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Was 1982 the best year for great movies???

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Park

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Porky's also came out in 1982, but was omitted from the list.

I'd rank it above most, if not all, of the ones they put on it.

 

 

Maybe it was because I didn't see Porky's until I was well into adulthood and maybe because it was built up to me too much by childhood friends who did see it when it came out...but when I finally saw it, I didn't laugh once. It's not even that it's too low brow as I love low brow (shrug)

 

It was probably this.

 

I remember seeing it on HBO probably '85 or '86 or so and I was about fourteen or fifteen and it was hysterical. I can still watch it now and laugh my azz off.

 

 

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Hexenmeister-migration

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1993 would to be my personal favorite. Ignoring most major blockbusters, I would be content playing this list on a loop indefinitely.

 

Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?

True Romance (my all time favorite)

Cool Runnings

The Sandlot

Groundhog Day

Army of Darkness

Tombstone

Dazed and Confused

Grumpy Old Men

Last Action Hero

Wayne's World 2

 

 

 

 

 

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underthebigw

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(worship) (worship) (worship)

 

 

I keep waiting for that image to move.. hm

 

 

I'd say 1980 gave 1982 a run for its money...

 

Empire Strikes Back

Airplane

Blues Brothers

The Shining

Caddyshack

Friday the 13th (The original)

The Fog

Raging Bull

Hollywood Knights (cult for me)

Mad Max

Fame

9 to 5

Coal Miner's Daughter

Ordinary People

Dressed to Kill

Used Cars (If you haven't seen it, shame on you)

 

I always think of 80 as being the unreal year. Raging Bull is just an all-time great, and combine that with the best Star Wars flick-you just can't beat that.

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Bookery

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Good grief, you guys are young!

 

Sure, there were lots of dated sci-fi's and juvenile comedies in the other year's mentioned, but for those seeking out the truly special, the one unbelieveable year that stands out, and mostly hold up to this day, is 1967!

 

The Graduate

Cool Hand Luke

In the Heat of the Night

Bonnie and Clyde

Wait Until Dark

To Sir, With Love

The Dirty Dozen

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

In Cold Blood

Two for the Road

Bedazzled

Point Blank

The Flim Flam Man

Barefoot in the Park

Five Million Years to Earth

Hour of the Gun

The War Wagon

Hombre

In Like Flint

The Way West

The President's Analyst

 

 

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Mephisto

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I keep waiting for that image to move.. hm

 

 

I'd say 1980 gave 1982 a run for its money...

 

Mad Max

 

You're being US centric here. The Australian boardies would've got a change to see that in early 1979.

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40sJohn

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(worship) (worship) (worship)

 

 

I keep waiting for that image to move.. hm

 

 

I'd say 1980 gave 1982 a run for its money...

 

Empire Strikes Back

Airplane

Blues Brothers

The Shining

Caddyshack

Friday the 13th (The original)

The Fog

Raging Bull

Hollywood Knights (cult for me)

Mad Max

Fame

9 to 5

Coal Miner's Daughter

Ordinary People

Dressed to Kill

Used Cars (If you haven't seen it, shame on you)

 

That is a fine set of movies to be sure and dang straight on the last one!

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Logan510

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Good grief, you guys are young!

 

Sure, there were lots of dated sci-fi's and juvenile comedies in the other year's mentioned, but for those seeking out the truly special, the one unbelieveable year that stands out, and mostly hold up to this day, is 1967!

 

The Graduate

Cool Hand Luke

In the Heat of the Night

Bonnie and Clyde

Wait Until Dark

To Sir, With Love

The Dirty Dozen

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

In Cold Blood

Two for the Road

Bedazzled

Point Blank

The Flim Flam Man

Barefoot in the Park

Five Million Years to Earth

Hour of the Gun

The War Wagon

Hombre

In Like Flint

The Way West

The President's Analyst

 

 

Sidney Poitier had a hell of a year in 1967! Wait Until Dark is a vastly underrated movie IMHO... it has more suspense and tension than any 10 recent thrillers combined. Great list (thumbs u

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Bookery

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Good grief, you guys are young!

 

Sure, there were lots of dated sci-fi's and juvenile comedies in the other year's mentioned, but for those seeking out the truly special, the one unbelieveable year that stands out, and mostly hold up to this day, is 1967!

 

The Graduate

Cool Hand Luke

In the Heat of the Night

Bonnie and Clyde

Wait Until Dark

To Sir, With Love

The Dirty Dozen

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

In Cold Blood

Two for the Road

Bedazzled

Point Blank

The Flim Flam Man

Barefoot in the Park

Five Million Years to Earth

Hour of the Gun

The War Wagon

Hombre

In Like Flint

The Way West

The President's Analyst

 

 

Sidney Poitier had a hell of a year in 1967! Wait Until Dark is a vastly underrated movie IMHO... it has more suspense and tension than any 10 recent thrillers combined. Great list (thumbs u

 

And... just to keep this thread comic book-centric... 1967 also saw the release (in the Phillipines anyway) of Batman Vs. Dracula!

 

[and no... neither I, nor anybody, has seen it]

:(

 

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goldust40

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Good grief, you guys are young!

 

Sure, there were lots of dated sci-fi's and juvenile comedies in the other year's mentioned, but for those seeking out the truly special, the one unbelieveable year that stands out, and mostly hold up to this day, is 1967!

 

The Graduate

Cool Hand Luke

In the Heat of the Night

Bonnie and Clyde

Wait Until Dark

To Sir, With Love

The Dirty Dozen

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

In Cold Blood

Two for the Road

Bedazzled

Point Blank

The Flim Flam Man

Barefoot in the Park

Five Million Years to Earth

Hour of the Gun

The War Wagon

Hombre

In Like Flint

The Way West

The President's Analyst

 

 

Sidney Poitier had a hell of a year in 1967!

 

So did Lee Marvin and James Coburn...Point Blank is one of my favorite films. And The President's Analyst may be very much of its time, but it's still a must-see movie.

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s-man

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I'd put a vote toward 2001...

 

LOTR: Fellowship

Shrek

A Beautiful Mind

HP and the SS

Monsters Inc.

The Mummy Returns

Pearl Harbor

Ocean's Eleven

Planet of the Apes

The Fast and the Furious

Black Hawk Down

The Others

A. I.

Training Day

Swordfish

Ghost World

Heist

Osmosis Jones

 

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back :banana:

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comix4fun

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HP and the SS

 

 

It took me a minute to figure that one out.

 

At first I thought there was a movie made about a print shop run by nazis.

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seanfingh

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All of my favorite movies are from the 80s. I dont think we will have another decade like that.

 

 

Midnight Madness (1980)

 

 

 

Dude! You just went up 10 notches in my book. I must have watched this 100 times when i was a kid.

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comix4fun

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All of my favorite movies are from the 80s. I dont think we will have another decade like that.

 

 

Midnight Madness (1980)

 

 

 

Dude! You just went up 10 notches in my book. I must have watched this 100 times when i was a kid.

 

 

I had almost forgotten about that movie. All the teams with different colors? Childhood memory resuscitation in progress.

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comix4fun

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Good grief, you guys are young!

 

Sure, there were lots of dated sci-fi's and juvenile comedies in the other year's mentioned, but for those seeking out the truly special, the one unbelieveable year that stands out, and mostly hold up to this day, is 1967!

 

The Graduate

Cool Hand Luke

In the Heat of the Night

Bonnie and Clyde

Wait Until Dark

To Sir, With Love

The Dirty Dozen

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

In Cold Blood

Two for the Road

Bedazzled

Point Blank

The Flim Flam Man

Barefoot in the Park

Five Million Years to Earth

Hour of the Gun

The War Wagon

Hombre

In Like Flint

The Way West

The President's Analyst

 

 

 

 

:gossip: You change out "dated sci-fi" for "dated western" and "dated war movie" and 1967 isn't all that different from any of those years you so unceremoniously raked over the coals. :cry:

 

I still watch "In Like Flint" whenever I catch it on cable.

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