Top Films of 1982: Rocky Ruled, Pink Floyd Crooned & Luke Could Use a Hand

Fire up the frozen pizza and pass the popcorn. It’s MOVIE TIME on Past Tens, and Dave’s brother Adam is back with Dave and Milt to count down the top 10 movies at the box office in November 1982. How stacked was this lineup? Rocky III has Mr. T, Hulk Hogan and “Eye of the Tiger,” and it’s sitting there at NUMBER TEN.

Michael Palin and Maggie Smith get a little help from George Harrison in The Missionary, and Peter O’Toole swashbuckles his way through My Favorite Year. Then there’s National Lampoon’s Class Reunion, which managed a zero on Rotten Tomatoes and still gave us something to talk about. For starters, what’s Anthony Kiedis’s dad doing here? From there, Pink Floyd bums everybody out, Darth Vader delivers some difficult family news, and Creepshow gives us five ways to lose sleep.

Louis Gossett Jr. whips Richard Gere into shape, E.T. phones home and makes us cry, and First Blood takes the top spot with a Rambo who’s got a lot more on his mind than blowing stuff up. Along the way, we swap movie titles, argue over the best twist endings, and ponder a question the Academy has been ducking for decades. Who had the better name, Clubber Lang or Thunderlips?

Chapters

00:48 Adam’s Back for Movie Time
02:28 A Trip Down the Frozen Pizza Aisle
03:55 You’ve Got Mail (and a Movie Trailer)
06:54 Back to the Box Office of November ’82
11:45 #10 Rocky III and the Eye of the Tiger
26:08 Clubber Lang, Thunderlips and the Name Game
31:14 #9 The Missionary Gets a Little Help From George Harrison
37:59 Our Favorite Movies Set Across the Pond
39:33 #8 My Favorite Year
40:30 Peter O’Toole Meets Live Television
41:14 A Brief Detour Into Swashbuckling
41:55 Tomatometer and Oscar Talk
42:43 The Mel Brooks Connection
44:56 Let’s Swap Some Movie Titles
46:35 The Best Movies About TV
48:42 #7 Class Reunion Gets Roasted
50:36 What Happened to National Lampoon?
54:26 The Best Movies About Getting the Gang Back Together
55:50 #6 Pink Floyd Puts Up The Wall
01:03:02 The Best Movies With a Color in the Title
01:03:51 #5 The Empire Strikes Back (and Luke Could Use a Hand)
01:14:29 The Greatest Movie Twists, Spoilers and All
01:18:01 The Empire Swaps Titles
01:20:36 #4 Creepshow Serves Up Five Scares
01:25:04 From Comic Book to Creepshow
01:25:47 Jake Crashes the Party
01:27:55 What’s the Best Movie Told in Vignettes?
01:30:36 #3 An Officer and a Gentleman Lifts Us Up
01:39:58 Is It a Chick Flick? The Verdict Is In
01:45:14 #2 E.T. Phones Home and We Reach for the Tissues
01:55:21 Friendly Aliens vs. Aliens That Want to Eat You
01:58:06 #1 First Blood and the Rambo We Met in ’82
02:03:14 Stallone Favorites and Final Scores
02:05:18 Turn On Your Heartlight