{"id":195,"date":"2011-04-07T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T02:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keithpaugh.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:11:07","slug":"movies-of-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/keithpaugh.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Movies Of 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long held 1984 as the &#8220;best year.&#8221; I remember how good it felt saying it was 1984. I remember how awesome my O.P. socks felt, and corduroy shorts looked. No evidence however, is more convincing of the year&#8217;s prowess than a simple list of movies from its 12 month period.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be outstanding even if Breakin&#8217; <strong>and<\/strong> its sequel <em>hadn&#8217;t<\/em> been released in the same year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Footloose<\/strong> (Feb 17)<\/li>\n<li><strong>This Is Spinal Tap<\/strong> (Mar 2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repo Man<\/strong> (Mar 9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Splash<\/strong> (Mar 16)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tank <\/strong>(Mar 16)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ice Pirates<\/strong> (Mar 16)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Police Academy<\/strong> (Mar 23)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Romancing The Stone<\/strong> (Mar 30)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breakin&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0(May 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sixteen Candles<\/strong> (May 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Natural<\/strong> (May 11)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/strong> (May 23)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Once Upon A Time In America<\/strong> (Jun 1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<\/strong> (Jun 1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beat Street<\/strong> (Jun 8)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong> (Jun 8)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gremlins<\/strong> (Jun 8)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top Secret!<\/strong> (Jun 22)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Karate Kid<\/strong> (Jun 22)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canonball Run II<\/strong> (Jun 29)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gods Must Be Crazy<\/strong> (Jul 9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Muppets Take Manhattan<\/strong> (Jul 13)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Last Starfighter<\/strong> (Jul 13)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revenge of the Nerds<\/strong> (Jul 20)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purple Rain<\/strong> (Jul 27)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Philadelphia Experiment<\/strong> (Aug 3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloak &amp; Dagger<\/strong> (Aug 10)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red Dawn<\/strong> (Aug 10)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai<\/strong> (Aug 10)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dreamscape <\/strong>(Aug 17)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amadeus<\/strong> (Sep 19)<\/li>\n<li><strong>All Of Me<\/strong> (Sep 21)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bear<\/strong> (Sep 28)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stranger Than Paradise<\/strong> (Oct 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stop Making Sense<\/strong> (Oct 19)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Terminator<\/strong> (Oct 26)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Killing Fields<\/strong> (Nov 2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nightmare On Elm Street<\/strong> (Nov 9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paris, Texas<\/strong> (Nov 9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Missing In Action<\/strong> (Nov 16)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supergirl<\/strong> (Nov 21)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beverly Hills Cop<\/strong> (Dec 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Runaway<\/strong> (Dec 14)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Starman<\/strong> (Dec 14)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dune<\/strong> (Dec 14)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breakin&#8217; 2: Electric Boogaloo<\/strong> (Dec 19)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnny Dangerously<\/strong> (Dec 21)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long held 1984 as the &#8220;best year.&#8221; I remember how good it felt saying it was 1984. I remember how awesome my O.P. socks felt, and corduroy shorts looked. No evidence however, is more convincing of the year&#8217;s prowess than a simple list of movies from its 12 month period. 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