Best Film of 1983 (ongoing survey)

[JonTurner]

I know we've got polls like this all the time around here, but I figure this one will be a little more comprehensive and perhaps even informative.

This thread will be for your pick for best film released during 1983 (think Oscar considerations for what's eligible). I'm not making it a poll because whether you like it or not, that would influence some people's choice.

Results will be posted in this thread, and all subsequent threads for each year, and they will be ongoing... so you can still vote here even weeks after other year's polls have begun.

Please start your post with your #1 film from 1983 (try to limit it to one - after all, that's the point - two at the most (I'll split the vote)), and yes, discussions are more than welcome!

Current Leader -- Return of the Jedi

All Years:
2000 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169768) -- Requiem For a Dream*
1999 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170274) -- Fight Club*
1998 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171440) -- (currently) Saving Private Ryan
1997 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=172054) -- (currently) Boogie Nights
1996 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=173057) -- Fargo*
1995 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174141) -- (currently) Braveheart
1994 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175192) -- Pulp Fiction*
1993 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176491) -- Schindler's List*
1992 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177944) -- Unforgiven*
1991 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=179517) -- Silence of the Lambs*
1990 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182060) -- Goodfellas*
1989 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183974) -- (currently) Do the Right Thing
1988 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=186578) -- Die Hard*
1987 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=189840) -- Full Metal Jacket*
1986 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=193610) -- (currently) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1985 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=195894) -- Back to the Future*
1984 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=197576) -- (currently) Ghostbusters
1983 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199215) -- Return of the Jedi*
1982 (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201052)

If you haven't voted on the previous years, feel free to go back and do so.

*Poll closed, winner declared.

[JonTurner]

1) The Right Stuff - 9/10
2) National Lampoon's Vacation - 8/10
3) Scarface - 8/10
4) The Big Chill - 8/10


And for curiosity's sake:
Siskel:
1) The Right Stuff
2) Terms of Endearment
3) Betrayal
4) Fanny and Alexander
5) Star 80
6) The Year of Living Dangerously
7) Silkwood
8) Pauline at the Beach
9) Risky Business
10) The Big Chill

Ebert:
1) The Right Stuff
2) Terms of Endearment
3) The Year of Living Dangerously
4) Fanny and Alexander
5) Gandhi
6) El Norte
7) Testament
8) Silkwood
9) Say Amen, Somebody
10) Risky Business

[Sunday Morning]

1983

#1 videodrome

02. breathless
03. the king of comedy
04. trading places
05. the big chill
06. fourth man
07. fanny and alexander
08. silkwood
09. dead zone
10. lianna

11. terms of endearment
12. koyaanisqatsi
13. valley girl
14. cross creek
15. the dresser
16. risky business
17. return of martin guerre
18. confidentially yours
19. and the ship sails on
20. nostalghia

of note:
le bal
betrayal
christine
educating rita
el norte
hannah k.
the hunger
the man with two brains
max dugan returns
the osterman weekend
the outsiders
the right stuff
rumble fish
scarface
scrubbers
star 80
the star chamber
streamers
sugar cane alley
tender mercies
testament
variety
wargames
the year of living dangerously
zelig

[kian69]

SCARFACE

[D-Ball]

The Right Stuff

[Geofferson]

Risky Business

[LBPound]

Return of the Jedi

[ToddSm66]

1. Return of the Jedi
2. Strange Brew
3. National Lampoon's Vacation
4. The Right Stuff
5. A Christmas Story

[evenflow]

Scarface!

[Goat3001]

Return Of The Jedi

[Robert]

Return of the Jedi

[funstan]

No contest: Tender Mercies

[cortan]

ROTJ for me

[Sierra Disc]

We're getting into the "before my time" area (I was 12 in '83) but for my vote, I'll have to go with Return Of The Jedi also, even if it had Ewoks.

[conscience]

My vote:

<b>Terms of Endearment</b>.

BTW and FWIW,
<b>Return of the Jedi</b> is my favorite of the Star Wars films...it is actually the only one that I have watched more than once.

[conscience]

Originally posted by JonTurner

5) Gandhi

Hmmmm....

[JonTurner]

^ I know - it's from '82, but Ebert said it, not me ;)

[Johnny Zhivago]

The Right Stuff

HMs to Scarface, The Dead Zone and The Hunger.

[wm lopez]

RETURN OF THE JEDI

[skar]

I'm going with Return of the Jedi also. The only film I've watched 4 times in one day.

[travis_bickle]

Return of the Jedi

[garmonbozia]

hard to decide......a pretty ho-hum year I guess.....
I couldn't really decide between A Christmas Story and The Year of Living Dnagerously (I'm a big fan of Videodrome too), so I'll just pick A Christmas Story

[B.A.]

vacation

[Masoo]

Under Fire

[swamptours]

Return of the Jedi for me also.

[Eddyhazkel]

A Christmas Story

[dave955]

Originally posted by JonTurner
I know we've got polls like this all the time around here, but I figure this one will be a little more comprehensive and perhaps even informative.

If Return of the Jedi wins, either this is one of the worst years of filmmaking ever or the poll is quickly falling into the uninformative range. Jedi is good but not great. Then again, I've seen almost no other films from this year, so perhaps it was an awful year.

Oh well, at least Blade Runner is coming up...

[Chief Brody]

RETURN OF THE JEDI.

[PunkYou]

National Lampoon's Vacation..

[NitroJMS]

Return of the Jedi

[explosivej]

Vacation

[J-Dubya]

Scarface

[Copenhagen]

Scarface

[Gdrlv]

Getting before my time as well (only 8 in 1983)...so my favorites from that year are:

1. National Lampoon's Vacation
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Strange Brew
4. A Christmas Story
5. Scarface

[randy1320]

Return of the Jedi

[Brak55]

Cross Creek. My second favorite film of the decade after The Last Temptation of Christ.

[Terrell]

Return of the Jedi is a great film. Some of the best moments in the entire saga came from jedi. That's my vote.

[Fred G Sanford]

Originally posted by Terrell
Return of the Jedi is a great film. Some of the best moments in the entire saga came from jedi. That's my vote.


Er...yeah. I can see that the films being picked in these surveys are now becoming more and more childish. ROTJ a great film? Harrison Ford's acting alone prevents it from being that. Get serious, people.

[DVD Smurf]

[List=1]
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Needs more votes!!!) :)

Fanny and Alexander
Nostalghia
Terms of Endearment
Zelig
Scarface
[/list=1]

Gandhi was made in the year of 1982.

[Pillowhead]

Scarface

[victant]

A Christmas Story! Classic! :up:

[JonTurner]

Originally posted by Fred G Sanford
Er...yeah. I can see that the films being picked in these surveys are now becoming more and more childish. ROTJ a great film? Harrison Ford's acting alone prevents it from being that. Get serious, people.

Heck yeah - Them's fightin' words!! :D

j/k

Yeah, I definitely agree that with ROTJ probably winning this one and then other recent winners like Ghostbusters and Ferris Bueller's Day Off even - we know they're not great films, but they definitely have their fans... and if that's what these polls end of showing, then so be it.

And just because they aren't all great films (at least, according to me ;)), a lot of these are films that people come back to a lot and/or are sentimental favorites. I think with the 70s coming up, we'll see a lot of truly great films winning again, but hey, we'll see how it goes. Who knows, maybe crap like Star Wars will continue to win :yack:








Just kidding about that last part ;)

[Sunday Morning]

Yeah, I've noticed the same thing.

This is a poll for the BEST picture of the year. If ROTJ was the best picture of that year, cinema died over 20 years ago.

[TCG]

Vacation, the best National Lampoon movie ever!

[cineman]

Scarface

[Kubrickite]

Return of the Jedi baby!

[Jaymole]

Fanny & Alexander

With the Right Stuff & King of Comedy right behind

[DarthMarino]

Return of the Jedi

[gcribbs]

Risky Business

sometimes you have to say what the f*** :)

Come on any movie with Guido the killer pimp has got to be the best :D

[sebastianv50]

Return of the Jedi.

[JonTurner]

This one will probably be closed late tonight - if not, then tomorrow... so, last call!

[JonTurner]

Well... Return of the Jedi ran away with it. I doubt anyone's too shocked about that.

1) Return of the Jedi (17 votes)
2) Scarface (6)
3) The Right Stuff / National Lampoon's Vacation (4 each)
5) A Chirstmas Story (3)

This one's free to close.

The 1982 Thread is now open here. (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201052)

[Blake]

Closing as per request of the author.