Unpopular Movie Opinions: Part III

[dvining]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

This forum seems to have an 80’s bias. Maybe the age that a lot of them spent their formative years in and want to relive, but I don’t think that should trickle down to the rest of us.

The 50s were the best decade in film. Second best would probably be the 1920s.

I was born in the 80s.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

This forum seems to have an 80’s bias. Maybe the age that a lot of them spent their formative years in and want to relive, but I don’t think that should trickle down to the rest of us.

Not when these two things exist from the 80's.

G.I.Joe The Movie Intro HD - YouTube

The Transformers The Movie 4K - Megatron must be stopped no matter the cost - Prime vs Megatron 4K - YouTube

I am sure we can all find good movies from every decade they existed.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by dvining

The 50s were the best decade in film. Second best would probably be the 1920s.

I was born in the 80s.

We know you were born in the 1880’s!

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by mwynn

[Show spoiler]Not when these two things exist from the 80's.

G.I.Joe The Movie Intro HD - YouTube

The Transformers The Movie 4K - Megatron must be stopped no matter the cost - Prime vs Megatron 4K - YouTube

I am sure we can all find good movies from every decade they existed.

What madness is this?

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

What madness is this?

Macho Madness - The Philosophy of the Macho Man Randy Savage - YouTube

[HipsterTrash]

Originally Posted by dvining

The 50s were the best decade in film. Second best would probably be the 1920s.

I was born in the 80s.

Film peaked in the 1880s.

[John1701D]

Originally Posted by dvining

The 50s were the best decade in film. Second best would probably be the 1920s.

I was born in the 80s.

To have a bias for the 80s you'd have to be born late sixties/early 70s. Just saying.

[slip220]

40, 50s are golden age for a reason
70s was when they achieved maturity with the european/foreign influence

those are the best decades of american cinema

[Member-866753]

Originally Posted by dvining

The 50s were the best decade in film. Second best would probably be the 1920s.

I was born in the 80s.

Bleh. The 50s. Limited artistic expression. That was studios at their "assembly line" worst. Just churning out the same kinds of films. Of course, every era has great films so you can toss Nicolas Ray at me. This discussion is about the cinematic era as a whole, and the 50s is an incredibly limiting era of films. Every film made in the 50s could have been made in the 70s. That's not true of the 70s. They pushed the boundary and exploded what cinema can be without limits.

1968-1979 is the most important (i.e. best) era in film.

The 20s were more transgressive than the tame 50s.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by AspiringMinimalist

Bleh. The 50s. Limited artistic expression. That was studios at their "assembly line" worst. Just churning out the same kinds of films. Of course, every era has great films so you can toss Nicolas Ray at me. This discussion is about the cinematic era as a whole, and the 50s is an incredibly limiting era of films. Every film made in the 50s could have been made in the 70s. That's not true of the 70s. They pushed the boundary and exploded what cinema can be without limits.

1968-1979 is the most important (i.e. best) era in film.

The 20s were more transgressive than the tame 50s.

I dont think The Defiant Ones could have waited two decades to make.

But I'm a 70's dude.

[Cinemaniac]

Cillian Murphy's best work is in "The Dark Knight Rises." I wish they had more kangaroo court scenes with him.

[Trekkie313]

Originally Posted by AspiringMinimalist

Bleh. The 50s. Limited artistic expression. That was studios at their "assembly line" worst. Just churning out the same kinds of films. Of course, every era has great films so you can toss Nicolas Ray at me. This discussion is about the cinematic era as a whole, and the 50s is an incredibly limiting era of films. Every film made in the 50s could have been made in the 70s. That's not true of the 70s. They pushed the boundary and exploded what cinema can be without limits.

1968-1979 is the most important (i.e. best) era in film.

The 20s were more transgressive than the tame 50s.

Stretch that to 1991.

[Trekkie313]

2023 was a boring year for movies released in theaters. Barbie, Oppenheimer and Thanksgiving and The Abyss re-release aside of course. GOTG3 was decent.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

2023 was a boring year for movies released in theaters. Barbie, Oppenheimer and Thanksgiving and The Abyss re-release aside of course. GOTG3 was decent.

I thought that this was supposed to be the unpopular opinions thread?

Although, to venture into unpopular takes, I'm not sure if Barbie was boring or if the David Lynch/JCam-types of the Hollywood scene are right about streaming ruining filmwatching, because I've had family members who skipped Barbie theatrically report that they wind up falling asleep to it on Max, yet similar folks who saw it in theaters thought it was frenetic?

[spider-neil]

The best era of cinema is completely subjective. You can’t objectively say which era is the best.

[Boccaccio]

For me the 90's is the best era for movies.

The 80's is a terrible era and not only for movies.

[DR Herbert West]

1975 - 1985 is the best for me.

[Martoto]

The 70s got started with the success of the ultra "woke", for the time, Easy Rider and the hip, downbeat genre exercise of Bonnie & Clyde. Star Wars was considered the traditional antidote for the pessimism that was said to characterise the work produced in what's now considered the second golden period in between. Some of which had been made by Lucas's friends and colleagues. And by himself.

[mikesncc1701]

Now i know I'm not the first one to say it, but I love this meme.

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by mikesncc1701

Now i know I'm not the first one to say it, but I love this meme.

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Incidentally. I never liked that part where McClane calls out Zeus as a "racist". I get what they were trying to do. But Zeus saved his life earlier. So the cops don't crackdown on the neighbourhood as reprisal, he says. But if he was truly "racist" he wouldn't have been so decisive or civil about it if at all. Maybe prejudiced might have been a better word. But it always sounded a bit distracting to me.