1984, the best year in movies?

[redhawk23]

I've disliked Spielberg since the whole sanitizing of ET (such as digitally replacing the cop's guns with walkie-talkies). I thought that was a big sell-out moment for him. If what you're saying is right about Lucas pressuring Spielberg, then he should have walked. No Indy would have been better than what we got and if Spielberg wasn't doing it for the story, what was he doing it for? Rhetorical que$tion I guess. That haunted house idea Lucas came up with sounds truly horrendous though.

As for his comments about ToD? Often artists and writers hate their own works. Van Gogh intensely disliked his 'Starry Night' painting. I don't care. It's my favorite work of his. Likewise Stephen King hated an award winning short story he wrote entitled 'The Man in the Black Suit'. Funnily enough, it's one of his only works I really love. One famous writer who escapes me (maybe Kafka) had a manuscript rescued from a fire.

I'm not looking for Spielberg's approval of what I should and shouldn't like. I don't care what Spielberg says about his movies. I'll draw my own opinion independent of his comments.

Thats fine, but can you really not understand why some people might not dig it as much as you do? Is it really that shocking?

I really don't see how you can say Spielberg has no credibility.
Does Indy 4 erase everythin else hes done in the past decade though? you're acting like he hasn't made a decent film in 20 years, which is non-sense. While not everything he makes is pure gold, dude has still put some good stuff out there in the past 10 years.

 

[danoyse]

I loved the 80s, I can't just narrow it down to 1984. I felt like I had a new favorite movie every year:

1980: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: ET/Annie
1983: Return of the Jedi
1984: Gremlins/Footloose
1985: Back to the Future (still my favorite movie)/The Goonies
1986: Aliens/Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987: Dirty Dancing/The Secret of My Success
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit/Willow/Die Hard
1989: Indiana Jones/Back to the Future Part II

I miss the 80s sometimes.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

For me, 1971 and 1975 are probably the best two years in movies ever:

1971:
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Get Carter
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Straw Dogs
Duck, You Sucker

1975:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Dog Day Afternoon
The Man Who Would Be King
Jaws
Barry Lyndon

Just amazing. I should have been alive back then.

 

[weezerspider]

For me, 1971 and 1975 are probably the best two years in movies ever:

1971:
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Get Carter
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Straw Dogs
Duck, You Sucker

1975:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Dog Day Afternoon
The Man Who Would Be King
Jaws
Barry Lyndon

Just amazing. I should have been alive back then.

1968-1975 was the greatest time for Hollywood cinema. Then Jaws came out and created "the blockbuster". I'm a huge fan of blockbuster type films, but there is no denying the greatness of that period.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'd add 1976 to that weezer. 1976's best Picture nominees all could probably have easily won any other non-Godfather year released in the 70s.