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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: Your Favorite Year     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jan 8, 2017 - 11:50 AM     By:   TominAtl   (Member) I was just recently going through the channel guide on Dish Network, looking to see what was on and I came across a couple of different channels that happened to show several different films that I deemed my favorites, and that were being shown throughout the day. It quickly struck me that they were all from one year: 1982 I am still stuck by the sheer number of films that I feel have just have an amazing quality or qualities about them. Here is a rundown of my personal favorites that I still watch at any given time(in no particular order) that come from 1982. I can think of no other year in my own life that have as many as this: Star Trek II - Wrath of Khan Ghandi The Verdict First Blood The Secret of NIMH Tootsie Blade Runner Poltergeist E.T.: The Extraterrestrial The Thing The Year of Living Dangerously Victor Victoria My Favorite Year(irony, I know and completely unintentional) Missing I was curious to see if anyone else has their own "favorite year". And I'm talking about the films themselves, not their scores, though on the above list you can't really go wrong a number of them as well.    Posted:   Jan 8, 2017 - 11:53 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Mine is the same year, and I couldn't agree more! Adds: Conan the Barbarian Rocky III Edits: Opps, thought you were talking about films & scores. I like many of the films too.    Posted:   Jan 8, 2017 - 1:07 PM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) Try 1971 for the emergence of gritty & baroque works of the fairly recent G-GP-R-X ratings system era: The Devils The Music Lovers The Last Picture Show The Boy Friend The French Connection Straw Dogs A Clockwork Orange Fiddler on the Roof Desperate Characters Nicholas and Alexandra Macbeth Death in Venice The Hospital Two English Girls Cold Turkey The Emigrants Going Home Lawman McCabe and Mrs. Miller Murmur of the Heart Sometimes a Great Notion Trafic Wild Rovers Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The Horsemen Sunday Bloody Sunday THX-1138 Walkabout Klute Or the sheer energy and creativity on display in the cinema of 1975: Dog Day Afternoon Nashville Barry Lyndon Dersu Uzala Night Moves Picnic at Hanging Rock Jaws Lisztomania Tommy Hearts of the West Shampoo The Passenger Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Story of Adele H. French Connection II The Killer Elite The Magic Flute The Man Who Would Be King One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Posse The Return of the Pink Panther The Romantic Englishwoman The Wind and the Lion Hustle I like years from other decades besides the 1970s, but the richness of this period of film art is really something. 1979: All That Jazz Breaking Away Stalker Apocalypse Now Manhattan The Onion Field Luna Saint Jack The Marriage of Maria Braun The Black Stallion Tess Wise Blood Kramer vs. Kramer A Little Romance Nosferatu, the Vampyre Woyzeck Being There Black Jack Christ Stopped at Eboli Love on the Run Moonraker 1941 Real Life Time After Time Alien Dracula Escape from Alcatraz    Posted:   Jan 8, 2017 - 1:32 PM     By:   RoryR   (Member) 1968 Because movies are magical when you're nine years old.    Posted:   Jan 8, 2017 - 1:34 PM     By:   henry   (Member) 1979, I was only two, but that's when I came into my own!    Posted:   Jan 8, 2017 - 1:35 PM     By:   Rameau   (Member) Looking at the title I thought this was a thread about the excellent 1982 Peter O'Toole comedy. I'll have a think, but it's bound to be a sixties year. It's 1963, just beating 1965, I'll post a little list tomorrow. 1963 Billy Liar The Birds Charade Cleopatra The Damned 55 Days At Peking From Russia With Love The Great Escape The Haunting The Haunted Palace Irma La Douce It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World Jason & The Argonauts Kiss Of The Vampire The List Of Adrian Massenger The Mouse On The Moon Summer Holiday The Thrill Of It All Tom Jones The Wrong Arm Of The Law Just twenty of the enjoyable films of this great year (well I enjoyed them)...but 1965 is probably as good.    Posted:   Jan 8, 2017 - 4:22 PM     By:   Adam.   (Member) I agree about 1982. For the number of great popcorn entertainments it was tough to beat. Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan Poltergeist ET First Blood The Challenge Creepshow Blade Runner Conan the Barbarian Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior The Thing Tron    Posted:   Jan 11, 2017 - 2:26 PM     By:   TominAtl   (Member) I agree about 1982. For the number of great popcorn entertainments it was tough to beat. Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan Poltergeist ET First Blood The Challenge Creepshow Blade Runner Conan the Barbarian Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior The Thing Tron Dang, I how the heck could I have forgotten about The Road Warrior? And I almost put in Conan, if only for the score.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2017 - 2:53 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) I think 1999 was a particularly good year. Almost unprecedented. THE SIXTH SENSE AMERICAN BEAUTY THE MATRIX BOYS DON'T CRY THE INSIDER EYES WIDE SHUT ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER THE THIN RED LINE RUSHMORE THE STRAIGHT STORY FIGHT CLUB MAGNOLIA THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT BEING JOHN MALKOVICH TOY STORY 2 PRINCESS MONONOKE RUN LOLA RUN MAN ON THE MOON ROMANCE EXISTENZ AUDITION ELECTION BEAU TRAVAIL All considered contemporary classics today. I'll even throw in some personal favs, like THE MUMMY, DEEP BLUE SEA, SLEEPY HOLLOW, GHOST DOG: WAY OF THE SAMURAI, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, THREE KINGS and -- yes, believe it or not -- THE PHANTOM MENACE.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2017 - 3:06 PM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) 1963 Billy Liar The Birds Charade Cleopatra The Damned 55 Days At Peking From Russia With Love The Great Escape The Haunting The Haunted Palace Irma La Douce It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World Jason & The Argonauts Kiss Of The Vampire The List Of Adrian Massenger The Mouse On The Moon Summer Holiday The Thrill Of It All Tom Jones The Wrong Arm Of The Law Just twenty of the enjoyable films of this great year (well I enjoyed them).... I agree about '63 being an outstanding movie year. I would add America America, The Leopard, 8 1/2, The Cardinal, Hud, The Fire Within, The Servant, Bay of Angels, High and Low, The Pink Panther, Winter Light, Donovan's Reef, and The Prize to this list.    Posted:   Jan 11, 2017 - 3:34 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) I loved 1978 where we got the awesome: Jerry Goldsmith: Magic The Boys from Brazil The Swarm Damien: Omen II Coma Capricorn One released summer 78 John Williams: The Fury Jaws II Superman Ennio Morricone: Days of Heaven Elmer Bernstein: Animal House Dave Grusin: Heaven Can Wait    Posted:   Jan 11, 2017 - 3:50 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) Yeah, but zooba, this was about FILMS, not scores!    Posted:   Jan 11, 2017 - 3:51 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Yeah, but zooba, this was about FILMS, not scores! Scores have films?!?    Posted:   Jan 11, 2017 - 3:55 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Yeah, but zooba, this was about FILMS, not scores! So those were my Fave Films of 1978 that just happened to have Awesome Scores. The scores might have had a great deal to do with why they were my favorite films. Love you "Ol' God of Thunder"!    Posted:   Jan 12, 2017 - 4:24 AM     By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member) Lots of good years, but yeah, 1982 was certainly an important and formative year.    Posted:   Jan 12, 2017 - 5:00 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Lots of good years, but yeah, 1982 was certainly an important and formative year. "Did you ever dream about a place you never really recall being to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination? Some place far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there, though, you knew the language. You knew your way around. *That* was 1982.[pause] No. It wasn't that either. It was just '81 and early '82. That's all there was." ~Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda) in The Limey (1999)    Posted:   Jan 12, 2017 - 5:12 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Lots of good years, but yeah, 1982 was certainly an important and formative year. "Did you ever dream about a place you never really recall being to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination? Some place far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there, though, you knew the language. You knew your way around. *That* was 1982.[pause] No. It wasn't that either. It was just '81 and early '82. That's all there was." ~Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda) in The Limey (1999) And....lo and behold....culled from another 1999 film, the best year in film history!    Posted:   Jan 12, 2017 - 5:23 AM     By:   Rameau   (Member) And....lo and behold....culled from another 1999 film, the best year in film history! Ha, I think the choice is wholly dependant on the year you were born in (but I think we all know that), the films you saw in your teens & twenties (mostly teens).    Posted:   Jan 12, 2017 - 5:41 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Ha, I think the choice is wholly dependant on the year you were born in (but I think we all know that), the films you saw in your teens & twenties (mostly teens). Not to me, really. I was 22 in 1999, so this was WAY after my formative years. I think it's important to separate between one's own nostalgia and a more "objective" evaluation when assessing something like this (of course, there's still a fair amount of subjectivity involved -- especially since the topic is called 'favourite year' rather than 'best year').    Posted:   Jan 12, 2017 - 6:01 AM     By:   Rameau   (Member) Ha, I think the choice is wholly dependant on the year you were born in (but I think we all know that), the films you saw in your teens & twenties (mostly teens). Not to me, really. I was 22 in 1999, so this was WAY after my formative years. I think it's important to separate between one's own nostalgia and a more "objective" evaluation when assessing something like this (of course, there's still a fair amount of subjectivity involved -- especially since the topic is called 'favourite year' rather than 'best year'). I think you're wrong (take that!), the fact that it's favourite year & not best year means it would be a choice from your earlier years. I said teens & twenties & your favourite is when you were 22, proves my point...& how can you have an objective evaluation when talking about a favourite? It's totally subjective (sounding like Woody Allen dialogue now).     Non-Film Score Discussion: Your Favorite Year    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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