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Top 101 Movies of the 90s. We are done. If I knock out Amadeus/Brazil/Ran, We get to have an 80s countdown!! (1 Viewer)
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Seems to me that Hunt For Red October should be higher. But I haven't watched it for a long time and don't really have an unction to so...
Ilov80s
Footballguy
That’s on me. Admittedly, I haven’t seen it since the 90s but at the time I didn’t love it. Submarine movies were never my thing. I could feel different now but obviously impossible to have rewatched everything.
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
That one guy
Footballguy
That one guy said:
Somebody is not money and I hope they know it!KarmaPolice said:
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Fisher King is my second favorite movie.KarmaPolice said:Last two for the night. I will let everybody catch up, and now I am starting to obsess about watching Point Break
90/91:
THE FISHER KING [HBO MAX]
THE FUGITIVE
Fisher King was one that took a slight hit in the rankings with a rewatch, but still loved it enough to make the list. Love the direction from Gilliam and it's always a joy watching Robin Williams on screen.
That one guy
Footballguy
Agree, polarizing movie, but isn’t this the true mainstream kickoff to the found-footage style storyline?KarmaPolice said:
I'm more than comfortable admitting that I love this movie mostly for personal nostalgic reasons: opening night I went with my older brother to a rather late viewing, 11pm or so. The very next morning he and I set out for Ocala National Forest for a couple days of hiking. Movie setting juxtaposed with upcoming personal setting, the film just worked and has stayed in my memory ever since
Another movie associated with big bro movie nights that I hope gets love, Pecker
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Maybe. You have to consider the source though. I don't gravitate to action movies, so there weren't going to be a ton on my list to begin with. On top of that, when I was watching, there are a ton of good action movies from this era, but mostly they just all fell together in a big group, and there were only a handful that I felt really stood out and separated themselves. I had about 15 others written down that I really liked, but were in the next wave of movies 101-175, along with a lot of comedies that also ran together for me.Andy Dufresne said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I'm guessing yes. There were found footage movies before that, but Blair Witch came at that perfect time of horror being stale in the 90s + the onset of online activity growing and that made the marketing campaign that much more effective (I remember there being a website for it at least).
When done right, found footage is one of my favorite subgenres of horror, and I feel that Blair Witch did it well.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
KarmaPolice said:
has to be on any list such as this ... it was a late decade phenomena, one that squeezed every last inch outta it's supposed "found footage" premise ... it's an artifact of the time where society was on the cusp of relegating a storyline such as this virtually impossible to swallow, so it got in right under the closing garage door - by the skin of it's teeth, at that.
resuscitated a stagnant genre, inasmuch that it called back to terrorizing you with implied horror, rather than hand out clickers at the door to tally the corpse count ... much like the original TCM, it chucked all of it's marbles into audiences buying the insanity of it's claustrophobic ambiance - we did see kills in TCM, though, along with the titular monster ... but both are only implied here, and quite brilliantly, imo.
when a flick can click on all cylinders without relying on the same ol' tired horror tropes, well, that's something pretty impressive ... a remarkable achievement, considering it's very modest bearings.
there are plot holes i can niggle at, but why bother - i immerse myself in it's dicey plausibility and just let it do it's COTdamn thing. this ain't rocket surgery.
...yeah, and Heather Donahue.
ok, she was insufferable - one of the least likeable protags horror has ever seen, and that's saying an awful lot.
but ... she was supposed to be that horrendous, imo, as it just helped ramp up the feelings of dread and helplessness: "what, we're stuck with this whiny #####?!? i'd rather die than spend five more minutes with her - hey, please come kill me! JUST SHUT THE #### UP!"
it worked tremendously on that level - having to put up with her incessant carping as she unraveled lent another layer of realism to this gig, because we all know/knew someone like that, and we all get how these numb nutz exacerbate a mole hill into Kilimanjaro.
kudos to it's influence on the sub genre it helped create, big tip o'the cap to the whole "project"
this flick hit a direct bullseye.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I'm not a huge fan of putting actors through too much ####, but sometimes you have to look at the final product and wonder if it was worth it. Sounds like Blair Witch was one of those that put the actors through some crap - giving them just bits of the script, messing with them at night, etc.. It probably did ramp up that tension and help it come across on the screen that much more.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
89: PRINCESS MONONOKE [HBO MAX]
If the 90s stunk for horror in general, they were great for animated movies. We had a few prominent studios putting out some great product. I watched a few Studio Ghibli movies and this one stood out. I remember being blown away when I saw it back in the day - I hadn't seen anything quite like it.
If the 90s stunk for horror in general, they were great for animated movies. We had a few prominent studios putting out some great product. I watched a few Studio Ghibli movies and this one stood out. I remember being blown away when I saw it back in the day - I hadn't seen anything quite like it.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I just didn’t get the appeal of this at all when I saw it. It celebrated a brand of hipsterism that I guess I just don’t care for.KarmaPolice said:
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
87/88:
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
SPEED [HBO MAX]
Yes, I am the weirdo without Speed on my list. 100% one that was in the next wave of 100 movies that mentioned before. Can't go wrong with DDL, though (I know the PTA haters disagree
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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
SPEED [HBO MAX]
Yes, I am the weirdo without Speed on my list. 100% one that was in the next wave of 100 movies that mentioned before. Can't go wrong with DDL, though (I know the PTA haters disagree
)
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I put Swingers in a group of movies that were rom com adjacent but seemed to be cool enough that guys didn't mind watching them. IMO it's in a similar vein as High Fidelity that way. Quotable, cool music, not too sappy. There are others in the 90s that were like this, but involved sports instead of a Vegas run, but similar concept.
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
This was the first found footage film. I really think an awesome movie could be made centered around this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVo6Vj0_Xbo
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Yeah, we can discuss more as we go, but this one took a slight ding on a rewatch at home. I think it would have been much higher if I would have just had my 90s experience with this one. Still thought it was great, and I am really splitting hairs with this one and others that might show up later. Also, I don't believe 80s is a horror fan, and any movie just on one of our lists gets naturally pushed down vs. the 49 titles we had the same.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
86: AMERICAN BEAUTY
80s had this one a little higher than I did. Yeah, it's gotten taken down a little bit because of Spacey's real life creepiness and the bag scene such an easy target to spoof. That said, there are a ton of beats that still hit for me, and I still love the performances. If I made this list 25 years ago, this would have probably been in the top 10.
80s had this one a little higher than I did. Yeah, it's gotten taken down a little bit because of Spacey's real life creepiness and the bag scene such an easy target to spoof. That said, there are a ton of beats that still hit for me, and I still love the performances. If I made this list 25 years ago, this would have probably been in the top 10.
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Basketball Diaries seems like it should be ranked much higher. Maybe there are 100 better movies from the 90s but that seems rather unlikely.KarmaPolice said:
otb_lifer
Footballguy
i've skewered this countless times up on this bored ... it's just a hot mess - and i can dig a succulent "anti-hero" study, but i shed zero tears when that ###### was plugged.
there is another in this "Hollywood pulls the curtains on Suburbia" schtick that was infinitely better, and i hope it pops up later on.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
85: MAN ON THE MOON
What a decade for Jim Carrey. It's probably not a big surprise that the movies of his I gravitated to on my rewatches were a little more on the drama side. I knew jack #### about Andy Kaufman before watching this one, but I'm sure I watched just because Jim was in it, as I really liked that late 90s run he put together.
What a decade for Jim Carrey. It's probably not a big surprise that the movies of his I gravitated to on my rewatches were a little more on the drama side. I knew jack #### about Andy Kaufman before watching this one, but I'm sure I watched just because Jim was in it, as I really liked that late 90s run he put together.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I didn't do it, but it would be interesting at the end counting up what actors and directors showed up the most on the countdown. There was one director on my list that I was surprised showed up 3x. I will talk more at the end about him because 2 of them aren't in the countdown, they were just on my list.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
i've skewered this countless times up on this bored ... it's just a hot mess - and i can dig a succulent "anti-hero" study, but i shed zero tears when that ######
was plugged.
there is another in this "Hollywood pulls the curtains on Suburbia" schtick that was infinitely better, and i hope it pops up later on.
DocHolliday
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
It's one that I suspect might have been higher with a rewatch, but like I said - it's hard to find now besides some scenes on youtube. There are surprises all around with these types of lists, and the love for Basketball Diaries is a bit unexpected for me.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
I don't know if it celebrated it. The fifty-cent tips let you know that whoever it was wasn't all that hip or that much of a player. The baby scene toward the end confirmed it. He's a loser. He's not cool, never was cool. You (Favreau's character) just bought into it.
Vince Vaughn was the foil the whole time.
I agree with you, though. I hated them from the jump.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
84: LA HAINE [CRITERION CHANNEL]
There are several movies that I watched for the first time in the last couple months that blew me away and I felt earned a spot on the list. It managed to tap into some sentiments and themes of the last couple years, and did the low budget/black and white filmmaking really well. Vincent Cassel is pretty underrated, IMO.
There are several movies that I watched for the first time in the last couple months that blew me away and I felt earned a spot on the list. It managed to tap into some sentiments and themes of the last couple years, and did the low budget/black and white filmmaking really well. Vincent Cassel is pretty underrated, IMO.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Agree 100% with you about the ending. Favreau comes to realize what he is, and so should the audience. I think part of the draw of the movie is that a lot of us probably had a Trent in lives.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Such a great example of painful comedic cringe.KarmaPolice said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I will get to a few more and then stop for a bit so I can get some crap done around the house. Here is another that might get the grumbles from the peanut gallery...
83: THE USUAL SUSPECTS
On both of our lists, and higher for 80s. #56 vs. #96. Still a great movie, but IMO there are a couple types of "twist" movies - ones where the twist aids the rewatches and makes you appreciate the set up more, and ones that once you know what's coming, it becomes more standard movie fare. My recent revisit pushed this a more into the second category for me. I would say that something like Memento would be the first category of movie.
83: THE USUAL SUSPECTS
On both of our lists, and higher for 80s. #56 vs. #96. Still a great movie, but IMO there are a couple types of "twist" movies - ones where the twist aids the rewatches and makes you appreciate the set up more, and ones that once you know what's coming, it becomes more standard movie fare. My recent revisit pushed this a more into the second category for me. I would say that something like Memento would be the first category of movie.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I've never seen Swingers or Blair Witch and see no reason to.
Speed is still a fun movie.
I wish Spacey wasn't such a creep because I really like American Beauty I think it's really quotable and I'm a fan of dark humor.
Lester Burnham: Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" I QUIT. Someone pass the asparagus, please.
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Lester Burnham: You don't think it's kinda weird & fascist?
Carolyn Burnham: Possibly, but you don't want to be unemployed.
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Carolyn Burnham: Honey, I'm so proud of you. I watched you very closely, and you didn't screw up once!
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There are many more.
Speed is still a fun movie.
I wish Spacey wasn't such a creep because I really like American Beauty I think it's really quotable and I'm a fan of dark humor.
Lester Burnham: Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" I QUIT. Someone pass the asparagus, please.
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Lester Burnham: You don't think it's kinda weird & fascist?
Carolyn Burnham: Possibly, but you don't want to be unemployed.
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Carolyn Burnham: Honey, I'm so proud of you. I watched you very closely, and you didn't screw up once!
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There are many more.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
A close reading probably supports your interpretation, but I was so out on everything about this movie about 1/3 of the way through that I had no interest in giving it a close reading.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
There are problems with the movie now, but I think there are enough of those great lines and nuggets of feelings that tap into a lot of our experiences that it still holds up. I also love Lester's interview for his job at the fast food joint.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
81/82:
CASINO [PEACOCK]
APOLLO 13
I've documented my love/hate with Scorsese, and I still haven't watch Casino. These are our #51 movies from our lists. I will always get sucked in to Apollo 13 when it's on.
CASINO [PEACOCK]
APOLLO 13
I've documented my love/hate with Scorsese, and I still haven't watch Casino. These are our #51 movies from our lists. I will always get sucked in to Apollo 13 when it's on.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Well, I'm sure there have been amazing technological advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It seems unfair to presume I won't be able to learn.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
scorchy
Footballguy
I loved Swingers so much at the time - the NHL '93 scenes may have reflected my mid-90s life more than anything ever put on film (except I always picked the Capitals and my friends tried to make Peter Bondra's head bleed instead). Unfortunately, the answering machine piece was pretty spot on for me as well - just a cringefest.KarmaPolice said:
Mrs. Scorchy and I still stop and watch it for a few minutes if it's on when we're flipping channels. But now it's not just the answering machine scene we can't bear to watch - the Vegas stuff, the food delivery guy, Trent standing on the table at the diner, etc. are all just brutal.
scorchy
Footballguy
One of my favorite movies back in the day. Actually bought it on laser disc. Probably haven't watched in 20 years - thanks for reminding me that I need to see it again.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I haven’t rewatched this in a long time but I will say my initial impressions of watching it multiple times when it came out was of being blown away. It really seemed to hit the zeitgeist of the time. It felt so fresh and relevant. I don’t know if it would still feel that way but I can’t shake that initial impression.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
in light of the Ang-sty comment, I totally agree and if it is not ranked high enough I will burn the building down.i've skewered this countless times up on this bored ... it's just a hot mess - and i can dig a succulent "anti-hero" study, but i shed zero tears when that ###### was plugged.
there is another in this "Hollywood pulls the curtains on Suburbia" schtick that was infinitely better, and i hope it pops up later on.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I was blown away when I saw this. Same with Memento. It would probably be less captivating if I rewatched it, but I never have.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
I feel bad now because others relate, but I never dug it, either. Guess it was a product of a time I sorta skipped, I guess. ‘93-95 would have been big punk/garage years for me. So no swinging and thinging.
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