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Was 1982 the best year for great movies???

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Tsimanga

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The early 80s was a golden age for movies and music. As for the best year I think 1984 has an impressive resume:

 

Amadeus

The Killing Fields

This is Spinal Tap

The Terminator

Ghostbusters

Beverly Hills Cop

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Karate Kid

Repo Man

Broadway Danny Rose

Purple Rain

The Natural

All of Me

Moscow on the Hudson

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984

Splash

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

Romancing the Stone

Swing Shift

Body Double

Tightrope

Top Secret!

Dune

Gremlins

Police Academy

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Red Dawn

The Revenge of the Nerds

Bachelor Party

Footloose

Greystoke: The Legends of Tarzan

2010

Breakin'

Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

The Last Starfighter

Cannonball Run II

Teachers

The Woman in Red

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Sixteen Candles

Once Upon a Time in America

The Neverending Story

Paris, Texas

Children of the Corn

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Missing in Action

Blame it on Rio

Firestarter

Supergirl

Dreamscape

Night of the Comet

The Toxic Avenger

Hardbodies

Johnny Dangerously

Electric Dreams

C.H.U.D.

City Heat

The Hotel New Hampshire

Sheena

Bolero

Cloak & Dagger

The Wild Life

The Flamingo Kid

Cheech and Chong: Corsican Brothers

Up the Creek

Oh, God You Devil

Best Defense

Angel

The Lonely Guy

Kidco

Toy Soldiers

Tomboy

Fandango

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Oxford Blues

Blood Simple

 

There you have it, 1984 is the best year ever for movies, any other year can basically suck it.

 

 

 

Just for the fact that Cheech and Chong: Corsican Brothers is on that list disqualifies 1984 entirely.

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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

 

 

 

 

: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:

 

Of course, I was just teasing... as a thread like this can never be taken too seriously. ;)

 

Most of us tend to like best what we grew up with, though to be honest I was only 9 in 1967, and didn't see a single one of those movies until years later. As a film major (from decades past), however, I've probably seen more films from more eras than most people likely come across on their own (this wasn't always a good thing!).

 

Westerns and war movies, however, I will maintain, as long as the -script was good, don't really date as readily as SF, which tends to get dated by changes in technological effects. The actuality of the Old West and WW2 doesn't change in appearance as time goes by, whereas our ideas of what the future will be shift constantly over the years. Crude teenage comedies is really a genre that came to exist in the 1980s, so there isn't really anything prior to compare it to.

 

 

 

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comix4fun

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I know. I was just messing with you.

 

I've watched "The War Wagon" more times that I choose to disclose. It was almost like an attempt to add old west style James Bond gadgets to a Western.

 

It's more the acting that feels dated on some of those films than anything else.

 

Of course ESB hold up just fine today.

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Bookery

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The early 80s was a golden age for movies and music. As for the best year I think 1984 has an impressive resume:

 

Amadeus

The Killing Fields

This is Spinal Tap

The Terminator

Ghostbusters

Beverly Hills Cop

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Karate Kid

Repo Man

Broadway Danny Rose

Purple Rain

The Natural

All of Me

Moscow on the Hudson

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984

Splash

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

Romancing the Stone

Swing Shift

Body Double

Tightrope

Top Secret!

Dune

Gremlins

Police Academy

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Red Dawn

The Revenge of the Nerds

Bachelor Party

Footloose

Greystoke: The Legends of Tarzan

2010

Breakin'

Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

The Last Starfighter

Cannonball Run II

Teachers

The Woman in Red

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Sixteen Candles

Once Upon a Time in America

The Neverending Story

Paris, Texas

Children of the Corn

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Missing in Action

Blame it on Rio

Firestarter

Supergirl

Dreamscape

Night of the Comet

The Toxic Avenger

Hardbodies

Johnny Dangerously

Electric Dreams

C.H.U.D.

City Heat

The Hotel New Hampshire

Sheena

Bolero

Cloak & Dagger

The Wild Life

The Flamingo Kid

Cheech and Chong: Corsican Brothers

Up the Creek

Oh, God You Devil

Best Defense

Angel

The Lonely Guy

Kidco

Toy Soldiers

Tomboy

Fandango

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Oxford Blues

Blood Simple

 

There you have it, 1984 is the best year ever for movies, any other year can basically suck it.

 

Just for the fact that Cheech and Chong: Corsican Brothers is on that list disqualifies 1984 entirely.

 

Different pastes for different tastes, I guess! :grin: I look at that list and feel it qualifies 1984 as one of the worst years ever! There are a few test-of-time classics--

 

Amadeus

Blood Simple

The Terminator

Splash

maybe a couple of others...

 

followed by a number of fun, if not overly imaginative films,

 

followed by some real clinkers...

 

C.H.U.D., Bolero, Sheena, Children of the Corn? As positives???

 

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Bookery

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I know. I was just messing with you.

 

I've watched "The War Wagon" more times that I choose to disclose. It was almost like an attempt to add old west style James Bond gadgets to a Western.

 

It's more the acting that feels dated on some of those films than anything else.

 

Of course ESB hold up just fine today.

 

Yeah... War Wagon probably doesn't belong on a "greats" list, but it's a guilty pleasure of mine as well! Bedazzled doesn't hold up as well as I thought, and Barefoot in the Park is more properly a classic play than a classic film.

 

But Two for the Road is magnificent (Stanley Donen is one of the greatest and most over-looked directors), In the Heat of the Night is probably a little dated, but I never tire of it (it may be Rod Steiger's only non-hammy performance... that alone is worth something!)... in fact, most of the Big Directors (save for Hitchcock) seem to be represented that year!

 

 

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Dr Chaos

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The early 80s was a golden age for movies and music. As for the best year I think 1984 has an impressive resume:

 

Amadeus

The Killing Fields

This is Spinal Tap

The Terminator

Ghostbusters

Beverly Hills Cop

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Karate Kid

Repo Man

Broadway Danny Rose

Purple Rain

The Natural

All of Me

Moscow on the Hudson

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984

Splash

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

Romancing the Stone

Swing Shift

Body Double

Tightrope

Top Secret!

Dune

Gremlins

Police Academy

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Red Dawn

The Revenge of the Nerds

Bachelor Party

Footloose

Greystoke: The Legends of Tarzan

2010

Breakin'

Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

The Last Starfighter

Cannonball Run II

Teachers

The Woman in Red

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Sixteen Candles

Once Upon a Time in America

The Neverending Story

Paris, Texas

Children of the Corn

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Missing in Action

Blame it on Rio

Firestarter

Supergirl

Dreamscape

Night of the Comet

The Toxic Avenger

Hardbodies

Johnny Dangerously

Electric Dreams

C.H.U.D.

City Heat

The Hotel New Hampshire

Sheena

Bolero

Cloak & Dagger

The Wild Life

The Flamingo Kid

Cheech and Chong: Corsican Brothers

Up the Creek

Oh, God You Devil

Best Defense

Angel

The Lonely Guy

Kidco

Toy Soldiers

Tomboy

Fandango

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Oxford Blues

Blood Simple

 

There you have it, 1984 is the best year ever for movies, any other year can basically suck it.

 

Just for the fact that Cheech and Chong: Corsican Brothers is on that list disqualifies 1984 entirely.

 

Different pastes for different tastes, I guess! :grin: I look at that list and feel it qualifies 1984 as one of the worst years ever! There are a few test-of-time classics--

 

Amadeus

Blood Simple

The Terminator

Splash

maybe a couple of others...

 

followed by a number of fun, if not overly imaginative films,

 

followed by some real clinkers...

 

C.H.U.D., Bolero, Sheena, Children of the Corn? As positives???

 

I included some of the names because there were cult films and others that launched a wave of sequels despite their artistic merits (nerds, police academy, etc,). 1984 had something for everyone.

 

So you are saying that the following films are not classics:

 

The Killing Fields

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Once Upon a Time in America

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Gremlins

Beverly Hills Cop

Firestarter

The Karate Kid

Romancing the Stone

Footloose

Sixteen Candles

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Natural

Ghostbusters

 

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COI

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1989- Batman. End of thread.

 

1980 - Raging Bull. End of Thread.

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Golden Gurl

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So how about the fact that the top five movies which have grossed the most money (ever) three out of the last five have been out in the last five years... and the other two were not in 1982

 

1. Avatar (2009)

2. Titanic (1997)

3. Avengers (2012)... have you seen this movie? (SO AWESOME!)

4.The Dark Knight (2008)

5. Star Wars IV (1977)

 

Just saying...

 

I would also argue on of the best movies on my list is Pulp Fiction (1994)... Anyone else a fan?

 

Of course my other favs are:

The Shining

E.T.

Sixteen Candles

Superman

Gone With the Wind

Wizard of Oz

Alien

Saw

Shawshank Redemption

Iron Man

The Fifth Element

Batman Beginnings

 

To name a few... But that is just my opinion

 

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comix4fun

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So how about the fact that the top five movies which have grossed the most money (ever) three out of the last five have been out in the last five years... and the other two were not in 1982

 

1. Avatar (2009)

2. Titanic (1997)

 

 

 

 

It was a comparison of "BEST" movies not "MOST FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL" movies.

 

If you look at the biggest domestic box office flick not adjusted for inflation you wind up with Phantom Menace, Shrek 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and Transformers 3 all in the top 13. So it's not a list of best movies by any stretch of the imagination.

 

And that list is in gross dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Movies are $10-12 to see today and $4 in 1982.

 

Here is the top 5 list adjusted to make it apples to apples.

 

1 Gone with the Wind MGM 1939^

2 Star Wars Fox 1977^

3 The Sound of Music Fox 1965

4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. 1982^

5 Titanic Par. $1,074,383,500 1997^

6 The Ten Commandments Par. 1956

 

 

None of them were in the last 5 (or 10 for that matter) years, but one of them was from 1982. lol

 

 

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COI

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If you look at the biggest domestic box office flick not adjusted for inflation you wind up with Phantom Menace, Shrek 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and Transformers 3 all in the top 13. So it's not a list of best movies by any stretch of the imagination.

 

Eww. Why does the mob have such bad taste?

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comix4fun

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If you look at the biggest domestic box office flick not adjusted for inflation you wind up with Phantom Menace, Shrek 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and Transformers 3 all in the top 13. So it's not a list of best movies by any stretch of the imagination.

 

Eww. Why does the mob have such bad taste?

 

 

 

The mob loves Slurpee cups, Happy Meal toys, and other cheap licensed items.....and they are very grateful.

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Bookery

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Enough of this foolishness! I didn't post the obvious earlier, because I thought for sure somebody else would. But let's get real!

 

1909 will never be topped!

 

Banana

Sherlock Holmes 4

The Life of Moses

Sherlock Holmes 5

We Must Do Our Best

Othello

Ben Gets a Duck and Is Ducked

Burglary in the Year 2000

Smith's Knockabout Theatre

Cycle Rider and the Witch

 

 

 

'Nuff Said!

 

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