Best Single Year for Movies?

[Midnightangel]

What year, in your opinion, had the best single year for movies?

I'm going with 1994.


The Lion King

Forrest Gump

Shawshank

Speed

Pulp Fiction

The Crow

True Lies

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Dumb and Dumber

AirHeads

Legends of the Fall


Some GREAT dramas in there, along with a couple great action flicks and side splitting comedies.

 

[Logicallylethal]

94 was definitely one of my favorite movie years.

In terms of blockbusters 2012 was a really good year (some good serious dramas sprinkled in there too)

- The Dark Knight Rises
- Skyfall
- The Avengers
- Django Unchained
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Wreck It Ralph
- Looper
- Argo
- Zero Dark Thirty

 

[TDs3nOut]

An inordinately large number of great movies in 1967:

In the Heat of the Night
The Graduate
Cool Hand Luke
Bonnie and Clyde
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Producers
Wait Until Dark
In Cold Blood

 

[MarkOU]

2000 was great.

Academy Winner: Gladiator

X-Men (the first one)
Requiem for a Dream
Remember the Titans
American Psycho
Road Trip
Scary Movie (the first one)
Almost Famous
Cast Away
O Brother, Where Art Thou
The Patriot
Unbreakable
Coyote Ugly
The Perfect Storm
Pitch Black
Pay it Forward
Final Destination (the first one)
Me, Myself & Irene
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Meet the Parents
High Fidelity
Traffic


2000 was a legit year

 

[iowajerms]

1990s had great movie years. It could be that I am old enough to remember all of these movies as well.

1992 - Aladdin, A Few Good Men, Wayne's World, A League Of Their Own, White Men Can't Jump, The Last Of The Mohicans

1993 - Jurassic Park, Mrs Doubtfire, The Fugitive, Schindler's List, Cliffhanger, Free Willy, Groundhog Day, Grumpy Old Men, Cool Runnings, Demolition Man, Tombstone

1994 you mentioned

1995 - Apollo 13, Toy Story, Se7en, Die Hard: With A Vengence, Crimson Tide, Braveheart, Billy Madison, Outbreak, Bad Boys, Ace Ventura When Nature Calls

1996 - Independence Day, Twister, Mission Impossible, The Rock, Jerry Maguire, Eraser

1997 - Titanic, Good Will Hunting, Tomorrow Never Dies, Men In Black, My Best Friend's Wedding, Air Force One, The Fifth Element, Con Air, Liar Liar, Beverly Hills Ninja

1998 - Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, Lethal Weapon 4, Dr Dolittle, Rounders, Rush Hour, Enemy of the State, Deep Impact, Truman Show, Godzilla, The Waterboy

1999 - The Matrix, The Green Mile, American Beauty, Star Wars Episode 1, Any Given Sunday, The Mummy, The Sixth Sense, Varsity Blues, Big Daddy, American Pie

 

[Logicallylethal]

1990s had great movie years. It could be that I am old enough to remember all of these movies as well.

1992 - Aladdin, A Few Good Men, Wayne's World, A League Of Their Own, White Men Can't Jump, The Last Of The Mohicans

1993 - Jurassic Park, Mrs Doubtfire, The Fugitive, Schindler's List, Cliffhanger, Free Willy, Groundhog Day, Grumpy Old Men, Cool Runnings, Demolition Man, Tombstone

1994 you mentioned

1995 - Apollo 13, Toy Story, Se7en, Die Hard: With A Vengence, Crimson Tide, Braveheart, Billy Madison, Outbreak, Bad Boys, Ace Ventura When Nature Calls

1996 - Independence Day, Twister, Mission Impossible, The Rock, Jerry Maguire, Eraser

1997 - Titanic, Good Will Hunting, Tomorrow Never Dies, Men In Black, My Best Friend's Wedding, Air Force One, The Fifth Element, Con Air, Liar Liar, Beverly Hills Ninja

1998 - Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, Lethal Weapon 4, Dr Dolittle, Rounders, Rush Hour, Enemy of the State, Deep Impact, Truman Show, Godzilla, The Waterboy

1999 - The Matrix, The Green Mile, American Beauty, Star Wars Episode 1, Any Given Sunday, The Mummy, The Sixth Sense, Varsity Blues, Big Daddy, American Pie

You forgot the best movie in 97...LA Confidential

 

[Cave_Johnson]

1990s had great movie years. It could be that I am old enough to remember all of these movies as well.

1992 - Aladdin, A Few Good Men, Wayne's World, A League Of Their Own, White Men Can't Jump, The Last Of The Mohicans

1993 - Jurassic Park, Mrs Doubtfire, The Fugitive, Schindler's List, Cliffhanger, Free Willy, Groundhog Day, Grumpy Old Men, Cool Runnings, Demolition Man, Tombstone

1994 you mentioned

1995 - Apollo 13, Toy Story, Se7en, Die Hard: With A Vengence, Crimson Tide, Braveheart, Billy Madison, Outbreak, Bad Boys, Ace Ventura When Nature Calls

1996 - Independence Day, Twister, Mission Impossible, The Rock, Jerry Maguire, Eraser

1997 - Titanic, Good Will Hunting, Tomorrow Never Dies, Men In Black, My Best Friend's Wedding, Air Force One, The Fifth Element, Con Air, Liar Liar, Beverly Hills Ninja

1998 - Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, Lethal Weapon 4, Dr Dolittle, Rounders, Rush Hour, Enemy of the State, Deep Impact, Truman Show, Godzilla, The Waterboy

1999 - The Matrix, The Green Mile, American Beauty, Star Wars Episode 1, Any Given Sunday, The Mummy, The Sixth Sense, Varsity Blues, Big Daddy, American Pie

Replace Godzilla with Half Baked. Bob Saget's most classic role to date.

 

[douggie]

1984:

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
The Terminator
Ghostbusters
Beverly Hills Cop
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Karate Kid
Footloose
Dune
Conan The Destroyer
Amadeus
Spinal Tap
Gremlins

 

[Logicallylethal]

1980 wasn't too shabby either

- Star Wars Ep V: Empire Strikes Back
- Raging Bull
- The Shining
- Caddyshack
- Mad Max

 

[HammerDown]

Since 1990 my two favorites have been Braveheart and Shawshank.

 

[MarkOU]

Since 1990 my two favorites have been Gladiator and Shawshank.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

1984:

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
The Terminator
Ghostbusters
Beverly Hills Cop
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Karate Kid
Footloose
Dune
Conan The Destroyer
Amadeus
Spinal Tap
Gremlins

That movie is to the books what DragonBall Evolution is to the show/manga. Can't argue with the others though, solid year.

 

[douggie]

Hey, I liked Dune. Maybe it was Sting when he got whacked that did it for me.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

Hey, I liked Dune. Maybe it was Sting when he got whacked that did it for me.

It's not terrible on its own ( it can't be, Patrick Stewart is in it ) but like I said it basically takes a shit on the books. SciFi miniseries was better IMO.

 

[lilchi721]

94 was definitely one of my favorite movie years.

In terms of blockbusters 2012 was a really good year (some good serious dramas sprinkled in there too)

- The Dark Knight Rises
- Skyfall
- The Avengers
- Django Unchained
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Wreck It Ralph
- Looper
- Argo
- Zero Dark Thirty

You forgot the Hunger Games

 

[Midnightangel]

1984:

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
The Terminator
Ghostbusters
Beverly Hills Cop
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Karate Kid
Footloose
Dune
Conan The Destroyer
Amadeus
Spinal Tap
Gremlins

Good call. Lots of classics here.

Dune was WAY fraking over rated, IMHO. Everyone got hot and bothered about Sting being in the movie and to me it was a long nap. Didn't care for Conan the Destroyer. They tried to make someone other than Arnold the hero and it didn't work.

Most of the others though read like a who's who of great films. We found out who 'Freddy' was and why he hated teens, Karate Kid was huge, as was Footloose...lots of classics.

 

[iruletheskool]

94 then 2000


Nothing else is even close

 

[cezero]

A bunch of my favorites came out in 94.

pulp fiction, shawshank, forrest gump to name a few.

 

[iowajerms]

The year 1939, which remains the most celebrated year in the history of film, had five films in the American Film Institute top 100:

Gone With the Wind (1939) (# 4)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) (# 6)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (# 29)
Stagecoach (1939) (# 63)
Wuthering Heights (1939) (# 73)

 

[Smart]

The top 5 in order:

1974
1993
2010
1975
2013