Despite Tenet bombing hard, I still find it really impressive that it made 360 million. Considering that it was released only four months after the pandemic hit, it was pretty successful.
Tenet is one of Nolan’s best. A very misunderstood movie, and an incredible achievement in storytelling and technical filmmaking. It made a very impressive amount of money for a COVID release, but unfortunately, the pandemic didn’t do it any favours.
@seanolaocha940Yeah, well, people keep crying about wanting original, unorthodox films, and then they’re crying when they get them because they’re too out of the ordinary.
I don’t understand that, lol. Despite the animated movies a lot came out good that year. Like Inglorious Bastards and the Hangover. I don’t think it was that bad of a year.
Whilst 2009 may have been pretty bad when it came to live action blockbusters, I’d argue that it was the best year when it came to animation. Up, Coraline, Fantastic Mr Fox, Mary and Max etc. All of them are phenomenal and are some of my favourites
I think it's interesting you added 1929 and 2020, seeing how both those years had major historical events affecting film (beginnings of the Great Depression and COVID-19 Pandemic) as well as reeling from industry changing transitions (the advent of sound in film and streaming services)
@@msmsmsmsmsmsmsmsms How is that. What great films have been released? Because Barbie, Oppenheimer and Super Mario are good but not great. Only Killers of the Flower Moon, Suzume and Past Lives have been great and they're not that famous. A bunch of fine films and a lot of mid movies.
I am a 50 year old man with autism. My special interest is Disney. The last twenty years has been down, down, down. And it's going down faster and faster. My lesser interests are not doing much better, as they all have to do with books, movies and music. These are the worst times.
I am also in that age group. The Film industry has a serious problem. The last five years or so there have been fewer and fewer diamonds. I don't want to risk my time and money to go see something that is poorly written and over hyped. I have done it to many times.
1966 deserves a mention. Some great foreign films (Persona, Battle of Algiers) but Hollywood was at a creative nadir, just before the rise of "New Hollywood" the next year with The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde kicking off a new era of filmmaking.
A Man For All Seasons (perhaps my favorite film ever?) Fantastic Voyage Fahrenheit 451 How To Steal A Million (a fun little comic caper) But yeah, overall not that many
@@the9thinning1same. Godfather 1 and 2, Apocalypse Now, Taxi driver, Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, Barry Lyndon, Rocky, Alien etc. So mamy great films
You slipped Conan in there as if he went on the air with all his unscripted shenanigans to just stay on the air. This couldn’t be further from the truth. He went back on the air to prove how important writers are to even his type of comedy. He was there to support the writers, believe it or not.
Even as a kid, I felt like it was an ugly year. And even shows on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and especially Disney Channel sucked. I hated that year and many films that came out that year. Even a few weeks ago, when trying to find any standouts, I couldn't find any. Whether it was big budget films, sequels, remakes, original films, TV movies or even direct-to-video.
Honestly it’s kind of fucked with me since the pandemic - cos it feels like time has been in a rush… all that time in lockdown then boom 💥 4 years have passed
I find it funny how for me 2020 was just another year for me. Chalk it up to being a construction laborer and working all year. All I noticed was that my commutes got shorter for two weeks.
I will defend PJs King Kong as long as i live. The actors, sets and effects were great. Sure it is long but King Kong is supposed to be an epic and instead of what he did later with the Hobbit stretching the story of 2 movies into 3 here he packed 2 movies into one which to me is rly impressive. Also as a big fan of spec evo its insane how much effort went into the creatures and bioms of Skull Island making almost all of them believable and act like real animals. There also is a great book about this movies version of SI if anyone is interessted its called a natural history of skull island. Unfortunately u can't buy it anymore but there are many great vids on utube about it. I would recommend the video Unnatural History Channel made about it.
@@lukeschlorholtz That film just gives us so much. The great atmosphere of 1930s New York a boat ride like in an old adventure movie, horror elements with natives and ofc the biggest star Skull Island itself. If I had to nitpick I'd say the ending is a bit to long but then again it is supposed to be epic and larger then life as an omage to the og one of the most revolutionary movies of all time. Also and don't get me wrong i love the first JP but if ur after a great dinosaur adventure King Kong will probably fit u more since JP at its core rly is more a Sci-Fi thriller with lots of ethical talk about what science should and shouldn't do. Again i love the movie for that but King Kong is almost the purest prehistoric adventure u can get.
Everything spot on about King Kong! Add Sin City there, and 10 or so other movies: a solid history epic Kingdom of Heaven (but only Director's Cut) and a bunch of mediocre/ok movies (The Island, Proposition, Revenge of the Sith, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Batman Begins, all good/ok movies but nothing extraordinary) but that was all from 2005 - objectively the worst year of that decade compared to any other. The author had a point.
I actually loved 2009 as a film year. There are a lot of hidden gems from that year like Dogtooth, The Messenger, Mother, Antichrist, The White Ribbon, Lourdes, The Maid, Thirst, In The Loop, About Elly, Serious Man and a lot more.
Here are my favorite movies from those years: 1929: The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux 2005: Everything is Illuminated 2009: Dogtooth 2020: Dating Amber
Excluding the very early days when things were just wonky and experimental, I always thought it must have been 1964 because I heard that that's when the fewest number of movies were made for the year due to whatever was going on. Studios were having a tough time that year. But I shall see what you think, by watching. Thank you so much for making this video, because it's a question that I've often pondered! Excited to watch :-)
@@joseywales3580 aswell Dr Strangelove but other than that pretty lackluster especially comparing it to previous years like 1962 which might be the best year for film ever
@@mrmeeseeks2534What about Zulu, Goldfinger, The Train, Fail Safe, & First Men in the Moon? On the imperfect-but-immensely-fascinating front, I’m also rather fond of ”The Fall of The Roman Empire” and ”Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte”. Then there’s ”Zorba the Greek”, which I can’t vouch for due to not having seen it, but is usually highly regarded
A lot of people blame David Benioff (one of the two Game of Thrones show runners) for how bad X-Men origins turned out, and I certainly think he had plenty to do with the bad script, but nobody ever mentioned how by the time cameras were rolling, he was on strike with the rest of the industry. I would say some of the most egregious parts of that movie were actually a result of him NOT being there.
i agree with your summation about the transition to talkies being a major drop in quality for films, but you can’t say 1929 had “no great films” when that’s the year pandora’s box came out
1997 was full of terrible or questionable sequels that destroyed their franchises or were just disappointing: Batman & Robin, Speed 2, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Alien: Resurrection, Home Alone 3, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, etc. The same was for 1987 (Superman IV, Jaws 4: The Revenge) but there were less
I’ll give 2005 this, it brought my two of my favorite animated movies ever, corpse bride and Wallace and Gromit the curse of the were rabbit. Really great films imo
Curse of the Wererabbit was great, we loved the Wallace and Gromit short films so seeing a feature-length stop motion film with them was great even though we’d had Chicken Run before then.
I think 1996-1998 deserved a mention. Most of the beloved '90s movies came out between 1990-1995 and in 1999. 1996-1998 had some pretty big stinkers, disappointments, and a severe lack of all-time classics compared to the other years in the decade. This era had Batman & Robin, Godzilla '98, Space Jam, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Steel, Alien: Resurrection, Spy Hard, The Phantom, Jack, The (British) Avengers, Star Trek: Insurrection, Quest For Camelot, Bio-Dome, Home Alone 3, and Kazaam just to name a few.
Truman Show and Saving private Ryan came out in 1998. Titanic, the biggest hit of the decade, came out in 1997, along with Good Will Hunting and Liar Liar. That Era was not that bad.
Home Alone 3 is so absurd that I love it. Turning a fun and wacky Christmas adventure movie into a spy film about a young child thwarting international terrorists? Brilliant
What about films released via streaming platforms? I’d love to know what you considered the worst year so far because most of what I’ve seen premiere on streaming hasn’t resonated with me.
I'm surprised 1997 didn't end up on the list. I love lots of movies from 1997 but can't recall any other year where the critics have been so negative. Even regular people didn't seem to enjoy it much.
@@you-got-reported-fam3445 Yup! Contact, Jackie Brown, Boogie Nights and Titanic are great movies as well. Many of my top 20 movies are actually from 1997. It's probably a case where the average quality that year were lower than usual so a lot of movies were indeed stinkers. And that's why I remember reading so many negative reviews.
This was a very informative and well thought out analysis. The discussion on talkies and the strikes were very good. I think 2005 suffered as well because of how many bangers 1999-2004 had as well as well as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises being so iconic and a major timecapscule for pre 2005. As you say 2006 and 2007 had several classics and 2008 for good and ill was the birth of the cinematic universe structure. A great video to listen to walking to work.
Seriously, did Jules Verne and later Edgar Rice Burroughs popularise the literary universe structure? I think it was decades before both Disney and Marvel popularised the cinematic universe structure too.
Love Revenge of the Sith and Batman Begins and think they are pretty widely loved (though not really enough), also The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Munich, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck.
But imagine if they had actually been able to document on film the falling of Constantinople. I want to believe they would have done it the style of The Office. Just having the camera focus on a disappointed general, sat on a high chair, framed for an interview, while the city burned and buildings collapsed behind him. Slow zoom "I have no words. I trained those losers"
I find it really interesting how 2005 is a culprit here, given that 2006/2007 are my favorite years in film history (thank you Children of Men and Atonement). It feels like 2005 was the calm before the megastorm of awesome.
As someone who was born in 2001, as far as memories, I felt like 2004 was the year and era that I remembered the most of. Especially seeing classics being advertised or getting toys for Spider-Man 2, Shrek 2, or The Incredibles. But I never thought 2005 was ever a bad year since there were still plenty of a good films. I always felt it blended with 2004 well. But by 2007, I used to hate it because it was constantly filled with sequels, remakes, and movies that would get memed. Spider-Man 3? Transformers? F*cking Bee Movie? Shrek the Third? But a few weeks ago, I rediscovered the year, and seen commercial complications of 2007 and I totally forgot how good it actually was. And the hated films have gained more respect. (Besides Shrek the Third.) 2006 waa a forgettable year. Nothing stood out to me or from memories. 2008 was a struggling follow up to 2007, but even back then, I always thought 2009 was the absolute worst. So many awful films, and a time when even cable shows from Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network straight up sucked. The time when live action dominated CN, so many unfunny teen sitcoms, and back when SpongeBob was at his lowest. Just boring and negative. But once 2010 came around, it was not only a new decade but a breath of fresh air after being in the pit of that era from my youth. And by 2012, it was really, really good and i felt was my last golden era of my life since that year we moved somewhere else, and I was my final year for elementary school before middle school.
2009 was a bad year only if you're watching exclusively blockbusters. There were so many fantastic movies from that year, it's insane. Inglorious Basterds, Fantastic Mr Fox, Up, District 9, Dogtooth, Enter the Void, Moon, Antichrist, A Serious Man, Mother, Drag Me to Hell, Mary and Max, A Single Man, Thirst, the Secrets in their Eyes, the White Ribbon, Rec², I am Love, Black Dynamite, bruno, Valhalla Rising, Coraline etc Even when it came to mainstream movies you had stuff like Avatar, the Hangover, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes and 500 days of summer which are perfectly fine movies.
Inglorious Basterds is kind of a blockbuster. Also Jennifer's Body, Drag Me to Hell, Fish Tank, An Education, Polytechnique, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo swedish trilogy, The Loved Ones, Bright Star, Air Doll, Cracks and probably others I haven't watched yet
also Crank 2, Werner Herzog‘s Bad Lieutenant + other kind of stupid fun flicks like Law Abiding Citizen, Knowing, Gamer or that Japanese gem called FISH STORY
12:45 What's wrong with most successful movies being the animated ones? Animated movies are just as good and well made, if not better made, than many live action films.
It's more so that only three successful live-action movies that are not based on a franchise were released. It is often easier to create new properties in the animated space, so it is what companies did.
@factoryofdivisiveopinions Animated movies often don't have the insane budgets of live action ones. This doesn't diminish the animated movies and I apologize if it came off that way, but you have much more freedom in the animated space, especially at the time when CGI was in its infancy. You could create wilder ideas in addition to having the backing of a large company.
@masterbeef3925 while I agree with the creative exploration part, but animations aren't that cheap, especially back then. For example, Frozen costs 275 mil, and tangled cost 260 mil. To put into perspective, Avatar at the time cost around 245 mil. When all is said and done, most pixar/disney movies cost more than most Harry Potter, Transformers, Fast & Furious, Mission Impossible, James Bond films.
@factoryofdivisiveopinions Those are more modern examples at 2014 and 2016, respectively. Kung Fu Panda got a budget of 135 million. Ratatouille got a budget of 150 million, the exact same as Hancock, which did better than Ratatouille. Again, animation is not lesser in scope, talent, difficulty, or passion. But big studios, especially for the time, thought of it as lesser. That's why they got less budget.
Well, we got Harry Potter 4, Star Wars III, Kingdom of Heaven, King Kong, Munich, Pride and Prejudice, Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Cinderella Man, Memoirs of a Geisha and more. Compare that to 2023, 2021 or 2020.
@@r.c.c.10 yeah i did forget how average were recent years 2021 Dune clearly best film while 2020 very forgettable but 2023 really shouldnt be mentioned along these two years, we had Barbie, Oppeheimer, new Studio Ghibli film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Killers of the flower moon and Napoleon film that is coming soon.
Moonstruck Broadcast News River’s Edge Planes, Trains, and Automobiles The Princess Bride Predator Lethal Weapon Robocop Full Metal Jacket The Untouchables Definitely not a slow year
2009 was more infamous for being, what a lot of cartoon critics call the worst year for TV animation. Meanwhile, Schaffrillas, Cell Spex and other cartoon enthusiasts believe that it was also the year animated movies peaked. While I can see the argument, I also believe that it was also the year movies based on kids shows peaked! Hannah Montana The Movie, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie, Totally Spies The Movie, The Fairly OddParents Wishology Trilogy, Ed Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, Ben 10 Alien Swarm and Scooby Doo The Mystery Begins. There were at least a few that just so happened to also release that year that weren't that great: Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword, Land of the Lost, the only one of these shows that I never grew up watching, 70s nor 90s, and SpongeBob's Truth or Square which I wouldn't even call a movie as it was wasting so much time stretching the runtime. We also could've gotten a Chowder movie releasing either in 2009 or 2010 but cancelled in the middle of production. But the fond memories outweigh the bad. There are a variety of reasons why it was the best year for kids show based movies. 1. I can't find any other year that had the MOST movies based on kids shows. 2. Two of them released exclusively in theaters. 3. Some of them were made to celebrate the anniversary of their respective shows. 4. Many of them elevated the popularity and/or potential of their respective shows. It was one of the best times to be a fan of kids shows as I was a kid at the time!
Great video 2022 was honestly a very underrated year and is maybe suggesting a good comeback for Hollywood imo Banshees of Inisherin, the whale, all quiet on the western front,Elvis,women talking,Tar,Too gun maverick and everything everywhere all at once all made for a brilliant year
In 2017 I felt like there was so much crap that even the year's critical darlings were getting hype backlash. Heck, at that time I felt like I didn't like most modern blockbusters so something like The Last Jedi was nothing out of the ordinary to me and I was amazed it got such a viscerally negative reaction from certain people compared to something equally underwhelming to me like Spider-Man: Homecoming.
To be honest out of all the years in the 21st-century it would have to be 2001. Just look at the movies that came out that year Edit: Here’s the list of movies 1. Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring 2. Mulholland Drive 3. Spirited Away 4. A Beautiful Mind 5. Training Day 6. Donnie Darko 7. Black Hawk Down 8. Vanilla Sky 9. The Score 10. Amelie 11. Oceans 11 12. Zoolander 13. Monsters, Inc 14. Shrek 15. The Lost Battalion 16. Avalon 17. Frailty 18. In the Bedroom 19. Legally Blonde 20. Bridget Jone’s Diary 21. Millennium Actress 22. Enemy at the Gates 23. A.I 24. Cowboy Bebop the Movie 25. Band of Brothers (I know that it’s a miniseries, but I still wanna bring it up, it’s easily the best miniseries) These are all the movies I’ve seen that were pretty good. And yes I have seen Moulin Rouge, but I think that this movie is overrated af in my opinion
2001 was the weakest year given that's when franchise started getting made.And of course I was pissed Denzel Washington had to play a jerk off with Training Day.
@@Thespeedrap here I’ll edit the comment and show how many great movies there were. Btw Denzel deserved to win best actor, definitely better than Sean Penn
1987 being a bad year for films? Sure that was the year Jaws the Revenge and Superman IV Quest for Peace was released. But look at the classics from that year, Lethal Weapon, RoboCop, Princess Bride, Full Metal Jacket, The Untouchables, Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Evil Dead II, Dirty Dancing, Raising Arizona, Withnail & I, Predator. I can't think of a year within the last two decades that has such a strong line up of movies and most of these are original titles, not sequel bait.
I feel like this year hasn't been great. There have been a few good movies, but I feel like I have spent months on end looking for something to watch this year.
Because it was maybe just a little over what was made in the previous decade. And I'm not really talking about the only two movies that were so hyped I still didn't watch them - Barbie and Oppenheimer. I'm talking about the fact they stopped with the remakes and superhero movies.
@@massivetwat5515 i mean ur not disproving his points those are all blockbuster IP films, even if some r pretty good. Blackberry, Reality, The Covenant,They Cloned Tyrone, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, Talk To Me, Bottoms & Theater Camp, Flora and Son, are pretty good mentions in terms of original stuff.
Oppenheimer, Barbie, Spiderverse, Past Lives, Mission Impossible, John Wick, Beau is Afraid, Ninja Turtles, Talk To Me, Bottoms. With Killers of The Flower Moon, Priscilla, Napoleon yet to come out.
Interesting point: In the video, mostly Hollywood films are shown, not much of movies from Norway, France, Germany, South Korea. Saying X year is the "worst" year in film history doesn't really hold water (based upon this view) since A LOT of movies are ignored. I'm not trying to sound negative or anything like that, I just wanted to point out that other movies from other countries should be included in these statements ;).
Honestly I've been loving this year. Barbie, Oppenheimer and Spiderverse as you said, but John Wick 4, the new TMNT movie, and what seems to be the new Scorsese movie all were great
I think 2023 has now taken the spot for the number one worst year for movies. We got infamous movies such as Ant Man Quantumania, The Marvels, Wonka, The Little Mermaid reboot, Wish, Flash. I can go on forever baby. The only exceptions were Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Across the Spider-Verse, and the Barbie movie.
I’m glad you spotlighted 1929 as one of the worst years for film for the reason of the innovation of sound and not just focus on films from the last 20 years. I would argue though that with enough research one would be able to find worse movie years than say 2005. There were some awful movies, the Devil’s Rejects comes to mind. While I really liked Crash upon its initial release it seems more heavy-handed with age. I am curious though, what was disappointing about Peter Jackson’s King Kong? It was a spectacular remake that honours the legacy of the original and has all the passion and excitement of the best blockbusters of the 2000’s. Munich, my favourite movie of that year was an excellent examination on a county’s reaction to terrorism which begs the question: can we effectively respond to violence with more violence and find any resolution in this complex world? 5 Oscar nominations notwithstanding, it’s arguably Spielberg’s most underrated film. As you mentioned, Revenge of the Sith came out that year which is by far the best of the Star Wars prequels. Batman Begins for crying out loud! It was one of the best franchise course corrections after 1997’s disastrous Batman & Robin (which to be fair is kind of fun to watch if your in the mood for Bat-Butts and Bat Credit Cards😂). When Ebert and Roeper compiled their top 10 list for 2005 they said with complete confidence that if they were asked to make a top 20 list for that year they could easily make a list for 2005 that they would be proud of. I thought your examination of the effect of the 2007 writer’s strike was pretty spot on which, yes, resulted in the shakiness(in more ways than one) of Quantum of Solace and the robot testicles in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (yes, this actually happens in the movie). My criticisms aside, great video and analysis. Keep up the great work! Let’s hope the movies of 2024/2025 don’t suffer and if they do let this serve as a reminder for the studios NOT to take writers for granted and that they need to be paid what they’re worth!
for me, 3080 movies watched already: worst average ratings = 2000, 2003, 2020, 2021 fewer movies watched than the graph would imply: 1954, 1974, 1992, 2010
I feel 2005 had some of the best movies i have watched repeatedly since then. Constantine, Batman begins, V for Vendetta, Mr & Mrs smith, Jarhead, A history of violence, Coach Carter, The longest yard, The Pacifier, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Kingdom of Heaven, the first Saw. Even Just friends, Robots, Chicken little, the island, Red eye, Kiss kiss bang bang, Wallace and gromit, Goblet of fire and madagascar are all great movies that are remembered well
2005: King Kong Batman Begins War of the Worlds Chronicles of Narnia Revenge of the Sith Goblet of Fire All better and more creative blockbusters than we get today
While not the worst, i think the most ho-hum year in film might be 2011. Bunch of movie sequels, not many hard hitting movies in the critical sense, the release years of Jack and Jill and box office bombs like Mars Needs Moms. Yeah, some movies were good but id argue that none of them were truly great.
Great year for South Korea Thought. Train to Busan, The Wailling (my favorite horror movie from last decade) and The Handmaiden (The best movie of that year).
@@lucasmello1022 yes, even one of my best 2016 film is the Japanese animation film "Your Name". But if we talk about the whole movies of that year, it had the less favorates movies.
@@fzcbh4698 I Would pick 2012 in last decade. I only liked The Hunt (it was premiered that year at Cannes, but only launched in 2013, still i consider 2012 for first exibition) and Neighbouring Sounds (a movie for my country, Brazil, and The best of our best filmmaker nowadays).
actually, the broadway melody of 1929 which is a film from this year, is highly considered by many moviegoers and cinephiles and mostly all the critics the worst winner of best picture category at the academy awards and if that's going to tell us something, is the shitty quality of this year in film history. even that it was such a major film and was pushed by the studio with another film the Hollywood revue of 1929 as the first ' all talking , all dancing , all musical '.
I think 2022 could be a contender. Recently, I just realized that there wasn’t any film I was compelled to go see in 2022. I’m especially a huge fan of period dramas, but I can’t recall a single one coming out in 2022. There probably were some, but if so, I missed them. Of course, whenever you say one year is the worst year in film, someone will always come along and point out a good film from that year.
Yeah good point! It’s all about what your preferences are and why there is no actual answer to this question just like there isn’t one for what the best year for movies are. It’s very subjective. As for 2022 period films, I enjoyed Babylon (although it’s longer than it needed to be) and maybe more action than you’re looking for but The Northman was really good. Definitely worth checking out, kinda sad how poorly it did at the box office.
@@FilmStack I wanted to see the Northman, but was unable to. This year has been a much better year for period films. It started with The Pale Blue Eye. We got The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and later this year, we’re getting Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon.
2022 had The Batman Everything Everywhere all at once The Northman Nope Top gun maverick Babylon The fablemans Banshees of inersherin Avatar 2 Puss in Boots the last wish All quiet on the western front Marcel the shell in shoes Tar Aftersun Easily the best lineup of movies this decade has had to offer
11:25 “The best picture nominees weren’t too great either.” What’s wrong with Brokeback Mountain? That’s the only nominee that year to be in the Library of Congress. Hell, one of the main reasons Crash gets a lot of hate was for beating Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture.
I have asked question myself a few times but not enough for having a qualified answer. And the more I tend to pick out a specific year for that title the more difficult it becomes. And the thing is when you decentralize that Hollywood-Oscar point of view and focus on other areas of the world that had, at several occasions, done better films as Hollywood did (1970 as an example for the European cinema like Melville's "Le Cercle Rouge"), it becomes almost impossible to narrow it down to one year while it's also based on your own preferences. Great video tho! With all the historical context for better understanding. That was good 👍
2018 was the worst for me, only 3 truly great films - Under the Silver Lake, American Animals, Burning. I'd put Mirai almost in that category, it's wonderfully directed and beautifully animated, but the screenplay isn't on the same level.
2020 gets my vote, it was having to follow 2019 as you said which was honestly one of the best years for films in recent memory, probably even better than 2014, and I think the only films I saw that year that really wowed me were Saint Maud and Another Round, when I feel like most years I have at least 3 or 4 that really stick with me.
Still confused as to why 2005 was not a great year in film. I did not get a core reason like the other years. Seems it was based off your own disliking of the year and King Kong was one of the best films ever 2005
I was really expecting 2009, late 2000's really sucked as a movie goer, and man especially Quantum of Solace hurted, Casino Royale is not only one of my favorite Bond movies but also action movies in general, but Quatum was a letwdown, the story never made me grasp it and whatever was the conflict I can't even remember, hell the guy sweeping at the port wasn't even touching the ground with his broom, freaking movie.
Seriously? 2005 was a pretty good film year for me. Batman Begins, Revenge of the Sith, Brokeback Mountain, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Mr & Mrs Smith, Chronicles of Narnia, V for Vendetta, Sin City, Constantine, Stay, .....
I'd say from 1997-1999 was extremely bad for big budget films. The two asteroid movies, Spawn, Godzilla US, Lost In Space, Batman and Robin, Wild Wild West. Those movies are all cringe worthy.
Beyond Crash getting a bogus statue, I don't get the 2005 shade. There were some solid comedies (40 Year Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Waiting, Thank You For Smoking, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Decent action & noir flicks (Batman Begins, Sin City, Lord of War, History of Violence, V for Vendetta, Revenge of the Sith), and even better-than-average Rom-Com & Dramatic-Romance (Pride & Prejudice, Brokeback, Hitch)
I saw the title, and immediately thought of 2019. The great films mentioned in the video were released during a glut of nearly universally hated movies like Cats, Airplane Mode, The Fanatic, the Grudge reboot, the Black Christmas "remake," Loqueesha, and Verotika. Maybe there was enough good movies to outweigh the bad, though.
yeah, it had bad movies, but it was truly that last amazing year we got in film. Literally hoards of great films came from 2019. its rare i could make a top 20 favourite movies of each year, and Ive done it with 2019.
I honestly could make a top 20 most disappointing movies from that year more easily than top 20 best the only truly great movies are endgame joker 1917 knives out parasite and the lighthouse
With the Naughties 2000 to 2009. Most of the best movies in that decade were not big budget movies. Most of the best movies that decade were either Indie movies, Horror movies, or movies by amazing film directors, Fincher, Scorsese etc etc. For the Horror genre the 00’s was a very good decade, you had like a 70’s grindhouse/ exploitation revival in the 00’s. And I think the reason for that is 9/11. 9/11 gave people a fear that the Horror genre tapped into like the 70’s tapped into the fear of the Serial Killer. It’s no surprise that after 9/11 there was a revival in 70’s style Home Invasion Horror movies, Vacancy (2007), The Strangers (2008), etc etc. So the 00’s when it comes to the Horror genre was very good, and like a 70’s part 2 vibe with Horror.
For Hollywood maybe. But damn, so many movies across The Globe to be loved. Capernaum, Burning, An Elephant Sitting Still, Cold War, Shoplifters, Birds of Passage.
This was a well thought out video. I would imagine that any year where there are major strikes going on is a bad period for movies since union members cannot continue production or even promote their work during strikes. Even in 2023, we still got some great movies, but as of now, there’s the actors strike still going on.
I imagine it's more delayed for film since the main thing actors could t do for movies releasing this year was promoting. Next couple years will be interesting but with the num er of indies that set wgreenlight since they aren't shithilea like Warner or disney(as much at least) could still be solid
2005 had some bangers eh.... American Pie Band Camp, Son of Mask, the dukes of Hazard, the pacifier, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D, Fantastic 4. What a year...
I would rather a film be delayed instead of rushed even if I’m super excited for it. What’s the point if the art AND its creators will suffer? (I know it always comes down to box office profits, but that’s ass)
Despite Tenet bombing hard, I still find it really impressive that it made 360 million. Considering that it was released only four months after the pandemic hit, it was pretty successful.
But the movie was really not good, sadly
@seanolaocha940I thought it was decent too. But it's easily at or near the bottom of Nolans filmography.
@@Ambal18aI loved Tenet. 😭
Tenet is one of Nolan’s best. A very misunderstood movie, and an incredible achievement in storytelling and technical filmmaking. It made a very impressive amount of money for a COVID release, but unfortunately, the pandemic didn’t do it any favours.
@seanolaocha940Yeah, well, people keep crying about wanting original, unorthodox films, and then they’re crying when they get them because they’re too out of the ordinary.
I love how 2009 is commonly considered one of the best years for animated movies ever, despite being one of the worst film years ever.
I don’t understand that, lol. Despite the animated movies a lot came out good that year. Like Inglorious Bastards and the Hangover. I don’t think it was that bad of a year.
Ice Age 3 was amazing, one of my favourite movies till this day!
2008 was the best of both
@@spartyontopthe hangover is meh
@@cinder7258 How? It’s comedy gold!
Whilst 2009 may have been pretty bad when it came to live action blockbusters, I’d argue that it was the best year when it came to animation. Up, Coraline, Fantastic Mr Fox, Mary and Max etc. All of them are phenomenal and are some of my favourites
Yes, probably one of the best years of all time in terms of animated films, and the Year 2009 often gets overlooked for this.
Don’t forget megamind
@@OldManJenkins_ that was 2010
Trust me, I would have mentioned it as it is a banger however it was the year after
Also the movie 9 lmao
@@JAProductions494 my b
I think it's interesting you added 1929 and 2020, seeing how both those years had major historical events affecting film (beginnings of the Great Depression and COVID-19 Pandemic) as well as reeling from industry changing transitions (the advent of sound in film and streaming services)
2023 is one of the worst and no major event has happened. 😢😢
@@r.c.c.10?! This is the come back of movies after the pandemic
This is an incredible year, showing people still care about cinema and movies
@@msmsmsmsmsmsmsmsms How is that. What great films have been released?
Because Barbie, Oppenheimer and Super Mario are good but not great. Only Killers of the Flower Moon, Suzume and Past Lives have been great and they're not that famous. A bunch of fine films and a lot of mid movies.
@@r.c.c.10Barbie and Oppenheimer were great. Much better than KOTFM
@@r.c.c.10 I could name so many blockbusters from this year
I am a 50 year old man with autism. My special interest is Disney. The last twenty years has been down, down, down. And it's going down faster and faster. My lesser interests are not doing much better, as they all have to do with books, movies and music. These are the worst times.
Since you like Disney, I'd recommend "Ernest & Celestine" (2012) if you haven't already seen it.
@@sebastianmontano9979 I have seen it, but thanks for the recommendation. It is wonderful!
Maybe you should've widened your horizon and seen things that were not made by capitalist scums who hate art
I am also in that age group.
The Film industry has a serious problem. The last five years or so there have been fewer and fewer diamonds. I don't want to risk my time and money to go see something that is poorly written and over hyped. I have done it to many times.
@@d.1.a_mayby18 then watch something that is good instead of only going for commercial cinema?
1966 deserves a mention. Some great foreign films (Persona, Battle of Algiers) but Hollywood was at a creative nadir, just before the rise of "New Hollywood" the next year with The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde kicking off a new era of filmmaking.
It was one of Hollywood’s weaker years, but it had some of the best foreign films (The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Andre Rublev, Blow-Out, etc.)
I didn't realize 1966 was so bad. I went to several ranking sites and 1966 was not good.
1966 was a GLORIOUS year for the entire movie world at least 20 great movies from all over), except USA, indeed it was a poor year for Hollywood 🙄
@@bronxbomber2150blow-up
A Man For All Seasons (perhaps my favorite film ever?)
Fantastic Voyage
Fahrenheit 451
How To Steal A Million (a fun little comic caper)
But yeah, overall not that many
The 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, early to mid 2000s and early to mid 2010s were the best years.
Out of all those, what has been your favourite decade?
@@FilmStack mid 2000s and early to mid 2010s
@@FilmStack80s/90s movies are 🔥
70s is my fav decade for movies
@@the9thinning1same. Godfather 1 and 2, Apocalypse Now, Taxi driver, Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, Barry Lyndon, Rocky, Alien etc.
So mamy great films
You slipped Conan in there as if he went on the air with all his unscripted shenanigans to just stay on the air. This couldn’t be further from the truth. He went back on the air to prove how important writers are to even his type of comedy. He was there to support the writers, believe it or not.
Good for him
@@Xpwnxage great for him!
I think it's interesting that 2009 is considered a bad year for film when it's widely considered one of the best years for animated films of all time.
Even as a kid, I felt like it was an ugly year. And even shows on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and especially Disney Channel sucked. I hated that year and many films that came out that year. Even a few weeks ago, when trying to find any standouts, I couldn't find any. Whether it was big budget films, sequels, remakes, original films, TV movies or even direct-to-video.
And it’s also one of the best years for gaming, but that’s another story 😂
I remember seeing TENET in theaters when it came out, the theater was basically empty and there were only a handfull of workers.
The problem with Tenet is not the plot, but their version of time travel 😂
Same for my theater.
America has a Hollywood problem
Hollywood has an America problem.
It's mostly the moviegoing public's fault because they have no attention span anymore.
Wait but all of those 2005 movies that lost to Crash are really good
1929 still had Man With A Movie Camera,Pandora's Box,Diary of a Lost Girl,Un Chien Andalou,The General Line and 13 Laurel and Hardy shorts.
And Cocoanuts!
Interestingly enough, all of them silent films with the exception of the majority of the Laurel and Hardy shorts.
"1929 had no great films" worst line in the history of this channel
2020 still doesn’t feel real. It feels like some parallel universe history. You really had to be there and we were *all* there. Eerie
Honestly it’s kind of fucked with me since the pandemic - cos it feels like time has been in a rush… all that time in lockdown then boom 💥 4 years have passed
I find it funny how for me 2020 was just another year for me. Chalk it up to being a construction laborer and working all year. All I noticed was that my commutes got shorter for two weeks.
As an online college student with a job considered essential, my primary observation about 2020 was that there was a lot less traffic.
Mainly just because of how delusional psychotic and dramatic people like you were being
I will defend PJs King Kong as long as i live. The actors, sets and effects were great. Sure it is long but King Kong is supposed to be an epic and instead of what he did later with the Hobbit stretching the story of 2 movies into 3 here he packed 2 movies into one which to me is rly impressive.
Also as a big fan of spec evo its insane how much effort went into the creatures and bioms of Skull Island making almost all of them believable and act like real animals. There also is a great book about this movies version of SI if anyone is interessted its called a natural history of skull island. Unfortunately u can't buy it anymore but there are many great vids on utube about it. I would recommend the video Unnatural History Channel made about it.
I will join you. It is my 2nd favorite film of all time just behind Jurassic Park. It is sheer masterpiece and one of the greatest remakes of all time
@@lukeschlorholtz That film just gives us so much. The great atmosphere of 1930s New York a boat ride like in an old adventure movie, horror elements with natives and ofc the biggest star Skull Island itself. If I had to
nitpick I'd say the ending is a bit to long but then again it is supposed to be epic and larger then life as an omage to the og one of the most revolutionary movies of all time.
Also and don't get me wrong i love the first JP but if ur after a great dinosaur adventure
King Kong will probably fit u more since JP at its core rly is more a Sci-Fi thriller with lots of ethical talk about what science should and shouldn't do. Again i love the movie for that but King Kong is almost the purest prehistoric adventure u can get.
Everything spot on about King Kong! Add Sin City there, and 10 or so other movies: a solid history epic Kingdom of Heaven (but only Director's Cut) and a bunch of mediocre/ok movies (The Island, Proposition, Revenge of the Sith, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Batman Begins, all good/ok movies but nothing extraordinary) but that was all from 2005 - objectively the worst year of that decade compared to any other. The author had a point.
Agreed. King Kong was amazing
That will always be my King Kong.
I commend your courage for taking on such a topic. It’s challenging to determine criteria objectively
2023 (or 2024) can be a end of an era for Hollywood
I actually loved 2009 as a film year. There are a lot of hidden gems from that year like Dogtooth, The Messenger, Mother, Antichrist, The White Ribbon, Lourdes, The Maid, Thirst, In The Loop, About Elly, Serious Man and a lot more.
Didn’t the first Avatar come out in 2009 also?
@@joelsigrist7127 yeah. Did the video not mention the blue people?
@@mickey4355nope don’t think so. Feels weird to call 2009 the worst movie in cinema and not mention the year’s biggest movie
@@joelsigrist7127 Very weird.
Bruh dogtooth is such a weird ass movie
Here are my favorite movies from those years:
1929: The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux
2005: Everything is Illuminated
2009: Dogtooth
2020: Dating Amber
Everything is illuminated is great, never heard of it till I got it on DVD couple months back , stuck with me
Are they real movies?
@@strikerbowls791yeah. Dogtooth rules.
Excluding the very early days when things were just wonky and experimental, I always thought it must have been 1964 because I heard that that's when the fewest number of movies were made for the year due to whatever was going on. Studios were having a tough time that year. But I shall see what you think, by watching. Thank you so much for making this video, because it's a question that I've often pondered! Excited to watch :-)
Fistful of Dollars and Mary Poppins both released in 1964.
@@joseywales3580 aswell Dr Strangelove but other than that pretty lackluster especially comparing it to previous years like 1962 which might be the best year for film ever
@@mrmeeseeks2534What about Zulu, Goldfinger, The Train, Fail Safe, & First Men in the Moon?
On the imperfect-but-immensely-fascinating front, I’m also rather fond of ”The Fall of The Roman Empire” and ”Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte”.
Then there’s ”Zorba the Greek”, which I can’t vouch for due to not having seen it, but is usually highly regarded
@@joonaa2751 oh my word, you’re absolutely correct.
@IchigoMatsumoto1889 no way you said 2014😭
12:45 why don’t the animated ones count? They’re creative original works. Seems strange to make a distinction like that
But they shouldn't be nearly the only good ones.
A lot of people blame David Benioff (one of the two Game of Thrones show runners) for how bad X-Men origins turned out, and I certainly think he had plenty to do with the bad script, but nobody ever mentioned how by the time cameras were rolling, he was on strike with the rest of the industry. I would say some of the most egregious parts of that movie were actually a result of him NOT being there.
I still like the movie in a shlock sense. One of my favorites when it comes to that right alongside Daredevil 2003 and Dragon Ball Evolution....
i agree with your summation about the transition to talkies being a major drop in quality for films, but you can’t say 1929 had “no great films” when that’s the year pandora’s box came out
1997 was full of terrible or questionable sequels that destroyed their franchises or were just disappointing: Batman & Robin, Speed 2, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Alien: Resurrection, Home Alone 3, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, etc.
The same was for 1987 (Superman IV, Jaws 4: The Revenge) but there were less
Good point.
Didn't think the first Speed or Mortal Kombat were good either, and liked Home Alone 3, but yes a lot was real bad in 1997.
I liked 1997. Ill defend 1997 in my opinion
I’ll give 2005 this, it brought my two of my favorite animated movies ever, corpse bride and Wallace and Gromit the curse of the were rabbit. Really great films imo
Curse of the Wererabbit was great, we loved the Wallace and Gromit short films so seeing a feature-length stop motion film with them was great even though we’d had Chicken Run before then.
I think 1996-1998 deserved a mention. Most of the beloved '90s movies came out between 1990-1995 and in 1999. 1996-1998 had some pretty big stinkers, disappointments, and a severe lack of all-time classics compared to the other years in the decade. This era had Batman & Robin, Godzilla '98, Space Jam, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Steel, Alien: Resurrection, Spy Hard, The Phantom, Jack, The (British) Avengers, Star Trek: Insurrection, Quest For Camelot, Bio-Dome, Home Alone 3, and Kazaam just to name a few.
How dare you speak ill of Spy Hard
Truman Show and Saving private Ryan came out in 1998.
Titanic, the biggest hit of the decade, came out in 1997, along with Good Will Hunting and Liar Liar.
That Era was not that bad.
Am I the only one who likes The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
@@SoapNugget no. I like it too
Home Alone 3 is so absurd that I love it. Turning a fun and wacky Christmas adventure movie into a spy film about a young child thwarting international terrorists? Brilliant
1890s. _Fred Ott's Sneeze_ really isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Hahaha but The Arrival of a Train was pretty hype at the time
It failed to live up to expectations set by Roundhay Garden Scene
@@littlekingtrashmouth9219pretty big movie to top
“they talk about the transition from silent films to talkies in the movie ‘babylon’”
singin in the rain: am i a joke to you?
What about films released via streaming platforms? I’d love to know what you considered the worst year so far because most of what I’ve seen premiere on streaming hasn’t resonated with me.
I'm surprised 1997 didn't end up on the list. I love lots of movies from 1997 but can't recall any other year where the critics have been so negative. Even regular people didn't seem to enjoy it much.
Life is Beautiful, Princess Mononoke, and L.A Confidential all came out in 1997, and that's just off the top of my head.
@@you-got-reported-fam3445 Yup! Contact, Jackie Brown, Boogie Nights and Titanic are great movies as well. Many of my top 20 movies are actually from 1997. It's probably a case where the average quality that year were lower than usual so a lot of movies were indeed stinkers. And that's why I remember reading so many negative reviews.
Maybe not a great year overall but that was the year of Titanic for the masses.
@@geminijinxies7258maybe the answer is that there was no other year where movies were fantastically awful despite the good movies
Men in Black 😎
I refuse to accept discussing 2020 and not giving mention to The Kid Detective, my absolute favorite film of that year.
i used to always say for many years that 2005 was the worst year for films
indeed it was...compared to all other years of that same decade.
Brick would like to talk
This was a very informative and well thought out analysis. The discussion on talkies and the strikes were very good. I think 2005 suffered as well because of how many bangers 1999-2004 had as well as well as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises being so iconic and a major timecapscule for pre 2005. As you say 2006 and 2007 had several classics and 2008 for good and ill was the birth of the cinematic universe structure. A great video to listen to walking to work.
Seriously, did Jules Verne and later Edgar Rice Burroughs popularise the literary universe structure? I think it was decades before both Disney and Marvel popularised the cinematic universe structure too.
Love Revenge of the Sith and Batman Begins and think they are pretty widely loved (though not really enough), also The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Munich, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck.
But imagine if they had actually been able to document on film the falling of Constantinople. I want to believe they would have done it the style of The Office. Just having the camera focus on a disappointed general, sat on a high chair, framed for an interview, while the city burned and buildings collapsed behind him. Slow zoom "I have no words. I trained those losers"
I find it really interesting how 2005 is a culprit here, given that 2006/2007 are my favorite years in film history (thank you Children of Men and Atonement). It feels like 2005 was the calm before the megastorm of awesome.
As someone who was born in 2001, as far as memories, I felt like 2004 was the year and era that I remembered the most of. Especially seeing classics being advertised or getting toys for Spider-Man 2, Shrek 2, or The Incredibles. But I never thought 2005 was ever a bad year since there were still plenty of a good films. I always felt it blended with 2004 well. But by 2007, I used to hate it because it was constantly filled with sequels, remakes, and movies that would get memed. Spider-Man 3? Transformers? F*cking Bee Movie? Shrek the Third? But a few weeks ago, I rediscovered the year, and seen commercial complications of 2007 and I totally forgot how good it actually was. And the hated films have gained more respect. (Besides Shrek the Third.) 2006 waa a forgettable year. Nothing stood out to me or from memories. 2008 was a struggling follow up to 2007, but even back then, I always thought 2009 was the absolute worst. So many awful films, and a time when even cable shows from Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network straight up sucked. The time when live action dominated CN, so many unfunny teen sitcoms, and back when SpongeBob was at his lowest. Just boring and negative. But once 2010 came around, it was not only a new decade but a breath of fresh air after being in the pit of that era from my youth. And by 2012, it was really, really good and i felt was my last golden era of my life since that year we moved somewhere else, and I was my final year for elementary school before middle school.
You able to remember a film you saw when you were 3 y.o?
2006 was pretty lacking but The Last King of Scotland and Blood Diamond were amazing.
At least 2008 had Ché directed by the amazing Steven Soderbergh
2009 was a bad year only if you're watching exclusively blockbusters. There were so many fantastic movies from that year, it's insane.
Inglorious Basterds, Fantastic Mr Fox, Up, District 9, Dogtooth, Enter the Void, Moon, Antichrist, A Serious Man, Mother, Drag Me to Hell, Mary and Max, A Single Man, Thirst, the Secrets in their Eyes, the White Ribbon, Rec², I am Love, Black Dynamite, bruno, Valhalla Rising, Coraline etc
Even when it came to mainstream movies you had stuff like Avatar, the Hangover, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes and 500 days of summer which are perfectly fine movies.
Inglorious Basterds is kind of a blockbuster.
Also Jennifer's Body, Drag Me to Hell, Fish Tank, An Education, Polytechnique, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo swedish trilogy, The Loved Ones, Bright Star, Air Doll, Cracks and probably others I haven't watched yet
Half of that first list are in fact Hollywood blockbusters lmao
also Crank 2, Werner Herzog‘s Bad Lieutenant + other kind of stupid fun flicks like Law Abiding Citizen, Knowing, Gamer or that Japanese gem called FISH STORY
@@TakeJanner Enter the void and anti christ are such hollywood blockbusters
@@filip1261 keyword in my first comment is HALF of his list
12:45 What's wrong with most successful movies being the animated ones? Animated movies are just as good and well made, if not better made, than many live action films.
It's more so that only three successful live-action movies that are not based on a franchise were released. It is often easier to create new properties in the animated space, so it is what companies did.
@@theactualmasterbeef how are they easier?
@factoryofdivisiveopinions Animated movies often don't have the insane budgets of live action ones. This doesn't diminish the animated movies and I apologize if it came off that way, but you have much more freedom in the animated space, especially at the time when CGI was in its infancy. You could create wilder ideas in addition to having the backing of a large company.
@masterbeef3925 while I agree with the creative exploration part, but animations aren't that cheap, especially back then. For example, Frozen costs 275 mil, and tangled cost 260 mil. To put into perspective, Avatar at the time cost around 245 mil. When all is said and done, most pixar/disney movies cost more than most Harry Potter, Transformers, Fast & Furious, Mission Impossible, James Bond films.
@factoryofdivisiveopinions Those are more modern examples at 2014 and 2016, respectively. Kung Fu Panda got a budget of 135 million. Ratatouille got a budget of 150 million, the exact same as Hancock, which did better than Ratatouille. Again, animation is not lesser in scope, talent, difficulty, or passion. But big studios, especially for the time, thought of it as lesser. That's why they got less budget.
2005 is just shockingly Mid year for movies, even a drug known as Nostalgia cannot save that one
At least we got Revenge of the Sith
batman begins, constantine, v for vendetta, corpse bride and robots. not as big as other recent years but still some decent films
What about "Munich"? Great Film
Well, we got Harry Potter 4, Star Wars III, Kingdom of Heaven, King Kong, Munich, Pride and Prejudice, Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Cinderella Man, Memoirs of a Geisha and more.
Compare that to 2023, 2021 or 2020.
@@r.c.c.10 yeah i did forget how average were recent years 2021 Dune clearly best film while 2020 very forgettable but 2023 really shouldnt be mentioned along these two years, we had Barbie, Oppeheimer, new Studio Ghibli film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Killers of the flower moon and Napoleon film that is coming soon.
The writing in Film and TV has been terrible for years now.
Anyone who calls 1987 a terrible film year did not watch very many movies from that year.
You're putting it mildy! Predator and Planes, Trains alone make it a classic year.
Moonstruck
Broadcast News
River’s Edge
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
The Princess Bride
Predator
Lethal Weapon
Robocop
Full Metal Jacket
The Untouchables
Definitely not a slow year
2009 was more infamous for being, what a lot of cartoon critics call the worst year for TV animation.
Meanwhile, Schaffrillas, Cell Spex and other cartoon enthusiasts believe that it was also the year animated movies peaked. While I can see the argument, I also believe that it was also the year movies based on kids shows peaked!
Hannah Montana The Movie, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie, Totally Spies The Movie, The Fairly OddParents Wishology Trilogy, Ed Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, Ben 10 Alien Swarm and Scooby Doo The Mystery Begins.
There were at least a few that just so happened to also release that year that weren't that great: Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword, Land of the Lost, the only one of these shows that I never grew up watching, 70s nor 90s, and SpongeBob's Truth or Square which I wouldn't even call a movie as it was wasting so much time stretching the runtime. We also could've gotten a Chowder movie releasing either in 2009 or 2010 but cancelled in the middle of production. But the fond memories outweigh the bad.
There are a variety of reasons why it was the best year for kids show based movies.
1. I can't find any other year that had the MOST movies based on kids shows.
2. Two of them released exclusively in theaters.
3. Some of them were made to celebrate the anniversary of their respective shows.
4. Many of them elevated the popularity and/or potential of their respective shows.
It was one of the best times to be a fan of kids shows as I was a kid at the time!
Avatar tho
Your chosen movies for 2019 are hilarious. Booksmart? Knives Out? Cmon bro
I always felt that 1930 was one of the worst years in film because of your reasoning for 1929.
I'm so glad that this channel is growing so rapidly. keep it up bro
Great video
2022 was honestly a very underrated year and is maybe suggesting a good comeback for Hollywood imo
Banshees of Inisherin, the whale, all quiet on the western front,Elvis,women talking,Tar,Too gun maverick and everything everywhere all at once all made for a brilliant year
2022 was a very good year. Compare it to how aweful 2023 has been so far. 2021 and 2020 weren't very good either.
The fablemans, avatar the way of water, the northman, the menu
In 2017 I felt like there was so much crap that even the year's critical darlings were getting hype backlash. Heck, at that time I felt like I didn't like most modern blockbusters so something like The Last Jedi was nothing out of the ordinary to me and I was amazed it got such a viscerally negative reaction from certain people compared to something equally underwhelming to me like Spider-Man: Homecoming.
To be honest out of all the years in the 21st-century it would have to be 2001. Just look at the movies that came out that year
Edit: Here’s the list of movies
1. Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Spirited Away
4. A Beautiful Mind
5. Training Day
6. Donnie Darko
7. Black Hawk Down
8. Vanilla Sky
9. The Score
10. Amelie
11. Oceans 11
12. Zoolander
13. Monsters, Inc
14. Shrek
15. The Lost Battalion
16. Avalon
17. Frailty
18. In the Bedroom
19. Legally Blonde
20. Bridget Jone’s Diary
21. Millennium Actress
22. Enemy at the Gates
23. A.I
24. Cowboy Bebop the Movie
25. Band of Brothers (I know that it’s a miniseries, but I still wanna bring it up, it’s easily the best miniseries)
These are all the movies I’ve seen that were pretty good. And yes I have seen Moulin Rouge, but I think that this movie is overrated af in my opinion
2001 is probably one of the vest years of this early milleniun
2001 was the weakest year given that's when franchise started getting made.And of course I was pissed Denzel Washington had to play a jerk off with Training Day.
@@Thespeedrap here I’ll edit the comment and show how many great movies there were.
Btw Denzel deserved to win best actor, definitely better than Sean Penn
@@andydufresnefromshawshank5866 you're right Denzel deserved to win he should had won playing Malcolm X.
@@Thespeedrap true too, he also won for his role in Glory
It says a lot about 2005 when Hoodwinked was one of the better movies that came out that year.
And of course, I was born in 2005.
Are you going to sit tell me ypu didn't like Thank You For Smoking? Seriously?....
2005: the constant gardener, Syriana, Kingdom of heaven directors cut... No, can't agree with 2005 being a bad year for movies...
Lord of War and Jarhead are also pretty good. Lord of War easily has Nick Cage's best ever performance.
And also Revenge of the Sith.
You just put Cat in the Hat in the same category as The Room and Gigli. I’m pausing the video to write this, and leaving forever. Good luck sir
0:34 The Cat in the Hat is actually a subversive masterpiece, but movie nerds still aren’t ready for that conversation
1987 being a bad year for films? Sure that was the year Jaws the Revenge and Superman IV Quest for Peace was released. But look at the classics from that year, Lethal Weapon, RoboCop, Princess Bride, Full Metal Jacket, The Untouchables, Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Evil Dead II, Dirty Dancing, Raising Arizona, Withnail & I, Predator. I can't think of a year within the last two decades that has such a strong line up of movies and most of these are original titles, not sequel bait.
I feel like this year hasn't been great. There have been a few good movies, but I feel like I have spent months on end looking for something to watch this year.
Because it was maybe just a little over what was made in the previous decade. And I'm not really talking about the only two movies that were so hyped I still didn't watch them - Barbie and Oppenheimer. I'm talking about the fact they stopped with the remakes and superhero movies.
Spiderverse, barbenheimer, mi 7, tmnt mutant mayhem, talk to me, john wick 4
@@massivetwat5515 i mean ur not disproving his points those are all blockbuster IP films, even if some r pretty good. Blackberry, Reality, The Covenant,They Cloned Tyrone, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, Talk To Me, Bottoms & Theater Camp, Flora and Son, are pretty good mentions in terms of original stuff.
@@GuineaPigEveryday Talk to Me is an indie film made by two UA-camrs, that and Oppenheimer are not IP movies
Oppenheimer, Barbie, Spiderverse, Past Lives, Mission Impossible, John Wick, Beau is Afraid, Ninja Turtles, Talk To Me, Bottoms. With Killers of The Flower Moon, Priscilla, Napoleon yet to come out.
Interesting point: In the video, mostly Hollywood films are shown, not much of movies from Norway, France, Germany, South Korea. Saying X year is the "worst" year in film history doesn't really hold water (based upon this view) since A LOT of movies are ignored. I'm not trying to sound negative or anything like that, I just wanted to point out that other movies from other countries should be included in these statements ;).
2023 would have been horrible with the writers strike but luckily Barbie, Oppenheimer and Spider-Man across the spiderverse came in clutch
Honestly I've been loving this year. Barbie, Oppenheimer and Spiderverse as you said, but John Wick 4, the new TMNT movie, and what seems to be the new Scorsese movie all were great
I think 2023 has now taken the spot for the number one worst year for movies. We got infamous movies such as Ant Man Quantumania, The Marvels, Wonka, The Little Mermaid reboot, Wish, Flash. I can go on forever baby. The only exceptions were Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Across the Spider-Verse, and the Barbie movie.
I’m glad you spotlighted 1929 as one of the worst years for film for the reason of the innovation of sound and not just focus on films from the last 20 years. I would argue though that with enough research one would be able to find worse movie years than say 2005. There were some awful movies, the Devil’s Rejects comes to mind. While I really liked Crash upon its initial release it seems more heavy-handed with age. I am curious though, what was disappointing about Peter Jackson’s King Kong? It was a spectacular remake that honours the legacy of the original and has all the passion and excitement of the best blockbusters of the 2000’s. Munich, my favourite movie of that year was an excellent examination on a county’s reaction to terrorism which begs the question: can we effectively respond to violence with more violence and find any resolution in this complex world? 5 Oscar nominations notwithstanding, it’s arguably Spielberg’s most underrated film. As you mentioned, Revenge of the Sith came out that year which is by far the best of the Star Wars prequels. Batman Begins for crying out loud! It was one of the best franchise course corrections after 1997’s disastrous Batman & Robin (which to be fair is kind of fun to watch if your in the mood for Bat-Butts and Bat Credit Cards😂). When Ebert and Roeper compiled their top 10 list for 2005 they said with complete confidence that if they were asked to make a top 20 list for that year they could easily make a list for 2005 that they would be proud of.
I thought your examination of the effect of the 2007 writer’s strike was pretty spot on which, yes, resulted in the shakiness(in more ways than one) of Quantum of Solace and the robot testicles in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (yes, this actually happens in the movie). My criticisms aside, great video and analysis. Keep up the great work! Let’s hope the movies of 2024/2025 don’t suffer and if they do let this serve as a reminder for the studios NOT to take writers for granted and that they need to be paid what they’re worth!
for me, 3080 movies watched already:
worst average ratings = 2000, 2003, 2020, 2021
fewer movies watched than the graph would imply: 1954, 1974, 1992, 2010
Thought 2005 was strong, I did think 1997 and 2003 were pretty weak in great era of 1998-2004/2005.
@@suarezguy and it was! it's the second year with most movies I've seen, loosing to 2008 only
The late 2010s and 2020s have been the worst
2019 and 18 weren't that bad but the 2020s have been shit
@@abloshow91 2019 was pretty meh, honestly.
2019 was kind of a great year for cinema
@@abloshow91Agree I enjoyed 2018 & 2019 tbh
apart from 2019 which fought and gave some great movies, they were all infested with woke virus.
My would be 2011, the only things that year is remembered for that Harry Potter concluded, Drive, and the MCU was still finding an identity.
I feel 2005 had some of the best movies i have watched repeatedly since then. Constantine, Batman begins, V for Vendetta, Mr & Mrs smith, Jarhead, A history of violence, Coach Carter, The longest yard, The Pacifier, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Kingdom of Heaven, the first Saw. Even Just friends, Robots, Chicken little, the island, Red eye, Kiss kiss bang bang, Wallace and gromit, Goblet of fire and madagascar are all great movies that are remembered well
V for Vendetta is 2006 right?
@a.demifemiflapo5795 it's saying 2005 when I look it up
Oh
Personally, form these I'd call great only A history of Violence, Kiss kiss bang bang and Wallace and Groomit
2005:
King Kong
Batman Begins
War of the Worlds
Chronicles of Narnia
Revenge of the Sith
Goblet of Fire
All better and more creative
blockbusters than we get today
Man, and I never expected 2005 to be here, some of my favourite movies are there
While not the worst, i think the most ho-hum year in film might be 2011. Bunch of movie sequels, not many hard hitting movies in the critical sense, the release years of Jack and Jill and box office bombs like Mars Needs Moms. Yeah, some movies were good but id argue that none of them were truly great.
I believe the worst year of the movies around 2010s is 2016.
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Great year for South Korea Thought. Train to Busan, The Wailling (my favorite horror movie from last decade) and The Handmaiden (The best movie of that year).
@@lucasmello1022 yes, even one of my best 2016 film is the Japanese animation film "Your Name".
But if we talk about the whole movies of that year, it had the less favorates movies.
@@fzcbh4698 I Would pick 2012 in last decade. I only liked The Hunt (it was premiered that year at Cannes, but only launched in 2013, still i consider 2012 for first exibition) and Neighbouring Sounds (a movie for my country, Brazil, and The best of our best filmmaker nowadays).
I think it was mid year despite Zootopia and Arrival being great in my opinion.
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actually, the broadway melody of 1929 which is a film from this year, is highly considered by many moviegoers and cinephiles and mostly all the critics the worst winner of best picture category at the academy awards and if that's going to tell us something, is the shitty quality of this year in film history. even that it was such a major film and was pushed by the studio with another film the Hollywood revue of 1929 as the first ' all talking , all dancing , all musical '.
I think 2022 could be a contender. Recently, I just realized that there wasn’t any film I was compelled to go see in 2022. I’m especially a huge fan of period dramas, but I can’t recall a single one coming out in 2022. There probably were some, but if so, I missed them. Of course, whenever you say one year is the worst year in film, someone will always come along and point out a good film from that year.
Yeah good point! It’s all about what your preferences are and why there is no actual answer to this question just like there isn’t one for what the best year for movies are. It’s very subjective. As for 2022 period films, I enjoyed Babylon (although it’s longer than it needed to be) and maybe more action than you’re looking for but The Northman was really good. Definitely worth checking out, kinda sad how poorly it did at the box office.
@@FilmStack I wanted to see the Northman, but was unable to. This year has been a much better year for period films. It started with The Pale Blue Eye. We got The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and later this year, we’re getting Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon.
2022 had
The Batman
Everything Everywhere all at once
The Northman
Nope
Top gun maverick
Babylon
The fablemans
Banshees of inersherin
Avatar 2
Puss in Boots the last wish
All quiet on the western front
Marcel the shell in shoes
Tar
Aftersun
Easily the best lineup of movies this decade has had to offer
@@rogue9230 Around half of those films listed were sequels or remakes.
@@batman5224 that doesn’t take away from the fact how amazing all of these were tho
11:25 “The best picture nominees weren’t too great either.”
What’s wrong with Brokeback Mountain? That’s the only nominee that year to be in the Library of Congress. Hell, one of the main reasons Crash gets a lot of hate was for beating Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture.
I dont know the year but the worst decade has to be the 2020s
Even though we're only 3 years in, you are correct, sir.
it’s all just fucking remakes and sequels to movies that came out 10+ years ago. i want more original ideas
We're not even finished with this current decade. It's to early to judge
well i thought 2022 was rather solid
I have asked question myself a few times but not enough for having a qualified answer. And the more I tend to pick out a specific year for that title the more difficult it becomes.
And the thing is when you decentralize that Hollywood-Oscar point of view and focus on other areas of the world that had, at several occasions, done better films as Hollywood did (1970 as an example for the European cinema like Melville's "Le Cercle Rouge"), it becomes almost impossible to narrow it down to one year while it's also based on your own preferences.
Great video tho! With all the historical context for better understanding. That was good 👍
Cat in the hat is the best movie ever made how dare you 😔
2018 was the worst for me, only 3 truly great films - Under the Silver Lake, American Animals, Burning. I'd put Mirai almost in that category, it's wonderfully directed and beautifully animated, but the screenplay isn't on the same level.
2020 gets my vote, it was having to follow 2019 as you said which was honestly one of the best years for films in recent memory, probably even better than 2014, and I think the only films I saw that year that really wowed me were Saint Maud and Another Round, when I feel like most years I have at least 3 or 4 that really stick with me.
You are amazing, great video!
2005....Lord Of War is a fantastic film
Don’t do The Cat In The Hat that way I love that movie
Still confused as to why 2005 was not a great year in film. I did not get a core reason like the other years. Seems it was based off your own disliking of the year and King Kong was one of the best films ever 2005
I was really expecting 2009, late 2000's really sucked as a movie goer, and man especially Quantum of Solace hurted, Casino Royale is not only one of my favorite Bond movies but also action movies in general, but Quatum was a letwdown, the story never made me grasp it and whatever was the conflict I can't even remember, hell the guy sweeping at the port wasn't even touching the ground with his broom, freaking movie.
Interesting exercise... now what was the best year for movies? I'm going with 1994.
I can't agree more! We got Quiz Show, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Forest Gump, Leon, The Lion King, Ed Wood and many other great films.
Loved this video, very interesting🍿🙏
Seriously? 2005 was a pretty good film year for me.
Batman Begins, Revenge of the Sith, Brokeback Mountain, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Mr & Mrs Smith, Chronicles of Narnia, V for Vendetta, Sin City, Constantine, Stay, .....
Kingdom of Heaven(Director’s Cut)
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
in what world was 2023 a good year for cinema :DDDDD
1991. We lost many great studios that year.
I'd say from 1997-1999 was extremely bad for big budget films. The two asteroid movies, Spawn, Godzilla US, Lost In Space, Batman and Robin, Wild Wild West. Those movies are all cringe worthy.
Ill defend 1997-1999
Ill defend Lost in Space 1998 movie since the reboot sucked
It got increasingly worse since all people are using social Media
Beyond Crash getting a bogus statue, I don't get the 2005 shade. There were some solid comedies (40 Year Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Waiting, Thank You For Smoking, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Decent action & noir flicks (Batman Begins, Sin City, Lord of War, History of Violence, V for Vendetta, Revenge of the Sith), and even better-than-average Rom-Com & Dramatic-Romance (Pride & Prejudice, Brokeback, Hitch)
I saw the title, and immediately thought of 2019. The great films mentioned in the video were released during a glut of nearly universally hated movies like Cats, Airplane Mode, The Fanatic, the Grudge reboot, the Black Christmas "remake," Loqueesha, and Verotika. Maybe there was enough good movies to outweigh the bad, though.
yeah, it had bad movies, but it was truly that last amazing year we got in film. Literally hoards of great films came from 2019. its rare i could make a top 20 favourite movies of each year, and Ive done it with 2019.
I honestly could make a top 20 most disappointing movies from that year more easily than top 20 best the only truly great movies are endgame joker 1917 knives out parasite and the lighthouse
With the Naughties 2000 to 2009. Most of the best movies in that decade were not big budget movies. Most of the best movies that decade were either Indie movies, Horror movies, or movies by amazing film directors, Fincher, Scorsese etc etc.
For the Horror genre the 00’s was a very good decade, you had like a 70’s grindhouse/ exploitation revival in the 00’s. And I think the reason for that is 9/11. 9/11 gave people a fear that the Horror genre tapped into like the 70’s tapped into the fear of the Serial Killer.
It’s no surprise that after 9/11 there was a revival in 70’s style Home Invasion Horror movies, Vacancy (2007), The Strangers (2008), etc etc.
So the 00’s when it comes to the Horror genre was very good, and like a 70’s part 2 vibe with Horror.
2018 always comes to mind when I think of the worst year. But hey, haven't lived for a 100 years
For Hollywood maybe. But damn, so many movies across The Globe to be loved. Capernaum, Burning, An Elephant Sitting Still, Cold War, Shoplifters, Birds of Passage.
You forgot casino Royale we're talking about 2005. I think it was a great year for movies and that's just one example
The fact that Brokeback Mountain didn't win best picture in 2005 is honestly insane
This was a well thought out video. I would imagine that any year where there are major strikes going on is a bad period for movies since union members cannot continue production or even promote their work during strikes. Even in 2023, we still got some great movies, but as of now, there’s the actors strike still going on.
I imagine it's more delayed for film since the main thing actors could t do for movies releasing this year was promoting. Next couple years will be interesting but with the num er of indies that set wgreenlight since they aren't shithilea like Warner or disney(as much at least) could still be solid
The cat in the hat is a classic
"It was ruined when she bought it💅"
2005 had some bangers eh.... American Pie Band Camp, Son of Mask, the dukes of Hazard, the pacifier, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D, Fantastic 4. What a year...
2009 was a lousy year indeed for alot of things.
Fantastic video
2023. Enough said.
was going to say this list isnt going to age well haha
It was the worst year for Disney. A lot of their movies flopped in the box office that year
I would rather a film be delayed instead of rushed even if I’m super excited for it. What’s the point if the art AND its creators will suffer? (I know it always comes down to box office profits, but that’s ass)