Favorite movies of 1983 anyone?

[TomServofan]

Since the year 1983 is 35, what is everyone's top movies of the year 1983?

My top 25 favorites of that year:
1. Return of the Jedi.
2. Bad Boys.
3. A Christmas Story.
4. Scarface.
5. Trading Places.
6. Fire and Ice.
7. Wargames.
8. Rock and Rule.
9. Golgo 13 The Professional.
10. National Lampoon's Vacation.
11. Octopussy.
12. Cujo.
13. Barefoot Gen.
14. Psycho II.
15. Videodrome.
16. Unico 2 The Island of Magic.
17. Twice Upon a Time.
18. Christine.
19. Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.
20. Krull.
21. The Hunger.
22. The Right Stuff.
23. The Dead Zone.
24. Twilight Zone the Movie.
25. The Deadly Spawn.

Honorable mentions:
Strange Brew.
Doctor Detroit.
Valley Girl.
Risky Business.
10 till Midnight.
Blue Thunder.
The Keep.
Strange Invaders.
Of Unknown Origin.
Zeder aka Revenge of the Dead.
A Blade in the Dark.
Man with Two Brains.
Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island.
To be or Not to be.

Guilty pleasure:
Sleepaway Camp.

[AndrewCrossett]

The Right Stuff, Return of the Jedi, Trading Places, War Games, To Be Or Not To Be, Krull. Used to say Vacation but I re-watched it recently and man, is there some cringe-worthy racial stuff in there.

[Darkseid Is]

1. Videodrome
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Scarface
4. The Right Stuff
5. Project A
6. The Dead Zone
7. Christine
8. Superman III
9. A Christmas Story
10. I could go Sleepaway Camp for 10 but I haven't seen it in years.

[JBatmanFan05]

Scarface
The Dead Zone
Bad Boys
Return of the Jedi
Trading Places
Cujo
National Lampoon's Vacation
Under Fire
Eureka
A Blade in the Dark
A Christmas Story
Videodrome
10 till Midnight
Octopussy
Rumble Fish
King of Comedy

Honorable mention: The Keep

I'd list Christine, but it literally misses the spirit of King's book, the car's previous owner. The movie is well cast and has some great parts, but...meh.

These threads do a good job of recommending me other films of that year that I have not yet seen. Like Strange Invaders.

[Jokerz79]

Return of the Jedi, Easy Money, Trading Places, Christine, Flashdance, A Christmas Story, National Lampoon's Vacation, Octopussy, Superman III, Terms of Endearment, Evil Dead, Cujo, Valley Girl, The Day After, Mr. Mom, Sleepaway Camp, War Games, Strange Brew, King of Comedy, Scarface, 10 to Midnight, Videodrome, Sudden Impact, Never Say Never Again, Dead Zone, Daffy Duck's Fantasy Island (Loved it as a Kid), Mickey's Christmas Carol, & The Right Stuff.

[TomServofan]

Return of the Jedi, Easy Money, Trading Places, Christine, Flashdance, A Christmas Story, National Lampoon's Vacation, Octopussy, Superman III, Terms of Endearment, Evil Dead, Cujo, Valley Girl, The Day After, Mr. Mom, Sleepaway Camp, War Games, Strange Brew, King of Comedy, Scarface, 10 to Midnight, Videodrome, Sudden Impact, Never Say Never Again, Dead Zone, Daffy Duck's Fantasy Island (Loved it as a Kid), Mickey's Christmas Carol, & The Right Stuff.

Evil Dead is 1981 movie and released in film festivals in 1981.

[JBatmanFan05]

King of Comedy was shown in Iceland in 1982, but that apparently is it (wikipedia tells me)....I think this might be a rare case of saying the movie is more 1983 than 1982, more belongs to the year it wasn't technically first released in.

[Darkseid Is]

King of Comedy was shown in Iceland in 1982, but that apparently is it (wikipedia tells me)....I think this might be a rare case of saying the movie is more 1983 than 1982, more belongs to the year it wasn't technically first released in.

If that's the case King of Comedy tops the list.

[numberthirty]

Lists aside, one director was behind both Videodrome and The Dead Zone that year.

That one still blows my mind.

[numberthirty]

Since it came up, the film The Keep was released in eighty-three. While you don't just trip over it everywhere you go, it is worth seeing if you get the chance.

[Darkseid Is]

Lists aside, one director was behind both Videodrome and The Dead Zone that year.

That one still blows my mind.

Look at Speilberg in 93. A lot of people give him crap but Schindler's List, an academy movie with performances and all that shit, but also Jurassic Park, an action money machine. Nothing like that will ever be done again.