Your favourite decade for Cinema? why?

[Tol]

80s
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Conan the Barbarian
Terminator
Aliens
Predator
Rocky 3 & 4
First Blood 1 & 2
Commando
The Running Man
Star Trek II - IV
Scarface
Back to the Future 1 & 2
Ferris Beuler’s Day Off
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Uncle Buck
The Transformers movie (the good one)

 

[essie]

60s because Godard kicked the door open .

 

[therealdope]

Heat, Casino, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Sixth Sense, LA Confidential, ...

Is this even a serious question?

 

[Judge]

Due to improvements on special effects....today

Ain't no movies got anything on special effects over The Thing and Blade Runner.

 

[DespicablePeep]

Any period before the craze for remakes, reboots and sequels.

 

[loyalyolayal]

80's Golden Harvest Productions.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Heat, Casino, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Sixth Sense, LA Confidential, ...

Is this even a serious question?

That's all you think needs to be listed to outdo the 70s or the 80s?

 

[Sir Galahad]

80's. @BisexualMMA

 

[sleepwalk]

80s
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Conan the Barbarian
Terminator
Aliens
Predator
Rocky 3 & 4
First Blood 1 & 2
Commando
The Running Man
Star Trek II - IV
Scarface
Back to the Future 1 & 2
Ferris Beuler’s Day Off
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Uncle Buck
The Transformers movie (the good one)

E.T.
The Goonies
Batman
Top Gun
Ghostbusters
The Breakfast Club
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Amadeus
Beverly Hills Cop
Better Off Dead
The Last Emperor
Dirty Dancing
Indiana Jones trilogy
The Lost Boys
Full Metal Jacket
Ernest Goes to Camp

 

[Frode Falch]

90s

Fuck todays pink lazer beams, robots, and acrobatic colorfull gay superhero where 3d animated figures do all the action

 

[therealdope]

That's all you think needs to be listed to outdo the 70s or the 80s?

yup.

 

[newcastleman]

70s. Many classics of different genres:

Jaws
The Godfather
Paper Moon
The Exorcist
The Sting
Carrie
Life of Brian
Alien
Rocky horror picture show
Star Wars
Apocalypse Now
The French connection
Earthquake
Little Big Man
Etc

 

[therealdope]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Dirty Dancing

 

[sleepwalk]

Yo. You don't gotta like it but you know the song. You know the scenes. You know that, if you can lift that girl, you got her. You know that movie and that's what defines a classic.

 

[minute bull]

Easy question! Without a doubt it's .... it's .... it's....

 

[chrisdiaz]

The 90's for action movies for sure. Die hards, leathal weapons, T2 etc etc all have much better special and practical effects than todays movies. They dont even use real fire anymore.

Can you imagine backdraft with CGI fire the whole time? That shit would be retarded but its probably how it would be done now.

 

[therealdope]

Yo. You don't gotta like it but you know the song. You know the scenes. You know that, if you can lift that girl, you got her. You know that movie and that's what defines a classic.

Ya classic lines like: "no one puts Baby in a corner", and the all time classic, "baby don't be like that, Baby".

 

[Deleted member 429137]

It would have had to have been a decade that was free to experiment in ways other decades weren't. This is either due to the MPPC / Hays code (1930-1968) or the rise of digital filmmakers and indy film.

So it's either the 1920s, the 1970s or the 1990s.

The 1920s because some very ingenius filmmakers were really discovering and pushing the boundaries of what film could do and ways stories could be told.

The 1970s because all the pent-up creativity and darkness burst into cinema after the demise of the Motion Picture Production Code, leaving us with some of the most memorable and powerful films ever created. There were also some free-wheeling, hippie filmmakers who managed to get movies made outside of Hollywood, leading to a significant indy, cult and exploitation explosion.

The 1990s because people who would never have been able to have a voice in traditional Hollywood were suddenly able to break into the industry and tell amazing stories. The rise of digital technology and the explosion of the indy film industry (in large part due to Harvey Weinstein) .

I'm expecting another modern digital filmmaking revolution (because now $5000 cameras can perform like $100000 cameras and everyone and their grandmother can do CGI effects), but it didn't seem to happen in the 2010s. (Probably due to blockbusters and reboots smothering low budget fare as the industry radically changed.)

 

[aunshi189]

Call me a hipster asshole but I'd probably say the 60's. Mainly for dat French cinema

So many other classics from that decade on top of that

1900s IMHO, nothing has topped Méliès' special effects and creativity.

Spoiler

Out hipster assholed

 

[TheNinja]

90s