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re: Worst decade of movies?
Posted on 4/8/12 at 7:49 pm to Zamoro10
Posted on 4/8/12 at 7:49 pm to Zamoro10
Your list is good, but you could seriously add like 15 or 20.
Alien
Dog Day Afternoon
China Town
Network
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Annie Hall
It just goes on and on.
Alien
Dog Day Afternoon
China Town
Network
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Annie Hall
It just goes on and on.
This post was edited on 4/8/12 at 7:53 pm
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Posted on 4/8/12 at 8:14 pm to Sentrius
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We won't have to worry about him anymore guys.
I think he just got banned. He posted a thread over on the OT that had a nude woman in it. It was not porn, just nudity. Got whacked with the quickness.
Nah, I am pretty sure he got banned because he said the 1970's were the worst decade for film.
Posted on 4/8/12 at 8:35 pm to glassman
70's movies in general are a bit more gritty than a lot of movies since. It wasn't a very pleasant time and the movies reflect that. Finding out the truth about Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, Watergate and many other really shitey situations caused a lot of stress for people.
I think it made for a lot of good stories that ended up being made into movies. The 60's were said to be a revolutionary period but it really took a generation for most of those stories to be told. A lot of 70's movies were more than just entertainment. The media "outed" a lot of crooked politicians, greedy corporations, dirty cops, etc. and Hollywood followed suit by showing the courage to make some controversial movies.
The Godfather movies justified killing dirty cops. Cuckco's Nest had funny parts but was really about exposing problems with mental health facilities. Chinatown was about crooked businessmen & crooked politicians that were doing only God knows what else. Taxi Driver was about the seediness of pre-Giuliani NYC. Network was about the greed of TV Networks, Pacino tried to rob a bank to help a dude pay for a sex change operation. Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Serpico and All the President's Men were about corruption in the government at some level.
I think it made for a lot of good stories that ended up being made into movies. The 60's were said to be a revolutionary period but it really took a generation for most of those stories to be told. A lot of 70's movies were more than just entertainment. The media "outed" a lot of crooked politicians, greedy corporations, dirty cops, etc. and Hollywood followed suit by showing the courage to make some controversial movies.
The Godfather movies justified killing dirty cops. Cuckco's Nest had funny parts but was really about exposing problems with mental health facilities. Chinatown was about crooked businessmen & crooked politicians that were doing only God knows what else. Taxi Driver was about the seediness of pre-Giuliani NYC. Network was about the greed of TV Networks, Pacino tried to rob a bank to help a dude pay for a sex change operation. Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Serpico and All the President's Men were about corruption in the government at some level.
Posted on 4/8/12 at 8:51 pm to chinese58
I agree 100%.
Posted on 4/8/12 at 9:00 pm to glassman
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I agree 100%.
Same here. I'd personally say that the 70s was the greatest decade for films. Burt was in his prime with Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, and Gator.
This post was edited on 4/8/12 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 4/8/12 at 9:24 pm to OMLandshark
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Burt was in his prime with Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, and Gator
When men were men (nobody did any waxing).
Posted on 4/9/12 at 11:08 am to Sentrius
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We won't have to worry about him anymore guys.
I think he just got banned. He posted a thread over on the OT that had a nude woman in it.
Wrong.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 2:26 pm to moneybadger
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Wrong.
Not about the whacked thread though.
You're lucky that the pic had an angle that didn't show any genitalia and nipples even though she was clearly nude.
Nudity/Porn is a poster's true and black death around these parts.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 2:42 pm to moneybadger
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Overall, I'm going to say the 70's.
What are you throwing in your hat into the worst poster competition here on the movie board? Cause that's a good way to do it.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 2:42 pm to moneybadger
How is it a toss up between the 80's and the 00's? It is clearly the 00's. UHF, itself, is clearly better than anything in the last decade
Posted on 4/9/12 at 2:52 pm to constant cough
quote:I've come across this guy's work before on a couple of other boards. If he starts posting here regularly--and we should all sincerely hope he doesn't--he's definitely a shoo-in.
What are you throwing in your hat into the worst poster competition here on the movie board? Cause that's a good way to do it.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 2:52 pm to constant cough
Looked at my imdb my movies section were I keep track of the movies I've seen by decade that I've voted 8/10 or higher.
Here's the breakdown:
1930s (136 Titles)
1940s (243 Titles)
1950s (281 Titles)
1960s (169 Titles)
1970s (174 Titles)
1980s (180 Titles)
1990s (234 Titles)
2000s (173 Titles)
2010s (18 Titles)
Basically there are good to great movies in every decade and you're really doing yourself a disservice to write of any one decade in favor of another.
Here's the breakdown:
1930s (136 Titles)
1940s (243 Titles)
1950s (281 Titles)
1960s (169 Titles)
1970s (174 Titles)
1980s (180 Titles)
1990s (234 Titles)
2000s (173 Titles)
2010s (18 Titles)
Basically there are good to great movies in every decade and you're really doing yourself a disservice to write of any one decade in favor of another.
This post was edited on 4/9/12 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 4/9/12 at 3:25 pm to shutterspeed
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The early '80s were considered the among the worst.
There are so many shitty 80's movies, it really is unbelievable. It is like they didn't even try. Plot holes everywhere. But the 90's also featured some other worldly level of suck...Highlander 2
Posted on 4/9/12 at 3:45 pm to F1V3LSU
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There are so many shitty 80's movies, it really is unbelievable. It is like they didn't even try. Plot holes everywhere.
The biggest problem with Hollywood movies during that time is that everybody was trying to make the next big blockbuster after the success of Star Wars and Jaws. It really caused a creative decline in Hollywood and it wasn't until the early '90s that Hollywood started producing great movies again. It also didn't help matters that some of the most talented directors from the '70s such as Terrence Malick, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Roman Polanski all began to either decline, went into a slump, or in Malick's case stopped making movies altogether during the '80s. Combine all of that factors together and you have one of the weakest decades in film history.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:25 pm to constant cough
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Basically there are good to great movies in every decade and you're really doing yourself a disservice to write of any one decade in favor of another.
Well that's of course true and I think part of the reason for the disdain for the OP is - not just that he thinks the 70's is the worst decade (someone could have that opinion if they don't like gritty/realism cinema of which that decade has a high %) but that the OP sounded as if he hadn't investigated the decade..."overrated baby boomer" movies - the type of people who can't be bothered to watch the Godfather because it's too long.
While I previously mentiond AFI's Top 100 list to illustrate a consensus for the greatness of the 70's - I do agree with this blog post by Roger Ebert:
All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorsese's favorites, or Herzog's? The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines.
To be useful to me, a list should contain titles I'm not familiar with, suggest directors I should be looking at, and inspire me to give some films another look. That's what I mean by its function as "propaganda." When any of us makes a list, aren't we really telling other people what they should like?
The quasi-official best movie of all time on many lists for many years has been Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941). It is named for many reasons, only one of them that it is a masterpiece. Cineastes embrace it because for once a director had the freedom to make a movie entirely on his own terms, and as his punishment was never treated decently by Hollywood again. "Citizen Kane" at the top of a list is a thumb in the eye to the kinds of people lathering to make "Transformers 3."
Any list of great films helps breaks the hammer-lock of box office performance that grips too many American moviegoers. I can't tell you how many people responded to my attack on "Transformers" by telling me how much money the movie was grossing, as if that had the slightest relevance. A great movie acts like a window in our box of space and time, opening us to other times and other lands. The more windows we open, the better.
And Ebert mentions Sight & Sound - director's poll conducted every 10 years since 1952.
So, here's more helpful propaganda by the World's director's:
# of movies on director's Top 10 lists
1920's - 6
1930's - 19
1940's - 16
1950's - 29
1960's - 19
1970's - 21
1980's - 13
1990's - 14
So the 70's comes in 2nd behind the 1950's - and you know what this tells me?
I need to check out more movies from the 50's.
This post was edited on 4/9/12 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:21 pm to Zamoro10
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I can't tell you how many people responded to my attack on "Transformers" by telling me how much money the movie was grossing, as if that had the slightest relevance.
Yeah I hate it when people cite box office as if it's some sort of defense of amovie's quality.
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I need to check out more movies from the 50's.
Best movie decade there is IMO.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:58 pm to constant cough
cut him some slack guys, he's a little younger then some of ya'll I'm guessing, and he pulled the trigger on picking the seventies.
Educate him rather then berate him
Educate him rather then berate him
Posted on 4/9/12 at 6:16 pm to Unbiased Bama Fan
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The biggest problem with Hollywood movies during that time is that everybody was trying to make the next big blockbuster after the success of Star Wars and Jaws. It really caused a creative decline in Hollywood and it wasn't until the early '90s that Hollywood started producing great movies again. It also didn't help matters that some of the most talented directors from the '70s such as Terrence Malick, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Roman Polanski all began to either decline, went into a slump, or in Malick's case stopped making movies altogether during the '80s. Combine all of that factors together and you have one of the weakest decades in film history.
The 80s weren't THAT damn bad for movies especially so with horror films and comedies. In on particular order:
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Caddyshack
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Aliens (redux)
The Thing
Rocky 3
Rocky 4
This is Spinal Tap
Raising Arizona
Ferris Buehlers Day Off
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
War Games
Nightmare on Elm Street
Evil Dead series
Friday the 13th
Driving Miss Daisy
Vacation series
Die Hard
Beverly Hills Cop series
48 Hours
and many others
It isn't on the level of 70s as far as epic groundbreaking movies but it still had plenty of good stuff. It was just good in the less respected genres of horror and comedy.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 6:28 pm to moneybadger
I've only read 3 replies and I know this thread is not going how OP thought it would.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 6:42 pm to Govt Tide
Dont forget Lethal Weapon, the quintessential buddy cop movie. Took what made In the Heat of the Night so compelling, added comedy and more action, and came out even better. One of the best movies ever made due to its accessibility despite dealing with seriously deep and complex issues of humanity.
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