Stevo985 Posted June 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2015 I'm waiting to see what year rjw thinks was the pinnacle of cinema '69 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Hard to pick an individual year out really 73 was pretty good though The Sting The Whicker Man Papillon Paper Moon Mean Streets High Plains Drifter The Exorcist Enter the Dragon Don't look now Maybe not all classics but films i liked from that year. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MakemineVanilla Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 1939, no question. Dark Victory Gone With The Wind Goodbye Mister Chips Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Ninotchka Of Mice And Men Stagecoach Wuthering Heights The Wizard Of Oz The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes The Cat And The Canary Destry Rides Again The Four Feathers The Four Just Men Gunga Din The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Jamaica Inn The Roaring Twenties La Regle Du Jeu Young Mister Lincoln Union Pacific Someone once said that if all the colour films were destroyed and we were only left with the black and white, we'd still have all the best films. It is difficult to argue with such a conclusion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I'm waiting to see what year rjw thinks was the pinnacle of cinema The year they started getting rid of those forest-like pubes. Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted June 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2015 I hope you reached that conclusion based on " Top Secret " being released that year I've very happy memories of a summer spent watching large chunks of that being filmed in a field just outside Gerrards Cross. I met Val Kilmer and the bloke that played Chocolate Mousse, watched a pantomime cow walk through a supposed binocular and was given some spent rounds from a machine gun. Best summer holiday ever! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 24, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 24, 2015 Someone once said that if all the colour films were destroyed and we were only left with the black and white, we'd still have all the best films. It is difficult to argue with such a conclusion. I think both have equal merit. I do think people can over-romanticise the black and white films at times, to the point where even being complimentary to colour films is seen as a slight on black and white. Some of the best films ever are black and white and some of them are colour IMHO. I don't see a need to pick either side tbh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2015 Someone once said that if all the colour films were destroyed and we were only left with the black and white, we'd still have all the best films. It is difficult to argue with such a conclusion. I think it's incredibly easy to argue with that conclusion. Although the very ambiguous definition of "all" would have to be confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2015 I once worked out the average 'originally made' date of my DVD collection. It was 1943. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Is that what retirement does to a man? Kill me at 60 please. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2015 Is that what retirement does to a man? Kill me at 60 please. No, it's what appreciating the history of cinema does to a man. I didn't suddenly start liking classic movies when I retired, I always did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 In case people aren't actually bothering to click the link, and in response to Moonman. 1984 Ghostbusters Beverly Hills Cop Terminator A Nightmare on Elm Street Gremlins Police Academy Footloose Splash Dune Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Star Trek III : The Search for Spock This is Spinal Tap Cannonball Run 2 Friday the 13th : The Final Chapter Against All Odds Children of the Corn Supergirl 1984 Missing in Action The Muppets take Manhattan Bachelor Party Firestarter The Last Starfighter Amadeus Revenge of the Nerds Conan the Destroyer and if you're looking for the best month to go and visit the cinema ever... as someone pointed out, the following films would all have been showing in the cinema during June 1984. Ghostbusters Gremlins The Karate Kid The Terminator Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom. What a fantastic month that would have been! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Yep 1984 was great. I was born too to make it extra special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted June 24, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 24, 2015 Did the Terminator play in many theatres? I remember it being more of a video thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted June 24, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 24, 2015 You can add "Paris,Texas" to that 1984 list BOF. One of my favourites. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Is that what retirement does to a man? Kill me at 60 please. No, it's collecting all the films that i went to see at the cinema as a young man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted June 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2015 I'd find it utterly impossible to pick a favourite year if I'm honest. I could probably name at least ten great movies that I love for most years. That's just me and my movie obsession though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 You can add "Paris,Texas" to that 1984 list BOF. One of my favourites. Yep one of my all time favs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2015 Is that what retirement does to a man? Kill me at 60 please. No, it's collecting all the films that i went to see at the cinema as a young man Very funny. But there's a grain of truth in it. Many of them are the films that I saw on TV as a boy in the 60s. But I've also since got into cinema history, with a particular love of 40s noir. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Dunno if I did this already but What if james was hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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