Decade

[carpaltonnel]

No fancy title needed, simply put your pick for the greatest decade in film history. What makes that decade the most amazing, important, or just filled to the brim with the most A-list movies it could handle?

My vote, is the 70's. Because when ever I visit a film form the 70's it always feels like the first time I have seen it, even if it's not.

[kpkelley]

1930's

Cimarron
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on The Bounty
The Life of Emile Zola
Gone With The Wind
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
The Adventures of Robin Hood
La Grande Illusion
Pygmallion
The Good Earth
Lost Horizon
Mr Deeds Goes to Town
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
Les Miserables
All Quiet on The Western Front
The Blood of a Poet
The Rules of The Game
The Lower Depths(Renoir)
La Chienne
Pepe Le Moko
Un Carnet de Bal
La Belle Equipe
La fin du jour
La Bete Humaine
Anna Karenina
Aleksandr Nevskiy
Fritz Lang's M
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Angels With Dirty Faces
The Public Enemy
City Lights
Modern Times
You can't take it with you
Grand Hotel
Twentieth Century
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
Bringing Up Baby
The Dawn Patrol
Little Ceasar
The Story of Louis Pasteur
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Captains Courageous
Holiday

[STARSCREAM]

I was just thinking about how bad the 90's seemed for movies. Especially the first half or so of the decade.

[Rob71]

Almost impossible to pick. But I'll go with the 80's.

Cool horror:
Evil Dead
Friday The 13th
A Nightmare On Elm St.
The Thing
Re-Animator
Near Dark
Sleepaway Camp

Cool sci-fi:
ST: Wrath Of Kahn
The Empire Strikes Back
Robocop
The Terminator
Blade Runner
Lifeforce
They Live

Cool Action:
Commando
Rambo
Red Dawn
Universal Soldier
Die Hard
Predator
Red Dawn

I can almost guarantee that I'm biased by being in middle/high school in the 80's and sneaking in/going to almost every movie released during this time. Looking back I really should have spent more time studying.

[McKellars]

00's - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

That's all I needed.

[carpaltonnel]

Originally Posted by Rob71

Almost impossible to pick. But I'll go with the 80's.

Cool horror:
Evil Dead
Friday The 13th
A Nightmare On Elm St.
The Thing
Re-Animator
Near Dark
Sleepaway Camp

Cool sci-fi:
ST: Wrath Of Kahn
The Empire Strikes Back
Robocop
The Terminator
Blade Runner
Lifeforce
They Live

Cool Action:
Commando
Rambo
Red Dawn
Universal Soldier
Die Hard
Predator
Red Dawn

I can almost guarantee that I'm biased by being in middle/high school in the 80's and sneaking in/going to almost every movie released during this time. Looking back I really should have spent more time studying.

This was my first pick, but it was only because I grew up with it and movies are soooooo much fun!

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by carpaltonnel

This was my first pick, but it was only because I grew up with it and movies are soooooo much fun!

Just noticed I listed Red Dawn twice.

Oh well, It was a hell of a movie.

[carpaltonnel]

Originally Posted by McKellars

00's - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

That's all I needed.

Hmmmmm, I don't don't even like these movies...crazy.

[Tcan21]

Originally Posted by Rob71

Almost impossible to pick. But I'll go with the 80's.

Cool horror:
Evil Dead
Friday The 13th
A Nightmare On Elm St.
The Thing
Re-Animator
Near Dark
Sleepaway Camp

Cool sci-fi:
ST: Wrath Of Kahn
The Empire Strikes Back
Robocop
The Terminator
Blade Runner
Lifeforce
They Live

Cool Action:
Commando
Rambo
Red Dawn
Universal Soldier
Die Hard
Predator
Red Dawn

I can almost guarantee that I'm biased by being in middle/high school in the 80's and sneaking in/going to almost every movie released during this time. Looking back I really should have spent more time studying.

My vote as well. I grew up during the 80s with all those movies, from convincing the video store clerk to let a little kid rent all those rated R movies, they will always mean more to me then some of the films released today. I can't even talk to some of my coworkers and friends about these movies because they havent even seen them.

[dvd_mazter]

It is hard to choose because I love stuff from the 70's, 80's and 90's however if I look at my top 20 of all-time, most of my stuff is from the 00's.

Here's what is in my top 20 from the 00's on.

The Dark Knight
Spider-man 1, 2 & 3
Batman Begins
The Departed
Clerks II
40 Year Old Virgin
The Incredibles
Wall.e
Tropic Thunder
Superbad
Little Miss Sunshine
Sin City

[carpaltonnel]

Originally Posted by dvd_mazter

It is hard to choose because I love stuff from the 70's, 80's and 90's however if I look at my top 15 of all-time, most of my stuff is from the 00's.

The Dark Knight
Spider-man 1 &2
Batman Begins
The Departed
Clerks II
40 Year Old Virgin
The Incredibles

just as examples

Then 00's wins for you and thats cool, it really is a hard thing to figure out. I like your way though,...Do a top 20 or so and see which decade has the most movies in it. Good job!

[dvd_mazter]

Originally Posted by carpaltonnel

Then 00's wins for you and thats cool, it really is a hard thing to figure out. I like your way though,...Do a top 20 or so and see which decade has the most movies in it. Good job!

Thanks, I have always kept a top 20 list, currently saved on my facebook profile . I figured the best way to find out what your favourite deacde is by going with which decade you have most in your top 20 or whatever.

[Pirate King]

I would have to say the 1950's.

All About Eve
Father of the Bride
Sunset Boulevard
An American in Paris
A Streetcar Named Desire
The African Queen
High Noon
Singin' in the Rain
From Here to Eternity
Roman Holiday
Shane
The Robe
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
Marty
Rebel Without a Cause
Giant
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Ten Commandments
The King and I
Bridge on the River Kwai
12 Angry Men
Gigi
The Searchers
The Defiant Ones
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Some Like it Hot
The Dairy of Anne Frank
and...
Ben Hur

[anomynous]

Originally Posted by McKellars

00's - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

That's all I needed.

[carpaltonnel]

Originally Posted by Pirate King

I would have to say the 1950's.

All About Eve
Father of the Bride
Sunset Boulevard
An American in Paris
A Streetcar Named Desire
The African Queen
High Noon
Singin' in the Rain
From Here to Eternity
Roman Holiday
Shane
The Robe
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
Marty
Rebel Without a Cause
Giant
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Ten Commandments
The King and I
Bridge on the River Kwai
12 Angry Men
Gigi
The Searchers
The Defiant Ones
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Some Like it Hot
The Dairy of Anne Frank
and...
Ben Hur

No a bad argument at all with movie choices like this.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by carpaltonnel

No a bad argument at all with movie choices like this.

He didn't even list any of the great foreign films of that decade.

Seven Samurai
La Strada
La Notti di Cabiria
Miyamoto Musashi
Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Duel on Ganryu Island
Forbidden Games
Rashomon
The Hidden Fortress
The Lower Depths(Kurosawa)
Throne of Blood
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Bob le Flambeur
Les Enfantes Terribles
The Earrings of Madame De
Orphee

[carpaltonnel]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

He didn't even list any of the great foreign films of that decade.

Seven Samurai
La Strada
La Notti di Cabiria
Miyamoto Musashi
Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Duel on Ganryu Island
Forbidden Games
Rashomon
The Hidden Fortress
The Lower Depths(Kurosawa)
Throne of Blood
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Bob le Flambeur
Les Enfantes Terribles
The Earrings of Madame De
Orphee

Maybe not his cup of tea, but clearly is yours. Nice list, I still need to see a few of these.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

He didn't even list any of the great foreign films of that decade.

Seven Samurai
La Strada
La Notti di Cabiria
Miyamoto Musashi
Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Duel on Ganryu Island
Forbidden Games
Rashomon
The Hidden Fortress
The Lower Depths(Kurosawa)
Throne of Blood
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Bob le Flambeur
Les Enfantes Terribles
The Earrings of Madame De
Orphee

Originally Posted by carpaltonnel

Maybe not his cup of tea, but clearly is yours. Nice list, I still need to see a few of these.

Not enough people watch foreign films. I'd suggest starting with Kurosawa(in bold), he is the most westernized of these directors as he emulated John Ford. The Hidden Fortress was adapted in to a pretty popular title from the seventies, have you heard of Star Wars?

[carpaltonnel]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

Not enough people watch foreign films. I'd suggest starting with Kurosawa(in bold), he is the most westernized of these directors as he emulated John Ford. The Hidden Fortress was adapted in to a pretty popular title from the seventies, have you heard of Star Wars?

Although it is one year off, my Cinema Studies class just watched "Breathless" (1960) and we were (most of us ) loving it!

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by carpaltonnel

Although it is one year off, my Cinema Studies class just watched "Breathless" (1960) and we were (most of us ) loving it!

Ah, Godard. Let me guess, you talked about jump cuts. The real miracle is Seberg, a career that was almost ruined at the start by Otto Prem!nger's Saint Joan, or Belmondo who was descriped as "hypnotically ugly."