Comments on: The Five Best Years of Cinema

By: acquaintance

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By: marble doctor

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By: swannerandjudd.com

swannerandjudd.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:34:04 +0000

1982…please
tootsie
officer and a gentleman
et
victor/victoria
sophie’s choice
and there are many more

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:20:11 +0000

1977-Star Wars,The Rescuers,The spy who loved me.
1981-Outland,Raiders of the Lost Ark,
1982-Blade Runner,E.T.,Sophie’s choice,Tootsie
1983-Flashdance,The Hunger,Return of the Jedi
1997-The Devil’s own,Air Force One,Alien Resurrection,L.A. Confidential,Star Wars re issues.Selena,Dante’s Peak,Breakdown

By: Buddy

Buddy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:14:35 +0000

If you had to pick the best popcorn year, it has to be 1985. Leading off is Back to the Future, followed by: Breakfast Club, Cocoon, Fletch, The Goonies, The Jewel of the Nile, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Spies Like Us, St. Elmo’s Fire, Summer Rental and Weird Science.

Also, on a serious note from 1985 are The Color Purple, Jagged Edge, Mask, Out of Africa, Prizzi’s Honor, White Nights and Witness.

And look at these that were also 1985: Brewster’s Millions, Commando, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Murphy’s Romance, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Rocky IV, Silverado, Teen Wolf and A View To A Kill.

1985, a very nice amount of the 80s classics, and a great year for the popcorn movie fan in all of us.

By: Walter Denton

Walter Denton — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:06:55 +0000

1933, of course, when Hollywood was turning out high quality pre-Code movies dealing with subjects that were not to be dealt with again in movies for almost 30 years, thanks to the Motion Picture Production Code. King Kong, Dinner at Eight, Lady Killer and, of course, Baby Face. Hollywood by 1933 had shifted entirely to sound on film, with Warner Bros. abandoning the Vitaphone process that used a separate record (playing at 33 1/3 RPM) to provide synchronized sound to the film. 1932 comes in a close second, especially the movies made at Warners, the last full year Darryl Zanuck was production chief. In the 1932 movie The Dark Horse, Warren William hired himself out to run political campaigns, a subject not much covered in later Hollywood movies. Pre-code movies made fast and cheap that have withstood the test of time, even if most of these movies were buried in film archives for 60 years until TCM started showing them on cable.

By: world cinema

world cinema — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:29:27 +0000

Wake up idiots….the page should be titled as best years of Hollywood cinema ….does anyone who commented know that there is better cinema outside hollywood

By: fia

fia — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:25:39 +0000

Hi I am a huge film fanatic. have been for 15 years, (I am 24 and I’m from Sweden, hejja Bergman!) I have read all of your comments now and I have to say my oppinion.

The 30’s 40’s 50’s and beginning of the 60’s are HANDS DOWN the best years of cinema!
Sure some of the suggestions from 90’s and 2000’s are great but they are faaaar away from what they did in the early days, (not just you older people who thinks that

By: Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:22:11 +0000

1927 – The General, Sunrise, Metropolis, Wings, The Jazz Singer, Napoleon and It.

Inarguable in its importance as the pinnacle of Silent Filmmaking, 1927 also marks the end of the era with the arrival of The Jazz Singer (perhaps not a film that has stood the test of time, but an important one nonetheless).

By: Madame Sebastian

Madame Sebastian — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:31:00 +0000

1946, definitely. But what about 1950: All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Asphalt Jungle, Harvey, King Solomon’s Mines, Winchester ‘73….

By: Jan L

Jan L — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:19:57 +0000

1941 included four great films by Lana Turner: Johnny Eager, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Honky Tonk and Ziegfeld Girl. This only 4 years after breaking into movies with no acting experience whatsoever.

By: Scott M

Scott M — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:56:44 +0000

Maybe a little too early to include it, but 2007 was my favorite year for film since I became a film fan.

No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Atonement
Zodiac
Into the Wild
3:10 To Yuma
Gone, Baby, Gone
Michael Clayton
GrindHouse (especially Death Proof)
Eastern Promises
Sweeney Todd
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ratatouille
Sunshine
The King of Kong
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Before the Devil Knows Your’e Dead

The list goes on and on and on…2007 makes the entire year 2008 look like your average January.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:44:03 +0000

Caddyshack
The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
Superman II
Dressed to Kill
Airplane!
Raging Bull
Friday the 13th, Part 1

1980: Nuff Said.

By: Free

Free — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:00:27 +0000

HERE’S MY 5:

1967: Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night

1975: Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1976: All the President’s Men, Bound for Glory, Network, Rocky, Taxi Driver

1991: Beauty and the Beast, Boyz N the Hood, Bugsy, JFK, Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Thelma & Louise

1994: Bullets Over Broadway, Ed Wood, Lion King, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Red, Shawshank Redemption

*2007 was a damn good year
*The 70s: best decade for cinema bar none

By: todd

todd — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:42:15 +0000

2001? C’mon if you’re going to pick a more recent year, 1999 or 1994, if not both. 2001 is an absurd choice.