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steve  ·  4321 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inspired by ButterflyEffect's post - favorite movie for every year since you were born?

wow... This was ridiculously hard and took way longer than I expected. I should have just done my favorites from every year since YOU were born. I'm getting old. There are some ties in here, and many amazing ones left out.

1975 - Barry Lindon/Holy Grail 1976 - Taxi Driver 1977 - A New Hope 1978 - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (so bad it's good) 1979 - Being There/Mad Max/Breaking Away 1980 - Empire Strikes Back 1981 - Clash of the Titans (since thenewgreen already chose Raiders) 1982 - Blade Runner (honorable mentions, but not ties - TRON and Fast Times at Ridgemont High) 1983 - The Outsiders 1984 - Red Dawn (duh) 1985 - Breakfast Club 1986 - Big Trouble in Little China/Jean De Florette & Manon of the Spring (two movies - one long tragic french story) 1987 - The Last Emporer/Full Metal Jacket/Princess Bride 1988 - Die Hard/Cinema Paradiso 1989 - Dead Poets Society 1990 - Joe Versus the Volcano 1991 - Raise the Red Lantern 1992 - Stricly Ballroom/Reservoir Dogs 1993 - Benny & Joon 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption/Eat Drink Man Woman/The Hudsucker Proxy 1995 - Heat 1996 - Trainspotting/Bottle Rocket 1997 - Gattaca/The Fifth Element 1998 - Ronin/Waking Ned Devine 1999 - Magnolia 2000 - The Million Dollar Hotel/Drowning Mona 2001 - Moulin Rouge! 2002 - In America 2003 - Love Actually 2004 - Napolean Dynamite/Layer Cake 2005 - Serenity/Brick 2006 - Children of Men/This is England 2007 - There Will Be Blood (Control was amazing - but not quite a tie) 2008 - The Dark Knight 2009 - Everybody's Fine/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series 2010 - Inception/Biutiful 2011 - The Intouchables 2012 - Moonrise Kingdom 2013 - ………