I'm inclined to say 1999, since two of my top 10 came out then, The Matrix and Fight Club. The rest of the crop is mediocre, but these two tip the scales for me. Link to 1999 top 100 box office
1985 was pretty good. Top grossing movies 210,609,762 Back to the Future (1985) 150,415,432 Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) 127,900,000 Rocky IV (1985) 98,467,863 The Color Purple (1985) 87,100,000 Out of Africa (1985) 76,100,000 Cocoon (1985) 68,275,764 The Jewel of the Nile (1985) 65,500,000 Witness (1985) 65,000,000 We Are the World (1985) (TV) 61,400,000 The Goonies (1985) 1987 too. 167,780,960 3 Men and a Baby (1987) 156,645,693 Fatal Attraction (1987) 153,665,000 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) 123,922,370 Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) 80,640,528 Moonstruck (1987) 76,270,454 The Untouchables (1987) 66,995,879 The Secret of My Succe$s (1987) 65,207,127 Lethal Weapon (1987) 63,952,836 Dirty Dancing (1987) 63,766,510 The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
1984 1.Ghostbusters $238.600 $30.0 Columbia Pictures 2 Beverly Hills Cop $234.760 $15.0 Paramount 3 Temple Of Doom $179.870 $28.0 Paramount 4 Gremlins $148.168 $11.0 Warner Brothers 5 Karate Kid $90.800 Columbia Pictures 6 Police Academy $81.199 Warner Brothers 7 Footloose $80.035 Paramount 8 Romancing the Stone $76.572 20th Century Fox 9 Star Trek III $76.471 $17.0 Paramount 10 Splash $69.821 $8.0 Touchstone 11 Purple Rain $68.39 Warner Brothers 12 Amadeus $51.56 $18.0 Orion Pictures 13 Tightrope $48.10 Warner Brothers 14 The Natural $47.95 $28.0 TriStar Pictures 15 Greystoke $45.90 Warner Brothers 16 Revenge of the Nerds $40.90 $8.0 20th Century Fox 17 2010 $40.40 MGM 18 Terminator $36.90 $6.4 Orion Pictures 19 Top Secret! $20.50 Paramount *In millions of unadjusted U
1995 was a great year. Toy Story - greatest animated movie ever? Batman Forever Apollo 13 Ace Ventura 2 Goldeneye Se7en Die Hard: With a Vengeance Crimson Tide Braveheart Get Shorty Heat Bad Boys 12 Monkeys Clueless Casino And last but not least, in my opinion, the greatest movie of all-time came from 1995: BILLY MADISON! Also, it's pretty damn hard to beat the top 16 from '06. 1. Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Night at the Museum 3. Cars 4. X-Men: The Last Stand 5. The Da Vinci Code 6. Superman Returns 7. Happy Feet 8. Ice Age: The Meltdown 9. Casino Royale 10. The Pursuit of Happyness 11. Over the Hedge 12. Talladega Nights 13. Click 14. Mission: Impossible III 15. The Departed 16. Borat
Over the hedge, the Da vinci code, Talladega Nights, and MI3 were not very good. I didnt see all of the ones on that list, but I know those I listed were bad.
Yeah, I didn't see Over the Hedge, I reallllly didn't like Da Vinci Code (after reading the book first), but I thought MI3 was good. Obviously, it wasn't good as the first because that's a classic, but way better than MI2. You can't knock Talladega, though; that movie is the essence of hilarious. I think it's one of the funnier movies in recent years, many would agree, but to each his own. I haven't seen Night at the Museum or the Pursuit of Happyness, either, but from what I've heard they belong. So again, those 16 are quite a compilation of movies.
http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1989/top-grossing 1989 deserves mention 251,188,924 Batman (1989) 197,171,806 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 147,253,986 Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) 140,088,813 Look Who's Talking (1989) 130,724,200 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) 118,500,000 Back to the Future Part II (1989) 112,494,738 Ghostbusters II (1989) 109,859,444 The Little Mermaid (1989) 106,593,296 Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 100,047,830 Parenthood (1989) Plus, the greatest cult movie of all time, UHF... My personal favorite year, in the sheer number of quality movies, was 1996. 306,124,059 Independence Day (1996) 241,688,385 Twister (1996) 180,981,706 Mission: Impossible (1996) 153,620,822 Jerry Maguire (1996) 136,448,821 Ransom (1996) 136,182,161 101 Dalmatians (1996) 134,006,721 The Rock (1996) 128,769,345 The Nutty Professor (1996) 123,986,682 The Birdcage (1996) 108,706,165 A Time to Kill (1996) The only movie on that list that I didn't like was The Birdcage. I haven't seen 101 Dalmations.
The correct answer is 1980, which gave us The Empire Strikes Back, Airplane!, Superman II, Stir Crazy, and the Blue Lagoon (with a super hot nekkid Brooke Shields). Not to mention the birth of the legend that is StupidMoniker.
1994 wasn't half bad either. The Shawshank Redemption Pulp Fiction Forrest Gump Speed The Lion King Clerks Hoop Dreams Dumb & Dumber True Lies Clear and Present Danger Léon (The Professional) Natural Born Killers The Crow Ed Wood Interview with the Vampire Ace Ventura Four Weddings and a Funeral Legends of the Fall Il Postino (The Postman) Street Fighter (j/k)
1986: Top Gun Crocodile Dundee Platoon Aliens Back to School FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF Stand By Me THREE AMIGOS!!!
my vote goes for '99, that year was the reason I started my DVD collection Austin 2 Go (very underrated in my opinion) American Pie Arlington Road Dogma Man on the Moon Fight Club American Beauty Matrix Toy Story 2
1994 Without a doubt True Lies = Greatest action flick ever. Had the perfect balance of humor, over the top stunts, and never a dull moment.
I like Night at the Museum and Pursuit of Happyness. I found MI3 boring. And Talladega night was really overrated. Blades of Glory was much, much better imo.
1956: - Carousel - The Conqueror - Forever, Darling - Giant - High Society - The King and I - Love Me Tender - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - The Man with the Golden Arm - Moby Dick - Picnic - The She-Creature - Somebody Up There Likes M - Storm Center - The Ten Commandments J/K. Always has to be one guy bringing the old golden classics into the discussions
