90s
Rescuers down under
90s
Rescuers down under
I'll take the '30s:
Wizard of Oz
Modern Times
M
Gone With the Wind
I could just stop there but...
The Thin Man
Wuthering Heights
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Stagecoach
Petrified Forest
42nd Street
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Public Enemy and Little Caesar
King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, and The Mummy
A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, Monkey Business, Duck Soup and Horsefeathers
Freaks
Reefer Madness
Kurosawa's 1954 Shichi-nin no Samurai (7 Samurai) was the 1st Action-Thriller movie ever. The very 1st. 1,000,000 movies since then the director has tried to copy Kurosawa but none has achieved a fraction of Kurosawa's greatness. Every western, sci-fi, blaxplotation, etc. has been a weak, cheap, and failed attempt to duplicate the 7 Samurai. Kurosawa filmed it in Japan, not L.A. Why ? Because L.A. sucks !
The 1970's by far. That's when they made films. Spielberg and George Lucas ruined that forever.
90s all the way
The Matrix
The Lion King
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindlers List
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Goodfellas
The Usual Suspects
Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
Beauty and the Beast
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Saving Private Ryan
American History X
Gladiator
Braveheart
LA Confidential
Life is Beautiful
The Green Mile
Unforgiven
The Sixth Sense
Titanic
The Truman Show
Jurassic Park
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
to name a few
Each decade has it's greats. The 30's ad a ton of outstanding films. If not for the war, the greatest decade may hae been the 40's.
To the OP, the moives you listed may be entertaining, but I can't think of one of those that may be a classic.
Yep, almost all critics agree with the Golden Age delivering most innovation and most artistic blend of acting, script, cinematography and direction.
Duke Mantee wrote:
I'll take the '30s:
Wizard of Oz
Modern Times
M
Gone With the Wind
I could just stop there but...
The Thin Man
Wuthering Heights
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Stagecoach
Petrified Forest
42nd Street
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Public Enemy and Little Caesar
King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, and The Mummy
A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, Monkey Business, Duck Soup and Horsefeathers
Freaks
Reefer Madness
Clearing the bs up wrote:
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Hilarious! Blue Man Group meets Dances With Wolves. James Cameron's flaming pile of shit attacks again!
7- I guess I don't understand your assertion. I believe there have been many action thrillers before and since 7 Samurai. Don't infer that I have anything but big love for 7 Samurai. I consider it to be one of the three greatest ever (Lawrence of Arabia and Godfathers 1&2), I think action thriller films have been around since the beginning of film.
Kurosawa himself is also the greatest director IMHO. Thanks for posting.
80's
All the best Rocky's
Rambo I-III
Bloodsport
Die Hard
Terminator II
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
National Lampoon's Vacation
Goonies
Scarface
jjjjjjjj wrote:
I think these were all made in a 10 year period starting around 1973
Apocalypse Now!
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Nashville
Network
Gallipoli
Alien
Mad Max
Jaws
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Chinatown
Five Easy Pieces
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Rocky
also Midnight Cowboy and Dog Day Afternoon.
the first wave of kung fu movies (Bruce Lee) came out in this period too.
Seven Samurai was the 1st Action-Thriller in the history of film. Kurosawa invented and perfected the techniques for making action thrillers. He produced and directed a dozen of the world's first action-thrillers in the 1950s.
Even more 90s hits
Dumb and Dumber
The Rock
The Big Lebowski
Speed
Fargo
Dances with Wolves
Last of the Mohicans
fovoham plains wrote:
The 2010s got off to a rotten start with a festering collection of 80s remakes plus Facebook the Film. Let's hope Hollywood can do better in the next nine years. I echo the earlier sentiments for the 1970s.
Good prediction
10 Films 2010-2019:
Drive
The Master
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
The Wolf of Wall Street
Inherent Vice
Black Swan
Only God Forgives
Annihilation
;
For American films the 70s without a doubt.
threadstartererer wrote:
Which decade do you think was best? Which movies?
I think the 80's ruled and I was too young to even appreciate movies at that time. But those movies just never get old. The 80's rocked. The movies during that time period didn't try to top the world of thought, weren't overly stylish, and didn't need constant sex and violence. Just good enjoyable flicks.
Ferris Bueller's day off.
Back to the Future Trilogy
Breakfast club
Blues Brothers
The Goonies
Uncle Buck
A Christmas Story
Weird Science
Karate Kid
Stand by Me
E.T.
Thank you. Your list really gave me a good laugh.
The 2000's for me.
Gladiator
City of God
Slumdog Millionaire
Crash
300
Memento
Traffic
Minority Report
No Country for Old Men
Lord of the Rings
District 9
Saw
Black Hawk Down
American Gangster
The Departed
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Training Day
jjjjjjjj wrote:
I think these were all made in a 10 year period starting around 1973
Apocalypse Now!
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Nashville
Network
Gallipoli
Alien
Mad Max
Jaws
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Chinatown
Five Easy Pieces
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Rocky
I must be missing a bunch of great ones. Jaws and Star Wars were the beginning of the end, because they brought the mass market potential of the teenboppers to fruition, and so we have mostly gotten garbage since then.
Those are all pretty good movies but not the Goonies.
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