What's everyones top movies of 1982?

[HarryCanyon1982]

That year has turned 35 and so will i this June as i was born that year and what a memorable year for movies it was.

What's everyones top movies of that fantastic year?

My top 25:

1. Blade Runner.
2. The Thing.
3. Creepshow.
4. ET.
5. Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan.
6. Conan the Barbarian.
7. Pink Floyd The Wall.
8. Poltergeist.
9. Rocky III.
10. First Blood.
11. The Dark Crystal.
12. The Secret of NIMH.
13. The Flight of Dragons.
14. The Last Unicorn.
15. Tootsie.
16. Gandhi.
17. 48 Hours.
18. Tenebre aka Unsane.
19. Tron.
20. Richard Pryor Live at the Sunset Strip.
21. Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
22. Basket Case.
23. Diner,
24. Nightshift.
25. Firefox.

HMs:
Q The Winged Serpent.
Halloween III Season of the Witch.
Airplane 2.
Cat People.
The Plague Dogs.
Class of 1984.
Hey Good Lookin'.
Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales.
Swamp Thing.
Cheech and Chong when Things are Tough All Over.
The Entity.
Vice Squad.
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
Dead Men don't Wear Plaid.
Amityville II.

Guilty pleasures:
Pieces.
Turkey Shoot aka Escape 2000.
The New York Ripper.
Friday The 13th part 3.
Evilspeak.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

A good year for movies. I'll just limit myself to my top 3 (today anyway):

Star Trek II
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Thing

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Fanny and Alexander
The Thing
Fitzcarraldo

 

[sbk1234]

Wrath of Khan and ET were my two big flicks that year.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Yeah, Tenebre is high up there. The best Hitchcock riff DePalma never made.

Plus The Dark Crystal. Henson does LSD and films his hellish trip

Hugo - A high watermark for SF/F was '82

 

[φ of π]

The Flight of Dragons is my #1 for 1982.

 

[Q2UnME]

Wrath of Khan and ET were my two big flicks that year.

Same here.

I remember myself and a bunch of high school buddy's ditching school one afternoon to be at the first screening of Wrath of Khan. E.T. was another one that brings back fond memories..

Q2

 

[J.T.B.]

That was around the time I started going to movies a lot with friends and watching "Sneak Previews" on PBS, but I did not see any of my favorites below till later.

Blade Runner
The Verdict
Fitzcarraldo
The Thing
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

 

[od0_ital]

Pennies From Heaven
Swamp Thing
Conan the Barbarian
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Rocky III
Poltergeist
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Grease 2
Blade Runner
The Thing
Tron
First Blood
The Last Unicorn
The Dark Crystal
Tootsie

 

[Kirby]

Wrath of Khan, ET, and Diner are probably my favorite.

I am sure I'm in the minority, but I never understood what the big deal was about Blade Runner.

 

[urbandefault]

I don't think I went to the movies in '82. It's hard to imagine, but I was working odd hours then. I taped TWOK off HBO and watched it literally* a million times.

*Zack from TBBT.

 

[Redfern]

Most of the films on that list I waited to catch them on HBO, putting me a year or so behind the times. Given the theme of this site, of course I caught "Wrath of Khan" in the theaters. With all the hype around it, I went to see "E.T." rather than waiting. Also the "Dark Crystal" and "Tron" based upon the articles I read in StarLog.

I honestly can't remember if I saw "Conan" at the movies or om HBO. Same fading memory applies to "Blade Runner".

At the time, I had a very sensitive "fright threshold" so their was no way I'd brave "The Thing" at the movies. Even "Poltergeist" was a bit too creepy for me at the time, though I'd later watch both on the premium channels. Today, I'll "riif" on "The Thing" like the gang on MST3K.

Given my sensitivity about the titles in the prior paragraph, it seems strange I decided to catch "Cat people" at the movies. I almost changed my mind and bailed (after buying my ticket) when I asked the usher if it had graphic violence. But I braved it anyway. While not a great movie by any means, the heavy Freudian symbolism in the movie (Irena's coitus induced lycanthropy) "clicked" with me as I lived in a rather repressive home environment. It was the "gateway" material that sparked my eventual interest in anthropomorphic motifs.

 

[publiusr]

Fanny and Alexander
The Thing
Fitzcarraldo

Hateful Eight really is just a remake of The Thing

 

[Random_Spock]

Wrath of Khan and ET were my two big flicks that year.

Mine too, only I saw them years down the line. Along with Tootsie.

 

[Push The Button]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

 

[chevron]

Wrath of Khan without a doubt. Saw it in the cinema that summer.

And from the "movies I eventually saw on tv" list...

The Thing
Blade Runner
Firefox, because it got me reading the Craig Thomas novels.