Temporal Top Ten – 1984

Number of movies seen from this year – 129
Number of movies reviewed – 124 (including 25 Encore Reviews)

 

As a child of the 80’s, some of my favorite movies are from my childhood and they will always remain high on any list I create because they are so much a part of who I am.

1984 has a lot of those memories because as a ten year old, movies had already been a large part of my life.

I even remember that when I heard the release date of my #1, I promptly wrote it on my parent’s calendar which upset them more than a bit.

On the other hand, for some reason my parents didn’t care so much what movies their ten year old was watching because only three of my top ten were not seen on the big screen. #2, #7 and #10. (Yes, I was a ten year old who saw #5, 6, 8 and 9 in the theater) …I have no idea why my parents didn’t care.

I know that many of you will perhaps disagree with me, but I truly believe that #2 in many ways is even better than the original Godfather movie.

Besides #2, 3 and 10, I know all of these flicks pretty much by heart and can watch them over and over non-stop like I have been doing for 30 years.

My Top Ten

10. Amadeus

9. Teachers

8. Beverly Hills Cop

7. The Terminator

6. Red Dawn

5. Footloose

4.The Karate Kid

3. The Natural

2. Once Upon a Time in America

1. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 1984

1. 1984
2. 28 Up
3. 2010: The Year We Made Contact
4. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
5. Against All Odds
6. Airwolf: The Movie
7. All of Me
8. Amadeus
9. Bachelor Party    Encore Review
10. Best Defense
11. Beverly Hills Cop       Encore Review
12. Birdy
13. Blame It on Rio
14. Blind Date
15. Blood Simple.   Encore Review
16. Body Double
17. Bostonians, The
18. The Bounty
19. Breakin’
20. Broadway Danny Rose
21. The Brother from Another Planet
22. The Buddy System
23. Cannonball Run II
24. Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
25. Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers
26. Children of the Corn
27. Choose Me
28. City Heat
29. Cloak & Dagger
30. Conan the Destroyer
31. The Cotton Club
32. Country
33. Crimes of Passion
34. Draw!
35. Dreamscape
36. Dune
37. Electric Dreams
38. Fear City
39. Finders Keepers
40. Firestarter
41. Firstborn
42. The Flamingo Kid
43. Flashpoint
44. Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
45. Footloose  Encore Review
46. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
47. G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
48. Ghostbusters  Encore Review  Encore Review 2
49. Ghoulies
50. Grandview, U.S.A.
51. Gremlins Encore Review  Encore Review 2  Encore Review 3
52. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
53. Hardbodies
54. Harry & Son
55. The Hotel New Hampshire
56. Iceman
57. The Ice Pirates
58. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom  Encore Review  Encore Review 2
59. Irreconcilable Differences
60. Johnny Dangerously
61. Just the Way You Are
62. The Karate Kid  Encore Review Encore Review 2
63. Kidco
64. The Killing Fields
65. Lassiter
66. The Last Days of Pompeii
67. The Last Starfighter    Encore Review
68. The Little Drummer Girl
69. The Lonely Guy
70. Making the Grade
71. Mass Appeal (coming soon)
72. Meatballs Part II
73. Micki & Maude
74. Missing in Action
75. Moscow on the Hudson
76. Mrs. Soffel
77. The Muppets Take Manhattan
78. The Natural
79. The NeverEnding Story
80. Night of the Comet
81. A Nightmare on Elm Street
82. Nothing Lasts Forever
83. Oh, God! You Devil       Encore Review
84. Once Upon a Time in America
85. Over the Brooklyn Bridge
86. Oxford Blues
87. A Passage to India
88. The Philadelphia Experiment
89. Places in the Heart
90. Police Academy  Encore Review
91. The Pope of Greenwich Village
92. Protocol
93. Purple Hearts
94. Purple Rain
95. Racing With the Moon
96. The Razor’s Edge
97. Reckless
98. Red Dawn  Encore Review
99. Repo Man
100. Revenge of the Nerds       Encore Review
101. Rhinestone
102. The River
103. Romancing the Stone  Encore Review
104. Runaway
105. Secret Honor
106. Sheena
107. Silent Night, Deadly Night
108. Sixteen Candles
109. A Soldier’s Story
110. Something About Amelia
111. Splash   Encore Review
112. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  Encore Review   Encore Review 2
113. Starman
114. Streets of Fire
115. Supergirl
116. Swing Shift
117. Tank
118. Teachers   Encore Review   Encore Review 2
119. The Terminator  Encore Review Encore Review 2
120. Thief of Hearts
121. This Is Spinal Tap
122. Tightrope   Encore Review
123. The Times of Harvey Milk
124. Top Secret!
125. Under the Volcano (coming soon)
126. Unfaithfully Yours
127. Up the Creek      Encore Review
128. Where the Boys Are ’84
129. The Woman in Red