Your favorite movie of 1982

[Mike]

The thing for sure, great year though

 

[Sir Galahad]

Sherbros letting me down here. I thought this was a gimme for the ultimate 80's babe.

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What do you mean? I voted for FTARH. @FyrFytr998

 

[europe1]

Tough call between Blade Runner and The Thing. Tougher call than which of my children I love the most. Much tougher

Gotta give this some love as well though

Everyone who has ever seen Fitzcarraldo has that moment where they're just wide-eyed and shaking their heads going "what in the hell are they doing and why are they doing it?"

Also, fucking Werner Herzog started freaking tribal wars in the Amazonian jungle while getting his film made. Seriously, who but he can say that? "Oh you thought your film-shoot was rought? We got raided by indigious tribes on two different occasions and left a wake of ethnic conflict in our path! What were we doing, you ask? Hauling a 30 tons ship over a steep, heavily-forested hill. Why did we do it? To get to the other side, of course."

 

[HARRISON_3]

Blade Runner, of course

 

[ultimateriley-o]

What a brutal choice. Amazing, incredible year. Almost certainly the best from all the polls.

I went with Blade Runner, but that, The Thing, First Blood, and Conan the Barbarian are probably all in my top ten favourite movies. Just crazy that I never realized all those movies were from the same year.

 

[Kingz]

The King of Comedy

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

I feel the need to remind everyone that Megaforce came out this year.

Best review of Megaforce I've ever read "Megaforce was so 80's that even the 80's couldn't deal with Megaforce!"

I've never seen this. But now i MUST see this!

 

[TheSlothMan]

Rocky III all the way. Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Mr. T, Hulk Hogan, fantastic cast and great comeback story.

It may not technically be the best movie but I've watched it a thousand times and never get bored of it.

Shout out to Blade Runner, the Thing, Star Trek II, and Conan as runner ups.

 

[bubbleboyjones]

Wrath of Khan is one of the best Star Trek movies. Ricardo Montalban made for a great villain. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie, though.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan gets my vote for #1 movie of '82 easily.

 

[BisexualMMA]

This is from Conan the Destroyer. The Highlander 2 of Conan movies.

The Highlander 2 of Conan movies is that piece of shit with Jason Momoa.

 

[Guestx]

Well you know me, the 80's left a permanent mark on me. I watched about half those films at the theater when they released. This was 1982, obviously, but the world was quite different in 82' compared to later on with the explosion of computers, cell phones, and cable T.V. packages with 500 channels. People actually still went to the movies, alot, in the 80's. E.T. made $792 million, which at the time was the highest grossing movie of all time. The whole kids adventure thing of movies like E.T. is what made the Netflix Original Stranger Things such a hit.

But yea, Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies of all time and Phillip K. Dick is probably in my top 10 author's of all time. Dick, who later came down with drug induced paranoia and possibly paranoid schizophrenia, led a strange life.

Although he did weird shit that seemed to indicate something else was going on with the guy. I mean he took his son to the hospital saying he had some sort of rare disease, I forget the exact details, but he said a voice warned him of it and come to find out that is exactly what was going on and it saved his sons life. The interesting factoid here is that he died in 1982. Dick is the one that gave us Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and the Adjustment Bureau.

Anyhow, as much as I love about half the movies in this poll, I have to give the nod to Bladerunner, but holy shit what a year.

Maybe that's one reason a lot of these films, while excellent, are not extremely meaningful to me on a personal level. When they were released I was less than one year old so I didn't see them until years later.

Blade Runner I finally saw when I was about 15 and thought that, while visually incredible, it was a little slow and I ended up walking away thinking it's a bit overrated. The Thing I think I've seen twice. Great movie with amazing practical effects, but again, not one that I have a long and involved history with. Same goes for Poltergeist. And even with Rocky III, while the Rocky series as a whole is very important to me and Rocky IV specifically DOES have a lot of personal meaning, Rocky III is not one of the franchise's entries that I've watched over and over.

That leaves ET which, being a kid in the 80s I should probably love, but there are a lot of other kids movies from the 80s that I liked a lot more even then.

I went ahead and voted The Thing because it is really good and I can really appreciate that effects work. Rocky III is the runner-up.

 

[Guestx]

The Highlander 2 of Conan movies is that piece of shit with Jason Momoa.

I've heard mixed things about that one. Some say it sucks, others say it doesn't get the credit it deserves.

 

[MusterX]

Damn, 3 of these movies be like....

 

[BisexualMMA]

I've heard mixed things about that one. Some say it sucks, others say it doesn't get the credit it deserves.

Then it's already getting more credit than it deserves.

 

[mushishi]

Wow, what a great year for film! There's like 10 on that list that I like, and that could ahve won another year.

 

[Lavitz]

Now I'll show you what I already know.

 

[MusterX]

Wow, what a great year for film! There's like 10 on that list that I like, and that could ahve won another year.

I'm telling you, its crazy. E.T. only has 3 votes but it made $792 million dollars lol. Highest grossing film in history up to that point. It outperformed every movie in the poll so the year was exceptionally strong.

 

[Da Speeit]

idk how i voted dark crystal.

Fast Times and it's not close

 

[Guestx]

I'm telling you, its crazy. E.T. only has 3 votes but it made $792 million dollars lol. Highest grossing film in history up to that point. It outperformed every movie in the poll so the year was exceptionally strong.

It's looking like this is really Blade Runner vs The Thing, with Rambo as kind of a dark horse.

 

[LEGS MAHONEY]

Out of the choices, Blade runner. such a wonderful film


@Kardashians likes the dark crystal. the birds are her favorite