What's everyone's top movies of 1982?

[TomServofan]

That year is now 35 years old and what a nice year for movies and a memorable one too.

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.

[RikWriter]

Blade Runner
The Thing
STII: TWOK
Conan the Barbarian
Gandhi
Poltergeist
First Blood

What a hell of a year!

[Ken Ashcroft]

First Blood
48 hrs
Conan the Barbarian
Rocky III
Star Trek II

Guilty pleasures :

An Officer and a Gentleman
Tootsie
Death Wish II

[MindofShadow]

First Blood
Rocky
Conan

All other answers wrong

[AJBopp]

Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan
Conan The Barbarian
Pink Floyd The Wall
Tootsie
ET

Swamp Thing belongs no better than the list of Guilty Pleasures, and probably not that high.

End of discussion.

[TomServofan]

Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan
Conan The Barbarian
Pink Floyd The Wall
Tootsie
ET

Swamp Thing belongs no better than the list of Guilty Pleasures, and probably not that high.

End of discussion.

And would you love to see a new version of Swamp Thing?

[AndrewCrossett]

1982 was a good one...

48 Hours
The Beastmaster
Blade Runner
Conan the Barbarian
The Dark Crystal
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Firefox
Gandhi
Night Shift
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Porky's
The Secret of NIMH
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Thing
Tootsie
Tron

Yeah, I know... E.T., but honestly I never really cared much for that movie.

[5Eyes]

Films that has not been said that I enjoyed on that time period -

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales -- what can I say Love WB toons
The Sword and the Sorcerer - Very B film - but love the Merc didn't stay for love
Zapped! -- Ofcourse after hearing later in life they use a body double for Heather Thomas just disappointing


oops didn't see another listed Bugs

[numberthirty]

Since I didn't see either of them get a mention...

- The Fulci film Manhattan Baby is a winner.
- The film version of the S.E. Hinton book Tex was also decent. Even more so when you factor in that it was a Disney film.

[numberthirty]

Disney actually got me thinking about the Kenny Rogers' film Six Pack. It's pretty cute, and I think it came out in eighty-one or eighty-two.

While it didn't get much of a wide release or come out on video until way later, I think the Neil Young film Human Highway came out in eighty-two.

[Da Boat]

1. Blade Runner
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. The Thing
4. An Officer and A Gentleman
5. Rocky 3
6. Friday the 13th 3-D
7. The Beastmaster
8. Cat People
9. Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
10. ET: The Extra-Terrestial
11. First Blood
12. Poltergeist
13. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
14. Split Image
15. Annie
16. Airplane 2
17. 48 Hours
18. Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan
19. Grease 2
20. Les Misérables
21. Personal Best
22. Tron
23. Creepshow
24. Firefox
25. White Dog

[TomServofan]

Since I didn't see either of them get a mention...

- The Fulci film Manhattan Baby is a winner.
- The film version of the S.E. Hinton book Tex was also decent. Even more so when you factor in that it was a Disney film.

New York Ripper was better than Manhattan Baby

[Surf]

That year is now 35 years old and what a nice year for movies and a memorable one too.

What's everyones top movies of that fantastic year?
4. E.T.
11. The Dark Crystal.
12. The Secret of NIMH.

I was about 7 so these three are the only movies I actually saw at the theater. Pretty solid themes for movies aimed at kids back when. RIP Jim Henson, an Instagram went around couple weeks ago with him and Aughra at an intersection and it damn near choked me up. Henson had teams of puppeteers but nowadays it's more like dozens of teams of digital effects people.

Anyway, 48 hours to me is the funnier of the two between it and Beverly Hills Cop. BHC hit harder in spots but I've always liked Reggie Hammond more than Axel Foley. Both great, funny movies but 48 hours is more...RAW (see what I did there). I also think my dad caved in and got HBO around this time and that brought a lot of these movies into peoples homes before VHS took off.

E.T. man, that was a thing yo. I think I've sat through it once since the time I saw it first run, I think even as a kid you can tell when a movie is a little too heavy on the feels knowwhatImean. Once I got older though I've always enjoyed Close Encounters much more, I've probably seen it more times over the years than I care to admit and anytime it's on I'm in it for a spell.

To answer the question though John Carpenter's The Thing rules time and space for me. I didn't even ever see it until the late 90's but it's one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. One of the rare movies I've owned across three formats.

[TomServofan]

I was about 7 so these three are the only movies I actually saw at the theater. Pretty solid themes for movies aimed at kids back when. RIP Jim Henson, an Instagram went around couple weeks ago with him and Aughra at an intersection and it damn near choked me up. Henson had teams of puppeteers but nowadays it's more like dozens of teams of digital effects people.

Anyway, 48 hours to me is the funnier of the two between it and Beverly Hills Cop. BHC hit harder in spots but I've always liked Reggie Hammond more than Axel Foley. Both great, funny movies but 48 hours is more...RAW (see what I did there). I also think my dad caved in and got HBO around this time and that brought a lot of these movies into peoples homes before VHS took off.

E.T. man, that was a thing yo. I think I've sat through it once since the time I saw it first run, I think even as a kid you can tell when a movie is a little too heavy on the feels knowwhatImean. Once I got older though I've always enjoyed Close Encounters much more, I've probably seen it more times over the years than I care to admit and anytime it's on I'm in it for a spell.

To answer the question though John Carpenter's The Thing rules time and space for me. I didn't even ever see it until the late 90's but it's one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. One of the rare movies I've owned across three formats.

So cool you saw those in theaters, that's how old my big brother was when he saw The Thing, ET, Tron, Star Trek II, Dark Crystal, Conan, The Last Unicorn, Secret of NIMH, Creepshow etc. in theaters.

[AndrewCrossett]

I was 16 years old in 1982. I remember seeing several of these in the theater. I can even tell you what theaters I saw Wrath of Khan, Beastmaster, and Secret of NIMH in. None of them still exist. :-(