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I put this on Facebook, but figured I might as well share here.  Feel free to make your own.
Close calls are in parenthesis and the list is always evolving.

1977 Star Wars
1978 Halloween
1979 Alien
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 ET (The Thing)
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 The Terminator
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 The Princess Bride
1988 Big
1989 Do the Right Thing
1990 Misery
1991 The Silence of the Lambs (Terminator 2)
1992 Aladdin
1993 Jurassic Park
1994 The Shawshank Redemption
1995 The Usual Suspects (SE7EN)
1996 12 Monkeys (Swingers, The Birdcage)
1997 Good Will Hunting (Gattaca)
1998 There's Something About Mary
1999 Fight Club (The Matrix)
2000 Memento
2001 Amélie (Ocean's Eleven)
2002 Gangs of New York
2003 Big Fish
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2006 The Prestige (The Departed, Casino Royale, Children of Men)
2007 Juno
2008 The Dark Knight (Slumdog Millionaire)
2009 Moon (District 9)
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2011 Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2012 Les Misérables (Argo)
2013 Her (Gravity)
2014 What We Do in the Shadows (Ex Machina)
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road (The Force Awakens, The Revenant)
2016 Arrival (La La Land)
2017 Blade Runner 2049
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2019 Knives Out
2020 Tenet
2021 Dune
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once

Where did you find a list of movies by year of release?

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1977&title_type=feature&

This is for 1977, then you can just manually change the year to whatever in the URL.  It's sorted by site popularity, so sometimes you have to scroll way down and even then you miss some stuff, but this is a pretty good start.

1982 - Conan the Barbarian
1983 - Scarface (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi)
1984 - Terminator (Red Dawn, The Neverending Story)
1985 - Back to the Future (Rocky IV)
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Top Gun, Labyrinth)
1987 - Predator (Full Metal Jacket, Space Balls, Lethal Weapon)
1988 - Die Hard (Grave of Fireflies, Akira)
1989 - Batman (Roadhouse, Major League)
1990 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles--nostalgic lol (Goodfellas, Home Alone, Dances with Wolves)
1991 - Terminator 2 (TMNT 2, Hot Shots!, Father of the Bride)
1992 - Aladdin (Wayne's World, Mighty Ducks, My Cousin Vinny, Batman Returns, Reservoir Dogs)--a lot of good ones this year
1993 - Jurassic Park (The Sandlot, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Groundhog Day)
1994 - Lion King (Interview with the Vampire, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank)
1995 - Braveheart (Seven, Toy Story)


....to be continued 

1978 Superman
1979 Life of Brian
1980 The Empire Strikes Back (Superman II)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 TRON (Star Trek 2)
1983 Return of the Jedi (National Lampoon's Vacation)
1984 The Karate Kid (Ghostbusters)
1985 Back to the Future (Rocky IV)
1986 Aliens
1987 Predator (Spaceballs)
1988 Beetlejuice
1989 Major League (Batman)
1990 Goodfellas
1991 Terminator 2
1992 A Few Good Men (Aladdin)
1993 Groundhog Day
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Friday
1996 Star Trek: First Contact
1997 Good Will Hunting
1998 Rounders (Blade, There's Something About Mary)
1999 The Matrix (Any Given Sunday)
2000 Snatch
2001 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Fast and the Furious)
2002 Spider-Man
2003 Matrix Reloaded (X2)
2004 Spider-Man 2 (Dawn of the Dead)
2005 Batman Begins
2006 300
2007 (if I have to pick something) Superbad
2008 Iron Man (The Dark Knight)
2009 Inglourious Basterds
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Iron Man 2)
2011 X-Men: First Class (Margin Call, Fast Five)
2012 The Avengers (Django Unchained)
2013 (if I have to pick something) 12 Years A Slave
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Edge of Tomorrow)
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road (Terminator Genisys)
2016 Captain America: Civil War (Rogue One)
2017 Logan (Thor: Ragnarok)
2018 Into the Spider-Verse (Avengers: Infinity War)
2019 Avengers: Endgame (Shazam!)
2020 (if I have to pick something) Hamilton
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home
2022 (the only movie I've seen) Sonic The Hedgehog 2

There are a few in parentheses that aren't really close, but just happen to be movies I really like that came out the same year as one of my favorite movies of all time; in almost any other year, they would have won.

^ I think I've seen every movie on your list.  Those Monty Python's run together for me and it's not really my type of humor, but I think I've seen Life of Brian. 

Pretty good list.  In my friends' lists, they run a little bit super-hero heavy for me, which are movies that I like, but don't really revisit over and over again.

Like you, there are years where I struggled to find a movie that I really really loved.

1973- The Exorcist
1974- The Godfather II
1975- Jaws
1976- Rocky
1977- Star Wars
1978- Animal House
1979- Warriors
1980- Friday The 13th
1981- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1982- Fast Times At Ridgemont High
1983- Scarface
1984- The Karate Kid
1985- Back To The Future
1986- Top Gun
1987- Full Metal Jacket
1988- Die Hard (and yes, I think Die Hard is a Christmas movie)
1989- Road House
1990- Dances With Wolves
1991- The Last Boy Scout
1992- A Few Good Men
1993- The Fugitive
1994- Speed
1995- Heat
1996- Independence Day
1997- Con Air
1998- Wild Things
1999- The Sixth Sense
2000- Gladiator
2001- The Fast And The Furious
2002- Catch Me If You Can
2003- Mystic River
2004- The Punisher
2005- Four Brothers
2006- The Departed
2007- No Country For Old Men
2008- Kung Fu Panda
2009- The Hangover
2010- The Town
2011- Moneyball
2012- 21 Jump Street
2013- The Wolf Of Wall Street
2014- John Wick
2015- The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
2016- Deadpool
2017- Wind River
2018- How It Ends
2019- The Irishman
2020- The Rental
2021- Nightmare Alley
2022- Ambulance

Seems to me the older the movie the easier it was for me to choose.

1969 True Grit although I was named after Dustin Hoffman and he had the top movie that year (Midnight Cowboy)
1970 Little Big Man
1971 Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Play Misty for Me
1972 The Poseidon Adventure
1973 American Graffiti
1974 Blazing Saddles
1975 Jaws
1976 Logan's Run
1977 Star Wars although Smokey and the Bandit is one of my favorite movies all time
1978 The Deer Hunter
1979 The Warriors
1980 The Empire Strikes Back but Brooke Shields in the Blue Lagoon was much more memorable .... hahaha
1981 Porky's
1982 ET but Fast Times at Ridgemont High had scenes that brought me into adulthood (Phoebe Cates)  
1983 Return of the Jedi or The Outsiders
1984 Red Dawn
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Stand By Me
1987  Full Metal Jacket / The Princess Bride / Dirty Dancing (tough year to pick just one)
1988 Beetlejuice
1989 Road House or Back to the Future II
1990 Goodfellas
1991 The Silence of the Lambs (this could be my all time favorite)
1992 The Last of the Mohicans or A League of Their Own
1993 Tombstone or Jurassic Park
1994 The Shawshank Redemption or Legends of the Fall
1995 SE7EN
1996 Scream
1997 Titanic
1998 Armageddon but shout out to Wild Things and Saving Private Ryan
1999 The Green Mile
2000 The Patriot
2001 A Knight's Tale
2002 Gangs of New York
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 The Passion of the Christ
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2006 Night at the Museum
2007  I Am Legend / Wild Hogs
2008 Taken
2009 The Hangover
2010 Grown Ups
2011  The Cabin in the Woods
2012 This Is 40
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street although I've watched Grown Ups 2 way more
2014 American Sniper
2015 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
2016 Deadpool
2017 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
2018 A Quiet Place / Black Panther
2019 Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
2020 A Quiet Place Part II
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2022 The Adam Project only because it is the only one I have seen from this year's list.

1966  Fahrenheit 451
1967  The Dirty Dozen
1968  Planet of the Apes
1969  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970  Catch-22
1971 Fiddler on the Roof
1972 The Godfather
1973 Soylent Green
1974 Young Frankenstein
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976 Logan's Run
1977 A Bridge Too Far
1978  National Lampoon's Animal House
1979 The Muppet Movie
1980 Caddyshack
1981 History of the World: Part I
1982 The Wall
1983 WarGames
1984 The Killing Fields
1985 Spies Like Us
1986 Children of a Lesser God
1987 Good Morning, Vietnam
1988  Mississippi Burning
1989  Dead Poets Society
1990 Lord of the Flies
1991 Robin Hood
1992 Of Mice and Men
1993  Schindler's List
1994 The Shawshank Redemption
1995 Apollo 13
1996 A Time to Kill
1997 Good Will Hunting
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1999 Jakob the Liar
2000  Erin Brockovich
2001 A Beautiful Mind
2002 The Pianist
2003  Runaway Jury
2004 The Day After Tomorrow
2005 Coach Carter
2006 An Inconvenient Truth
2007 Charlie Wilson's War
2008 Twilight
2009 Avatar
2010 The Book of Eli
2011 Margin Call
2012 Lincoln
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
2014  The Imitation Game
2015 The Big Short
2016  Sully
2017 Beauty and the Beast
2018 Green Book
2019 1917
2020  Greyhound
2021 Don't Look Up
2022 TBD

Hoodie ... it's kind of funny you listed Logans Run as a favorite. I have a hrd time even finding people who remember it but it's always been one of my favorites. I'm guessing it freaked me out a little as a kid.

I never saw Farenheit 451 but I did read the book growing up. Ray Bradbury was a great writer.

I feel like I can tell a lot about Hoodie's tastes from his recent selections.

Shout out to the Imitation Game.  I really thought that was a great movie.  I'm pretty hard on biopics, but that was a good one.



I rewatched Lincoln just the other day.  I think that is a great, great lead performance, but it might be a bad movie -- there's something goofy about the way its put together.

I loved the TV show as a kid and a few years later rented the movie from Blockbuster after the TV show was off the air.  (Same deal with Mash, I didn't see the movie until after seeing all the TV episodes multiple times)  I rented Fahrenheit 451 in high school to avoid reading the book, but did read it years later.  (Same deal with Catch-22)

1999 & 1982 are the two movies that I suspect almost nobody else has even seen.  

My 1984 entry is on that list in part because I met the main character in that movie - (not the actor, the actual person) - Dith Pran.  

Jakob the Liar -- Robin Williams holocaust film?
And Killing Fields is about Pol Pot, right?

Correct.

Will compile my list later. I'm interested in hearing how Hoodie went from refusing to watch Inglorious Basterds to now calling it his favorite movie of the year.

I am not sure how that got in there, must have highlighted wrong film to copy.  I was going back and forth between Avatar and Sherlock Holmes. 

1977 - Star Wars
1978 - Animal House
1979 - Apocalypse Now
1980 - The Shining
1981 - Cannonball Run
1982 - Star Trek: Wrath of Khan
1983 - Trading Places
1984 - Karate Kid
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Top Gun
1987 - Full Metal Jacket
1988 - Coming to America
1989 - Major League
1990 - Hunt for Red October
1991 - Terminator 2
1992 - My Cousin Vinny
1993 - Groundhog Day
1994 - Forrest Gump
1995 - Crimson Tide
1996 - That Thing You Do
1997 - Contact
1998 - Truman Show
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - Almost Famous
2001 - Super Troopers
2002 - Catch me if you can
2003 - Love Actually
2004 - EuroTrip
2005 - Sin City
2006 - Da Vinci Code
2007 - SuperBad
2008 - Kung Fu Panda
2009 - Up
2010 - Scott Pilgrim vs The World
2011 - Margin Call
2012 - Avengers
2013 - Wolf of wall street
2014 - Edge of Tomorrow
2015 - The Martian
2016 - Deadpool
2017 - Thor: Ragnarok
2018 - Ready Player One
2019 - Ford vs. Ferrari
2020 - Greyhound
2021 - Dune
2022 - Everything Everywhere all at once

I know of both of these films, but have seen neither.  I'll watch the Killing Fields pretty soon.  It's on a list I'm going through.


Fau, I've never heard of Margin Call.

everyone is in it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/

I still haven't seen The Wolf of Wall Street, which I see is on several of these lists.  I need to get to that one.  I'm going to watch it soon as well....it's on my list.

The Killing Fields is brilliant.

Margin Call is too. It came out before The Big Short - same subject matter, and I think still just tops it as a better film

Neither does justice to the book, which was always a favorite of mine since I was at school. Logan's Run is something that is just dying to be properly made as a movie - and they can possibly do it now with modern technology... if someone wants to take the risk. For a relatively short novel, Logan's Run has a wide palette that paints a large picture... but it was way too much for the 70s and 80s. I just hope if someone tries to do it again, they do it real justice (like Dune).

The Thinker computer at Crazy Horse mountain, controlling everything while it's breaking down; the Tube System running throughout the globe leading to these different fucked up places; the nuked out ruins of old Washington DC with the animals from the zoo running wild; the excesses of Arcade where any pleasure can be had to try and make you forget; the zone of the Cubs where youth is drugged up and gone absolutely feral, and will kill anything in their territory including their own once they are too old; the Sandman's individually coded gun with all the options that can kill you six different ways (including the homer that burns all of your nerves out for the most agonizing of deaths)

Then there are the characters of Francis and Ballard (Old Man) who are woefully underdeveloped in comparison to the novel. Plus the ending of the movie, which leaves a lot to be desired...

Sorry to come from a completely different angle guys, but Logan's Run is something I always wanted something more from. I hope you understand.

These are movies from your lists that I've either not seen or don't remember enough to know if I've seen them, so I assume I haven't.

Life of Brian
TRON
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Road House
The Last Boy Scout
Mystic River
The Punisher
Four Brothers
Wind River
How It Ends
The Rental
Ambulance
Litte Big Man
1969 True Grit
The Poseidon Adventure
Logan's Run
The Deer Hunter
Porky's
Grown Ups
The Wolf of Wall Street
A Quiet Place Part II
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
The Adam Project
Farenheit 451
The Dirty Dozen
Catch-22
Fiddler on the Roof
A Bridge Too Far
History of the World: Part I
The Wall
The Killing Fields
Children of a Lesser God
Of Mice and Men
Mississippi Burning
1991 Robin Hood
A Time to Kill
Jakob the Liar
Runaway Jury
2005 Coach Carter
Charlie Wilson's War
Margin Call
Sully
Cannonball Run
Crimson Tide

Out of my movies in your unseen list, I would really recommend Margin Call.  It's about the 2008 housing crash: one of the mortgage investment companies decides to get out in front of it by taking huge losses to sell off all their product before everyone else figures out what's happening, so they don't get wiped out when the shit really hits the fan.  The film addresses many ethical questions in making that choice.

That pretty much describes every movie adaptation of a book. 

Of the ~1000 times I have seen the movie AND read the book only once did I think the book was better -- Alive.  A handful the movie was almost as good as the book, but most movies come up seriously short.

I think that Jurassic Park might be a better movie than book.

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On the movie being better than the book thing -- I think that in the best case scenario, the movie is a better movie than it would be if you'd simply adapted the book -- that's a success.  Sometimes, (most of the time, actually) straight book adaptations are boring and bloated.

I thought Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings was as close as a perfect adaptation of the books could be.  The only thing I can remember being cut out was Tom Bombadil.

I am not even the biggest Lord of the Rings guy, but I really respect what they were able to pull off.  My lone criticism at the time (and I don't watch these over and over) was I remember feeling like the 3rd movie had like an hour of wrapup, because it was closing a trilogy and not just its own film.  That just felt bloated to me at the time, but I'm not sure how it could have been differently.

Strangely enough, I found the Hobbit to be unwatchable.  I saw the first one and was so immensely bored by it that I couldn't manage to watch the others, and I'd even read the book.

The Hobbit was my favorite book from the series but they butchered the movie

The book is always better than the movie. If I’ve read the book I won’t see the movie and vice versa. The only book to movie that I really enjoyed was The Lord of The Rings. I really think that that movie series was spot on with its portrayal of the book series.

I read the Hobbit with my daughter a little over a year ago and it's just not for me.  His style is too verbose.  He talks about moss for two pages.  I guess some people are in to that and I'm just not one of them.  I like the concepts and the story, but it's just too slow going.

I've never read the graphic novel, but a lot of people said that the Watchmen movie was very close to the original source.

They change one pretty major event that ends the film.  It's significant and huge, but it might have seemed too far out of left field for audiences to buy.  Now, I think they could handle it, since we've seen so much weird superhero shit, but at the time, it may have been WTF.

When people say that Watchmen is close to the original source, it's really more about the layout and order of the scenes, the framing.  They literally use the graphic novel as a storyboard.  And with Zack Snyder's speed-ramp style, the action often slows down and "locks" on the iconic comic frames.   It was cool, for sure.

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I will spoil the comic vs. movie thing if you want me to.

When they had the Watchmen series that took place after the movie, I noticed they played off the graphic novels ending.

Yeah, that show was pretty superb.

But the did assume the graphic novel ending, which is kinda crazy and out there.  In hindsight, I wish the movie had done it, as well.  The movie wasn't a critical success even with the change to make it more palatable, anyway.