Blade Runner
ET
Fast Times Ridgemont High
Conan The Barbarian
The Thing
Tron
First Blood
Star Trek II: The Wrath OF Kan
Rocky III
An Officer And A Gentleman
48 Hours
The Man From Snowy River
The Road Warrior*
*released in '81 in Australia, '82 in the USA
I can remember Road Warrior and Conan The Barbarian were showing at the same time and I wasn’t able to see both… wound up seeing Conan
Can’t hold a candle to 1939:
Babes in Arms
Beau Geste
Dark Victory
Destry Rides Again
Drums Along the Mohawk
The Four Feathers
Gone with the Wind
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Gunga Din
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Love Affair
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Of Mice and Men
Only Angels Have Wings
The Roaring Twenties
The Rules of the Game
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
The Women
Wuthering Heights
Young Mr. Lincoln
1962:
Lawrence of Arabia
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Dr. No
Lolita
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gypsy
The Manchurian Candidate
How The West Was Won
The Music Man
Cape Fear
The Miracle Worker
Days of Wine and Roses
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Longest Day
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
That’s a lot of classics.
Wow, you guys certainly like old movies. Apart from Bergman, I don’t like much of anything made before 1970… :smack:
You forgot King Kong Vs. Godzilla!
Next to 1939, 1974 is the best year for films.
The list includes:
Chinatown
The Godfather Part II
The Conversation
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Young Frankenstein
Lacombe Lucien
A Woman Under the Influence
Blazing Saddles
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Parallax View
The Sugarland Express
The Phantom of Liberty
The Clockmaker
Swept Away
Lenny
Stavisky…
Dark Star
Lancelot of the Lake
Hearts and Minds
Effi Briest
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Nada
F for Fake
Harry & Tonto
And Now My Love
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Thieves Like Us
The Towering Inferno
That’s Entertainment!
Butley
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
The Longest Yard
Murder on the Orient Express
Stardust
Alice in the Cities
Benji
We All Loved Each Other So Much
The Super Cops
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Going Places
most of those movies seem good, not great. do you actually think the whole list, or most o fit, is on great movie status?
You forgot Grease 2, which along with Tron, I’m pretty sure I remember watching on early cable tv in 1983. (And robin Williams as Popeye.) Could these be the earliest examples of movies going suddenly to cable?
is grease 2 really that highly regarded as a movie? i left off dark crystal too and a couple others… good but not great movies…
Neither is Tron.
I liked it, you may not like it, but it has a big place in movie history, does it not?
Yes. I saw it start from a preliminary treatment and make it to the film. I still didn’t like it. It’s ok if you did. It’s place in history is a bit overplayed. It wasn’t the first movie to use computer animation, and the majority of the special effects were hand painted ‘glows’. BTW: I’m the real Kevin Flynn. That’s why people are always saying Jeff Bridges looks like me.
any other movie you think should not be on the list???
Impressive list for 1982. For my money, the 82 list beats the 39, 62 and 74 lists, in some cases handily.
yes but maybe that is kind of a split between people who like “old” movies and people who don’t.
You also left a few good ones off the 82 list:
Poltergeist
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Tootsie
And not really fitting the theme of thread (Tootsie is pushing it):
Gandhi
Sophie’s Choice
that was my personal selection
probably Sophie’s Choice and Gandhi need to be on there
but I’m not terribly excited by either of them
Not really. I like your list and all the others. There’s a few movies on them that wouldn’t be in my selection, but it’s all a matter of taste. I guess I’d leave Rocky III off because it was inferior to the original, but it was still a major movie event that turned Hulk Hogan and Mr. T into stars. First Blood wouldn’t be too high on my list, but even that was a prototype for future action/effects movies. It would just be similar nitpicking on the other years, none of them are rotten movies that I noticed.
yeah but the training season and running on the beach from Rocky III !!!
and seriously, just the scenery alone in First Blood makes for one great movie…