What's everyones top movies of 1982?

Ah yes, the year i was born. what a great year for movies. My top 25 of that year.

1. Blade Runner.
2. ET.
3. Star Trek 2.
4. The Thing.
5. Creepshow.
6. Tenebre.
7. Gandhi.
8. Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
9. Tootsie.
10. Tron.
11. Rocky III.
12. 48 Hours.
13. Conan the Barbarian.
14. First Blood.
15. The Dark Crystal.
16. Pink Floyd The Wall.
17. Richard Pryor Live at the Sunset Strip.
18. Basket Case.
19. Q The Winged Serpent.
20. The Secret of NIMH.
21. The Last Unicorn.
22. The Flight of Dragons.
23. Firefox.
24. Diner.
25. The Beastmaster.

Honorable mentions:
Halloween III Season of the Witch.
Cat People.
Airplane 2.
Hey Good Lookin'.
Class of 1984.
Friday The 13th part 3.
Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales.
Swamp Thing.
Nightshift.
Cheech and Chong Things are Tough All Over.
Vice Squad.
Pieces. (Fun Spanish-Puerto Rican slasher guilty pleasure)
The Entity.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

Guilty pleasure:
Alone in The Dark.

My favourites for that year were The Thing, Poltergeist, Blade Runner, Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan and The Dark Crystal.

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TOP TEN 1982

1. First Blood
2. The Thing
3. Conan the Barbarian
4. Blade Runner
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
6. The Verdict
7. An Officer and a Gentleman
8. The King of Comedy
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
10. Poltergeist

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See this is why I wouldn't mind doing a top 20/25/30 for a year because some years are good enough to have a top 50







10. White Dog, Samuel Fuller


09. The Secret of Nimh, Don Bluth


08. Creepshow, George Romero



07. Missing, Costas-Gavras


06. E.T., Steven Speilberg



05. Tootsie, Sydney Pollack


04. Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman


03. Blade Runner, Ridley Scott


02. My Favorite Year, Richard Benjamin



01. The Thing, John Carpenter

1 Blade Runner
2 The Thing
3 Star Trek II - The Wrath of Kahn
4 ET - The Extra Terrestrial
5 Conan the Barbarian
6 Poltergeist
7 Friday the 13th Part III
8 Diner
9 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
10 Annie

There are certainly better quality flicks from that year than some on my list (Sophie's Choice comes to mind right away), but the above are the films I like watching the most.

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Just how does one choose between the Thing and Blade Runner?

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48 Hrs.
Conan the Barbarian
Creepshow
Death Wish II
The Entity
E.T. the Extraterrestrial
Firefox
First Blood
An Officer and a Gentleman
Rocky III
Sophie's Choice
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Thing
Tootsie
Tron

I really enjoyed Cannery Row, based upon the John Steinbeck novel of the same name. It starred Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, with superb narration by John Huston.


There was a lengthy dance bit with Nolte/Winger jitterbugging to Glenn Miller's In the Mood, which is one of the most humorous and empathetic I've seen.

Nolte and Winger are at their near best, and there's even a nice part by the redoubtable M. Emmet Walsh.

~Doc

I watch The Thing every year, I watch Blade Runner every few years

Finally a thread that i really like
Can you guys please make a thread for every year in the 80s, thx
My personal favorites are already mentioned before by other people

If its just Hollywood, I would say, The Verdict, Sophie's Choice, Gandhi and Kings of Comedy stand out for me. Followed by the Thing.


Globally the picture would be quite different i guess.

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My Favorite Films

Blade Runner
Pink Floyd The Wall
The Thing
Gandhi
The King of Comedy
E. T.
The Plague Dogs
The Verdict
First Blood
Victor Victoria

10. The Verdict
9. First Blood
8. Tootsie
7. Pink Floyd - The Wall
6. Creepshow
5. Poltergeist
4. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3. Gandhi
2. E.T
1. The Thing

Rambond, you can start such threads yourself you know. I'm sure you'd get some takers. I'd participate...

IMO The Thing (1982) was very well done, imaginative, and very enjoyable. As you might suspect though, I'm partial to the original, The Thing From Another Planet (1951), with James Arness (Gunsmoke) as the beast. It scared the hell out of everyone in the early '50s-- probably more so than the equivalent fright in the '82 version!..

Dafuq?!

Where's the love for Tron ya'll artsy fartsy snobs?!

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Tron would be on my 1982 list, I see it first run at the theater, and have seen it several times since. It still holds up well.

#1) Fitzcarraldo


#2) Fast Times at Ridgemont High


#3) First Blood


#4) Poltergeist


#5) The King of Comedy


#6) The Thing


#7) White Dog


#8) Smithereens


#9) Basket Case


#10) Class of 1984

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Tootsie
The Return of Martin Guerre
Poltergeist
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Diner
Barbarosa
Conan the Barbarian
Malice in Wonderland
Koyaanisqatsi
The King of Comedy
Hammett
The World According to Garp
Victor Victoria
The Verdict
La traviata
The Thing
Tempest
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Sophie's Choice
Veronika Voss
The Secret of NIMH
Rehearsal for Murder
The Plague Dogs
An Officer and a Gentleman
That Night in Varennes
Night Shift
My Favorite Year
Missing
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Gandhi
Frances
Fitzcarraldo
First Blood
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fanny and Alexander
Evil Under the Sun
Deathtrap
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Creepshow
Burden of Dreams
Blade Runner
The Atomic Cafe
48 Hrs.

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