For some moviegoers out there, it simply never got better than the summer of 1982.
The sheer number of great movies released that year during the prime moviegoing season is downright staggering when looking back at it some 40 years later. “Conan the Barbarian,” “Rocky III,” “Poltergeist,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “Tron,” “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “Friday the 13th: Part 3.” The list goes on.
But there is one weekend that stands out in a big, bad way — particularly for sci-fi fans — as Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” and “John Carpenter’s “The Thing” were, amazingly…The post Tales From The Box Office: In 1982, E.T.
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