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Sat Aug-12-06 09:09 PM
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Poll question: Which decade produced the best movies? |
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Edited on Sat Aug-12-06 09:25 PM by bob_weaver
I would argue for the 1960s as being the best decade for movies. As evidence, I offer this list of films, all of which were released sometime from 1960 through 1969:
2001: A Space Odyssey 8 1/2 The Agony and The Ecstasy The Americanization of Emily The Apartment Au Hasard, Balthazar Belle du Jour The Birds Blow-Up Bonnie and Clyde Breakfast At Tiffany's Bullitt Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Casino Royale Closely Watched Trains Contempt Cool Hand Luke Dr. Strangelove Easy Rider El Cid Elmer Gantry The Exterminating Angel Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! A Fistful of Dollars Goldfinger The Gospel According to St. Matthew The Good, The Bad and The Ugly The Graduate The Great Escape Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Guns of Navarone A Hard Day's Night High And Low Hold Me While I’m Naked Hud The Hustler I Am Curious (Yellow) In Cold Blood In The Heat of The Night Inherit The Wind It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Judgement at Nuremburg Jules and Jim The Jungle Book L'Avventura La Dolce Vita Lawrence of Arabia Lilies of the Field The Lion in Winter Lolita The Manchurian Candidate A Man For All Seasons The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Midnight Cowboy The Misfits Mouchette Night of the Living Dead The Odd Couple Once Upon A Time in The West Persona The Pink Panther Planet of the Apes The Producers Psycho A Raisin In the Sun Red Desert Repulsion Romeo and Juliet Rosemary's Baby Sanjuro Ship of Fools Shoot The Piano Player The Silence Spartacus Splendor in the Grass Through A Glass Darkly To Kill A Mockingbird To Sir, With Love Two or Three Things I Know About Her Viridiana Vivre Sa Vie Wavelength West Side Story Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf The Wild Bunch Yojimbo Z
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:12 PM
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1. I might argue that the 80s did. I mean... |
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Breakfast Club Pretty in Pink Sixteen Candles
Need I say more? (please say no.)
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:26 PM
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6. Sure I'll go along with Breakfast Club... haven't seen the other 2 |
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:14 PM
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2. Hey, "Cinema Paradiso" was the '80s, dude. |
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I know for sure because it's one of my favorite movies and I saw it in it's original release.
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:25 PM
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:18 PM
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3. Another vote for the 80's. |
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Star Treks II-IV, The Last Starfighter, Raiders of the Lost Ark/Temple of Doom, ET, Romancing the Stone, Electric Dreams ... those are just the first ones that fly to my fingertips.
Yeah, I voted for the 80's on the music poll as well. :)
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:11 PM
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13. Plus all the John Hughes films that seemed poignant at the time. |
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After all, he introduced us to Molly Ringwald.
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:23 PM
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4. I'll reserve my vote until I see "Snakes On A Plane" |
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It could turn out to be the best movie ever!
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Sat Aug-12-06 10:56 PM
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7. 70's Horror Flicks Rule. Plus the KISS made-for-TV special. |
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:03 PM
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8. Casino Royale? That pretty much kills your whole argument. |
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To be fair, I've seen only a handful of those films. Some are good. Most have no interest to me. I guess being five when the sixties ended makes me a bit less connected to the subject of most of the films.
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:06 PM
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9. Sorry, another mistake. |
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:06 PM
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10. Midnight Cowboy (69 or 70?, which one?) |
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Edited on Sat Aug-12-06 11:08 PM by smtpgirl
Klute The Exorcist American Gigolo Halloween Texas Chain Saw Massacre Sarah T.Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic Trilogy of Terror Sybil
I know I like the macabre
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Sun Aug-13-06 03:11 AM
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:08 PM
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11. I'm a fan of old movies. |
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I don't think that the current ones can compare, barring the special effects. 1939 was a banner year, but I voted for the 1940s, though I can see I'm in a minority.:shrug:
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:09 PM
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12. Some old movies that are cool |
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Edited on Sat Aug-12-06 11:10 PM by smtpgirl
Alfred Hitchcock, mainly Rope and how about M? M was about a pedophile, was made in the '30's
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Sun Aug-13-06 12:02 AM
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15. I love Alfred Hitchcock movies. He was brilliant. |
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Though I saw "Psycho" for the first time while I was in college and couldn't take a shower for a few years...:scared:
1939 was a banner year, with "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind." What compares to those, these days? :shrug: My favorite Hitchcock movie is probably "Rear Window," but I really like Grace Kelly...:-)
A couple of my favorites are "Bringing Up Baby" and "My Favorite Wife." When my cousin said that she wanted to know more about old movies, I rented those two for her. And you can't beat Cary Grant, who was great in everything he did.:thumbsup:
I am not familiar with "M," but will check it out. But I have seen "Rope." My grandmother took my uncle to see that, at the movies, when it came out. But she was confused, thought that it was "The Robe," LOL! She soon realized her mistake...:rofl:
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:16 PM
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14. I'd argue for 1967-76... |
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...if we're going to forget artificial chronology and just select the best ten-year era...
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Sun Aug-13-06 09:03 AM
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19. I would say the same thing for popular music, 1964-1973 |
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Sun Aug-13-06 03:14 AM
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The seventies were a perfect storm of freewheeling artistic freedom unrestrained from the focus-group economics of later days.
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Sun Aug-13-06 03:24 AM
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18. Write in candidate : 1975 - 1985 |
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That way I can get the REAL Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones movies and some of the better Star Treks. And Jaws.
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Mon Aug-14-06 12:18 PM
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20. The 70's - here's why |
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The 70's was the flowering of the directors that are now movie gods: Scorcese Spielberg Lucas Coppola
Blaxploitation sucka!
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