The best decade in cinema?

What do you think is the best decade in cinema,if you had to pick one?---The golden age of cinema , the 1930s-1970s produced the best movies ever made.----However if I had to pick one decade it would be the 1950s.--There were so many great movies produced during the 1950s.Everything ranging from entertaining grade B pictures,to the wonderful films filmed in Cinemascope.Fantastic talents in front and behind the cameras.Great movies in every genre,whether it was sci-fi,comedy,drama,westerns,action films etc.---Hollywood was definitely at the top of their game in the 1950s.

 

60s.

 

60s.Comedy,kitchen sink and A Hard Days Night,etc.

 

Late 70s early 80s and 00s.

The late seventies because I think there was more equality.
The eighties because I liked the attitude.
...and now, because everything looks fantastic.

To pick one, mmm, now.

 

The movies that currently get popular now is what killed it for me. But I think next decade it will be next decade's =D

 

There is a lot of style over substance now I suppose.
But as the cliché goes: Cinema is escapism.
So, I don't mind checking my brain at the door.
You can always find a pool of films that nourish the soul blah blah blah.

 

odon,when you say everything looks fantastic in the films they make now,are you talking about special effects?--Because when I view the older movies circa 1940s,50s,60s made in technicolor,alot of those films look spectacular.

 

I think a lot of special effects actually look worse these days (see: Transformers, Van Helsing, Fast & Furious). A lot of people go with what's easy over what's best.
Then there are the movies like King Kong, that are just amazing.
Special effects are a lot more variable than they were ever before in movies.

 

I do mean the special effects...and picture quality.
I guess the bar has been raised, and even low budget films benefit from cheaper but still high quality cameras etc.

The Technicolor days were a huge leap forward, no disrespect to all of that, but I just don't particularly like the content of the films back then - bar a few exceptions (mainly Hitchcock's films).

 

King Kong V Transformers...call me a populist but Transformers wins.
For the time King Kong looked ok...but I reckon even the makers of that film would cringe if you compared the modern special effects to those special effects.
I would say though, the hands on nature of King Kong imbued it with more character and soul than billions of pixels.

 

Transformers just doesn't look good.
King Kong doesn't just have more character - Transformers has no character. The whole thing looks fake. Overly shiny, overly smooth, and not the least bit interesting. It looks like a bad cartoon.

Cloverfield was pretty =D

 

I think alot of the contemporary movies have good special effects,but not much else to offer.--Some of the best special effects I've seen were in the first Jurassic Park.

 

I do agree the actual robots didn't look natural (bit of a stretch of the imagination in the first place )...but the special FXs that created them are amazing.

 

Yeah, aside from a scene or two, where you can tell they are in front of a screen - they still hold up solid.

And the Cloverfield monster or the monster from The Host aren't?
Stop giving them excuses.

 

The special effects are better in contemporary movies,however the picture quality in my opinion is superior in the older films.---The color is brilliant and actually better in alot of the older technicolor movies.The camerawork in the older movies also superior. For example Hitchcocks films.In his color films like "North By Northwest","Trouble With Harry","The Birds" etc. the color is great.They must have looked fantastic on the big screen.And the 1950s Cinemascope(widescreen) films could not even fit on a modern movie screen.

 

Lol...fair point.

 

The warmth of the colour achieved - by Technicolor - makes it a pleasure to watch. I wish they could do the same thing now.

I guess as far as the camera work is concerned, if it wasn't physically possible it didn't happen...nowadays everything is possible...which makes it a little more difficult to concentrate, as everything can end up being a bit of a blur.

What did you prefer about the camera work back in the previous decades?

 

With the Matrix Trilogy, the X-Men Trilogy, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, along with several of my top 100 movies of all-time produced within the last 10 years; I’d have to reluctantly go with the 2000 decade


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The creativity,angles,steady camera work.They did not 'jerk' the camera around like they do nowadays on some films.

 

Yeah.. I hear ya.