All-time best year(s) for movies? (1 Viewer)

[GregR]

Based on the quantity and quality of movies released in each year, what do you think are the all-time best years for movies?  

May add a poll later based on the responses.

 

[wikkidpissah]

1914 - it's been all downhill since Tillie's Punctured Romance

 

[Don Quixote]

1939. 

 

[jb1020]

I'm not a movie buff, but I saw it on twitter the other day that between Summer 1993-1994 all of these came out.  

Jurassic Park

What's Eating Gilbert Grape 

Schindler's List

Tombstone 

In the Line of Fire

Philadelphia

Grumpy Old Men

 Sleepless in Seattle

Demolition Man

The Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

The Lion King

Forrest Gump

True Lies

Dumb and Dumber

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 

Natural Born Killers

 Speed 

Wyatt Earp

 

[Leroy Hoard]

This person makes a pretty good case for 1990.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-year-in-movies-1990/

 

[GregR]

I was looking at 1998 which was what got me wondering.  Pretty good year. 

Saving Private Ryan

Shakespeare in Love

Big Lebowski

The Wedding Singer

Blade

The Waterboy

Enemy of the State

Wild Things

Truman Show

There's Something About Mary

Thin Red Line

Armageddon

American History X

Rushmore

Pleasantville

Mask of Zorro

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

A Bug's Life

Antz

What Dreams May Come

Run Lola Run

Mulan

The Faculty

Godzilla

Rush Hour

Rounders

The Negoatiator

Prince of Egypt

Deep Impact

US Marshalls

You've Got Mail

Primary Colors

Bulworth

The Siege

Pi

BASEketball

Meet Joe Black

Ronin

 

[Ilov80s]

1939 is the traditional year with: Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Stagecoach, Only Angels Have Wings, Rules of the Game and more.

I really liked 2000: Gladiator, Memento, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Traffic, American Psycho, Almost Famous, O Brother Where Art Thou,  Snatch, Requiem for a Dream, Cast Away, In the Mood for Love, Yi Yi, Meet the Parents, High Fidelity, Best in Show, Erin Brockovich, Remember the Titans, Sexy Beast