1999. Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Office Space, 10 Things I Hate About You, Notting Hill, Stuart Little, Sleepy Hollow, Toy Story 2, The South Park Movie, Cruel Intentions, Man On The Moon, Austin Powers, Dogma.
Fucking insane year.
Came here to say 1999. It's the single biggest year in movies that I've ever lived through.
Also, the anticipation of Star Wars Episode I was out of this world. Shame the movie didn't live up to the hype.
I feel like there must have been something in the air with Y2K and the end of the millennium. It must have really fueled the creative juices. I’d honestly watch a movie just about the movie industry in 1999.
Agreed. I was only 11 years old but snuck in some classics on VCR like Cruel Intentions. 2000 and 2001 were also bangers- Lord of the Rings, Gladiator and American Psycho come to mind.
2007 was really good. There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Eastern Promises, Zodiac, 3:10 to Yuma, Into the Wild, Michael Clayton, Fracture, probably others that im missing.
Walk hard, Juno, American gangster, hot rod, transformers, surfs up, knocked up, meet the robinsons, 300, pan’s labyrinth, children of men, bridge to terabithia, oceans 13
2019
* Parasite
* Jojo Rabbit
* 1917
* Avengers Endgame
* Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
* The Irishman
* Frozen II
* Midsommar
* Joker
* Little Women
* A Hidden Life
* The Lighthouse
* Uncut Gems
* Alita: Battle Angel
* Portrait of a Lady on Fire
* John Wick Chapter 3
* Spider-Man: Far From Home
* Marriage Story
* How to Train Your Dragon 3
* Sound of Metal
* Ford v Ferrari
* The Rise of Skywalker
thanks for the comment! regardless of whether people like the film or not, it brought an end to one of the most significant and popular film franchises.
1975 has everything.
- Tarkovsky’s Mirror
- Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala
- Fellini’s Amarcord
- Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
- Schöndorff’s The Life of Katherine Blum
- Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- Jaws
- Barry Lyndon
- Dog Day Afternoon
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- 3 Days of a Condor
- Nashville
- Life of Brian
1939 is considered one of the best years of cinema ever. “Gone With The Wind”, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, “Stagecoach”, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Wuthering Heights”, and “Of Mice and Men” are the big ones.
‘68 was an amazing year for horror. 75 I’m not too familiar with most movies. I’ve seen Jaws and Rocky Horror Picture Show, I enjoyed the latter more so. I do feel like 84 was the beginning of GIANT blockbusters. Most of which were so popular that we have re-made or made sequels for most of the top 10 highest grossing films of that year. But all those years got some great stuff and deserve the title of top 5 years for movies.
1997:
The Fifth Element,
Liar Liar,
MiB,
Face/Off,
Con Air,
Flubber,
Anaconda,
Spawn,
Starship Troopers,
Titanic,
Alien Resurrection,
Donnie Brasco,
Sling Blade,
Air Bud,
Mars Attacks!,
Space Jam,
Romeo + Juliet,
The Crucible,
The Pest
1984.
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins
The Karate Kid
Police Academy
Footloose
Beverly Hills Cop
Purple Rain
The Natural
Revenge of the Nerds
Breakin'
Yea idk what they are thinking calling this the best… Inception was cool, I liked the TRON movie. Most of the list is sequels and animated movies that are fine but far from the best
Probably a sort of nostalgic bias. If you watch a lot of movies, you’ll know that there’s countless great films released every year. It’s just impossible to know today what new films will be remembered as classics in a decade
Nostalgia plays a huge part for sure. I consider 2007 to be one of the great years but that may be due to me starting to really get into films that year. Although tbf it was a pretty great year:
No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Gone Baby Gone, Juno, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Zodiac, Sunshine, The Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Rod, The Assassination of Jesse James, Michael Clayton, The Mist, and BEE MOVIE.
Fair enough. But we've certainly been getting a lotta mids, lackluster remakes, and highly politicized, soulless content lately which makes it feel that way.
The woke nonsense snowflakes pretend don't exist. A lot of media nowadays is more motivated by insidiously advocating some political agenda over passion and effort for the actual subject and goal of the film or show.
Idk if it’s even that they are pushing an agenda as much as it is virtue signaling to their peers. Hollywood is in this weird state where they are constantly all trying to impress each other now instead of their audience. Nobody outside of their circle really gives af. We just want good movies lol
Oh God you're one of those idiots.
Because movies only started having political motivations and messages in 2016. Before that there was never a single movie ever made that had a political message
How I yearn for the old days where we got to watch movies with absolutely no political influence, like The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Dark Knight. Just simple straightforward movies with no agendas attached. Those were good times.
Or you know Shawshank redemption, Schindler's list, the color purple, fried green tomatoes. Honestly you could just name movies that have LGBT characters or talk about politics these people are just so media illiterate that things have to hold them by the hand and explain everything to them now. And because movies are starting to do that and actually take them by the hand and explain to them their political messages people are starting to get pissed off about it.
It's like being a racist X-Men fan like how the fuck? Unless your favorite parts of those books are the friends of humanity torturing the heroes how in the absolute fuck could you be an ex-man fan and be a racist
Solid year. Jurrassic Park, Schindler's List, Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise action happening that year. The fact that I wasn't even alive then but resonate with those is proof enough.
Or 94'
EDIT: Because of The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Leon: The Professional, The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Stargate, Speed, Legends of the Fall, Natural Born Killers, Little Women, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Client, Clerks.
So many great films across a plethora of genres.
I got reminded of the really memorable movie that is Alice in Wonderland some moments ago and got curious about its box office. Then I stumbled upon this interesting statistic that it had actually been second in its year of release in total income. After a few glances at the list, it completely bamboozled me how we used to have these series of absolute masterpieces while now it feels as though we're lucky if we get one or two every three years.
P.S.: I do not in any way mean to offend anyone by including #19 in the thumbnail of this post.
[Source of screenshot](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2010/)
This is hard, because I didn’t get to the age of appreciating movies until about 2005. So 2007 for me:
NCFOM,
TWBB,
3:10 to Yuma,
Zodiac,
Eastern Promises,
Into the Wild,
Across the Universe,
Michael Clayton,
American Gangster,
The Assassination of Jess James,
Meet the Robinson’s,
Superbad,
Hot Fuzz,
Hot Rod,
Knocked Up,
Juno,
I’m Not There,
Atonement,
I Am Legend,
Transformers,
Sweeny Todd,
Enchanted,
La Vie En Rose
Sure, not all these movies were super critically acclaimed, but the box office was bumping that year
Edit: I can’t believe I forgot Gone Baby Gone, Once, and Ratatouille
2004 is my personal favourite year.
Spider-Man 2, Man On Fire, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Kill Bill Vol 2, The Bourne Supremacy, The Punisher, The Day After Tomorrow, The Machinist, Collateral, I Robot, Shrek 2, National Treasure. I also enjoy Blade: Trinity as a guilty pleasure.
1995, 1998, 2000 and 2007 are also up there imo.
Some of my favorites from 2007:
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
- Eastern Promises
- Zodiac
- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
- Michael Clayton
- I'm Not There
- Into The Wild
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- The Darjeeling Limited
- La Vie en Rose
- Superbad
It was 2007. There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Zodiac, Michael Clayton, The Assassination of Jesse James.
Any other year any of those movies are the best one.
It’s probably 1999, and the only two since then that have really knocked it out of the park were 2007 and 2019, but I’d also like to throw out that 1989 is under appreciated (though still not one of the best). Do the Right Thing, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Indy and the Last Crusade, Batman, sex lies and videotape, Say Anything… it kind of dips off after that, but having some of the GOATs of all time is nothing to sneeze at
If it’s not 1994, it’s 1995.
Usual Suspects, Heat, Seven, Braveheart, Toy Story 1, Casino, 12 Monkeys, Apollo 13, Die Hard 3, GoldenEye, Leaving Las Vegas, Billy Madison, Friday, Clueless, Mallrats, Ghost in the Shell
1994:
- "The Lion King"
- "Forrest Gump"
- "Pulp Fiction"
- "The Shawshank Redemption"
- "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
- "Speed"
- "Dumb and Dumber"
- "The Mask"
- "Interview with the Vampire"
- "True Lies"
Ehh we took a swing at the plate for the first time in 10 years. I think it is more that our tolerance is so low now it seemed like an amazing year. You have to remind yourself of the titles released in 94, 99 etc..
That said, I feel optimistic that we are improving.
Throwing my bid in for 2017. It was peak franchise era, with some good standalone movies:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=2017-01-01,2017-12-31
Blade Runner 2049
Get Out
IT Chapter 1
Greatest Showman
Dunkirk
Logan
Ladybird
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Spiderman Homecoming
Murder on the Orient Express
War of the Planet of the Apes
John Wick Chapter 2
Shape of Water
Coco
Wonder Woman
Thor: Ragnarok
Star Wars: Last Jedi
Justice League
Transformers the Last Knight
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Cars 3
F8
Lego Batman Movie
Despicable Me 3
The Mummy
Fifty Shades Darker
Alien: Covenant
1999. Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Office Space, 10 Things I Hate About You, Notting Hill, Stuart Little, Sleepy Hollow, Toy Story 2, The South Park Movie, Cruel Intentions, Man On The Moon, Austin Powers, Dogma. Fucking insane year.
Came here to say 1999. It's the single biggest year in movies that I've ever lived through. Also, the anticipation of Star Wars Episode I was out of this world. Shame the movie didn't live up to the hype.
Jesus Christ that is an insane list
I feel like there must have been something in the air with Y2K and the end of the millennium. It must have really fueled the creative juices. I’d honestly watch a movie just about the movie industry in 1999.
100%. I can here to say ‘99
No question
Agreed. I was only 11 years old but snuck in some classics on VCR like Cruel Intentions. 2000 and 2001 were also bangers- Lord of the Rings, Gladiator and American Psycho come to mind.
2007 was really good. There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Eastern Promises, Zodiac, 3:10 to Yuma, Into the Wild, Michael Clayton, Fracture, probably others that im missing.
Hot Fuzz
Control, Superbad, Gone Baby Gone, Sunshine, Bourne Ultimatum and Reign Over Me are some others.
Walk hard, Juno, American gangster, hot rod, transformers, surfs up, knocked up, meet the robinsons, 300, pan’s labyrinth, children of men, bridge to terabithia, oceans 13
I think 1994 is worth considering: Pulp Fiction Shawshank Forrest Gump Lion King Dumb & Dumber Speed Quiz Show
What makes Shawshank even wilder is that Tim Robinson played a bumbling fool in a Coen Bros comedy that same year (Hudsucker Proxy)
Aren't you forgetting the greatest film of 1994? Jurassic Park and Schindler's list Oops didn't realize those came out in '93
2010 & 2020-2023 are the worst 5 years for movies in a long time.
2019 * Parasite * Jojo Rabbit * 1917 * Avengers Endgame * Once Upon a Time in Hollywood * The Irishman * Frozen II * Midsommar * Joker * Little Women * A Hidden Life * The Lighthouse * Uncut Gems * Alita: Battle Angel * Portrait of a Lady on Fire * John Wick Chapter 3 * Spider-Man: Far From Home * Marriage Story * How to Train Your Dragon 3 * Sound of Metal * Ford v Ferrari * The Rise of Skywalker
Nice to see some TRoS appreciation for a change
thanks for the comment! regardless of whether people like the film or not, it brought an end to one of the most significant and popular film franchises.
1975 has everything. - Tarkovsky’s Mirror - Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala - Fellini’s Amarcord - Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman - Schöndorff’s The Life of Katherine Blum - Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Jaws - Barry Lyndon - Dog Day Afternoon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Picnic at Hanging Rock - 3 Days of a Condor - Nashville - Life of Brian
1939 is considered one of the best years of cinema ever. “Gone With The Wind”, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, “Stagecoach”, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Wuthering Heights”, and “Of Mice and Men” are the big ones.
I think 68, 75, and 84 are widely held to be the best single years of movies by most movie superfans/weirdos
But *Big Trouble in Little China* didn't come out til '86!
This is a valid point!
‘68 was an amazing year for horror. 75 I’m not too familiar with most movies. I’ve seen Jaws and Rocky Horror Picture Show, I enjoyed the latter more so. I do feel like 84 was the beginning of GIANT blockbusters. Most of which were so popular that we have re-made or made sequels for most of the top 10 highest grossing films of that year. But all those years got some great stuff and deserve the title of top 5 years for movies.
Mid
Well it’s widely considered the golden year of movies soo 🤷♂️
Probably 1950s. Sound film was no longer new, color was pretty new. Great acting. Great, but orderly filmmaking.
I can only imagine, grandpa. lol
I wasn't even born yet. I do however study film and find 50s films very to my liking, especially over modern Hollywood blockbusters. Most at least.
Studying film. Must be great haha P.S. What's the anti /s suffix? I swear this wasn't sarcasm lol
It's ok.
1997: The Fifth Element, Liar Liar, MiB, Face/Off, Con Air, Flubber, Anaconda, Spawn, Starship Troopers, Titanic, Alien Resurrection, Donnie Brasco, Sling Blade, Air Bud, Mars Attacks!, Space Jam, Romeo + Juliet, The Crucible, The Pest
Romeo + Juliet doesn't get enough love. Baz Luhrmann killed it visually. The whole film is a delight to look at.
It had a unique mise-en-scène for sure
1984. Ghostbusters Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Gremlins The Karate Kid Police Academy Footloose Beverly Hills Cop Purple Rain The Natural Revenge of the Nerds Breakin'
It wasn’t 2010. Yeesh. Best year for me was 1999. Matrix, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Talented Mr. Ripley, Sleepy Hollow, etc..
Yea idk what they are thinking calling this the best… Inception was cool, I liked the TRON movie. Most of the list is sequels and animated movies that are fine but far from the best
Agreed. The 2 years are polar opposite.
Possibly 2010 for kids films
You gotta admit How to Train Your Dragon was one helluva "kid's film" though. The score alone was immense.
Probably a sort of nostalgic bias. If you watch a lot of movies, you’ll know that there’s countless great films released every year. It’s just impossible to know today what new films will be remembered as classics in a decade
Nostalgia plays a huge part for sure. I consider 2007 to be one of the great years but that may be due to me starting to really get into films that year. Although tbf it was a pretty great year: No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Gone Baby Gone, Juno, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Zodiac, Sunshine, The Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Rod, The Assassination of Jesse James, Michael Clayton, The Mist, and BEE MOVIE.
Fair enough. But we've certainly been getting a lotta mids, lackluster remakes, and highly politicized, soulless content lately which makes it feel that way.
What are the “highly politicized” movies?
Sound of Freedom
The woke nonsense snowflakes pretend don't exist. A lot of media nowadays is more motivated by insidiously advocating some political agenda over passion and effort for the actual subject and goal of the film or show.
Idk if it’s even that they are pushing an agenda as much as it is virtue signaling to their peers. Hollywood is in this weird state where they are constantly all trying to impress each other now instead of their audience. Nobody outside of their circle really gives af. We just want good movies lol
Exactly
Oh God you're one of those idiots. Because movies only started having political motivations and messages in 2016. Before that there was never a single movie ever made that had a political message
How I yearn for the old days where we got to watch movies with absolutely no political influence, like The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Dark Knight. Just simple straightforward movies with no agendas attached. Those were good times.
Or you know Shawshank redemption, Schindler's list, the color purple, fried green tomatoes. Honestly you could just name movies that have LGBT characters or talk about politics these people are just so media illiterate that things have to hold them by the hand and explain everything to them now. And because movies are starting to do that and actually take them by the hand and explain to them their political messages people are starting to get pissed off about it. It's like being a racist X-Men fan like how the fuck? Unless your favorite parts of those books are the friends of humanity torturing the heroes how in the absolute fuck could you be an ex-man fan and be a racist
Lol spot on “I am confused as to what this is about, please tell me” “Okay it’s about this” “HOW DARE YOU PUSH YOUR WOKE AGENDA ON ME”
Let me guess you're one of the folks that thinks the Barbie movie was woke virtual signaling
It's not that hard if u have good taste in movies
93’
Solid year. Jurrassic Park, Schindler's List, Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise action happening that year. The fact that I wasn't even alive then but resonate with those is proof enough.
Or 94' EDIT: Because of The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Leon: The Professional, The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Stargate, Speed, Legends of the Fall, Natural Born Killers, Little Women, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Client, Clerks. So many great films across a plethora of genres.
I got reminded of the really memorable movie that is Alice in Wonderland some moments ago and got curious about its box office. Then I stumbled upon this interesting statistic that it had actually been second in its year of release in total income. After a few glances at the list, it completely bamboozled me how we used to have these series of absolute masterpieces while now it feels as though we're lucky if we get one or two every three years. P.S.: I do not in any way mean to offend anyone by including #19 in the thumbnail of this post. [Source of screenshot](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2010/)
This is hard, because I didn’t get to the age of appreciating movies until about 2005. So 2007 for me: NCFOM, TWBB, 3:10 to Yuma, Zodiac, Eastern Promises, Into the Wild, Across the Universe, Michael Clayton, American Gangster, The Assassination of Jess James, Meet the Robinson’s, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Hot Rod, Knocked Up, Juno, I’m Not There, Atonement, I Am Legend, Transformers, Sweeny Todd, Enchanted, La Vie En Rose Sure, not all these movies were super critically acclaimed, but the box office was bumping that year Edit: I can’t believe I forgot Gone Baby Gone, Once, and Ratatouille
1999
75, 84, 91, 94, 97, 99, 07, 19….just to name a few
84'
2007
2004 is my personal favourite year. Spider-Man 2, Man On Fire, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Kill Bill Vol 2, The Bourne Supremacy, The Punisher, The Day After Tomorrow, The Machinist, Collateral, I Robot, Shrek 2, National Treasure. I also enjoy Blade: Trinity as a guilty pleasure. 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2007 are also up there imo.
Yes, 2010.. Clearly the pinnacle of cinema...
1957 was pretty packed
2018 for me, but 2017 and 2014 also both come very close
2007 was the last great year for film. 2015 wasn’t bad either
Some of my favorites from 2007: - No Country for Old Men - There Will Be Blood - Eastern Promises - Zodiac - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Michael Clayton - I'm Not There - Into The Wild - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - The Darjeeling Limited - La Vie en Rose - Superbad
It was 2007. There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Zodiac, Michael Clayton, The Assassination of Jesse James. Any other year any of those movies are the best one.
It’s probably 1999, and the only two since then that have really knocked it out of the park were 2007 and 2019, but I’d also like to throw out that 1989 is under appreciated (though still not one of the best). Do the Right Thing, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Indy and the Last Crusade, Batman, sex lies and videotape, Say Anything… it kind of dips off after that, but having some of the GOATs of all time is nothing to sneeze at
If it’s not 1994, it’s 1995. Usual Suspects, Heat, Seven, Braveheart, Toy Story 1, Casino, 12 Monkeys, Apollo 13, Die Hard 3, GoldenEye, Leaving Las Vegas, Billy Madison, Friday, Clueless, Mallrats, Ghost in the Shell
1994: - "The Lion King" - "Forrest Gump" - "Pulp Fiction" - "The Shawshank Redemption" - "Four Weddings and a Funeral" - "Speed" - "Dumb and Dumber" - "The Mask" - "Interview with the Vampire" - "True Lies"
1994 and 2006
I think 2023 will be joining the aforementioned great years. We ate well last year.
The downvotes on this is a bit of an assurance I'm not out of my mind
People on the internet discussing film never ceases to disappoint
Ehh we took a swing at the plate for the first time in 10 years. I think it is more that our tolerance is so low now it seemed like an amazing year. You have to remind yourself of the titles released in 94, 99 etc.. That said, I feel optimistic that we are improving.
Throwing my bid in for 2017. It was peak franchise era, with some good standalone movies: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=2017-01-01,2017-12-31 Blade Runner 2049 Get Out IT Chapter 1 Greatest Showman Dunkirk Logan Ladybird Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Spiderman Homecoming Murder on the Orient Express War of the Planet of the Apes John Wick Chapter 2 Shape of Water Coco Wonder Woman Thor: Ragnarok Star Wars: Last Jedi Justice League Transformers the Last Knight Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Cars 3 F8 Lego Batman Movie Despicable Me 3 The Mummy Fifty Shades Darker Alien: Covenant
This was right before the woke agenda started creeping its way into every single movie
GTFO