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1980s
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70's
Much like the music of that decade, movies in the 80s a lot more cheese.Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!
The 90s was much grittier, starting off with the Goodfellas bang and taking it up a notch from there. The 90s also had movies with the right amount of CGI: enough to get the job done without needing to make the movie all about the effects.
How about I summarize it like this:
80s: John Hughes
90s: Michael Mann
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westofyou (06-11-2018)
The 70s is a great decade for movies, but I’m not going there with this thought exercise.
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I would argue Sci Fi was a lot grittier in the 1980s.
Blade Runner
Aliens
Terminator
Action movies as well, really.
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90's was full on Chris Columbus though
RedTeamGo! (06-11-2018)
80's was glossy and cheesy for sure (Rumblefish and The Outsiders style over substance) Ishtar ruined it for big Hollywood and Indy films were yet seen as viable box office grabs, therefore I will say the 90's was better for film making
*BaseClogger* (06-11-2018)
Best pictures for each decade:
1980: Ordinary People
1981: Chariots of Fire
1982: Gandhi
1983: Terms of Endearment
1984: Amadeus
1985: Out of Africa
1986: Platoon
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Rain Man
1989: Driving Miss Daisy
1990: Dances with Wolves
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler's List
1994: Forrest Gump
1995: Braveheart
1996: The English Patient
1997: Titanic
1998: Shakespeare in Love
1999: American Beauty
I would suggest that Goodfellas(1990), Pulp Fiction(1994), Heat(1995), Casino(1995), and L.A. Confidential (1997) which did not win Best Picture were all better than all but maybe Gandhi and Platoon in the 80s. Plus the 90s had its own SciFi grit with T2 and The Matrix bookending the decade.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Kingspoint (06-15-2018)
Decent point, but that leaves out some of the best movies ever made:
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
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Kingspoint (06-15-2018)
I'm gonna suggest you revisit Ghostbusters. It doesn't hold up.
The Insider (1999) is another to add to that growing list. Jurassic Park (1992) was an achievement in film making at the time.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
I watched Ghostbusters last week. I whole heartedly disagree.
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TRF (06-12-2018)
The 90s was also quite they heyday for the Coen brothers, with Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Hudsucker Proxy (1992), Fargo (1996), and The Big Lebowski (1998).
Other great 90s movies include Good Will Hunting (1997), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Shawshank Redemption (1992) (currently #1 on IMDBs all-time list), Scent of a Woman (1993), A Few Good Men (1992), and so on.
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Fair enough. I found it plodding and wanting. Then again, it was never a favorite of mine.
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None of those are even top 25 for me
Empire holds a special place for me. Raiders is in my "always a great watch" list. The other two pictures, I could go the rest of my life never seeing either and I'd be fine. (Although I could stare at a young Lea Thompson all day long.)
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*BaseClogger* (06-11-2018)
Very good films yes, best of all time? Not in my world
Cool. What BoaT films on your list are from the 80s and 90s?
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