The Best Year For Movies In The Past 25 Years

Recently Game Of Inches just wrapped up their series on the best movies of the past 25 years. I thought it would be fun to piggy back off of this idea and briefly discuss the best year for movies within these 25 years.

There are always going to be crap movies released every single year. I do not think it would be fair to compare years with their worst movies. Rather, I think it is best to compare years based upon their best movies of the year and what critics and The Academy thinks are the best moves of the year. The worst movies of the year stay constant, the best movies do not.

Here is my list for the top ten best years for movies in the last 25 years:

1) 1994

BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Leon: The Professional, Quiz Show, True Lies, Dumb and Dumber, Speed
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST:  3

2) 1999

BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Fight Club, Magnolia, The Green Mile, Being John Malkovich, South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, For Love Of The Game
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 2

3) 2010

BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Inception, The Social Network, The King's Speech, Kick Ass, The Fighter, Black Swan, Toy Story 3
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 1

4) 2005


BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Spiderman II, Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, Hotel Rwanda, Ray, Closer, The Incredibles, Collateral, Super Size Me
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 0

5) 2008


BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: The Dark Knight, Wall-E, In Bruges, The Wrestler, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Tropic Thunder, Iron Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Stepbrothers
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 2

6) 1997


BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, Wag The Dog, Boogie Nights, Men In Black, Air Force One, Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, Donnie Brasco
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 1
NOTE: Fuck Titanic!

7) 2002


BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Minority Report, Road To Perdition, Catch Me If You Can, Gangs Of New York, The Pianist, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Ring, 8 Mile, Spiderman
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 0

8) 1995


BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Se7en, Toy Story, GoldenEye, The Usual Suspects, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, Braveheart, 12 Monkeys, Casino, Leaving Las Vegas, Babe, Clueless
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 1

9) 2000


BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Requiem For A Dream, Mullholland Drive, Gladiator, Traffic, Erin Brokovich, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Cast Away, Almost Famous
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 1

10) 1988


BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Die Hard, Big, Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Coming To America
MOVIES ON GOI'S LIST: 1

Coming up with this top ten list was really hard and I had trouble coming up with the correct order. I think I finally got this list to where I like it (for now). I would probably kill myself if I had to go further with this list. That means I'm not going to write (at least not right now) the worst years for movies. But if I did, I am confident 2011 would be somewhere in the top 5. As of right now, in no particular order, here is my top four worst years for movies of the past 25 years: 1987, 1989, 2007, and 2011.