myDeaconmyhand
First man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain
100 years of movies means approximately 5 per decade, which would mean 20 should be from the last 40 years. Then you look at the shit that has come out in the last 40 years and realize that 5 might be overstating it. The last 10-15 years have been nothing but superhero movies and remakes, so that time is pretty much lost. Honestly, what from the last 40 years would you consider to be a top 50 movie? The late 70s and 80s were most a wash of bad movies. The 90s were pretty good. Most of the 2000s has been dreadful.
Stand By Me, Fargo, Mulholland Drive, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, E.T., Pans Labyrinth, Silence of the Lambs, Eternal Sunshine, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, The Shining, Seven, Heat, Terminator 2, The Matrix, LOTR, Children of Men, Toy Story, There Will Be Blood, Amelie, Fight Club, Old Boy, City of God, Wall-E, Blade Runner, Back To The Future, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, TDK.
I think a few more could be added to the list in a few years after consideration: Take Shelter, Moonlight, Black Swan, Get Out, Inside Llewyn Davis,