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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Faker on 02 Dec 2008, 09:38
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So inspired by the album a year thread in the music forum thought I'd start the filmic version.
Starting with the year you were born up to this year, pick your favorite, or what you view to be the best (I know these can be different things) film of each year.
I'm working on my list at the moment, but thought I'd post this to get y'all thinking.
EDIT: Here's my first stab at my list
1982 ET
1983 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
1984 This Is Spinal Tap
1985 Back To The Future
1986 Aliens
1987 The Princess Bride
1988 Die Hard
1989 Batman
1990 Millers Crossing
1991 Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 Unforgiven
1993 In The Name of the Father
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Toy Story
1996 Fargo
1997 Grosse Point Blank
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Fight Club
2000 Memento
2001 Ameile
2002 City of God
2003 The Lord of the Rings – Return of the King
2004 Shaun of the Dead
2005 Serenity
2006 Pan's Labyrinth
2007 No Country For Old Men
2008 The Dark Kinght
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I will get on this when I'm not at work.
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List thread, ahoy!
1984 - Gremlins
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Aliens
1987 - Spaceballs
1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (This was a hard year for me to decide, barely beat Batman)
1990 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1991 - Hook
1992 - Muppet Christmas Carol
1993 - The Sandlot
1994 - Clerks
1995 - Braveheart (This one BARELY beats Twelve Monkeys)
1996 - There is honestly not a single mainstream movie from 1996 I am all that attached to
1997 - Chasing Amy or Suicide Kings. Can't really decide
1998 - Clay Pigeons
1999 - Dogma (Fight Club a close second)
2000 - The Emperor's New Groove
2001 - Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - 28 Days Later
2003 - This is the hardest one yet. I absolutely cannot pick between X2: X-Men United and Return of the King
2004 - Shaun of the Dead, ever so barely over Spider-Man 2 and Prisoner of Azkaban
2005 - Revenge of the Sith. Yes, really.
2006 - The Departed
2007 - Hot Fuzz
2008 - I'm still undecided between Iron Man and the Dark Knight. It was a great year at cinema to be a comic fan
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Ok sure, why not. I am picky and exacting when it comes to this kind of shit, so I have broken my choices down into the following categories, which I'll post seperately:
Favourite, Fun, Sci-Fi, Australian, Alternative/Cult movie.
I'll start with Australian movies, because it's the easiest.
Year - Movie (if it's missing it means that I haven't seen any decent movies from that year)
1977 - n/a
1978 - n/a
1979 - Mad Max
1980 - n/a (probably Breaker Morant, but I haven't seen it)
1981 - Mad Max 2
1982 - n/a (probably The Year of Living Dangerously, but I haven't seen it)
1983 - BMX FUCKING BANDITS OMG (seriously, everything else is shit)
1984 - Razorback (shitty horror, but nothing else decent)
1985 - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
1986 - Malcolm (a seriously fun movie about a quirky inventor)
1987 - The Year My Voice Broke (a coming of age movie, pretty good)
1988 - Young Einstein (a goofy, tongue-in-cheek look at an alternate timeline Einstein's youth)
1989 - Dead Calm (one of Nicole Kidman's only decent movies)
1990 - The Big Steal
1991 - Proof
1992 - Romper Stomper (fucking hell)
1993 - The Heartbreak Kid
1994 - Muriel's Wedding
1995 - Babe (I guessssss)
1996 - Shine
1997 - The Castle (nothing else decent)
1998 - Head On
1999 - Two Hands (one of Heath Ledger's first movies and shows the promise he had even then)
2000 - Chopper / Looking for Alibrandi (two-way tie because these are both excellent movies for their own reasons)
2001 - Don't Say a Word (US/Aus co-production, everything else this year was shit)
2002 - Crackerjack (a very dry comedy from Mick Malloy)
2003 - Gettin' Square (one of these "sad, but accurate" portrayals of Aussie ex-crims trying to make good)
I'll preface this lot with the fact that I haven't seen any of them in full, but that I have seen enough of them to know that they are (in my opinion) the best things produced in Australia for the years given:
2004 - Somersault (the soundtrack is very good and the clips I've seen have been excellent/heart-wrenching)
2005 - Little Fish (Cate Blanchett playing an ex-heroin addict in Cabramatta, the suburb next to where I grew up. It looks very authentic.)
2006 - Candy (Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger are heroin addicts. I want to watch this movie but I also do not want to feel like killing myself afterward. Dilemma!)
2007 - The Jammed (a story about human trafficking and sex slave trade in Australia)
2008 - The Black Balloon (a coming of age/moving to a new school story plus dealing with a brother with autism)
A related note: this thread is pretty cool, actually because it allows me to go through and catalog a bunch of movies I should buy if I don't already have them!
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2006 - Candy (Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger are the prettiest heroin addicts in the whole wide world.)
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Man, there are some pretty... pretty heroin addicts. It was a vogue drug, remember.
Also I was going to comment on Est's apparent zeal for heroin cinema. I'm surprised Trainspotting didn't take '96.
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My criterion? Which movie from that year would I/do I own?
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Blade Runner (I already own Conan the Barbarian, which is a surprisingly cinematic piece, for all that the plot sucks balls; The scoring is perfect. However, I think BR is the superior film.)
1983 - A Christmas Story
1984 - The Gods Must Be Crazy
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Narrowly beating F/X and the Transformers movie.)
1987 - The Princess Bride. No contest.
1988 - Die Hard!
1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990 - Tremors
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1992 - My Cousin Vinny
1993 - True Romance
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption (narrowly beating Pulp Fiction, PCU a close third)
1995 - The Usual Suspects
1996 - The Birdcage
1997 - The Full Monty
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Run, Lola, Run (Just beats Office Space)
2000 - O Brother, Where Art Thou edges out The Whole Nine Yards
2001 - Gosford Park
2002 - Super Troopers
2003 - 28 Days Later...
2004 - The Incredibles
2005 - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
2006 - The Fountain
2007 - Shoot 'Em Up
2008 - The Dark Knight
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Also I was going to comment on Est's apparent zeal for heroin cinema. I'm surprised Trainspotting didn't take '96.
Well, that was the Australian list. There is plenty of time for it to take out the general list for '96!
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1988 - Tie, Akira and A Fish Called Wanda
1989 - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - Tie, Silence of the Lambs and Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 - Malcom X
1993 - Tie, Dazed and Confused and The Fugitive
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - The Usual Suspects
1996 - Trainspotting
1997 - Tie, Grosse Pointe Blank and Alien Resurrection (not because it's good, it isn't, it's just unbelievably fucking weird)
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - Tie, Gladiator and Almost Famous
2001 - Training Day
2002 - 28 Days Later, with honorable mention to Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and 8 Mile (amazingly, actually a good movie)
2003 - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 - Tie, Shaun of the Dead and Harold & Kumar Go to Whitecastle
2005 - Tie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Ong-Bak (yes, it was released 2003 in Thailand, U.S. release date.)
2006 - Casino Royale
2007 - Michael Clayton
2008 - The Dark Knight
Edit: Oh god Surgoshan, Shoot 'Em Up wasn't quite the worst movie ever, but it was goddamn close :cry:
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1989 - Ghostbusters II
1990 - Wild At Heats
1991 - Naked Lunch
1992 - Unforgiven
1993 - Groundhog Day
1994 - The Hudsucker Proxy
1995 - Casino
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Princess Mononoke
1998 - The Truman Show
1999 - Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai
2000 - O' Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 - Mulholland Dr.
2002 - Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
2003 - All The Real Girls
2004 - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
2005 - Capote
2006 - The Lives Of Others
2007 - No Country For Old Men/Paranoid Park
2008 - Man On Wire/Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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No, man, Shoot 'Em Up was AWESOME. Not as a film but as an escape.
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1978- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
1979- Monty Python's Life of Brian
1980- The Empire Strikes Back
1981- Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982- Creepshow
1983- WarGames
1984- Sixteen Candles
1985- National Lampoon's European Vacation
1986- Platoon
1987- Hellraiser
1988- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989- Dream a Little Dream
1990- Pump Up the Volume
1991- The Doors
1992- Indochine
1993- Kalifornia
1994- Clerks
1995- The Usual Suspects
1996- Trainspotting
1997- Orgazmo
1998- The Wedding Singer
1999- Being John Malkovich
2000- Shadow of the Vampire
2001- The Royal Tenenbaums
2002- 28 Days Later
2003- House of 1000 Corpses
2004- Crash
2005- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2006- Catch a Fire
2007- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2008- Burn After Reading (I would like to say Synecdoche, NY but it isn't playing here!)
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1987. Princess Bride (there were a lot of good movies this year, but this one is probably the greatest film satire I've ever seen)
1988. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (I like Gilliam. But I must've watched The Land Before Time at least 10 times)
1989. Hrm. Toughie. I guess Dead Poet's Society. But ask me 10 years ago and I'd say All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1990. Miller's Crossing. Mostly because that hobbling scene in Misery is so very hard to watch, even after all the torture porn I've seen.
1991. Silence of the Lambs. At this point, I'm noticing that the Wikipedia page for 1991 has the titles divided by letter up to M and then it seems like the moderators just stopped caring and listed the rest alphabetically.
1992. Hard Boiled, because of the ridiculous amount of bullets. Ask me then, The Mighty Ducks. This was how I found out about hockey.
1993. The Sandlot. This was just something that happened, we must've rented that movie at least 10 times over the years. Runner up: The Fugitive.
1994. Dellamorte Dellamore. Probably the best zombie movie I've seen.
1995. Twelve Monkeys. I like Gilliam, and my uncle had a small part. Nostalgia vote: Jumanji.
1996. Trainspotting. Warm fuzzy feelings: The Adventures of Pinocchio, Muppet Treasure Island and Matilda.
1997. Men in Black. I can't find reasons to not like this movie. Poor Brendan Fraser: George of the Jungle.
1998. Tie: Big Lebowski and Truman Show. One made me wish I could be a slacker, one made me forever self-conscious and paranoid. But hey, Dr. Dolittle had talking animals!
1999. October Sky, because my dad insisted on making me watch this until I liked it, which didn't take long. Other faves: Mystery Men and Galaxy Quest.
2000. Werckmeister Harmonies. Probably my favorite movie in this list. I REALLY like long takes. Runners-up: Snatch, O Brother Where Art Thou. HATE: The Patriot. My little brother got it for Christmas and watched it 20 goddamn nights in a row.
I'm starting to notice that Wikipedia is leaving out many non-award-winning foreign films. Up until this point at least. There may be a few inaccuracies due to my tendency to forget movie release dates.
2001. Gah. Royal Tenenbaums or AI. Honorable Mention: A Beautiful Mind. ANGSTY: Donnie Darko.
2002. IT'S A THREE-WAY! City of God vs. Bubba Ho-tep vs. Gangs of New York. I miss that movie: Men In Black II; Hey, I Have A Friend Like That Guy: Van Wilder.
2003. Grr. More ties. Oldboy (basically got me interested in foreign cinema) vs. Spring, Fall, Summer, Winter... and Spring (said foreign cinema). I spent 30$ to see this with several groups of people: Pirates of the Carribean.
2004. Shaun of the Dead. One of the funniest long takes I've seen. Hey, It's A Road Movie!: Eurotrip.
2005. Hmm...Green Street Hooligans. So Much Wasted Potential: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
2006. Again, I'm starting to think that some foreign movies aren't being listed...The Last King of Scotland. Forest Whitaker had me on edge.
2007. Wide Release: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Foreign: Syndromes and a Century.
2008. Wall-E. No additional comment. Still haven't seen other possible contenders yet. (I don't go see movies during school)
Odds are I haven't seen half the decent movies that came out in these years, so my list seems a little uneven.
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ok, here's the rest of the list!
Fun movies:
1977 - Smokey and the Bandit
1978 - Animal House
1979 - Monty Python's The Life of Brian
1980 - The Blues Brothers
1981 - Stripes
1982 - E.T
1983 - Trading Places
1984 - Ghostbusters
1985 - Better Off Dead
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 - Lethal Weapon
1988 - Big
1989 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1990 - Quick Change
1991 - City Slickers
1992 - Wayne's World
1993 - Groundhog Day
1994 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1995 - Friday
1996 - The Birdcage
1997 - Men In Black
1998 - Pleasantville
1999 - The Mummy
2000 - Shanghai Noon
2001 - Shrek
2002 - Ice Age
2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 - Shaun of the Dead
2005 - Mr and Mrs Smith
2006 - Casino Royale
2007 - Juno
2008 - Iron Man
Sci-Fi:
1977 - Star Wars: A New Hope
1978 - Battlestar Galactica
1979 - Alien
1980 - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Time Bandits
1982 - Blade Runner
1983 - Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
1984 - The Terminator
1985 - Weird Science
1986 - Aliens
1987 - Predator / Robocop
1988 - They Live
1989 - The Abyss
1990 - Total Recall
1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
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1993 - Demolition Man
1994 - Stargate
1995 - Twelve Monkeys
1996 - Mars Attacks!
1997 - The Fifth Element
1998 - Dark City
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - X-Men
2001 - The One
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2003 - X-Men 2
2004 - Hellboy
2005 - Serenity
2006 - A Scanner Darkly
2007 - I Am Legend
2008 - Cloverfield
Alternative/Cult faves:
1977 - Eraserhead
1978 - Dawn of the Dead
1979 - The Warriors
1980 - Flash Gordon
1981 - Evil Dead
1982 - Conan the Barbarian
1983 - The Dead Zone
1984 - This is Spinal Tap
1985 - Brazil
1986 - Big Trouble in Little China
1987 - Evil Dead 2
1988 - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1989 - Heathers
1990 - Pump up the Volume
1991 - Hudson Hawk
1992 - El Mariachi
1993 - Army of Darkness
1994 - Clerks
1995 - Hackers
1996 - From Dusk til Dawn
1997 - Chasing Amy
1998 - Run Lola Run
1999 - Office Space
2000 - Battle Royale
2001 - Shaolin Soccer
2002 - The Rules of Attraction
2003 - Whale Rider
2004 - Kung Fu Hustle
2005 - Thumbsucker
2006 - Thank You For Smoking
2007 - Hot Fuzz
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Kids movies:
1977 - The Rescuers
1978 - Watership Down
1979 - The Muppet Movie
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1981 - The Great Muppet Caper
1982 - The Dark Crystal
1983 - Wargames
1984 - The Neverending Story
1985 - Goonies
1986 - Labyrinth
1987 - The Princess Bride
1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 - Kiki's Delivery Service
1990 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1991 - Hook
1992 - Sister Act
1993 - -
1994 - The Lion King
1995 - Toy Story
1996 - Matilda
1997 - Princess Mononoke
1998 - A Bug's Life
1999 - Toy Story 2
2000 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2001 - Monsters Inc
2002 - Spirited Away
2003 - Finding Nemo
2004 - The Incredibles
2005 - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2006 - Over the Hedge
2007 - Stardust
2008 - Wall-E
Ok, so here's my Favourites:
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978 - Superman: The Movie
1979 - Rocky II
1980 - The Shining
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - First Blood
1983 - Risky Business
1984 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Stand By Me
1987 - Full Metal Jacket
1988 - Die Hard
1989 - Do the Right Thing
1990 - Edward Scissorhands
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - Seven
1996 - Trainspotting
1997 - Boogie Nights
1998 - American History X
1999 - Fight Club
2000 - Memento
2001 - Donnie Darko
2002 - Spider-Man
2003 - Monster
2004 - I ♥ Huckabees
2005 - Batman Begins
2006 - Pan's Labyrinth / The Departed
2007 - No Country for Old Men
2008 - Dark Knight
and here's a list of movies I haven't watched yet but want to:
1977 - The Duellists
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1979 - Apocalypse Now
1980 - Raging Bull
1981 - Escape from New York
1982 - The Year of Living Dangerously
1983 - Rumble Fish / The Outsiders
1984 - The Killing Fields
1985 - Day of the Dead
1986 - Platoon
1987 - The Untouchables
1988 - Akira
1989 - Sex, Lies and Videotape / Drugstore Cowboy
1990 - Flatliners
1991 - Cape Fear
1992 - The Crying Game
1993 - Kalifornia
1994 - The Professional
1995 - La Haine
1996 - Joe's Apartment
1997 - Grosse Pointe Blank
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - American Beauty
2000 - American Psycho / Requiem for a Dream
2001 - Amelie
2002 - 28 Days Later
2003 - Lost in Translation
2004 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2005 - A History of Violence
2006 - Little Miss Sunshine
2007 - 300
2008 - Man on Wire
Hoorah!
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Jesus Christ, Ben...
Anyways. This thread makes me feel better, because most of the people posting so far are older than me. Paging Paul or Eric to this thread. Paul or Eric to this thread, please.
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1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Big Trouble in Little China
1987 - The Princess Bride or RoboCop
1988 - Beetlejuice
1989 - Uncle Buck and Christmas Vacation
1990 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1991 - Terminator 2
1992 - Muppet Christmas Carol
1993 - Jurassic Park, Falling Down, Groundhog Day, and Tombstone: too hard to decide between them
1994 - PCU
1995 - Mallrats
1996 - 2 Days in the Valley
1997 - Fifth Element
1998 - Big Lebowski
1999 - Office Space
2000 - O' Brother Where Art Thou
2001 - Royal Tenenbaums
2002 - Catch Me if You Can
2003 - Bad Santa
2004 - Shaun of the Dead
2005 - Thank You for Smoking
2006 - Clerks 2
2007 - Grindhouse
2008 - The Dark Knight and Wall-E
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1994. Dellamorte Dellamore. Probably the best zombie movie I've seen.
For those of us in the US, this movie's known as 'Cemetery Man' over here. While I don't think it holds a candle to Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later, it's a pretty damn solid movie. Incredibly funny, too.
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You have to understand, I was exceptionally stoned when I first watched that movie. Plus I thought Rupert Everett played his part perfectly, and Gnaghi was such an interesting sidekick, zombie movie or no. And She (the character) was hot.
I put this over other zombie movies because it was really unique. I don't think there has been or will be any other movies like it.
Whereas those three movies are really good, they aren't as different.
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1987 - Full Metal Jacket
1988 - Akira
1989 - Do the Right Thing
1990 - Jacob's Ladder
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1993 - Searching for Bobby Fischer
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
1995 - Se7en
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Princess Mononoke
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - American Beauty
2000 - Requiem for a Dream
2001 - Donnie Darko
2002 - Spirited Away
2003 - Mystic River
2004 - Shaun of the Dead
2005 - Proof
2006 - Pan's Labyrinth
2007 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008 - The Dark Knight
That's pretty much it
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Jesus Christ, Ben...
Anyways. This thread makes me feel better, because most of the people posting so far are older than me. Paging Paul or Eric to this thread. Paul or Eric to this thread, please.
Back in my day we didn't have the motion picture shows.
If we wanted a show we went down to the docks and....perhaps this story isn't for young ears.
Actually I am considering doing this except there the little problem that I haven't much of a movie goer for the past oh 15 years or so.
Where are y'all getting your list of movies?
In any event it will probably start with:
1963 - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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I (And it seems a few others) basically ran through "19XX in Film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_in_film)" on Wikipedia.
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Yeah. I'm fairly positive there are a few more foreign films that would've been in my list had they actually been shown on Wikipedia, but for whatever reason that section is horribly moderated. I saw several movies show up two or three years in a row, and a handful several years apart.
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man, i got through three years and then just said "aw fuck it" because that is way too much scrolling and contemplating for me.
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Jesus Christ, Ben...
I spent a rather long time on it because I am gonna use it as a reference when shopping for movies in the future. I love certain movies but I don't own a lot of them for some reason. The "Kid's Movies" list was kind of a challenge to me to put together a 1977-present list of kid-safe/fambly movies that aren't absolute garbage so I can start putting together a collection to share with my new niece at some point in the future.
Also, I love lists!
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Okay here we go.
First a disclaimer. I used wikipedia for this. I was looking over a couple of sights but that got old real quick plus one of the site had Ghost in the Shell as bring released in 1963! Talk about being ahead of it's time.
I scanned the list quickly and chose one that I remembered fondly.
Also remember that I am not a big movie goer.
Okay the incredibly long (nut not as long as Paul's list would be)
1964: The Pink Panther
1965: Battle of the Bulge
1966: “Manos” The Hands of Fate (I kid! I kid! Not even MST3K could save this one (I'll go with The Blue Max)
1967: El Dorado
1968: Where Eagles Dare
1969: Battle of Britain
1970: Kelly's Heroes
1971: Support Your Local Gunfighter
1972: The Godfather
1973: Three Musketeers
1974: Four Musketeers
1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1976: Silver Streak
1977: Star Wars
1978: Animal House
1979: Meatballs
1980: Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and Caddyshack! I cannot choose!
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1983: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1984: This is Spinal Tap
1985: Real Genius
1986: Big Trouble in Little china
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: Akira
1989: Heathers
1990: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
1991: Godzilla vs. King Ghidora
1992: Hardboiled
1993: Army of Darkness
1994: Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla
1995: Ghost in the Shell
1996: Fargo
1997: The Fifth Element
1998: N/A
1999: N/A
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Bubba Ho-tep
2003: N/A
2004: Kung Fu Hustle
2005: Batman Begins
2006: N/A
2007: N/A
2008: N/A
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Edit: Oh god Surgoshan, Shoot 'Em Up wasn't quite the worst movie ever, but it was goddamn close :cry:
Above all else, I hate pretension and love honesty. The Librarian: Quest For the Spear is a god-awful movie. It's got a hackneyed plot and low budget and every other phrase is pure bromide, but god-damn if it doesn't go balls to the wall with its awfility. It's a no-holds barred embrace of awful made-for-TV cinema and I love it for it. It takes every single trope and loves it to death.
Shoot 'Em Up is that, but with a budget. They love all the awful action movie tropes and they take them to the extreme limit.
I love a movie with the honesty to stand up and say "I suck. And I'm awesome at it."
It's a hell of a lot better than a movie that tries to proclaim that it's awesome and then spews suck all over the place. I'm looking at you 99% of all independent films ever made.
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And that's why you picked it? Sorry man but that's not really a good criterion
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I said that my picks were movies I'd either want to own or in fact do own.
I do own it. I adore it. It's awesome. To the max.
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In other words, he picked it because it's a great satire. It's a huge joke on everyone who didn't like the movie, basically. There must be some kind of science proving that people who can't laugh at this kind of thing are boring. Man, I was in tears when he killed those guys while having sex with the girl. And the fact that the movie ended at a diner. And just a lot of other parts.
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1988 - A Fish Called Wanda / Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990 - The Hunt for Red October
1991 - City Slickers
1992 - My Cousin Vinny
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - Pulp Fiction / Clerks
1995 - Toy Story
1996 - Fargo
1997 - The Fifth Element
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Office Space
2000 - O Brother Where Art Thou?
2001 - Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (nothing can destroy my love for this shitty, shitty movie)
2003 - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004 - The Incredibles (Best. Pixar. Movie. Ever.)
2005 - This one is hard, I honestly can't decide between Batman Begins, Thank You for Smoking, Serenity, and The Aristocrats
2006 - Casino Royale
2007 - Michael Clayton / Superbad
2008 - Wall-E (beating out Dark Knight for the entirely speech-free first half)
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1986 - Labyrinth
1987 - Withnail and I
1988 - Beetlejuice
1989 - Batman
1990 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1992 - Bram Stoker's Dracula
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - Wolf
1995 - Desparado (There were so many good terrible films made this year that several of them get (dis)honourable mentions: Johnny Mnemonic, Mortal Kombat, Species, Tank Girl, Waterworld).
1996 - Mission: Impossible
1997 - I was going to go with The Fifth Element but The Jackal wins for this year because of the scene where Jack Black gets his arm shot off (I hate Jack Black.)
1998 - Meet Joe Black
1999 - Sleepy Hollow
2000 - X-Men
2001 - Monsters, Inc.
2002 - a three-way tie between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Spiderman and Phonebooth
2003 - X-Men 2 (it was not given the subtitle X-Men United for its Australian release)
2004 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005 - Stay
2006 - Casino Royale
2007 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2008 - The Dark Knight
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I came really close to putting Tank Girl in for 1995.
It is a really good terrible film.
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2003 - X-Men 2 (it was not given the subtitle X-Men United for its Australian release)
Ok, so this made me go get my dvd of it off the shelf - the dvd box just says X-MEN 2 but the title sequence itself just says X2 so no subtitle in the UK and Ireland then so.
One thing I'm really enjoying about reading other peoples lists is seeing something in a particular year and thinking "Damn, why the hell isn't that on my list?" Have the horrible feeling this thread is gonna result in me spending a fortune on dvds.
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1987 - The Brave Little Toaster
1988 - Naked Gun
1989 - Major League
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1992 - El Mariachi
1993 - Falling Down
1994 - Clerks
1995 - Toy Story
1996 - Fargo
1997 - L.A. Confidential
1998 - American History X
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - Memento
2001 - Donnie Darko
2002 - 28 days later
2003 - Kill Bill Vol 1
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 - The 40 Year Old Virgin
2006 - Children of Men
2007 - There Will be Blood
2008 - The Dark Knight (so far...)
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Have the horrible feeling this thread is gonna result in me spending a fortune on dvds.
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1991 - Barton Fink
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1993 - True Romance
1994 - Toy Story
1996 - Bottle Rocket
1997 - (None)
1998 - American History X
1999 - Fight Club
2000 - Memento
2001 - Ocean's 11
2002 - City of God
2003 - Oldboy
2004 - Shaun of the Dead
2005 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006 - The Prestige
2007 - There Will Be Blood
2008 - (With Oscar season right around the corner, I'm not going to chose yet. So far it's close between Synecdoche, New York and The Dark Knight)
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I just saw Fight Club two nights ago...if it weren't for Edward Norton, I'd have put this in for 1999 instead of October Sky.
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1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1989 - N/A
1990 - Misery
1991 - The Silence of The Lambs
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1993 - Schindler's List
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - Casino
1996 - Scream
1997 - Good Will Hunting
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - The Green Mile
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - A Beautiful Mind
2002 - Road To Perdition
2003 - 21 Grams
2004 - Team America: World Police
2005 - Three Burials: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2006 - Pan's Labyrinth / Lucky Number Slevin (Impossible to choose)
2007 - No Country For Old Men / In The Valley of Elah (Again, Impossible to choose)
2008 - N/A
Not really been impressed with anything in particular in 2008. The Dark Knight was ok, same with Iron Man but i haven't seen Synecdoche, New York yet so maybe that in the end.
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1990 - Home Alone
1991 - Drop Dead Fred
1992 - A League of Their Own
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Dumb and Dumber
1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1996 - Mission: Impossible
1997 - Titanic, Men In Black
1998 - Saving Private Ryan, There's Something About Mary, The Waterboy
1999 - The Sixth Sense, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Big Daddy
2000 - Cast Away
2001 - Ocean's Eleven, Shrek
2002 - Austin Powers In Goldmember, Ice Age
2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 - National Treasure
2005 - Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
2006 - The Pursuit of Happiness
2007 - 300
2008 - The Dark Knight, Iron Man
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I just saw Fight Club two nights ago...if it weren't for Edward Norton, I'd have put this in for 1999 instead of October Sky.
Hang on, Edward Norton is the reason you didn't make this your film of the year?
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Yup. His acting was probably better in this film than any of his others that I've seen, but his monotonous narration kind of brought it down a little bit. Also the fact that he is trying really hard to be a chameleon but not quite getting there. When I'm watching his movies, I'm not watching his character, I'm watching him play the character, if that makes sense. Like, I see the other characters in the movie, and then I see Edward Norton. Don't get me wrong, Edward Norton is a good actor, but he has never actually been the characters in his movies, and the fact that I notice that kind of detracts from any movie he's in. He can do it, parts of the first half of American History X, and some parts towards the end of Fight Club I felt he 'dove in', so to speak. But in all the movies I've seen him in (which are pretty good movies, all of them), HE is the biggest issue I have with them. He's young, he can get better at this, it's not that big a deal to me.
I know that'll probably draw ire, because a lot of people think he's pretty great. And he is, there is definitely a larger number of actors worse than him than there is better. But to me, he's not as great as everyone else thinks, just pretty good.
On a related note, I've also heard he's a bit of a narcissist, and the director of American History X is too frustrated with the studio for allowing Edward to edit it to release his version of the film.
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The monotony of the narration is completely intentional.
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Maybe so, but I still thought his delivery was forced.
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Here's mine
1990 - Home Alone (Just beating Die Hard 2)
1991 - Addams Family (Or Terminator 2?)
1992 - Batman Returns
1993 - True Romance (or Nigtmare Before Christmas)
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - Toy Story
1996 - The Cable Guy
1997 - Men In Black
1998 - The Truman Show
1999 - DoA: Hanzaisha (aka Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive)
2000 - Requiem For A Dream
2001 - Battle Royale (is an amazing fuckin' film)
2002 - Ice Age
2003 - A Tale of Two Sisters
2004 - Shaun of the Dead
2005 - Lady Vengeance
2006 - Pan's Labyrinth
2007 - Die Hard 4
2008 - Dark Knight / Tropic Thunder
I've only been alive a short amount of time
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I just want to come in here and say that I have lived more than half of my life in a world with The Phantom Menace. I'd make a list, but I don't watch a lot of movies.
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1982 - The Man From SNowy River
1983 - Scarface
1984 - Ghostbusters
1985 - The Goonies
1986 - The Color of Money
1987 - Adventures in Babysitting
1988 - Rain Man
1989 - Roadhouse
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Resevoir Dogs
1993 - Nightmare Before Christmas
1994 - Forrest Gump
1995 - 12 Monkeys
1996 - Trainspotting
1997 - The Fifth Element
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Fight Club
2000 - The Boondock Saints
2001 - Training Day
2002 - 28 Days Later
2003 - Spiderman
2004 - Shaun of the Dead
2005 - 40 Year Old Virgin
2006 - Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby
2007 - 300
2008 - The Dark Knight
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I'm cheating and having two for some years, because I can't make up my mind.
1986: Little Shop of Horrors
1987: Bad Taste
1988: A Fish Called Wanda
1989: Jesus of Montreal
1990: Home Alone
1991: Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
1992: Wayne's World
1993: Sleepless in Seattle
1994: Four Weddings and a Funeral
1995: La Haine
1996: Star Trek: First Contact
1997: Starship Troopers/Dogma
1998: Mulan
1999: Matrix
2000: Chocolat
2001: Moulin Rouge/Amelie
2002: Battle Royale
2003: Pirates of the Caribbean (Curse of the Black Pearl)
2004: Donnie Darko
2005: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2006: The Illusionist
2007: Juno/Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2008: Be Kind Rewind
It's a rather eclectic list! What does it say about me, then? :-P
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Eclectic is a bad word to describe things
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I liked The Dark Knight, sure. But I'm giving high-fives to anyone who doesn't pick it for 2008 just because it is such a "TITANIC" answer!
not that high-fives are worth much.
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Until I go and see Milk and/or Frost/Nixon I really don't see much competition for this year.
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Until I go and see Milk and/or Frost/Nixon I really don't see much competition for this year.
I'm looking forward to seeing both Milk and Frost/Nixon, but they're going to have to be pretty damn special indeed to beat this film:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/26/worldcinema.drama (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/26/worldcinema.drama)
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looks like a pretty good film
I'll keep an eye out for it next time I'm in France
That makes me sound right rich, that.
"On one of my frequent visits to the Continent..." Sounds like something Oscar Wilde would say
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I'm not going to bother making my own list, since that'd be a lot of work, but I'm guessing more of you need to see 1994's Hoop Dreams. (http://www.hulu.com/watch/28514/hoop-dreams) Don't give me any crap about not being interested in basketball either. That's missing the forest for the trees.
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1993: Groundhog Day - What if Bill Murray had to wake up everyday and go to that hipster party until he learned to accept that most young folks today are going to judge his entire body of work by whatever Wes Anderson films they've seen him in?
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1991: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1992: Wayne's World
1993: Addam's Family Values
1994: Pulp Fiction
1995: GoldenEye
1996: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
1997: Starship Troopers
1998: Mulan
1999: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (I had ALL the merchandise)
2000: American Psycho
2001: A Space Odyssey
2002: Spider-Man
2003: X-2: X-Men United
2004: Shaun of the Dead
2005: Batman Begins (Hg2g was just too mediocre a film to put.)
2006: V For Vendetta
2007: Shoot 'Em Up
2008: Iron Man
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1986 - Roadhouse
1987 - Roadhouse
1988 - Roadhouse
1989 - Roadhouse
1990 - Roadhouse
1991 - Roadhouse
1992 - Roadhouse
1993 - Roadhouse
1994 - Roadhouse
1995 - Roadhouse
1996 - Roadhouse
1997 - Roadhouse
1998 - Roadhouse
1999 - Roadhouse
2000 - Roadhouse
2001 - Roadhouse
2002 - Roadhouse
2003 - Roadhouse
2004 - Roadhouse
2005 - Roadhouse
2006 - Roadhouse
2007 - Roadhouse
2008 - Roadhouse
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1992-Aladdin
1993-Jurassic Park
1994-A troll in Central Park (what?)
1995-Toy Story
1996-Romeo+Juliet
1997-Men in Black
1998-Shakespeare in Love
1999-Office Space
2000-Battle Royale
2001-Donnie Darko
2002-Spirited Away
2003-Return of the Kind
2004-Shaun of the Dead
2005-Serenity/Hard Candy(soo many more)
2006-Brokeback Mountain/Slither(Can't choose, both great for different reasons)
2007-There Will Be Blood
2008-Dark Knight of course
So yeah i think I'm the youngest here ><
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1986: Aliens
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: Beetlejuice/Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: The Abyss
1990: Dances With Wolves
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1992: Bram Stoker's Dracula
1993: Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1994: Interview With A Vampire
1995: Se7en
1996: The Bird Cage
1997: The Fifth Element
1998: The Wedding Singer
1999: Toy Story 2
2000: The Patriot
2001: Amelie/Spirited Away
2002: Hero
2003: LotR:RotK/Pirates of the Caribbean/Finding Nemo (All 3 are so good...)
2004: Howl's Moving Castle
2005: Batman Begins
2006: Little Miss Sunshine
2007: No Country for Old Men/Ratatouille (Odd pairing, but hey.)
2008: The Dark Knight/Iron Man/ Frost/Nixon
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Mine has the dubious distinction of being the oldest, though not the longest (sweet mother of bleeding Jesus, est, yours is a tribute to the awesomegeist of compulsion) list compiled. I've seen all of these, though I needed help with the chronology prior to the 70's.
1957: Gunfight at the OK Corral, 1958: The Long, Hot Summer,
1959: Porgy and Bess, 1960: The Magnificent Seven,
1961: The Hustler, 1962: To Kill a Mockingbird,
1963: Donovan's Reef, 1964: Dr. Strangelove,
1965: Cat Ballou, 1966: The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!,
1967: Casino Royale, 1968: The Odd Couple,
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1970: Catch-22,
1971: Fiddler on the Roof, 1972: Cabaret,
1973: The Sting, 1974: Chinatown,
1975: Rocky Horror Picture Show (283 times), 1976: Murder by Death,
1977: The Goodbye Girl, 1978: Animal House,
1979: Being There, 1980: Hopscotch,
1981: Absence of Malice, 1982: The Year of Living Dangerously,
1983: The Big Chill, 1984: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension,
1985: Out of Africa, 1986: Heartbreak Ridge,
1987: The Witches of Eastwick, 1988: Bull Durham,
1989: The War of the Roses, 1990: My Blue Heaven,
1991: The Commitments, 1992: Sneakers,
1993: Groundhog Day, 1994: Reality Bites,
1995: Leaving Las Vegas, 1996: Fargo,
1997: Conspiracy Theory, 1998: The Big Lebowski,
1999: Dogma, 2000: O Brother, Where Art Thou?,
2001: The Royal Tenenbaums, 2002: Gangs of New York,
2003: Runaway Jury, 2004: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,
2005: No Direction Home, 2006: A Scanner Darkly,
2007: Michael Clayton, 2008: Transsiberian
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1957: Gunfight at the OK Corral, 1958: The Long, Hot Summer,
1959: Porgy and Bess, 1960: The Magnificent Seven,
1961: The Hustler, 1962: To Kill a Mockingbird,
1963: Donovan's Reef, 1964: Dr. Strangelove,
1965: Cat Ballou, 1966: The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!,
1967: Casino Royale, 1968: The Odd Couple,
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1970: Catch-22,
1971: Fiddler on the Roof, 1972: Cabaret,
1973: The Sting, 1974: Chinatown,
1975: Rocky Horror Picture Show (283 times), 1976: Murder by Death,
1977: The Goodbye Girl, 1978: Animal House,
1979: Being There, 1980: Hopscotch,
1981: Absence of Malice, 1982: The Year of Living Dangerously,
1983: The Big Chill, 1984: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension,
1985: Out of Africa, 1986: Heartbreak Ridge,
1987: The Witches of Eastwick, 1988: Bull Durham,
1989: The War of the Roses, 1990: My Blue Heaven,
1991: The Commitments, 1992: Sneakers,
1993: Groundhog Day, 1994: Reality Bites,
1995: Leaving Las Vegas, 1996: Fargo,
1997: Conspiracy Theory, 1998: The Big Lebowski,
1999: Dogma, 2000: O Brother, Where Art Thou?,
2001: The Royal Tenenbaums, 2002: Gangs of New York,
2003: Runaway Jury, 2004: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,
2005: No Direction Home, 2006: A Scanner Darkly,
2007: Michael Clayton, 2008: Transsiberian
Unevenness bugs me.
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Does somebody have a list of every film released in Australia, 1979-present? If not, my list will look somewhat patchy (years are Australia release dates, not necessarily year of production):
- 1986: Hannah and Her Sisters
- 1999: the Dreamlife of Angels
- 2000: Fucking Åmål (a.k.a. Show Me Love)
- 2003: Etre et Avoir (a.k.a. To Be and To Have)
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Here's what I've got, a quick and dirty list.
1987- The Princess Bride
1988- Beetlejuice
1989- Talvisota (Finnish), for US movies, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990- Back to the Future III
1991- An American Tale: Fievel Goes West
1992- Death Becomes Her
1993- The Nightmare Before Christmas, though several others were close
1994- Star Trek Generations
1995- Cutthroat Island
1996- The Frighteners
1997- Grosse Pointe Blank
1998- The Faculty, Pleasantville
1999- Sleepy Hollow
2000- X-Men
2001- A Knight’s Tale, Jurassic Park III
2002- The Pianist
2003- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2004- National Treasure
2005- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, MirrorMask
2006- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Casino Royale
2007- Stardust
2008- Get Smart, and I guess The Dark Knight
2009- to be announced…
I'm also working on a 'worst of' list.
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1987- Full Metal Jacket
1988- Akira
1989- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990- Edward Scissorhands
1991- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992- The Mighty Ducks
1993- Demolition Man/Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1994- Clerks
1995- Judge Dredd/Powder
1996- The Rock
1997- Starship Troopers
1998- The Truman Show
1999- The Matrix
2000- American Psycho/Pitch Black
2001- Donnie Darko/Spirited Away
2002- Catch Me If You Can
2003- Big Fish
2004- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005- Batman Begins
2006- A Scanner Darkley/Little Miss Sunshine
2007- Across the Universe
2008- The Dark Knight
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1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 - Wayne's World
1993 - Dazed and Confused
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
1995 - Se7en/Braveheart
1996 - Trainspotting
1997 - Good Will Hunting
1998 - Deep Impact/Godzilla
1999 - Toy Story 2/American Pie
2000 - Chicken Run/Road Trip
2001 - Donnie Darko/Mike Bassett: England Manager
2002 - LOTR: The Two Towers
2003 - Bruce Almighty/LOTR: Return of the King
2004 - Shaun of the Dead/Meet the Fockers/Troy
2005 - Crash/Wallace and Gromit
2006 - Cars/Borat/Accepted
2007 - Die Hard 4.0/The Simpsons Movie/Superbad
2008 - Kung Fu Panda/How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
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Oh my god... people unable to remember a time without Wayne's World will soon be able to vote...
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Dude, I still haven't even seen the first one all the way through. I couldn't stand either of those for more than 30 minutes at a time.
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Does somebody have a list of every film released in Australia, 1979-present? If not, my list will look somewhat patchy (years are Australia release dates, not necessarily year of production):
As close as I can get you:
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Countries/Australia/by-release-date