Trading Places https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_97
Ghostbusters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_93
Spies Like Us https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090056/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_88
Dragnet https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092925/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_87

Michael Keaton Dan Aykroyd

quickbeam

I'm taking this scientifically, based on the average score for films from the 80s:

Arnie: 5.83 (over 6 films) - range 5 to 8
Murray: 5.4 (over 5 films) - range 4 to 6
Keaton: 5.5 (over 2 films) - range 5 to 6
Aykroyd: 6.0 (over 5 films) - range 4 to 10

Pretty conclusivley the stats say that I vote Arnie and Akyroyd.

[I'm quite a harsh scorer, a decent, if unspectacular film will score 6. Average rating for all films I've seen in the 80s is 5.7 (range 2 to 10). Average ratign for all films ever is 5.98 (range 1 to 10) - Yeah, I'm a stats nerd!]

Irish Aris

Arnie on the first semi, Twins is a good shout out, very very funny.

and Michael Keaton on the second, Burton's Batman is my favourite of all.

JP Liz V1

Michael Keaton - for Batman and Beetlejuice

quickbeam

Oh dear, I'm not liking the direction this is going. I might have to put The Blues Brothers on tonight to soothe my anguish.

Necro

Arnie and Keaton.

Would be a fitting 80s final imo.

Mr. Freeze, Terminator and not to mention Dutch Schaefer up against Batman and Beetlejuice.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Arnie & Keaton for me too - will lead to a fun and interesting final.

Zaph

Arnold Schwarzenegger - two of my nominations, but have to go for Arnie because he was so massive in the 80s.

Dan Aykroyd - another of my nominations, and as much as I like Michael Keaton's Batman, he's no competition for Jake Blues.

saabsaab

Bill Murray


Dan Aykroyd

Sawduck

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Keaton both had very memorable roles in the 80s and would have an interesting final

the purple tin

Arnie and Ackroyd please.
Calling Arnie a great actor is a stretch but he owned the 80s action-wise.
Dan was great in the 80s it was his peak, unfortunately he hasn't done much of note since. (Blues Brothers fans should avoid the sequel like the plague).

quickbeam

the purple tin wrote: »

Arnie and Ackroyd please.
Calling Arnie a great actor is a stretch but he owned the 80s action-wise.
Dan was great in the 80s it was his peak, unfortunately he hasn't done much of note since. (Blues Brothers fans should avoid the sequel like the plague).

What Blues Brother sequel? There was no Blues Brothers sequel. Nope!

the purple tin

quickbeam wrote: »

What Blues Brother sequel? There was no Blues Brothers sequel. Nope!

quickbeam

I just love this. Watch Dan's expressions throughout:

JP Liz V1

Bill Murray better catalogue of films in the 80s

Zaph

quickbeam wrote: »

What Blues Brother sequel? There was no Blues Brothers sequel. Nope!

Is the correct answer

quickbeam

Okay, just one more:

Arnie and Dan please. I’m away tomorrow afternoon so if these two get to final.

Dan please for having a better catalogue of 80s movies

the purple tin

quickbeam wrote: »

I just love this. Watch Dan's expressions throughout:

Duck Dunn smoking the pipe while playing bass guitar. Fecking class :cool:

quickbeam

And he was great in Ghostbusters too:

the purple tin

^^^
It reaffirms what a pile of dog **** that Ghostbusters remake was.
People didn't hate it because they flipped the genders, they hated it because it sucked ass.

quickbeam

What Ghostbusters remake? There was no Ghostbusters remake. Nope!


:pac:

the purple tin

quickbeam wrote: »

What Ghostbusters remake? There was no Ghostbusters remake. Nope!


:pac:

I've come down with a bad case of foot-in-mouth syndrome tonight

quickbeam

I tease, I tease!

Ficheall

How the f is it semifinal already?


Bill Murray
Dan Akroyd

quickbeam

@Kolido, did you draw the picture in the OP?

Kolido

quickbeam wrote: »

@Kolido, did you draw the picture in the OP?

Nope, some random google image.

Kolido

Arnold Schwarzenegger 7 1 Bill Murray
Michael Keaton 5 6 Dan Aykroyd

Dan Akroyd to take the victory. He just screams 80s

Kolido

Arnold Schwarzenegger 7 1 Bill Murray
Michael Keaton 5 7 Dan Aykroyd

So it will be a Terminator vs Blues Brother final.

To best of my knowledge, they have never appeared on screen together, though a Terminator vs Blues Brother movie could be interesting.

Voting for your winner will be via PM, votes on thread will not count. Voting will close at 8pm tonight.

Best of luck to both guys