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So personally I find I have a marked preference for movies from before when I was born in 1973. Honestly I tend to like black and white classics better than anything else with a rare exception here and there (so I'll be selecting 1930s, 50s and 60s) myself? So what decades are most of your personal favourites from?

 When it comes to sci-fi...I like the 50's! The old AIP rubber monsters from outer space...!
  Also, the late 60's-early 70's when it comes to horror and expliotation movies! They just have a gritty,dirty feel to them...much more realistic than the high gloss horror fliks of today...in which all the actors and actresses seem to be MTV wannabe's or fashion models. Low budget trash like DON'T LOOK in the BASEMENT, NIGHT of BLOODY HORROR,ABBY, BEYOND the DOOR, the original HILL's HAVE EYES,I DRINK YOUR BLOOD...stuff like that.
       I like how the distributers use an entirly different film...(LAST HOUSE on the LEFT) to sell their own movie(DON"T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT!!!)
  [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLBmJ_tZ9DM

'60s-'80s for me

I voted for the 1970s because I'm a sucker for the drive-in flicks from that decade and I'm a huge blaxploitation fan.  However, I tend to go through phases where I watch movies from every decade:

* I love crime flicks from the 1930s and 40s

* Black & white horror and sci-fi movies from the 1940s and 50s are great

* Westerns from every decade are fabulous

* Silent movies form the 1920s and earlier are wonderful

* I'm a fan of biker movies from the late 1960s and early 1970s

I guess there's a movie and decade for just about every mood and occasion . . . but I think if I could only watch movies from one decade it would be the 1970s.

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I guess there's a movie and decade for just about every mood and occasion . . . but I think if I could only watch movies from one decade it would be the 1970s.
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The 70's had it all! Kung Fu, blaxpliotaition,sexpliotation,WIP's,splatter,Itailan giallo, demon possesion, biker, disaster fliks, eco-horror (FROGS et.al), ...wow...just some much junk food  for the soul...!

I'll take anything from the 30's onward, but the 1950's are my favorite.

The 80s because it is a virtual dumpster of review material. 

70s and 80s for horror and explotation

I dunno  . . . . lots of WONDERFULLY bad cinema was made in the 70's and 80's, but I  have an incurable weakness for the recent, low-budget, direct to video crapola!

For quality or for crap, it's hard to beat the 70s. What a great decade for movie making, cliche as that is, it's true. I tend to lump the late 60s in with this also, but the 70s is when it all came together. Give me a quality mainstream film from this time, a genre or foreign brain candy flick, even the action movies could have something to say. And it wasn't that hard to to make something off the beaten patch that was worth a look, even if it it didn't turn out great. Can you imagine one of today's big stars making a film like Clint Eastwood did with The Beguiled while at the peak of his popularity as an actor/star. 

The late 30s through the 50s is great also so I picked the 40s and 50s. If I ever get cable or satellite TV again, I may watch nothing but Turner Classic Movies. So much to explore from that time: drama and comedies where the writing was sharp (but writers were still treated like crap) and the dialogue stood out and could make a film worth watching.

There was a lot of crap made in the 90s, but the smaller and independent films really were interesting at times. A mixed decade for sure, but a much better wheat to chaff ratio than the 80s. The 80s was great for schlock and and bad movies, but quality films that stand the test of time were harder to come by.

I'll take the 40s for good movies (Bogart rules!), the 50s for fun monster movies (Go Godzilla!) and the 80s for sheer volume of entertaining trash (Go, um, well, okay, nothing specific is really coming to mind. *sigh* Guess it's time to do some more movie watching).

Quote from: The DarkSider on September 16, 2007, 04:55:20 PM
The 80s because it is a virtual dumpster of review material. 

Word up.

The home video market was the new drive-in market in the 80's and as such there were thousands of movies produced throughout the decade that served only to cash in on that market.  Lucky for us, a ton of bad ideas were made into movies, soaked in bad acting, nudity and violence and then bought up by every mom and pop shop that didn't know any better and just wanted to stock their shelves with new releases.

Even though a lot of them got limited theatrical runs, they made their names (and money) on VHS/Beta and gave a lot of us something to do on friday nights.  I grew up on a lot of these movies and I've been re/disocvering them ever since.

80's exploitation has such a crappy, poorly aged aesthetic about it and you can track all the pop culture trends from that time depending on what bad movie you're watching.

It's a personal thing perhaps but I find the classic movie stars of yesteryear are the ones I most want to revisit (Bogart, Tracy, Gable, Hepburn, Turner, Karloff, Lugosi, Price, Cushing, Lee, etc...). Once we got to the late 70s, there were just less of them in memorable stuff and honestly I think the loss of the true character actor is a large part of the reason I often feel little need to watch most stuff from the mid-70s on more than once although I do own a lot of stuff from then (it's just seems to be of a much lower quality overall).

I went with the '80s til now, mostly cause I grew up in the '90s.  But it also depends upon my mood and what kind of movie I want.  The '50s had the best for like, the "Giant Spiders/Crabs/Moths/Aliens" type of Sci-Fi/horror.  So it all depends how I feel at the time.

A few years ago I got addicted to watching films made before 1920, particularly those Georges Melies and D.W. Griffith shorts.

I'm largely over it now, but I can still sometimes spend a late evening watching this stuff.

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Here's looking at you, Georges.

This is a tough one for me, since my tastes cover many different genre. I like alot of the 70's Sci-fi and Blaxploitation flicks, and a bunch of 80's cronneberg movies and other 80's cheese. Although, IMO, the 90s were a crappy time for movies in general, some of my favorites (Boondock Saints, The Matrix Trilogy, Braindead, Naked Lunch, Donnie Darko, CB4) came from there, and the early 2000's. I know these aren't all, or even mostly BAD movies, I don't really consider many of the "Mainstream". All in all, I'd say the 80s are my most prefered decade. . It just seems like there something for every occasion that came out of the 80s, everything from Return of the Jedi to Bad Taste to Sixteen Candles. With the big boom of Cable television, there was an ungodly (or GODLY, depending on your outlook) of cheap T&A flicks, the kind that gave Cinemax the nickname "Skin-a-Max", which is always a good thing in my book. Not to mention all the 80s porn :)

B-Movies alone:

20s and 30s are good for really atmospheric good movies, like Fritz Lang, James Whale, or Tod Browning. I try to avoid 40s and 50s with few exceptions, too much "nukular commu-nazi" in thick period American accent (I am gonna be cursed with bad karma after this one).

60s thru 80s are my main feed, the "Hammicus International Productions", Price, Lee, Cushing, and Quarry in the 60s and 70s, then the golden slashers in the 80s. Then they started the "MTV editing" techniques really heavily in the 90s, most of the good B-Movies now are obscure horror-comedies (Think Monster Man and mebbe Slither), though Full Moon is still OK in my opinion, and SciFi originals (Which will go on for decades) are usually good for a laugh.

I guess I have to go with the 1940s, but like most here have suggested, I like films from each decade, particularly of a vein...like early 1970s Horror, or 1960s Sexploitation, or 1950s SCIFI and HITCHCOCK, or 1930s comedy, or 1940s crime/detective/romance/melodrama... I won't knock you Mr. Briggs for disliking the 40s and 50s, but you really don't know what you're missing just from the 40s: DARK PASSAGE (1947) KEY LARGO (1948) OUT OF THE PAST (1947) HIGH SIERRA (1941) THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) CASABLANCA (1942) (DERF: you're right, apparently BOGART RULES for me, too.)  ...WHITE HEAT (1949) CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) NOW VOYAGER (1942) THE LETTER (1940) THE LITTLE FOXES (1941) DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) BALL OF FIRE, MEET JOHN DOE, THE LADY EVE (all 1941)...  I could go on !!!

As much as I love cheesy kung fu flicks and blaxploitation from the 70s and 80s not to mention the tonnes of sci-fi actioners from the 80s and 90s, nothing compares to the love I have for the true bona fide black and white classics of yesteryear, even of the drive-in variety. I'm really fond of 1930s-40s mystery/detective films (there's some really great stuff from this period), the film noir of the 40s and 50s, all the classic black and white Horror filled with shadows and thick fog, the 1950s giant monster on the loose phase, the Old Dark House murder mystery, the Hot Rod car racing of the 50s, the teen rebels of the 50s, nearly every film had some element or another that was plain fun. In most of these films too, the stars are instantly recognizable to me every time I see 'em unlike the many Bruce Lee clones or lesser action heros of the 80s.

I dig the 70's because the atmosphere. Sometimes crazy stories and grittiness many of them have. Plus, I like to check out the cool wardrobe, funiture, wallpaper and cars.
I enjoy most decades but I really don't like much that was put out in the 90's till present. Although, it doesn't seem as bad as it was a couple years ago.

QuoteI dig the 70's because the atmosphere. Sometimes crazy stories and grittiness many of them have. Plus, I like to check out the cool wardrobe, funiture, wallpaper and cars.

I'm with you there. Every time I watch Clockwork Orange, I forget it's almost as old as I am, they must have been going for a futuristic look, and it still, after all these years, seems to work. Love how everything is over the top colorful.

I usually watch in the ranges of the 70's and 90.  I watch the 70's movie because some classic cults films came out.  80's had cheesy martial arts flicks, and more bad films.  90's was more of the karate flicks but not so much of the independent films I can stand. 

I think another reason why I chose the 80's was because I was born in 85 so I don't remember the 80's so I need to catch up what of some things I missed.
 

To me, the old black and white films are more romantic...nearly every single one of them has an hero who falls in love with a gal, and even though sometimes it's only a secondary element, it was rarely forgotten back in those days. Guess I'm old-fashioned as the hills but I'm a sap for that moment the hero gets the girl and they kiss... at the most basic level, I'm happy if a film has that but I'm in heaven if there's also a monster of some sort or another on the loose...

I picked the 80's followed by the 70's.

And as far as cheesy bad movies go, you can't get much better (or is that worse) than the 80's. 

...How could I forget SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) ?  THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES (1945) ABBOT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946) RED RIVER (1948) and not to mention my own obsession: Italian Neo-realism: CITTA APERTA ROMA (1945 ~ Open City) GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (1948 ~ German Year Zero) LA TERRA TREMA (1948 ~ The Earth Trembles) Luchino Visconti impossibly started it with OSSESSIONE (1943) and shifting gears but true to the 40s, there is Hollywood's version of the same story by James Cain: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) and speaking of John Garfield as the boxer in BODY AND SOUL (1947) what about great SPORTS MOVIES like PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942) ?  or THE SET-UP (1949)...?  The 1940s had lots to offer... don't forget THE CAT PEOPLE (1942) I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) THE RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE (1944) CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944)...  :teddyr:

Quote from: Allhallowsday on September 20, 2007, 09:42:13 PM
...How could I forget SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) ?  THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES (1945) ABBOT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946) RED RIVER (1948) and not to mention my own obsession: Italian Neo-realism: CITTA APERTA ROMA (1945 ~ Open City) GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (1948 ~ Germany Year Zero) LA TERRA TREMA (1948 ~ The Earth Trembles) Luchino Visconti impossibly started it with OSSESSIONE (1943) and shifting gears but true to the 40s, their is Hollywood's version of the same story by James Cain: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) and speaking of John Garfield as the boxer in BODY AND SOUL (1947) what about great SPORTS MOVIES like PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942) ?  or THE SET-UP (1949)...?  The 1940s had lots to offer... don't forget THE CAT PEOPLE (1942) I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) THE RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE (1944) CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944)...  :teddyr:

I would add the creepy DEAD of NIGHT (1945)-

  [youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFk8gjRek3s

Quote from: ghouck on September 20, 2007, 04:04:39 PM

QuoteI dig the 70's because the atmosphere. Sometimes crazy stories and grittiness many of them have. Plus, I like to check out the cool wardrobe, funiture, wallpaper and cars.

I'm with you there. Every time I watch Clockwork Orange, I forget it's almost as old as I am, they must have been going for a futuristic look, and it still, after all these years, seems to work. Love how everything is over the top colorful.

Yeah, it's not just all that though. I tend to try and compact everything of how I think and feel into the least amount of words as possible. For example, now, when it is a non work night and I've had a few drinks. :)

For me it's gotta be the 80s, and I'll give you 10 reasons why.

1.  1980 - Flash Gordon
2.  1981 - Road Warrior
3.  1982 - E.T.
4.  1983 - A Christmas Story
5.  1984 - Ghostbusters
6.  1985 - The Goonies
7.  1986 - Aliens
8.  1987 - Spaceballs
9.  1988 - Coming to America
10. 1989 - Batman

The 1980s. Its my favorite decade and I love everything about it. The 80s were wild, silly, cheesy, cool, imaginative and original.

Not to mention I was young, skinny, and remarkably good looking back then!!!!!

I was born in the mid-90s, though I'm honestly not all that interested in films of today. I usually watch alot of action, sci-fi and cult flicks from the 80s and 90s, sometimes even beyond then. 50s sci-fi can be of an interest to me at times.

Mostly 80s with a little bit of 70s. Was born in '86, but grew up with all those 80s Action-Movies and Comedies.

Mainly from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

I went with '50s, '80s and 2000-now.  A lot of the junk I watch is fairly recent, so I guess that's #1.  I also love '80s stuff for the big hair and classic Casio keyboard soundtracks.  And spandex  :teddyr:  And I've got a soft spot for old black and white '50 sci-fi and horror.  

Quote from: claws on December 21, 2013, 11:37:45 AM
The 1980s. Its my favorite decade and I love everything about it. The 80s were wild, silly, cheesy, cool, imaginative and original.

Not only that, but the girls were hotter, and the music was tops! Metal forever, baby!
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Quote from: indianasmith on December 21, 2013, 12:17:04 PM
Not to mention I was young, skinny, and remarkably good looking back then!!!!!

You and me both, Indy! When I think of how I looked in denim and leather, and the fact that my hair was bright blond (with NO gray like now) it makes me pine a lot for the last 30-some years.   As well, America was a much stronger place, and we were a nation that stood tall among the others, as special interests (nor our enemies overseas) were strong  enough to pose a true threat to us like they do today.

Quote from: indianasmith on December 21, 2013, 12:17:04 PM
Not to mention I was young, skinny, and remarkably good looking back then!!!!!

With great nostrils.  We got it.  Now you're just a big load?  :teddyr: :tongueout: :wink: :thumbup:

Heh heh, I was able to vote '40s again.  This thread is real necromancy. 

I'll take the 60s 70s and 80s film any day. Especially 70s and 80s.

I like the 70s....good/bad cop films,cheesy sci-fi and exploitation plus idiotic dance flicks. Some good stuff,too.

The 60's seem to wotk for me. Well, as long as it's a Toho fest.

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