1984 - Ghostbusters
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 - The Princess Bride
1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1989 - Back to the Future, Part 2
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 - Aladdin
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - The Lion King
1995 - Mallrats
1996 - Fargo
1997 - L.A. Confidential
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Election
2000 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - Lilo and Stitch
2003 - Lost in Translation
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006 - The Departed
2007 - Hot Fuzz
2008 - just the first act of WALL-EForgetting Sarah Marshall
2009 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2010 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2011 - Drive
2012 - Looper
2013 - Iron Man 3
2014 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2015 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2016 - Rogue One
2017 - Logan
some years were tough, with multiple top 20 movies ever in them.
some were not tough at all. I don't love either of those Scorsese films, but they brought machine guns to the knife fights of their respective years
The hardest choice came down between The Prestige & Pan's Labyrinth for 2006.
Just... How do you???
To be fair, you made the right choice IMO. That is easily my favorite Nolan film. While Pan's Labyrinth is amazing, too, the overall emotion of it brings me down too much. Every now and then I want a movie to tell me everything's going to be alright, you know?
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The hardest choice came down between The Prestige & Pan's Labyrinth for 2006.
Just... How do you???
To be fair, you made the right choice IMO. That is easily my favorite Nolan film. While Pan's Labyrinth is amazing, too, the overall emotion of it brings me down too much. Every now and then I want a movie to tell me everything's going to be alright, you know?
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See, I went with Pan's Labyrinth as it is a movie with emotion and not a Christopher Nolan film
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I did exclude a couple of movies that are too emotionally resonant for me though - Antichrist and Upstream Color were both not included because while I greatly enjoyed watching them I have no desire to ever do so again
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The Prestige and Pan's Labyrinth are the two best films by two brilliant directors with some very consistent flaws.
I will always love Antichrist because I was once sitting next to an achingly pretentious person on a plane (like "what wines do you have" "red or white" "ugh... what year is the white?" etc etc) who opened their Macbook and started playing Antichrist (while looking around to make sure everyone had noticed they were watching a very fancy black and white film, by a foreign director, on a macbook) apparently unaware that the first three minutes of Antichrist prominently feature Willem Dafoe's slick, turgid cock going absolutely to town on a nice lady. Just the sight of them hurriedly slamming the laptop shut and going bright red while everyone around giggled at their embarrassment has bought Von Trier a lifetime pass.
Like, looking over 2009, I'm tempted to say something easy like The Dark Knight or Star Trek. But then I'm suuuuper tempted to say The Brothers Bloom or Antichrist.
Fuck, or Bronson!
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1983: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
1984: The Terminator
1985: Back to the Future
1986: The Transformers: The Movie
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Die Hard
1989: The Little Mermaid
1990: Home Alone
1991: Beauty and the Beast
1992: The Mighty Ducks
1993: Jurassic Park
1994: The Lion King
1995: Apollo 13
1996: Independence Day
1997: The Fifth Element
1998: Mulan
1999: Galaxy Quest
2000: The Emperor's New Groove
2001: Ocean's Eleven
2002: Catch Me if You Can
2003: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004: The Incredibles
2005: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
2006: The Departed
2007: The Simpsons Movie
2008: Iron Man
2009: Up
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: X-Men: First Class
2012: Dredd
2013: Pacific Rim
2014: Guardians of the Galaxy
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: Zootopia
Man you start out thinking this is going to be easy until you realize that multiple excellent movies that you love came out in the same year and it is legit hard to figure out which one you like the most! Like, I was really stuck on certain years, like 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2008, 2010, 2014... URGH.
1995 easily took me the longest, I think, though I had 2 for 1999 (Galaxy Quest and The Matrix) right up until I hit the Post button.
very annoyed at the lack of Spider-Man 2 on these lists
I almost included the first one I think, but I prefer the first to the second in a big way
That's a Spider-Man opinion that I'll disagree with, but still respect
I super hate the Peter is losing his powers because he doesn't believe in himself plotline, so while there's a lot else to like in the second one, that sours it for me
very annoyed at the lack of Spider-Man 2 on these lists
I think I've only watched the first three Spider-Man movies one time apiece (and the next two not at all). For me, 어린 신부 just holds more nostalgic rewatchability due to circumstances of 2004. My main criteria/tiebreaker was "Out of these in this year that I've seen, what is the movie I'd most feel like rewatching right now?"
Clint EastwoodMy baby's in there someplaceShe crawled right inRegistered Userregular
Ferris Buellers Day Off is the movie i cherish most of all.
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1977 Star Wars
1978 Dawn of the Dead
1979 The Muppet Movie
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 Ghostbusters
1985 Real Genius
1986 Big Trouble in Little China
1987 The Untouchables
1988 Die Hard
1989 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
1990 The Hunt for Red October
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 The Last of the Mohicans
1993 Groundhog Day
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Babe
1996 Independence Day
1997 Grosse Pointe Blank
1998 Dark City
1999 Galaxy Quest
2000 Unbreakable
2001 Monsters Inc.
2002 28 Days Later
2003 Lost in Translation
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006 Stranger Than Fiction
2007 Hot Fuzz
2008 The Dark Knight
2009 District 9
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs The World
2011 Contagion
2012 Cloud Atlas
2013 White House Down
2014 The Guest
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 Sing Street
Other than 1985 most years were easy to narrow down to 2 choices, initially. But 1987 through the early 2000s was pretty tough most of the time. Most years from 1985 onward could have easily gone to another choice if had drunk one more beer, or was in a slightly different mood, or... I thought 1995 was a sure thing for Heat, until I realized Babe came out the same year. And for as much as I love Heat, if I were to sit down and watch one of the two all the way through it would be Babe more often than not. Making that choice lead to George Miller and Edgar Wright being the only directors with two films on my list; if I had gone with Heat instead then Michael Mann would have had two instead of George Miller.
2013 had a decent number of very good movies, but almost none that I would call my favorite for the year. That, 2011 and 1998 were tough to make a choice on for very different reasons than most other years.
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The task is complicated considerably by foreign films. In my case, specifically Hong Kong films.
very annoyed at the lack of Spider-Man 2 on these lists
yeah unfortunately that year included The Incredibles and Mean Girls and Million Dollar Baby
I mean it also has Eternal Sunshine, but I made my choice (out of the three movies listed the only one I am willing to concede any ground on is Mean Girls, and yes, I'm aware of how stupid it is to say things like "concede ground on" in this discussion)
The task is complicated considerably by foreign films. In my case, specifically Hong Kong films.
i got kinda lucky as a huge number of foreign films i love were released before i was born, and i never got super into the hong kong renaissance/explosion if the nineties
though i kinda wanna do an all foreign version of my list now..
it already represents six countries, but that's not diverse enough
thinking there'd be a lot of stephen chow and takashi miike
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Foreign films would factor in more for me in a list of best films for each year. Certainly they would factor in far more if I were to just list my top 100 of all time. For this list though any that sprang to mind were always topped by something else. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Oldboy came very close, but Unbreakable and Lost in Translation both speak to me on a far more personal level.
Leon: The Professional could be my top choice for 1994 depending on mood, but I give the edge to Pulp Fiction mainly because my friends and I had just discovered Quentin Tarantino shortly before it came out via passing around a VHS copy of Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction was a damned revelation for us at that age and coming from that discovery.
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94 is just stacked.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Naked Gun
Christmas Vacation
Quigley Down Under
T2
Aladdin
Groundhog Day
Lion King
Major Payne
Fargo
Men in Black
The Big Lebowski
The Iron Giant
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Zoolander
Minority Report
Lost In Translation (sorry, X2)
Eternal Sunshine
A History of Violence
Children of Men
No Country for Old Men
In Bruges
500 Days of Summer
Toy Story 3
Midnight in Paris
Moonrise Kingdom
Gravity
Boyhood
Star Wars
The Nice Guys, I guess. Shit
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1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 - The Princess Bride
1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1989 - Back to the Future, Part 2
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992 - Aladdin
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - The Lion King
1995 - Mallrats
1996 - Fargo
1997 - L.A. Confidential
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Election
2000 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - Lilo and Stitch
2003 - Lost in Translation
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006 - The Departed
2007 - Hot Fuzz
2008 - just the first act of WALL-EForgetting Sarah Marshall
2009 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2010 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2011 - Drive
2012 - Looper
2013 - Iron Man 3
2014 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2015 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2016 - Rogue One
2017 - Logan
some years were tough, with multiple top 20 movies ever in them.
some were not tough at all. I don't love either of those Scorsese films, but they brought machine guns to the knife fights of their respective years
jason x is a very good 2001 choice
To be fair, you made the right choice IMO. That is easily my favorite Nolan film. While Pan's Labyrinth is amazing, too, the overall emotion of it brings me down too much. Every now and then I want a movie to tell me everything's going to be alright, you know?
No.
Give into despair.
But I'm totally a Pan's Labyrinth kind of guy.
Like, looking over 2009, I'm tempted to say something easy like The Dark Knight or Star Trek. But then I'm suuuuper tempted to say The Brothers Bloom or Antichrist.
Fuck, or Bronson!
Literally just saw it for the first time last week, too.
That's a title all right
I almost included the first one I think, but I prefer the first to the second in a big way
That's a Spider-Man opinion that I'll disagree with, but still respect
Finally, Ralph is gonna show his ass
1984: The Terminator
1985: Back to the Future
1986: The Transformers: The Movie
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Die Hard
1989: The Little Mermaid
1990: Home Alone
1991: Beauty and the Beast
1992: The Mighty Ducks
1993: Jurassic Park
1994: The Lion King
1995: Apollo 13
1996: Independence Day
1997: The Fifth Element
1998: Mulan
1999: Galaxy Quest
2000: The Emperor's New Groove
2001: Ocean's Eleven
2002: Catch Me if You Can
2003: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004: The Incredibles
2005: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
2006: The Departed
2007: The Simpsons Movie
2008: Iron Man
2009: Up
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: X-Men: First Class
2012: Dredd
2013: Pacific Rim
2014: Guardians of the Galaxy
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: Zootopia
Man you start out thinking this is going to be easy until you realize that multiple excellent movies that you love came out in the same year and it is legit hard to figure out which one you like the most! Like, I was really stuck on certain years, like 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2008, 2010, 2014... URGH.
1995 easily took me the longest, I think, though I had 2 for 1999 (Galaxy Quest and The Matrix) right up until I hit the Post button.
I super hate the Peter is losing his powers because he doesn't believe in himself plotline, so while there's a lot else to like in the second one, that sours it for me
i almost had spider-man 3 on my list
I think I've only watched the first three Spider-Man movies one time apiece (and the next two not at all). For me, 어린 신부 just holds more nostalgic rewatchability due to circumstances of 2004. My main criteria/tiebreaker was "Out of these in this year that I've seen, what is the movie I'd most feel like rewatching right now?"
I was so distracted by hot fuzz/hot rod/walk hard that I didn't even think to look for it
I like Spider-Man 2 but I went with the superior super-hero film.
uh excuse me but only one of these movies has:
yeah unfortunately that year included The Incredibles and Mean Girls and Million Dollar Baby
I appreciate the deliberate irony of this post.
Steam ID - VeldrinD | SS Post | Wishlist
1978 Dawn of the Dead
1979 The Muppet Movie
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 Ghostbusters
1985 Real Genius
1986 Big Trouble in Little China
1987 The Untouchables
1988 Die Hard
1989 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
1990 The Hunt for Red October
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 The Last of the Mohicans
1993 Groundhog Day
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Babe
1996 Independence Day
1997 Grosse Pointe Blank
1998 Dark City
1999 Galaxy Quest
2000 Unbreakable
2001 Monsters Inc.
2002 28 Days Later
2003 Lost in Translation
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006 Stranger Than Fiction
2007 Hot Fuzz
2008 The Dark Knight
2009 District 9
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs The World
2011 Contagion
2012 Cloud Atlas
2013 White House Down
2014 The Guest
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 Sing Street
Other than 1985 most years were easy to narrow down to 2 choices, initially. But 1987 through the early 2000s was pretty tough most of the time. Most years from 1985 onward could have easily gone to another choice if had drunk one more beer, or was in a slightly different mood, or... I thought 1995 was a sure thing for Heat, until I realized Babe came out the same year. And for as much as I love Heat, if I were to sit down and watch one of the two all the way through it would be Babe more often than not. Making that choice lead to George Miller and Edgar Wright being the only directors with two films on my list; if I had gone with Heat instead then Michael Mann would have had two instead of George Miller.
2013 had a decent number of very good movies, but almost none that I would call my favorite for the year. That, 2011 and 1998 were tough to make a choice on for very different reasons than most other years.
I mean it also has Eternal Sunshine, but I made my choice (out of the three movies listed the only one I am willing to concede any ground on is Mean Girls, and yes, I'm aware of how stupid it is to say things like "concede ground on" in this discussion)
i got kinda lucky as a huge number of foreign films i love were released before i was born, and i never got super into the hong kong renaissance/explosion if the nineties
though i kinda wanna do an all foreign version of my list now..
it already represents six countries, but that's not diverse enough
thinking there'd be a lot of stephen chow and takashi miike
Leon: The Professional could be my top choice for 1994 depending on mood, but I give the edge to Pulp Fiction mainly because my friends and I had just discovered Quentin Tarantino shortly before it came out via passing around a VHS copy of Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction was a damned revelation for us at that age and coming from that discovery.
Christmas Vacation
Quigley Down Under
T2
Aladdin
Groundhog Day
Lion King
Major Payne
Fargo
Men in Black
The Big Lebowski
The Iron Giant
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Zoolander
Minority Report
Lost In Translation (sorry, X2)
Eternal Sunshine
A History of Violence
Children of Men
No Country for Old Men
In Bruges
500 Days of Summer
Toy Story 3
Midnight in Paris
Moonrise Kingdom
Gravity
Boyhood
Star Wars
The Nice Guys, I guess. Shit