[jayswin]

Originally Posted by octothorp

If I was to rank the last five decades in terms of movies, the 00s would be right in the middle, not as good as the 1990s that brought us Shawshank, LA Confidential, Schindler's List, Fight Club, Usual Suspects, Fargo, Trainspotting, Unforgiven, Glengarry Glenross and a lot of other great movies; not as good as the 1970s that produced a lot of my personal favorites - Alien, Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the ####oo's Nest, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, as well as the best of both Monty Python and Woody Allen. But this decade has been a lot better than the 1980s, which had a handful of solid big budget pictures like Empire Strikes Back or Back to the Future, but I have a hard time thinking of any really great plot-driven movies from that decade. And this last decade has probably been better than the 1960s too, which had some good Hitchcock films and the best of Sergio Leone, a few great theatre adaptations, and not much else.

The 2000's brought us "Blow", and therefore the 2000's were the best decade for movies, ever.