Summer movies, had me a blast

April 28th, 2009 at 08:42am Will Pfeifer

It’s been 25 years ago since the summer of 1984, but over at Cinematical, Scott Weinberg makes the case that, as far as fun summer movies go, that one was tough to top. Here are just a few of the flicks that hit screens back then:

SIXTEEN CANDLES

THE NATURAL

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM

STAR TREK III

GHOSTBUSTERS AND GREMLINS — which, amazingly, opened on the same day, June 8

THE KARATE KID

TOP SECRET! (a very underrated comedy from the guys who made AIRPLANE! — and Val Kilmer’s movie debut)

THE LAST STARFIGHTER

REVENGE OF THE NERDS

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI…

RED DAWN

C.H.U.D.

Admittedly, few of those are true cinema classics, and some of them are outright stinkers. But even the bad ones are fun in a distinctly “summer movie” sort of way. I’m guessing the summer of 2009 doesn’t have a chance of topping 1984.

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