Best Summer Movie '82

Oh shit dude

It's Road Warrior for me but god help me that is one AWESOME summer

blade runner si vous plait

I saw 6 of these at the theater that summer. Wow. (I saw The Thing, BR and The Road Warrior later on cable.) This is really tough. E.T. is of course my sentimental fave, but Khan and Poltergeist just absolutely blew my socks off when I saw them.

It's Khan, of course.

E.T. is the best of the bunch though

Voting Poltergeist.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

Man, I was months away from turning 13. It's like this summer was custom designed for me. I think Alfred is right on both counts. Khan is not only objectively great, it single-handedly rescued a franchise from probable oblivion.

E.T. in a walk.

#2 curiously missing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082671/releaseinfo

cuz fuckkkkkkkk "summer movie"

also "franchises" are for burgers

That was an awesome year to be 12 years old. No idea what to vote for.

Ricardo Montalban whispering "Buried a-l-l-l-l-l-i-i-i-i-ve" = best line reading ever

Man, I was months away from turning 13. It's like this summer was custom designed for me. I think Alfred is right on both counts. Khan is not only objectively great, it single-handedly rescued a franchise from probable oblivion.

― Flagpost Sitta (Phil D.), Friday, March 2, 2012 2:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, but like the protagonistic Enterprise, it has been brought near oblivion and rescued again hundreds of times.

What was your favorite summer burger of '82, Morbs?

E.T. with a side of cole slaw.

The Thing > Blade Runner > Poltergeist > E.T. > Road Warrior > Star Trek II > Tron > Rocky III > Conan

Neil Hamburger

i'm fonder of Conan than it deserves but that's still my vote

Yeah I cast a highly questionable but personal vote for Tron.

Yeah, by this point, I recognize E.T. as clearly better than Poltergeist (or, really, all of these movies except The Thing). But I still voted for the one I would've voted had I been 12 in 1982.

Voting for the love of Khan, but Blade Runner will probably win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8faq5amdK30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc7oJhvNr4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GxP9qlqOvc

This movie just milks each of my synapses.

all this greatness ... and yet it was gandhi that won the Oscars that year.

voted ET for the nostalgic factor - it was the first non-Star Wars movie that blew my mind as a kid & seeing it in the theatre I remember as being an EVENT

If I were to compare these films objectively, this poll would be fucking impossible.

What, no Pirate Movie?

But seriously, Blade Runner.

Was Yes, Giorgio a summer movie?

me in 1982 would've fronted about voting for wrath of khan while secretly voting for e.t.. my parents never would've let me go to see blade runner or conan the barbarian.

Blade Runner. I saw Khan but I hardly remember it. Conan's okay. Tron dated fast. Poltergeist was good but E.T. was typical Speilberg sentimentalism for idiots. I've never seen any of the Rocky's after the first one and I don't remember The Thing. Road Warrior was pretty fun, too, iIrc.

E.T. though it does pain me a little to vote against The Thing is something.

t E.T. was typical Speilberg sentimentalism for idiots

>:O

ET is amazing and if you don't realize that then you're the idiot. Idiot.

all anyone needs to remember from rocky 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuNV7KY7pQQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_iiX1HepM&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJnKm6ftPu0&feature=related

I really can't bear the way Speilberg telegraphs everything, ENBB

Good filmmaking doesn't necessarily "telegraph" -- it tells you.

Whatever the results of the poll, I'm going to mentally combine the vote totals for E.T. and Poltergeist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7xCiXakVY8

wait THIS is what I wanted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0qVUn4797g&feature=related

running on the beach

When did Dark Crystal come out?

thinking more good shit came out in the summer of 1933

(too easy a layup)

i saw all of these that summer except for tron (still haven't seen it)

Summer Lovers.

last american virgin was summer of 82 as well

I have a weird affection for LAV.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I tried to watch Poltergeist recently having not seen it when i was a kid. Gave up halfway through. Still love ET though

If you don't have the patience for Poltergeist, I don't know what to tell you.

otm

Hated E.T. at the time. Hate it now. Voted THE THING

It's not a matter of patience. The combination of Spielbergian whimsy and "scary" stuff was just a really odd mixture that didn't hold together at all and completely undercut any kind of creepy atmosphere. I'm baffled that it's remembered so fondly

thinking more good shit came out in the summer of 1933

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius),

Remember how you complained about the NRA and AAA then?

I'm baffled that it's remembered so fondly

Probably because it was way scary for those of us that watched it growing up. (Yes, it really doesn't hold up as well as E.T. does, but growing up I remember it as the rare movie that was almost exclusively good parts and very few bad/boring ones.)

Beatrice Straight is one of the few bad/boring ones.

As a kid, she seemed kind of warm and grandmotherly.

Not when she was a kid; when I was.

Super hard, but in the end poltergeist wins out for me

saw all of em in the theater except rocky and star trek. avoided khan after getting burned by star trek: the motion picture.

voted road warrior of course.

i think i saw road warrior at the loews paradise in the bronx! (def saw excalibur there in 81)
http://vimeo.com/8172360

I have E.T. to thank for introducing me to the phrase "penis breath" at age 8!

the scene where E.T. sexually molested Elliott scared me as a kid

But you were totally cool with it as an adult.

never a wrong movie to accuse of "Spielbergian whimsy," esp if u don't know what whimsy is.

B-b-b-ut it's got a remote-control car! And television remote jokes!

(Like those are the only two "whimsical" things in the movie, and they're in the first five minutes. From there we move on to dead pets.)

stick it, penis breath

all the toys and whatnot flying around the room and giggling was pretty effin whimsical.

like are we meant to be scared by what's going on in the room? find it funny? I have no idea what the tone is supposed to be

I think you may have watched it wrong.

(That scene is made effective by the dialogue preceding it, in which the paranormal research dude enthuses over having watched a toy car move a couple of inches over a period of hours, and then Craig T. Nelson, with a face that says "resigned boredom/shellshock," opens the door to absolute chaos.)

oh no i got that. It's like "you're gonna need a bigger boat". It's just corny to me.

haven't seen this since '82 tbh

also have never bought that Spielberg "directed" this. What do the actors say?

Our local film critic, in a Spielberg interview in December, thought he had a coup when Spielberg admitted casually to directing it.

It's SO obviously Spielberg though. That's why it sucks

He is the most prolific of all the A-list directors — by comparison, James Cameron has only directed eight feature films in his entire career — and when you mention these double-feature years, Spielberg himself offers up one more.

“I also did it with E.T. and Poltergeist; they came out a week apart,” he says, accidentally reviving the long-standing suspicion that he played an even bigger role in the making of 1982’s Poltergeist than writer and producer (Tobe Hooper is officially credited as director of the film). Spielberg has made this slip before — he once apologized for it in a letter to Time magazine that read “Tobe Hooper alone was the director” — and he says it yet again when talking about the decision to release Tintin and War Horse so close to each other.

“As I was nearing the end of production on War Horse, I was also starting to approve or send back animation of Tintin, and I realized both films were going to come out very close together, as close as Poltergeist and E.T.,” he says. “But even though War Horse and Tintin are family oriented, they are still different enough that audiences can make a choice of which one they want to see first but not at the expense of skipping the other one.”

It's Spielberg's movie. Hooper smuggled in a few off-kilter moments, but at this point, I regard him as a very lucky hack.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol another ILX poll that yields unsurprising results

I am actually surprised. I thought ET would win for some reason. I mean I like Blade Runner and all but . . . ET!

thought he had a coup when Spielberg admitted casually to directing it.

cept he didn't, now did he?

wow, good film ludicrously soaked with five coats of fanboy mania wins, color me surprised.

thinking more good shit came out in the summer of 1933

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius),

ah well, we were all 13 once

more like shitticism, as they wd say in the Greatest Fart Movie thread

:-o

wow, morbz makes snarky remark about the people who voted in a poll for a movie that he didn't, quelle surprise.

nah didn't vote and i shot first it's a fair zing

snark on the board, secure the area

<3 ^

I can live with those results, especially the one that got zero votes.

wow, good film ludicrously soaked with five coats of fanboy mania wins, color me surprised.

yeah, never understood why people like good films