Wes(6118) | http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/summer-of-1982-slideshow/ Look back at 15 unforgettable movies celebrating their 30th anniversary this summer. In some years, the summer movie season is packed with a good crop of entertaining, crowd-pleasing blockbusters. Then some summers offer nothing but uninspired sequel, reboots, and adaptations of things that were never meant to be movies (board games, for example). But if you ask movie geeks, they’ll tell you there was one summer that was greater than any that came before or after: the summer of 1982. Some of the films released between May and August of ’82 were instant critical and commercial successes, and some flopped at the time only to become regarded as classic much later. To celebrate the 30th anniversary, click through this gallery to see 15 of our favorite movies from that unparalleled season. You’ll see each film’s release date, domestic box office, and the gross adjusted for 2012 dollars. All figures courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com And if you’re around the Austin TX area, check out the Alamo Drafthouse’s salute to the Summer of ’82. They are showing many of the classics on 35mm film prints on the exact weekend they opened thirty years ago.
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jroundy(1418) | Fast Times is definitely one of my fave.
The poor folks play for keeps down here…They’re the living dead. Nobody rules these streets at night like Van Halen!!
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mcs5150(1096) | It was indeed a great year for movies.
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Ford Fairlane(49) | Night Shift…man I loved that movie. Billy Blaze is one of my all time favorite characters. LOVE BROKERS!
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mrmojohalen(6389) | I saw Conan The Barbarian, Rocky III, Star Trek II & Pink Floyd The Wall that Summer. I didn’t see Fast Times until it was on HBO like 6 months later & have seen it 100 trillion times since !!  
When you turn on your stereo, does it return the favor?
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eruption1962(1366) | Fast Times…you can’t beat it! Best high school movie EVER…no matter how much I like Superbad…FT will always reign supreme! Really, the only movies in that list I couldn’t give two shits for are NIMH and TRON…
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guitard(7354) | eruption1962:
Fast Times…you can’t beat it!
Not according to that scene where Judge Reinhold is in the bathroom and Phoebe Cates walks in on him!
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jroundy(1418) | guitard: Not according to that scene where Judge Reinhold is in the bathroom and Phoebe Cates walks in on him!
You got that right, brother. 
The poor folks play for keeps down here…They’re the living dead. Nobody rules these streets at night like Van Halen!!
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mrmojohalen(6389) | guitard: Not according to that scene where Judge Reinhold is in the bathroom and Phoebe Cates walks in on him!
When you turn on your stereo, does it return the favor?
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eruption1962(1366) | I love the story behind that… Apparently, they didn’t tell Phoebe Cates what she was in for…and, on top of that, Judge Reinhold was stroking a 15″ black dildo! GREAT STUFF!
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