1972-1991
Godfather, Exorcist, Jaws, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, E.T., Ghostbusters, Terminator, BTTF, Platoon, Rambo, Predator, Goodfellas, Total Recall, T2, Silence of the Lambs.
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Nope.
Hollywood golden age was 30s-40s (perhaps mid 50s). The quality back then was simply outstanding. Even lesser movies were very well done.
70s-80s were a second golden age (perhaps since mid 60s). Not as good as the classic one, though, but much better than current one.
In a nutshell, 70s-80s can be summed up to some masterpieces and a lot of funny crap (crap that many love, though, me included). 30s-40s would sum up to some masterpieces and a lot of decent/good studio movies.
Modern Hollywood can be summed up to zero masterpieces, some good movies and a lot of unwatchable cringey doctrinary stuff.
I always thought the same thing - the golden age was 30s-40s Casablanca etc.
Although I like 60s films
I don't think I've ever heard anyone remark about the 1980's being great cinema. I have to think about it. Full Metal Jacket...
shareI just watched 1989's Batman for the first time in 30 years. I gotta admit the sound effects were pretty awful, especially Kim Basinger screaming. Plus, the movie is such a cheesy 80's movie it's barely watchable. I'm thinking 80's movies need their own name, definitely not Hollywood's REAL Golden Age. Along with Cheese, the name has to somehow describe how the studio's library of cookie cutter sounds effects were so lame:
1970's - Masterful Eclectic Art Era
1980's - Cheesy Sci-Fi/Action Awful Sound Effects Era
If you're talking serious (I know that's a judgement) cinema, Godfather, Exorcism, SOTL) and not merely "enjoyable" cinema, I just want to point out that you included Rambo and NOT First Blood. I thought First Blood was a good movie, and that Rambo was ridiculous. Ditto with Indiana Jones, Terminator, and their sequels.
I don't think I can name 5 films from 1983-1987ish that can carry the water of 1991-1999ish (let alone 1972-1980ish)
There's some pretty high quality/entertaining movies from 83-87; Platoon is one of my favorites of all time and a lot of people have Back to the Future and/or Ghostbusters as their all time favorite comedy. Terms of Endearment was widely lauded, Amadeus was great, especially at the Oscars, so was The Killing Fields. Other highly received movies were The Color Purple, Out of Africa, The Emerald Forest, Mask, The Right Stuff, The Year of Living Dangerously, Silkwood, Shoah, Prizzi's Honor, Blood Simple, Witness(might be overrated imho), Hoosiers, Aliens.
For me the 80's were a great time for movies, probably because I was young back then and that's all me and my friends seemed to do..we constantly talked about movies and would go see anything that sparked just a little interest. I remember we almost never knew what was coming out the next week, this kind of made every new week an adventure. Nowadays, we know when movies are coming out a year in advance..Technology is great but a lot of the mystery is gone from today's world.
There was a small 2 screen cinema close to where I grew up in the 80’s and one of my favorite things were the posters. If you really liked the movie you had just seen you could buy the poster there at the cinema. They had the big poster inside surrounded by light bulbs in a frame and under it in a bin were the regular size ones rolled up for purchase.
On the walls of my room I had:
The Deep
Jaws
Friday the 13th part 3
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Orca
Star Wars
I also had a Farrah Fawcett among others but they did not come from that movie theater. :)
That's great..I remember I somehow got a movie poster of The Empire Strikes Back back in 1980. We had just moved into a new house that summer and I loved listening to the rock station late at night..sometime around 10:00PM they'd play a short blip, I forget what it was called but something like "Hollywood Minute", it would tout the latest Hollywood movie and even have a 10 second interview from someone who saw the movie. I've been a night owl ever since.
shareGood Memories! Funny how those small things make an impression that last a lifetime. 👍
shareThe real golden age was in the late 30s through the 40s.
Films had real stories, many great actors, and there were many many quality films. That's why channels like Turner Classic Movies is on and has enough programming to watch for a long time.
In that period in Hollywood they had real writers, who were famous, writing scripts and serious actors. Then, Hollywood went to the model where a bunch of jews would hire their relatives to write movies and adapt books, and they have been doing it very poorly. That is to keep the profits in their cult by not hiring outsiders, which again is a practice of theirs.
For some reason the movie industry could discriminate against Jews in the early days, but that suddenly stopped in the 40s.
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