1982. the best movies ever made... one forgets how old these classics are.

[OutHouse]

awesome movies. wtf happened to Hollywood????? they cant produce movies like this anymore.

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/summ...times-at-ridgemont-high-photo-1339089179.html

 

[Ausm]

I have to agree that movie was awesome and most of the crap coming out of Hollywood nowadays SUCKS....

 

[preslove]

Tron and Rocky 3 sucked, but the rest were good. Though, I haven't seen night shift.

 

[vi edit]

Not sure why, but I thought Blade Runner was made in the 70's. Also had no idea Conan was that old of a movie.

 

[vi edit]

Tron and Rocky 3 sucked, but the rest were good. Though, I haven't seen night shift.

Night Shift is good 80's comedy. They turn a city morgue into a dispatch station for a prositution business.

 

[CPA]

Yep, it includes my all-time favorite movie ever: Conan The Barbarian.

Also, loved The Thing and The Road Warrior (probably my second favorite movie of all time)

 

[Ausm]

Checkout Risky Business now that should be a classic too.

 

[slayer202]

Not a great list. Some good genre films, lotta sci-fi.

 

[CPA]

While I agree that Hollywood has made a lot of retreads lately, there are some recent mainstream movies that I thought were original and pretty good:

There Will Be Blood
Book of Eli (I know a lot of folks hated it, but I thought it was pretty good)
300

Not a lot, but that's all I could think of off the top of my head.

 

[manimal]

Not a great list. Some good genre films, lotta sci-fi.

YA garp ET and Officer and gentleman were minor films.

 

[Via]

Where I lived and Officer and a Gentleman was a huge deal. It cemented Richard Gere as a major star, and pretty much every woman was slobbering over him. I was still pretty young, but I remember that.

Night Shift was one of my favorite movies. I didn't see it in the theater, but I caught it on HBO in the late 80s.

There's a great story about Night Shift: Michael Keaton had failed in Hollywood and had packed up to leave town. He had one final audition left for Nigth Shift, but he was going to blow it off. But as he was driving out of town he changed his mind and decided to take it.

In all of his previous auditions he had tried to play it straight and use his "acting" training, but on this final audition he decided to let it all hang out. What the hell, right? So he just went in without a care in the world; the casting people loved it and eventually hired him.

The scene where Henry Winkler first meets Keaton is an unedited take of how he played that audition.

 

[preslove]

I guess it's time to watch Night Shift, lol.

 

[RPD]

While I agree that Hollywood has made a lot of retreads lately, there are some recent mainstream movies that I thought were original and pretty good:

There Will Be Blood
Book of Eli (I know a lot of folks hated it, but I thought it was pretty good)
300

Not a lot, but that's all I could think of off the top of my head.

I liked Book of Eli. I still need to see There Will be Blood.

 

[darkewaffle]

I think a lot of those are just movies people saw when they were young and thought were awesome, so they're 'cool' to them in retrospect. But I think calling some of them "good" is stretching it.

 

[slayer202]

While I agree that Hollywood has made a lot of retreads lately, there are some recent mainstream movies that I thought were original and pretty good:

There Will Be Blood
Book of Eli (I know a lot of folks hated it, but I thought it was pretty good)
300

Not a lot, but that's all I could think of off the top of my head.

I can't help but laugh at seeing TWBB mentioned with those other two Book of Eli wasn't bad, I didn't like 300, but There Will Be Blood is the best film in a long while

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Tron, Conan, The Thing... Is it just me, or is history starting to feel cyclical?

 

[mcurphy]

E.T. was the first movie I saw in a theater. I also remember seeing The Toy, which I think came out that same year. I was 5 years old in '82

 

[warcrow]

Yup, Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies of all time. Recently watching the directors cut really reminded me that the film is just so darn amazing!

 

[OutHouse]

I think a lot of those are just movies people saw when they were young and thought were awesome, so they're 'cool' to them in retrospect. But I think calling some of them "good" is stretching it.

i guess you missed the part were they remade most of them?

 

[OutHouse]

Yup, Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies of all time. Recently watching the directors cut really reminded me that the film is just so darn amazing!

yea the set for that show. it must have been grab every prop in hollywood to fill the set to the gills with stuff.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

The 80s rocked, especially in cinema. The crap being pushed out today is nothing in comparison.

Oh, and get off my lawn!

 

[reallyscrued]

Wow, movie poster art used to be so elegant.

 

[preslove]

The 80s rocked, especially in cinema. The crap being pushed out today is nothing in comparison.

Oh, and get off my lawn!

The 1980s were when hollywood went to shit. These 1982 films are a holdover of the last golden age of cinema, the 1970s. The current movie industry isn't much worse than it was in the late 1980s.

 

[zerocool84]

I love Fast Times at Ridgemont High and I wasn't even born when it was released. Good movies are timeless. And no, Tron didn't suck.