The year 1982 was one of the best of my youth. I could add 1979, 1981, and 1984 to that list. (Might do a tourney on those years as well).
I found a ranking of the movies to use to seed the tourney. I didn't save the site where I found these rankings, and while I don't necessarily agree with many of them, this seems a mostly fair ranking. There is a bit of theming going on with the brackets - you'll notice there are a number of teen comedies in Bracket 8, horror in Bracket 3, etc, but there are also a bunch of these movies that are likely largely forgotten this many years later.
Here are the brackets with the rankings that I found:
Bracket 1
1. E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial 7.8
2. The Secret of Nihm 7.6
3. The Man From Snowy River 7.3
4. The Dark Crystal 7.2
5. TRON 6.8
6. Annie 6.6
7. The Toy 5.9
8. Megaforce 3.8
Bracket 2
1. Blade Runner 8.1
2. The Verdict 7.7
3. Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip 7.7
4. Sophie's Choice 7.6
5. Diner 7.1
6. 48 Hours 6.9
7. Author! Author! 6.2
8. Silent Rage 5.5
Bracket 3
1. The Thing 8.1
2. The Entity 6.7
3. Basket Case 6.2
4. Q: The Winged Serpent 6.0
5. Visiting Hours 5.7
6. Amityville II: The Possession 5.5
7. Halloween III: Season of the Witch 4.9
8. Parasite 3.9
Bracket 4
1. Ghandi 8.0
2. Conan the Barbarian 6.9
3. The Beastmaster 6.2
4. Death Wish II 6.1
5. Firefox 6.0
6. Things Are Tough All Over 6.0
7. Endangered Species 5.9
8. The Sword and the Sorcerer
Bracket 5
1. Tootsie 7.4
2. Poltergeist 7.3
3. The World According to Garp 7.2
4. The Best Little *****house in Texas 6.0
5. Hanky Panky 5.6
6. The Beast Within 5.6
7. Swamp Thing 5.4
8. Monsignor 5.0
Bracket 6
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 7.7
2. Missing 7.7
3. Victor Victoria 7.6
4. An Officer and a Gentleman 7.0
5. Honkytonk Man 6.6
6. Forced Vengeance 5.7
7. Young Doctors in Love 5.5
8. Forbidden World
Bracket 7
1. Pink Floyd the Wall 8.1
2. First Blood 7.7
3. The Year of Living Dangerously 7.1
4. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 6.9
5. Creepshow 6.9
6. Cat People 6.2
7. Fighting Back 6.1
8. Some Kind of Hero 5.8
Bracket 8
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 7.2
2. Death Trap 7.0
3. Rocky III 6.8
4. Night Shift 6.6
5. Porky's 6.2
6. Airplane II: The Sequel 6.2
7. Zapped! 5.0
8. Jinxed 4.6
In some of my searches for a listing of 1982 releases, I found some conflicting information on the actual release date of some of these movies. For instance, Porky's. Some sites claim the movie was released in 1981, but I'm basing it on when I saw a movie theatrically. I grew up in a relatively small town, Lake Jackson, so we didn't always gets movies when they may have released in Houston or other big cities. Porky's came to Lake Jackson's old Plitt 4 theater in February of 1982, so I'm including it here.
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I found a ranking of the movies to use to seed the tourney. I didn't save the site where I found these rankings, and while I don't necessarily agree with many of them, this seems a mostly fair ranking. There is a bit of theming going on with the brackets - you'll notice there are a number of teen comedies in Bracket 8, horror in Bracket 3, etc, but there are also a bunch of these movies that are likely largely forgotten this many years later.
Here are the brackets with the rankings that I found:
Bracket 1
1. E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial 7.8
2. The Secret of Nihm 7.6
3. The Man From Snowy River 7.3
4. The Dark Crystal 7.2
5. TRON 6.8
6. Annie 6.6
7. The Toy 5.9
8. Megaforce 3.8
Bracket 2
1. Blade Runner 8.1
2. The Verdict 7.7
3. Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip 7.7
4. Sophie's Choice 7.6
5. Diner 7.1
6. 48 Hours 6.9
7. Author! Author! 6.2
8. Silent Rage 5.5
Bracket 3
1. The Thing 8.1
2. The Entity 6.7
3. Basket Case 6.2
4. Q: The Winged Serpent 6.0
5. Visiting Hours 5.7
6. Amityville II: The Possession 5.5
7. Halloween III: Season of the Witch 4.9
8. Parasite 3.9
Bracket 4
1. Ghandi 8.0
2. Conan the Barbarian 6.9
3. The Beastmaster 6.2
4. Death Wish II 6.1
5. Firefox 6.0
6. Things Are Tough All Over 6.0
7. Endangered Species 5.9
8. The Sword and the Sorcerer
Bracket 5
1. Tootsie 7.4
2. Poltergeist 7.3
3. The World According to Garp 7.2
4. The Best Little *****house in Texas 6.0
5. Hanky Panky 5.6
6. The Beast Within 5.6
7. Swamp Thing 5.4
8. Monsignor 5.0
Bracket 6
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 7.7
2. Missing 7.7
3. Victor Victoria 7.6
4. An Officer and a Gentleman 7.0
5. Honkytonk Man 6.6
6. Forced Vengeance 5.7
7. Young Doctors in Love 5.5
8. Forbidden World
Bracket 7
1. Pink Floyd the Wall 8.1
2. First Blood 7.7
3. The Year of Living Dangerously 7.1
4. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 6.9
5. Creepshow 6.9
6. Cat People 6.2
7. Fighting Back 6.1
8. Some Kind of Hero 5.8
Bracket 8
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 7.2
2. Death Trap 7.0
3. Rocky III 6.8
4. Night Shift 6.6
5. Porky's 6.2
6. Airplane II: The Sequel 6.2
7. Zapped! 5.0
8. Jinxed 4.6
In some of my searches for a listing of 1982 releases, I found some conflicting information on the actual release date of some of these movies. For instance, Porky's. Some sites claim the movie was released in 1981, but I'm basing it on when I saw a movie theatrically. I grew up in a relatively small town, Lake Jackson, so we didn't always gets movies when they may have released in Houston or other big cities. Porky's came to Lake Jackson's old Plitt 4 theater in February of 1982, so I'm including it here.
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