Support NeoGAF

[MrToughPants]

No mention? For the first time in living memory, GAF disappoints.

This!!!

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

 

[CitizenCope]

Good call OP. I love me some Red Dawn.

 

[Bodacious]

 

[SpartanForce]

Brah I can do this all day

 

[Dicer]

Police Story

 

[Zwei]

Scarface

 

[seanoff]

3 pages in an nothing for this film

Best Picture (won)
Best Director (Richard Attenborough) (won)
Best Original Screenplay (John Briley) (won)
Best Film Editing (John Bloom) (won)
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Ben Kingsley) (won)
Best Art Direction (won)
Best Cinematography (won)
Best Costume Design (Bhanu Athaiya) (won)
Best Makeup (Tom Smith) (nominated)
Best Original Score (Ravi Shankar and George Fenton) (nominated)
Best Sound (Gerry Humphreys, Robin O'Donoghue, Jonathan Bates and Simon Kaye) (nominated)

 

[Ricker]

Not quite Gandhi quality lol but I loved Midnight Run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1_N28DA3gY

 

[Espresso]

I haven't seen Wall Street mentioned yet.

 

[DarkFlow]

 

[sooperkool]

 

[Count Dookkake]

I'm assuming you left off SOCIETY because it was a too-obvious fifth choice, here.

Although it was shot in the '89, it wasn't released until the '92.

It's a judgment call.

 

[hokey1]

How about films released just in 1982? I saw a lot of films back then.
Conan the Barbarian
Rocky III
48 Hours
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,
Poltergeist
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,
Firefox,
Annie
The Thing,
Blade Runner,
Tron
The World According to Garp
Pink Floyd The Wall
An Officer and a Gentleman
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
First Blood
Creepshow

 

[Currygan]

christ, this is going to be long


A fish called Wanda
Without a clue
Blade Runner
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Excalibur
007 Licence to Kill
Raiders of the lost ark
The shining
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Lethal Weapon 1-2
Trading places
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Ghostbusters
The naked gun
The Bostonians
Brazil
Back to the future
The Emerald Forest
Highlander
Lady Jane
Mona Lisa
The Goonies
Sid and Nancy
Hellraiser
The last emperor
Airplane!
The blues brothers
Cruising
The elephant man
Manhunter
Raging Bull
Full Metal Jacket...


...man, I really have to stop, there are so many great movies!

 

[Mgoblue201]

 

[Kad5]

The Shining

The Empire Strikes Back

The Decalogue

Come and See

Once Upon a Time in America

Fanny and Alexander

Ran

Blade Runner

The Thing

Full Metal Jacket

Grave of the Fireflies

The Elephant Man

Paris, Texas

Blue Velvet

My Neighbor Totoro

Aliens

Back to the Future

Brazil

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Akira

Die Hard

Return of the Jedi

Scarface

Evil Dead 2

The Terminator

 

[Kwhit10]

Die Hard and Uncle Buck

 

[Dai101]

And now, a movie that only i watched ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Crazy

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Here are the first 10 off the top of my head

Big Trouble in Little China
Aliens
The Thing
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Robocop
The Goonies
Gremlins
Young Sherlock Holmes
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Die Hard

the 80s were awesome

 

[Melchiah]

The Evil Dead

Followed by...
The Howling
Tras el cristal (AKA In a Glass Cage)
Altered States
Mad Max 2
Conan the Barbarian
Aliens
Predator
Bloodbath at the House of Death (the best horror comedy of the era)

And these...

Some others:
Raising Arizona
Chariots of Fire
Videodrome
Spinal Tap
The Name of the Rose
Ran
Fitzcarraldo
Blue Velvet
The Shining
Raging Bull
The Thing
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Robocop
The Mosquito Coast
The Fly
After Hours
Back to the Future
True Stories
Beetlejuice
Say Anything
Scarface
River's Edge
Stand By Me

And these...

 

[Askani]

Monster Squad > Goonies. Sorry, it's just a fact.

 

[Marleyman]

First one that comes to mind is Ferris Bueller's Day Off for me; plenty more but that is the most iconic to me.

 

[Holtz]

 

[JB1981]

Look at how much better these one sheets are compared to today's. Works of art!