If you had to choose the better decade for movies, what would it be? Looking at IMDB'S top 100 only, here are the films that made the list on both sides:
90’s
Shawshank Redemption
Schindler’s List
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Goodfellas
Seven
The Silence of the Lambs
Life is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
Lion King
The Green Mile
Leon: The Professional
The Usual Suspects
Terminator 2
American History X
Princess Mononoke
American Beauty
Toy Story
Braveheart
Good Will Hunting
Reservoir Dogs
VS
00’s
The Dark Knight
LOR Trilogy
City of God
Spirited Away
Gladiator
The Pianist
The Departed
The Prestige
Memento
The Lives of Others
WALL-E
Oldboy
3 Idiots
Inglorious Basterds
Like Stars On Earth
Requiem For A Dream
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Just going by what I like, the 90s were the better/stronger decade.
Right off, the 00s lose points for having The Dark Knight. And, counting LOR as one, that 00s list only has 4 movies on it that I really like as opposed to about 20 on the 90s list.
No Country for Old Men, Children of Men, and There Will Be Blood are instant misses that somehow aren't on their 2000's list.
And I'm sorry, The Departed is a solid flick, but it pales in comparison to Scorcese's other heavy hitters, and he even directed a better flick from the 2000's (Gangs of New York).
My personal favorites of the 2000's flicks besides the aforementioned Prestige (probably Nolan's best movie), Inglorious Basterds, Gladiator, TDK, Wall-E, and LOTR trilogy wouldn't ever make IMDB's list (The Passion of The Christ, Apocalypto, Watchmen, 300, Sin City, Spider-Man 2, Unbreakable, American Psycho, Training Day, Black Hawn Down, Pirates of the Caribbean, Casino Royale). I know it's "IMDB's Top 100", but my personal picks are less likely to all-time filmmaking classics when you compare my 2000's list to my 90's one.
90's wins this list even though LOTR are my favorite movies out of everything in both lists sans maybe The Matrix. There are too many films on the 90's that could be considered the best in their genre ever to put IMDB's 2000's list down.
At this stage though in life, I think the 2010's surpassed them in terms of pure quality of films output.
I like the 2010s more than 00s, but not the 90s. Super-hero flicks give the 2010s an edge, but other than that, dramas, comedies, action all go to 90s.
Implying Disney wasn't also strong in the 90's? Lion King, Toy Story, and such were the GOAT's. Was mostly when they were doing great with their own created IP's though, instead of relying mostly on ones they later bought.
for me as a 10 year period I'll take 67-77 starting with planet if the apes and ending with Star Wars. With so many ground breaking films in between fro the Godfather, Rocky, the Omen etc. If I take a decade it's the 70's.
The 70s laid the groundwork for everything. I think the last 20 years have been the worst, getting progressively worse with the dominance of Superhero films which are just fluff. In terms of action, give me Gladiator over Iron Man and Iron Man over all subsequent fluff films except John Wick 1, which like so many film series should have stopped there.
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