Greatest year for movies?

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imported_LoKe

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I can't help but think about how many great movies cam from 1999...

1999
Fight Club
The Matrix
American Beauty
The Sixth Sense
The Green Mile
Magnolia
Office Space
Boys Don't Cry
Being John Malkovich
Star Wars Episode I (Despite what some think)
Bicentennial Man
...and so many more.

1994
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Legends of the Fall
Wyatt Earp
Little Women
Maverick
Speed?
The Mask
The Lion King

So, in your opinion, which year was the greatest for movies?

 
nakedfrog

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1987 gave us...

Spaceballs
The Princess Bride
Lethal Weapon
Good Morning, Vietnam
Predator
Robocop
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Full Metal Jacket
The Lost Boys
 
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theprodigalrebel

Lifer
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I thought 1999 before clicking on the thread.

Your list is missing Magnolia. :)

Edit: And also October Sky. I :heart: that movie.
 
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imported_LoKe

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
1987 gave us...

Spaceballs
The Princess Bride
Lethal Weapon
Good Morning, Vietnam
Predator
Robocop
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Full Metal Jacket
The Lost Boys
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My birth year. Not bad. I remember watching Predator when I was young. :laugh:
 
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imported_LoKe

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Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
I thought 1999 before clicking on the thread.

Your list is missing Magnolia. :)
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Dude I was going to add that in but wasn't sure of the audience. Editing.
 
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TheVrolok

Lifer
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Star Wars Episode I
Bicentennial Man
...

Seriously? I can barely watch Ep1 without driving a stake into my eye, and Bicentennial Man was 'cute' but a great movie? Yikes. So far, '87 is kicking ass.
 
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imported_LoKe

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Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Star Wars Episode I
Bicentennial Man
...

Seriously? I can barely watch Ep1 without driving a stake into my eye, and Bicentennial Man was 'cute' but a great movie? Yikes. So far, '87 is kicking ass.
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I loved Episode 1, 2, and 3. I really don't get why people have such an issue with it.

Bicentennial Man is a great movie. I watched it just a couple hours ago and it's amazing.
 
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TheVrolok

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Dec 11, 2000
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Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Star Wars Episode I
Bicentennial Man
...

Seriously? I can barely watch Ep1 without driving a stake into my eye, and Bicentennial Man was 'cute' but a great movie? Yikes. So far, '87 is kicking ass.
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I loved Episode 1, 2, and 3. I really don't get why people have such an issue with it.

Bicentennial Man is a great movie. I watched it just a couple hours ago and it's amazing.
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Episode 1 was a kids movie, at the MOST. JarJar Binks? Pod Racing? Metachlorians? You don't know why most people have issues? Compared to the space operas that were the original three, the first three were quite shoddy. However, I did like the second and third much more than the first.
 
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HammerCurl

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
1987 gave us...

Spaceballs
The Princess Bride
Lethal Weapon
Good Morning, Vietnam
Predator
Robocop
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Full Metal Jacket
The Lost Boys
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Boo Spacesballs Boo. Other movies were pretty good
 
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torpid

Lifer
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2000

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Almost Famous
Traffic
You Can Count On Me
Memento
Requiem For a Dream
Amores Perros
O' Brother Where Art Thou?
Yi Yi
High Fidelity


1941

Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
How Green Was My Valley
Dumbo
 
buck

buck

Lifer
Dec 11, 2000
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Originally posted by: LoKe
I can't help but think about how many great movies cam from 1999...

1999
Fight Club
The Matrix
American Beauty
The Sixth Sense
The Green Mile
Magnolia
Office Space
Boys Don't Cry
Being John Malkovich
Star Wars Episode I (Despite what some think)
Bicentennial Man
...and so many more.

1994
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Legends of the Fall
Wyatt Earp
Little Women
Maverick
Speed?
The Mask
The Lion King

So, in your opinion, which year was the greatest for movies?
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WTF?
 
clamum

clamum

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Feb 13, 2003
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Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Star Wars Episode I
Bicentennial Man
...

Seriously? I can barely watch Ep1 without driving a stake into my eye, and Bicentennial Man was 'cute' but a great movie? Yikes. So far, '87 is kicking ass.
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I loved Episode 1, 2, and 3. I really don't get why people have such an issue with it.
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I like all of them too... 3 the most by far, but I enjoy all of them regardless. I rented Episode IV earlier this summer just to watch it again, and man, I don't know how people can praise that one and think the new ones are garbage. Lots of cheesy lines and shoddy acting, I mean I still like it though. One thing that it had going for it was it was quite special for its time, nowdays it's nothing great though.

Anyway, 1999 was a pretty good year. You can add American Pie to that list (pretty funny movie IMO).
 
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HammerCurl

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2006 was a great year:

Pan's Labyrinth
Borat
The Departed
Children of Men
V for Vendetta
Casino Royale
Little Miss Sunshine
Apocalypto
Akeelah and the Bee
Jet Li's Fearless
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
 
HendrixFan

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1999 also includes Eyes Wide Shut. 3 of my top 10 movies are from 99. I keep hoping to have a great year in movies that will compare to 99, but I don't actually think it will happen again.

2004 had good small budget films, no big movies that I can think of though.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite

 
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residualsquare

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Are you asking about the year with the largest number of great movies or about the single greatest years in the history of film making? A revolutionary film like Citizen Kane would certainly be worth at least five or six other films generally regarded as great, in terms of advancing the industry.
 
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Kev

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2007 had Transformers and 300... then throw in a little Bourne Ultimatum, Superbad, Knocked up,
 
lokiju

lokiju

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
1987 gave us...

Spaceballs
The Princess Bride
Lethal Weapon
Good Morning, Vietnam
Predator
Robocop
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Full Metal Jacket
The Lost Boys
Click to expand...

All good movies for their time.

:thumbsup:
 
effowe

effowe

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Originally posted by: HammerCurl

Boo Spacesballs Boo. Other movies were pretty good
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What do you just go around trolling threads about how Spaceballs sucks? Here's what you said in another recent thread..

Originally posted by: HammerCurl
Never have. I might if there was a movie bad enough. If Spaceballs was playing, I'd probably walk out on it
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You have some serious bad taste in movies if you can't appreciate the hilarity that is Spaceballs. Good day.
 
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Electric Amish

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2001
2002
2003

Three little movies based on three little books written by a little Englishman (though born in South Africa).
 
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MasterOfKtulu109

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Originally posted by: HammerCurl
2006 was a great year:

Pan's Labyrinth
Borat
The Departed
Children of Men
V for Vendetta
Casino Royale
Little Miss Sunshine
Apocalypto
Akeelah and the Bee
Jet Li's Fearless
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
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i was gonna say last year also. there were a LOT of good movies.


letters from iwo jima should also go on there.
 
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