Best film of each year

[Mr. Smith]

Going from the past 30 years:

1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Batman
1990: Misery
1991: Beauty and the Beast
1992: My Cousin Vinny
1993: Mrs. Doubtfire
1994: Ed Wood
1995: Toy Story
1996: Jerry Macguire
1997: Good Will Hunting
1998: The Prince of Egypt
1999: The Sixth Sense
2000: Gladiator
2001: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Minority Report (Apparently, Spirited Away was officially released in 2001, though the U.S. release was 2002)
2003: Big Fish
2004: Spider-Man 2
2005: Batman Begins
2006: Pan's Labyrinth
2007: No Country for Old Men
2008: WALL-E
2009: UP
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: Hugo
2012: Life of Pi
2013: The Conjuring (lousy year for films, this is the only one I remember not having a groan over at parts, Frozen included)
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015: Inside Out
2016: The Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2017: Logan
2018: TBD

[Mr. Smith]

2003: Big Fish or Pirates of the Carr

I know you got distracted and didn't come back to correct yourself, but doesn't Pirates of the Car sound like a great premise for a movie?

Actually yeah, it kinda does. Huh.

[Mr. Smith]

Add 30 more years:

1987: The Princess Bride
1986: Top Gun
1985: Back to the Future
1984: The Terminator
1983: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
1982: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980: Airplane!
1979: Apocalypse Now
1978: Superman
1977: Annie Hall
1976: Rocky
1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1974: The Godfather, Part II
1973: American Graffitti
1972: The Godfather
1971: Fiddler on the Roof
1970: Patton
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1968: The Night of the Living Dead
1967: The Graduate
1966: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1965: The Sound of Music
1964: Dr. Strangelove
1963: The Pink Panther
1962: To Kill A Mockingbird
1961: Breakfast at Tiffany's
1960: Psycho
1959: North by Northwest
1958: Touch of Evil

[Mr. Smith]

Lots of Tim Burton films mentioned so far.  I approve.

Way too many kids films though...

You say that like a pejorative...

[Mr. Smith]

My top 5 anticipated ones are for 2018 atm:

- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs (I'm a sucker for Wes Anderson)
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [in a popcorn flick sort of way, but hey, as long as it doesn't overplay itself like the first sequel, or half- @$# itself like third, it's fine....and it looks to be more intelligent than the last one, time will tell]
- Wreck-It Ralph 2

[Mr. Smith]

Adding another 30 years, because surprisingly enough, I have seen enough movies up to 90 years ago!
 
1957: The Seventh Seal
1956: The Ten Commandments
1955: Rebel Without A Cause
1954: Rear Window
1953: Shane
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1949: The Third Man
1948: Hamlet
1947: Miracle on 34th Street
1946: It's a Wonderful Life
1945: The Body Snatcher
1944: Gaslight
1943: Shadow of a Doubt
1942: Casablanca
1941: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
1940: Fantasia
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1938: Angels with Dirty Faces
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1936: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
1935: The 39 Steps
1934: The Black Cat
1933: King Kong
1932: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931: Frankenstein
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1928: The Man Who Laughs

[Mr. Smith]

My top 5 anticipated ones are for 2018 atm:

- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs (I'm a sucker for Wes Anderson)
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [in a popcorn flick sort of way, but hey, as long as it doesn't overplay itself like the first sequel, or half- @$# itself like third, it's fine....and it looks to be more intelligent than the last one, time will tell]
- Wreck-It Ralph 2

Okay, at this point....

A Wrinkle in Time missed hard, might even consider it one of the worst for the year.

Isle of Dogs was a bit of a miss as well, kinda meh rather than really good, definitely not Anderson's best.

Jurassic World 2 failed at even being a good popcorn flick

Wreck-It Ralph 2 is yet to come, though it looks quite promising.

But Incredibles 2 did not disappoint at all, but it's up against a lot of competition from unexpected places....this year was incredible regarding good movies.

[Mr. Smith]

Current top for 2019: Toy Story 4.

Overall for 2018: Crazy Rich Asians

[Mr. Smith]

From the year of my birth; honorable mentions in (parentheses). Major releases only

1989: Born On The Fourth Of July (Batman)
1990: Misery (Total Recall)
1991: The Silence Of The Lambs (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
1992: Batman Returns (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
1993: Philadelphia (Alien³, Carlito's Way)
1994: Ed Wood
1995: Se7en (Natural Born Killers)
1996: 12 Monkeys (From Dusk 'Til Dawn)
1997: Boogie Nights (The Game, Jackie Brown)
1998: Dark City (The Truman Show, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas)
1999: The Green Mile (American Beauty, Man On The Moon, Stir Of Echoes)
2000: Requiem For A Dream (Titan AE, What Lies Beneath)
2001: Amelie (A Beautiful Mind)
2002: May (Insomnia)
2003: Identity (Thirteen)
2004: Hellboy (The Butterfly Effect, The Machinist)
2005: Rent (The Descent)
2006: The Departed (Freedomland)
2007: Pan's Labyrinth (Zodiac, Sunshine, Fracture, Children Of Men)
2008: In Bruges
2009: Moon (Watchmen)
2010: Black Swan (Inception)
2011: Drive (In Time)
2012: Dredd (The Master, Maniac)
2013: The Wolf Of Wall Street (Dallas Buyers' Club)
2014: Nightcrawler (John Wick, Grand Budapest Hotel)
2015: The Revenant (Crimson Peak, The Hateful Eight)
2016: The Neon Demon (Don't Breathe)
2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Get Out, The Shape Of Water, mother!)
2018: Vice (Halloween)
2019, to date: Midsommar (Us, Child's Play)

My tastes tend more towards low-key thriller films and horror, so those are probably overrepresented here, but I tend to think they're better movies all around than other genres when they're well done.

Pan's Labyrinth was a 2006 release, but I agree it was the best for that year.

2018: Unsane

Better than Crazy Rich Asians?

[Mr. Smith]

To spice things up...the decade now

2010: Inside Out [RU: Life of Pi]
2000: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring [RU: Pan's Labyrinth]
1990: The Sixth Sense [RU: Toy Story]
1980: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi [RU: The Princess Bride]
1970: The Godfather, Part II [RU: The Godfather]
1960: Dr. Strangelove [RU: The Graduate]
1950: Sunset Boulevard [RU: The Ten Commandments]
1940: Casablanca [RU: It's a Wonderful Life]
1930: The Wizard of Oz [RU:Snow White]
1920: The Man Who Laughs

[Mr. Smith]

New contender: The Goldfinch...though I anticipate the Mr. Rogers movie will dethrone it.

[Mr. Smith]

Hmmm, now very conflicted between Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch, Toy Story 4, and Ford v. Ferrari...and that's before the Mr. Roger's movie w/ Tom Hanks is even out.

Also kicked out A Few Good Men in favor of a much better law movie...My Cousin Vinny, and just recently found Hunt for the Wilderpeople...much better than Zooptopia.