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Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
Originally Posted by duff beer
(Post 12007413)
What did you vote
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Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
wise decision
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Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
The correct order is thus: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's, 60's.
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Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
No particular order, but here is how I rate each decade for their best type of movie:
-1950's/60's Grand Epic Movies: The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra, etc. -1970's Gritty Dramas: French Connection, Serpico, TaxiDriver, etc. -Late 70's/Early 80's Summer Blockbusters: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost, Back to the Future, ET, etc. -1990's Depth of Quality Movies: Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Heat, Apollo 13, LA Confidential, etc. -2000-Present: Movies pretty much suck today, the quality has dropped off in the new century partly because of the franchises are the most important thing to studios. |
Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
Originally Posted by mcnabb
(Post 12009221)
-2000-Present: Movies pretty much suck today, the quality has dropped off in the new century partly because of the franchises are the most important thing to studios.
Haha! That's so true about the SUCK-FEST coming out of Hollywood from 2000 - present. Here's a test: Could anyone name a movie post-2000 that's worthy of being preserved by the Library of Congress? |
Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
Off the top of my head, just in terms of critical acclaim, there's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pan's Labyrinth, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Donnie Darko, Bad Education, Ratatouille, Million Dollar Baby, Cache, Memento, Mulholland Drive, LOTR, Toy Story 3, Mystic River, Zodiac, The Lives of Others, Waltz With Bashir, Downfall, Y Tu Mamá También, Volver, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Oldboy, Audition, Adaptation, Brokeback Mountain, City of God, In the Mood For Love, Talk to Her, Gran Torino.
Cinema is a pretty bad state, the commerce of it it has become so entangled that it's more and more difficult to get films made, and blockbusters dominate for economic reasons, but every now and then, good art still finds a way. I'm certainly a skeptic about the post-modern digital age, but there are still good things to be found. |
Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
Tough call for me between the 70s and 80s. I grew up in the 80s and movies were just so damn creative, and FUN, during that period.
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Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
Originally Posted by jeffkjoe
(Post 12009390)
Haha! That's so true about the SUCK-FEST coming out of Hollywood from 2000 - present.
Here's a test: Could anyone name a movie post-2000 that's worthy of being preserved by the Library of Congress? |
Re: What is your favorite decade in cinema?
Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
(Post 12008161)
The 1940s, of course!
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