Our Favorite Films From Every Year Since Our Birth

A while back, there was a thing going around Facebook where people were listing their favorite films from every year they've been alive, including their birth year. As a gigantic movie nerd, of course I did one. As not as big movie nerds, Ben and Sam had not. But I asked them to because I wanted to compare notes, and see if there was any cross pollination in our favorite films. The results were intriguing.

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The most interesting thing to me is that there isn't a single year where we all agree on a film. Of the 33 years the three of us all existed at the same time, there were a total of 11 overlaps, with Ben overlapping the most at 10 films, five with Sam and five with myself. Sam and I only agreed on one film, 1990's Goodfellas. Though if you break it down, we came close in 2008, with Sam picking Iron Man, while Ben and I picked The Dark Knight. Both are about billionaire industrialist playboys with too much time and money on their hands and a lot of cool, expensive gadgets. But Sam isn't too keen on Batman, she's more of a Superman fan.

You can also pick up on some definite trends. I, for instance, lean more toward genre films, with quite a few sci-fi and horror dominating my list. Ben has quite a few uplifting feel good films. And with all the animated films, especially recent animated films you can kinda tell Sam has kids. I did think it was interesting that in 1987, Ben and I went for The Princess Bride, while Sam is the one who went for the Mel Brooks film Spaceballs. For the record, I'm a huge fan of Mel Brooks, but Spaceballs wouldn't even crack my top five Brooks films.