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Nerd’s Eye View: Why ‘82 Was an Awesome Year For Movies, and Whether 2012 Can Top It
Welcome, new Hollywonk contributor Jeffrey Seasholtz, aka Uncle Shappy, aka the “nerd of spoken word.” (Perhaps you also saw him in Fanboys?) Our first peek inside of SHAPPY’S LONGBOX OF OPINIONS reveals what made the movies of ‘82 so great — and whether or not 2012 can top that magical year.
Many of my nerd pals have been discussing the possibility that 2012 might go down as one of the greatest nerd movie years since 1982! For those of you who need a refresher, the summer of ’82 brought us:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Conan The Barbarian
TRON
Blade Runner
The Thing
The Road Warrior
Creepshow
Poltergeist
The Dark Crystal
E.T.
As you can see it’s an impressive group of Nerd Classics, many of which set the template for many awesome movies down the road. For those of us lucky enough to live in Austin, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is showing many of these films in order of their release dates. It’s a great idea and something I’ve been proclaiming for a long time — 1982 was a magical nerd movie summer! I should know, I was 13 then and all I did was hang out at the arcade, read comics and go to the movies.
