Best Years/ Worst Years for movies...

[Zoodles95]

1976 has me thinking of this topic. Rocky won Best Picture; yet Network, All The President's Men, and Taxi Driver are all time classics. As well, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie came out which are also very good movies. Then there are some cult classics like Logan's Run, Carrie, and The Omen. Seems like a pretty stellar year for movies.

What are other years that were particularly strong and/or particularly weak?

[Slick Nick]

Every year has completely varied crap and gold in it.

A better thread would have been 'best decade' for films.

[EricJ]

No, we've HAD that for all those 80's-mythologizing kids out there...

We'd had a "Best Year for Summer Movies" thread, where all the Star Wars fans automatically said "1977!" and the one Jaws fan said "1975!"...And then we had to remind them what films actually were coming out in 1975 and 1977.
(Remember 1975-76 was still reeling from the success of "That's Entertainment" in '74, and everyone started noticing old movies for the first time, with all the old-studios shutting down--There was a sudden flood of interest in period movies, and movies about Old Hollywood, before Star Wars brought it to a head and everyone compared it to Flash Gordon.)

And as usual, the thread topic turned to sticking up in defense of 1982, the year of Blade Runner, ET, The Thing, Tron, Tootsie, Gandhi, Victor/Victoria, Dark Crystal, First Blood, Road Warrior and Star Trek II.

As for "Worst"?--The 70's mode still had me looking at 1979 (and that wrist-slitting Christmas of 1981, to make up for the good summer), but I've got to get back into modern mode, and decide which was worse, 2003 or 2010.
(We had the Summer Massacre of '01, but the Harry Potter/LOTR one-two pulled it out of the fire at the last minute.)

[Bl@deRu>>er]

Originally Posted by EricJ

No, we've HAD that for all those 80's-mythologizing kids out there...

And as usual, the thread topic turned to sticking up in defense of 1982, the year of Blade Runner, ET, The Thing, Tron, Tootsie, Gandhi, Victor/Victoria, Dark Crystal, First Blood, Road Warrior and Star Trek II.

When I first saw this topic before clicking my mind went to 1982! lol

I was too young to remember much of anything at that time, but its striking to look back and think of all the movies I loved from that year.

And there was also Beastmaster, 48 hours, Creepshow, and animated movies I have fond kiddie memories of like the The Last Unicorn, Secret of NIMH. And a year later my beloved He-Man burst on the scene!


(I'm just getting the 1982 defense out of the way right out of the gate)