What's your favorite movie from the year you were born?

[Proton]

 

[carvers4math]

I’m going to have to go with The Apartment. Janet Leigh was traumatized by the shower scene in Psycho.

 

[WooBadger18]

The tinfoil-hat person in me thinks this is just a clever way to discover ages/birth years.

That’s exactly what I was thinking just like those trends of “let’s answer all of these questions, some of which are the answers to common security questions”

Anyway, mine would probably be the emperor’s new groove or caddyshack

 

[Malty Flannel]

Sandlot

 

[NorthCyd]

Alien

 

[cyclones500]

A Hard Day’s Night
Dr. Strangelove

 

[KnappShack]

Rambo: First Blood Part II

 

[Tailg8er]

Top Gun, came out two days before I was born in 1986!

I'd go with Top Gun as well. Honorable mentions for me (no particular order):

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Short Circuit
Crocodile Dundee

 

[Bader]

'86 had lots of great movies, but odds are I've seen The Great Mouse Detective the most of any of them. Came out 2 days after I was born. I wore out at least one VHS of it as a kid

 

[GTO]

Original Star Wars.

 

[BurgundyClone]

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Same!

 

[Cyclonepride]

Patton

 

[mkadl]

Some Like it Hot. I still watch it every two or three years. So I am guessing I will only see it up to 9 more times. What a plot for that year. The end is kind of ground breaking stuff.

 

[cyzygy11]

The Wild Bunch

 

[CyCrazy]

Fast Times at Ridegmont High

 

[ruxCYtable]

Of the ones I've seen, which isn't a lot, I'd have to say Dirty Harry.

 

[pourcyne]

 

[Farnsworth]

Ghostbusters (84)

 

[Farnsworth]

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I know this is an unpopular take, but this movie was absolutely terrible.

 

[isucy86]

I love old movies, but have never really thought about aligning with my birth year of 1964. Had do a check on movies and was somewhat disappointed- no movies that I love. But a few I really like:

• Goldfinger - Any movie with ***** Galore can't be bad!
• Cheyenne Autumn
• A Fistful of Dollars - Although released in Italy in 1964 not released in US until 1967.

What was interesting to me was to see all the movies released for the year-1964 was quirky. A mix of westerns, musicals (Mary Poppins & My Fair Lady) and sexual revolution.

A couple highly acclaimed movies I have never seen, that I think I will check out are Hitchcock's Marnie and Kubrick's Dr. Strangeglove.