So far the 30's is the best decade.

1890, don't remember to many from that time, had to be the worst then!

That's what happens when you stick to Hollywood crap.

Look outside Hollywood for some real gems.

What are these fantastic films that have been made post-2000.


I happen to agree about the 2000s being pretty crappy when it comes to cinema, so far.

i know it still chafes a lot of people, but for me, The Hulk was one of the most interesting, unique comic book/fantasy/monster movies i've ever experienced.
i don't recall anything produced in the 1980s that attempted anything like it.
what were the highpoints of 80s fantasy cinema? Return of The Jedi? Krull? Tron?
Willow? Superman 2,3,4?
all as tasteless and nutritionally void as wonderbread.
Hulk may not resonate with a lot of people, but it will find its audience down thru the years, and they will appreciate what Ang attempted and achieved.

also, i would rate Ghost World, X2, American Splendor as being better than any comic book film that came out of the 80's by a fairly wide margin.
even though its gone down a bit in my estimation on subsequent viewings, i would also place Spider-man well above any 80's comic book offering- and S-m2 looks to be even better.

Solaris was incredible, mature and intelligent sci fi.

anbd that's just the sci-fi/fantasy/comic book genre.

Bourne Identity is an intelligent action film- heads and shoulders above the inane Rambos, Cobras, Red Heats, Raw Deals, Delta Forces and countless other by the numbers, and without a brain, 80s actioners.

the 80s were a victim of the seventies and that narcoleptic infatuation with a return to 50s American values that Reagan represented- and the the films were by and large just as bland and innocuous as that other decade.
the 70s era came about in part because of the social strife of the 60s.
i expect the '00s to be another creative wellspring- although it will sadly accompany greater civil disorder and anxiousness.

what's the saying..."Switzerland has had 500 yrs of peace and harmony and whats their greatest contribution to world culture? -the cuckoo clock."

Don't even begin to diss Willow or I fly to the windy city and slap the wax outta your ears.

Worst decade for movies? You're soaking in it!

The 90's were pretty bad too.

The 80's were great for sci-fi and fantasy, and the 70's were equally great for some classics.

Not to threadcrap, but I was sorely disappointed in The Hulk. I suppose it comes down to taste, but I didn't see anything Ang Lee did that set this movie apart. It seemed very long.

You're taking a very small category of cinema with just fantasy/superhero films. But I'd stack Empire Strikes Back, E.T., Batman, and maybe even Dragonslayer against The Hulk any day.

Well, again, comics were much different in the 80s. And ceratinly there wasn't the same kind of interest in making movies based on comics until after Batman hit it big in 89. But I still feel like the best superhero movie I've ever seen is Tim Burton's Batman.

As Wayne and Garth say - "didn't see it".

But better than the Die Hard, Terminator, Aliens movies? C'mon, you failed to mention action movies like "2Fast 2Furious" or other Vin Diesel movies.

Sounds like another first-year college student's argument. No offense. As Bart Simpson says: "We need another Vietnam to thin their ranks out" :)

Movies really aren't a representation of a particular President. They are based on fashion, society, trends, etc. I actually voted for the 80s as the worst decade ever, but I wish I could re-vote. I think I'd choose the aught "00" decade. Because more than ever, movies are being made first with the technology, and then the story. Too bad...

I like cuckoo clocks... :) Oh, don't forget "Swiss cheese" and "Swiss bank accounts!" :)

Oh, my nails!

(for those of you who aren't old enough, there was a great commercial back in the 70s or early 80s where a woman comes into a nail salon and the beautician takes her hands and puts them in some green stuff and begins telling the customer all about Palmolive dish soap and the concerned customer says "yes, but is it soft enough for everyday use?" and the beautician says: "You're soaking in it!" with a friendly smile. They both share a warm smile over this).

God, I miss the good-ol' days. What a commercial! :)

I thought the 30's were great, I thought the 40's were great, I thought the 50's were great, :)I thought the 70's were great, I thought the 80's were great, I thought the 90's were great, I think 2000's are great, and I think how people love to bitch about films. What makes a film great? Simple question; However, the answer lurks within ONE person, one individual, yourself and not the whole. I feel each decade the cinema gave there audience something that they can take with them. People…errrr….internet people love to bitch and moan about the 90’s films….lets face it the 90’s films set a benchmark in movie making (the wiseass will now say, “yea crappy no story all CGI films). It’s a decade where ANYTHING can be produced on the screen. If you look at all the other decades, you’ll notice the dawn of something “new” whether it’s the amazement of seeing a film for the first time in sound, color or even cinemascope (eerrr widescreen) it’s something that you take with you. To say one decade is better than the next is rather ridiculous. Each decade has its own defining element.

‘nuff said.

I did just look over Pants list and I do agree there were some great films from the 60s, not made in America though . Kurosawa and Fellini were at their peak during that time and I absolutely adore their films. Now I feel I need to defend the 2000s, some of my favorite films have come from this short 4 year decade, including: The 25th Hour, 21 Grams, Traffic, Memento, Unbreakable, Master & Commander, Black Hawk Down, Lost In Translation, Road To Perdition, Royal Tenenbaums, and Training Day.

Psycho (1960)
Spartacus (1960) -- (US)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Hustler (1961) -- (US)
Yojimbo (1961)
Salvatore Giuliano (1961)
Knife in the Water (1962)
Hud (1963) -- (US)
8½ (1963)
Irma La Douce (1963) -- (US)
Silence (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Onibaba (1964)
Persona (1966)
Graduate (1967) -- (US)
Shame (1968)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968) -- (US)
Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Wild Bunch (1969) -- (US)

to name a few... :)

Edited: I just saw Pants list and I think the 60s was an awesome decade for cinema...

I do not think any decade stinks, since there are great films from every year and decade. However, I think the 70s has a little negative aspect on cinema as it was when blockbusters began to rule the cinema... But some of these blockbuster are pretty good... :)

2000 so far.

the last 10 years have sucked really really bad.

Yea those 80's sure sucked.

Do the Right Thing
My Left Foot
Enemies--A Love Story
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Drugstore Cowboy
Roger and Me
The Accidental Tourist
Dead Ringers
Bird
Bull Durham
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Broadcast News
The Last Emperor
Prick Up Your Ears
My Life As a Dog
The Dead
Blow Out
Videodrome
Scanners
Scarface
The Untouchables
Wall Street
Born on the Fourth of July
Casualties of War
Driving Miss Daisy
Glory
The Accused
Rain Main
Tucker
Ironweed
Hannah and Her Sisters
Platoon
Mona Lisa
My Beautiful Laundrette
A Room With a View
Prizzi's Honor
Out of Africa
Ran
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Official Story
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Shoah
Plenty
A Passage to India
The Killing Fields
Places in the Heart
Terms of Endearment
Fanny and Alexander
The Right Stuff
The Return of Martin Guerre
Tender Mercies
The Year of Living Dangerously
Silkwood
Local Hero
Zelig
Gandhi
Sophie's Choice
Tootsie
The World According to Garp
Reds
Prince of the City
Atlantic City
On Golden Pond
Chariots of Fire
Pixote
Ordinary People
Melvin and Howard
Raging Bull
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Great Santini
Mon Oncle D'Amerique
Tess
Breaker Morant
sex, lies, and videotape
Dead Poets Society
Field of Dreams
The Story of Women
Camille Claudel
The Little Thief
Mississippi Burning
Dangerous Liaisons
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Last Temptation of Christ
Pelle the Conqueror
Cry Freedom
Fatal Attraction
Full Metal Jacket
Jean de Florette
Manon of the Spring
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Children of a Lesser God
The Color of Money
Stand By Me
The Fly
The Mission
Ginger and Fred
Witness
Blood Simple
Paris, Texas
A Soldier's Story
Birdy
The Fourth Man
The Verdict
Mephisto
Das Boot
Gallipoli
The Last Metro
The Stunt Man
The Tin Drum
Kagemusha
Hope and Glory
Blue Velvet
Vagabond
Brazil
Smooth Talk
Nostalghia
The Sacrifice
Amadeus
Once Upon a Time in America
Blade Runner
The Road Warrior
The Elephant Man
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Return of the Secaucus 7
After Hours
The King of Comedy

The list may be long but few of those are true classics.

Now that's funny.


He even missed a few.

Repo Man
Fitzcarraldo
Wings of Desire
Grave of the Fireflies
Black Rain (no, not the Ridley Scott one)
My Neighbor Totoro
This is Spinal Tap
The Killer
Cinema Paradiso
A Room with a View

I could add more, but no one has mentioned Kurt Russell's homage to the Duke, the one, the only, Jack Burton!

Who?

:D

Please - and the aughts have what exactly to offer? Oh yeah, lord of the rings. Right. Yeah, that movie alone makes up for a shitty decade.

The 90's were even worse. Talk about a cultural wasteland of crap.

I have gone out to the movies the least in what little decade there's been thus far. I guess I just haven't been as impressed/interested in what there has been offered by the studios. In the 1980s, I went to see a movie almost every weekend. I did that more sparingly in the 1990s, and it's almost non-existent these days. It's also a key reason why, for the past few years, the Academy Award shows haven't had any impact on me since I had no favorites to root for anymore.

that's a great list, and i agree that alot of those films are very very good- yeah even classics.

but cut that list down to only material released before fall of 1984 and then you can compare it to the aughts.

the majority of the films you list were post '85
especially the more significant ones.

Inri 222

Your list pretty much proves my point about the 80's

You've included pretty much every good film released and you threw in a lot of foreign films to flesh it out. I can make the same list from any other decade and it would be twice as long.

If you really think about it, we're nearly half way through the aughts. Although we've had some good movies, would they be considered great? Certainly some, but enough to warrant (nearly) five years?

80's, 90's and 2000's

Just to clarify, I was being serious. I did have to think about it quite a bit before answering, however.

1790's by far.