Most common decade in your collection?

liah

Can probably age a few people from this little exercise :pac:

Mine works out this way:

Decade / Amount of Films I Have:
2010+: 23
2000-2009: 236
1990-1999: 91
1980-1989: 51
1970-1979: 27
1960-1969: 17
1950-1959: 15
1940-1949: 18
1930-1939: 11

Now, mine's indicative of my age (at 23 now, the 2000s were about when I'd've picked up a real interest in films). I'd imagine most people's are. But are there any of you whose film collection doesn't reflect your age/generation? If so, what do you feel this reflects about yourself and your tastes?

What decade do you believe has been the best for cinema as a whole so far?

pickarooney

I presume you keep a detailed catalogue of films - it would take me a week to compile such a list! At a guess I'd say 90s and 00s would dominate but if I were to discount all the ones I don't really like the 80s would get a better representation.

liah

pickarooney wrote: »

I presume you keep a detailed catalogue of films - it would take me a week to compile such a list! At a guess I'd say 90s and 00s would dominate but if I were to discount all the ones I don't really like the 80s would get a better representation.

I do - I'm horribly OCD about my music/film collections. Catalogued them here, used CTRL+F and the number prefix of the decade (e.g. 200, 199, 198, etc.) to manually count how many movies I had per year. I don't have a lot to do today..

Not expecting everyone to do that, mind. Just asking for a more general view; without necessarily counting, just thinking in general what decade you own the most in.

irish_stevo815

At a glance, I would say my collection consists of the following:
2010 onwards: 25%
2000-2009: 40%
1990-1999: 15%
1980-1989: 15%
Pre 1980: 5%

Kess73

Saddo that I am I have my films shelved by genre and decade, and my music is shelved with each artist/band in alphabetic order, and each band's albums are in chronological order within that.

So checking what decade my films are from was just a matter of counting.

2010 and onwards: 38
2000-2009: 336
1990-1999: 211
1980-1989: 164
1970-1979: 231
1960-1969: 487
1950-1959: 258
1940-1949: 179
1930-1939: 32
1920-1929: 6


I am 37, so the decade I have the most films from does not reflect the age I was when I really got into films.

The late 80's, and early 90's was when I really got into films, but the decades I have the most films from are the 1960's, 2000's, and the 1950's.

losthorizon

liah wrote: »

Can probably age a few people from this little exercise :pac:

Mine works out this way:

Decade / Amount of Films I Have:
2010+: 23
2000-2009: 236
1990-1999: 91
1980-1989: 51
1970-1979: 27
1960-1969: 17
1950-1959: 15
1940-1949: 18
1930-1939: 11

Now, mine's indicative of my age (at 23 now, the 2000s were about when I'd've picked up a real interest in films). I'd imagine most people's are. But are there any of you whose film collection doesn't reflect your age/generation? If so, what do you feel this reflects about yourself and your tastes?

What decade do you believe has been the best for cinema as a whole so far?

I would love to know what your favourite film is from each decade and what is your favourite film overall. Just from your collection. Also having built up a collection what has turned out to be your favourite decade - has it changed?

Nolanger

Anyone else got DVDs of movies from 1910 - 1919?

liah

losthorizon wrote: »

I would love to know what your favourite film is from each decade and what is your favourite film overall. Just from your collection. Also having built up a collection what has turned out to be your favourite decade - has it changed?

Oh, this is going to be hard. I'm awful at picking favourites. The 2000's are going to be impossible! I'm going to give a few notables per decade 'cuz I'm not sure I'll be able to pick just one. And keep in mind these are just favourites, not what I think to be the technical best of the decade..

30s - Freaks, The Wizard of Oz

40s - Bambi, Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life, National Velvet, Rope

50s - A Streetcar Named Desire, Old Yeller, Rear Window, Rebel Without a Cause, The Sound of Music

60s - The Birds, The Graduate, The Innocents, Lord of the Flies, Psycho, Ring of Bright Water, To Kill a Mockingbird

70s - A Clockwork Orange, Carrie, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

80s - Back to the Future, Blue Velvet, Pink Floyd's The Wall, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me

90s - American Beauty, American History X, Chasing Amy, Delicatessen, Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, La Haine, Leon, Natural Born Killers, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, Romeo and Juliet, Trainspotting, True Romance

00s - American Psycho, Vengeance Trilogy, Pan's Labyrinth, Big Fish, Breakfast on Pluto, Death to Smoochy, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ginger Snaps, Hitchhiker's Guide, Idiocracy, In Bruges, A Tale of Two Sisters, K-PAX, The Mist, Moon, O Brother Where Art Thou, Thank You For Smoking, Up

^ It was hard to even narrow it down to that, tbh.

I don't have one favourite film, I like so many different films for so many different reasons it's really difficult to pin! Usually a toss up between Pan's Labyrinth and American Beauty, but then I'll watch something and remember that it's one of my favourites too :pac:

I do think the 90s/00s were fantastic decades for cinema, but of course, I would think that, wouldn't I? We're missing a Hitchcock, though, and a Kubrick. The 60s/70s were a pretty inventive period in cinema that suited my tastes quite well.

MagicMarker

I don't even know how many movies I have, let alone how many from each decade!! I don't use dvd's anymore though so it's easy to sort my movies.

Otis Driftwood

Majority of mine would be from the 70s and 80s,a healthy amount from the 90s and not a whole helluva lot from the 00s.Here's my list anyway.

Dvd Afficianado.

Renn

We're missing a Hitchcock, though, and a Kubrick. The 60s/70s were a pretty inventive period in cinema that suited my tastes quite well.

We have a Lynch, a P.T. Anderson, a Scorsese, a Von Trier, a Herzog, a Jeunet, etc...I think we're doing pretty okay atm.

Renn

I've 200ish in my collection it seems and even that's a bit too much for me - need to trim that down a good bit...

liah

Renn wrote: »

We have a Lynch, a P.T. Anderson, a Scorsese, a Von Trier, a Herzog, a Jeunet, etc...I think we're doing pretty okay atm.

I suppose. But the horror/thriller/suspense genre is severely lacking as of late, I still maintain we need a Hitchcock. I still hold my breath in suspense while watching Rope for the nth time and the entire film is essentially based in one room ffs. I can't really think of any modern director that has as many absolute quality horror/thriller/suspense films under his belt as Hitchcock did that would stand the test of time in the way his have.

Renn

I'm going to throw Lynch in to that category and put him down as one that no one will forget.

liah

Renn wrote: »

I'm going to throw Lynch in to that category and put him down as one that no one will forget.

In the same genre though? I appreciate Lynch as a director but his films don't feel in the same vein to me. They're more.. abstract mindfuckery whereas Hitchcock is more solid genre, if that makes sense.

I wouldn't categorize them as the same genre but I'm not sure how I would categorize them differently, either.. Lynch is such a weird one.

Renn

Brian De Palma? :P

Playboy

2010 - present = 15
2000 - 2010 = 561
1990 - 2000 = 54
1980 - 1990 = 34
1970 - 1980 = 23
1960 - 1970 = 20
1950 - 1960 = 17
1940 - 1950 = 6
1930 - 1940 = 3
1920 - 1930 = 2


Total = 735


A little skewed from 2000 onwards but as that was ages 20 - 30 its when I had the interest and finances to collect.

krudler

mostly 80's and 90's, was an 80's child and 90's teen so that encompasses most of my movie watching habits.

Renn

561? Wow

Norma_Desmond

Nolanger wrote: »

Anyone else got DVDs of movies from 1910 - 1919?

Ah yeah, I've a fair few Chaplin films, I just think the man was a genious. Everyone should give them a look in my opinion (I generally get odd looks when I say this though)

liah

Ooooh! Thanks for the reminder on Chaplin. I grew up watching him at my grandmother's house and had completely forgotten that I need to find some of his stuff again.

Playboy

Renn wrote: »

561? Wow

Some awful tripe in their though to be honest. Picked up a lot in bargain buckets and ex rental etc rather than renting. Could dump have of them and wouldnt miss them.

Nolanger

Same here.