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Name good movies that were released the year you were born.

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Originally posted by: Steve
1979:

The Deer Hunter
Hair
La cage aux folles
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Alien
Rocky 2
The Muppet Movie
Moonraker
The Amityville Horror
Apocalypse Now
The Life of Brian
10
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Jerk
Kramer vs. Kramer
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You forgot Mad Max!
Otherwise, our list is good
 
Top Gun was released on my birthday (May 16, 1986). That and Star Trek IV (the dumb one with the whales, bleh) are the only movies from 1986 I've seen all the way through.
 
Originally posted by: Newbian
1980:

Top grossing films (U.S.)

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. 9 to 5
3. Stir Crazy
4. Airplane!
5. Any Which Way You Can
6. Private Benjamin
7. Coal Miner's Daughter
8. Smokey and the Bandit II
9. The Blue Lagoon
10. The Blues Brothers

Even more reason why ESB is the best of the series. 😉

And of course... Caddyshack.
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This.
 
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
1983:

Star Wars Ep. 4 - Return of the Jedi... er 6 😉 😱
Scarface
A Christmas Story
Trading Places
WarGames
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You missed a lot of good movies from our year.

Flashdance
The Evil Dead
Octopussy
Superman III
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Staying Alive
Mr. Mom
National Lampoon's Summer Vacation
Risky Business
Cujo
Curse of the Pink Panther
Terms of Endearment
 
Originally posted by: Beev
1984

1. Beverly Hills Cop
2. Ghostbusters
3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
4. Gremlins
5. The Karate Kid
6. Police Academy
7. Footloose
8. Romancing the Stone
9. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
10. Splash
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Hell yeah, what a great year.
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A good year indeed.
 
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Harold and Maude
Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Play Misty For Me
Straw Dogs
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
 
1946:

It's A Wonderful Life
The Big Sleep
The Best Years Of Our Lives
and
Valley Of The Zombies
 
we don't need 10 people to post the same list for 1986...



anyway, '87 for me


167,780,960 3 Men and a Baby (1987)
156,645,693 Fatal Attraction (1987)
153,665,000 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
123,922,370 Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
80,640,528 Moonstruck (1987)
65,207,127 Lethal Weapon (1987)
63,952,836 Dirty Dancing (1987)
59,735,548 Predator (1987)
57,915,972 Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
57,387,516 Dragnet (1987)
 
1981:
The Devil and Max Devlin
Take This Job and Shove It
Scanners
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
Death Hunt
Happy Birthday To Me
Roar
Fort Apache, The Bronx
The Private Eyes
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Sphinx
Le dernier métro
American Pop
Eyewitness
Sunday Lovers
The Dogs of War
All Night Long
On the Right Track
Modern Romance
Back Roads
The Funhouse
Confidence
Cutter's Way
Kelly
Amy
The Final Conflict
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Eyes of a Stranger
Thief
This is Elvis
From Mao to Mozart
The Howling
Going Ape!
Excalibur
Nighthawks
Caveman
Improper Channels
Beyond the Reef
Second-Hand Hearts
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
The Hand
Friday the 13th Part 2
King of the Mountain
Hard Country
The Jazz Singer
Graduation Day
Outland
Bustin' Loose
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Glen or Glenda
The Four Seasons
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Clash of Titans
History of the World: Part I
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Nice Dreams
The Cannonball Run
Superman II
The Great Muppet Caper
Stripes
Force: Five
For Your Eyes Only
Dragonslayer
S.O.B.
Escape from New York
The Fox and the Hound
Endless Love
Arthur
Gas
Eye of the Needle
Blow Out
Tarzan, The Ape Man
Pick-up Summer
Nobody's Perfekt
Comin' at Ya!
Zorro, The Gay Blade <-- LAWL
Wolfen <-- excellent movie
Victory
Under the Rainbow
An Eye for an Eye
Student Bodies
Hell Night
Condorman <-- one of my favorite movies EVER.
Heavy Metal
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Deadly Blessing
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Prince of the City
beloved patriot Tonk Freeway
Heartland
An American Werewolf in London
First Monday in October
Body Heat
Gallipoli
Private Lessons
Tim
Mommie Dearest
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Continental Divide
Raggedy Man
Only When I Laugh
Chariots of Fire
Southern Comfort
Carbon Copy
So Fine
True Confessions
Paternity
Zoot Suit
Rich and Famous
Tattoo
All the Marbles
Das boot ist voll
Enter the Ninja
Silence of the North
Halloween II
Looker
Time Bandits <-- I think I've seen this and I'm pretty sure it blows
Dead and Buried
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Absence of Malice
Ragtime
Man of Iron
Whose Life is it Anyway?
On Golden Pond
Reds
Taps
Four Friends
Buddy Buddy
Rollover
Pennies from Heaven
Neighbors
Ghost Story
Heartbeeps
Sharky's Machine
Modern Problems
 
1936

After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
The Alamo
Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March
The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Camille, starring Greta Garbo
Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
Ceiling Zero, starring James Cagney
The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn
Dodsworth, starring Walter Huston
Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson
Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; directed by Frank Capra
My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis
Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
Sabotage, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka
San Francisco, starring Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald
Secret Agent, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll
Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Things to Come, based on the story by H.G. Wells
The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
 
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