what was the best time era for movies?

In your opinion? For me I would have to say the 90s. I mean 80 percent of the movies I watched and end up loving are usually from the 90's. I just got done watching dazed and confused. That was great and was from the 90's.

proberly the late 80s early 90s but 1 of my all time favourite films is in 1968 where eagles dare :)

Same as music, the 80s.

I think that an era is quite a longer period of time than most people seem to think it is.

Thats tough.
The 70's had Dirty Harry, Eraserhead, and some other great movies.
But the 80's had some great shit too.
and the 90's did as well.
I can't decide.

Now.

I think it depends on what type of movie you want. The golden age of action movies was the 80's, but sci fi is probably right now, drama probably 60's, thrillers 80's again, legal thrillers 90's i could go on but you get my point...

I say the 1940's - 1970's was the best. That's when you had real actors like Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Stewart with real Directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick producing timeless movies like Vertigo and Dr. Strangelove. Back then cinema was cinema. It was still a form of art, unlike today. I feel that things sorta dribbled out in the 1980's, but there are some classics there too like Blade Runner and Bachelor Party.

80´s and 90´s where pretty good, its getting harder and harder for me to get excited about the movies coming out.

Can't believe no mentioned the 70's. Period. The great age of the auteur film maker, where the director was still king. Off the top of my head movies made in the 70's:
Godfather I and II
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Apocalypse Now
The French Connection
Serpico
Star Wars
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Deer Hunter
Clockwork Orange

....and so many others.

1968-1981, some call it the 70s because most of it is in the 70s. Young talent ran Hollywood, and no corporate bullshit.

well it really depends on the genre. drama and suspence would be the 90's horror is the 70's and 80's and comedy is the 80's

I like quite a few eras.  So, I'll just make a list starting with my most favorite eras in movies

1. 90s
2. 80s
3. 2000-up
4. 70s

Depends on what type of movie you describe as best. The 80's had the most entertaining and fun movies. The early 90's had the best crime dramas. The 70's was a great foundation to what he have today.

The 70's, 80's, 90's are best
Today's shit is well..........shit.
there are barely any good movies that currently come out.

From 1910 to 2009 and counting.

Seriously though, I can't decide on an era since there are constantly new actors and concepts. Movies will always be great.

Yeah honestly 80s movies werent that great.... they were memorable but not truly great films. Dont get me wrong there was some good stuff but every decade has some good mixed in with the bad.

I would say the 80's.  It had Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Back to the Future, The Goonies, and fucking Die Hard. 



Oh and also The Three Amigos which is basically the greatest movie of all time.

I also like movies now days too, mostly because they can do things with special effects that they couldn't do before, and I think people have gotten better at cinematography, pacing and editing movies.

The 80's
Karate Kid
The Goonies
Beverly hills cop
Lethal Weapon
Fletch
Full Metal jacket
Goodfellas
A varied selection throughout the 80's and brilliant.

80s music was great... But the movies... I don't know lol

When was Porky's made?...because that's the year that I'm gonna claim as the best.

1940's film noir or 1910's-1920's German Expressionism, American film would not be where it is today had it not been for two very important movements in film.

" 1968-1981, some call it the 70s because most of it is in the 70s. Young talent ran Hollywood, and no corporate bullshit. "

" When was Porky's made?...because that's the year that I'm gonna claim as the best. "

I gotta admit. The 70s did have blazing saddles lol

Late 20s - 50s. Come on people, it's the golden age.

" Late 20s - 50s. Come on people, it's the golden age. "

The 40s was the best of times for film in my opinion.  I have a great appreciation for the works of later (and earlier) decades, but the best movies overall were made in the 40s.

• His Girl Friday
• Casablanca
• The Philadelphia Story
• Pinocchio
• Citizen Kane
• The Maltese Falcon
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Spellbound
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• On the Town

The year Troll 2 came out. So many life lessons learned from that masterpiece, including:

• You don't need to have Trolls in your movie to have "Troll" in your title
  If you tighten your belt when you're hungry, you can avoid hunger pains
  Goblins are vegetarians
  Goblins are dwarves in potato sacks
  Common foliage and plants for some reason are indegestable for Goblins, causing them to turn humans into vegetables via magic spell to feed
  NILBOG IS GOBLIN SPELLED BACKWARDZZZ!!!!!

post 2009. or more specific, Post-AVATAR

I gotta say 60's & 70's, which is also my favourite for music.
 
60s:
1. 2001 A Space Odyssey  - Stanley Kubrick
2. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
3. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
4. Belle de Jour - Luis Bunuel
5. Pierrot le Fou - Jean Luc Godard
6. Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski
7. Splendor in the Grass - Elia Kazan
8. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
9. Good, the Bad & the Ugly - Sergio Leoni
10. La Notte - Michelangelo Antonioni
 
70s:
1. Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky
2. The Godfather - Francis Coppola
3. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
4. Slow Motion - Jean Luc Godard
5. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
6. Manhattan - Woody Allen
7. Aguirre the Wrath of God - Werner Herzog
8. Eraserhead - David Lynch
9. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
10. Chinatown - Roman Polanski

80s