# 1982 - A great year for movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467 "2014-05-14T21:25:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/1 "2014-05-14T21:25:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/2 "2014-05-14T22:27:59Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/3 "2014-05-14T22:48:38Z")
> [@](#): > > 1982 - A great year for movies 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. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/4 "2014-05-14T23:15:34Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > 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 > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > 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: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/5 "2014-05-14T23:27:13Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > 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. You forgot _King Kong Vs. Godzilla_! ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/6 "2014-05-14T23:34:51Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/7 "2014-05-14T23:37:04Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/8 "2014-05-15T00:15:53Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > 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 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? ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/9 "2014-05-15T00:33:05Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > 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… ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/10 "2014-05-15T00:58:29Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/11 "2014-05-15T01:07:02Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Neither is Tron. I liked it, you may not like it, but it has a big place in movie history, does it not? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/12 "2014-05-15T01:15:27Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/13 "2014-05-15T01:26:09Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > 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??? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/14 "2014-05-15T01:38:55Z")
Impressive list for 1982. For my money, the 82 list beats the 39, 62 and 74 lists, in some cases handily. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/15 "2014-05-15T01:42:16Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/16 "2014-05-15T01:57:31Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > 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 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 ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/17 "2014-05-15T01:59:26Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > You also left a few good ones off the 82 list: > > Poltergeist > Pink Floyd: The Wall > Tootsie > 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 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/18 "2014-05-15T02:02:00Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > any other movie you think should not be on the list??? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/19 "2014-05-15T02:27:15Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > 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… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/20 "2014-05-15T02:40:09Z")
[1984 wasn’t too shabby](http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/07/25/was-1984-the-greatest-year-in-movies-ever/). [Nor was 1994](http://twoguysonemovie.com/editorial-1994-the-best-year-for-movies-ever/). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467.md?page=2)