fireandwind
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Most memorable among all is Matrix. There are some great ones regardless of decades: Inception, Shawshank Redemption, Parasite, Wall-E.
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Favourite movie from each decade?
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Dolgopolov85
G.O.A.T.
30s: City Lights
40s: Rebecca
50s: Vertigo
60s: Doctor Zhivago
70s: Clockwork Orange
80s: Wall Street
90s: Big Lebowski
00s: Prestige
10s: Birdman
I voted 70s as only option was allowed but I thought 90s was a great decade too, similar to my views on popular music. In the 90s, the cookie cutter stuff was better than the 70s while the experimental movies were fewer but still great. You could choose to watch a silly comedy or a generic action movie as there were tons and tons of them or you could also have oddballs like The Edge or the outright experimentation of Groundhog Day, Lebowski or Fight Club.
00s was, in hindsight, a somewhat boring decade if you were interested more in experimentation, a decade in which very well made but cookie-cutter and formulaic movies reigned (both Beautiful Mind and Training Day would be good examples of this trend, eminently watchable and not particularly inviting you to more than one watch all the same). Also the decade in which Oscar-bait biopics came of age. I remember enjoying the movies a lot back then but now struggle to remember ones that I would rerun any number of times. Prestige somewhat gets there coming from one of the few filmmakers of that decade who didn't think ambition was a bad word.
2010s have actually seen some return to experimentation such as the one I mentioned. In contrast to the 00s, the 10s have been a better decade than I thought them to be as the years rolled by. The only slight deficiency is the death of comedies, romcom or otherwise, in the 10s which makes the movies overall appear to be deadly serious. But it's alright and worthwhile in return for newfound ambition as well as attaching value to sentiment and emotional resonance after a long time (Fault In Our Stars, Boyhood, Star Is Born). That's the thing about the 00s. The once underground and subversive post-modern cool of Fight Club or Lebowksi somewhat went mainstream in that decade which made it a lot of fun to watch but also left little to take away from.
40s: Rebecca
50s: Vertigo
60s: Doctor Zhivago
70s: Clockwork Orange
80s: Wall Street
90s: Big Lebowski
00s: Prestige
10s: Birdman
I voted 70s as only option was allowed but I thought 90s was a great decade too, similar to my views on popular music. In the 90s, the cookie cutter stuff was better than the 70s while the experimental movies were fewer but still great. You could choose to watch a silly comedy or a generic action movie as there were tons and tons of them or you could also have oddballs like The Edge or the outright experimentation of Groundhog Day, Lebowski or Fight Club.
00s was, in hindsight, a somewhat boring decade if you were interested more in experimentation, a decade in which very well made but cookie-cutter and formulaic movies reigned (both Beautiful Mind and Training Day would be good examples of this trend, eminently watchable and not particularly inviting you to more than one watch all the same). Also the decade in which Oscar-bait biopics came of age. I remember enjoying the movies a lot back then but now struggle to remember ones that I would rerun any number of times. Prestige somewhat gets there coming from one of the few filmmakers of that decade who didn't think ambition was a bad word.
2010s have actually seen some return to experimentation such as the one I mentioned. In contrast to the 00s, the 10s have been a better decade than I thought them to be as the years rolled by. The only slight deficiency is the death of comedies, romcom or otherwise, in the 10s which makes the movies overall appear to be deadly serious. But it's alright and worthwhile in return for newfound ambition as well as attaching value to sentiment and emotional resonance after a long time (Fault In Our Stars, Boyhood, Star Is Born). That's the thing about the 00s. The once underground and subversive post-modern cool of Fight Club or Lebowksi somewhat went mainstream in that decade which made it a lot of fun to watch but also left little to take away from.
Bagumbawalla
G.O.A.T.
20s- Metropolis
30s- King Kong, L'age D'or, Gold diggers of 1933
40s- Beauty and the Beast, Citizen Kane, Maltese Falcon
50s- Forbidden planet, Night of the Hunter
60s- Space Odyssey, La Dolce Vita
70s- What's up Doc, El Topo
80s- Blue Velvet, When Harry Met Salley
90s- Groundhog Day
2000s- Mulholland Drive, Pan's Labyrinth
2010s- Moonrise Kingdom, The Edge of Seventeen
30s- King Kong, L'age D'or, Gold diggers of 1933
40s- Beauty and the Beast, Citizen Kane, Maltese Falcon
50s- Forbidden planet, Night of the Hunter
60s- Space Odyssey, La Dolce Vita
70s- What's up Doc, El Topo
80s- Blue Velvet, When Harry Met Salley
90s- Groundhog Day
2000s- Mulholland Drive, Pan's Labyrinth
2010s- Moonrise Kingdom, The Edge of Seventeen
BGod
G.O.A.T.
The question is favourite, so the 90s for me. You had a lot of good historical films about the 70s & 80s, pinnacle of action set pieces before CGI took over and a lot of legends with upcoming actors of the 00s.
Just a taste would be:
Heat, Casino, Demolition Man, Cliffhanger, Terminator 2, Gattaca, Misery, Shawshank, Truman Show, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Point Break, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Unforgiven, The Insider, Cable Guy, New Nightmare, Kingpin, Dumb & Dumber, Maverick
As for my decade picks, I'm a simple man:
30s: Gone with the Wind
40s: Casablanca
50s: Rear Window/Spartacus (most production took place in 59)
60s: Dr. Strangelove
70s: Rocky II
80s: Rocky IV
90s: Heat
00s: Gladiator
10s: Wolf of Wallstreet
Just a taste would be:
Heat, Casino, Demolition Man, Cliffhanger, Terminator 2, Gattaca, Misery, Shawshank, Truman Show, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Point Break, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Unforgiven, The Insider, Cable Guy, New Nightmare, Kingpin, Dumb & Dumber, Maverick
As for my decade picks, I'm a simple man:
30s: Gone with the Wind
40s: Casablanca
50s: Rear Window/Spartacus (most production took place in 59)
60s: Dr. Strangelove
70s: Rocky II
80s: Rocky IV
90s: Heat
00s: Gladiator
10s: Wolf of Wallstreet
