Favourite movie from each decade?

Dude111

Try to list ONLY ONE per decade as the list might get long


1930s: The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

1940s: Its a wonderful life (1946)

1950s: Journey to the center of the earth (1959)

1960s: You only live twice (1967)

1970s: Star Wars (1977)

1980s: Real Genius (1985)

1990s: Entrapment (1999)

2000s: None really

2010s: None

Birneybau

1950-2014: None.

Also, your favourite movie of the 90s is 'Entrapment'. Jesus wept.

Dude111

One of my favourites of the 90s yes

danniemcq

30's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

40's Its a wonderful life

50's 12 Angry Men

60's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

70's Blazing Saddles

80's Airplane!

90's Heat

00's The Departed

10's Inception

Jeez that got hard from the 70's on!

Dude111

Indeed it is! (I thought it would be better to only list 1 than mile long pages with tons of listings )

DazMarz

1930's: Mr Smith Goes To Washington

1940's: White Heat

1950's: 12 Angry Men

1960's: Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

1970's: The Godfather

1980's: The Empire Strikes Back

1990's: Goodfellas

2000's: Der Untergang/Downfall

2010's: (so far) Inception

Muirshin Durkin

1930's: None

1940's: None

1950's: Seven Samurai

1960's: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1970's: Godfather

1980's: Scarface

1990's: Pulp Fiction

2000's: Old Boy

2010's: Inception


90's and 70's the hardest to choose from for me. Not much to choose from for 10's.

Skylinehead

joe_bloggss wrote: »

your favourite movie of the 00,s is the departed

" jesus wept "


30,s = king kong

40,s = citizen kane

50,s = bridge on the river kwai

60,s = planet of the apes ( once upon a time in the west a close second )

70,s = the godfather

80,s = raiders of the lost ark

90,s = pulp fiction

00,s = gladiator ( LOTR a close second )

10,s = too early to tell

Lambasts one poster for The Departed. Lists Gladiator. What's the difference in quality?


I liked both for the record, but it's not as if the Departed is a crap film and Gladiator is one of the best of all time. Far from it on both counts.

Rothko

30's: Modern Times
40's: The Third Man
50's: Some Like It Hot
60's: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
70's: Taxi Driver
80's: Stand By Me
90's: Trainspotting
00's: Lost In Translation
10's: Moonrise Kingdom

o1s1n

30's: Duck Soup
40's: The Maltese Falcon
50's: 12 Angry Men
60's: 2001: A Space Odyssey
70's: The Devils
80's: Akira
90's: Terminator 2
00's: Howl's Moving Castle
10's: Dredd

orangesoda

1970's (Rocky)

1980's (Lock up / Twins)

1990's can't decide (Titanic / Good Burger / Far & Away / The Lion King / Pocahontas / In the name of the father/ Matilda)

2000's (Cast Away)

2010's - don't know

I'm not a big film watcher, have watched very few of the top films of the last 10 years

snaphook

40's Citizen Kane
50's North By Northwest
60's Lawrence of Arabia
70's The Godfather Part 1/2
80's Die Hard
90's Terminator 2: Judgement Day
00's Sideways
10's ???

Ruu

Paul Blart Mall Cop has got to be up there!

Ficheall

Could someone provide a link to a helpful list of films from each decade?

dodzy

Birneybau wrote: »

1950-2014: None.

Well done you.

humberklog

30's - M
40's - The third man.
50's - The night of the hunter.
60's - Psycho.
70's - The shining.
80's - Ferris Buellers day off.
90's - Pulp Fiction.
00's - No country for old men.
10's - American Hussle.

131spanner

30's: The Wizard of Oz
40's: Casablanca
50's: Bridge on the River Kwai
60's: A Fistfull of Dollars
70's: Apocalypse Now
80's: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
90's: Braveheart
00's: Pirates of the Carribean (no.1)
10's: American Hustle

krudler

1930's: Duck Soup

1940's: The Third Man

1950's: 12 Angry Men

1960's: Once Upon A Time In The West

1970's: The Exorcist

1980's: Raiders Of The Lost Ark

1990's: LA Confidential

2000's: The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (counting them as a whole)

2010's: How To Train Your Dragon

LorMal

1930s -Way Out West
1940s - Double Imdemnity
1950s - Rear Window
1960s - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970s - The Godfather
1980s - Ordinary People
1990s - Schindlers List
2000s - Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2010s - The Way Way Back

And let there be no argument - I have seen all the movies - these are definitely the best...

The Backwards Man

1916 Intolerance
1927 Metropolis

For balance.

o1s1n

The Backwards Man wrote: »

1916 Intolerance
1927 Metropolis

For balance.

No love for The Birth of a Nation, no?

Ironman76

1930s- Gone With The Wind
1940s- It's A Wonderful Life
1950s- The Bridge On The River Kwai
1960s- The Good The Bad And The Ugly
1970s- Jaws
1980s- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1990s- Goodfellas
2000s- The Dark Knight
2010s- The Wolf Of Wall Street

krudler

Dude111 wrote: »

Try to list ONLY ONE per decade as the list might get long


1930s: The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

1940s: Its a wonderful life (1946)

1950s: Journey to the center of the earth (1959)

1960s: You only live twice (1967)

1970s: Star Wars (1977)

1980s: Real Genius (1985)

1990s: Entrapment (1999)

2000s: None really

2010s: None

The decade that gave us Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, T2, Speed, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Se7en, The Matrix, The Usual Suspects, Silence of the Lambs, Leon, True Romance, The Lion King, Heat, Toy Story, The Big Lebowski, Groundhog Day, 12 Monkeys?

Entrapment?

Really?

The Backwards Man

o1s1n wrote: »

No love for The Birth of a Nation, no?

I don't want to become embroiled in the controversy of it.;) Intolerance was a mammoth piece of work for the time inanyways.

LorMal

A quick little anecdote :
Laurel and Hardy were nearing the end in the 1950s, they were old men and were trying to keep their flagging careers going by doing one last tour in Europe by ship. They had almost been forgotten about in the USA and they were very much seen as yesterdays men there.
One of the places they came to was Ireland. They arrived by ship in Cobh. This is what Laurel recalled later -

The love and affection we found that day at Cobh was simply unbelievable. There were hundreds of boats blowing whistles and mobs and mobs of people screaming on the docks. We just couldn't understand what it was all about. And then something happened that I can never forget. All the church bells in Cobh started to ring out our theme song "Dance of the Cuckoos" and Babe (Oliver Hardy) looked at me and we cried. I'll never forget that day. Never.

danniemcq

Ficheall wrote: »

Could someone provide a link to a helpful list of films from each decade?

http://www.films101.com/year10y.htm

not a full list but has a heap, odd layout though, page choice is half way down the page although that could be an ie thing

D-FENS

30’s The Public Enemy
40’s Rope
50’s Rear Window
60’s Psycho
70’s Star Wars
80’s Withnail & I
90’s Se7en
00’s Sideways
10’s Drive

karaokeman

1930s : Modern Times
1940s : Citizen Kane
1950s : The Searchers
1960s : None yet, not well versed in this decade!
1970s : Star Wars
1980s : Star Wars Empire and Jedi
1990s : Titanic
2000s : (500) Days of Summer
2010s : Luhrmann's Great Gatsby

Birneybau

LorMal wrote: »

A quick little anecdote :
Laurel and Hardy were nearing the end in the 1950s, they were old men and were trying to keep their flagging careers going by doing one last tour in Europe by ship. They had almost been forgotten about in the USA and they were very much seen as yesterdays men there.
One of the places they came to was Ireland. They arrived by ship in Cobh. This is what Laurel recalled later -

The love and affection we found that day at Cobh was simply unbelievable. There were hundreds of boats blowing whistles and mobs and mobs of people screaming on the docks. We just couldn't understand what it was all about. And then something happened that I can never forget. All the church bells in Cobh started to ring out our theme song "Dance of the Cuckoos" and Babe (Oliver Hardy) looked at me and we cried. I'll never forget that day. Never.

So? :pac:

LorMal

Birneybau wrote: »

So? :pac:

Sorry, I dont understand, what are you asking me?

The Backwards Man

LorMal wrote: »

Sorry, I dont understand, what are you asking me?

Don't mind him, I thought it was a nice story.

LorMal

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Don't mind him, I thought it was a nice story.

Thanks - me too

Adamantium

80's: Back to the Future.

This is one of the tightest and best movie scripts ever written, every script teacher uses this as an example of a PERFECT movie, and it is.

I can't be arsed writing the rest of the decades

Actually The Wolf of Wall Street has mega classic all over it for this decade

losthorizon

humberklog wrote: »

30's - M
40's - The third man.
50's - The night of the hunter.
60's - Psycho.
70's - The shining.
80's - Ferris Buellers day off.
90's - Pulp Fiction.
00's - No country for old men.
10's - American Hussle.

Great choices especially Night of the Hunter but you are let down by American Hustle.

Everybody should watch Night of the Hunter

losthorizon

LorMal wrote: »

A quick little anecdote :
Laurel and Hardy were nearing the end in the 1950s, they were old men and were trying to keep their flagging careers going by doing one last tour in Europe by ship. They had almost been forgotten about in the USA and they were very much seen as yesterdays men there.
One of the places they came to was Ireland. They arrived by ship in Cobh. This is what Laurel recalled later -

The love and affection we found that day at Cobh was simply unbelievable. There were hundreds of boats blowing whistles and mobs and mobs of people screaming on the docks. We just couldn't understand what it was all about. And then something happened that I can never forget. All the church bells in Cobh started to ring out our theme song "Dance of the Cuckoos" and Babe (Oliver Hardy) looked at me and we cried. I'll never forget that day. Never.

and a quick little extract

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkgyvNi0Fyw

wait .. just wait

quickbeam

30s: Duck Soup
40s: The Third Man
50s: 12 Angry Men
60s: Dr. Strangelove
70s: Dog Day Afternoon
80s: The Blues Brothers
90s: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
00s: Almost Famous

I have seen films prior to 1930 but not enough to make much of a judgement. And it's too early in to the 10s to really decide.

Dude111

Dude111 wrote: »

Try to list ONLY ONE per decade as the list might get long


1930s: The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

1940s: Its a wonderful life (1946)

1950s: Journey to the center of the earth (1959)

1960s: You only live twice (1967)

1970s: Star Wars (1977)

1980s: Real Genius (1985)

1990s: Entrapment (1999)

2000s: None really

2010s: None

So the last great film you saw was the mediocre and bland Entrapment. I feel for you, either you have terrible taste or you've missed out on hundreds if great films released in the past decade and a half.

Also, people are aware that they made films before the 1930s. Some of the most famous and influential cinema was made between well before the 1930s.

lertsnim

Deleted User wrote: »

So the last great film you saw was the mediocre and bland Entrapment. I feel for you, either you have terrible taste or you've missed out on hundreds if great films released in the past decade and a half.

Also, people are aware that they made films before the 1930s. Some of the most famous and influential cinema was made between well before the 1930s.

Throw up your list so you can be judged.

Panzer7

70's: Midnight Express
80's: Aliens
90's: Groundhog Day
00's: Apocolypto/ Batman Begins
10's: The Dark Knight Rises

rubadub

Deleted User wrote: »

Some of the most famous and influential cinema was made between well before the 1930s.

Can you give us your defintion of "famous",

Here is one

fa·mous [fey-muhs] Show IPA
adjective
1.
having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.

But I struggle to see how any pre 1930's film would make it into a list of "the most famous films of all time", unless it was a list from the 1930's.

Famous does not necessarily mean "good" or "respected" or anything, or well known to a very small select group of people, like film critics or students of film.

1930's Angels With Dirty Faces
1940's Casablanca
1950's The African Queen
1960's Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
1970's Marathon Man
1980's The Breakfast Club
1990's Pulp Fiction
2000's Momento/No Country For Old Men
2010's ...so far...Inside Llewyn Davies

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

Can you give us your defintion of "famous",

Here is one

fa·mous [fey-muhs] Show IPA
adjective
1.
having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.

But I struggle to see how any pre 1930's film would make it into a list of "the most famous films of all time", unless it was a list from the 1930's.

Famous does not necessarily mean "good" or "respected" or anything.

Lets see, off the top of my head here's a few ore 1930s films which are widely celebrated, well known and would often feature on any list or the most famous films ever made.
Metropolis, Birth of a Nation, The Cabinet of Dr Calagari, the Goldrush, The General,Nosfetatu, The Passion of Joan at Arc, Battleship Potemkin and The Kid

Those are films that influenced cinema as we know it. They helped create the language of cinema and even the most casual of film fans would be aware of them

Ten of Swords

1960s: Dr Strangelove
1970s: Taxi Driver
1980s: Full Metal Jacket
1990s: Pulp Fiction
2000s: Hotel Rwanda
2010s: Skyfall

e_e

1920s - The Man With the Movie Camera
1930s - Modern Times
1940s - The Red Shoes
1950s - Seven Samurai (AKA the best film ever made)
1960s - Play Time
1970s - Manhattan
1980s - Sans Soleil
1990s - Princess Mononoke
2000s - There Will Be Blood
2010s - The Tree of Life

matc66

30s M
40s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
50s Some Like It Hot
60s The Wild Bunch
70s Chinatown
80s Bladerunner
90s Pulp Fiction/Big Lebowski/Naked
00s Lost in Translation.
10s Nebraska, Kings Speech, Raid

matc66

e_e wrote: »

1950s - Seven Samurai (AKA the best film ever made)

I entirely agree with this.

matc66

matc66 wrote: »

I entirely agree with this.

I think it's impossible to disagree with it. I noticed that it was in FilmFour a few weeks back so hit record and thought I'd watch a few minutes. Ended up watching the whole thing for what must be the hundredth time. Wouldn't mind but the DVD is In the other room and the Blu-Ray is around here too.

matc66

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it's impossible to disagree with it. I noticed that it was in FilmFour a few weeks back so hit record and thought I'd watch a few minutes. Ended up watching the whole thing for what must be the hundredth time. Wouldn't mind but the DVD is In the other room and the Blu-Ray is around here too.

What you say above is one of the most all encompassing definitions of a great movie I've ever heard.

Riddle101

30's: All Quiet on the Western Front
40's: Citizen Kane
50's: Don't Know
60's: Psycho
70's: The Godfather
80's: Scarface
90's: Terminator 2
00's: The Departed
10's: Dark Knight Rises

Femme_Fatale

If I had to pick just one/two.

This decade: Inglorious Basterds
2000s: Requiem For A Dream
1990s: American History X
1980s: Amadeus
1970s: The Godfather (and part II)
1960s: Once Upon A Time In The West
1950s: Twelve Angry Men
1940s: Citizen Kane

Love Henry Fonda so I do.

mickstupp

1920s - Metropolis
1930s - It Happened One Night
1940s - The Great Dictator
1950s - Hiroshima Mon Amour
1960s - Red Beard
1970s - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1980s - Blade Runner
1990s - Unforgiven
2000s - In The Mood For Love
2010s - Inception