1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

2022

Documentary

6
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 281 281

movie business geek edited from tv series 1980s nerd culture

Director

Roger Lay Jr. Photo
Roger Lay Jr.

Top cast

Paul Schrader Photo
Paul Schrader as Self
Keith David Photo
Keith David as Self
William Shatner Photo
William Shatner as Self
Ron Howard Photo
Ron Howard as Self
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368.94 MB
1280*676
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 40 min
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683.89 MB
1920*1014
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 40 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by trainspotting 7 / 10

I would like to go back to 1982.

The description of this mini series is "A remarkable new epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982, including notable motion pictures, TV, music and video games of that seminal year." It is a pretty good series with a number of experts talking about the movies of 1982, but the description is very misleading. It is over 90 percent about the movies of 1982, which is fine, but I would have liked to hear more about the music and video games of the year.
Reviewed by gbcxyqx 7 / 10

Not PG

All in all good documentary - lots of famous commentators. Heartfelt recollections of their experiences making, being in, and watching the films. Really reminded me of how good I felt back then with seeing original story telling in the scripts; not all this triple-rebooting going on these days!I only made it half-way through the documentary though, because the F-word was used at least twice by the end of the commentary by Director Nicholas Meyer...he was recounting his own personal experience with a studio executive, but the words could have bleeped-out, and it would have been just as informative.
Reviewed by Reviews_of_the_Dead 8 / 10

Review for 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

This was a documentary that caught my attention when I heard a couple of podcasters check it out. It went on a list of ones to see and I decided to put this on while at work late in the day. I treated it like a podcast where I would look down if something was interesting. If not, I would listen to different experts, actors and filmmakers who were alive during this year. To preface, I was born in 1987. 1982 though was a year that I've seen a good number of things from.Now that I have that set up, this year truly was stacked like these people were talking about. This sparked me to go through Letterboxd to list my favorite films from each year regardless of genre. It was something that I was already doing for horror, but I was curious about everything together.This year is featuring things like Blade Runner, The Thing, E. T., Poltergeist, First Blood, Rocky III and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. That's not even different pop culture things that spawned from these films or just in general. This runs through, hearing from the likes of Mick Garris, Robert Meyer Burnett, Ron Howard, Adrienne Barbeau, Darin Scott, Keith David, Sean Young, Roger Corman and Leonard Maltin. I'm leaving out so many more. Just hearing their insight truly got me excited. It makes me wish I was older or could go back in time.I'll discuss how this was made and it has great production value. This runs 164 minutes and it didn't feel like it. They focus on different films from across genres. They incorporate in clips, talk about why each one did so well or how it was ahead of its time. Talking about the impact from it during the era and now. This is how you do a documentary. This is one of the best, I will say that.I highly recommend it if you're a fan of this era or just want to learn more about this year. It's getting my highest marks for a doc.My Rating: 8 out of 10.
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