Favorite Movie Every Year I've Been Alive

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

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. 

[Fau Teixeira]

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

[Dave Gray]

Correct.

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.

[Fau Teixeira]

everyone is in it.

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

[Dave Gray]

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.

[Downunder Dolphan]

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.

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

[Downunder Dolphan]

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 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.

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.

[Dave Gray]

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

[Spider-Dan]

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.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Neither does justice to the book

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.

[Dave Gray]

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.

[Tenshot13]

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.

[Dave Gray]

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.

[Tenshot13]

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

[stinkfish]

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.