What is your favorite decade for movies?

[Maulbert]

Pretty easy choice for me, the 1980's. You got Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, the original Die Hard, the Arnie/Stallone rivalry gave us The Terminator, Conan, Rambo, and countless others, maybe the best year for Sci-Fi cinema in 1982 (seriously, Blade Runner, The Thing, ET, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tron, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior), the only good Highlander film, Starman (Which is CRIMINALLY underrated as a companion piece to The Thing), which, speaking of John Carpenter, you got Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, and They Live. And then there's comedies like Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Spaceballs, all the John Hughes films, and the Vacation films.

Sorry, I went on there a bit. What's your favorite?

 

[SoulfishHawk]

80's fo sho. Cheesy comedies, and a ton of great horror flicks.

 

[toffee]

From mid '30s all the way to mid '90s

 

[fenderbender123]

2000 - 2010

Great Batman movies. Great comedy movies. The Prestige. Blood Diamond. Spiderman 2002. Lord of the Rings.

 

[AROS]

80's flat out.

 

[fenderbender123]

I can name a lot of great movies for any decade. It's a tough choice, IMO.

 

[SonicHawk]

Based on IMDB top 250 movies

20s - 6
30s - 7
40s - 12
50s - 23
60s - 18
70s - 19
80s - 26
90s - 41
00s - 49
10s - 44
20s - 7

The 2000s is the correct answer.

 

[Maulbert]

Based on IMDB top 250 movies

20s - 6
30s - 7
40s - 12
50s - 23
60s - 18
70s - 19
80s - 26
90s - 41
00s - 49
10s - 44
20s - 7

The 2000s is the correct answer.

No, it isn't. I didn't ask what's the best, I asked what's people's favorite.

 

[SonicHawk]

No, it isn't. I didn't ask what's the best, I asked what's people's favorite.

Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, City of God, Gladiator, Pianist, Departed, Prestige, Momento, Wall-e, Inglourious Basterds, Oldboy, Requiem for a dream, Eternal Sunshine, Up, Snatch, There will be blood, beautiful mind, no country, finding nemo, Gran Torino, Hotel Rwanda

Plus Fast & Furious, District 9, Sunshine, Lord of War, Moon, Superbad, The road, thirteen, taladega nights, catch me if you can, up in the air, jarhead, zoolander idiocracy, napoleon dynamite, step brothers, devil wears prada, hitchhikers guide, hangover, zombieland....

Man, I could go on.

80s were full of great movies, but it's just got nothing on the 00s.

 

[Maulbert]

Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, City of God, Gladiator, Pianist, Departed, Prestige, Momento, Wall-e, Inglourious Basterds, Oldboy, Requiem for a dream, Eternal Sunshine, Up, Snatch, There will be blood, beautiful mind, no country, finding nemo, Gran Torino, Hotel Rwanda

Plus Fast & Furious, District 9, Sunshine, Lord of War, Moon, Superbad, The road, thirteen, taladega nights, catch me if you can, up in the air, jarhead, zoolander idiocracy, napoleon dynamite, step brothers, devil wears prada, hitchhikers guide, hangover, zombieland....

Man, I could go on.

80s were full of great movies, but it's just got nothing on the 00s.

Again, I wasn't arguing best. I was arguing favorite. You miss the point.

 

[SonicHawk]

Again, I wasn't arguing best. I was arguing favorite. You miss the point.

I'm confused why you're so hostile. I made my point for why 2000s is my favorite and sharing a interesting general consensus as well. I didn't even imply that your favorite decade was wrong, just that the 00s had so many great movies.

There's not really an argument to be made, your favorite is the 80s, mine is the 00s.

 

[RolandDeschain]

This is actually a really tough question. Hrm. I might have to go with the 90s, though. Pulp Fiction, Forest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project (which literally invented viral marketing), The Lion King, Goodfellas, Terminator 2, Home Alone, Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, Happy Gilmore, Jurassic Park...

 

[knownone]

The 80s. It's not even close for me.

 

[SeAhAwKeR4life]

They still make movies nowadays?

I sure haven't seen anything worthwhile in a LONG time. AFAIK, almost all movies are Marvel movies, which I have ZERO interest in.

 

[Film12Hawk]

Currently the 70's or 80's:

Stalker
Mirror
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
Walkabout
The American Friend
Running on Empty
Blue Velvet
Brazil
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Paris, Texas
Something Wild

I've attached trailers and/or related links as some are better with little to no knowledge. If anyone has any questions let me know as some of these are also more accessible than others on the list. They're still some of the very best though.

 

[Film12Hawk]

They still make movies nowadays?

I sure haven't seen anything worthwhile in a LONG time. AFAIK, almost all movies are Marvel movies, which I have ZERO interest in.

Watch foreign films.

Here's a couple of upcoming releases that look promising:

 

[Maulbert]

They still make movies nowadays?

I sure haven't seen anything worthwhile in a LONG time. AFAIK, almost all movies are Marvel movies, which I have ZERO interest in.

The biggest box office weekend this year wasn't fueled by Marvel movies. It was Barbie and Oppenheimer. You're the only one hung up on Marvel movies. If you don't like them, don't watch them, and quit bitching like an old man.

 

[Film12Hawk]

The biggest box office weekend this year wasn't fueled by Marvel movies. It was Barbie and Oppenheimer. You're the only one hung up on Marvel movies. If you don't like them, don't watch them, and quit bitching like an old man.

I don't like Marvel either. They've done a lot of damage to our culture as they're made by marketing teams that filter and decide what will appeal to the largest number of fans or Twitter mobs as possible. The same thing has happened with Star Wars. It's not about creating a story through love and passion from artists who created these things originally but instead is telling the same product over and over with slight tweaks and paint jobs that are little different. It's like an advertisement in that it is manufacturing what they say is your emotions and/or memories. This blankets our culture from asking tough questions and challenging ourselves through their constant invasive manipulation that informs what we do away from it. It's very important to have awareness for what you're putting into your body and mind. Like food, screentime or any technology can do damage it if not used responsibly. This is why learning about visual literacy is essential in our world today as it can be difficult to understand what we are experiencing or doing without it.

There's also no Marvel movies playing on the big screen at the moment. So it makes sense Barbie and Oppenheimer would take the cake. They're a win for film in that they're not based on existing IPs. We need more of this and less twenty odd franchise films and television series a year.

No need to get mad at SeAhAwKeR4life for not connecting with them as there's very valid reasons why some think they're not cinema and are crippling us.

 

[Maulbert]

I don't like Marvel either. They've done a lot of damage to our culture as they're made by marketing teams that filter and decide what will appeal to the largest number of fans or Twitter mobs as possible. The same thing has happened with Star Wars. It's not about creating a story through love and passion from artists who created these things originally but instead is telling the same product over and over with slight tweaks and paint jobs that are little different. It's like an advertisement in that it is manufacturing what they say is your emotions and/or memories. This blankets our culture from asking tough questions and challenging ourselves through their constant invasive manipulation that informs what we do away from it. It's very important to have awareness for what you're putting into your body and mind. Like food, screentime or any technology can do damage it if not used responsibly. This is why learning about visual literacy is essential in our world today as it can be difficult to understand what we are experiencing or doing without it.

There's also no Marvel movies playing on the big screen at the moment. So it makes sense Barbie and Oppenheimer would take the cake. They're a win for film in that they're not based on existing IPs. We need more of this and less twenty odd franchise films and television series a year.

No need to get mad at SeAhAwKeR4life for not connecting with them as there's very valid reasons why some think they're not cinema and are crippling us.

 

[Film12Hawk]

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