An inside look back at the greatest geek year in cinema ever, 1982, with stars, directors, writers, producers, critics a | dHNfOF9tNENGV2s5QWc
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00:00 Soon to compete are some very dazzling science fiction films.
00:03 There are a lot of great years for movies.
00:05 But 1982 is the greatest.
00:08 That's the year that I officially fell in love with movies.
00:12 I can't think of a year during my life that the lineup was equivalent.
00:17 Week after week, you have one classic movie after another that holds up 40 years later.
00:23 It was this great moment where nerds accidentally won.
00:27 There are two Steven Spielberg movies coming out within a week of each other.
00:32 They're here.
00:34 I remember calling my agents and saying, "I don't know how much this is going to do for
00:39 me, but I think it's going to do a lot for the world."
00:42 I'm getting chills even thinking about it.
00:44 It was one of the most transporting movies I'd ever seen.
00:47 You could certainly argue there were better years for cinema, but there's no greater geek
00:52 year than 1982.
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