What was your Golden Movie Year?

[stueyross]

Have been feeling a little nostalgic lately, probably because my birthday is fast approaching and its one of the last ones to start with a 3!

So Ive been trying to think, what was the real Golden Year for movies when I was a kid. Obviously I'll probably find out that there wasnt one and that it will be an agglomeration of years probably from '77 onwards to the late 80's early 90's.

See, I was born in 72 so I was blessed as an 80s child with a plethora of quality movies aimed at the young and young at heart. Star Wars/Trek, all the spelberg films, rambo, Terminator...the list goes on and on.

But if you had to pick ONE Year and nominate that as a formative year in your movie going history, what would it be and what are the films in it?

I'll post again later with my favourite year....off to IMDB now

 

[Mr Light]

I didn't get to see a ton of movies until I was older, so my first golden year is when I was 18...

1999. Fight Club. Matrix. Phantom Menace. The Mummy. Austin Powers 2. World is Not Enough. Office Space. South Park the Movie. Wild Wild West (yeah, yeah, I liked it, ok???). Deep Blue Sea. American Pie, lol. Blair Witch. Iron Giant. Dogma. The Messenger. Sleepy Hollow. Galaxy Quest.

2003 is good too. RETURN OF THE KING. Pirates 1. Kill Bill 1. Finding Nemo. Matrix 2 & 3. Terminator 3. X-Men 2. The Hunted. The Core 28 Days Later. Sinbad (I actually really liked this!). Bad Boys 2. Freddy vs Jason Underworld. Rundown. Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Elf. Love Actually. Last Samurai.

I think 2005 is second place through. REVENGE OF THE SITH. Batman Begins. Serenity. Sin City. Hitchhiker's Guide. Harry Potter 4. War of the Worlds. King Kong. Madagascar. Mr Mrs Smith. The Jacket. Crash. Longest Yard. Land of the Dead. Fantastic Four (though it was pretty lame). The Island and Stealth; I liked them both! 40 Year Old Virgin. Brothers Grimm. Wallace and Gromit. Saw 2. Just Friends. Syriana. Aeon Flux. Munich.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Another child of the '80s right here.

I was born in '79, though. So, the Reagan era really was my childhood!

If I had to pick one year which saw the release of the most movies I love to watch again and again it would be....

1987
Adventures in Babysitting
Baby Boom
*batteries not included
Beverly Hills Cop II
Dirty Dancing
Dragnet
Ernest Goes to Camp
Fatal Attraction
Full Metal Jacket
Harry and the Hendersons
Innerspace
Lethal Weapon
The Living Daylights
Mannequin (one of my all-time favorite movies!)
Masters of the Universe (yeah, I liked it)
Moonstruck
Overboard
Over the Top
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Predator
The Princess Bride
The Principle
Raising Arizona
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Robocop
The Running Man
The Secret of My Succe$s
Spaceballs
Stakeout
Summer School
Three Men and a Baby
Throw Mama from the Train
The Untouchables
Wall Street
Who's That Girl

I can't think of any other year with such a large group of great movies.

 

[adamnirwan]

According me 2006 to 2009 year was golden movie year. because In which have releaded most popular movies like X-Men: The Last Stand, Avatar, Terminator Salvation and Saw III these types of movie ungraded the movie year.

 

[stueyross]

Holy crap 1987 is an incredible year. I was 15 so it was a relatively easy life back then. Im still trying to find my favourite year!

 

[C.E. Evans]

I've had lots of good movie years, but I think the one that holds the top spot for me goes back to 1982, because it was the best year of my childhood ever, and there two movies that year that were game changers for me as a kid--Star Trek II and the original Tron.

 

[RandyS]

I was born in 1970, and for me, the golden movie years were:

1981
Superman II Original version and still my favorite Superman movie
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Outland
For Your Eyes Only

1982
ET
Star Trek II
Blade Runner
Tron
Rocky III

1987
Lethal Weapon
Superman IV
The Living Daylights
Spaceballs

1989
Star Trek V
Lethal Weapon 2
Batman my favorite of ALL the Batman movies from any era
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade my favorite of the Indy Jones series
Back to the Future II My favorite of that series
Licence to Kill

There have been other years, but these four stand out in my mind as having the most good summer films.

 

[Harvey]

My most formative year in terms of movies happened between the fall of 2004 and the summer of 2005. I volunteered at a local art house and saw at least one movie in the theatre (often more) per week. I can't even remember half the movies I saw now, but it was a game changer in terms of seeing more foreign and independent films than I had ever seen before.

 

[CorporalClegg]

1999. Fight Club. Matrix. Phantom Menace. The Mummy. Austin Powers 2. World is Not Enough. Office Space. South Park the Movie. Wild Wild West (yeah, yeah, I liked it, ok???). Deep Blue Sea. American Pie, lol. Blair Witch. Iron Giant. Dogma. The Messenger. Sleepy Hollow. Galaxy Quest.

This. I graduated in '99, so many of these films represent the last hurrah for me and my friends before we all left for college or whatnot.

 

[HaventGotALife]

1995:
Apollo 13
Seven
Crimson Tide
Leaving Las Vegas
Casino
Braveheart
The Basketball Diaries
Die Hard: With a Vengence
Clueless
The American President
Sabrina
Mr. Holland's Opus
Forget Paris
Outbreak
Les Miserables (Geoffrey Rush, Liam Neisen)
Babe
Toy Story


1998:
Saving Private Ryan
Armageddon
He Got Game
Shakespeare in Love
Run Lola Run
Enemy of the State
Primary Colors
Wag the Dog
A Simple Plan
A Civil Action
The Truman Show
Elizabeth
The Big Lewbowski
Pleasantville
The Negotiator
The Red Violin
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Horse Whisperer

2001:
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
A Beautiful Mind
Monster's Ball
Black Hawk Down
Ali
In the Bedroom
Amelie
i am sam
Unbreakable
The Majestic
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Ocean's Eleven
The Royal Tenanbaums
Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone
Shrek

 

[Greg Cox]

I was born in the late fifties and this thread is making me feel incredibly old . . . .

Not sure what my Golden Year was.

 

[Skywalker]

Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to go with 1999, too. I was 15 then (turned 16 that October), and that's when I really started actually paying attention to the movies I watched and following their development. Before then I never really put much thought into movies or film development.

 

[Jetfire]

1991

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Beauty and the Beast
Hook
The Silence of the Lambs
JFK
The Addams Family
Cape Fear
Hot Shots!
City Slickers

Lot of good ones; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_in_film

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

[edit] Ooh! The Rocketeer!!!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

1977. Star Wars

It changed my life.

 

[Kirby]

For me it was 1985. I was starting my senior year in High School and either with my friends, or with a date, I saw at least one movie per week. Here were some of my favorites:
· Back to the Future
· Better Off Dead,
· The Breakfast Club
· Brewster's Millions
· Cocoon
· Commando
· Day of the Dead
· Fletch
· The Goonies
· Lost In America
· Mask
· National Lampoon's European Vacation
· Pee-wee's Big Adventure
· Prizzi's Honor
· The Purple Rose of Cairo
· Rambo: First Blood Part II
· Real Genius
· Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
· Rocky IV
· Rustlers' Rhapsody
· Silverado
· Spies Like Us
· St. Elmo's Fire
· The Sure Thing
· Teen Wolf
· Weird Science
· Witness

Plus, 1985 was the year of Breakin' 2: Electric Bugaloo I never saw it, but it has a sweet title!

 

[Mistral]

For me it was 1985. I was starting my senior year in High School and either with my friends, or with a date, I saw at least one movie per week. Here were some of my favorites:
· Back to the Future
· Better Off Dead,
· The Breakfast Club
· Brewster's Millions
· Cocoon
· Commando
· Day of the Dead
· Fletch
· The Goonies
· Lost In America
· Mask
· National Lampoon's European Vacation
· Pee-wee's Big Adventure
· Prizzi's Honor
· The Purple Rose of Cairo
· Rambo: First Blood Part II
· Real Genius
· Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
· Rocky IV
· Rustlers' Rhapsody
· Silverado
· Spies Like Us
· St. Elmo's Fire
· The Sure Thing
· Teen Wolf
· Weird Science
· Witness

Plus, 1985 was the year of Breakin' 2: Electric Bugaloo I never saw it, but it has a sweet title!

Thank you-you saved me much searching!

And I saw Breakin'2-god help me. It's amazing the things you think are interesting when you're too stoned to actually think....

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

1982

48 HRS.
Blade Runner
Conan the Barbarian
The Dark Crystal
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
First Blood
Gandhi
An Officer and a Gentleman
Poltergeist
Porky's
The Road Warrior (a late 1981 release in Australia and Japan and a 1982 release in the rest of the world)
Rocky III
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Thing
Tootsie
Tron
The Verdict
The World According to Garp

Also, Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were re-released in '82.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Any year in the 80's is golden for me.

I don't think anyone has mentioned 1986 yet.

Aliens
Big Trouble In Little China
Blue Velvet
The Fly
Highlander
Little Shop of Horrors
Platoon
Salvador
Star Trek IV
Three Amigos
Top Gun
Transformers the Movie

 

[onlinemoviessho]

The Last Airbender
Starring: Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Nicola Peltz
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Release Date: 2nd July 2010

This was the best an Golden movie of the year 2010 , according to me

 

[tomalak301]

1994

The Lion King, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, and Forrest Gump all came out that year.