Best Decade for film?

For me it was the 70's. The absolute turning point of cinema in my opinion for many reasons which I care not to list.
What was yours (also give a few examples of films which you think defined the culture/lifestyle of it's decade)?

Here are mine for the 70's
Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Jaws, The Godfather

For me it was the 80's. I love all the campy movies from that decade! All the cheesy horror flicks that were happening at the time. I love them all!

Mid-Nineties. When all the Dogma Movies came out.

:meditate:1985-1995:meditate:

I don't think there was any real decade that stood out from the rest. All of them have top class movies, even going back to the 1930's when M came out.

90's.
The Shawshank Redemption -- greatest movie of all time.
American Beauty
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Fargo
Forrest Gump
The Fugitive
Goodfellas
Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Titanic:
Usual Suspects
American History X
Magnolia
Primal Fear
True Romance


TONS more but thats my top shelf of movies.

there was atleast something special about each decade in my estimate but unfortunately a lot of people are turned-off by black and white or those made in the 30-40s. Most people at my old high school knowledge of film only seemed to have spanned the past 20 years and also leaning towards certain genres

I like them all

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Originally Posted by dirkdirden

90's.
The Shawshank Redemption -- greatest movie of all time.
American Beauty
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Fargo
Forrest Gump
The Fugitive
Goodfellas
Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Titanic:
Usual Suspects
American History X
Magnolia
Primal Fear
True Romance


TONS more but thats my top shelf of movies.

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I've got to agree. The 90s were so awesome.

I don't think I can really call one decade better than any other for movies because every decade had films I liked and films I hated.

The "golden age" of films I'd consider to be the 1930s when movies like King Kong, Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights were all releashed.

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Originally Posted by dirkdirden

90's.
The Shawshank Redemption -- greatest movie of all time.
American Beauty
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Fargo
Forrest Gump
The Fugitive
Goodfellas
Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Titanic:
Usual Suspects
American History X
Magnolia
Primal Fear
True Romance

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Not to mention:

Eyes Wide Shut
Being John Malcovich
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
Fight Club
Rushmore
The Truman Show
Office Space
Interview With The Vampire

The 90's was definetly a great decade for film

80's :cool:

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Originally Posted by Chris

For me it was the 80's. I love all the campy movies from that decade! All the cheesy horror flicks that were happening at the time. I love them all!

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Same even though I wasnt born yet..But I get to see most of em now! :)

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Originally Posted by mobiletype

For me it was the 70's. The absolute turning point of cinema in my opinion for many reasons which I care not to list.
What was yours (also give a few examples of films which you think defined the culture/lifestyle of it's decade)?

Here are mine for the 70's
Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Jaws, The Godfather

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Seconded.

80s

Alien, Predator, Star wars (ESB), Dune ^^, plus more that i cant thinnk of atm.

I liked the 80s for thier action/horror movies, Alien was the first to make me actually go speechless in fright.