Best year for movies?

There’s maybe 10 good movies on that list. Maybe.

 

Some of those movies never had a prime. It is interesting seeing the Best Picture noms of the last 20 years or so - a few I saw and they were good, but they weren't movies I felt I wanted to, or needed to see ever again. Great movies are movies you can watch over and over again. A lot of the art-house stuff that is nominated might be well crafted, tell meaningful stories but they don't emotionally resonate past a month (Which is why they come out in December just in time for the nominations).

 

Those are not art house movies. They are imitation art house movies. Right now in my home town theater they're showing 1917 and Little Women. Neither are comic book movies, but they're both very good in their own ways and aim to be mainstream commercial. I mean, Little Women has been mainstream commercial for 150 years. There are daily tours of the Alcott house five miles from where I'm typing this.

 

Yeah, but a lot of them are guilty pleasures.

 

Fletch was the best movie of '85.

 

I'm partial to 1988 myself.

Bull Durham, Die Hard, Rain Man, Beetlejuice, Big, Twins, The Naked Gun, A Fish Called Wanda and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Probably the last year I ever saw all of them in an actual cinema, as opposed to waiting for HBO or Showtime or VHS at the time.

 

Seems like there's two discussions going on: The Best Year for Films and The Year That Had The Most of My Favorite Films.

 

As far as bad years for movies, 1990 was pretty unmemorable but I think history was kind to the best of them.

"Ghost" and "Dances with Wolves" were the top box office draws, and I remember the final numbers being stunningly underwhelming for both. But there were plenty of others released in the year which hold up today, namely "Driving Miss Daisy," "The Hunt for Red October," "Pretty Woman" and "Goodfellas."

In fact, I think "Home Alone" (which opened 11/18/90) probably rescued the film industry for that year.

 

Looks like the Backdoor Maddux.

 

Seeing some of these movies listed, it's funny that I think I could tell you with 99 percent certainty every movie I've ever seen in a theater.
Like, I couldn't make a list of them. There are way too many for that. But if you throw out a movie title I could tell you whether I saw it in a theater or not.

 

To me, the best year for movies was the year I saw Farrah Fawcett’s boobies.