What’s the best decade in movies?

This is a hard one because different genres thrived more in certain decades but I'm going with the 80's mostly based on action and horror movies.

80's action

• Die Hard
• The Terminator
• RoboCop
• Predator
• Lethal Weapon
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Blood Sport
• Rambo First Blood
• Aliens
• Escape from NY
• Scarface
• The Running Man

80's Horror

• Friday the 13th
• The Thing
• A Nightmare on Elm street
• The Evil Dead
• Gremlins
• Video Drome
• The Shining
• Ghostbusters
• They Live

Etc...

The 80s and 90s had the best movies, what followed from then on were mostly being remakes/reboots or movies with the same formula, but (way) better effects.

So while movies were just progressing on a technical level, tv/netflix/etc.-series made a huge leap forward, actually being better than most regular movies being released, and of course there are still thoes classic 80s-90s series who are cult, but the number of great series these days is just making the numbers of great series back the days, kinda drown in shame.

Although I'm biased because it's the decade in which I grew up, the 1990s are the easy choice for me. Comedies hadn't yet entirely lost their grounding (although the seeds were planted), script creativity and variety was still in tact, CGI came to fruition allowing freedom that hadn't been seen before, the Disney Renaissance was in full swing, and Pixar was born.

Every decade has it's strengths and there's certainly a technological/methodological progression in film, but living through that particular period was pretty exciting as a moviegoer.

90s for nostalgia reasons for me, but during this time also watch a lot of 80s movies too because they always played a ton on cable. Toss-up but one of those two.

60s for Wild west.

80s for action

@SolidGame_basic: yeah, 90's for sure.

To add to your list:

• Leon: The Professional. Arguably one of the best mashups of action and family movie ever.
• Heat, one of the best cops and robbers movies of all time.
• Two Days in the Valley
• He Got Game
• Malcom X
• Scent of a Woman
• Terminator 2

I feel a little bit of the 90's carried over into the early 00's so I want to make The Lord of the Rings as honorable mention, along with some other early 00's movies, but I won't. 90's had plenty

Yeah, same.

There's just something about those pre-internet days of going in blind to a movie, having only seen the previews.

I'd take my allowance or whatever I earned from mowing lawns and have someone drop me and my friend off downtown and we'd watch the movie. Then we'd go read comics or sneak nude magazines at the Barnes and Noble or maybe go to the arcade afterwards until it got dark and we'd use the whole 1-800 COLLECT trick of calling the number but saying your name as "Pick Me Up at B and N" so my parents never got charged. Oh yeah, remember payphones? The complete lack of cellular phones? haha sometimes I forget I lived a solid 1/2 my life without modern internet and smart phones.

Nostalgia is a strong force.

TNT always played a lot of good movies. USA did as well from time to time.

I think TNT would do the Bond marathons once a year and my dad and I would binge those haha.

It's always been the 60's and 70's for me.

I've always viewed these decades as the time when film has been around enough that it's been experimented with and perfected enough, and these decades gave rise to some of our greatest as well being peak periods for our seasoned filmmakers.

I also view these as the final decades before cinema really began to transform into the modern machine we see today. I'm personally more partial to some of the older stuff, and that's why choose the 60's and 70's.

I picked 90s...but it's a hard choice between 80s and 90s for me. Looking at movies today...I miss those days. For the most part I think new movies are terrible.

Going with 90s, 80s is a close second.