View Poll Results: Blockbuster-driven decade
1980s
7
77.78%
2000s
2
22.22%
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Favorite blockbuster-driven decade
06-12-06, 12:26 AM
#1
Favorite blockbuster-driven decade
The 1980s or 2000s? These two decades are the most effects-minded, 70s and 90s were both more character-driven dramatic type decades of the post-cultural revoultion era while 80s and 2000s had a primary reliance on blockbusters: actioners, scifi, fantasy, horror. There is only 3.5 years left in this decade so we already have a good idea of the overall tone of it and can pretty much predict what's to come after 7.5 years.
I pick 80s because a lot of those imaginative young directors from the 70s didn't just dissapear on the onset of the decade but continued along with the tone of the time to work their magic, Indiana Jones trilogy, 2/3 of Star Wars OT, 2/3 of Mad Max trilogy, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, The Terminator, Aliens, Das Boot, Conan 1+2, Superman 2-4, Princess Bride, Legend. Arnie, Ford, Ridley Scott, Cameron, Spielberg, Scorsese at the top of their games.
I pick 80s because a lot of those imaginative young directors from the 70s didn't just dissapear on the onset of the decade but continued along with the tone of the time to work their magic, Indiana Jones trilogy, 2/3 of Star Wars OT, 2/3 of Mad Max trilogy, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, The Terminator, Aliens, Das Boot, Conan 1+2, Superman 2-4, Princess Bride, Legend. Arnie, Ford, Ridley Scott, Cameron, Spielberg, Scorsese at the top of their games.
06-12-06, 01:02 AM
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At the moment, I have more fondness for the 80's. I think that has more to do with my familiarity to the films and characters.
On the other hand, there has been some pretty awesome blockbusters come out this decade. Not to mention, we are only 6 years into it, with plenty more films to come out. Then, in another 15-20 years, after I have had a chance to forget about the crappy movies coming out this decade, and have focused on the "classics", these 10 years could be awesome.
It's a really difficult question to ask, given that we aren't even through this decade, and I was a kid during the 80's. I didn't really get to see all of the movies, both good and bad, during that time period.
Overall, I'm giving it to this decade.
On the other hand, there has been some pretty awesome blockbusters come out this decade. Not to mention, we are only 6 years into it, with plenty more films to come out. Then, in another 15-20 years, after I have had a chance to forget about the crappy movies coming out this decade, and have focused on the "classics", these 10 years could be awesome.
It's a really difficult question to ask, given that we aren't even through this decade, and I was a kid during the 80's. I didn't really get to see all of the movies, both good and bad, during that time period.
Overall, I'm giving it to this decade.
06-12-06, 07:43 AM
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I'd say the 2000s... but it's not in a good way. We're all about blockbusterrs, so much so that unless a movie is a sequel of a hit, or a best selling book, no one will produce it. Thus the decline in sales each year, people are getting bored of the "blockbusters."
In the 1980s, the same mentality was there yes, except the blockbusters were actually good.
In the 1980s, the same mentality was there yes, except the blockbusters were actually good.
