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re: The 1990s: Was it the best decade for movies?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:31 pm to NeverRains
Posted on 7/23/14 at 10:31 pm to NeverRains
I don't knock any of the 90's movies you listed but give me Empire Strikes Back, Die Hard, Stand by Me, Raiders, Once Upon a Time in America, Caddyshack, Poltergeist, Officer and a Gentleman, John Hughes films, Risky Business etc... If I had to pick between 80s and 90's to only watch it would be the 80's by far. The only 90's film I would miss would be Schindler's to be honest.
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Posted on 7/24/14 at 8:56 pm to NeverRains
70s and 90s, just like in music
Posted on 7/24/14 at 9:22 pm to Overbrook
really? I can't stand 70s and 90s with a few exceptions. Way too much disco and grunge crap.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 10:59 pm to Nimbus2000
dunno what the best decade was, just know the one we are in isn't it
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:13 pm to NeverRains
Based on this alone: yes.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:16 pm to NeverRains
The 90s are in the tier 1 of film decades, easily. And it's probably my favorite decade. We're talking everything from Goodfellas to the Matrix. Fight Club to Toy Story. Last of the Mohicans to Jackie Brown. Dumb and Dumber to American Pie. Fargo to Miller's Crossing to Barton Fink to Crash (96) and Naked Lunch.
There are probably more movies in the 90s that i would just sit down and watch no matter the situation, more than any other decade.
There are probably more movies in the 90s that i would just sit down and watch no matter the situation, more than any other decade.
Posted on 7/25/14 at 4:31 am to Freauxzen
Office Space!
My fav year would be 1967:
Bonnie and Clyde, In The Heat Of The Night, The Graduate, In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke
My fav year would be 1967:
Bonnie and Clyde, In The Heat Of The Night, The Graduate, In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke
Posted on 7/25/14 at 7:15 am to MetryTyger
70s ...
godfather movies, cuckoo's nest, jaws/alien/blade runner/close encounters, apocalypse now, exorcist, american graffiti, star wars, and several more ...
godfather movies, cuckoo's nest, jaws/alien/blade runner/close encounters, apocalypse now, exorcist, american graffiti, star wars, and several more ...
Posted on 7/25/14 at 7:25 am to Jack Daniel
How the hell are people voting 40's and 50's? 
Posted on 7/25/14 at 8:09 am to SnoopALoop
quote:
How the hell are people voting 40's and 50's?
Because both are pretty awesome.
Tier 1 Decades:
1990s
1950s
1970s
I'd put the 30s and 40s in tier with probably the 80s.
This post was edited on 7/25/14 at 8:10 am
Posted on 7/25/14 at 8:56 am to NeverRains
Typically based on the decade an individual remembers the best, i.e. came of age.
People who grew up in the 90's will say 90's. Folks from the 80's will say 80's. In 5-10 years, someone will be posting a "The 2000s: Was it the best decade for movies?" and everyone that didn't grow up in the 2000's will say hell no.
People who grew up in the 90's will say 90's. Folks from the 80's will say 80's. In 5-10 years, someone will be posting a "The 2000s: Was it the best decade for movies?" and everyone that didn't grow up in the 2000's will say hell no.
Posted on 7/25/14 at 9:36 am to DelU249
quote:
Replace with batman
Batman was a good movie in it's time but did not age well. It's almost unbearable to try and watch today.
Posted on 7/25/14 at 10:16 am to NeverRains
#1 arguement for the 90's: it's when Michael Bay really broke out
Posted on 7/25/14 at 10:54 am to Freauxzen
The AFI top 100 list is hardly definitive, but it does give you an idea of critical consensus. It came out in 1997, and only 6 films from the 80s made it. 8 were from the 90s, which had the disadvantage of the decade not being over and its films not being old enough to be part of the canon.
The 80s is the great era of the blockbuster, but other than that, it probably is the weakest decade in film history (except for the 60s, which... oh my God... what were they doing?). I grew up in the 80s and have a strong emotional attachment to the movies from the era, but outside of the blockbusters, they just aren't that many great films.
The 80s is the great era of the blockbuster, but other than that, it probably is the weakest decade in film history (except for the 60s, which... oh my God... what were they doing?). I grew up in the 80s and have a strong emotional attachment to the movies from the era, but outside of the blockbusters, they just aren't that many great films.
Posted on 7/25/14 at 11:06 am to Baloo
Interesting. The list was updated in 2007.
Per Wiki:
Twenty-three films from the original top 100 films list were removed in 2007:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Amadeus (1984)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Third Man (1949)
Fantasia (1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Stagecoach (1939)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
An American in Paris (1951)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Giant (1956)
Fargo (1996)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Frankenstein (1931)
Patton (1970)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
My Fair Lady (1964)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Four films released between 1996–2006 were added:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Titanic (1997)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Nineteen films made before 1996 were also added:
The General (1926)
Intolerance (1916)
Nashville (1975)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Cabaret (1972)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
All the President's Men (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
Sunrise (1927)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Blade Runner (1982)
Toy Story (1995)
Per Wiki:
Twenty-three films from the original top 100 films list were removed in 2007:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Amadeus (1984)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Third Man (1949)
Fantasia (1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Stagecoach (1939)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
An American in Paris (1951)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Giant (1956)
Fargo (1996)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Frankenstein (1931)
Patton (1970)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
My Fair Lady (1964)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Four films released between 1996–2006 were added:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Titanic (1997)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Nineteen films made before 1996 were also added:
The General (1926)
Intolerance (1916)
Nashville (1975)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Cabaret (1972)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
All the President's Men (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
Sunrise (1927)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Blade Runner (1982)
Toy Story (1995)
Posted on 7/25/14 at 11:10 am to Nimbus2000
Disco (which I too hate) was late 70s and from it evolved Dance Music that remains to this day. As was punk - still there.
70s was the decade of the guitar. Full of great guitar bands.
And the great soul music from the 1970s is still great and really begat much of the R&B and blues of later decades.
I can't make the same claims about the 1990s - I just like the music.
80s was the zero decade for music.
70s was the decade of the guitar. Full of great guitar bands.
And the great soul music from the 1970s is still great and really begat much of the R&B and blues of later decades.
I can't make the same claims about the 1990s - I just like the music.
80s was the zero decade for music.
Posted on 7/25/14 at 11:14 am to Overbrook
50s was a great decade for movies.
The best Hitchcock work was done then, except for Psycho (North/Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo). Great WWI movies;
Great Noir.
Great Musicals
Blockbusters
The best Hitchcock work was done then, except for Psycho (North/Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo). Great WWI movies;
Great Noir.
Great Musicals
Blockbusters
Posted on 7/25/14 at 11:27 am to Baloo
The 90's were a great decade for movies.
I view a decade by the quality and depth of its movies.
Good Luck Beating the 90's
ETA: Some great movies aren't even on this list (River Runs Through It, The Edge etc) not to mention comedies.
I view a decade by the quality and depth of its movies.
Good Luck Beating the 90's
ETA: Some great movies aren't even on this list (River Runs Through It, The Edge etc) not to mention comedies.
This post was edited on 7/25/14 at 11:33 am
Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:26 pm to TOKEN
I do dislike how most top 10s of decades simply omit comedy.
And it really wasn't just the 90s, that whole era bleeding over into the late 80s and early 00s was pretty good.
And it really wasn't just the 90s, that whole era bleeding over into the late 80s and early 00s was pretty good.
This post was edited on 7/25/14 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:29 pm to NeverRains
quote:
The 1990s: Was it the best decade for movies?
No. Next question.
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