Best year for movies?

Let's hear it, members and moderators.

1982
Blade Runner
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Rocky III
Gandhi
An Officer and a Gentleman
E.T.
Porky's
Creepshow
Wrath of Khan
The Verdict
48 Hours

 

Since everyone else will call out the 70s or the 40s, I'll go with...1999.

 

1994

Shawshank
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Speed
True Lies
The Lion King
Quiz Show
Natural Born Killers
Reality Bites
The Paper
Clerks

And about 20-25 other movies I love.

 

Out of those two years, I've seen 12 of them.

 

1939 - Gone With The Wind, Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, and a few more that remain relevant.

1979 - Alien, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Being There, Breaking Away, The China Syndrome, The Great Santini, The Jerk, The Kids Are Alright, Kramer v. Kramer, Mad Max, Meatballs, Life of Brian, The Muppet Movie, Norma Rae, North Dallas Forty, The Onion Field, Rock and Roll High School, The Rose, Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Star Trek, The Tin Drum, The Warriors.
Hell of a list of movies that continue to resonate.

 

I'm not enough of a cinephile to give a specific year off the top of my head, but I wouldn't turn my nose up at any of those offered so far. I'd probably offer the 70s as a decade, but I can't do a specific year.

 

If not 1994, then I submit 1977:

Star Wars, Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Smokey & the Bandit, The Spy Who Loved Me, Saturday Night Fever, The Goodbye Girl, Slap Shot.
Plus the brilliant TV version of Roots.

 

Forgot about '97.
Even without Titanic you've got Donnie Brasco, Private Parts, Liar, Liar, Selena, Grosse Pointe Blank, Austin Powers, the very underrated Breakdown, My Best Friend's Wedding, Face Off, Men in Black, Contact, Air Force One, LA Confidential, In and Out, Boogie Nights, Good Will Hunting, As Good as it Gets, Jackie Brown, and Wag the Dog.

 

1995 had a nice cross-section with a lot of movies that had lasting appeal. It's been 25 years, and I'd be willing to bet you can find at least one or two of these on cable at some point this weekend:

Best Picture heavyweights: Braveheart, Leaving Las Vegas, Apollo 13, Seven, Casino, The Usual Suspects, Heat, and Toy Story.

Fun comedies and action movies that became cable mainstays: Billy Madison, The Quick and the Dead, Tommy Boy, Bad Boys, Friday, Crimson Tide, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Babe, Species, Mortal Kombat, Mallrats, Goldeneye, Jumanji, 12 Monkeys and Sudden Death

Some historically notable stinkers as well: Batman Forever, Jury Duty, Under Siege 2, Waterworld, Showgirls, and Halloween 6.

 

76

Rocky
Bad News Bears
Taxi Driver
All the President's Men
Network

 

1990 (for Fred Dalton Thompson movies)
Hunt For Red October
Days of Thunder
Die Hard 2

 

1985

Back To The Future
The Breakfast Club
Brewster’s Millions
Cocoon
The Color Purple
Commando
D.A.R.Y.L
Death Wish 3
Desperately Seeking Susan
Fletch
The Goonies
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Jewel of the Nile
Just One Of The Guys
King Solomon’s Mines
The Legend of Billie Jean
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mask
Murphy’s Romance
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
Nightmare on Elm Street 2
Out of Africa
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Police Academy 2
Prizzi’s Honor
Purple Rose of Cairo
Rambo First Blood Part 2
Rocky IV
Santa Claus The Movie
Spies Like Us
St. Elmo’s Fire
Teen Wolf
Turk 182!
A View To Kill
Vision Quest
Weird Science
White Nights
Witness.