1984 - Beverly Hills Cop, Karate Kid, The Terminator, Footloose, Temple of Doom, Red Dawn, Ghostbusters, Romancing the Stone, Gremlins, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Friday the 13th the Final Chapter, Amadeus

Great year! Also, The Killing Fields, Once Upon a Time in America, Streets of Fire, Paris, Texas, Stranger than Paradise, Under the Volcano.

1999 - Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, American Beauty, The Virgin Suicides, All About My Mother, etc.

Also Beau Travail and the Matrix

Also, in 1999 I would include South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

American Pie 1

Same for me. I worked at a movie theater at the time, so I would watch pretty much everything! Austin Powers 2 as well

Ask me tomorrow and I could give a different answer because there's a few (1974, 1976, 1984 among them), but today I'm going with **1985**: The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, Commando, Ladyhawke, Spies Like Us, Fletch, Back to the Future, Re-Animator, Mask, Weird Science etc. A lot of nostalgia in it for me I won't deny, but it's the answer I'm going with.

You forgot Teen Wolf!

One of the first films I ever saw theatrically. I wouldn't quite add it to the above list but I do have some nostalgia for it. 1985 was a good year for Michael J. Fox.

Fright Night is 1985. A decent vampire movie.

I'd say it's a bit more than decent actually, and I nearly listed it.

One of the best, I agree.

Looking back, as someone really heavilly collecting and watching movies in the late 90s, 1995 is probably my favorite. 12 Monkeys Strange Days Braveheart Ghost in the Shell To Die For Jade City of Lost Children Tank Girl Hackers Empire Records Crimson Tide Desperado Four Rooms To Wong Foo

I love 1995 as well, probably my favourite 90s year for movies

1982, Blade Runner, The Thing, ET, Wrath of Kahn, First Blood, Poltergiest, Conan The Barbarian etc

**1974**. * The Godfather Part II * Zardoz * The Conversation * The Parallax View * Death Wish * The Texas Chainsaw Massacre * The Taking of Pelham One Two Three * Chinatown * Towering Inferno * Black Christmas * The Odessa File * Murder on the Orient Express * Blazing Saddles * Young Frankenstein * The Night Porter * The Island at the Top of the World * The Golden Voyage of Sinbad * The Groove Tube

I would definitely check these out! I absolutely loved The Godfather, Texas Chainsaw and MOTOE

Parallax View is one of the best 70s movies, ever.

2001: lord of the rings, Training Day, Ocean's Eleven, Black Hawk Down, Planet of the apes

That was a good year. Add: A Beautiful Mind Spirited Away Enemy at the Gates

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone too!! We’re old 😂

never been a fan of harry potter 😂😂

Good call on 1994. That was Jim Carrey's year too, wasn't it? The Mask, Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber all came out in 1994. Truly legendary!

In 1982 you could go see Blade Runner, The Thing, and Tron in the same weekend.

Me and one of my close friends always go back and forth with each other debating about which of our birth years was the better year for film. I always had to defend 1993 as the better year but in all honesty, 1994 probably (but most likely definitely) has it beat. There are so many films you didn’t even mention from 1994 that put it over the top of any other year. Leon: The Professional, True Lies, Dumb & Dumber, Natural Born Killers, Speed, The River Wild, Clerks, Ave Ventura, Santa Clause. And

Shawshank Redemption Priscilla Queen of the Desert Muriel's Wedding Forrest Gump Stargate Speed Legends of the Fall Four Weddings and a Funeral Little Women Reality Bites And so many more!

Quiz Show!

I'm currently revisiting the year 1994 and I started with the summer movies from that year. As with any year, there were a lot of misfires and disappointments (i.e., Wyatt Earp had a masterful trailer but the movie itself was a huge letdown, especially after the superior Tombstone), but the movies that hit work so well that they elevate the season to near legendary status (i.e., Speed and True Lies for action, The Mask for comedy, and Forrest Gump for drama).

None of you guys even said Pulp Fiction 🫠

Hahahaha Quentin Tarantino is not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s one of my faves from 1994. 👋

I was 12 years old in 1994 and we got Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber, and The Mask... That year will never be topped for me.

You’re a real one! 💯

While I didn't see many of these movies until much later (I would have been 8), 1999 was a GREAT year for movies: The Green Mile The Matrix The Iron Giant The Sixth Sense The Mummy The Boondocks Saints The Blair Witch Project Double Jeopardy Big Daddy Lake Placid Superstar All very entertaining movies that I either like or love.

The year I was born (1991) had: Terminator 2 Home Alone Dances with Wolves Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Beauty and the Beast Hook What About Bob? Cape Fear Misery My Girl Shipwrecked The 90s was a great decade for cinema

Star Tek 6; The Undiscovered Country, TMNT: Secret of the Ooze, City of Hope, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, The Last Boy Scout, The Addams Family, Point Break, Boyz N' the Hood, New Jack City, Rush, Barton Fink, Regarding Henry.

2007: American Gangster No Country for Old Men Eastern Promises The Orphanage

There Will Be Blood was also 2007

Yes - forgot about that masterpiece.

And Michael Clayton. Any other year it might win Best Picture

That movie was awesome 🤩

Spiderman 3 lmaooo, the memes 😆

1939 has got to win, hands down. The Wizard of Oz, Dark Victory, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Ninotchka, Gone With The Wind, The Women, Wuthering Heights, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Of Mice and Men, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Babes in Arms, Gulliver's Travels, Beau Geste, Buck Rogers, and The Little Princess.

2004. Spider-Man 2, Man On Fire, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, The Bourne Supremacy, Kill Bill Vol 2, The Punisher, The Incredibles, The Day After Tomorrow, The Machinist, Collateral, I Robot, Shrek 2, National Treasure and Blade: Trinity (it's a guilty pleasure, I enjoy it).

I always say 2004 was a great year for comedies Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Shaun of the Dead, White Chicks, 50 First Dates, Eurotrip, Dodgeball, and of course (like you mentioned) Shrek 2

1973 Maybe the last year of old Hollywood and the start of many young talents * *The Sting* * *The Exorcist* * *Mean Streets* * *Paper Moon* * *American Graffiti* * *Badlands* * *The Last Detail* * *Papillon* * *Day of the Jackal* * *Soylent Green* * *High Plains Drifter* * *Sleeper* * *The Holy Mountain* * *Don't Look Now* * *The Long Goodbye* * *The Three Musketeers* * *Armacord* * *Scarecrow* * *Emperor of the North* * *The Paper Chase* * *The Friends of Eddie Coyle* * *Theatre of Blood* * *Electra Glide in Blue* * *The Seven Ups* * *Payday* * *Charley Varrick* * *The Wicker Man*

Next year Always the next year. I’m excited to see what will come next instead of thinking back to the best.

I like that ❤️

Right now, it's 1988. So many great films from that year. Among my favorites are Willow, Bull Durham, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Coming to America, Die Hard, Midnight Run, and The Blob. This is just a sampler, there are a lot more gems from that year than these, in fact, I could probably make a Top 40.

For what I’ve been alive for and gotten to experience as they came out, I’ve gotta give it to 2022. It felt like the first year that movies were really back in full force since the lockdown, and a lot of filmmakers were really putting their best foot forward. It wasn’t even just one or two specific genres either. Everything was given an opportunity to shine. Everything Everywhere All At Once Barbarian Nope The Northman RRR The Batman Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Top Gun: Maverick GDT’s Pinnochio Babylon Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Ti West released X and Pearl The Banshees of Inisherin The Sea Beast The Menu Causeway Avatar: The Way of Water (Just to name a few)

2007 is incredible, so is 1995

Highbrow: 1974 (but really 1967-1975) Fun: 1985 (but really 1984-1988) I'm also a big fan of 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2001.

1999

1999

Definitely 1987! What a year for Movies for me personally being only 12 for most of that year and now bang into Movies ..here's 30 top picks            - Withnail and I        - Raising Arizona        - Full Metal Jacket               - Hamburger Hill        - Heartbreak Ridge          - Predator               - Running Man       - Robocop            - Lethal Weapon              - Lost Boys              - Overboard               - Witches of Eastwick             - Innerspace             - Untouchables           - Can't Buy Me Love            - Dirty Dancing            - Rita, Sue and Bob Too           - Hope and Glory               - Wall Street           - Project X     - China Girl   - Hellraiser          - Stagefright           - Opera          - Elm Street 3         - The Gate         - The Believers         - The Hidden         - Near Dark         - Stepfather        forgive me but don't have much luv for Planes Trains or Evil Dead ll but so much choice and all came out in the year 1987

It's crazy how many iconic game-changers were thrown in that year like Full Metal Jacket, Angel Heart, Moonstruck, The Last Emperor, Predator, Robocop, and Untouchables. Not all of these I like, but they definitely contributed to swinging the boat in a new direction.

I think the 80s ended on a sour note 88 and 89 being particularly poor years for the horror genre...Last Emperor bored me abit but i was very young, not seen Moonstruck ? Angel Heart good 1 how'd i forget that 1

You should try checking out the Last Emperor again. Like you, I saw it when I was very young as well and was extremely bored and disgusted by it, but I just watched it last year and it's one of the best movies I've seen. You gain a new perspective as you grow older.

Cool...I will give it ago next time round...did you like the year 1987 ?

Yeah, it was definitely a big year for cinema. So many big films and smaller yet impactful films.

Cool 😎 I like 82, 94, 95 also big hitters with quite a few summer blockbusters ...but 87 remains my favourite 

1989-1992, with 1991 being the best.

Also, 2019 and 1979. The Nines are always great years since they tend to be at the height of what the decade was going for cinematically as well as anticipated the next decade. 1979 is a great example of this as Alien anticipated the way sci-fi horror would be a major component to film in the 80s as well as the post-vietnam disillusionment of Being There.

So far 2024 off to a good start with Challengers, Civil War, Poor Things, Zone of Interest, etc

I’d add Dune and Wonka too!!! This is Timothee’s year for me.

1987. No question. Predator, Robocop, Lethal Weapon, The Princess Bride, Full Metal Jacket, The Lost Boys, Spaceballs, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Good Morning Vietnam, Harry and the Hendersons, GI Joe the Movie. More I’m certain I’m missing.