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My vote goes to the 80s since I am a big fan of the pop culture of the 80s.
Still several of my favourite moves comes from the New Hollywood movement.
I would also like to mention silent era comedies from the 1910s, specially Mack Sennett and Hal Roach.
I voted the ‘90s. The ‘70s and ‘80s has some good movies too, but the ‘90s was a great decade for movies and they don’t seem dated now like the others do.
A little film shot for under $1 million ...made $40 million in 1969....
that film was “Easy Rider” .....and suddenly all the studios fell over themselves
green lighting any hip project pitched to them....hipper and cooler the better...
which was great for 70s film making....
Here is a list of better know 1970s films from my DVD collection...
Apocalypse Now
Annie Hall
American Graffiti
Airport
Badlands
Bananas
Billy Jack
Blazing Saddles
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Conversation
Day of the Jackal
A Death in Venice
The Deer Hunter
Dirty Harry
Deliverance
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Dog Day Afternoon
Duel
Electraglide in Blue
The Exorcist
Five Easy Pieces
The French Connection
The Getaway
Get Carter
The Godfather
Halloween
Harold and Maude
Jaws
Jesus Christ Superstar
Kelly’s Heroes
Klute
The Last Detail
The Last Picture Show
Magic
Marathon Man
M*A*S*H
Mad Max
Mean Streets
Network
1941
The Omen
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Papillion
Patton
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Play Misty for Me
The Poseidon Adventure
Quadrophenia
Rocky
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Saturday Night Fever
Shaft
Silent Running
Slaughterhouse Five
Smokey and the Bandit
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars
Taking of the Pelham 1,2,3
Taxi Driver
Three Days of the Condor
Tin Drum
Two Lane Black-top
Up in Smoke
Vanishing Point
The Walkabout
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The '70s. It was before vcr and cable, all we had was a few local channels and movies, so a huge amount of effort was put into movies unlike today's typical lazy crap. I know it's hard for young people to fathom, but that was it for video entertainment.
A little film shot for under $1 million ...made $40 million in 1969....
that film was “Easy Rider” .....and suddenly all the studios fell over themselves
green lighting any hip project pitched to them....hipper and cooler the better...
which was great for 70s film making....
Here is a list of better know 1970s films from my DVD collection...
Apocalypse Now
Annie Hall
American Graffiti
Airport
Badlands
Bananas
Billy Jack
Blazing Saddles
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Conversation
Day of the Jackal
A Death in Venice
The Deer Hunter
Dirty Harry
Deliverance
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Dog Day Afternoon
Duel
Electraglide in Blue
The Exorcist
Five Easy Pieces
The French Connection
The Getaway
Get Carter
The Godfather
Halloween
Harold and Maude
Jaws
Jesus Christ Superstar
Kelly’s Heroes
Klute
The Last Detail
The Last Picture Show
Magic
Marathon Man
M*A*S*H
Mad Max
Mean Streets
Network
1941
The Omen
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Papillion
Patton
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Play Misty for Me
The Poseidon Adventure
Quadrophenia
Rocky
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Saturday Night Fever
Shaft
Silent Running
Slaughterhouse Five
Smokey and the Bandit
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars
Taking of the Pelham 1,2,3
Taxi Driver
Three Days of the Condor
Tin Drum
Two Lane Black-top
Up in Smoke
Vanishing Point
The Walkabout
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
To be honest, I can't name a film from most of the periods. While BMI has a list it's too big to commit. Maybe add your decade of choice and give a nomination or two for someone to look into it further:
So if I thought the 90's were best (they weren't so I'll take them), I might say:
Forrest Gump - Best Film
Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarentino - Best new director
Titantic* - Best overly long love story
Shindler's List - Best drama
Saving Private Ryan - Best War Movie
Clueless - Best Stereotype of the Period / Runner Up Clerks
Waynes World - Best older generation mocking younger generation stereotype of the Period / Runner Up Beavis and Butthead Do America
American Beauty - Twisted movie that was painful but tolerable because you knew it was just fiction but now you wonder about but don't rewatch...
*Titanic technically started in the 90's, but is generally understood to have a run length of 12 years.
I think the 80's is that magic meeting of the minds where scripts were really good, effects were good, actors were good and everything just came together all perfectly at that time.
You have good acting throughout the history.. But after the 1990's, and even during it, you started seeing the erosion of ideas. You look at how much we all moan and whine that everything is a remake now.. That kinda got started in the 90's. Didn't really take off until the aughts, but it started in the 90's. The only thing that's generally a 'new' story nowadays is animated.
Effects have certainly gotten a whole lot better even since the 80's. But most of it wasn't total cheese at that point. It had rounded the corner and was on its way to being good.
Even alot of the 'bad' 80's movies have gotten newfound respect.. Think "Clue".. Totally bashed when it came out. Today it's considered a cult classic. Or "UHF".. Number of those movies from the 80's.
There's some bad ones there. Of course.. While I wasn't a fan of the Rambo franchise.. I'm surprised First Blood Part II was on the list. And.. Roadhouse has certainly had a change.. That's one that you could probably classify as a cult classic now.
Cinema isn't dead in the 21st century, but it's definitely in hospice.
All the quality writing, acting, and directing is happening on television now. Movies are mostly CGI-filled brand commercials.
Just looking back at this thread surprised the 21st century is doing so poorly. Nearly everyone I speak to under 35 think the 00's and 10's are the best two decades, they wouldn't be interested in films from the 90's or older unless its a childhood film like Disney.
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