Favorite Decade For Cinema?
So the objective of this poll is to name your favorite decade for all cinema and probably name one of your favorite movies from each decade. I will go for the 70s.
Favorites from each decade: 1930s - Gone with The Wind perhaps 1940s - Its A Wonderful Life and Citizen Kane 1950s - Rear Window 1960s - Cleo From 5 to 7 1970s - Tie up between Celine and Julie Go Boating, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and The Holy Mountain 1980s - Indiana Jones the Last Crusade i suppose 1990s - Goodfellas I will go with 2000s - The Dark Knight or Kill Bill 2010s - Whiplash after the decade was over, Toy Story 3 during childhood, and probably anything Marvel towards the end of it, but I lost interest. 2020s - Wait wait, the decade is not over yet. I have not really watched every movie from every decade anyway so for now I will say I liked that Sonic movie a lot. Nothing seems to be out yet this decade around. Lets hope we have a future generation to make the art, and not one that makes some money. Who is with me?! |
Clearly the 190’s
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In all honestly, it’s a tough cal between 60’s (several great film movements from several countries) 70’s (dark and grimy and the age of exploitation) and 80’s (fun and more lighthearted in general).
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Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
Although I'm an old guy I tend to like the newer movies more than the older movies. Movies that I thought were great back in the 50s, 60s and 70s are now embarrassing to watch. I'm not saying that I don't like older movies -- I still like quite a few -- I just like the newer movies more. But I do realize that cinema, like all art forms, obeys Sturgeon's Law, so the percentage of crap movies today is probably about the same as it always has been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law |
Split evenly between the '70s & '90s.
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1910s - The Cameraman's Revenge
1920s - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1930s - Freaks 1940s - Bambi 1950s - The Hanging Tree 1960s - How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1970s - Charlotte's Web 1980s - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1990s - Being John Malkovich 2000s - Quills 2010s - Her 2020s - Ron's Gone Wrong 2000s is my favorite decade. |
Someone's gonna be frustrated they can't vote for 1890s. :p
1950s for me. 1910s - Intolerance 1920s - The General 1930s - Little Caesar 1940s - The Bells of St. Mary's 1950s - Viaggio in Italia 1960s - Boccaccio '70 1970s - Tora! Tora! Tora! 1980s - Das Boot 1990s - Happy Gilmore 2000s - Gladiator 2010s - Midnight in Paris 2020s - Haven't seen any yet. |
Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
i would say 80s,90s,early 2000s and sometimes todays movies
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1910s - The Cameraman's Revenge
1920s - Entr'acte 1930s - Pygmalion 1940s - Casablanca 1950s - The Quiet Man 1960s - Elmer Gantry 1970s - Jaws 1980s - Raiders of the Lost Ark 1990s - Schindler's List 2000s - The Incredibles 2010s - La La Land 2020s - Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Favorite Decade - 1960s just ahead of 1970s |
Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
1930s - Wizard Of Oz
1940s - Casablanca 1950s - North By Northwest 1960s - The Apartment 1970s - The Jerk 1980s - Back to the Future 1990s - Shawshank Redemption 2000s - O Brother Where Art Thou 2010s - Silver Linings Playbook 2020s - Everything, Everywhere, All At Once 90s is by far my favorite. It's when I grew it up so a bunch of movies mean a lot to me. Plus I just think it was the perfect timing in cinema history. It's the bridge between modern movies and old movies. It was a great mix of blockbusters and some of the best original flicks were made. Studios weren't afraid to take chances. The artform itself reached it's full maturity in the 90s I thought. I think the decade has the most amount of timeless flicks. Plus comedies exploded in the 90s. Just my 2 cents, but I am bias growing up then. |
1900s - Le voyage dans la lune [A Trip To The Moon]
1910s - Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1920s - La passion de Jeanne d'Arc [The Passion Of Joan Of Arc] 1930s - M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder [M] 1940s - Casablanca 1950s - 12 Angry Men 1960s - 2001: A Space Odyssey 1970s - Alien 1980s - Blade Runner 1990s - Trois couleurs: Rouge [Three Colours: Red] 2000s - WALL-E 2010s - Serbuan maut [The Raid: Redemption] 2020s - Possessor Probably 1970s for my favourite decade but it's not really something I've ever cared to consider tbh so take that with a pinch of salt and I'll not add a vote. Not seen too much from either 1900s or 2020s. |
Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
The 1960s. By a long, long way too. The 60s really pushed cinema on.
Woman in the Dunes Soy Cuba 2001 Onibaba The Virgin Spring Persona Psycho La Jetee Marketa Lazarova Shame Funeral Parade of Roses The adventures of Baron Munchausen The Good, The Bad and The Ugly High and Low The Innocents The Color of Pomegranates The Battle of Algiers The Face of Another Seconds A Fistful of Dollars Jules et Jim Branded to Kill Vivre Sa Vie Charade Rosemary's Baby L'Avventura Cleo from 5 to 7 La Dolce Vita La Bonheur Playtime Harakiri Daisies Easy Rider Eyes without a face The wild bunch sword of doom Tokyo Drifter The Birds And on and on and on and on |
Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
1900s: A Trip to the Moon
1910s: Intolerance 1920s: Man With a Movie Camera 1930s: It Happened One Night 1940s: Late Spring 1950s: Vertigo 1960s: 2001: A Space Odyssey 1970s: Stalker 1980s: Wings of Desire 1990s: A Moment of Innocence 2000s: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 2010s: The Tree of Life 2020s: Titane Also, as for my favorite decade, I'd probably say the 1960s. That decade is also home to my favorite year for film ever. |
Originally Posted by Wyldesyde19 (Post 2324373)
Clearly the 190’s
But seriously, it's the '80s for me. Words fails me, so I'll put it into numbers: two Star Wars movies, three Indiana Jones movies, four (of my favorite) Miyazaki movies, four Star Trek movies (well, the less about the fifth one in the series, the better), eight John Carpenter movies and the several other standouts in three of my favorite genres: fantasy, sci-fi and horror. 1920s - Nosferatu 1930s - M 1940s - The Best Years of our Lives 1950s - 12 Angry Men 1960s - Andrei Rublev 1970s - The Godfather 1980s - Amadeus 1990s - Fargo 2000s - Spirited Away 2010s - Mad Max: Fury Road 2020s - Mad God |
Originally Posted by MovieBuffering (Post 2324415)
1930s - Wizard Of Oz
1940s - Casablanca 1950s - North By Northwest 1960s - The Apartment 1970s - The Jerk 1980s - Back to the Future 1990s - Shawshank Redemption 2000s - O Brother Where Art Thou 2010s - Silver Linings Playbook 2020s - Everything, Everywhere, All At Once 90s is by far my favorite. It's when I grew it up so a bunch of movies mean a lot to me. Plus I just think it was the perfect timing in cinema history. It's the bridge between modern movies and old movies. It was a great mix of blockbusters and some of the best original flicks were made. Studios weren't afraid to take chances. The artform itself reached it's full maturity in the 90s I thought. I think the decade has the most amount of timeless flicks. Plus comedies exploded in the 90s. Just my 2 cents, but I am bias growing up then. Just from 1999 alone: American Beauty, The Green Mile, Galaxy Quest, Cider House Rules, The Sixth Sense, Office Space, Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut, The Virgin Suicides, Election, Man on the Moon, Austin Powers: The Spy That Shagged Me, American Pie, Girl, Interrupted, Fight Club, The Boondock Saints, The Insider, Brokedown Palace, Being John Malkovich, |
Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
It's the Forties for me. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne, Gary Cooper etc.
I like the Thirties too. 1939, what a great year. Wizard of Oz , Gone with the Wind, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Wuthering Heights etc. Women's pictures was the thing back then.probably because they were the ones going to the movies the most or they wanted to draw them in. Since the Nineties most movies in American cinema seems to be made for a teenage boy. |
Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
1910s - The Camera Man's Revenge
1920s - The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1930s - It Happened One Night 1940s - Brief Encounter 1950s - Sweet Smell of Success 1960s - A Taste of Honey 1970s - Cabaret 1980s - The Empire Strikes Back 1990s - The Matrix 2000s - Lost in Translation 2010s - Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2020s - Hiacynt The 90s has always been my favourite decade. |
Re: Favorite Decade For Cinema?
Another candidate for great 50s movies is The Seventh Seal. I saw it today and it was mind-blowing.
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Originally Posted by beelzebubble (Post 2324572)
It's the Forties for me. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne, Gary Cooper etc.
I like the Thirties too. 1939, what a great year. Wizard of Oz , Gone with the Wind, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Wuthering Heights etc. Women's pictures was the thing back then.probably because they were the ones going to the movies the most or they wanted to draw them in. Since the Nineties most movies in American cinema seems to be made for a teenage boy. |
Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2324706)
I love the 40s, 50s, 30s and 60s. Right now I'm working my way through all of Bogart's films staring at the first one. Before that I watched all of John Wayne's films from Stagecoach on. I've been meaning to watch all of the films from Bette Davis and Joan Crawford when I get the chance. Some of those stars really had a lot of movies to their credit, especially Bette Davis.
I think my favorite is The Quiet Man. |
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