Decade Battle - It's On !!!

[Mandon Knight]

For all you lovely people, which decade has brought you your favourite films ?

Now, as a child of the 80's I consider myself cherished to have grown up with what the 80's gave us and as a young man in the 90's which heralded a dynamic shift in film making.

There again the 70's saw Spielberg, Scorcesse, Ford Coppela emerge etc.

So much choice in any decade one would wish to pick from 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's through to 70's crime and political thrillers for example and of course Star Wars and how that changed the face of everything.

 

[-JKR-]

No doubt for me:

1980s

EDIT: Great idea (by David H.) to include some titles (there's obviously a lot I'm forgetting right now)
48 Hrs.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
After Hours
Airplane!
Aliens
Angel Heart
Back to the Future
Batman
Beetlejuice
Beverly Hills Cop
Big Trouble in Little China
Blade Runner
Brazil
Broadcast News
Child's Play
Coming to America
Dead Calm
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
Escape from New York
E.T.
Evil Dead II
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fright Night
Full Metal Jacket
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Heathers
Hellraiser
Innerspace
Lethal Weapon
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Platoon
Predator
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raising Arizona
RoboCop
Scarface
Stand By Me
The Abyss
The 'Burbs
The Empire Strikes Back
The Fly
The Goonies
The Hunt for Red October
The Monster Squad
The Naked Gun
The Road Warrior
The Shining
The Terminator
The Thing
The War of the Roses
To Live and Die in L.A.
Trading Places
Wall Street
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

 

[David H.]

For me...

1970s

Taxi Driver
Barry Lyndon
Star Wars
The Godfathers
Mean Streets
Network
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Jaws
Le Cercle Rouge
Solaris
Badlands
Walkabout
Days of Heaven

I could go on and on and on...

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Eh... There is good or bad in every decade.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I think the 'easiest' way for me is too total which decade contains the most of my favourite films and that would have to be

1980's

plus it had this gem of a film....

 

[Fincher]

The 1990s. Dark City, Gattaca, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, Se7en, Terminator 2...

 

[Mandon Knight]

...but then again, the 70's had this.....

 

[Neno_Kos]

I go with 80's.
It's easy choice.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I think the 80's provides us with such an eclectic mix of film making, for a decade that is often 'written off' in comparison to other decades for areas such as culture, fashion, music etc., for film, it provides some of the best films we've ever had, particularly in sci-fi & fantasy.

 

[Tg11]

1980s for me and I wasn't even born in the 1980s I was born in the 1990s...missed out on such an iconic decade in film

 

[Tg11]

Breakfast Club enough said

 

[Mandon Knight]

Breakfast Club enough said

 

[Tg11]

But my decade of the 90s timeless movies such as:

True Lies
Terminator 2
Last Action Hero
Judge Dredd
Street Fighter
Timecop
Interview with The Vampire
Mission Impossible
The Mighty Ducks
D2: The Mighty Ducks
D3: The Mighty Ducks
Godfather Part III
Goodfellas
The Addams Family
Addams Family Values
My Cousin Vinny
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Goldeneye
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Mortal Kombat
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
The Matrix

I could go on and on

 

[childeroland]

Holy hell, how does one pick a decade?

Even though several favorite films are from the 2000s, I suppose as a decade I have to pick the 90's.

A Brighter Summer Day
Poppoya
To Live
Not One Less
Leon: The Professional
The Secret of Roan Inish
The Secret Garden
Pulp Fiction
Farewell My Concubine
Raise the Red Lantern
Days of Being Wild
The Three Colours Trilogy
Chungking Express
Fallen Angels
The Blue Kite
The Double Life of Veronique
Xiao Wu
Rebels of the Neon God
Vive L'Amour
The River
The Hole
Mahjong
The Puppetmaster
The Long Day Closes
In the Heat of the Sun
The Thin Red Line
Goodbye South, Goodbye
Flowers of Shanghai

 

[Tg11]

1990s by far because of the fact that it had so many hits so many timeless classics such as Goodfellas, Casino, Pulp Fiction, Desperado, Reservoir Dogs, etc. but also great comedies too in the 90s as well as action films hell this was the action film decade because in the 90s Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Gibson, Snipes, etc. were all at the height of their popularity

 

[childeroland]

I picked the 90's too because of the Tsai Ming-liang masterpieces, the Malick and Wong Kar-Wai films (even though I have to miss In the Mood for Love), the Kieslowski trilogy, the Hou Hsiao-Hsien films in his best decade (even though I have to miss Millennium Mambo and his early masterpieces), Tian's masterwork The Blue Kite, etc, even though end up missing a lot of Fifth Generation films and the emergence of later voices like Lee Chang-Dong and Weerasethakul , unfortunately and Yang's later films.

 

[Tg11]

Also the 1990s because of such movies like

Mission Impossible
Flubber
Face/Off
Con Air
Clueless
Legends of the Fall
Kalifornia
True Romance
Bad Lieutenant
Double Team
Sudden Death
Maximum Risk
Ransom
Lethal Weapon 3 and 4
Soldier with Kurt Russell and Jason Scott Lee
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
The Crow
The Crow City of Angels
Trainspotting
Fargo
Good Will Hunting
Meet Joe Black
Enemy of the State
Marvel's Blade
US Marshals
The Fugitive
Bad Boys

I could go on and on about the 90s being the movie decade

 

[Mandon Knight]

The 80's had this....



end of discussion....

 

[Mandon Knight]

Speaking of which, this is adorable....

 

[Mandon Knight]

Argument for the 80's being the best sci-fi decade of all time....

The 25 Best Sci-fi Movies of The 1980s

 

[jolldan]

2000's

Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Lord of The Rings 1,2 & 3
Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc
Shrek
Casino Royale
No Country For Old Men
School of Rock
Tropic Thunder
There Will Be Blood
The Departed
Slumdog Millionaire
Gladiator
Anchorman
Spider-Man 1 & 2
X-Men 1 & 2
Saw
Unbreakable
Training Day
Harry Potter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pirate's of the Caribbean 1, 2 & 3
The Hangover
Million Dollar Baby