From Year One On: Ranking 16 Movies Named After Years
As we trudge into the fourth week of 2012 -- one of those all-too-rare years that influenced a movie title -- a question arises: What's the best film named after a year? The worst? Because it went so well the last time we tried something like this, let's give it another shot:
16. Year One
15. 10,000 BC
14. 1492: Conquest of Paradise
13. One Million Years B.C.
12. One Million B.C.
11. 1969
10. 2010: The Year We Make Contact
9. 1941
8. 1911
7. 1776
6. Nineteen Eighty-Four
5. 1900
4. 1991: The Year Punk Broke
3. 2012
2. 2046
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
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9/30/55
That is a day.
Panic in Year Zero
I think you ramked "2012" way too high. It felt like nothing more than watching John Cusack survive two thousand and twelve cliff-hanger escapes -- many involving actual cliffs.
It was AWESOME.
If the Mayan are right, the first person I'm finding is Cusack, because that dude seems to be able to get out of ANYTHING!
(Except his contract for that movie).
Genius. Thanks!
Oh, and 2 things:
10,000 BC needs to be directly below 2001, because that movie is amazing, full of ostrich fights and wooly mammoths.
And Class of 1999 needs to be up there.
Fair enough re 10,000 B.C. (I'll need to revisit!), but sorry about Class of 1999 -- that is a class, not a year, alas!
Yes. My bad.
I just think cyborg substitute teachers are rad.
"The Big Year"
I loved 1900. I might even put it as my top pick because 1) DeNiro, and 2) I never knew Depardieu was such an amazing hunk in his youth. Rrrowwrrr!
The worst year based film is the parody of the best year based film.
2001: A Space Travesty makes Year One seem like solid gold.
I don't like the obvious #1 pick, so I'll have to go with 1900. But not for the same reason as Blizzard Bound.
Where's Summer of 69, btw? Or is that a season/sex act rather than a year?
Well, I also like 1900's grand scope, beautiful cinematography and political subject matter. But I assumed that was obvious. Also, wasn't there an extended scene involving a cow's anus? (Or was it a horse?) Those Italians!
In that case, I am picking it for many of the same reasons as you. And I don't remember any anus in the movie, but I do recall some penis.
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