The 2000s were a golden era for movies

For the types of films I like the 2010’s really did not interest me. I have a list of over 200 of my favorites films and only two of them were made in the 2010’s.

Maybe better than the 2010s, but nothing compared to the 1990s which has so many classics. Like your example, too many endless franchises.

I feel like every decade since the 70's has a plethora of great cinema until we get to the 2010's. There are of course some great films during the 2010's, but I think you're right that the big focus has been on superhero films which have become quite generic and none of this will change as long as they are successful. But, yes, when I think of films during 2010, I think mostly of bland comic book movies and the bad SW sequels.

However, the 2010's has probably some of the best TV that has been produced in a long time. The amount and quality of shows has been outstanding. This is all due to the popularity of streaming.

Golden era? You might want to find another word because it certainly is not that. The 2000's wasn't even a particularly good decade for films. You're basically naming a lot of action movies with X-Men, F&F, Spider-man, Star Wars. Star Wars prequels, F&F, and X-Men weren't even very good movies they just made money.

It largely depends on your age, your list for me is awful aside from Lord of the Rings.

For me it was the 80's and 90's when I was young, but I appreciate earlier decades too, especially the decades concerning the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Early 2000s were great, but I wouldn't say "golden era."

I sometimes use a site called films101.com for supposedly ranked-by-critical-consensus lists of movies for different years or decades:
http://films101.com/years.htm

That site has fine grained decimal rankings for each film but also uses a star system to summarize: one through 5 stars with 1/2-stars allowed, plus a special 'red-five-stars' tier for the very best, most transcendant films. Somewhat suprisingly the picture painted by films101 ratings is one of constant & precipitous decline since the 1960s.

# of red-5-star films, # of (non-red)-5-star-films
1960s 19 61
1970s 13 54
1980s 8 45
1990s 9 39
2000s 0 38
2010s 0 3
[My apologies for the squishing of the source grid. Moviechat's formatting options are limited.]

I suspect that part of what is going on is that critics get more confident in their judgements of film quality over time, i.e., once they've got some perspective, all the data about the film's short- and long-run reception, about its influence on subsequent film-making, and so on. But there may be many other explanations for parts of the perceived decline.

After reading the responses I thought it would be interesting to count my favorites by year and these are my results:


50’s - 1
60’s - 18
70’s - 130
80’s - 53
90’s - 13
00’s - 8
10’s - 2