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What's your favorite movie from the year you were born?

GT25Ump

GT25Ump

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I saw this posted somewhere on social media this week, had some fun asking the question to others, thought I'd throw it out here. When I first saw the question, a particular movie came to mind, but then I wanted to research other well-known movies from that year to see if any other choices would change my mind. None did and I stick by my choice of.....

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

What would be yours?
 
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Not sure they had movies the year I was born:jimlad:

It seems there were a lot of great movies released the year I was born but I've only seen two so I'll go with the top rated:
Easy Rider

Pippi Longstocking was the second :)
 
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Had to Google movies from 1982, didn't realize how many big movies came out that year.

48 Hrs (also likes all the Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon, etc movies a bit later)
First Blood (Stallone action flick)
 
Either Ghostbusters or The Terminator (1984).

I will say my favorite movie that has to do with my birthday is Back to the Future. They go back in time October 26th, 1085 - my first birthday.
 
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Lot's of classics from my year. Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Brando in Streetcar Named Desire, Disney's Alice in Wonderland and The Day the Earth Stood Still ("Klaatu barada nikto!"). However my personal favs are Alastair Sim in thee bestest ever A Christmas Carol and Bogart in The African Queen.

Sleepers that I appreciated and remember seeing: Jimmy Stewart in No Highway in the Sky, Kirk Douglas in the depressing Ace in a Hole, and one I haven't seen since I was a kid, Burt Lancaster in Jim Thorpe - All-American. Not remembering if the Thorpe movie was any good but it introduced me to who Thorpe was.
 
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The tinfoil-hat person in me thinks this is just a clever way to discover ages/birth years.
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Ever since I started this place I've wanted to have a completely anonymous survey of people's location, age, tie to ISU, etc but knew that nobody would believe that it was anonymous and not some sinister ad or marketing related thing. I have just truly wondered, no motive other than that. Google Analytics only helped understanding population distribution of visitors.
 
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Lot's of classics from my year. Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Brando in Streetcar Named Desire, Disney's Alice in Wonderland and The Day the Earth Stood Still ("Klaatu barada nikto!"). However my personal favs are Alastair Sim in thee bestest ever A Christmas Carol and Bogart in The African Queen.

Sleepers that I appreciated and remember seeing: Jimmy Stewart in No Highway in the Sky, Kirk Douglas in the depressing Ace in a Hole, and one I haven't seen since I was a kid, Burt Lancaster in Jim Thorpe - All-American. Not remembering if the Thorpe movie was any good but it introduced me to who Thorpe was.
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If I was born in the same year as A Christmas Carol, I would have insisted they put me back in the oven until the next year. I HATE that movie with every bone in my body. It's 3rd on my list of vitriol hatreds in life (Hawks are number 1).
 
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If I was born in the same year as A Christmas Carol, I would have insisted they put me back in the oven until the next year. I HATE that movie with every bone in my body. It's 3rd on my list of vitriol hatreds in life (Hawks are number 1).
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Well, now we are all going to want to know #2. ;)

Also wondering if we have had a visceral hared thread on CF. Would guess we have, maybe we've had an Angie Friday thingie like that.
 
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