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dicsucs.

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Otger.

Why did you miss out the 10s and put the 00s twice?

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otger for me

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50s through 70s, with the 70s being the best.

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70s is the best. So much great stuff, lot of horror classics both American and European, lots of great films coming out of Hong Kong, the peak of European sleaze, good decade for thrillers, the birth of Star Wars, weird stuff like Zardoz, some all time great comedies. Edit: I forgot about Japanese and Soviet Union films.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

50s through 70s, with the 70s being the best.

this except 50s

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20s and earlier.

That's your 20s and earlier, not 1920s or 2020s.

When you're a kid, you're open-minded. By the time you reach your 30s or even late 20s, you've made up your mind about the world and every new thing to come after isn't as good as when you were younger.

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No u

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FortuneCookie posted...

20s and earlier.

That's your 20s and earlier, not 1920s or 2020s.

When you're a kid, you're open-minded. By the time you reach your 30s or even late 20s, you've made up your mind about the world and every new thing to come after isn't as good as when you were younger.

This is dumb.

I'll be 30 very soon and I'm more excited about experiencing new movies, music and books than I have been at any point in my life.

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80s. Tons of great stuff.

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Probably the 60s if I had to choose.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

50s through 70s, with the 70s being the best.

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Either 70s or 00s

I'm a pretty big movie guy, i've seen a ton, I watch a few hundred each year. As much as I cling to so many that I loved in the 80's and 90's I gotta be that d-bag and say what they are doing with modern cinema is a spectacle.

What really did it for me, I grew up a comic book nut. My uncle owned a shop that burned down and when I was 7 he gave me close to 2,000 comics that survived, a lot of them were vintage with the backboard, in plastic. I got some great ones. I obsessed, but I always dreamed of having quality movies, or anything that wasn't animated.

What the MCU just did was an emotional experience for me, because I dreamed about it and didn't think it would ever happen. It began with the first X-Men movie with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and I felt a bit of hope that maybe we were finally going to get some consistently good superhero films. Then Wolverine Origins was kind of a stinker, X-Men 3 Last Stand wasn't great, but it was satisfying enough.

Then they released Iron Man, and then Captain America, and it made me feel 10 years old again. It blew me away. I saw Iron Man in theaters 7 times. Captain America 5. What they managed to do thereafter, bringing it all together, all the great casted characters, the quality of just about all of the movies, I got lost in it. It was such an emotional experience, I cried at times, it's something I didn't think i'd ever see happen and it did.

Sorry for the MCU jerk off rant, but i'm just being honest. It's easily my favorite cinematic experience ever.

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The MCU is probably the least interesting thing happening in modern filmmaking. I like a few of them and I've become a big reader of comic books over the last year, but it's all pretty unexciting and more product than art. The dull visual palette of most of them and incoherent action scenes are a real waste of potential. Most superhero comics are full of eye popping colours, most superhero movies are brown and grey.

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yeah i'm a big film buff with a huge comic collection

but the MCU, not a fan of it

though to be fair i pretty much entirely stopped reading superhero stuff (particularly marvel/DC)

7-8 years ago

there are handful of mainstream superhero comics i hold in high regard though

like Moore's swamp thing (not really superhero), Morrison's Doom Patrol, and Starman

most of the other superhero stuff i like is outside of the universes of the big two

like Astro City, The Maxx, Planetary ( i need to finish the latter 2), black hammer (still only read vol 1) Invincible and stuff like that

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