Best decade for movies: 1970s v 1990s - Winner = Anthony

To each his own motherfucker. Modern films are denigrated much like modern fighters are. Everyone around here is so damned nostalgic that they miss the beauty going on right in front of them.

90s had great films. 80s did too. But the further back you go the worse the standard is overall with the exceptions of a few beauties like Ten Commandments, planet of the apes, Ben Hur, Vikings, Spartacus

Still, films like gladiator and braveheart were better than Spartacus and the Vikings ( comparing films in the same genre).

Action genre has improved as has fantasy as has swords and sandals.

 

I would agree that thrillers and horrors have regressed somewhat although saw franchise was excellent.

 

Plus I think most Americans don't look past Hollywood. There are some great foreign films out there from the last decade or so

 

LMFAOOOOOO @ action and fantasy movies improving! You gotta be joking...

What a tard statement.

THE best action and fantasy movies of all time were made between the 70s and 90s.

Jaws, Predator, E.T., Die Hard, Speed, First Blood, Rocky, Lethal Weapon, Enter The Dragon, Clash of The Titans, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Terminator, The Poseidon Adventure, Conan, Total Recall, Bladerunner, Star Wars... PLEEEAAASSEE tell me what fuckin stupid ass action/fantasy movies of today can compete with these movies???? I'll wait.... I'll wait awhile....

You have ONE GENRE and ONE GENRE only that's peaked since the 90s.... the Superhero genre.

EVERY OTHER GENRE has regressed since the 90s. Every...single.....last.... one.

 

The world's attention span has decreased so badly that film makers started making movies shorter and shorter.

In 2016 people generally hate to find out before hand that a movie is over 2 hours. And GOD FORBID it goes over 2.5 hours. People start freaking the Hell out. Like God forbid, they have to go over 2 hours without checking the Facebook feed.

Any very good to great movie has almost ALWAYS been over 2 hours. You can't fit greatness into 80-90 minutes.

Every single one of these bullshit 90-minute movies of the modern era are rushed, and lack any depth.

 

I think that's an unfair statement regarding 90's movies. The 2000's and on, I'd wholeheartedly agree.

 

did 90min not exist before the 90's? :nono: do 2.5 hour movies not exist now? :nono:

 

I hear a lot of big budget Hollywood films these days are made with the teenage chinese market in mind

 

Aye - kenned in the Industry as 'SESES' (Slant Eyed Square Eyes).

 

In the seventies, ninety minutes wiz longer. Ah Ken this - Ah wiz five years auld ba the end o' the decade and summer seemed tae last forever, like.

The horror genre wiz certainly better in the seventies than the nineties. In fact, films seemed tae be a lot grittier and more realistic than the nineties film, although, Ah can see why shiny belt buckle wearing types might prefer the more modern gloss.

 

I have to admit, you win this battle. I can't argue with any of the films on that list. I like the mission impossible and Bourne films as much as or more than any die hard but Jaws, Predator etc, what can I say? You're quite correct.

A man can admit when he's wrong.

 

plus I forgot gems like Dirty Harry series, spaghetti westerns etc. The more I think about it I may have to do a 180 on my position. Lol

Still people are too hard on modern films. Superhero genre is really part of action/ fantasy and it is great. Especially the MCU and the Nolan Batman franchise.

Those films is really fucking good for the most part

 

Of course Im there - I live there!

Anyway, I was lying: it was a bottle of Cachaça. My local has Absolut, Skyy, Grey Goose, Stolichnaya, Cîroc, Belvedeere...but its all imported and dead expensive....like US$40-60 per 750ml.

 

How the fuck is “Remains of the Day” score a 97% RT score???

I just watched it- some seriously boring shit, albeit with just enough simmering ‘intrigue’ throughout to keep me watching the whole thing. I get that is had some deep meaning and good acting. But damn- for the entertainment business is sure is lacking in it’s most basic purpose...

 

Technically only Clash of the Titans and Conan: The Barbarian can be considered Fantasy films. Many others you mentioned are science fiction films, not fantasy. Two different genres.

 

Again: superhero films fall under the SCIFI genre, not Fantasy (LOTR, Harry Potter, Aladdin).