Cant believe I missed The Breakfast Club. Just added it.

I think it's way too hard to pick the best era. Each era had masterpieces in it. It's much easier to pick the worst era. And I think that is right now with all the superhero movies. They have suffocated the industry from good writers.

I remember in the old days movies were like 2 or 3 notches above anything on TV. Now it's the other way around. Despite special effects being much better, movies have a cheesy aspect to them compared to the big drama cable TV shows.

As much as I love super hero movies, I tend to agree that the diversity of movies has fallen off or at least it seemingly has. Someone could probably do some true analysis and show this isn't actually the case, but just that the biggest movies are all gravitating towards sequels and superheroes.

I really want to watch Game Night but my wife has no interest for some reason. May end up watching it by myself.

Sorry to keep replying to you, but Game Night is awesome. It was one of the more fun movies my wife and I have watched recently, and she was very apprehensive to watch it in the first place. She's not much of a movie person.

Between Marvel and DC, there are less than 5 superhero movies a year. There were many times more gangster, detective and western movies in the 40s and 50s. Superhero movies get a lot of blame, but the mega franchise movies with multiple sequels really started in 99-01 with the Star Wars prequels, Harry Potter and LOTR.

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Between Marvel and DC, there are less than 5 superhero movies a year.

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Starting next year, totally different story. And I'm here for all of it.

Even if 10 superhero movies are released every year, I still think this is the greatest time to be alive in terms of movie/TV choice, options, and accessibility. People place WAAAAAY too much weight on the ideas that the mid-budget movie is dead, or that there aren't original blockbusters anymore. The mid-budget dramas went to TV, and are now six-and-eight-hour events that are far better than anything TV had to offer last century, and, for the most part, are better than their mostly forgettable, two-hour counterparts that I never really cared if I saw in a theater anyway. And best of the Oscar movies are as good as they've ever been, still play in theaters all over the country, and will increasingly find their way to streaming, pre-Oscar ceremony. In terms of blockbusters, sure, it's mostly superhero fare, but we also have incredible blockbuster filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve, and I can't think of anyone from back in the day who's not working now who gave us blockbuster content that was better. Overall, we get to watch jaw-dropping blockbusters and Oscar fare in loud, massive theaters on pristine, laser-projected screens, while living through the best TV has ever had to offer, by a wide margin, consisting of endless quality programming and bigger and bigger TV budgets, any time we want, at the push of a button. It's f/cking awesome and I feel strongly that we're on the cusp of entering an era in which the theatrical and streaming experiences will work hand-in-hand to a deliver a ridiculous amount of insanely good content, week after week after week. Pretty soon, we're going to be swimming in a never-ending sea of movie and television awesomeness.

As defined in the OP, I gotta go with 99-05.

This short 6 year period contains most of my favorite franchises and big summer blockbusters. Of course, this is probably true for everyone at the ages of 11-17. Our most formative years.

But when you stack up LOTR, The Matrix, Gladiator, Spider-Man, Star Wars PT, Kill Bill, POTC, etc, nothing is going to measure up. Plus a bunch of smaller favorites like American Psycho, Donnie Darko, etc.

Second place is definitely tougher.

Fun fact: Spider-Man holds the record for movie I saw the most times in theaters, at 7 times.

I absolutely couldn't get enough of it. Was such a massive moment of my adolescence.

Other fact: The Matrix Reloaded is still the most hyped I've ever been for a movie in my life. I downloaded the trailer and watched it almost daily. I looked up every image and piece of movie news I could get my hands on. Mom took me and my cousin to see it opening weekend and had a blast, except for having to watch what seemed to be a giant orgy next to my mom.

I do not at all mean this as a slight - in fact, quite the opposite - but as I was typing up that particular era, I literally thought, "This HAS be Spilner's favorite era" and I love so much that it is. Truth be told, it was my favorite era to *follow* movies and I definitely ended up anticipating more of them than I ended up liking. But I still look back on that era fondly as the heyday of Ain't It Cool News and the like, and nothing has since compared to all the news and rumors back then and looking forward to new Star Wars, Matrix, Lord of the Rings, X-Men and Spider-Man movies. It was easily the best time to be a fan of blockbusters and franchises and all of that.

Hell, I forgot to mention the movie of my namesake.

As I recall, Fast and the Furious was the first dvd we ever bought.

The Mummy Returns was also a huge one for me at the time. I remember that was the first movie I saw at the newly built Cinemark in my hometown, first theater with stadium seating.

That of course was the theater where I saw all of those other blockbusters mentioned. Always have fond memories there.

And yes, I was right there with you in terms of Reloaded hype. It was the first real movie I ever saw in IMAX too, that wasn't a nature documentary or something about jets or space or whatever. Blew me away. I remember spending hours with a friend online immediately after, both crowded around my computer, reading message boards, trying to decipher everything we had just witnessed. So fun.

I've still never seen a Fast and Furious movie. I've seen too much 80s-90s schlock to be a snob, it just hasn't happened for some reason.

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Game Night is a quiet classic

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Still need to see this.

'92 to '98 by far.

Did I miss Baby Driver in there somewhere? Wouldn't sway my decision any though.

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I've still never seen a Fast and Furious movie. I've seen too much 80s-90s schlock to be a snob, it just hasn't happened for some reason.

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I saw about 20 minutes of the original a few months ago and that's it. A tenth movie is apparently coming out this year, so we have a lot of catching up to do.

Or not.

Just rewatched Mad Max Fury Road last night for about the 15th time. My favorite movie of the last several (10?) years.