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I keep hearing that 1982 is considered to have had the worst movies of any year in the entire second half of the 20th century. Do you guys know anything about that claim, and why it is apparently so often made?

Well it did have Grease 2, Mazes & Monsters, Halloween 3 and Firefox which I consider to be bad movies, but I am not sure if that beats the average number of annual bad ones or not, I am not quite sure.

PIECES
NEW YORK RIPPER
TENEBRAE

3 of my all time fav movies - but I guess some might consider them bad?

never heard of this particular 1982 claim before though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Stinkers_Bad_Movie_Awards

Anybody can make a list like this for any year.

F13 PART 3 is another personal fav... watch it a couple of times a year

not seen too many of the others on that list... THEY CALL ME BRUCE sounds like it could be fun

http://youtu.be/sGKKtqK4ocA (http://youtu.be/sGKKtqK4ocA)

lol... craptastic

These are a same critics that slammed John Carpenter's Thing. Which has now become a classic. Also while at the time Halloween III: SOTW was negatively frowned on, it has found an audience (and arguably better over the Michael Myers sequels/reboots).

1982 is highly considered one of the best years for genre cinema:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
First Blood
Blade Runner
Tron
The Secret of NIMH
Creepshow
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Poltergeist
Conan the Barbarian
The Dark Crystal
The Last Unicorn
and I could go on.

Also,

The Return of Martin Guerre
Lola
Danton
Moonlighting
A Woman Called Golda
The Executioner's Song
The Verdict
Frances
My Palikari
La Traviata
An Officer and a Gentleman
My Favorite Year
The Draughtsman's Contract
Missing
Victor/Victoria
Poltergeist
Diner
Gandhi
Sophie's Choice
Witness for the Prosecution
Fitzcarraldo
The Night of the Shooting Stars
Le Beau Mariage
The World According to Garp
Mission Hill
Veronika Voss
Tootsie

Basically Conan and that's it

just bought a couple of 1982 blu rays... DEATH SCREAMS and GIRLS  NITE OUT

think I've possibly seen both of them, not 100% sure, but if they're (a) slashers and (b) early 80s the odds are I'll enjoy them somewhat

I believe THE MUTILATOR (a top 3 slasher imo) was also made in 1982 despite most sources saying 1984 or 1985... there's a shot in the extras on the arrow release of it beeing screened with PIECES when it came out   

can't forget the hilarious mess that is BOARDING HOUSE either...

I like 1982!

Ugh.. I'm having a brain fart; there was a Canadian movie about this kid who got lured into D n D in 1982. Its hilariously silly

I wish I could recall the title.

'Mazes & Monsters' with Tom Hanks?

I graduated high school in 1982 and spent the summer at Fort Dix, New Jersey for army basic training. While I was away, "Rocky III" and the song "Eye of the Tiger" were very popular. Also, I missed seeing "The Thing" in the theater that summer. When I got home they had finished building a large cineplex* on the property where they had torn down a drive-in several months earlier. The first movie I saw there was "Friday the 13th, Part 3" in 3-D. Overall, I don't remember it being a particularly bad year but I certainly don't remember it being particularly good, either.

*That cineplex didn't survive COVID and was sadly torn down a few months ago.

yes. but there's another DnD based film but sadly, was released in 1983.."Skullduggery" not 82.   Sad panda

I picked.up THE SENDER on bluray the other day. never heard of it before but the blurb on the back says "Quentin Tarantino's favourite film of 1982". not watched it yet but that piqued my interest enough to buy it anyway

yeah, he's always been a huge fan of The Sender. I like it very much myself. It is usually labelled horror but I think it is more of a psychological thriller mystery with elements of horror, psychological horror, sci-fi and the supernatural. I'm probably making this sound more ambitious and artsy than the film actually is.

According to legend Tarantino once met the director of The Sender on a plane and told him how much he loved The Sender and that he did an Intergral cut combining the different versions. Apparantly the theatrical version differs from the home video version, and the TV version differs from the home video and theatrical version.

The Sender was a flop when released to theater, I think it only pulled in $7m. Because of that distributer Paramount decided to release the film straight to video and TV outside the U.S.

cool... look forward to watching whatever version of it I got. it's the Arrow release and there's a commentary by the director, I expect he might mention that Tarantino encounter!

on a similar note if I could make my own 'cut' of any film it would probably be PULP FICTION with the scenes in chronological order

impressed with THE SENDER...


think it was pretty ambitious tbh... not sure I got my head round it and will need to watch again. tonally it reminded me  of THE SHINING and THE BROOD (- with a hint of EXCORCIST 2: THE HERETIC?!). agreed it's not a straight horror.