Best Year For Movies?

[faust1103]

1982

Blade Runner, Conan the Barbarian, The Thing

[AKORIS]

1975

Jaws
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Wind And The Lion
The Man Who Would Be King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Breakheart Pass
Hard Times
Night Moves
Rollerball
The Stepford Wives
The Sunshine Boys
3 Days Of The Condor

[Batmon77]

How can you judge if you haven't been around since the first days of cinema.

[principehomura]

1957
12 Angry Men
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Throne of Blood
Paths of Glory
Bridge on River Kwai
The Nights of Cabiria
Witness for the Prosecution
The Cranes Are Flying
Tokyo Twilight

2023 has also been impressive, but let's wait that they become classics

[Lord Method Man]

Originally Posted by faust1103

1982

Blade Runner, Conan the Barbarian, The Thing

Also E.T., Star Trek II, Rocky III, Beastmaster, First Blood, Tron, Poltergeist, An Officer and a Gentleman

[steel_breeze]

I gotta go with 1982 on this one, especially since I was eleven years old when I experienced it, so nostalgia is firmly on the side of my vote.

But I'm gonna go farther and lump in a few of the theatrical re-releases we got that same year. If you count THOSE (which you shouldn't, lol), then the year went like this for an impressionable movie-loving 11-year old:

May
The Road Warrior

June 4th
Poltergeist
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

June 11th
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

June 25
Blade Runner
John Carpenter's The Thing

July 9
Tron

July 14
Pink Floyd The Wall

August 13
Friday the 13th Part III in 3D

October 22
First Blood

AND, in August and September, we had theatrical re-releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Phenomenal year to live through and be a Starlog subscriber.

[Moviefan2k4]

I can't name a specific year, but the early to mid-1990's were a very special time for me. I was born in 1980, so the following decade was some of my first formative years, and movies I loved then became a core part of my emotional identity. I connected very powerfully with comic fare such as The Rocketeer, The Shadow, The Crow, and The Phantom. But there were also Disney classics like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King (though I personally loved Hercules due to James Woods' hilarious role as Hades). I also give major props to the studio for making The Hunchback of Notre Dame - even though they vastly reworked the story for the sake of a "family film", some very serious issues were still addressed, including pariah attitudes, racism, religious extremism, and especially Biblical attitudes toward unchecked lust (evidenced most prominently with the character of Frollo's obsession regarding Esmerelda).

Other favorite films during the '90s include Terminator 2, A Few Good Men, Sister Act, Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, Sleepless in Seattle, The Mask, Casper, Jumanji, Independence Day, Twister, and Mission: Impossible. 1995 introduced me to the James Bond series with GoldenEye, in which I became immediately transfixed with Famke Janssen as "Xenia Onatopp" (I was very hormonal at 15, and her appearance in the first X-Men five years later helped balance that out a bit).

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

1975

Jaws
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Wind And The Lion
The Man Who Would Be King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Breakheart Pass
Hard Times
Night Moves
Rollerball
The Stepford Wives
The Sunshine Boys
3 Days Of The Condor

I'd agree with '75, but you only have the tip of that amazing iceberg:

Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Nashville
The Passenger
Shampoo
Death Race 2000
Dersu Uzala
Return of the Pink Panther
French Connection II
Escape to Witch Mountain
Dolemite
Shivers
A Boy and His Dog
The Mirror
Deep Red
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Seven Beauties
Love and Death
The Switchblade Sisters
The Story of Adele H.
The Day of the Locust
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Tommy
Farewell, My Lovely
Race with the Devil
Friday Foster
Sheba, Baby
Supervixens
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
The Great Waldo Pepper
Overlord
Fox and His Friends
Smile
Cooley High
Black Moon
Trilogy of Terror
The Eiger Sanction
Rancho Deluxe
The Fortune
Lips of Blood
Salo
Jeanne Dielman

[Vesper29]

2006

Casino Royale
The Departed
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige
V for Vendetta
Apocalypto
Munich
300
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
Letters from Iwo Jima

[BerC]

My personal favorite year was 1980:

The Shining
The Empire Strikes Back
Raging Bull
The Elephant Man
Kagemusha
My American Uncle
Friday the 13th
Caddyshack
The Blues Brothers
Every Man for Himself
City of Women
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fame
From the Life of the Marionettes
Alexander the Great
Dressed to Kill
The Last Metro
Altered States
The Fog
Airplane!
Stir Crazy
City of the Living Dead
Hex


. . . and so much more.

[Leslie Dame]

1986 was solid

1. Aliens
2. Top Gun
3. Stand by Me
4. Platoon
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
6. Blue Velvet
7. The Fly
8. Big Trouble in Little China
9. Labyrinth
10. Highlander
11. The Name of the Rose
12. Crocodile Dundee
13. The Color of Money
14. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
15. Pretty in Pink
16. Little Shop of Horrors
17. Three Amigos!
18. Manhunter
19. Hannah and Her Sisters
20. Short Circuit
21. The Mission
22. An American Tail
23. Down by Law
24. The Great Mouse Detective
25. The Hitcher
26. Flight of the Navigator
27. Hoosiers
28. Heartbreak Ridge
29. The Transformers: The Movie
30. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
31. Back to School
32. Sid and Nancy
33. The Mosquito Coast
34. From Beyond
35. Ruthless People
36. Night of the Creeps
37. Salvador
38. F/X
39. Something Wild
40. River's Edge
41. Mona Lisa
42. Children of a Lesser God
43. At Close Range
44. Crossroads
45. Lucas
46. She's Gotta Have It
47. Running Scared
48. The Big Easy
49. Clockwise
50. The Adventures of Milo and Otis

[DR Herbert West]

Die Hard
They Live
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Twins
Scrooged
Big
Beetlejuice
Frantic
Maniac Cop
Dead Calm
Halloween 4
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Midnight Run
Rain Man
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4
Dead Heat
Monkey Shines
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Vampire's Kiss
A Fish Called Wanda
Friday the 13th VII
Young Guns
The Naked Gun
Bad Dreams
Cocktail
Dead Ringers
Rambo III
Miracle Mile
The Return of the Killer Tomatoes
Caddyshack II
Red Heat
Short Circuit 2
Bloodsport
Mississippi Burning
Alien Nation
Poltergeist III
Cinema Paradiso
The Blob
Fright Night Part II
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Shakedown
The Last Temptation of Christ
Return of the Living Dead Part II
Child's Play
Bull Durham
Willow
Funny Farm
Pumpkinhead
Ernest Saves Christmas
Scarecrows
Colors
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Earth Girls are Easy
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Sleepaway Camp II
Red Scorpion
Big Top Pee-Wee
Coming to America
Phantasm II
Clean and Sober
Alien from L.A.
Ghoulies II
Lady in White
Above the Law
Critters 2
Brain Damage
Police Story 2
Hairspray
Missing in Action III
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit
Waxwork
Iron Eagle II
Working Girl
Night of the Demons
The Vanishing
Crocodile Dundee II
Akira
Jack's Back
Action Jackson
Talk Radio
The Dead Pool
Watchers
The Legend of the Holy Drinker

And Mac and Me

[PipesDonatello]

I may have answered this previously in a similar thread, but for me it's 1985, right before 1984.

Back To The Future
Real Genius
To Live And Die In L.A.
Brazil
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
The Breakfast Club
Day Of The Dead
The Return Of The Living Dead
After Hours
Fright Night
Rocky 4
Rambo: First Blood 2
Commando
Fletch
The Last Dragon
Re-Animator
Explorers
Mask
Enemy Mine
Legend
The Goonies
Howling 2: Your Sister Is A Werewolf
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Friday The 13th Part 5: A New Beginning
Death Wish 3
The Legend Of Billie Jean
Better Off Dead
Just One Of The Guys
Silver Bullet
Weird Science
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Teen Wolf
Into The Night
Spies Like Us
Lifeforce
Demons
Phenomena
Santa Claus: The Movie
Young Sherlock Holmes

And of course.....Come And See

[rubystone356]

the year 1989 is my favorite year for films with the original Batman, Indiana Jones 3, Ghostbusters 2, star trek 5, the abyss, when harry met sally, parenthood to same some.

Jacob

[BaronVH]

1982

There are 1982 film festivals for goodness sakes.

Not just the amount of great films but the overall quality of them.