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Your favorite year for movies... and posters
« on: July 13, 2016, 08:25:43 PM »
1984

My favorite year in movies and the one I collect most.  I was a kid back then, so it's probably why it means so much.

I mean, c'mon, it has Mozart, Madonna, Prince, Argento, John Hughes and Molly Ringwald, Rachel Ward (!!!), Communists, Nam, Coppola, Neil Jordan, Axel Foley, David Lynch and Sting, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis and Zuul, Guttenberg and Commandant Lassard, James Cameron and the Terminator, Phoebe Cates and Mogwai, Indy, Bastian and Atreyu, Krueger, Sergio Leone and James Woods, Sheena, John Huston, Dirty Harry, Diane Lane singing, wet Daryl Hannah, John Carpenter, Jarmusch, Spock, Wenders and Kinski, Mel farming, Mr. Myagi and Daniel san, David Lean, Redford and last but not least Supergirl.  Nuf said.

Against All Odds
Amadeus
Beverly Hills Cop
The Company of Wolves
The Cotton Club
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dreamscape
Dune
Footloose
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Gwendoline (The Perils of Gwendoline)
Hotel New Hampshire
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Karate Kid
The Killing Fields
Maria's Lovers
The Natural
The Neverending Story
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Once Upon a Time in America
Paris, Texas (Palme D'Or - 1984 Cannes Film Festival)
A Passage to India
Phenomena (Creepers)
Places in the Heart
Police Academy
Purple Rain
Razorback
Red Dawn
The River
Romancing the Stone
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
Sixteen Candles
A Soldier's Story
Splash
Starman
Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock
Stranger than Paradise
Streets of Fire
Supergirl
The Terminator
Tightrope
Under the Volcano
Unfaithfully Yours
The Woman in Red

What's yours?

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Re: Your favorite year for movies... and posters
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2016, 10:04:36 PM »
Mine was 1968.
While I don't have all the posters for these four films anymore, it was (in my humble estimation) one of the most pivotal years in cinema (since 1939) because of them.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Night of the Living Dead
Rosemary's Baby
Planet of the Apes

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Re: Your favorite year for movies... and posters
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2016, 10:31:06 PM »
1984 was pretty awesome, although T forgot The Last Starfighter (which blew my mind as a kid) and Revenge of the Nerds (er, boobies)

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Re: Your favorite year for movies... and posters
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2016, 10:32:44 PM »
I did, which makes 1984 even awesomer!

1968 was pretty dope too, Teddy.

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Re: Your favorite year for movies... and posters
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2016, 10:44:30 PM »
1984 was pretty awesome, although T forgot The Last Starfighter (which blew my mind as a kid) and Revenge of the Nerds (er, boobies)

ps. Wadup Ted!

The Last Starfighter is classic.

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Re: Your favorite year for movies... and posters
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2016, 01:37:49 AM »
I have to go with 1947 on the strength of two titles alone:

  • Out of the Past
  • The Lady from Shanghai

These have to be two of the best pairings of awesome movies with awesome posters.  Of course there are other good ones as well from '47 (Nightmare Alley, T-Men, etc)


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Re: Your favorite year for movies... and posters
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2016, 05:43:31 AM »
I'm very fond of 1994 as it was when I started to really get into watching films. I was working part time in a video shop as a student and watching a lot of them.

Shawshank, Leon, Pulp Fiction, True Lies, Dumb and Dumber, Ed Wood, The Lion King, Speed, The Last Seduction, Heavenly Creatures, The Crow, Clerks...good memories, although not always good posters!

I also like '82 - Blade Runner, ET, The Thing, Tron, Conan the Barbarian, 48 Hours, Poltergeist, The Dark Crystal