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12 years 8 months ago
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Watching the original Indiana Jones movies again got me thinking...
Is it me, or is the era from the late 70s to the late 80s a really great era of these kinds of "Speculative Fiction" movies? You know, sci-fi, fantasy, etc.
You had the genuinely great movies of these kinds like the original Star Wars trilogy, the first three Indiana Jones movies, Blade Runner, Alien, Aliens, Roger Rabbit, Superman I and II, an underappreciated classic in "Tron," "Halloween", and others.
Then you had movies like The Goonies, Gremlins, Back to the Future, the Friday the 13th and Elm Street films, Ghostbusters, etc. Maybe not "great" films like the ones above, but still a lot of fun.
And that's not even mentioning the "cult classics" yet- Flash Gordon, Clash of the Titans, the Evil Dead movies, anything by John Carpenter, and infinitely more fantasy/horror films that would be too long to list.
No knock against more recent films- the big blockbusters of the 90s and 2000s have been great, but it seems like there was a lot of cool and innovative stuff in this era, and in terms of the sheer number of good sci-fi/fantasy/horror movies, I don't know of any decade that can top it..
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