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[bitbydeath]

I know I’m bias because it has some of my absolute favourites:

Elm Street 3;
Predator;
Spaceballs

But there was also:
Good Morning, Vietnam;
The Untouchables;
Lethal Weapon;
The Witches of Eastwick;
Robocop;
Planes, Trains and Automobiles;
Full Metal Jacket;
The Last Emperor;
Wall Street;
The Running Man;
The Lost Boys;
The Princess Bride;
Hellraiser;
Evil Dead 2;
Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold

Are there any years you would deem better than that?

 

[shamroxor]

I watch a lot of straight to video movies uploaded to YouTube which seem to have been made in 1987; for schlocky horror and sci it seems like an amazing year too!

 

[AV]

Probably 1999 for me. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1999&title_type=feature&

 

[Nobody_Important]

It's definitely up there. Some serious bangers on that list. Especially FMJ.

RIP Ermey

 

[funkygunther]

even with OP's monster list, there's just even more greats that came out that year:

 

[StabbyStabStabStabStab]

Darn good year for sure, sullied a little by this beaut:

...actually it wasn't that bad if I recall. EDIT - just checking out 86, that was pretty bloody good as well...

 

[jason10mm]

Boy, can't wait till 35 years from now folks are arguing about which year that the best MCU films

God...I love the 80's.

 

[Kev Kev]

As a 1987 baby, it was just the best year in general!

But yeah, there was a lot of good things happening in the late 80s, a lot of seeming to fall in '87.

 

[Ulysses 31]

 

[Jaybe]

Probably 1999 for me. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1999&title_type=feature&

So many amazing movies that year. I was about to google what came out then (knowing Matrix was that year) until I saw you already linked it.

 

[AJUMP23]

That is a good list, but what about 1983, It had Return of the Jedi.

 

[ManaByte]

1982. They even made a movie about it.

 

[Big Baller]

even with OP's monster list, there's just even more greats that came out that year:

Yo what's that last movie called, Ive seen it once as a kid but never knew the title.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Yo what's that last movie called, Ive seen it once as a kid but never knew the title.

Batteries Not Included.

 

[Happosai]

I know I’m bias because it has some of my absolute favourites:

Elm Street 3;
Predator;
Spaceballs

But there was also:
Good Morning, Vietnam;
The Untouchables;
Lethal Weapon;
The Witches of Eastwick;
Robocop;
Planes, Trains and Automobiles;
Full Metal Jacket;
The Last Emperor;
Wall Street;
The Running Man;
The Lost Boys;
The Princess Bride;
Hellraiser;
Evil Dead 2;
Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold

Are there any years you would deem better than that?

For the 80's I'd go with 1983 and 1987. Also to add to this: Beverly Hills Cop 2.

For animated films Brave Little Toaster and more on the edge for animated (JP) Wicked City.

One I personally enjoy too is Over the Top.

 

[AlteredForms]

It's definitely up there. Some serious bangers on that list. Especially FMJ.

RIP Ermey

Controversial Opinion!

I found Full Metal Jacket to be extremely boring, so much so that I stopped watching before they reached Vietnam. Easily Kubrick's worst film and is only fondly remembered for that asshole drill sergeant with funny quotes.

even with OP's monster list, there's just even more greats that came out that year:

Innerspace is a shit movie aswell and Martin Short is an annoying little runt in it. Does have some cool special effects and premise, but aside from that it's absolute dogshit.

 

[Kraz]

For the 80s...a lot of my favourites movies are in 84

Although that Beverly Hills Cop 2 almost tips it.

 

[LimanimaPT]

I love this one. Great movie that doesn't seem to have got the deserved credit.

 

[p_xavier]

For the women.

Other good movies:
- The Secret Of My Success
- Moonstruck
- Mannequin (hot Kim Cattral)

And my favourite movie from that year:

Spoiler

 

[Shizumapower]

Highest-grossing films of 1984

Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount	$234,760,478
2	Ghostbusters	Columbia	$229,242,989
3	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount	$179,870,271
4	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	$153,083,102
5	The Karate Kid	Columbia	$130,000,000
6	Police Academy	Warner Bros.	$81,198,894
7	Footloose	Paramount	$80,035,402
8	Romancing the Stone	Fox	$76,572,238
9	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Paramount	$76,471,076
10	Splash	Disney	$69,821,334

 

[Slaylock]

1939
Gone with the Wind
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach

1959
Ben-Hur
Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank
Some Like It Hot
North by Northwest
Sleeping Beauty

1967
In the Heat of the Night
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A Fistful of Dollars
The Dirty Dozen
Cool Hand Luke

 

[p_xavier]

Highest-grossing films of 1984

Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount	$234,760,478
2	Ghostbusters	Columbia	$229,242,989
3	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount	$179,870,271
4	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	$153,083,102
5	The Karate Kid	Columbia	$130,000,000
6	Police Academy	Warner Bros.	$81,198,894
7	Footloose	Paramount	$80,035,402
8	Romancing the Stone	Fox	$76,572,238
9	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Paramount	$76,471,076
10	Splash	Disney	$69,821,334

I prefer that year seeing the list.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Starting at 82 the 80s were filled with bangers.

 

[bitbydeath]

Probably 1999 for me. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1999&title_type=feature&

Cruel Intentions is a masterpiece, from beginning to end, there are now slowdowns and the filmography is amazing.

 

[bitbydeath]

1982. They even made a movie about it.

I was born that year, so that alone makes it a goat year.

 

[Ammogeddon]

Damn that was a good movie year.

The 80s was such a great decade but I accept I’m pretty biased.

 

[DeepEnigma]

84 and 87 were goats. I lean towards 84, but also fond memories of the bangers in 87.

 

[Wildebeest]

1994, the year of City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold.

 

[JCK75]

Yes - because you forgot the Monster Squad.

 

[jdforge]

Magnificent movie.

 

[Catphish]

You misspelled 1984.

 

[LimanimaPT]

If we compare the 80s with todays movies it's just pitful. What do we have today? Shity marvel movies...

 

[FunkMiller]

99, 84, 82.

Probably in that order.

 

[daffyduck]

Also the year that gave us

 

[Chronicle]

As a 1987 baby, it was just the best year in general!

But yeah, there was a lot of good things happening in the late 80s, a lot of seeming to fall in '87.

So you are a millenial. New it.

 

[wondermega]

Controversial Opinion!

I found Full Metal Jacket to be extremely boring, so much so that I stopped watching before they reached Vietnam. Easily Kubrick's worst film and is only fondly remembered for that asshole drill sergeant with funny quotes.


Innerspace is a shit movie aswell and Martin Short is an annoying little runt in it. Does have some cool special effects and premise, but aside from that it's absolute dogshit.

Re: FMJ, interesting opinion. I only saw it several years later with little to no interest going in (honestly expected it to be boring for some reason), and I immediately found it fascinating, gripping and harrowing - easily one of my favorite films. Saw it again probably 20 years later and felt the same way. Ah well, opinions, man...

 

[RJMacready73]

It made browsing the local VHS video store for a weekend movie damned hard with so many great choices

 

[RoadHazard]

Are you bias, as in the concept of "bias"? You personify it?

Or are you biased?

---

But it was pretty good I guess. Wouldn't call it the best. I thought at first that was the year of the best Batman movie (you know it to be true), but I realized that's 1989.

 

[Sosokrates]

Saying the best year is bit like saying which is the best movie. There isn't one theres multiple.

1987 is certainly one of the best years though.

 

[StabbyStabStabStabStab]

If we go by IMDB user ratings, apparently the best year for films was 1995 - was a good year for the noir of course: The Usual Suspects, Seven, Toy Story. The second most highly rated year was 1957.

 

[Razorback]

Saying the best year is bit like saying which is the best movie.

There must be one year that is objectively the best. Just like there must be one movie that is objectively the best.

How can one possibly tell? Probably impossible, but that doesn't mean there's no answer. But hypothetically if there was some simulation machine that allowed us to expose every movie ever made to every person and that machine could analyze the person's brain while watching to determine the emotional reaction and long term impact and rank every movie accordingly to which made the largest impression. And then we average everyone's lists and an answer would pop out of the greatest movie ever made.

The answer would probably be something kind of lame like Avatar or some Pixar movie because of it's wide appeal.
Maybe you could argue that most people aren't educated enough to appreciate the finer details of more sophisticated movies so then you could add to the simulation a parameter that makes it so everyone learns everything about movies and film criticism like how neo learns kung fu, and then you run the program again.

Finally you would get the correct answer.

Spoiler

2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[VN1X]

It was the best year for births in any case.

 

[INC]

Have a guess my opinion on the matter.........

 

[zcaa0g]

The 80s was awesome by Miami Vice alone.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

I'm biased as an '82 kid.

The 80s and 90s were such a great time.

 

[Fuz]

1984

 

[InfiniteCombo]

1939
Gone with the Wind
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach

1959
Ben-Hur
Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank
Some Like It Hot
North by Northwest
Sleeping Beauty

1967
In the Heat of the Night
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A Fistful of Dollars
The Dirty Dozen
Cool Hand Luke

I see that someone with actual good taste in films has entered the thread

 

[pramod]

I think 82 just barely edges it out with ET, Wrath of Khan, The Thing, Rocky 3.

But 87 was probably peak Arnold though.

 

[Buggy Loop]

I think 1986 had more impact on me as an 80's kid. Not necessarily as the best top scorer movies, but as "THIS IS 80's". Let me build a case :


Aliens

Short circuit

The fly

Platoon

Top gun

Labyrinth

Big trouble in little china

Highlander

Little shop of horror

Howard the duck

Castle in the sky

Can't believe my parents let me watch this when i was 5. Had an older brother that was 11 years older than me, he would rent all of the movies he could and let me watch.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I know I’m bias because it has some of my absolute favourites:

Elm Street 3;
Predator;
Spaceballs

But there was also:
Good Morning, Vietnam;
The Untouchables;
Lethal Weapon;
The Witches of Eastwick;
Robocop;
Planes, Trains and Automobiles;
Full Metal Jacket;
The Last Emperor;
Wall Street;
The Running Man;
The Lost Boys;
The Princess Bride;
Hellraiser;
Evil Dead 2;
Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold

Are there any years you would deem better than that?

Solid list. I've seen most of those movies.

Very underrated comedy movie is Planes Trains and Autos. Peak Steve Martin and John Candy hilarity.