related to a post Bloom made below. "There's nothing wrong with movies today". Paraphrased. For reference I've posted IMDB's top ten per decade. If you want to tell me decades start on 1 and end in 0, just shut up.
So what's the best era?
20's and 30's
The Kid
Metropolis x
The Gold Rush
The General
City Lights
M
Mr Smith Goes to Washington x
Gone with the Wind x
The Wizard of Oz x
Modern Times
40's
It's a Wonderful Life x
Casablanca x
The Great Dictator
Citizen Kane x
Double Indemnity x
Bicycle Thieves x
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre x
The Third Man
Rebecca
The Maltese Falcon x
50's
12 Angry Men x
Seven Samurai x
Rear Window x
Sunset Blvd. x
Paths of Glory x
North by Northwest x
Vertigo x
Witness for the Prosecution x
Singin' in the Rain
Rashomon x
60's
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly x
Once Upon a Time in the West x
Psycho x
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb x
To Kill a Mockingbird x
Lawrence of Arabia x
2001: A Space Odyssey x
For a Few Dollars More x
The Apartment
Yojimbo x
70's
The Godfather x
The Godfather: Part II x
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest x
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope x
Apocalypse Now x
Alien x
A Clockwork Orange x
Taxi Driver x
The Sting x
Monty Python and the Holy Grail x
80's
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back x
Raiders of the Lost Ark x
Back to the Future x
Cinema Paradiso x
The Shining x
Grave of the Fireflies x
Aliens x
Das Boot x
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi x
Once Upon a Time in America x
90's
The Shawshank Redemption x
Schindler's List x
Pulp Fiction x
Fight Club x
Forrest Gump x
Goodfellas x
The Matrix x
Se7en x
The Silence of the Lambs x
The Usual Suspects x
00's
The Dark Knight x
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King x
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring x
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers x
City of God x
Spirited Away
The Pianist x
Memento x
The Departed x
Gladiator x
10's
Inception x
Interstellar
Whiplash
Inside Out
Django Unchained x
The Dark Knight Rises x
Toy Story 3
A Separation
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Wolf of Wall Street x
x = I've seen it. Need to catch up on some recent movies.
I think the 90's were strong.
