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Old 07-12-08, 07:20 PM
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Favorite movie from the year you were born?
1976

The Bad News Bears

some other favorites

Rocky
The Taxi Driver
Silver Streak
The Enforcer
Outlaw Josey Wales



pretty good year for movies
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1982

Blade Runner

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1986
1. Aliens (no question about it)

Runners Up:
2. The Fly
3. Hannah And Her sisters
4. Salvador
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Return of the Jedi
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It my favorite film of that year and is also the best film of that year.
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Martin (1977)
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From 1971? A Clockwork Orange. Easy.

My top 10 domestic films from that year:

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Bananas
3. French Connection
4. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
5. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
6. Straw Dogs
7. THX-1138
8. Klute
9. Last Picture Show
10. Dirty Harry
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Star Wars
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Probably Ferris Bueller or Back to School.
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1963

The Great Escape

Honorable Mention:
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

What I should watch someday:
Hud
Charade
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Jaws
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It my favorite film of that year and is also the best film of that year.
Me too! Thank God for Empire.
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That's an easy one. This has not only always been my favorite movie from the year I was born, it has always been one of my all-time favorite movies, period:

Forbidden Planet
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Originally Posted by Rockmjd23
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It my favorite film of that year and is also the best film of that year.
If you want to call it your favorite film, that's all well and good. Referring to Empire Strikes Back as the best film released during a year which also gave is Raging Bull is just plain silly.
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Originally Posted by NoirFan
If you want to call it your favorite film, that's all well and good. Referring to Empire Strikes Back as the best film released during a year which also gave is Raging Bull is just plain silly.
I liked Caddyshack better than both of those.
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Originally Posted by NoirFan
If you want to call it your favorite film, that's all well and good. Referring to Empire Strikes Back as the best film released during a year which also gave is Raging Bull is just plain silly.
Nope. Raging Bull is a great movie but a tad overrated imo. I would put it at #2 of that year. Maybe we should start a poll!
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Dirty Harry
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1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
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I was born in 1981. Favorite film from that year: Howling.
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1982
ST: Wrath of Khan. Although, I actually enjoyed the third more.

I used to love E.T. but it lost its magic.

I have not watched Blade Runner yet but if I had, I suppose it'd be my top film for 82.
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1987

Planes, Trains and Automobiles, no question. My favorite comedy ever, and one of the few movies that dares moving me to tears even if it doesn't exactly happen.

Other favorites:

RoboCop
Lethal Weapon
Evil Dead II
The Lost Boys
Raising Arizona
Angel Heart
Wall Street
Barfly
Prince of Darkness
A Better Tomorrow II
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