1999 is also when the most internationally successful Tarzan movie was released. Since it’s got so many surviving/active memes, it’s now more influential than the Johnny Weissmuller films which inspired some of its scenes.
For me it has to be 1993; - Schindler's List - Jurassic Park - Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers - Tombstone - Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - Groundhog Day - The Fugitive - Stalingrad - The Nightmare Before Christmas - Dazed and Confused - What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Mrs. Doubtfire - Falling Down - True Romance - Carlito's Way - The Age of Innocence - In the Line of Fire - The Remains of the Day - Philadelphia - In the Name of the Father - Gettysburg And Super Mario Bros.
1984 was iconic = Ghostbusters, Terminator, Karate Kid, Gremlins, NeverEnding Story, Temple of Doom, Beverly Hills Cop, Footloose, This Is Spinal Tap, Romancing the Stone, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Splash, The Natural, Red Dawn, Last Starfighter, Sixteen Candles, Top Secret, Purple Rain, Amadeus, Once Upon a Time in America, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, etc... 1994 was legendary = Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Lion King, Leon: The Professional, Natural Born Killers, Ed Wood, Speed, True Lies, The Crow, Interview with the Vampire, Drunken Master 2, The Mask, Stargate, Legends of the Fall, Heavenly Creatures, Fist of Legend, Clear and Present Danger, Maverick, Clerks, Dumb & Dumber, etc... '82 was a great year for sci-fi films = ET, Blade Runner, Tron, The Thing, Wrath of Khan. '85 was a defining year for teen movies = Back to the Future, Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, The Goonies, Weird Science, Real Genius, Teen Wolf, Just One of the Guys, Legend of Billie Jean, Fright Night. '87 was a strong year for action flicks = RoboCop, Predator, Lethal Weapon, Running Man, Project A 2, City on Fire. '88 was an incredible year for animation in cinema = Akira, My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Land Before Time, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. '92 was huge for dialogue in motion pictures = Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men, David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. '93 was the most competitive for supporting actor performances on the big screen = 66th Oscar nominees: Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive), Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List), John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire), Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father). Snubs: Val Kilmer (Tombstone), Ben Kingsley (Schindler's List), Sean Penn (Carlito's Way), certain actors in True Romance. '95 was phenomenal for the silver screen's crime genre = Se7en, Heat, Usual Suspects, Casino, La Haine. '97 was another exciting one for action and/or sci-fi = Starship Troopers, Fifth Element, Face/Off, Con Air, Air Force One, Men in Black, Contact, Gattaca, Conspiracy Theory, Tomorrow Never Dies.
For me it’s 2014 Oscar films Whiplash Foxcatcher Birdman The Grand Budapest hotel Comic book movies Captain America winter solider Guardian of the galaxy Xmen days of future past Animation The Lego movie How to train a dragon 2 Big hero six Comedies The Interview Bad neighbour 22 jump street Action/adventure Interstellar Edge of tomorrow Fury Dawn of the planet of the apes The Equalizer Thriller Gone girl Nightcrawlers Locke John wick WHY IS THIS YEAR SO UNDERRATED?
2019 was one hell of a year for films! Especially before the dreaded pandemic! I had an AMC pass, and I feel like I went to the theaters numerous times that year! Toy Story 4, Joker, The Irishman, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Parasite, Ford Vs. Ferrari, Avengers Endgame, etc.
This list goes on and on it’s mind blowing. I’m still finding movies from this year that would be top five in other years. Really felt like a modern day OUATIH where it’s the end of an era we’d never see again.
I think 1939 is generally accepted as the all time greatest year just because of how many genre defining works were released that year in addition to Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz, and I'm inclined to agree. Actually I see alot of similarities between the 1939 and 2019 in terms of how great a year for movies it was only for the world to basically be thrown into chaos the following year upending the movie industry, although 2019 was generally the greatest year in terms of raw box office numbers (seeing the most films reach the billion dollar mark in a single year), while the number of films in '39 that have stood the test of time on artistic merit alone is pretty staggering. Heck, Wizard of Oz didn't even make all that much money (it didn't outright flop but it was nowhere near the box office powerhouse that GWTW was). There's 1967 which had The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Whose Coming to Dinner, The Jungle Book, You Only Live Twice, Wait Until Dark and The Dirty Dozen (all classics). I don't see 1962 in the conversation as much as I'd have thought and that was the year that saw Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, The Longest Day, Long Day's Journey into Night, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Cape Fear, Gypsy, The Miracle Worker and Lolita (which I personally hate but is still a Kubrick so ergo a classic) - the first three of which turn up regularly in the list of greatest films of the 20th Century, and the others also being genre-defining works with longevity as classics in their own right. My personal pick would probably be 1959 but for less obvious reasons. That year you had Ben-Hur, Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, and Sleeping Beauty (which actually tanked on release and nearly sent Disney into bankruptcy but which is now considered a work of art) coupled with smaller releases like Imitation of Life, Porgy and Bess, Black Orpheus, Anatomy of a Murder, and Diary of Anne Frank that year which were either impactful in the long-term or had major artistic merit. Sort of like a cross roads from the big studio epics of the decade into the more quiet topical films of the 1960's EDIT: Just found out there's an entire book on 1962 titled "Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies" by Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan that lays out a pretty good argument so I'm not alone on that opinion lol
Not to sound condescending, but: that are nice movies (and I saw every one but one - M&C - at the cinema), but nothing I would put in my top 30 list, except RotK... How old have you been around 98/99? Matrix, Fight Club, Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, American History X, The Green Mile...
For me it's 2007. The oscar movies were good, the blockbusters were good, the comedies were good. Hell we even got a decent Die Hard movie! Sadly, the last one.
1982 had E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Blade Runner, The Verdict, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tootsie, Sophie’s Choice and Gandhi just to name a few.
E.T., Poltergeist, Blade Runner, Tron, Dark Crystal, Rambo, Conan, Mad Max 2, The Thing, The Wall... A classic every week ! No year can do that but 1982 !
2009 deserves a shout at least: Inglorious Basterds, A Serious Man, District 9, Up, Moon, The White Ribbon, The Secret in their Eyes, Enter the Void, Antichrist, The Road, Mother, Thirst, Cell 211, Dogtooth, A Prophet, White Material, the list goes on
One of my personal favorite is 2001 because todays Hollywood Blockbuster we owe it to Harry Potter, Shrek, The Lord of the Rings, Monsters Inc and more. But leaving a side the Blockbusters I would say 1957, 1999 and 1994.
I think 2014 may just be my favorite. - Interstellar - Whiplash - Gone Girl - Nightcrawler - John Wick - Birdman - Grand Budapest Hotel - Edge of Tomorrow - THE LEGO MOVIE
1982 for me - and for many hardcore cinephiles - was THE greatest year in cinema. Such a STACKED year!!! Six films from that year ALONE are in my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time: - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Blade Runner - The Thing - Conan the Barbarian - Pink Floyd The Wall - Poltergeist And let's not forget THESE classics, just to name a few!!! Personal honorable mentions from my 200-300 favorite films marked with *: - Tootsie - Gandhi - Yol - My Favorite Year - Fitzcarraldo - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - First Blood* - The Verdict - An Officer and a Gentleman - Victor/Victoria - 48 Hrs. - Sophie's Choice - The Year of Living Dangerously - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn* - Annie - The Secret of NIMH* - Q - The Winged Serpent* - The Beastmaster - Creepshow* - TRON - The Dark Crystal - Best Friends - The Man From Snowy River
2023 isn't done as of this writing but it's delivered a lot of bangers (even with a few of them delayed to next year because of the strikes). Besides the Barbenheimer phenomenon there's Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives, Zone of Interest, Across the SpiderVerse, Poor Things, May December, The Holdovers, Asteroid City, The Iron Claw, The Boy and the Heron, Flora and Son, Dicks the Musical, Beau is Afraid, and so much more. Would also like to shout out Riceboy Sleeps, which released at festivals in 2022 but only released widely this year. Probably one of the best movies I've seen period.
WHAT THE FUCK?!?! You uploaded this one hour ago, and I've been sitting for the last 1.5 hours, compiling a list of block busters and "cinema changing" movies since 1954 to gain a proper overview myself. This is the craziest timing ever :D
I feel like this video comes to the right conclusion. There have been too many good years to name one as the best. I agree, the real winner is the viewer who can go back any watch any of these films.
I would also like to mention 2004 and 2006 for the 2000s as well as 2010 and 2017 for the 2010s. Those years also had some of the best movies in recent memory.
I’d love to see a video discussing the best years for animated films and (if possible) best years for TV. There’s been so much released and they all inform/influence eachother, especially casting and thematically, and I’d love to see how they overlap.
1967 is probably my pick: The Graduate, Play Time, The Producers, Who's That Knocking On My Door, Le Samourai, The Story of a Three Day Pass, Dragon Inn, Bonnie & Clyde, In the Heat of the Night, Branded to Kill, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Cool Hand Luke, Belle de Jour, The Dirty Dozen, Weekend, and The Young Girls of Rochefort
1999. Bar none. In fact they recently published a nearly 400 page book about it titled, "Best Movie Year Ever" by Brian Raftery (though it omitted Kevin Smith's "Dogma").
1982. E.T., POLTERGEIST, TOOTSIE, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, ROCKY 3, STAR TREK 2, TRON, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, PORKY'S, 48HRS., THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, FIRST BLOOD, HALLOWEEN 3, THE DARK CRYSTAL, CRERPSHOW, SWAMP THING, FRIDAY THE 13th PART 3, ANNIE, SOPHIE'S CHOICE, MISSING, GANDHI, BLADE RUNNER, THE THING, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, THE ROAD WARRIOR (released overseas in '81, released in the U.S. in '82), QUEST FOR FIRE, THE THING, BASKET CASE, THE SECRET OF N.I.M.H., AMITYVILLE HORROR 2, HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW, DINER, THE BEAST MASTER, THE SWORD & THE SORCERER, THE LAST UNICORN, PINK FLOYD'S: THE WALL, FIREFOX. THAT'S one hell of a year! If someone don't sound familiar or were considered to be a flop (HALLOWEEN 3 for example) I added them because they've gained a massive cult following.
Don’t forget Django Unchained, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hunt, Lincoln, Flight, Skyfall, Life of Pi, The Avengers, The Hunger Games, Prometheus, Looper and probably more that I can’t think of
NO FKN SHOT. I randomly found the "Whats the worst year for film?" so i wanted to see if u made a "best year for film" video, and what do ya know you just uploaded it!
Die Hard With A Vengeance Batman Forever Casper Babe Jumanji Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave The Indian In the Cupboard To Die For Mallrats Highway While You Were Sleeping Unstrong Heroes A Goofy Movie Mortal Kombat Pocahontas Dead Presidents
I'm really surprised 1984 wasn't on the list. Terminator, Ghostbusters, Dune, etc. It was pretty good. But yeah, those were really great years you mentioned.
When you said what year was the best I was unsure but immediately thought 1984 just so many iconic movies ghostbusters, the karate kid, the terminator, nightmare on elm street and so many more
1995 doesn’t get enough love coming off the heels of 1994 but it had… Apollo 13 Braveheart Se7en Babe Leaving Las Vegas Toy Story Tommy Boy Sense and Sensibility Billy Madison Clueless Jumanji Heat Casino The Usual Suspects Before Sunrise While You Were Sleeping 12 Monkees
Kudos to those who have mentioned non American films. I'm going 1966. Persona, The Battle of Algiers, first two movies of Bondarchuk's War and Peace quartet, Cathy Come Home, The Hero, The Face of Another, Seconds, The Good, the Bad & The Ugly, Au Hasard Balthazar, Black Girl, Closely Observed Trains, Daisies, The Round Up, The War Game, Blow Up, Alfie, A Man for All Seasons. Plus GOAL! Film of the 1966 World Cup Final. Boom!
1999 is the best based on the sheer volume (and quality). Yes obviously some all time greats came out this year, but the sheer volume of the 7-8/10 rating , super re-watchable, cult classic movies is crazy. What other year has 50+ movies that you can watch over and over again? I could go into detail about how in the late 90s movies were still shot on film, late 90’s cinematography combined with amazing and unique musical scores, volume of original ideas, etc. are all other reasons it was an amazing year
It's impossible to pick the single best year, there are a bunch of years that you could make an argument for them. I'd like to mention 1975. It had probably the strongest set of best picture nominees in history, with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, and Nashville. 1975 also had The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Woody Allen's Love and Death, and Tarkovsky's Mirror. Very strong year.
You also had 1978 with Superman, Grease, Halloween, Animal House, Foul Play, The Deer Hunter, Heaven Can Wait, Coma, Coming Home, Watership Down, Hooper, Death on the Nile, Days of Heaven, Dawn of the Dead to name a few..
I’d have to say either 1976 or 2007, Taxi Driver is one of my all time favorites, but I’ve written so many school papers on There Will Be Blood to not include 2007😂
In the current climate of filmmaking, that was a good note you ended on. We are pretty fortunate to have access to any of the masterpieces OR train wrecks of history at the click of a button.
Surprised theres not many people saying this year. I know a lot of people trash modern film, but 2023 has been genuinely amazing. Countless films from legendary directors (Miyizaki, scorsese, nolan, fincher, wes anderson, and so many more). Animation is currently in a Renaissance with Across The Spiderverse, nimona, and many others. Every documentary released has been amazing. Blockbusters are starting to become (generally) more creative and well written (John Wick 4, Creed 3, etc.) Indie films are doing pretty good comparatively, horror is doing better than ever, mid budget films are making a comeback, and even franchises and films that are typically terrible were much better than they had any right to be.
2002 is one of the best movie years: 1) Spider-Man 2) Gangs of New York 3) Phone Booth 4) Panic Room 5) The Bourne Identity 6) Catch Me If You Can 7) Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 8) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 9) Road To Perdition 10) Minority Report 11) The Transporter 12) Insomnia 13) One Hour Photo 14) Red Dragon 15) Chicago 16) Scooby-Doo 17) 28 Days Later 18) John Q 19) Adaptation 20) Ice Age 21) Men In Black II 22) Eight Legged Freaks 23) Big Fat Liar
my favourite year of films For 1968: 2001 A Space Odyssey and If.... For 2014: Interstellar, Whiplash, Birdman , etc For 1977: Star Wars: A New Hope , Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Eraserhead
1995 Had Jumanji, Heat, Toy Story, Usual Suspects, Se7en, and Braveheart at the top which may have had the greatest cultural influence over other years.
I’d like to give a hand to 1985. It’s got Breakfast Club, Back To The Future, Ran, Mishima, Clue, The Goonies, The Color Purple, the list goes on. All around a great year with some classics I love revisiting.
0:00 Thank you for not forgetting 2003, the best year for action movies! Kill Bill Vol. 1, Ong-Bak, Oldboy, and Return of the King had some of the best action scenes in movie history!
Mine was 1997. Perfect Blue, Lost Highway, Open Your Eyes, Happy Together, Funny Games, Princess Mononoke, Cure, Insomnia, Chasing Amy, Jackie Brown, The End of Evangelion. Such a great year
My pick would be 74, it has Chinatown, enough said. The other great films that year are The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and the best adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.
1975: The Best Picture at the Oscars were: Barry Lyndon Dog Day Afternoon Jaws Nashville One Flew Over A Cuckoo’s Nest All of those 5 films are considered classics and some of the greatest films of all time!
1987 got a mention on both the Best and Worst videos! Like 2001 honestly, it had a solid lineup of great movies like Full Metal Jacket and Wall Street, but the sheer amount of garbage that year (in one movie's case, literally!) is perhaps greater than any other in history; it represents the peak of blockbuster fatigue with all its terrible sequels.
If *TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION* feels like a non-entity as a box office topper, it's because its performance in the U.S. was relatively weak--a great deal of its money came from overseas, particularly China. (And it supposedly has one of the shadier box office of runs--when it needed to hit a milestone, they would say they found money in Puerto Rico). To be honest, declaring a champ for the year is kind of weird--GUARDIANS made the most by the time New Year's Day rolled around, but the second part of CATCHING FIRE managed to top, it in turn being outgrossed by AMERICAN SNIPER, but that was a platform release until early January. SNIPER was actually the first non-franchise/sci-fi movie to make a "biggest movie of the year" claim since either '97 or '98 (Again! Measuring box office is a lot more mutable than you'd think), but the celebration was kind of muted because of the aforementioned asteriskery, that the movie was on the side of a culture war cinephiles usually don't find themselves, and the weird baby robot. But what I'm saying is, 2014 stans, don't give up yet. Stop the steal! Tbh, before the 2010's, for box office watchers, global takes were kind of an afterthought. Roll-outs were slower, and harder to keep track of, and China was not the gamebreaker it was. (And hitting a billion was too rare that studios 1) could brag about it, and 2) Concentrated their efforts to achieving it) This is why in previous years, big hit movies felt more like actual cultural phenomenons. While facts are facts, I think the more weight you give global numbers the more you're playing the studios' game.
1988 (my birthyear): National Film Registry was formed; Roger Rabbit, Thin Blue Line, Rain Man, They Live, Mac & Me, Lady in White, Oliver & Company, Land Before Time, Akira, Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Hairspray, A Fish Called Wanda, Tin Toy (the first CGI short to win an Oscar despite the butt-ugly baby); MST3K originating on a UHF station in Minnesota; Z Channel ended tragically after Jerry Harvey's murder/suicide; Salaam Bombay, Women on a Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Let's Get Lost, Hotel Terminus, Talk Radio (underrated Oliver Stone film), The Cat Came Back, Stand And Deliver, School Daze and I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Where’s 1985 with The Goonies, Cocoon, Witness, Come and See, Back to the Future, The Colour Purple, The Breakfast Club, Legend, Clue, Return to Oz, Brazil, Out of Africa, Fright Night, Rocky IV etc
Well I don’t have a year that I think all the best films were released in. I tend to find though I like the mainstream stuff from the mid 1980s ish to around the mid 2010s more than the current mainstream films (with the 2000s and early 2010s possibly due to nostalgia). The only mainstream ones I like now are either based on Franchises that I care about (and even then only if their films are good) or the rare original good film. A lot of the current films I like now which aren’t franchises or based on stuff I already liked are not blockbusters. I’ve also never cared for the mcu but I still like comic book adaptations like the 1989 Batman just not the soulless stuff they put out nowadays. I feel like any adaptation has to both be faithful and put something new to the table.
1967 is kinda crazy actually, bonnie and clyde basically killed the repressiveness of the '50s in one fell swoop, the graduate was THE movie for a huge generation of people, plus three huge sidney poitier films coming out in the same year??
2007. Best year ever for film. No doubt. No Country for Old Men There will be Blood The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford American Gangster Smokin' Aces 300 3:10 to Yuma Superbad The Number 23 Alpha Dog I Am Legend Shooter Beowulf Blood Diamond Mr. Brooks Into the Wild Just to name a few
1997: titanic, face off, con air. La confidential, I know what you did last summer, scream 2, Dante’s peak, boogie nights, good will hunting, chasing Amy, the game, the fifth element. Batman and robin (just kidding ) 🤣🤣
Mine would be 2014!!!! I'm a sucker for romantic dramas which never get wide big screen release anymore :( but that year we got The Fault In Our Stars If I Stay Beyond The Lights The Best Of Me .... those are four of my favorite movies 😊 we also got a couple other movies from other genres I love so 2014 is my favorite
Ngl this year is pretty good for movies I mean come on let me list them Barbie Oppenheimer Fnaf Mario Spider Man ATSV Ant man ☠️ Guardians of the Galaxy 3 John wick 4 Avatar 2 Indiana Jones Mission Impossible Creed 3 Fast X Hunger Games Puss in boots Transformers Scream and many more
