Favourite FIlm for Every Year You've Been Alive

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Zer

Preffered Breakfast Cereal - Crunchy Nut Cornflakes
Criminal Background - Convicted Donkey Smuggler In Absentia(Algeria)
Favoured Musical Piece - Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
Genetic Abnormalities - Extra Little Toe(left foot)
 
1985: The Goonies
1986: Aliens
1987: Predator
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: The 'Burbs
1990: Total Recall
1991: T2
1992: A Few Good Men
1993: The Sandlot
1994: The Crow
1995: Toy Story
1996: Scream
1997: Titanic
1998: The Big Lebowski
1999: The Matrix
2000: Gladiator
2001: Donnie Darko
2002: The Ring
2003: The Last Samurai
2004: Collateral
2005: Kingdom of Heaven
2006: The Descent
2007: Sunshine
2008: Gran Torino
2009: District 9
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: Moneyball
2012: Django Unchained
2013: The Conjuring
2014: Whiplash
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: Captain America: Civil War
2017: Baby Driver
2018: Hereditary (for the moment anyway)
 
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I'll do 10 years at a time

1985: Friday The 13th part V: A New Beginning
1986: Stand By Me
1987: Robocop/Hellraiser(tie)
1988: Bloodsport
1989: Kickboxer
1990: Robocop 2/Night Of The Living Dead remake(tie)
1991: Terminator 2/Out For Justice(tie)
1992: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
1993: Falling Down
1994: Shawshank Redemption/The Crow(tie)
1995: Mallrats/Heat(tie)
 
Again highlighting again how good 87 was with Robocop, I really need to rewatch the original Hellraiser, haven't seen it it probably 15 years or more.

Honestly I tend to think that 77-87 was really the peak of the action blockbuster, we did have some quality films after that point of course but they were often sequels going over similar ground. You look at Indy for example and I think Temple of Doom brings a lot more that's original to the film were as Last Crusade looks back heavily to Raiders.
 
This is hard, I need to look at lists for each year to see what came out. Also, for the last fifteen years or so I’ve only seen about one to three movies per year, so there’s that caveat with my list.

-1985: Back to the Future
-1986: Aliens
-1987: Robocop
-1988: Willow
-1989: Back to the Future Part II
-1990: Total Recall
-1991: Terminator 2
-1992: Home Alone 2
-1993: The Fugitive
-1994: Dumb And Dumber
-1995: Heat
-1996: Independence Day
-1997: the Fifth Element
-1998: the Big Lebowski
-1999: the Matrix
-2000: Gladiator
-2001: Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
-2002: the Bourne Identity
-2003: Pirates of the Carribean Curse of the Black Pearl
-2004: Troy
-2005: Batman Begins
-2006: the Prestige
-2007: Hot Fuzz
-2008: the Dark Knight
-2009: the Hangover
-2010: Inception
-2011: X-Men First Class
-2012: the Avengers
-2013: the Wolverine
-2014: X-Men Days of Future Past
-2015: Mad Max Fury Road
-2016:Captain America Civil War
-2017: Blade Runner 2049
-2018: Avengers Infinity War
 
shinobimusashi said:
I'll do 10 years at a time

1985: Friday The 13th part V: A New Beginning
1986: Stand By Me
1987: Robocop/Hellraiser(tie)
1988: Bloodsport
1989: Kickboxer
1990: Robocop 2/Night Of The Living Dead remake(tie)
1991: Terminator 2/Out For Justice(tie)
1992: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
1993: Falling Down
1994: Shawshank Redemption/The Crow(tie)
1995: Mallrats/Heat(tie)
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Continued:

1996: Kingpin
1997: Cop Land
1998: Soldier
1999: Any Given Sunday
2000: Cast Away
2001: Training Day
2002: Red Dragon
2003: Freddy vs Jason
2004: Team America: World Police
2005: The Jacket
 
2006: The Prestige
2007: 300
2008: The Wrestler
2009: Terminator Salvation
2010: True Grit, holy shit this was the worst year ever for movies
2011: The Grey
2012: Prometheus
2013: eeek, even worse than 2010, I can't find a single movie that I liked from this year!
2014: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes/The Drop(tie)
2015: Creed
2016: Star Wars Rogue One
2017: Bladerunner 2049
2018: Nothing looks good to me maybe Creed II or Predator but haven't seen them yet, my god movies really started to suck once you got into the 2000's-2010's, it's incredible the decline.
 
Again it does actually end up being harder work for the less obvious years, I mean putting say Blade Runner down for 82 wasn't very difficult but 83 needed a lot of thought and a rewatch of Rumblefish to pick that.

You could argue this kind of thing works better for film than music as well, I mean whilst I could list favoured albums post early 00's I really haven't been following the music scene that closely since then. Cinema on the other hand will be something most people will still follow to some degree at until perhaps they get into old age.
 
1988 - Rain Man
1989 - Christmas Vacation
1990 - Ghost
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1992 - A Few Good Men
1993 - Mrs. Doubtfire
1994 - Shawshank Redemption
1995 - Toy Story
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Good Will Hunting
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - Fight Club
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - Training Day
2002 - Spiderman
2003 - City of God
2004 - The Incredibles
2005 - Batman Begins
2006 - The Departed
2007 - No Country for Old Men
2008 - The Dark Knight <---- Damn good year right here
2009 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
2010 - Toy Story 3
2011 - Puss in Boots
2012 - The Avengers
2013 - The Hunger Games - Catching Fire (I really haven't seen a lot of movies from this year)
2014 - Whiplash
2015 - Avengers - Age of Ultron
2016 - Deadpool
2017 - Three Billboards
2018 - Avengers - Infinity War
 
1990: Home Alone
1991: Silence of the Lambs
1992: Wayne's World
1993: Schindler's List
1994: Clerks
1995: Seven
1996: Scream
1997: Men in Black tied with Fifth Element
1998: Armageddon (Fuck all y'all, that film was magical)
1999: The Sixth Sense/The Matrix
2000: Cast Away
2001: Shrek
2002: Spiderman
2003: Bad Boys 2 (This was honestly a shit year for movies)
2004: The Day After Tomorrow
2005: Batman Begins
2006: Children of Men
2007: No Country for Old Men
2008: Iron Man
2009: The Hangover (Fuck all y'all, that shit was great)
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: Literally nothing. This year fucking sucked.
2012: Dredd
2013: Even looking at a list of films, this year also sucked.
2014: Winter Soldier
2015: The Force Awakens (Fight me)
2016: Deadpool
2017: Chock full of Oscar Bait, but underwhelming
2018 (So Far): Infinity War, I guess? Haven't seen much to get my dick hard.
 
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1985 - Ran GOAT
1986 - Manhunter
1987 - Angel Heart
1988 - Dangerous Liasons
1989 - Violent Cop
1990 - Miller's Crossing
1991 - The Double Life of Veronique
1992 - Glengarry Glen Ross
1993 - Sonatine
1994 - Chungking Express
1995 - Heat
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Gattaca
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Fight Club
2000 - In the Mood for Love
2001 - Spirited Away
2002 - Infernal Affairs
2003 - Memories of Murder
2004 - Closer
2005 - A Bittersweet Life
2006 - A Dirty Carnival
2007 - No Country for Old Men
2008 - The Chaser
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
2010 - Black Swan
2011 - Drive
2012 - Dredd
2013 - Kinda stopped watching new films at this point. I ain't seen much past this
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You don't follow Marvel movies?
 
Alphaboy said:
You don't follow Marvel movies?
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Although actually I think Marvel movies good enough to get close to my list would really start from 2014 onwards, WInter Solider and Guardians might well have in other years, Civil War wasnt that far off and Infinity War is the best of my(admidily very limited) viewing this year.
 
In Apocalyto's favour I'm not exactly Gibsons biggest fan and the ending is pretty dodgy message wise(these evil bastard deserved to be wiped out by Christendom! let the noble godless savage escape to be coverted) but you can't ignore how good the film is, especially the Temple scene would probably go down as one of the best of the decade.

Supprised really Birth hasn't gotten more hype off of Under the Skin, I mean you could argue its rather a shameless revisiting of Eyes Wide Shut from a Kurbick fan but I actually think it works better. More tightly focused on Kidman's character who I think had more depth to here in both films and actually visually more interesting as well, the opening obviously but the closeups are really well done to like that long take of Kidman at the opera and the way he often has characters eyes in shadow giving them a deaths head look.

 
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1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Blade Runner
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 The Terminator
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Aliens
1987 Predator
1988 Bloodsport
1989 Christmas Vacation
1990 Total Recall
1991 Terminator 2
1992 The Mighty Ducks
1993 Jurassic Park
1994 Dumb and Dumber
1995 Seven
1996 From Dusk Til Dawn
1997 Boogie Nights
1998 He Got Game
1999 American Pie
2000 American Psycho
2001 Vanilla Sky
2002 The Two Towers
2003 X2
2004 Spiderman 2
2005 Batman Begins
2006 The Prestige
2007 There Will Be Blood
2008 The Dark Knight
2009 Watchmen
2010 Inception
2011 Moneyball
2012 This is 40
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy
2015 Mad Max Fury Road
2016 Deadpool
2017 Blade Runner 2049
2018 Avengers Infinity War

That was hard because there were a handful of monster years (1991, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2017) where I could have easily picked three to five different movies as my number one but there was also a few years (1992, 2011 bleh, 2015) where it was difficult to find even one movie I liked. I've also seen very few movies since 2013.
 
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1990 - Close-Up
1991 - Barton Fink
1992 - Man Bites Dog
1993 - Naked
1994 - Chungking Express
1995 - La Haine
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Funny Games
1998 - Festen
1999 - Ratcatcher
2000 - Songs from the Second Floor
2001 - Mulholland Drive
2002 - Adaptation.
2003 - Lost in Translation
2004 - Mind Game
2005 - Caché
2006 - Brand Upon the Brain!
2007 - There Will Be Blood
2008 - The Wrestler
2009 - The White Ribbon
2010 - Rubber
2011 - Drive Angry
2012 - The Master
2013 - Hard to Be a God
2014 - Inherent Vice
2015 - The Forbidden Room
2016 - The VVitch
2017 - Phantom Thread
2018 - n/a
 
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