What Decade Made You a Film Fan

[L.J.]

Which decade had the most films that made you a film fan? Also name some of the titles that contributed to this.

The 80's was the decade that made me a fan. So many great films from then. Some that pushed me in this direction were Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rocky 4, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, The Terminator, First Blood. Just to name a few.

[Mr. Chaverria]

Probably was 2002 when I was in High School. Heart of Darkness just didn't click with me. I've always loved movies but didn't LOVE them like I do now.

Apocalypse Now, made me understand the greater aspect of subtext. Fell into a hole that is ever expanding with the 1970s.

[Lee A Stewart]

1959 - 1969

8 years old to 18 years old

The difference between having my parents take me to the movies and going myself with my own car. Some of the greatest movies ever made were made during this decade:

Ben Hur
The Magnificent Seven
The Time Machine
West Side Story
Dr. No
The Great Escape
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad , Mad World
Lawrence Of Arabia
Goldfinger
A Fistful Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Cool Hand Luke
In The Heat Of The Night
2001 A Space Odyssey
Bullitt
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

[Al_The_Strange]

The 80s. Because I was born in the 80s and was immediately surrounded by all the cool films like Star Wars, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, The Terminator, Aliens, Indiana Jones, Big Trouble in Little China, The Goonies, Police Academy, Beverly Hills Cop, Airplane, and so many more. With my parents having a sizable VHS and LD collection, these films had quite a few spins, in addition to several classics like the old Disney films, musicals like The Wizard of Oz or The Music Man, and older sci-fi like Planet of the Apes.

For better or for worse, I think the marketing behind the bigger franchises left their mark even deeper. I have fond memories of owning Star Wars toys, drinking the Ecto Cooler flavored Hi-C, grinding at the Indiana Jones video games, and watching a bunch of cartoon spinoffs (like Beetlejuice, Bill and Ted, BTTF). When you're a kid, all this stuff makes the movies seem a lot more tangible.

I never really discovered cinema--it was always just kinda there.

[JMS1223]

The 1990s for me: Goodfellas, Unforgiven, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, the Lion King, Toy Story, Braveheart, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan, and The Green Mile.

The 1970s would be second.

[CreasyBear]

Toss up between the 70's and 90's.

[kingdoxie]

1950s for me, so many great Sci-Fi, westerns, and crime films. Films from this decade really draw me in whenever I watch one.

Some of my favorites:
The Thing From Another World (the granddaddy of all Sci-Fi films)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
On the Waterfront
Sunset Boulevard
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles best picture IMHO)
3:10 to Yuma (the iconic theme song really draws you in)
Night and the City

Lots of great foreign language films as well:
Rififi
The 400 Blows (one of the first French New Wave films)
Pather Panchali (from the Apu Trilogy)
Seven Samurai

[Himmel]

The 80's.. That was the best decade, excellent movies, music.. No decade has ever came close to fully replicating it.

[traths]

1990's

[Star Lord]

70s but I've been appreciating the 90s a lot lately.

[CyberpunkCentral]

When Marty stepped in.

[cgpublic]

I'm a Seventies savant, those formative years aged 8 though 18 (1970 to 1980), the son of two cinephiles, one weekend The War of the Gargantuas, the next Walkabout (playing at the local theater no less), topped off with some big screen 007 goodness at palaces like Radio City and The Ziegfeld.

All the classic 'New Hollywood' stuff for the middle years – Altman, Bogdanovich, Coppola, Polanski, Scorsese.

Did I forget to mention Spielberg and Lucas? A pack of twenty friends crammed into a theater on a Saturday night for Jaws and Star Wars!

By the end of the decade, out with friends and/or dates checking out the foreign and independent films in and around downtown Manhattan.

Throw in the birth of the NYC punk/New Wave scene, man, wasn't that a time.

[Winslow Leach]

Definitely the 1980s. I grew up watching the great films from this decade, and discovered classic films from earlier decades, thanks to TV, video stores, the library (which had a large video collection), and public domain titles on VHS.

[Chaotic]

1910's

[BluBonnet]

Ironically enough, it was the movies of the 80s but largely because so many of them were inspired by or paid homage to films that those filmmakers had seen as kids. There are a lot of references or sources of inspiration in the SW movies, BTTF, etc. to movies that were made before I had been born - the really awesome classics from the 30s, 40s and 50s.

[Cremildo]

The 90's.

[Gacivory]

The 90’s, because I was born then.

[Naiera]

I don’t think I became a cinephile until the noughties. I’ve always enjoyed movies, but DVD, then Blu-ray and proper displays really helped me appreciate the art from that is cinema.

[Bumblefeet]

1990s though by no means my favorite decade nowadays, that would be the 70s.

[mulscul]

I was born in 1976 so it was the 80s when I started seeing movies thanks to vhs and cable tv, also remember going to a movie theatre most saturdays from 1986 and on to see movies with my parents and sister. I mean a decade which gave us

Empire Strikes Back
Back to the Future 1 and 2
Aliens
Die Hard
Midnight Run
Ferris Bueller
Karate Kid 1 and 2
Beverly hills Cop
Wargames
Star Trek 2-4
Ghostbusters
Raiders of the lost ark/ Indy 3
Rambo 2
Rocky 3 and 4
Labyrinth
Predator
Superman 2
The Thing
Romancing the Stone
Untouchables
Princess Bride
Goonies
Gremlins
Stand By Me
Who framed Roger rabbit
Honey i shrunk the kids
National lampoons vacation/Xmas Vacation
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Fast times at Ridgemont High
Trading places
The Fly
Robocop
Adventures in Babysitting
Neverending Story
Raising Arizona
Man with 2 brains
Roxanne
Planrs, Trains, and automobiles
Three Amigos
Innerspace
Crocodile Dundee
Tootsie
The Natural
Color of Money
Stakeout
Splash
Big
Mannequin
Pretty in Pink
Some Kind of Wonderful
Beetlejuice
Batman
Lethal Weapon 1 and 2
Road Warrior
Return of the Jedi
No way out
Short Circuit
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3 men and a baby
Peggy sue got married
Twins
Throw momma from the train
Fish called wanda
Wall Street
License to drive
Disorganized Crime
Major league
Say Anything
Silverado
Breakfast club
Christine
Broadcast news
Lean on me

is truly a wonder and I miss that amazing decade when anything was possible.