Your Favorite Year For Film Releases

[kdawq]

Just curious on everyone's personal opinions on their favorite year in cinema history?
Mine would have to be 1994
So many awesome releases that year including
Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Lion King
Pulp Fiction
Dumb and Dumber
Leon the Professional
Speed
Natural Born Killers
The Mask
True Lies
The Crow
Clerks
Ed Wood
Ace Ventura
Just to name a few, what's your best year in film?

[dallywhitty]

1982 was pretty astonishing, not only because it produced The Holy Masterpiece (a.k.a. Blade Runner) but it also produced these other gems:

Basket Case
Conan the Barbarian
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
First Blood
Poltergeist
Possession
The Road Warrior
Tenebrae
Tron
The Thing
White Dog

1994 was a decent year for films, too, but an even better year because it produced me.

[kdawq]

A lot of good horror releases in 82! Love HIII and the Thing

[The Debts]

2009 was pretty banging. District 9, A Town Called Panic, Star Trek, Moon, Watchmen, The Hurt Locker, Avatar, Black Dynamite, Antichrist, Thirst, Crank 2, Fantastic Mr Fox, Inglorious Basterds and a whole slew of others.

[Jacob Anderson]

2008:

• The Dark Knight
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Step Brothers
• The Wrestler
• Cloverfield
• Iron Man
• Tropic Thunder
• Role Models
• Wanted
• Pineapple Express
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• Yes Man
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• The Incredible Hulk
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Milk
• Frost/Nixon
• Wall-E
• Kung Fu Panda
• Taken
• Gran Torino
• In Bruges
• Let the Right One In

The last ten movies on my list i don't necessarily love myself, but most others do (some i do like, a few i haven't seen & some i think are just okay), but i also wanted to try to argue this is not only my favorite year but is the best year, any ways here are a few reasons why it is my favorite year at least. Comedy is my favorite genre, followed probably by comic book movies and this year had a abundance of both and arguably kick started the current comic book movie movement, having started the Marvel Cinematic Universe and having IMO the best comic book movie (as well as my favorite movie) in The Dark Knight. Will Farrell and Seth Rogen are probably my two favorite comedic actors and they both had two really good comedies this year IMO;

[Show spoiler]Step Brothers, Semi-Pro (i really like this movie, but know most don't which is why i left off my list), Pineapple Express & Zack & Miri

. Then being a wrestling fan i loved The Wrestler, i really like monster movies and i think Cloverfield was a great one, i'm a fan of Jason Segel and Forgetting Sarah Marshall is definitely in my top 20 movies of all time, it had IMO Jim Carrey (who along with Adam Sandler's comedies i grew up with and loved) last good comedy in Yes Man & Wanted was just a kick-ass movie. A couple others that i liked, but probably not note worthy to most, are Hancock & The Wackness.

[TheBlayman]

1984:
Against All Odds
Amadeus
Beverly Hills Cop
Blood Simple
Children of the Corn
Dreamscape
Dune
Electric Dreams
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Greystoke
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Karate Kid
The Last Starfighter
The Natural
Never-ending Story
Nightmare on Elm Street
Red Dawn
Romancing the Stone
Runaway
Sixteen Candles
Splash
Star Trek 3
Star man
Supergirl
The Terminator
2010
The Woman in Red

[dallywhitty]

1971 was another good year:

The Beguiled
The Big Boss
A Clockwork Orange
The Devils
Dirty Harry
Macbeth
Play Misty For Me
Straw Dogs
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[Jacob Anderson]

Originally Posted by The Debts

2009 was pretty banging. District 9, A Town Called Panic, Star Trek, Moon, Watchmen, The Hurt Locker, Avatar, Black Dynamite, Antichrist, Thirst, Crank 2, Fantastic Mr Fox, Inglorious Basterds and a whole slew of others.

"The Hangover", "Up", "Zombieland" & "I Love You, Man".

[Donat96]

2007:

- There Will Be Blood
- No Country For Old Men
- The Assassination of Jesse James
- Zodiac
- 3:10 To Yuma
- Gone Baby Gone
- Eastern Promises
- Superbad
- Knocked Up
- Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Into The Wild
- Ratatouille
- Juno
- La Vie en Rose
- The Mist
- Darjeeling Limited
- Ocean's Thirteen

Oh yeah, and Norbit.

[AKORIS]

1975 was a pretty incredible year---

Jaws
The Wind And The Lion
The Man Who Would Be King
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hard Times
Barry Lyndon
Death Race 2000
Picnic At Hanging Rock
3 Days Of The Condor
The Sunshine Boys
The Stepford Wives
Farewell My Lovely
Love And Death
French Connection II
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

[kdawq]

Originally Posted by Jacob Anderson

2008:

• The Dark Knight
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Step Brothers
• The Wrestler
• Cloverfield
• Iron Man
• Tropic Thunder
• Role Models
• Wanted
• Pineapple Express
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• Yes Man
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• The Incredible Hulk
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Milk
• Frost/Nixon
• Wall-E
• Kung Fu Panda
• Taken
• Gran Torino
• In Bruges
• Let the Right One In

The last ten movies on my list i don't necessarily love myself, but most others do (some i do like, a few i haven't seen & some i think are just okay), but i also wanted to try to argue this is not only my favorite year but is the best year, any ways here are a few reasons why it is my favorite year at least. Comedy is my favorite genre, followed probably by comic book movies and this year had a abundance of both and arguably kick started the current comic book movie movement, having started the Marvel Cinematic Universe and having IMO the best comic book movie (as well as my favorite movie) in The Dark Knight. Will Farrell and Seth Rogen are probably my two favorite comedic actors and they both had two really good comedies this year IMO;

[Show spoiler]Step Brothers, Semi-Pro (i really like this movie, but know most don't which is why i left off my list), Pineapple Express & Zack & Miri

. Then being a wrestling fan i loved The Wrestler, i really like monster movies and i think Cloverfield was a great one, i'm a fan of Jason Segel and Forgetting Sarah Marshall is definitely in my top 20 movies of all time, and it had IMO Jim Carrey (who along with Adam Sandler's comedies i grew up with and loved) last good comedy in Yes Man. A couple others that i liked, but probably not note worthy to most, are Hancock & The Wackness.

Some good comedies to come out that year

[MachineGod]

Can't really just single out 1 year in particular, but there are several years that stand out as something truly transcendent (especially in the 70's)

1974,
1975,
1979,
1982,
1995,
1999(one of the greatest ever),
2007,
and 2014 is going to go down with many of those.

[Red Dragon]

...1994

And here's 10 reasons why ...ten films which all continue to hold a special place in my film collection...





















Several other years stand out as well, but there's just something about the "Pulp Fiction"/"Shawshank Redemption" combo ...now ...if only one of them had actually won the Academy Award for best motion picture...

[Holmes]

1979 is a favorite of mine.

Alien
Apocalypse Now
Being There
The Black Stallion
The Brontë Sisters
The Europeans
A Little Romance
Kramer vs. Kramer
Love on the Run
Mad Max
Manhattan
Murder by Decree
My Brilliant Career
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Quadrophenia
The Plumber
Rocky II
Stalker
Tess
The Tin Drum

[Thomas Irwin]

1986 is definitely a favorite year:

9½ Weeks
Aliens
April Fool's Day
Back to School
Betty Blue (37° 2 le matin)
Big Trouble in Little China
Children of a Lesser God
Chopping Mall
Class of Nuke 'Em High
Cobra
Crawlspace
Critters
Crocodile Dundee
Eye of the Tiger
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fire with Fire
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
From Beyond
F/X
The Golden Child
Heartbreak Ridge
Highlander
The Hitcher
The Karate Kid Part II
Legend
Manhunter
Maximum Overdrive
Murphy's Law
My Chauffeur
Night of the Creeps
No Mercy
No Retreat, No Surrender
Platoon
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Pretty in Pink
Raw Deal
Sid & Nancy
Stand by Me
Top Gun
Trick or Treat
Troll
The Wraith
Witchboard

[iank]

1987 was amazing. Hell, all the late 80s (and 84) were.

[nightwolf2369]

Not the best year but 2004 definitely produced many of my favorites:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Man on Fire
The Incredibles
Mean Girls
The Village
The Bourne Supremacy
Layer Cake
Friday Night Lights
Spider-man 2
Saw
Collateral
Troy
Kill Bill volume 2

Other good films that year:

Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hotel Rwanda
Shaun of the Dead
The Notebook
Shrek 2
I, Robot
Team America: World Police
Ray
The Machinist
The Butterfly Effect

[GumballRally]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

1982 was pretty astonishing, not only because it produced The Holy Masterpiece (a.k.a. Blade Runner) but it also produced these other gems:

Basket Case
Conan the Barbarian
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
First Blood
Poltergeist
Possession
The Road Warrior
Tenebrae
Tron
The Thing
White Dog

1994 was a decent year for films, too, but an even better year because it produced me.

Gonna piggy back on this and also mention:

Blade Runner
E.T.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (RIP Leonard Nimoy)
Tootsie
The Verdict
Rocky III
48 Hrs
The World According to Garp
Creepshow
The Beastmaster
Swamp Thing
Night Shift

[Al_The_Strange]

2008:

The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Love Exposure
Red Cliff
Waltz With Bashir
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
Iron Man
Wanted
Tropic Thunder
Ip Man
Chocolate
Taken
Let the Right One In
Mesrine
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Fall
Rambo
Quantum of Solace
Slumdog Millionaire
The Incredible Hulk
The Good The Bad and the Weird
The Hurt Locker
Die Welle
Hunger
Eden Lake
Martyrs
Painted Skin
Ponyo
Death Race
Tokyo Gore Police

...and oodles more, most of which I consider to be my top favorites among contemporary films.

[noapologies]

1988:

The Abyss
Beetlejuice
Big
Bird
Bull Durham
Child's Play
Dangerous Liaisons
Die Hard
A Fish Called Wanda
Gorillas in the Mist
Grave of the Fireflies
Mississippi Burning
My Neighbor Totoro
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Accused
Rain Man
Talk Radio
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Working Girl