Over the past few months, a lot has of ink has been spilled about how 1939 was the greatest year in movies ever. After all, that was the year of The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. Granted, not a bad double whammy. And it didn't stop there: 1939 also was the year of Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Love Affair, Gunga Din, Dark Victory, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Those are all celluloid gems, no doubt about it. But aside from the first two, how many of them make you honestly want to play hooky and watch right this second?


January
-The Lonely Guy
-Broadway Danny Rose.

February
-A little Kevin Bacon movie you may have heard of... Footloose

March
-Splash (Part of a great one-two punch of pre-serious Tom Hanks from the year, along with Bachelor Party)
-Romancing the Stone
-And only the greatest movie about rock & roll ever made... This is Spinal Tap


April
-Suburbia
-Friday the 13th -- The Final Chapter (Don't laugh, it's one of the few good ones. With Corey Feldman as a pint-sized psycho)


May
-Mel Gibson shirtless in The Bounty
-Robert Redford swinging for the fences in The Natural
-Harrison Ford and Short Round eating chilled monkey brains in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
-Lil' Drew Barrymore being all spooky in Firestarter
-And, of course, this... Sixteen Candles

June
-Segio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America
-Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
-Gremlins
-Bachelor Party
-Top Secret!
-The Pope of Greenwich Village
-The Karate Kid
-Conan the Destroyer
-Cannonball Run II
-And... Ghostbusters

July
-Repo Man
-The Gods Must Be Crazy
-The Muppets Take Manhattan
-Purple Rain
-And a little honey that we'll let Orson Welles introduce... Revenge of the Nerds


August
-Red Dawn
-Clint Eastwood in Tightrope
-Oxford Blues


September
-A trio of great high-brow films (The Brother From Another Planet, Amadeus, Stranger Than Paradise) and one very low-brow one... C.H.U.D.


October
-The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
-The Coen brothers' debut, Blood Simple
-Stop Making Sense
-Body Double
-And another movie you may have heard of... The Terminator

November
-The Killing Fields
-A Nightmare on Elm Street
-And just to show that they can't all be classics... Supergirl


December
-Beverly Hills Cop
-Dune
-The Flamingo Kid
-Johnny Dangerously
-And just to close out this miraculous cinematic year on a catchy note...Breakin'

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Sixteen Candles also came out that year. I think it was a great year for movies.

Interesting...

There were a lot of great movies released that year.

I remember seeing Ghost Busters and Bachelor Party in Hawaii that year.

1984 had a lot of good movies but 1939 is still the best.

I think so

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=133168

I think 1984 really was one of the best years for movies. :)

It was. :) Both in 1984 and 85. Im 85 Back To The Future and Breakfast Club came out.

I think I would still put 1939 in first place.

Also in '84:

A Soldier's Story
All of Me
Birdy
Dreamscape
Firstborn
Iceman
Police Academy
The Ice Pirates
The Last Starfighter
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Stone Boy
Tightrope

I guess it depends on what type of movies you like and what you consider great.

Sixteen Candles also came out that year. I think it was a great year for movies.

Definitely! I actually saw "Sixteen Candles" the day before my 17th birthday! I had a birthday party and invited some of my friends and my mom said "no" to a Rated R movie since I wasn't "legal" yet. However seeing "Sixteen Candles" made for a very memorable 17th birthday! Fortunately, my parents remembered mine!!!:lol:

One note, if you've seen it, you know that the last scene is... sigh... oh so romantic :heart: :eyes: :love: :loveya: and I remember my best friend crying during that scene! It was so cute! :heart:

Andrea

Definitely! I actually saw "Sixteen Candles" the day before my 17th birthday! I had a birthday party and invited some of my friends and my mom said "no" to a Rated R movie since I wasn't "legal" yet. However seeing "Sixteen Candles" made for a very memorable 17th birthday! Fortunately, my parents remembered mine!!!:lol:

One note, if you've seen it, you know that the last scene is... sigh... oh so romantic :heart: :eyes: :love: :loveya: and I remember my best friend crying during that scene! It was so cute! :heart:

Andrea

I loved the scenes with the geek, Long Duc Dong, and the interaction between Molly and her brother. I seen it so many times that I've memorized many of the lines, LOL. 'What's hoppening hotstuff' 'I love visiting Grandma and Grandpa and pushing lawn mowing machine so Grandpa's hyena don't get disturbed' :lol: