1981 — Indiana Jones And tThe Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Few character silhouettes in movie can genuinely compete with the raw simplicity of a whip and a hat. The visionaries behind Jaws and Star Wars collaborated to present us media’s greatest adventure of all time, inspired by serialized trailer-esque short films that would finish on daring cliffhangers. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford, in a role as iconic as Han Solo, how lucky can one actor get?) travels the world in search of rare and perilous antiques that time has forgotten, with each heroic snatch-and-grab pursuit more difficult than the last.
1981 — Indiana Jones And tThe Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1982 — Blade Runner
Before post-apocalyptic films became fashionable, Blade Runner locked us in cramped cityscapes. Society may not have collapsed in this picture, but filmmaker Ridley Scott shows — rather than telling — audiences that obvious overpopulation, limited resources, and persecution are all monitored by mega-corporations and their insatiable wills. Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckard, a man tasked with eradicating rogue Replicants — bio-engineered super-humans bred for war and slavery. With that description alone, how could any Replicant be blamed for going AWOL?
1982 — Blade Runner