Better Decade For Movies? 1960s Or The 1970s?

Both great decades, but I would say the 60s overall had better films.

Tough one.

The hippie movement really freed people up artistically so the best years included not just music but film.

Once it ended in late 1970's it starts to get commercialized again, but many of the directors still had power and artistic flair.

I agree with your assessment.

I will go 1970's in a close one.

Star Wars seems so commercialized now. But it was considered a artistic gamble when Lucas came up with the project.

i liked the spare approach in the early sixties. it was the last gasp of the post-war adult culture in ascendance. they had class. something was lost when the boomers started booming onto the scene.

Didn't grow up in either decade. But I guess I'd choose the 60s. I love the colorful hippie style.

Well the 70s were pretty bad so I'd have to guess the 60s were better.

OLDER MOVIES ARE ALWAYS BETTER...I SAY THE 1880S.

1970s were the beginning of the blockbuster era, so we had Godfather, Exorcist, Jaws, Star Wars, and Alien which were all amazing. But 1960s were the beginning of the New Hollywood era and the last of the Hayes Code/studio system, so it had a bit of both. I might have to choose the 70s for sheer entertainment, but the 60s in terms of quality for the amount of studio epics (eg Lawrence of Arabia and Sound of Music). It’s a tie!

I would go with the Sixties with 007 as the deciding factor as I am not a Roger Moore fan. I liked a lot of smaller independent movies like the Candidate and Jeremiah Johnson but I felt there was too many misses in the Seventies.