The 30th Anniversary of the Movie Summer of 1982...

[RoryN]

I was just a kid, but it was my first summer that my parents took me to see movies. And it was simply the best summer movie year, ever. It's the year that gave us the summer movie season we have today.

A few of the films:

Conan the Barbarian (Got taken to this against my will. Felt long, but I enjoyed some of it. Like it a lot better now.)
Rocky III
Annie
Blade Runner (I know my parents went to see this. Don't remember if they took me.)
E.T. (Remember going to see this like it was yesterday. Pure movie magic.)
Firefox (Parents went to see this; I didn't.)
Poltergeist (Awesome! We went on a weekday night; parents had to persuade the usher to let me in with them. My mom and I loved it and talked about it for weeks; my dad hated the clown.)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (Very fuzzy memory, but mom took me to this.)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
An Officer And a Gentleman
The Secret of NIMH (Still have the comic book they handed out at the theatre.)
The Thing
TRON
The World According to Garp
The Road Warrior
Fast Times At Ridgemont High

 

[rosco rathbone]

I've often wondered why most of my favorite movies (several, like Road Warrior are on your list) were made in one little window of time, from the late 70s to the early 80s.

 

[TallMan69]

Pretty damn good year for movies

 

[Paendragon]

Some pretty adult movies for a kid. I was still stuck on the "PG" level. Of course, I was nine . . .

 

[RoryN]

Some pretty adult movies for a kid.

Watched a lot of those when I was a kid.

One night, my dad saw a film in the Disney section that he thought I'd like at the video rental store, and brought it home. I usually didn't enjoy stuff that tame. Fortunately, that film turned out to be Purple Rain (wrong section), and I was entertained...for all of the time that my mom didn't have her hand over my eyes.

 

[Paendragon]

Watched a lot of those when I was a kid.

One night, my dad saw a film in the Disney section that he thought I'd like at the video rental store, and brought it home. I usually didn't enjoy stuff that tame. Fortunately, that film turned out to be Purple Rain (wrong section), and I was entertained...for all of the time that my mom didn't have her hand over my eyes.

Hah. How the fuck did "Purple Rain" end up in the kids section?

 

[TallMan69]

I was a kid then too. But I lived in a small town with a one movie a week theater and that was the entertainment in town. They didn't enforce the age restrictions back then. I think I saw all of those except the World According to Garp and The Thing. I remember TRON, Star Trek II, ET and Blade Runner very vividly. It was at least 3 years before my family got our first VHS machine. I can remember occassionally we rented Video cassette players in those clunky plastic boxes as well as sometimes we rented the big laser disc machines. Those were pretty cool (forerunners to the DVDs). Pretty wild to think that the next Blade Runner movie is coming out soon.