I was born in 1990 and I have to say I miss the blockbusters of my youth, so late 90's early 00's.
Movies like X-Men, Lord of the Rings, The Mummy, Mission Impossible, etc.
I also liked how many of the blockbusters of that time felt sometimes campy and cheesy such as, Tomb Raider 1+2, The Mummy Returns, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Van Helsing, and even the SW prequels.
Anyway what movies and/or era shaped your movie collection?
Golden age of superhero movies (2008-pres).
Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
Well I only have 2 decades to chose from, but I say 2010's. I love the franchises.
If 1/3 of major movies were sequels, 1/3 were stand alone, and 1/3 were franchise starts/attempts, then I would be happy.
I like the idea that the story, just like real life, never has to end.
"Modern blockbusters" is basically everything after Batman '89 and I was born in '88, so...
It's kind of hard to break blockbusters down into 5 or so year periods. Dramatic shifts in filmmaking sensibilities don't happen like that very often. Late-90s really isn't any different from mid-2000s. Only thing I can really think of in terms of major immediate change was Avatar.
But if I had to pin something down, I'll take now, please. I'm a stan for Marvel and Star Wars, both of which are delivering on a consistent basis right now. Throw in a revival of giant monster movies and I'm quite satisfied with 200 million dollar movies today.
------------------
So Anakin kneels before Monster Mash and pledges loyalty to the graveyard smash.
Post 2000
So happy to see my favorite cartoons/animated shows being made into movies.
Early 2000s, with Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Shrek, Spider-Man
shareI've always gravitated to the early to mid 80s stuff. Basically Empire Strikes Back through to James Cameron's Aliens is my era of choice. You had Empire Strikes Back, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of The Lost Ark, First Blood (never cared for the sequels), ET, Ghostbusters, Terminator, Back To The Future. The list goes on and on.
sharewhat mats said
personally I loathe the 80s overall (crap aesthetics, cheesy camp, effects so lame my 10-year-old self noticed, lack of good dramas, by far the worst decade ever for Oscar best pic winners, OTT muscle action towards the end of the decade, and weak foreign movies period) but the action movies of the early part of the decade were very good.
I'd go for what was occasionally called the 'cinema of wonder' era at the time, the mid-70s-mid-80s - basically Jaws through to Back to the Future via Superman and CE3K, when there was still more individuality and variety because studios were still trying to figure out what worked. It wasn't just fantasy and action, you had the likes of Gandhi, The Towering Inferno and A Bridge Too Far doing decent business as well. And not just for the films that were blockbusters, but for the really ambitious big ticket films that weren't but which were really interesting or entertaining all the same (The Wind and the Lion, King Kong, New York New York, Sorcerer, Heaven's Gate, Ragtime, Popeye, Dragonslayer, Wolfen, Blade Runner, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Bounty, The Right Stuff, Once Upon a Time in America, Greystoke, Return to Oz, Young Sherlock Holmes, Lifeforce). There were just as many bad films as today but there was still a sense of being filmmaker led rather than demographic box ticking in mainstream audience pictures.
"Security - release the badgers."