NOW PLAYING - "My Favorite Year"

[SCyclone]

Welcome to "Now Playing", a discussion of films, actors, directors, and all things cinema.

A tip of the cap to @cyclones500, who encouraged me to re-visit this thread. His idea will also kick off our second life.

Our topic is a certain year that contained more than one film that either you very much enjoyed, or had substantial success either critically, or at the box office.

An example: The year 1972 saw the release of The Godfather, Deliverance, Cabaret, The Last Picture Show, and The Poseidon Adventure, among others.

What was your favorite year?

 

[ILikeTurtles]

Definitely 1994 - Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura AND The Mask

 

[cyclones500]

1994 is hard to beat — although a few I don’t hold as highly as I once did (or haven’t watched in years).
The Shawshank Redemption
Hoop Dreams
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
Blue Chips
Clerks
Reality Bites

Possible runner-up: 1982
E.T.
Gandhi
Poltergeist
Diner
Tootsie
48 Hours
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Rocky III
Tron (saw only once, but loved it at the time)

 

[JM4CY]

Whatever year The Sandlot was made.

 

[kcbob79clone]

Easily 1939

Gone with the Wind
Stagecoach
It's a Wonderful Life
Wizard of oz
Young Mr Lincoln
Mr Smith goes to Washington
Wuthering Heights
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hound of the Baskervilles
Stanley and Livingston
Dodge City

and many many more. Inflation adjusted GWTW is still the highest highest grossing film of all time.

 

[JimDogRock]

1999 has some of my go to movies -
The Matrix
Office Space
Fight Club
The Boondock Saints

There are some other classics for the time too -
American Beauty
American Pie
Being John Malkovich
Dogma
Entrapment (because Catherine Zeta-Jones dips beneath lasers)
The Sixth Sense
Varsity Blues
Toy Story 2
The Iron Giant
Star Wars Episode I

 

[Gunnerclone]

1999 for sure! Also on top of what was previously listed:

-10 Things I hate about you
-Notting Hill
-Austin Powers int. Man of mystery
-Runaway Bride
-Duece Bigelow
-Varsity Blues

Just a plethora of easy watching movies from 1999.

 

[madguy30]

1999 for sure! Also on top of what was previously listed:

-10 Things I hate about you
-Notting Hill
-Austin Powers int. Man of mystery
-Runaway Bride
-Duece Bigelow
-Varsity Blues

Just a plethora of easy watching movies from 1999.

OG Austin Powers was '97.

 

[Gunnerclone]

OG Austin Powers was '97.

Ah yes, it was MiniMe in ‘99. Still decent.

 

[madguy30]

Woke up this morning and Real Genius was on.

1985 for me off the top of my head.

Goonies
Back to the Future
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
The Color Purple
Rocky IV
Cocoon
Spies Like Us

 

[matclone]

At first glance I thought this thread might be about the movie: My Favorite Year (1982), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/ but, alas, not. I admit the title's bad. Doesn't really say anything about the movie, and hard to remember. I was rolling in laughter at the end.

 

[SCyclone]

At first glance I thought this thread might be about the movie: My Favorite Year (1982), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/ but, alas, not. I admit the title's bad. Doesn't really say anything about the movie, and hard to remember. I was rolling in laughter at the end.

That was really my tie-in to the whole thing, and I was hoping someone would get the reference. Thanks!