Paul's Cinema Chronology: 1980-1984

What I’ve Seen:

1980

Caddyshack

Airplane

The Empire Strikes Back

1981

Clash of the Titans

Raiders of the Lost Arc

Heavy Metal

1982

E.T.

Blade Runner

Tron

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Tootsie

Gandhi

The Secret of NIMH

1983

The Meaning of Life

Return of the Jedi

Scarface

1984

This is Spinal Tap

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Streets of Fire

Ghost Busters

Amadeus

The Terminator

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

24 Total

Paul's Film Chronology: The 1970s

What I’ve Seen

1970

The Aristocats

Patton

1971

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Dirty Harry

A Clockwork Orange

1972

The Godfather

1973

The Exorcist

Robin Hood

Charlotte’s Web

Badlands

1974

Young Frankenstein

The Godfather: Part II

Chinatown

Blazing Saddles

1975

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Apple Dumpling Gang

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Barry Lyndon

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1976

Taxi Driver

Rocky

Network

All the President’s Men

1977

The Rescuers

Star Wars: A New Hope

Saturday Night Fever
Cross of Iron

1978

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Animal House

1979

Manhattan

Life of Brian

Apocalypse Now

Alien

32 Total

Reviews: Black Hawk Down, Centurion, Rango

Black Hawk Down

One reviewer famously concluded that Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down was “Saving Private Ryan without the slow parts”. Hyperbole aside, there is something to that. Black Hawk features as visceral battle scenes as any movie ever made, and there is little to no down time once they start. It’s an exhausting experience.