Best Decade For Cinema

[The Chairman]

But the 90s also had Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Usual Suspects, Silence of the Lambs, Fight Club, American Beauty, the Matrix, Seven, the Professional, American History X, LA Confidential, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Saving Private Ryan, Sling Blade, Life is Beautiful, Forrest Gump, the Lion King, Braveheart, T2, the Sixth Sense, Unforgiven, the Green Mile, Toy Story 1/2, Magnolia, Heat, Goodfellas and Boogie Nights.

The 1970s' had:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
The Last Picture Show
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Annie Hall
Chinatown
Superman The Movie
Jaws
Alien
Nashville
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Carnal Knowledge
Dog Day Afternoon
Serpico
The Deer Hunter
Dirty Harry
Rocky
The French Connection
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Sting
M*A*S*H*
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Young Frankenstein
The Omen
The Exorcist
Grease
Halloween
Badlands
The Conversation
All The President's Men
Klute
Five Easy Pieces
Patton
Straw Dogs
Cabaret
Deliverance
Enter The Dragon
Last Tango In Paris
Mean Streets
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Barry Lyndon
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Shampoo
The Goodbye Girl
Saturday Night Fever
Coming Home
Eraserhead
Midnight Express
Being There
Kramer Vs. Kramer
The Warriors

Some of the most groundbreaking, controversial, infleuential, highest grossing and critically acclaimed movies ever. I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I left out, but that gives you a pretty good idea of how great the decade was.

 

[reggiebar]

But the 90s also had Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Usual Suspects, Silence of the Lambs, Fight Club, American Beauty, the Matrix, Seven, the Professional, American History X, LA Confidential, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Saving Private Ryan, Sling Blade, Life is Beautiful, Forrest Gump, the Lion King, Braveheart, T2, the Sixth Sense, Unforgiven, the Green Mile, Toy Story 1/2, Magnolia, Heat, Goodfellas and Boogie Nights.

Far too many of those movies will not achieve the classic status that so many 70s movies have achieved.

Look at ANTHONYNASTI's list below and then try to honestly make a case that the 90s films stack up with the 70s. It can't be done.

Yes, the 90s was a very good decade for American cinema - especially when compared to the 80s since all of the great films of the 80s were mostly studio blockbusters. However, the 90s were like 70s-lite in that there was a resurgence of Independent thought and film in the 90s compared to the 80s, but the 70s were the decade that defined Independent thought in American cinema. Even the large studios in the 70s left the filmmakers alone to make the films exactly like the filmmakers envisioned.

There really is no debate - the 70s were the greatest decade of Ameican film ever - period. Done. End of discussion.

 

[The Chairman]

Far too many of those movies will not achieve the classic status that so many 70s movies have achieved.

Look at ANTHONYNASTI's list below and then try to honestly make a case that the 90s films stack up with the 70s. It can't be done.

Yes, the 90s was a very good decade for American cinema - especially when compared to the 80s since all of the great films of the 80s were mostly studio blockbusters.

Hey don't sell the 1980s' short. Raging Bull, The Shining and Once Upon A Time In America (the latter a severely underrated piece of cinema), to name a few, all came out in that decade, and it was also a time period where the "teen comedy" genre were actually realistic and intelligent and not the ass end of modern cinema as it is today.

Still, the 1970s' is best.

 

[Shuley]

the 1940's is best,the 70's had alot more modern day pop culture which is still popular today,but the 40's has some of the best movies to ever see the silver screen.

 

[sithgoblin]

80s for me. Indiana Jones, Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters. But every decade has fantastic films

 

[Batman1939]

70's for sure.

 

[Bat Attack]

Far too many of those movies will not achieve the classic status that so many 70s movies have achieved.

Look at ANTHONYNASTI's list below and then try to honestly make a case that the 90s films stack up with the 70s. It can't be done.

Yes, the 90s was a very good decade for American cinema - especially when compared to the 80s since all of the great films of the 80s were mostly studio blockbusters. However, the 90s were like 70s-lite in that there was a resurgence of Independent thought and film in the 90s compared to the 80s, but the 70s were the decade that defined Independent thought in American cinema. Even the large studios in the 70s left the filmmakers alone to make the films exactly like the filmmakers envisioned.

There really is no debate - the 70s were the greatest decade of Ameican film ever - period. Done. End of discussion.

I respect your opinion but I am still going with the 90's.

 

[Shuley]

I respect your opinion but I am still going with the 90's.

Cause you don't know any better.

 

[The Chairman]

I respect your opinion but I am still going with the 90's.

Sorry, the 1990s' has nothing on the 1970s'. WorthyStevens4 listed all the good films of the 1990s', and there was a mere 30. I named nearly 60, and I don't think I even scratched the surface. Sorry, the 1990s' had some excellent film making, but it had just as much crap.