Welcome to an exciting year-long project here at The Nerdy. 1985 was an exciting year for films giving us a lot of films that would go on to be beloved favorites and cult classics. It was also the start to a major shift in cultural and societal norms, and some of those still reverberate to this day.
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We’re going to pick and choose which movies we hit, but right now the list stands at nearly four dozen.
Yes, we’re insane, but 1985 was that great of a year for film.
The articles will come out – in most cases – on the same day the films hit theaters in 1984 so that it is their true 40th anniversary. All films are also watched again for the purposes of these reviews and are not being done from memory. In some cases, it truly will be the first time we’ve seen them.
This time around, it’s Sept. 6, 1985, and we’re off to see City Limits.
City Limits
If money laundering was a movie it would be City Limits.
In a world ravaged by a plague that mainly eliminated adults (which is never really clear from the cast), a new tribal society has formed. Yet, with all of this happening, there is still a corporation that wants to take over Los Angeles for the heck of it apparently.
Shot through a fine layer of mud on the lens, City Limits is just a disaster from top to bottom. How it got James Earl Jones for a bit part is completely beyond me.
Avoid at all costs.
1985 Movie Reviews will return on Sept. 13, 2025, with After Hours and Agnes of God.
