It amazes me how many now classic and great movies came out in the 80's and 90's
 

And they are the best. It's amazing how many now classic movie franchises came out during those decades:

- Star Wars V and VI
- Back to the Future
- Ghostbusters
- Terminator
- Predator
- Die Hard
- Lethal Weapon
- Arnold Scwharzeneggar movies in general
- Total Recall
- True Lies
- Robocop
- Jurassic Park
- Rocky films
- Rambo
- Demolition Man
- Mad Max
- Indiana Jones
- Blade Runner
- Aliens
- E.T.
- Independence Day
- Galaxy Quest
- 80's and 90's James Bond movies
- The Mummy
- Jackie Chan Movies
- Braveheart
- Home Alone
- The Mask
- Jim Carrey movies
- The 5th Element
- Escape from New York
- Speed
- Batman 1989
- Ninja Turtles movies
- Star Trek films
- Mission Impossible
- The Matrix
- Disney classics (The Little Mermaid, Alladdin, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story)

etc. And this is on top of everything I'm forgetting. I didn't even list many comedies because I'm not into them much, but there's all of those as well.

Jesus Christ. The 80's and 90's KILLED IT for movies. These two decades were amazing for film.

Goddamn, it's like all of modern pop culture was defined by these films.

It's just a generational thing man. The people who made those movies felt the same way about the 40s and 50s.

What were the big films of the 2000's besides the superhero craze started by Marvel? I liked some other films, but nowhere as much as the 80's and 90's.

Pirates of the Caribbean 1/2/3
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Harry Potter series
Fast and Furious series

Well said. That is exactly it! People are nostalgic for things of their youth no matter the generation. My father is nostalgic for 50/60s baseball. I am nostalgic for '91-2005 baseball. There are certain things that transcend generational nostalgic appreciation such as my preference for 60s or 80s music opposed to when I grew up in the 90s' up.

Nothing. Nothing at all. Maybe Avatar.

But these are movies based on books like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Is Pirates of the Caribbean based on a book too? I'm not sure.

Based on a ride and a game.

You didn't say "original" movies, just movies. There ya go, mate, some biggies off the top of my head.

A lot of movies that came out in the 2000's were also sequels or remakes to old movie franchises. Like Indie 4, Rambo 4, Die Hard 4, Star Wars prequels, etc.

So it feels like we didn't have that many brand new breakout movie franchises that aren't superhero movies.

I would count The Matrix as a 00s movie even if it technically came out in 99 but yeah not much of there the p past 17 years. I mean there's a few movies I love but they aren't huge franchises like the ones CC listed.

I wouldn't. And if it came out in '99 that means it filmed in '98.

Nowadays it seems like indie movies, and stuff like netflix original movies are big. But I don't really watch too many of them.

Disney animated movies have still been top notch over the last two decades though.

Cubed making posts about nostalgia/aging? BINGO!! Pretty sure I just filled my card on this thread. Didn't even need the free space lol!

Seriously though, I can see his point- there were alot of iconic filns made in those years. These days? Not so much.

I can't even remember the last time I saw a film that wasn't part of an already established franchise from 20-30 years ago. Granted I don't watch "real movies" as in dramas, documentaries, or most comedies, so what do I know.

Robin Williams had a lot of hits and misses back then. My cousin Amy and I used to love watching Hook, in which he played a fully grown Peter Pan. Another cousin and I once rented the movie Jack where he plays a 10 year old child who due to some strange birth defect ages 4 times faster than normal. It made for a very interesting story, though it was a little depressing at certain points, especially when he came to the realization he'd be dead by his mid 20s. Actually now that I think about it, that movie would probably be right up CyberCubed's ally if he enjoyed comedies.

Eh, most of those 80/90s movies are so outdated and I won't even watch em anymore tbh. Even if I would I won't be into it as much.

There's a lot of gem in 2000s era til now.

1. La La Land
2. Star Wars Rogue One
3. Zootopia
4. Mad Max Fury Road
5. Inception
6. Harry Potter 7 films saga
7. The Lord of the Rings & Hobbit sagas
8. V for Vandetta
9. Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2
10. Shutter Island
11. The Dark Knight trilogy
12. Inside Out
13. 12 Years a Slave
14. Finding Nemo
15. Pans Labyrinth
16. Sin City
17. Toy Story trilogy
18. Monsters Inc & Monsters University
19. The Bourne trilogy
20. Hunger Games saga
21. Deadpool
22. Nerve
23. Tangled
24. Frozen
25. Big Hero 6
26. Rise of the Guardians
27. Moana
28. Trolls

And many more. I didn't even include horror films like Sinister and Insidious yet.


So it's a mix bag. Not everything is great in those old era. I can do both but obviously more leaning to the modern era.

LOL, most of these movies are classics. All these movies came out before my time too, I was just a kid or not even born when a lot of these movies came out and didn't see them the first time until I was an adult.

I didn't see most of these movies till about 15-20 years after they originally hit theaters, and I still enjoyed them. It's not like I grew up with them either.

I said Disney animated movies remained consistently good and were the one exception. Only the first Hunger Games movie was sort of interesting, the sequels were meh.

I agree with some of the other movies you listed, but a lot of them are from already established franchises or superhero movies.

A lot of people complain Hollywood has become unoriginal but a lot of 80s/90s franchises were based on previous works or books.

No era is really that different when it comes to how movies get made. I think part of it is generational.

I've seen movies from the 50s/60s that I was surprised to find out were remakes or spiritual successors to movies in the 30s/40s.

I'm rather surprised that no one mentioned The Crow, especially since the movie closely followed the comic. City of Angels was alright.

The third movie Salvation ..no comment as I haven't seen it yet.

I also enjoyed Escape From LA and Dragonheart.

A thread about movies with a long ass list of movies? Cubed you're not JakeSully.

Also, took you long enough to make another thread where you state how surprised you are that "OMG TIME FLIES!" :lol:

City of Angels was horrible. Just a big, sh*t music video come to life (and really? they had to go and Newt-in-Alien 3 the little girl from Crow 1?). I actually liked Salvation, I was very surprised. The 4th and final, "The Crow: Wicked Prayer," probably makes my Top 5 Worst Movies of All Time list.

I've been going back and have been watching/rewatching older movies from that era, and yeah, they're fantastic. Many are far superior than the stuff that comes out these days. I've particularly liked the Alien and Predator movies (separately, not together :P).

So you liked Salvation too? City of Angels was okay with me. Wicked Prayer was so-so, but I can do without owning it.

I never did see that. When I was 15 years old, my mom dropped off me and my friends at the theater. We were supposed to see Independance Day. I'm pretty sure it's even what we bought tickets for. But we went in and saw Striptease with Demi Moore. I remember the conversation later that night with my Dad went like this:

Dad: "So how was the movie? Did the aliens win?"

Me: "Ummmm, yeah..."

So true. Seems in the 80s, 50s references were made quite a bit...like the Neutrinos in the OT or the junk in Muppet Babies. One of the most loved movies at the time was Back to the Future. Definitely generational.They technically did. They got Randy Quaid! ''Twas a sad loss. :-P

It's weird when we think of movies we also only think of the big name Hollywood franchises. There are probably hundreds of smaller indie and B-type movies that come out every year, both in theaters and now on stuff like netflix original movies...that most people have no idea even exists. And this is not even counting foreign movies made outside the U.S. either, like British, Asian, or Indian movies.

But as they say, you can watch 1 movie a day everyday for 100 years and still not see them all. It's impossible to see every good movie.

Randy's character was a tired tortured soul. At that point before he died, he wanted to make his family and country proud, but most of all, he also wanted to take down an enemy fighter ship.

Besides obvious choices like The Dark Knight or any book to film adaptions (Harry Potter and Hunger Games for example), here's a few (I'll add more later):

• Cinderella Man
• Rocky Balboa
• Kung Fu Panda/Shrek 2 (other Dreamworks movies may apply)
• The Incredibles/Finding Nemo (same reasoning as Dreamworks)

Rocky is an old 80's franchise too. Sequels to old movies or remakes is what I mean when I say new or original movies.

Yes, I said Disney and a lot of Dreamworks movies were the exception. Kids movies have remained relatively high quality and Disney movies are often great. Thank god for that.

Yeah, Salvation was far better than it had any right to be. And to be honest, all of Wicked Prayer's problems were of a budgetary nature... but man, were those big problems in that movie. Laughably bad.

I love this film, maybe even moreso than the original. Sadly it gets a little overlooked.
Rumor has it that there's a 2-hour extended that was prepared but was never run for audiences. Man it'd be great to watch that sometime. The script has so many little character-building scenes that weren't in the final cut.

I know, but I still felt sad when he sacrificed himself.

A long time ago I made a fan edit of Rocky Balboa (called "Rocky VI") that restored all the deleted scenes from the DVD and replaced the ending with the "Rocky wins" alternate ending.

I've done the same (but kept the original ending). I can't fathom why they thought it'd be a good idea to cut out that scene where Paulie storms out of the restaurant and has a good cry.

A fair chunk of the scenes in that extended cut I mentioned never made it to even the bonus features. Guess they thought they wouldn't be that interesting.

https://youtu.be/97ZQNox2lcw

Balboa is good, but why have Rocky date the middle schooler he told not to smoke in the original? It's just wrong. For the record I like thevteo endings thing.

Also, a rumor befor release was Mason Dixon was the son of Apollo Creed, the one II and IV's background not an illegitimate one stirred hours before his death.

Yeah, I regretted switching in the "Rocky Wins" ending later. Just wanted a version that was more feel good... not kidney punch. Part 5 was already that. But the existing ending of 6 needs to stay.

The only place that bothered me was when he visited her in his hotel room before the fight. And he lays up against the wall in his tank top like he would with Adrian. Super, super creepy scene. That, they should have cut, and left in the big Paulie confrontation that was cut.

Cubed forgot the 80's-90's gave us the Evil Dead Trilogy. The first one was considered a great horror movie by Stephen King.

Evil Dead 2 will be 30 this year

Army Of Darkness is a Cult Classic.

I forgot about a few other movies like Men in Black as well.

I was just thinking about some major dramatic films that came out then like The Good Son. Imagine being a big fan of Macaulay Culkin's role in Home Alone and then seeing him play a demented psychopath out to kill his siblings. Then again, considering how he was treated in the beginning of the aforementioned holiday classic, it's not that big of a stretch.

I didn't see any mention of Titanic. That was a pretty huge movie. I remember everyone in my high school saying that they had saw the movie 2-3 times in the theater, and I never did get around to seeing it in the theater.