What was the last GREAT year for movies?
People talk about 1999, 1981, and (I think) 1939 as great years for movies. Has there been any such year since 2000?
sharePeople talk about 1999, 1981, and (I think) 1939 as great years for movies. Has there been any such year since 2000?
share2014;
Interstellar
Whiplash
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
Ex Machina
Edge of Tomorrow
American Sniper
Fury
Birdman
Boyhood
John Wick
The Equalizer
Lucy
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
It Follows
The Babadook
What We Do in the Shadows
Wow 😯
shareAgree!
shareI've heard people mention 2007 and cite No Country for old men, Gone Baby Gone, Hot Fuzz, and Transformers.
I think 1989 was the best year for film in my lifetime, and I don't think we've had anything like that in the 2000's.
1987 IS BETTER...I WIN!🤩
shareRemove Transformers and 2007 was great. No Country for Old Men, Gone Baby Gone, Hot Fuzz, There Will be Blood, The Diving Bell and Butterfly, Superbad, Zodiac, American Gangster, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
1999 is still my favourite movie year though.
1976 was great. I don't think there's been any great since 2000, but 2007 and 2014 were very good.
shareWhat are your favorites from 1976?
shareYOU DIDN'T ASK ME...BUT..I LOOKED AND...MY FAVORITE FILM OF 1976 IS JOHN WAYNE'S THE SHOOTIST.
shareTaxi Driver
Carrie
Marathon Man
Network
Rocky
The Bad News Bears
I can’t imagine liking anything more than Taxi Driver for that year.
shareI CAN...AFTER THE SHOOTIST...I WOULD PUT ROCKY OVER TAXI DRIVER AS WELL...NOT THE OTHERS THOUGH...I DO LIKE ALL OF THEM THOUGH.
shareI do appreciate your recommendations. I watched Cool Hand Luke recently after not seeing it for years and I was throughly blown away. I cried at the end.
shareYES!...I SHOWED IT TO ALI...SHE ALSO CRIED...IT WAS MY 200TH VIEWING...I CRIED MULTIPLE TIMES DURING THE FILM...FOR INSTANCE...LUKE'S MAMA ALWAYS GETS ME.
shareI can't imagine a top box office list looking like this today:
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/cumulative/released-in-1976
If it did I’d be going to the theater every weekend.
shareGREAT MOVIES...GREAT YEAR...I WOULDN'T BE TOO HAPPY THOUGH...AS A FAN OF COMEDIES,HORROR-COMEDIES,META HUMOR,CRAZY GORE AND EFFECTS,WELL CHOREOGRAPHED ACTION SCNES,ETC ETC ETC.
shareFirst of all, I try not to claim my opinion as absolute, so I'd go with "favorite" rather than "great" or "best." Secondly, my method was spur of the moment and highly unscientific. I just did an IMDb advanced search from 2000 to present, sorted by my rating and made a tick in the year column of a movie I loved. Out of a bit over 2000 films rated, I think I rated 329 an 8/10+, so stopped counting there. I also skipped a few movies rated 8 or 9 that I either couldn't recall too clearly, or that didn't evoke an emotional response.
Anyway, the year with the most ticks was 2000:
American Psycho
Unbreakable
The Dish
Memento
Snatch
Ginger Snaps
Frequency
The Whole Nine Yards
Chopper
Uzumaki (Spiral)
Funny, my gut instinct before the count was either 2008 or 2012, and I make no claims here other than 2000 had the most ticks in its column. If I used a different method or more effort, I'm near-certain my result would have been different, but it's close enough for government work.
I really do love all those movies, but certainly don't claim this as my favorite movie year of the millennium so far.
The best year for movies is 1995 and that’s fact.
share1999. That's a bigger fact.
shareThis is correct .
Proof:
https://moviechat.org/tt0145547/Two-Hands
Never heard of it. 7.1 is a good score.
share1999 the best year. 2007 probably my second favourite year.
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