These are rated by users with the bulk of reviews coming when a movie is released so there's some recency bias but not a bad start https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/
I also enjoy the letterboxd top 250. It's got tons of recency bias, but it's a good mix of both critical and fun picks
This used to be regarded as the authoritative list until the most recent iteration had some strange results.
Looking at those lists reminds me I really have no idea how 2001 was made in a practical or technical way. It is so ambitious and high minded. Way ahead of blazing saddles on the "never gets made today" hypothetical.
kinda got a hankering to watch Kevin Smith's Dogma, apparently due to some licensing rights issues with the Weinsteins its not available on any streaming platform... probably ever. Gotta find the box in the garage with all my DVDs I guess
I think I'm going to watch Event Horizon tonight. The world is bleak and I just finished two documentaries that made me have a ton of introspective thoughts. I might as well throw some sci-fi horror on my subconscious
Watched Arrival last night. Really enjoyed it, but thought there was a little too much global political time. I wanted even more cool Alien tricks. Amazing design and score, rip Johann Johannsson
If it had a better soundtrack the quality could have improved immensely. The performances are fantastic, but the production is incredibly low budget. Kind of weird to watch. Edgerton is so good
Was watching video about the top movies of the 90s. The movie industry much like music just is a shadow of its former self. I've always known that but the industry barely exists compared to the 90s. Shawshank, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Fight Club, The Matrix, Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, Saving Private Ryan, Green Mile, Terminator 2, Lion King, American History X, Usual Suspects, Jurassic Park, Heat, American Beauty, LA Confidential, Toy Story, Good Will Hunting, Reservoir Dogs, Tuman Show, Unforgiven, etc... Those are all 90s movies. Anyway not saying that's the greatest decade of movies but lamenting really the loss of the industry.
no matter what you think of Forrest Gump 30 years later, we don't get movies like that anymore. it made 700 milly at the box office
That's just from the top 125 or so of the imdb list. I don't personally think Forrest Gump ages that well and Green Mile doesn't belong with some of those others. Terminator 2 I'd put up against any of them.
Thank streaming for both the music and movie industry losing steam, but there is still some really fine stuff coming from both. Also 90s music was ass
Is your point that movies like that don’t make money anymore or that movies arent as good anymore? Because there have been a ton of great movies in the last decade.
They're one in the same imo. Movies don't make money like they used to so resources aren't put into them unless it's a Marvel movie.
I don't care about the box office numbers. Forrest Gump constantly gets trotted out there as this beautiful Americana dramcom when it's got tons of tropes and is annoyingly written. The Green Mile is a white savior film. It crawled so that "Green Book" could walk.
I don’t disagree about the making money part but great movies are still out there. They just might not get the headlines bc superheroes dominate that. The growth of superheroes/big budget movies, created a space for A24, Neon, fox searchlight, Sony pictures classic type studios to fill the void. 2019 almost rivals 1999 in quality of movies. Last year had a ton of great movies.
I don't think the point is really true at all. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/?ref_=bo_nb_di_secondarytab