best decade for cinema?

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which is the best?  for all around cinema.

did a search and couldn't find it anywhere.

-sl-

[Gamblour.]

Ooh, good poll. the worst decade in cinema would be great. The 80s would win hands down, I think, in that case.

[modage]

Ooh, good poll. the worst decade in cinema would be great. The 80s would win hands down, I think, in that case.

which is ironic because 90% of us grew up during the 80's and it should be the decade most fondly remembered.  (and probably is for me).

[life_boy]

I don't think I've seen anything made between 1900 and 1910.

I don't think I'm alone, either.

[Jeremy Blackman]

I'm surprised no one (besides me) has voted for the 90s. The 70s were great, sure, and even the 60s, but I'm so much more connected and familiar with the 90s.

[Chrisdarko]

I like the 90's to but for me even though the 60's seem so far away I really connect with a lot of the films. Even more so than the 90's

[Gold Trumpet]

I'm surprised no one (besides me) has voted for the 90s. The 70s were great, sure, and even the 60s, but I'm so much more connected and familiar with the 90s.

I'm too most connected with the 90s, but thats because I grew up to it. I voted the 60s because I think it was the critical decade where art in film really progressed to its own identity. The progression was because it was the first decade a generation had already grown up to film and weren't just accepting the norm of what film was years before. Movements started and theories were applied. Even for me, being programmed to desire newer films, most of the exciting films I've ever seen came from the 60s. And I'm still discovering more films all the time from that decade.

[Gamblour.]

I'm surprised no one (besides me) has voted for the 90s. The 70s were great, sure, and even the 60s, but I'm so much more connected and familiar with the 90s.

I'm gonna copy and paste my argument from the other thread...

"No one wants to say the 90s [is the worst decade] because it's too soon. There were great moments in independent cinema, and these are movies we've truly grown up with, but seriously, I think the 90s were more mediocre than we can consider. The truly great 90s movies off the top of my head: Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, but past that, I can only see that all the new directors are cashing on cheap or cute premises. (this is a broad, sweeping generalization). They're all wannabe greats, but not the real thing. Even Tarantino, the savior of modern auteurs, is starting to whither, or has been for a while. "

To expand, I think the 90s had very shallow films compared to the important films of the 60s and 70s. I think it was William Goldman (I'm probably totally wrong) who said that screenwriters back in the day had backgrounds in dramatic writing, and today people just start writing movies without any background, they just jump with no experience in writing or life. He says one should be put in jail and go through a few divorces before you can write anything important.

Watching Million Dollar Baby recently, I really felt this statement. I felt that Eastwood was really, truly making something important that expanded our knowledge of the human condition. It's a truly great movie, like the great great movies of the 60s and 70s that say something about humanity. I don't think the 90s has movies that prove this. I think they all just reiterate.

I agree I'm connected to the 90s, but I see most of it as very fickle, shallow cinema actually. Cinema is like a thick sandwich or a hearty beer. I have to feel full after watching it, I need to feel satisfied all over. Older movies do this, newer ones don't. This could be just me.

[meatball]

I'm surprised no one (besides me) has voted for the 90s. The 70s were great, sure, and even the 60s, but I'm so much more connected and familiar with the 90s.

I'm too most connected with the 90s, but thats because I grew up to it...
Even for me, being programmed to desire newer films...

Growing up in the 90s, I wouldn't say I was programmed to desire newer films... but the newer films were all I knew. As a kid, I wasn't seeking out old movies. Beethoven and the Mighty Ducks were fine. I don't think that the 90s were a horrible era, but it's too soon for me to say that the 90s were a great era.

If anything, lately I've been programmed to appreciate older films.. with artistic merit, etc. etc. because of my recent experiences as a film snob/student/cinephile. And, yeah, there are some films that I cherish with my life, that come from the 60s and 70s. And I wouldn't have watched them if I didn't actively seek them out to further my education and film knowledge. But, I'm trying to break out of that behavior, because it's a bit too self indulgent and close-minded.

I think modern cinema (00's) are the most exciting and "important" right now because I sense a lot of progress is being made. And there's a lot of newer movies that are as good if not better than anything else that's already been made.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Gamblor, it's mindblowing to me that you can criticize 90s films for being cheap and then praise Million Dollar Baby.

[Gold Trumpet]

Gamblor, it's mindblowing to me that you can criticize 90s films for being cheap and then praise Million Dollar Baby.

Even though I think this statement is too condescending for its own good, I sorta have to agree. Million Dollar Baby had a story dusted from a melodrama warehouse and no one noticed because that line of films haven't been mass produced since the 1950s. If I made a top ten list for the worst films of 2004, Million Dollar Baby would be #1.

[Gold Trumpet]

If anything, lately I've been programmed to appreciate older films.. with artistic merit, etc. etc. because of my recent experiences as a film snob/student/cinephile.

I understand that. I even sympathize. I use to be a whipping dog for that line of thinking. I prolly still am in many ways. Its just I've stepped on enough "praised" films to know you can listen to the crowd and not consent. I believe there are exciting films being made now, but I think larger knowledge comes from looking back. Nevermind, its just personal in the end.

[Chrisdarko]

So your saying Million Dollar baby was the WORST film last year?  you know garfield was made last year.

[Gold Trumpet]

Garfield made me laugh twice (I think). Besides, the situation of Jennifer Love Hewitt continuing to play wholesome characters who run around in little tops keep hope alive for those twelve year old boys who are restricted from PG-13 movies.

[Ravi]

Garfield made me laugh twice (I think). Besides, the situation of Jennifer Love Hewitt continuing to play wholesome characters who run around in little tops keep hope alive for those twelve year old boys who are restricted from PG-13 movies.

With broadband, who needs JLH and PG-13 movies?

Back in my day we had to wait all day to download porn.  Kids these days, with your broadband and your DSL, you don't cherish the porn like we did, son!