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Post by janntosh on Jul 4, 2020 16:08:57 GMT
what was the best decade for movies and which movies from that decade do you use to show that this was the best decade?
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Post by movielover on Jul 4, 2020 16:19:16 GMT
1970s
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Post by janntosh on Jul 4, 2020 16:32:01 GMT
which films made you decide this was the best decade? |
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Post by movielover on Jul 4, 2020 16:38:10 GMT
which films made you decide this was the best decade? How many would you like?  Jaws The Godfather The Godfather: Part II Taxi Driver All the President's Men The Boys in the Band Paper Moon MASH The Exorcist Annie Hall Chinatown Summer of '42 Deliverance The Bad News Bears Straw Dogs Apocalypse Now Marathon Man The Paper Chase The Silent Partner The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Close Encounters of the Third Kind American Graffiti What's Up, Doc? Manhattan Superman Midnight Express Animal House Grease Lenny Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory The Longest Yard The Goodbye Girl Life of Brian Capricorn One Three Days of the Condor Charley Varrick Cabaret The French Connection Little Big Man Kramer vs. Kramer Coming Home The Jerk Hair And Justice For All Slap Shot Oh, God! Dog Day Afternoon Serpico The Three Musketeers The Man with the Golden Gun Badlands The Last of Sheila All That Jazz Jesus Christ Superstar |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 4, 2020 17:34:34 GMT
In my personal opinion
the 1930s
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Post by janntosh on Jul 4, 2020 17:49:53 GMT
In my personal opinion the 1930s Which movies made you decide it? |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 4, 2020 18:01:45 GMT
In my personal opinion the 1930s Which movies made you decide it? There are more but here are some of the movies that made me decide it. Gone With The Wind Manhattan Melodrama Dark Victory It Happened One Night Of Human Bondage All Quite on the Western front The Scarlet Pimpernel La grande illusion Wuthering Heights The Thin Man After the Thin Man Captain Blood Tarzan and His Mate The Adventures of Robin Hood The Perfect Specimen Jezebel Dracula Bride of Frankeinstein Frankenstein The Barretts of Wimpole Street Marie Antoinette Cardinal Richelieu |
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Post by politicidal on Jul 4, 2020 19:12:24 GMT
The 1960s.
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Post by alpha128 on Jul 4, 2020 19:17:01 GMT
According to the IMDb Top 250 (as of 11/22/2019) the best decade is the 2000s. | Decade | Count | | 192 | 6 | | 193 | 6 | | 194 | 11 | | 195 | 23 | | 196 | 18 | | 197 | 17 | | 198 | 31 | | 199 | 41 | | 200 | 51 | | 201 | 46 | | Total | 250 |
According to the IMDB v2.1 Trekked 204 (as of today) the best decade is the 1980s. | Decade | Count | | 193 | 3 | | 194 | 3 | | 195 | 10 | | 196 | 29 | | 197 | 37 | | 198 | 53 | | 199 | 39 | | 200 | 17 | | 201 | 13 | | Total | 204 |
I personally chose the 1980s because of the following (all of which I own on DVD): Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Escape from New York (1981) Excalibur (1981) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) The Thing (1982) Krull (1983) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) Lifeforce (1985) Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Highlander (1986) They Live (1988) |
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Post by James on Jul 4, 2020 20:27:07 GMT
1980s
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Post by Raimo47 on Jul 4, 2020 21:44:39 GMT
1990s.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Vampires
Blade
Wolf
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Hard to Kill
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Out for Justice
Warlock: The Armageddon
End of Days
Cliffhanger
Marked for Death
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Die Hard 2
Timecop
Demolition Man
Under Siege
Deep Impact
The Glimmer Man
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 4, 2020 22:55:13 GMT
1966-1975
Whole decades?
40s/50s/60s hard to split.
fIRST HALF of 70s great but fell off a bit from '76.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 4, 2020 23:01:26 GMT
The 1940s, meaning, to me, the extended decade from about 1935 or '36 to 1949.
The decades of the 1950s and 1960s were no slouches either.
It is easy to compile a list of great movies from any decade. Even the barren deserts of the 1980s and 1990s had their share of all-time greats. But I look at it this way, what time periods made such good and watchable films that you could go down to your neighborhood theater without even checking to see what's playing and your chances were excellent that you would have a good time at the flickers? It is in the 35 year period I have referred to. In between the mountain top pictures of later decades - roughly 1970 to 1999 - just your average Hollywood product was pretty damn poor. You ALWAYS had to know what you were going to see ahead of time as a warning. In other words, the ratio of entertaining films to really poor experiences was much, much higher in the 1940s thru 1960s than what came later.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 4, 2020 23:07:45 GMT
I want to say 80s but so many of my favorites came out in the 90s so Im going to go with 1990s.
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 4, 2020 23:12:35 GMT
The 1940s, meaning, to me, the extended decade from about 1935 or '36 to 1949. The decades of the 1950s and 1960s were no slouches either. It is easy to compile a list of great movies from any decade. Even the barren deserts of the 1980s and 1990s had their share of all-time greats. But I look at it this way, what time periods made such good and watchable films that you could go down to your neighborhood theater without even checking to see what's playing and your chances were excellent that you would have a good time at the flickers? It is in the 35 year period I have referred to. In between the mountain top pictures of later decades - roughly 1970 to 1999 - just your average Hollywood product was pretty damn poor. You ALWAYS had to know what you were going to see ahead of time as a warning. In other words, the ratio of entertaining films to really poor experiences was much, much higher in the 1940s thru 1960s than what came later. oh yeah! I went every week in the period 1962/75 and generally to double features. Didn't matter what was playing. Rarely saw a BAD movie (not that they were all great). Since then I have to look into what's on and have been much less often. For the past 20 years I average about 2/3 per year for new movies, 15/20 for screenings of classics. |
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Post by janntosh on Jul 4, 2020 23:33:01 GMT
No votes for 2000s yet despite the presences of the LOTR trilogy and The Dark Knight but I guess outside of those they were nothing special
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jul 5, 2020 1:08:09 GMT
1960s, a few personal favorites:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Last Year at Marienbad
Vivre se Vie
L’Avventura
La Notte
L’Eclisse
The Red Desert
Blow-up
La Dolce Vita
8 ½
Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Silence
Persona
Late Autumn
The End of Summer
An Autumn Afternoon
Red Beard
Harakiri
Kwaidan
Onibaba
Kuroneko
Pitfall
Woman in the Dunes
The Face of Another
Once Upon A Time in the West
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Post by marth on Jul 5, 2020 1:54:19 GMT
I´m torn between the 60´s and 70´s.
Many of the movies that Fox in the Snow posted, and most of Movielover´s choices.
I would add:
From the 60´s
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dr. Strangelove
Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Passion of Anna
Psycho
The Birds
Lawrence of Arabia
The Night of the Iguana
Becket
Where Eagles Dare
Rosemary´s Baby
Goldfinger
The Sound of Music
From the 70´s
Alien
The Duellists
The Spy Who Loved Me
Star Wars
Barry Lyndon
Halloween
The Omen
The Tenant
Equus
Carrie
La prima notte di quiete
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 5, 2020 2:38:53 GMT
1970s:
The Godfather
The Exorcist
A Clockwork Orange
Carrie
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Dirty Harry
Jaws
Network
The Wicker Man
The French Connection
Blue Collar
The Omen
Walking Tall
Deliverance
Straw Dogs
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 5, 2020 2:42:08 GMT
The 80's was the best decade for 80's stuff. The 1940's was the best decade for 40's films.
The 90's well i guess you could call it a decade if you wanted to.
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