Which decade had the best movies

90s was mostly direct to video sequels and weird low budget cult stuff like fire in the sky. also some decent concept social criticism as horror like candyman and people under the stairs. then you have audition, perfect blue, the ring, jacob's ladder, army of darkness, seven, silence of the lambs, alien 3, darkman. i know these aren't all strictly horror but there were some decent films. you can probably thank scream for the abhorrent teen slasher comeback in the late 90s which seemingly carried into the early 2000s until more foreign horror films got popular. i think the horror genre is one of the few things that has gotten a bit better since the 90s, but it's never returned to the heights it reached in the 70s and 80s.

The 70s possibly, however it also had the worst movies. It was all about drama and gritty real life, so the good stuff was super dark and awesome, but the bad stuff was terrible and boring.

Also this:

  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.

  On 10/6/2013 at 2:57 AM, Deer said:

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

You're god damn right. Add to the list: The Godfather, Macbeth, Alien, Star Wars, Lenny, Jaws, The Exorcist, Carrie, Mean Streets, and so on. You can't fuck with the 70's.

80's closely followed by 70's for me

Lifting the Hays Motion Picture Production Code in '68 was a bit of a shot in the arm for US cinema, just enough new freedom for some "auteur"-style directors to knock out a few classics before crawling up their own asses and returning with steaming turds like... I dunno, half of what Coppola's made since Apocalypse Now.

So a lot of people say how much they love the late 60s to late 70s era of American films, and rightly so, but there was a ton of crap produced in that era, too. The more we're removed from it, the more the weak stuff fades from memory.

There's probably nothing worse than an unmemorable movie.

And here's the thing: the 80s and early 90s (the same era aesthetically, as far as I can tell) produced a ton of crap, but it was all, for some reason, deeply memorable crap. And that's fucking special.

I would watch CHUD right now and it's horrible. I don't really want to watch The Deer Hunter now, but I'll take CHUD.

I realize that being born in '81 is probably the primary reason for me having terrible taste. I know.

  On 10/6/2013 at 6:49 AM, zaphod said:

90s was mostly direct to video sequels and weird low budget cult stuff like fire in the sky. also some decent concept social criticism as horror like candyman and people under the stairs. then you have audition, perfect blue, the ring, jacob's ladder, army of darkness, seven, silence of the lambs, alien 3, darkman. i know these aren't all strictly horror but there were some decent films. you can probably thank scream for the abhorrent teen slasher comeback in the late 90s which seemingly carried into the early 2000s until more foreign horror films got popular. i think the horror genre is one of the few things that has gotten a bit better since the 90s, but it's never returned to the heights it reached in the 70s and 80s.

1990s

Most of my favorite films were made in the 1980s, but objectively I'd probably still say the 1980s.

From the later 70s through early 90s special effects and early CGI, as well as the aesthetics of animated films, were almost always artful and tactfully utilized. There are still those using special effects in splendid ways, Alfonso Cuaron comes to mind immediately, but there's also the behemoth of blockbuster action flicks. At best they are fun to watch, but there's a certain magic to them that's lacking. Even in the most simplistic, emotionless action flicks of the 80s you still had real explosions and stunts. It's not like things aren't bad now, Pixar still couples wonderful stories with wonderful animation. The indie film scene is still healthy. Hollywood itself just seems fairly stagnant and bloated: anything that's not something brought in from overseas or an indie crossover is either a remake, book adaptation, or yet another comic book action film.

  On 10/6/2013 at 12:24 PM, Oscar said:

 

  On 10/6/2013 at 2:57 AM, Deer said:

 

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

You're god damn right. Add to the list: The Godfather, Macbeth, Alien, Star Wars, Lenny, Jaws, The Exorcist, Carrie, Mean Streets, and so on. You can't fuck with the 70's.

I also nominate the 1930s.

70's for me two - as so many here. A movie that comes to mind would be one that killed an elderly lady whilst watching it at the movies when first released back then. I even think others might have died? *grin*

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  On 10/5/2013 at 10:00 PM, Cryptowen said:

00s no contests

 

TRASMFORMERS MOVIES

STAR WARS MOVIES WIT DA GOOD GRAFFICS

SHREK

SHREK II

 

the list goes on

hmm i seem to like about 4 films every decade