Which decade had the best movies

I would normally go with the 70s myself, as I love the terrible fashion of the period, as well as the revolution in the scifi genre. But the 80s had a lot of gems as well, especially horror flicks.

definitely the 1860s

The 70's, grim as fuck era.

from the 50s up to somewhere early 80s, with the peak in the 60s, early 70s.

gems can be found in the 90s as well, but man, this period is just bollocks.

I'm a 70's guy as well.

00s no contests

TRASMFORMERS MOVIES

STAR WARS MOVIES WIT DA GOOD GRAFFICS

SHREK

SHREK II

the list goes on

80s fo sure!

Cheesey action films. One liners. Great horror. Awesome scfi!

The 60's had:

Dr. Strangelove

2001

Psycho

Good, Bad and the Ugly

among others

the 50s

this decade. We get to see all of our favourite films from the past remade and improved in every way.

  On 10/5/2013 at 10:43 PM, Pennywise said:

this decade. We get to see all of our favourite films from the past remade and improved in every way.

80's

Why?

the 90s would probably be my favorite decade simply because it holds most of my top ten favorite films. I was going to say the 80s which seems obvious but the 80s didn't have Millers Crossing, Barton Fink and Fargo.

it also had: Nixon, Man Bites Dog, Being John Malkovich, Crash, Existenz, Naked Lunch, Total Recall, Terminator 2, the Insider, Goodfellas, Jackie Browne, Pulp fiction, City of Lost Children, A Straight Story, 12 Monkeys

edit: the 90s is a double edged sword though, as it had some of the worst movies in it as well. I can't just randomly sit down and watch any 90s movie and expect to be entertained like I can catching a random 70s movie on tv.

the 80's had good comedies...

1980s

  On 10/5/2013 at 10:58 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

the 90s would probably be my favorite decade simply because it holds most of my top ten favorite films. I was going to say the 80s which seems obvious but the 80s didn't have Millers Crossing, Barton Fink and Fargo.

 

it also had: Nixon, Man Bites Dog, Being John Malkovich, Crash, Existenz, Naked Lunch, Total Recall, Terminator 2, the Insider, Goodfellas, Jackie Browne, Pulp fiction, City of Lost Children, A Straight Story, 12 Monkeys

 

edit: the 90s is a double edged sword though, as it had some of the worst movies in it as well. I can't just randomly sit down and watch any 90s movie and expect to be entertained like I can catching a random 70s movie on tv.

This!!!

the 90s produced belly, a film that could not exist in any other time period.

Tough call but I might go for the 70s. Scorsese, weird avant-garde like The Holy Mountain, gonzoid horrors like Suspiria, 'Nam films, etc.

Also, bonus vote for the '20s and Expressionist horror. Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, and the like.

  On 10/6/2013 at 1:41 AM, Leon Sumbitches said:

Tough call but I might go for the 70s. Scorsese, weird avant-garde like The Holy Mountain, gonzoid horrors like Suspiria, 'Nam films, etc.

 

Also, bonus vote for the '20s and Expressionist horror. Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, and the like.

  On 10/6/2013 at 1:07 AM, zaphod said:

the 90s produced belly, a film that could not exist in any other time period.

Belly among others for sure, like the Cell, Natural Born Killers or Greg Araki's 'teenage apocolypse' trilogy namely the strange hyper sexualized film Doom Generation. Also the 90s generated the new genre of 'mumblecore' lol. Steven Soderbergh became a household name during this era

also the 90s gave birth to the mostly horrible genre of found-footage movies as well as a rebirth of the mockumentary hand-held format like Waiting for Guffman

so basically the 90s are responsible for every horrible trend in film in the last thirteen years

the 70's

every decade has its good movies but this list out of the top of my head makes me woof!

Barry Lyndon

Two-Lane Blacktop

Clockwork Orange

Chinatown

Apocalypse Now

One Flew over the cuckoo's nest

Taxi Driver

Jeremiah Johnson

The Deer Hunter

Stalker

Solaris

World on a Wire

But the 60's had 2001 the best movie of all time so i dont know

the 80's were allright

isn't the consensus among film critics the 1970's? I thought ebert said so.

also is the question which movies are the best according to ratings or which one's we enjoyed the most?

Late 70's-mid 80's --great period for horror and sci fi in particular. You can point to almost any era and find no shortage of good drama and a few good comedies, but good horror and sci fi doesn't happen often. Plus it seems like directors were a lot more experimental in this period, in part because they needed to be when it came to things like special effects. Things got boring when film makers became overly reliant on CG, which lead to less creativity and ingenuity overall. (Generalizing of course, but I'm sure most of you what I mean.)

  On 10/6/2013 at 3:01 AM, zero said:

isn't the consensus among film critics the 1970's? I thought ebert said so.

 

also is the question which movies are the best according to ratings or which one's we enjoyed the most?

i just took a subjective approach, which decade are most of my favorite movies in and it was a very easy answer.

one of my favorite genres though, horror, got a total beating in the 90s. This is when the genre was basically destroyed, humiliated and re-invented. I can't think of a truly 'horror' movie from the 90s that I really love. I can think of some comedy horror ones like Dead Alive/Brain Dead but that's about it.