OK, here's something for you all to think about and, as the title suggests - discuss, stating examples if you disagree.
Horror Movies - Best decade was the 1970's.
Although the original Universal monster movies defined the genre in the 30's and 40's, I think this decade set the tone and raised the bar considerably from the shlocky B-movies from the 50's and 60's (Hitchcock notwithstanding).
Examples - Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead, Halloween, Exorcist, Omen.
Comedy Movies - Best decade was the 1980's.
whereas nowadays it's teenagers doing gross things for cheap laughs, in the 1980's there were genuinely funny people (ah yes, comedians, I think they were called) doing funny things, bending rules and mixing genre's.
Examples - Man With Two Brains, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Airplane!, Planes Trains And Automobiles.
"Independent" movies - Best decade was the 1990's.
Don't really know how else to put this, but you'll probably know what I mean. The quirky, character driven movies that didn't cost a billion dollars to make but certainly ended up making them. What's another word for it? Tarantino movies? Help a brother out here.
Examples - Trainspotting, Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Shallow Grave.
Action movies - Best decade was the 1980's.
Car chases, cool characters, good fight scenes, iconic dialogue.. wheras the action movie nowadays is something of an embarrassment (I'm sorry? Who's your leading actor? Jason Statham? Well, best just "transport" me someplace else), in the 80's some of the best movies were..
Examples - Commando, Running Man, Rambo, Police Story, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon.
Sci-Fi movies - Best decade was the 1980's.
Although Star Wars came in the '70's, it was the 1980's that fully exploited its popularity, giving birth to a million inferior copies, but also some spectacular movies as well. Some of these could arguably go in the "Action" genre, but what the hell - same decade.
Examples - Aliens, Predator, Star Man, The Thing, ET, Tron, Empire Strikes Back, Terminator.
Superhero movies - best decade is the 00's.
I refuse to say the "noughties" (ugh!) I know this could be tied in with action and sci-fi but hey, it's The Fortress. Anything goes. And it's my favourite type of movie anyway. And let's face it, we have all been spoiled for choice in the last six years. OK, there have been some cracking superhero movies throughout the years, but the level of success Spider-Man achieved opened so many doors and gained new respect for the spandex set. Finally the mind-bending ideas could finally be realised with today's special effects, and true writers with knowledge and passion of the books were the ones making the movies and calling the shots.
Examples - Batman Begins, Spider-Man, X-Men, Punisher, Unbreakable, Hulk.
And, uh.. that'll do for now. Any more genres I care to mention (or indeed, you care to mention, feel free. Just try and follow this pattern).
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That's the best of British, right there. Oh my.
Wow. That's actually pretty excellent. I'd always loved Danger Mouse but never got round to buying it because it was usually just three random episodes on DVD. But hells bells, every episode ever? Count me in for that.
The Curmudgeon agrees with you on the TV show, Hacker (as I'm going to call you from now on, I'd toyed with HA or Hackanon - Hacker it is). The 80's were a SUPERB time for kids cartoons, from Dungeons and Dragons to He-Man to Thundercats to Dogtanion.. the list goes on and on, and although there may be a touch of dewey eyed setimentality when you think about them, the shows still stand strong today. Great characters, good (if dated) animation.. head and shoulders above the noisy, hollow CGI trash that's polluting kids brains today.
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