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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 473064" data-attributes="member: 4779">You make a valid point.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />On 1981-  That was a damn good year for movies.  There are some real gems in there!  Raiders, Mad Max 2, Excalibur, Escape From New York, Time Bandits, Das Boot, Clash of the Titans, Chariots of Fire, etc. etc. etc.I guess one of the problems with this question is that many of those movies had an impact but weren't instant classics (altho, a few of the ones I listed actually were).  They were liked at their release but time has made them slightly bigger than they were.  It's a natural thing, really.  You can also find people who thought a few of those films (just like many from this year's crop) were total crap.Also, there are quite a few films on that list that were hardly even noticed until later years (Das Boot for example).  So there are probably (as evidenced by me forgetting a ton of movies from this year) a few potential "classics" waiting around to be discovered for this year.  Personally, I think Brotherhood of the Wolf is one of them.Hmmm, so maybe the best way to break it down would be to count the "classics" from each year and the amount of shear genre films released.  That would probably give a clearer idea of what years stand out.I'm thinking to count: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Comic Book Adaptations</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Science Fiction</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fantasy</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Action/Adventure</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spy Movies (usually overlaps w/ Action)</li> </ul>Sound about right?Disclaimer:  I am really tired at the moment and none of this may make any sense.... </blockquote>

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