Back to the 90s!

[Citizen Rules]

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Who remembers the 90s?

I'm catching up on all those great 1990s movies that I missed. I hope to watch 100 movies in prep for the upcoming Top 100 90s Movies countdown....stay tuned.

90s movies watched so far:
1 At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2515083#post2515083)2 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2515094#post2515094)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2515083#post2515083)3 Chaplin (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2515238#post2515238)
4 Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2515465#post2515465)
5 Everybody Says I Love You (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2515783#post2515783)
6 Black Robe (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2516865#post2516865)
7 12 Monkeys (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2516877#post2516877)
8 Avalon (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2517154#post2517154)
9 Big Night (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2517166#post2517166)
10 Nixon (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2517564#post2517564)
11 Benny and Joon (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2518334#post2518334)
12 A League of Their Own (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2518458#post2518458)
13 Amistad (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2518695#post2518695)
14 Apollo 13 (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2519693#post2519693)
15 A Month by the Lake (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2519724#post2519724)
16 Love Field (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2521055#post2521055)
17 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2521519#post2521519)
18 Regarding Henry (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2522011#post2522011)
19 River of Grass (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2522210#post2522210)
20 Blast From the Past (1999)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2522901#post2522901)21 The Joy Luck Club (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2523255#post2523255)
22 The Postman (1997)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2523456#post2523456)23 Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2524040#post2524040)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2524040#post2524040)24 The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2524326#post2524326)
25 Convicts (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2524328#post2524328)
26 Come See the Paradise (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2524856#post2524856)
27 Canadian Bacon (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2525439#post2525439)
28 Cookie's Fortune (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2525567#post2525567)
29 Delirious (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2525571#post2525571)
30 Sphere (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2526078#post2526078)
31 Paradise (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2526349#post2526349)
32 A Night at the Roxbury (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2526633#post2526633)
33 A River Runs Through It (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2527241#post2527241)
34 A Walk in the Clouds (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2528005#post2528005)
35 Arizona Dream (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2528013#post2528013)
36 As Good as it Gets (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2528034#post2528034)
37 Cradle Will Rock (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2528504#post2528504)
38 Waterworld (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2529470#post2529470)
39 Alive (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2529619#post2529619)
40 A Perfect World (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2530369#post2530369)
41 Dante's Peak (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2530948#post2530948)
42 Boys on the Side (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2531203#post2531203)
43 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2531742#post2531742)
44 Volcano (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2531748#post2531748)
45 Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2532305#post2532305)
46 Dick (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2532774#post2532774)
47 Mountains of the Moon (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2533041#post2533041)
48 Don't Drink the Water (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2533046#post2533046)
49 Cry Baby (1990)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2533296#post2533296)50 Wyatt Earp (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2533754#post2533754)
51 Tremors (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2533757#post2533757)
52 Finding Graceland (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2534608#post2534608)
53 Bugsy (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2534627#post2534627)
54 Elizabeth (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2535167#post2535167)
55 Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2535179#post2535179)
56 Strike! (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2536060#post2536060)
57 The Puppet Masters (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2536071#post2536071)
58 A Thousand Acres (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2536733#post2536733)
59 Twister (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2536736#post2536736)
60 Batman Returns (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2537414#post2537414)
61 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2537421#post2537421)
62 Defending Your Life (1991)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2537572#post2537572)63 Dead Man (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2538144#post2538144)
64 Robinson Crusoe (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2538503#post2538503)
65 Enchanted April (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2538512#post2538512)
66 Mars Attacks! (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2539491#post2539491)
67 To Die For (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2539493#post2539493)
68 For the Moment (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2540597#post2540597)
69 Shadowlands (1993)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2540605#post2540605)70 Dumb and Dumber (1994)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2541380#post2541380)71 Memphis Belle (1990)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2541385#post2541385)72 Outbreak (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2541394#post2541394)
73 Batman Forever (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2542096#post2542096)
74 Baman & Robin (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2542107#post2542107)
75 Emma (British TV) (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2542712#post2542712)
76 Emma (U.S. Film) (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2542716#post2542716)
77 Gas Food Lodging (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2543504#post2543504)
78 Grace of My Heart (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2543508#post2543508)
79 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2544529#post2544529)
80 What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2544545#post2544545)
81 Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even (1991)
(https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2544565#post2544565)82 Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) (Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999))
83 Ed Wood (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2545193#post2545193)
84 The Truman Show (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2545819#post2545819)
85 Home Fries (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2545823#post2545823)
86 GoldenEye (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2546660#post2546660)
87 Blue (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2546662#post2546662)
88 Before the Rain (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2546664#post2546664)
89 Soapdish (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2546673#post2546673)
90 Sense and Sensibility (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2548328#post2548328)
91 Mansfield Park (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2548330#post2548330)
92 Dances With Wolves Extended Version (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2548334#post2548334)
93 Heavy (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2549489#post2549489)
94 Medicine Man (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2549500#post2549500)
95 That Night (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2550829#post2550829)
96 Havana (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2550847#post2550847)
97 Guilty by Suspicion (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2551367#post2551367)
98 Greedy (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2553999#post2553999)
99 Dances With Wolves (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2553999#post2553999)
100 It Could Happen to You (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2555323#post2555323)
101 Indian Summer (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2555324#post2555324)
102 Tin Cup (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2555325#post2555325)
103 It Runs in the Family (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2555326#post2555326)

[Robert the List]

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So who remembers the 90s?
Maybe it was the decade that you were born? Or maybe the decade before you were born, that you always wish you had been old enough to experience. Or maybe you did live through the 90s?...Alot of MoFos love 90s movies that's for sure! But I seemed to have missed out on watching movies that decade, I guess I was busy😁 But now I'm catching up on all those great 90s movies I missed.

I hope to watch 100 1990s movies in prep for the upcoming Top 100 90s Movies countdown....stay tuned.
Decade before you were born lolllll hahahaha.

Btw could someone give a ruling on Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (1992)?
obvs the original is 80s.

[Citizen Rules]

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At Play In the Fields of the Lord
(Hector Babenco, 1991)
IMDB link (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101373/)


Starting off my log of 1990s movies watched. I'm aiming for 100 movies. This is one that I'd never heard of until I found it in an advanced IMDB title search for movies made from 1990-1999. I was impressed! I wouldn't be surprised if this remains my favorite watch from the 90s.

A very special movie with a crummy title. I image people passed this movie by because they believe it's a Christian themed movie, it's not. A movie title can kill a movie and At Play In the Fields of the Lord was only released in 25 theaters before the studio pulled the plug on it. As a result it was not well known. Luckily with streaming, these days you can watch it on Fandago and AppleTV and other places as well.

Unlike so many movies that are cinematic roller coaster rides, At Play In the Fields of the Lord slowly unfolds a tale of indigenous people in the Brazilian jungles and how the encroachment of well meaning missionaries and western civilization ends up causing these gentle people of the jungle big problems. The movie was entirely shot in Brazil, that was so appreciated by me. It looks amazing.

I usually wouldn't quote someone else's review but Roger Ebert said everything I wanted to say:
...Roger Ebert, who had read the novel and believed the film is true to its themes, awarded the film 3 and a half out of 4 stars.

Ebert wrote, "Watching it, we are looking at a morality play about a world in which sincere people create unwitting mischief so that evil people can have their way. The movie essentially argues that all peoples have a right to worship their own gods without interference, but it goes further to observe that if your god lives in the land and the trees, then if we destroy your land, we kill your god. These messages are buried in the very fabric of the film, in the way it was shot, in its use of locations, and we are not told them, we absorb them."I agree that this is a movie that requires one's full attention as it's subtle story telling. I rate the movie rating_4_5 I think it will be along time until I see such an intelligently filmed story.


90s movie watched: 1

[Citizen Rules]

Decade before you were born lolllll hahahaha.

Btw could someone give a ruling on Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (1992)?
obvs the original is 80s.You would have to ask the host of the 90s countdown, he's going to make the preliminary thread soon. Myself I'd say Blade Runner Final Cut shouldn't qualify as being made in the 90s.

[Tugg]

I started 90's as 7 years old and ended as 17 years old. I started listening to popular music in 1993. By the end of 90's I was watching movies on TV and Cinema. 90's was awesome in popular culture.

[MovieMeditation]

100 films, huh? That’s great dedication, CR, for a movie decade I know is a bit past what you usually love :D

I don’t know if I will have/make much time for 90s films up to the countdown. But I’ve seen tons already so it shouldn’t be a problem at all. I can pretty much fill up a list with top tier flicks already haha

[Wyldesyde19]

You would have to ask the host of the 90s countdown, he's going to make the preliminary thread soon. Myself I'd say Blade Runner Final Cut shouldn't qualify as being made in the 90s.
I’d agree with this assessment as well

[Citizen Rules]

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1492: Conquest of Paradise
(Ridley Scott, 1992)
IMDB link

(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103594/)
Ridley's take on Christopher Columbus' voyage and colonization in the new world. This was the story telling antithesis of At Play in the Fields of the Lord. This is heavy handed, Hollywood popcorn story telling. Now, I like a good 'popcorn movie' myself only this isn't the subject matter for a fun flick. Like many of Ridley's films this is visually good looking but the story telling is hap hazard and dumbed down to comic book style at times, especially this character who belonged in Robin Hood;) The actor Michael Wincott was good as a hyper evil baddie dressed in all black with matching long black hair and a devious look in his eyes, but it was all too cartoonish of a character for the subject matter.


I had to laugh at all the people who spit alka-seltzer foam out of their mouths as they were dying of battle wounds. Gosh that looked silly. Gérard Depardieu as Columbus, he looked the part I guess, but I could not understand half of his dialogue...he needed a dialogue couch on set.

One of the movies biggest problems is the historic revisionist where Columbus loves the natives and respects their ways and their gods. I guess that's why we need the evil dude in black armor to enslave them. This is one helluva a stupid movie.
rating_1_5


90s movie watched: 2

[Citizen Rules]

100 films, huh? That’s great dedication, CR, for a movie decade I know is a bit past what you usually love :D

I don’t know if I will have/make much time for 90s films up to the countdown. But I’ve seen tons already so it shouldn’t be a problem at all. I can pretty much fill up a list with top tier flicks already haha100 would be possible only if we have a long watch period of 4 months. But I'm trying my best:D to catch stuff I haven't seen. I might do some rewatches but only if it's been decades since my last watch.

[Citizen Rules]

I started 90's as 7 years old and ended as 17 years old. I started listening to popular music in 1993. By the end of 90's I was watching movies on TV and Cinema. 90's was awesome in popular culture.Would you say that's your favorite decade for popular culture stuff?

[Wyldesyde19]

A couple films I like to toss out for the 90’s

Viva L’Amour
Your mileage may vary, as it’s slow cinema

The Ox
Sven Nykvist Steps out of the shadows of being known as Ingmar Bergmans cinematographer and directs a great film in his own right.

The Thief
Pavel Chukhray directed, son of the more famous Grigory Chukhray who’s best known for Ballad of a Soldier

In The Company of Men
Searing look at male toxicity in the business world and their attitude towards women

Ricki-0h: The Story of Ricky
Just a crazy martial arts splatter fest that doesn’t require a lot of thought behind it but is endlessly entertaining

[Robert the List]

A couple films I like to toss out for the 90’s

Viva L’Amour
Your mileage may vary, as it’s slow cinema


My nr 1*

*unless I can have Blade Runner, then it's a toss up.

[Wyldesyde19]

My nr 1*

*unless I can have Blade Runner, then it's a toss up.
One of the reasons I really pushed for a 90’s redux was to include movies like Viva L’Amour. I’m hoping it not only makes the countdown, but actually ranks high.
I think we may get enough people to get on board with it.

[Wyldesyde19]

A few others I’d like to recommend:

Eat Drink Man Woman
The Wedding Banquet
2 early Ang Lee films from Taiwan

Four Little Girls
Spike Lee’s heart breaking documentary about a church bombing that claimed the lives of four young girls, all black, in a racially motivated crime. Beware, contains some graphic scenes of their deaths.

[Citizen Rules]

A couple films I like to toss out for the 90’s

Viva L’Amour
Your mileage may vary, as it’s slow cinema

The Ox
Sven Nykvist Steps out of the shadows of being known as Ingmar Bergmans cinematographer and directs a great film in his own right.

The Thief
Pavel Chukhray directed, son of the more famous Grigory Chukhray who’s best known for Ballad of a Soldier

In The Company of Men
Searing look at male toxicity in the business world and their attitude towards women

Ricki-0h: The Story of Ricky
Just a crazy martial arts splatter fest that doesn’t require a lot of thought behind it but is endlessly entertaining

One of the reasons I really pushed for a 90’s redux was to include movies like Viva L’Amour. I’m hoping it not only makes the countdown, but actually ranks high.
I think we may get enough people to get on board with it.Thanks Wylde for the recommendations. With two 'yes votes' for Viva L’Amour, I'll check it out. I do like slow cinema. One of the things I like to do is watch other people's ballot movies, as if I like them, I can include them on my own ballot which helps get them on the countdown. I'll research those other titles too and see what I think.

[John-Connor]

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lol @ totally 80s font.. :cool:

I'm at a birthday right now, but when I come back I'm gonna spam this thread with recs..:p

[nyctc7]

I probably don't have anything to add because my faves are all very well known and highly watched (Goodfellas, Braveheart, etc.).

[MovieGal]

Huh, 1990? I was 22 yrs old. I have seen a lot of films in the decade. I think that is when AMC started their Moviewatcher program. I remember seeing 8 films at the cinema that first week.

I know one of the films was Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford and Annette Benning. I would have to look at other films during that time to see what the rest were.

[matt72582]

"Buffalo '66" was made in the 90s

[MovieGal]

I found a site with the films that came out around Regarding Henry. They were

Robin Hood Prince of Theives
Dying Young
The Rocketeer
Terminator 2
Point Break
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
City Slickers

[Citizen Rules]

lol @ totally 80s font.. :cool:

I'm at a birthday right now, but when I come back I'm gonna spam this thread with recs..:pGood call on the 80s font! I was hoping no one would notice:D *I just went with it as the colors popped.

I probably don't have anything to add because my faves are all very well known and highly watched (Goodfellas, Braveheart, etc.).I've hardly seen anything from the 90s, though I did see Goodfellas and Braveheart.

"Buffalo '66" was made in the 90sThat was a really good film. I wish more MoFos would give it a watch as I thought it was very introspective and very personal film making.

[Citizen Rules]

Huh, 1990? I was 22 yrs old. I have seen a lot of films in the decade. I think that is when AMC started their Moviewatcher program. I remember seeing 8 films at the cinema that first week.

I know one of the films was Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford and Annette Benning. I would have to look at other films during that time to see what the rest were.I was in my late 20s when the 90s started and my late 30s and about to get married when the 90s ended. I probably went on some dates to movies but I really don't remember what I watched. I didn't watch much TV then but I must seen something?

[John-Connor]

"Buffalo '66" was made in the 90s
co-sign.. :up:


First batch, category; "CR friendly" recs:

The Legend of 1900 1998 La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/6rmb35g7XoMCMQtnbH0rUecFZlV.jpg


The Rainmaker 1997 (Francis Ford Coppola)
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/rxRzRa1881QVjjHeRB1ACNWW01D.jpg


The Postman 1994
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/32pvxFiXNo2TdNpBiuHN8k2Mr4K.jpg


The Wrong Trousers 1993
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Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993
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[Captain Quint]

Decade before you were born lolllll hahahaha.

Btw could someone give a ruling on Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (1992)?
obvs the original is 80s.

That'll be a definite no - but that gives me something else to add to the rules I've been working on.

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Movies I'd recommend adding to the watchlists (for any and all)

* Don't sleep on Kore-eda, he probably wouldn't like it, but also, you'd be missing out on Maborosi (slow cinema) and After Life (not slow)

* Whit Stillman's stylized but worth watching 90s efforts - My favorite is The Last Days of Disco, but both The Metropolitan and Barcelona are nifty as well (and Whit, would you make more movies, please, I miss you)

* Iran, I believe only 1 Iranian film made the 100 last time, my favorite A Moment of Innocence, and others by Makhmalbaf (Silence, Gabbeh) or his talented family (The Apple), did not.

* The Scent of Green Papaya (from the director of The Taste of Things (2023), if you've seen that, you'll know what to expect here as far as pacing and mood)

* Perfect Blue - disturbing but brilliant animation from Satoshi Kon


First batch, category; "CR friendly" recs:

The Postman 1994

:up: Haven't seen it since... probably the 90s, but I remember liking it a lot.

[matt72582]

That was a really good film. I wish more MoFos would give it a watch as I thought it was very introspective and very personal film making.


Check out "Series Noire" (1979) - it gives me the same feel. I saw it a few years ago but totally independent and good. Patrick Dewaere was one of the best actors then, until he shot himself at such a young age.

[cricket]

Thinking of something to recommend you so I look to see what you haven't crossed off of the existing 90's list. Wow I think to myself, look at all these incredible films he hasn't seen. Oh wait, this is CR I'm thinking of here and he doesn't like those kinds of movies. I would say to look into the Three Colors Trilogy, all of them are excellent.

[Wyldesyde19]

Speaking of Iran:*
The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)
I’m not as a big a fan of A Moment of Innocence as most are, but I would happily suggest this gem instead, which I felt was superior.

I second The Wrong Trousers, and add 2 other shorts:
Geri’s Game (Pixar)
A Close Shave (also Wallace and Geonit)

[hownos]

How many of these have you seen? I haven't seen them all

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000064427/

[ueno_station54]

used to think the 90s were by far the worst decade but now a good chunk of my favourites are from then. really happy with the movies i currently have on my list and there's a ton of things i'm stoked to check out.

[Citizen Rules]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.FJbqmUkyrnbezy3tBc-OTQHaEr%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=894d12651d3f9b02eca08d9c2fa26519f53280f47603965515fea785a5c67d88&ipo=images

Chaplin (1992)
Director: Richard Attenborough


Good movie about the great Charles Chaplin. This easily could've been a 3 hour long movie and it still would've held my attention. Robert Downey Jr. makes a great Chaplin, he loses himself in the role and in that way the movie works well, I believed he was Chaplin. I don't have much to say, except I wish it was longer and that says alot.
rating_3_5


90s movie: #3

[MovieGal]

co-sign.. :up:


First batch, category; "CR friendly" recs:

The Legend of 1900 1998 La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/6rmb35g7XoMCMQtnbH0rUecFZlV.jpg


The Rainmaker 1997 (Francis Ford Coppola)
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/rxRzRa1881QVjjHeRB1ACNWW01D.jpg


The Postman 1994
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/32pvxFiXNo2TdNpBiuHN8k2Mr4K.jpg


The Wrong Trousers 1993
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/OoZaFfeWR92DuGnbOsYEMtam3C.jpg


Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/8Apd96nhgCmra0z3VmaMZPXicOU.jpg

You know that film we talked about?

I recommended to Citizen Rules. I'm sure he will enjoy it.

[Citizen Rules]

I read all the post with recommendations up stream and made a list of 90s films to check out, thanks!How many of these have you seen? I haven't seen them all
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000064427/ That's helpful too, I've seen a lot of those but want to watch others on that list.

[Citizen Rules]

You know that film we talked about?

I recommended to @Citizen Rules (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=84637). I'm sure he will enjoy it.If it's the one I said I like to see I'm 'acquiring it now':p Looks good and I'll give it a watch.

[MovieGal]

If it's the one I said I like to see I'm 'acquiring it now':p Looks good and I'll give it a watch.

Yes, he and I were talking about some and he knows it's a favorite.

[stillmellow]

Ricki-0h: The Story of Ricky
Just a crazy martial arts splatter fest that doesn’t require a lot of thought behind it but is endlessly entertaining


That's a fun and extremely strange one.


"Ricki! Break these headstones!"


But you're not a true child of the 90's unless you know the movie from 'the Daily Show'.


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/VDoXvoMpzfLos0vaDAje75ydkoDgTTJdj_JeWKEbH7ZspftrDToAHs272JiFzujbNtFFecO8_47WbWUIWwg6SHqAeBJyfHnL4j6i

[Little Ash]

A couple films I like to toss out for the 90’s

Viva L’Amour
Your mileage may vary, as it’s slow cinema

In terms of Tsai Ming-liang, do you have a noticeably stronger preference for Viva L'Amour over Rebels of the Neon God, since they're both eligible for this countdown?

[Little Ash]

I don't imagine any of the picks I'd throw out there are that unknown, but I guess might on the periphery of maybe people have heard of them but haven't seen them, so I guess this is a reminder they exist/are from that decade.


Flowers of Shanghai
Beau Travail
Taste of Cherry
Derek Jarman's Blue
Brighter Summer Day
Porco Rosso


Do I need to list the Kubrick, Lynch, Coens, Wong Kar Wai stuff from the 90s? I assume people know of them and if the output of those directors are their cup of tea or not, and if so they've probably seen those movies already (though if people only watched Chungking Express, then Fallen Angels and Days of Being Wild are also worth checking out).

[gbgoodies]

Huh, 1990? I was 22 yrs old. I have seen a lot of films in the decade. I think that is when AMC started their Moviewatcher program. I remember seeing 8 films at the cinema that first week.

I know one of the films was Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford and Annette Benning. I would have to look at other films during that time to see what the rest were.


I love Regarding Henry. It's very likely to make my list.

[gbgoodies]

The Rainmaker 1997 (Francis Ford Coppola)
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/rxRzRa1881QVjjHeRB1ACNWW01D.jpg



The Rainmaker is on my rewatch list for the 90s Countdown. I saw it in the theater, and I remember that I loved it, but I don't remember much about the movie itself. I think it might have a good chance to make my list if I rewatch it.

[gbgoodies]

These are some of my favorite 1990s movies that I would recommend:

While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Paradise (1991)
Heart and Souls (1993)
Ghost (1990)
Dave (1993)
The American President (1995)
Good Will Hunting (1997)


I also made a custom list of some of my favorite movies from the 1990s:

https://www.movieforums.com/lists/custom/502

(It's not in any ranked order. It's just sorted by year.)

[Robert the List]

slightly 'lesser known' ones from me:
Days of Being Wild 1990
The Commitments 1991
The Player 1992
Rebels of the Neon God 1992
Vive L'Amour 1994
Il Postino 1994
A Moment of Innocence 1996
Trees Lounge 1996
Voices Through Time 1996
Taste of Cherry 1997

[Wyldesyde19]

In terms of Tsai Ming-liang, do you have a noticeably stronger preference for Viva L'Amour over Rebels of the Neon God, since they're both eligible for this countdown?

I haven’t seen Rebels of a Neon God yet, so I couldn’t say if one is better than the other.

[Tugg]

Would you say that's your favorite decade for popular culture stuff?
I like 90's music the most. 90's movies are not necessarily my favorite.

I'm not a big fan of 80's music, but I saw some 80's movies while growing up in the 90's on TV. But obviously I prefer 90's popular culture over 80's.

[Citizen Rules]

I don't imagine any of the picks I'd throw out there are that unknown, but I guess might on the periphery of maybe people have heard of them but haven't seen them, so I guess this is a reminder they exist/are from that decade.


Flowers of Shanghai
Beau Travail
Taste of Cherry
Derek Jarman's Blue
Brighter Summer Day
Porco Rosso

...Chungking Express, then Fallen Angels and Days of Being Wild are also worth checking out).So glad you mentioned Flowers of Shanghai I had been meaning to watch that, then it slipped my mind. Good list, thanks!

These are some of my favorite 1990s movies that I would recommend:

While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Paradise (1991)
Heart and Souls (1993)
Ghost (1990)
Dave (1993)
The American President (1995)
Good Will Hunting (1997)

I also made a custom list of some of my favorite movies from the 1990s:
https://www.movieforums.com/lists/custom/502
(It's not in any ranked order. It's just sorted by year.)Thanks GBG, I will check out your custom list.

slightly 'lesser known' ones from me:
Days of Being Wild 1990
The Commitments 1991
The Player 1992
Rebels of the Neon God 1992
Vive L'Amour 1994
Il Postino 1994
A Moment of Innocence 1996
Trees Lounge 1996
Voices Through Time 1996
Taste of Cherry 1997The Player is in strong contention for my ballot. You're the third person to mention liking Vive L'Amour, I need to watch that!

[John-Connor]

You're the third person to mention liking Vive L'Amour, I need to watch that!
Actually The Postman / Il Postino has been mentioned by three mofos; Jc, Quint and Robert. Vive L'Amour by two; Wyldesyde and Robertx2.

[Citizen Rules]

Actually The Postman / Il Postino has been mentioned by three mofos; Jc, Quint and Robert. Vive L'Amour by two; Wyldesyde and Robertx2.The Postman is a movie that I really liked, but for some reason I'm hesitant to watch it again as I don't want to find out I know don't like it. That's happened to me before with movies.

[John-Connor]

I also made a custom list of some of my favorite movies from the 1990s:

https://www.movieforums.com/lists/custom/502

(It's not in any ranked order. It's just sorted by year.)
Great list! I'll second some titles that I think are going to need some help with points:

Presumed Innocent
The Hunt for Red October
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Fugitive
Dances with Wolves
Tremors
Space Jam
Galaxy Quest
Good Will Hunting
Primal Fear
Air Force One

Going to re-watch these two; Mr. Holland's Opus and Only You.

[mrblond]

The Legend of 1900 1998 La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/6rmb35g7XoMCMQtnbH0rUecFZlV.jpg


I highly recommend this movie too!
A lock for my ballot.

[Little Ash]

So glad you mentioned Flowers of Shanghai I had been meaning to watch that, then it slipped my mind. Good list, thanks!

Thanks GBG, I will check out your custom list.

The Player is in strong contention for my ballot. You're the third person to mention liking Vive L'Amour, I need to watch that!

I don't know if you were counting me among those three, since my statements could be considered vague on the matter (technically I guess I didn't even state if I've seen either of the Tsai films). My recollection is I slightly prefer Rebels of the Neon God, but I recall the ending of Vive L'Amour hitting harder (and like them both, but there's a lot of stuff from the 90s that I like), so I don't know if both would be able to make my ballot, they're both on my shortlist. My gut says you'd like Vive L'Amour more, but I don't know what my basis is for why I think that.

[MovieGal]

Lol my taste in the 90s cinema scene are chick flicks (mainly teen films), action films and historical.

[Citizen Rules]

Lol my taste in the 90s cinema scene are chick flicks (mainly teen films), action films and historical.I can do chick flicks and historical and my wife like those too. Action films don't often work for me, but sometimes they do.

[MovieGal]

I can do chick flicks and historical and my wife like those too. Action films don't often work for me, but sometimes they do.

I'm currently watching Clueless.

There is 10 Things I Hate About You.
She's All That
Never Been Kissed
Cruel Intentions


Just to name a few.

They aren't great but enjoyable.

[stillmellow]

Great list! I'll second some titles that I think are going to need some help with points:

Presumed Innocent
The Hunt for Red October
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Fugitive
Dances with Wolves
Tremors
Space Jam
Galaxy Quest
Good Will Hunting
Primal Fear
Air Force One

Going to re-watch these two; Mr. Holland's Opus and Only You.



Tremors! That's a great one!

[MovieGal]

Citizen Rules

Here is another rec. I do highly recommend this!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher_%281996_film%29?wprov=sfla1

[Citizen Rules]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.YXHr0PC2CpeKDVT3HdiTPAHaEK%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=72241e8065202e5cc815bb0a3fa11686fc80e827d7dbc49e6ab20fe1816e40d6&ipo=images
Bullets Over Broadway
(Woody Allen 1994)


Enjoyed this one, it was like watching Woody Allen's inner thoughts take film form. Of course Woody has done that type of film before but this one seems even more focused on Woody's thoughts on his own writing abilities and experiences making films. With that in mind I'd say Woody was very frank with his own abilities. Joan Cusack plays a Woody Allen type playwright who's latest play he refuses to comprise but of course circumstances cause him to do just that. Fun cast, especially Meg Tilly.
One of my favorite Allen films so far.
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90s movie #4

[Citizen Rules]

I wonder if any of Woody Allen's films will make the 90s countdown? I've watched two in a row and liked them both.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMDJlYTkyMTMtMDBiYy00Yzc1LTgwMjYtNzFmZjI0ZjI3N2ExXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MD I5NjE%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=689c802388fcd0e5e9dd76b98933228a71b2d9a77342f74f35cdfd4cdef9aad6&ipo=images
Everybody Says I Love You
(Woody Allen, 1996)


Drew Barrymore was sure cute in this, @honeykid (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=6348) have you seen this? I was planning on watching this musical, yes Woody made a musical, for the the Musical Countdown but never got around to it. It's a fun movie, packed full of 90s stars, the time flies and the dialogue is snappy. If you like Woody Allen films this is Woody light and that's not a bad thing. I do think the one weak spot was Woody casting his own love interest as Julia Roberts, yeah right! Plus they had no chemistry.

rating_3_5


90s movie #5

[Harry Lime]

I don't think any of Woody's 90s films are great or thought of as great in the cinema fan culture and therefore votes will be spread out. Versus 70s and 80s Woody which has some excellent films. So I'm leaning to no Woody making the cut.

[Harry Lime]

If you watch one 90s action film for the countdown make sure it's Die Hard with a Vengeance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjzPwm4mUI

[Little Ash]

Do I need to list the Kubrick, Lynch, Coens, Wong Kar Wai stuff from the 90s? I assume people know of them and if the output of those directors are their cup of tea or not, and if so they've probably seen those movies already (though if people only watched Chungking Express, then Fallen Angels and Days of Being Wild are also worth checking out).

I have no idea why I didn't list Happy Together along with Fallen Angels or Days of Being Wild. Moments of it certainly seemed like a precursor effort to In the Mood for Love. Maybe I forgot it was in the 90s, but I saw it in the 90s, so that seems unlikely.

[Holden Pike]

I have a custom MoFo List with my favorites HERE (https://www.movieforums.com/lists/custom/219). If you haven't seen many or maybe even any films from these renowned filmmakers, here are my top recommendations from each of them in the 1990s that are all excellent films as well as wonderful introductions to the directors...

Pedro Almodóvar, All About My Mother (1999)
Robert Altman, Short Cuts (1993)
Wes Anderson, Rushmore (1998)
Claude Chabrol, La Cérémonie (1995)
Claire Denis, Beau Travail (1999)
Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man (1995)
Neil Jordan, The Butcher Boy (1996)
Abbas Kiarostami, Close-Up (1990)
Krzysztof Kieślowski, Three Colours: Red (1994)
Mike Leigh, Naked (1993)
David Lynch, The Straight Story (1999)
Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line (1998)
Roman Polanski, Death and the Maiden (1994)
John Sayles, Lone Star (1996)
Todd Solondz, Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
Lars Von Trier, Breaking the Waves (1996)
Wong Kar-wai, Chungking Express (1994)

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[John-Connor]

Great list by Holden. I've selected a few I would also recommend and feel could use some exposure / points because they weren't on the first MoFo 90s countdown:

Carlito’s Way (1993) Brian De Palma
Smoke (1995) Wayne Wang
Out of Sight (1998) Steven Soderbergh
To Die For (1995) Gus Van Sant
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) James Foley
A Simple Plan (1998) Sam Raimi
One False Move (1991) Carl Franklin

Since director Jim Jarmusch was mentioned. I'll also add and recommend:
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and Night on Earth (1991).

[mrblond]

I wonder if any of Woody Allen's films will make the 90s countdown? I've watched two in a row and liked them both.


I think it is time for his top works of this decade:


Husbands and Wives (1992)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)

[seanc]

Have you seen Ratcatcher yet Citizen?

[honeykid]

I'm not really one to pimp a particular film, but I do doubt the humanity of anyone who doesn't like The Straight Story. Genuinely, I can't be sure you're human if you don't like that film.

As for Woody, mrblond has already mentioned it, but Husbands And Wives is a good Woody film, IMO, but then I like 90's Woody and don't like Bananas, so what do I know?

[Gideon58]

I, too prefer post 1980 Woody Allen to early Woody...Husbands and Wives is an absolute revelation...a link to my review:


https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/1110631-husbands_and_wives.html

[Robert the List]

Great list by Holden. I've selected a few I would also recommend and feel could use some exposure / points because they weren't on the first MoFo 90s countdown:

Carlito’s Way (1993) Brian De Palma
Smoke (1995) Wayne Wang
Out of Sight (1998) Steven Soderbergh
To Die For (1995) Gus Van Sant
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) James Foley
A Simple Plan (1998) Sam Raimi
One False Move (1991) Carl Franklin

Since director Jim Jarmusch was mentioned. I'll also add and recommend:
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and Night on Earth (1991).
Good call on Ghost Dog. Really enjoyed that back in the day.

[Wyldesyde19]

I'm not really one to pimp a particular film, but I do doubt the humanity of anyone who doesn't like The Straight Story. Genuinely, I can't be sure you're human if you don't like that film.

As for Woody, mrblond has already mentioned it, but Husbands And Wives is a good Woody film, IMO, but then I like 90's Woody and don't like Bananas, so what do I know?

I prefer the period from 1977-1989 for Woody.
After that his films were mostly hit or Miss.
I think his only film I didn’t care for during that peak period were Zelig, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, and Radio Days.

[MovieFan1988]

I think 90's movies had a lot of fun ones to watch and want to list a few that didn't make the last countdown list and give them some exposure for the upcoming list,

If you're into Horror - Scream 1 (1996) and 2 (1997) (The first Scream made the last top 100 90's list but at #92, hopefully it doesn't get cut from the upcoming list.)

Into High School Teen Comedy - American Pie (1999) and Clueless (1995)

Into Comedy - There's Something About Mary (1998) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

Into Crime - A Bronx Tale (1993) and Boyz N the Hood (1991)

Into Action - Rush Hour (1998) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

[Wyldesyde19]

Before I forget…..
Quiz Show
Quiz Show!
Quiz Show!!
QUIZ SHOW!!!

That is all

[Robert the List]

Toto the Hero worth a mention.

[Wyldesyde19]

Toto the Hero worth a mention.
Totally on my watch list for about 20 years now.
I swear I’ll get to it someday!

[Citizen Rules]

I've been offline with no internet for three days, so playing catch-up here. I've watched a 90s film every night and will post my thoughts on them tomorrow.

I have a custom MoFo List with my favorites HERE (https://www.movieforums.com/lists/custom/219)...Thanks Holden, I bookmarked it and will check it out.


Carlito’s Way (1993) Brian De Palma
Smoke (1995) Wayne Wang
Out of Sight (1998) Steven Soderbergh
To Die For (1995) Gus Van Sant
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) James Foley
A Simple Plan (1998) Sam Raimi
One False Move (1991) Carl Franklin

Since director Jim Jarmusch was mentioned. I'll also add and recommend:
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and Night on Earth (1991).I'll look into those.

Have you seen Ratcatcher yet Citizen?Nope, not yet, I have heard of it though. Is it making your ballot?

I'm not really one to pimp a particular film, but I do doubt the humanity of anyone who doesn't like The Straight Story. Genuinely, I can't be sure you're human if you don't like that film.

As for Woody, @mrblond (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=110651) has already mentioned it, but Husbands And Wives is a good Woody film, IMO, but then I like 90's Woody and don't like Bananas, so what do I know?I really liked The Straight Story when I last seen it, but it's been years, so I'll rewatch it to see if it makes my ballot. I'll probably catch Woody's Husbands and Wives too.

I think 90's movies had a lot of fun ones to watch and want to list a few that didn't make the last countdown list and give them some exposure for the upcoming list,

If you're into Horror - Scream 1 (1996) and 2 (1997) (The first Scream made the last top 100 90's list but at #92, hopefully it doesn't get cut from the upcoming list.)

Into High School Teen Comedy - American Pie (1999) and Clueless (1995)

Into Comedy - There's Something About Mary (1998) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

Into Crime - A Bronx Tale (1993) and Boyz N the Hood (1991)

Into Action - Rush Hour (1998) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)Thanks MovieFan, I remember watching Boyz N the Hood and being very impressed. Come to think of it I like Jim Carey's comedies as well. I don't think I've seen Clueless, so I should check that one out.

Before I forget…..
Quiz Show
Quiz Show!
Quiz Show!!
QUIZ SHOW!!!

That is allQuiz Show is making my ballot! Going to watch it again though.

Toto the Hero worth a mention.Never heard of that but thanks.

[seanc]

Nope, not yet, I have heard of it though. Is it making your ballot?.

On my “short” list. Which I put in quotes because it isn’t so short for me with the 90’s. It’s very stripped down and realistic so I was thinking it may appeal to you. Also pretty dour though. I don’t know. You remain the hardest person on the forum for me to recommend movies to. Such an enigma Mr Rules. ;)

[Citizen Rules]

On my “short” list. Which I put in quotes because it isn’t so short for me with the 90’s. It’s very stripped down and realistic so I was thinking it may appeal to you. Also pretty dour though. I don’t know. You remain the hardest person on the forum for me to recommend movies to. Such an enigma Mr Rules. ;)Oh I don't know if I'm that hard to pick a movie rec for. Just follow along with what I picked for myself out of the 1990s to watch. So far I liked everything I've seen except Ridley's Columbus film though the premise was in my wheel house.

I'll really try to give Ratcatcher a go. It's a period piece and set in Glasgow a place I've never been both of those are a plus. My wife likes films set in different countries/places too. Mostly the wife and I like the same type of films, mostly that is:cool:

[Citizen Rules]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F7Gm9NXq1Ydje7uyx9Ogr1FxFkIa.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=cda35b724a3cb31d4ad692ed471376e5c158dc37a481dde2f162323b21d86d2e&ipo=images
Black Robe (1991)


'In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.' IMDB
I expected more out of this, especially as this was based on an acclaimed novel and directed by an acclaimed director, Bruce Beresford. What impressed me was the location filming in the wilds of Québec, Canada. What beautiful country that is! The acting was flat in the first couple scenes but once they get traveling into the wilds the story picked up. Good overall story.

rating_3

90s movie #6

[Citizen Rules]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.MrFYTu824zJx6_oq7JL_TgAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=883cdee265efb0e8ace1729122725e9a9dcc05789ee27d0266f27b6cb4b7b91d&ipo=images
12 Monkeys
(Terry Gilliam 1995)


This movie needs no introduction! A serious contender for my ballot. I had only seen this once almost 20 years ago...so watching it was like viewing it for the very first time. I was totally impressed with Bruce Willis' acting abilities. He projected so many complex emotions, all while being confused due to the effects of time travel. Damn fine job by Bruce. Loved the story, the look of the film and the intelligently written script. The only drawback was Brad Pitt. Don't get me wrong I think Pitt is a fine actor but he went way over the top with his hyper mental patient routine. He grated on my nerves every time he was on the screen. I don't blame him, I blame the director who might have requested a wildly over the top character as that's in keeping with Terry Gilliam's style of film making. Still a solid sci fi flick with an equally solid ending.

rating_4


90s movie #7

[Citizen Rules]

https://thecinemaarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/avalon-laksdjflkdsa-400x222.jpg
Avalon
(Barry Levinson, 1990)

Second watch, I tend to like these stories of multi-generational families over a long time span. In Avalon it's the story of a Polish-Jewish family that comes to America and grows but as it grows the tight knit extended family is strained as some become financially successful and others do not. The one cliche that turns up in these films is using the family dinner as a huge argument to create tension in the film. That gets old after awhile. Still a decent movie with good actors and acting.

rating_3_5

90s movie #8

[Miss Vicky]

Since director Jim Jarmusch was mentioned. I'll also add and recommend:
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and Night on Earth (1991).

I'll look into those.

Just a heads up, you already watched Night On Earth for the 14th HOF.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/f6/8f/2bf68f7b5ec868b12e87343c94cdaf43--winona-ryder-film-stills.jpg

Night On Earth (1991)

I admit it...I like Winona Ryder:p I've liked her in most of her movies..And I like Jim Jarmusch as a director too. He's one of the current directors who's work I want to explore more.

I've only seen three of his films, Night On Earth (twice now), DeadMan (also twice) and one other film which I keep thinking I'll nominate in an Hof one day.

Jim Jarmusch is the master of urban art house cinematography. There's a special-ness to the way he effortlessly films the urban-scape without getting all fancy with his shots. Night On Earth shows us very real aspects of the five cities that we view as voyeurs.

And the music score is out right brilliant. I loved that song by Tom Waits at the opening credits...btw the opening credits deserve some praise to, very cool. Through out the movie we hear the simplified melody from the opening song. Geez that music made me smile! More than that it told part of the story. In a Jarmusch film the score and cityscapes are integral part. That's art!

I enjoyed all five of the vignettes. With the L.A. Winona Ryder one and the Paris story being my two favorites. I thought Winona made a riotously funny grease monkey who despite her limited knowledge outside of car engines, was still quite genuine and self aware. The entire scene made me smile. From the grease on her face, to that crazy key chain hanging from her waist, complete with a flash light...to the chain smoking...all of that was a great characterization.

The Paris story with the Ivory Coast immigrant who's first belittled by the two ambassador's men, even though he's one tough looking dude was funny. Then when the blind girl gets into the car and she's belittled by the driver in the same, 'I don't understand you, so I'll say some silly generalizations to you' way, was even funnier turn about. Very cleverly written too. Especially as the driver thinks the blind girl can't safely walk by the river, which she does, while he with his sight crashes his car!

I liked the Helsinki, Rome stories too. The New York would have been my favorite except Rosa Perez who sucked the life out of the scene with her one joke gag...obnoxiousness. But she didn't ruin the entire scene for me...Still the dynamic between the German immigrant and the native New Yorker was truthfully funny, as both men, from different worlds had a lot in common, including silly names and silly hats!

Good movie!

[Citizen Rules]

Just a heads up, you already watched Night On Earth for the 14th HOF.Yup I remember that one, I wonder where that landed on my HoF ballot. I do like Jim Jarmusch's films, though I haven't seen many, Dead Man probably being my favorite. I might rewatch that one and Night on Earth, I do like Winona Ryder.

[Citizen Rules]

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Big Night (1996)


Co-written, co-directed and starring Stanley Tucci as one of two Italian immigrant brothers who come to America in the 1950s to own an Italian restaurant. The oldest brother (Tony Shalhoub) is a shy but passionate chef, who creates culinary masterpieces. The problem is the restaurant's clientele in the New Jersey neighborhood doesn't have a sophisticated pallet. This brings the little restaurant to a bank foreclosure. However, there's a chance to save it as a fellow Italian club owner knows a famous jazz performer and ask him to attended a big party at the brother's restaurant. The hope is this word of mouth will spread the word about how good their food is.

What I liked about Big Night is that it's a small, indie film that doesn't go for big plot twist or larger than life characters. It's very much focused and grounded and so seemed real and relatable.

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[John-Connor]

Let us not forget Wyldesyde's favorite French arthouse classic;
Les Ailes de L’enfer aka Vive L'Con Air starring Nic Cageux, Jean Cusaques.. :p

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[Robert the List]

These from the 90s made my masterpieces list. Slightly different to my favourites list but share many of the same.

Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1992 USA Ridley Scott
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
The Puppetmaster 1993 Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Il Postino 1994 Italy Michael Radford
A Moment of Innocence 1996 Iran Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Trainspotting 1996 UK Danny Boyle
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy (documentary)
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
The Matrix 1999 USA The Wachowskis

[Citizen Rules]

These from the 90s made my masterpieces list. Slightly different to my favourites list but share many of the same.

Thanks...I've only seen these films below, but will research the others on your list to see if I can squeeze any in before I send in my ballot.

Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1992 Not a 90s movie so not eligible
The Player 1992 Will make my ballot! my review (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2327491#post2327491)
Pulp Fiction 1994
A Moment of Innocence 1996 Didn't do anything for me, my review (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2311782#post2311782)
L.A. Confidential 1997 my review (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2090644#post2090644)
Saving Private Ryan 1998 Will make my ballot!
The Matrix 1999

[Citizen Rules]

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Nixon The Director's Cut
(Oliver Stone, 1995)


Ugh, what a slog this was to get through. At 3h 32mins one would think Ollie Stone could tell the story of Nixon's life and especially his presidency and make it count. But nah, I learned almost nothing about Nixon the man or Watergate, the only thing I 'learned' was that Nixon apparently sweated a lot, used profanity and was a paranoid control freak concerned overly concerned about his own public image. Now I'm no fan of Nixon but if you're going to tell his story do we really want 'rewrite history Ollie' to make the movie....Stone suggest all sorts of nasty things that didn't happen or can't be proven with a 'wink to the camera' by some of Nixon's financial supporters who say the best way to beat Robert Kennedy was if he was killed. It's out right wrong to use a movie and suggest that in private conversations such assassination talk took place and the movie is riddled with such fly on the wall moments which can't be disproved as there was no actual record.

If all that wasn't enough to make this movie a drag, Stone does all of these 'fancy camera stuff', like switching the film to negative exposure, to black and white, to strange camera angles and even intersecting still shots of unrelated objects ala Malick. The film is all over the place and I really think Stone has director envy.

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[Gideon58]

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Nixon The Director's Cut
(Oliver Stone, 1995)


Ugh, what a slog this was to get through. At 3h 32mins one would think Ollie Stone could tell the story of Nixon's life and especially his presidency and make it count. But nah, I learned almost nothing about Nixon the man or Watergate, the only thing I 'learned' was that Nixon apparently sweated a lot, used profanity and was a paranoid control freak concerned overly concerned about his own public image. Now I'm no fan of Nixon but if you're going to tell his story do we really want 'rewrite history Ollie' to make the movie....Stone suggest all sorts of nasty things that didn't happen or can't be proven with a 'wink to the camera' by some of Nixon's financial supporters who say the best way to beat Robert Kennedy was if he was killed. It's out right wrong to use a movie and suggest that in private conversations such assassination talk took place and the movie is riddled with such fly on the wall moments which can't be disproved as there was no actual record.

If all that wasn't enough to make this movie a drag, Stone does all of these 'fancy camera stuff', like switching the film to negative exposure, to black and white, to strange camera angles and even intersecting still shots of unrelated objects ala Malick. The film is all over the place and I really think Stone has director envy.

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90s movie #10

It took me 3 days to watch the theatrical cut. Can’t imagine trying to get through the director’s cut

[Citizen Rules]

It took me 3 days to watch the theatrical cut. Can’t imagine trying to get through the director’s cutIf I love or at least like a movie I could do 4 hours at a time (with bathroom breaks of course!) but Nixon bored me and I love historical stuff like that. I really liked Frost/Nixon (2008) but not Oliver Stone's Nixon.

[Gideon58]

If I love or at least like a movie I could do 4 hours at a time (with bathroom breaks of course!) but Nixon bored me and I love historical stuff like that. I really liked Frost/Nixon (2008) but not Oliver Stone's Nixon.

Frost/Nixon was superb

[Holden Pike]

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One I would highlight, because I think it remains perplexingly underrated, is Peter Weir's Fearless (1993). Weir's Dead Poets Society (1989) routinely makes best of the 1980s lists and The Truman Show (1998) best of the 1990s, but I think Fearless is as good or better than those titles yet has nowhere near the recognition, despite starring a beloved actor in one of his best roles.

Fearless opens in a remote Californian field as a handful of passengers miraculously emerge from the wreckage of a commercial airliner. Max Klein (Jeff Bridges) is one of them. But he's in some state of shock, pretends to be only a bystander, and leaves the scene. He checks into a motel to find he has barely a scratch. Most of the passengers and crew died, including his business partner he was traveling with, but somehow he was spared. Similar set up as Shyamalan's Unbreakable (2000), except there is nothing supernatural protecting this protagonist, instead he goes on an emotional and spiritual journey due to his seeming, temporary invinicibility. Not a simple treatise on living each day as if it were your last, but a complex wrestling with what is important in a world that is largely complacent.

Max can't quite explain his quandary to himself much less to his wife (Isabella Rossellini) and son, nor to his dead partner's wife, to the attorney (Tom Hulce) trying to sue the airline, the psychiatrist (John Turturro) the airline provides the survivors, or anybody else. But he does find himself drawn to another survivor (Rosie Perez), who is almost catatonic with guilt over the death of her infant child in the tragedy.

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Beautiful, weird, haunting, inspiring, devastating, and wonderful, Fearless has moved me since my first viewing in November of 1993 and I return to it again and again.

It got good reviews, but for whatever reasons it did not do much at the box office. If you have been moved by or impressed with Weir's other films (including not only Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show but also Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, and Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World) but have somehow overlooked or skipped this highlight in his filmography, do yourself a favor and give it a look. Whether it makes your lists or not, I doubt you will forget or regret the experience.

https://youtu.be/HonwYG9rApY?si=0h0uv96ZReCxi5kh
https://youtu.be/sCnbSHxf4ZQ?si=2Z9A-1zvlMCehell
https://youtu.be/AUsMYZAFoy4?si=ILiuYh9SjBVUfKd7

[Holden Pike]

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I'll highlight another that, not only do I think is a top tier film, but one that like Fearless (1993) has somehow never made a MoFo List. Writer/Director/Actor John Sayles is one of the most acclaimed independent filmmakers of his era. The majority of his filmography is critically beloved, but despite some amazing reviews he never quite broke through to the mainstream, nor was he ever branded with the kind of artsy, ironic cool of a Jim Jarmusch. His stable of actors, most of whom he put in their first significant cinematic roles, just about all became beloved and oft-used character actors in Hollywood including David Strathairn, Chris Cooper, Joe Morton, Mary McDonnell, Gordon Clapp, and others.

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If you've never seen a John Sayles film, or haven't seen but one or two along the way, Lone Star (1996) is a perfect place to start. The film is set in two time periods of the same fictional Texas/Mexico border town: the present day of 1995 and 1957. In the first scene, skeletal remains are accidentally found in the desert. It turns out to be a legendary local figure, the menacing Sheriff Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson), a brutal man who ruled by intimidation and violence and disappeared in 1957. The story goes that his young Deputy, Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey), stood up to him and essentially told him to get out of town or else. Now that the body has shown up nearly four decades later it falls on the current Sheriff, Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), to solve the mystery of what really happened. He is the estranged son of Buddy Deeds, who is dead in the present timeline and who served as the beloved Sheriff for many years after Wade's disappearance, ruling with more wisdom and understanding than his racist, murderous predecessor. Now he is faced with finding a truth that may tarnish his father's beloved legacy.

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That set-up has the makings of a procedural thriller, but while the spine of that mystery is what holds the story together, Lone Star is about much more than whodunit. It also examines, with much thought and care without shying away from the complexities, the racial dynamics of the different communities in the two eras, being the Whites, the Mexicans, Native Americans, and the African-Americans. But it is not some polemic, either. The complexities are examined through interesting characters who, in addition to the two generations of lawmen, also include the Colonel (Joe Morton) of the nearby Army Base, his estranged father (Ron Canada) who runs a local bar, a teacher (Elizabeth Peña) who is an old high school flame of Sam's, her strict restaurant owner of a mother (Míriam Colón), and the town's Mayor (Clifton James) who was also a Deputy back in 1957. Beyond the central murder mystery there are plenty of other secrets to be revealed, though all of them through Sayles' balanced, Humanistic prism instead of as a soap opera. If you haven't yet seen Lone Star, avoid the major spoilers and discover them as they are revealed in the narrative.

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Sayles,yet filmmaker who came up through the no-frills Roger Corman school of on-the-job leaning, garnered what is to date still only his second Oscar nomination for Lone Star's Original Screenplay, the year the Coens won for Fargo. His previous nomination was in the same category for Passion Fish (1992) where The Crying Game won. There are some very clever in-camera transitions between the time periods created by Sales and production designer Dan Bishop and shot perfectly by cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh (The Piano, Once Were Warriors) that are a nice cinematic touch, but as usual it is Sayles' sensibility and the wonderful cast that carry the day and make it truly special. The rest of the cast includes Frances McDormand, Tony Plana, Tony Amendola, Carmen de Lavallade, Chandra Wilson, LaTanya Richardson, Stephen Mendillo, and Leo Burmester.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UffK-IHM1B0
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[Thief]

Before I forget…..
Quiz Show
Quiz Show!
Quiz Show!!
QUIZ SHOW!!!

That is all

Loved the film, but it's been decades since I last saw it. Need to revisit it.

[Thief]

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One I would highlight, because I think it remains perplexingly underrated, is Peter Weir's Fearless (1993). Weir's Dead Poets Society (1989) routinely makes best of the 1980s lists and The Truman Show (1998) best of the 1990s, but I think Fearless is as good or better than those titles yet has nowhere near the recognition, despite starring a beloved actor in one of his best roles.



This is another one I need to revisit. I saw it in the late 90s, I think, but I'm pretty sure it would fare better now with me.

[mrblond]

These from the 90s made my masterpieces list. Slightly different to my favourites list but share many of the same.

Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) 1992 USA Ridley Scott
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
The Puppetmaster 1993 Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Il Postino 1994 Italy Michael Radford
A Moment of Innocence 1996 Iran Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Trainspotting 1996 UK Danny Boyle
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy (documentary)
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
The Matrix 1999 USA The Wachowskis

That's useful sharing one's contenders so that we try not to split and waste votes.
So, out this list:

Pulp Fiction 1994 - yeah, naturally, I'm thinking how to proceed it.
Trainspotting 1996 - yeah again, quite probable for my ballot

notable titles which would make my #30-50:

The Matrix 1999
Saving Private Ryan 1998
The Player 1992
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others:

L.A. Confidential 1997 - that's a meh for me, only ok, can be my #85-100, as the last resort.

Il Postino 1994 - absolute mediocrity...ugh

Blade Runner (Director's Cut) - not eligible

Don't know the others.

[Robert the List]

That's useful sharing one's contenders so that we try not to split and waste votes.
So, out this list:

Pulp Fiction 1994 - yeah, naturally, I'm thinking how to proceed it.
Trainspotting 1996 - yeah again, quite probable for my ballot

notable titles which would make my #30-50:

The Matrix 1999
Saving Private Ryan 1998
The Player 1992
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others:

L.A. Confidential 1997 - that's a meh for me, only ok, can be my #85-100, as the last resort.

Il Postino 1994 - absolute mediocrity...ugh

Blade Runner (Director's Cut) - not eligible

Don't know the others.
Well just let me know how to vote when you've decided.

[Robert the List]

In fairness, I can be overbearing with my lists and ranking etc. Apologies if this was an issue here.

[Citizen Rules]

In fairness, I can be overbearing with my lists and ranking etc. Apologies if this was an issue here.No problem at all:) I'm making a 90s recommendation list from all the post on this thread and saving it on my computer. I will try to watch the ones that sound intriguing to me.

[Citizen Rules]

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Benny and Joon (1993)
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik



I'd heard about this movie ever since it first came out over 30 years ago, so I finally watched it and was impressed. I had thought this would be some silly early movie with Depp hamming it up, nope it's not like that at all. Benny and Joon is a solid well written and acted story that focuses not on Depp's character but on Benny (Aidan Quinn) who runs a small car repair shop and watches over his mentally challenged but bright adult sister Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson) who is the other main focus in the movie.

Benny has no life because Joon can be a handful and needs constant supervision. A well meaning case worker want's Benny to place Joon in an adult care center, which Benny is opposed to. What changes things is when Sam (Johnny Depp) is kicked out of his uncle's house and is literally dumped into Benny's lap. A relationship develops between the odd but kind Sam who loves old movies and Joon, that then causes conflict that Benny is unsure of how to resolve.

Actually the story is more complex than that but I don't want to give away too much. This is a character driven story with an intelligent script that avoids going for low hanging fruit. I credit the director for his choice in making an intelligent film with strongly defined characters. This will probably make my ballot.


4.5



90s movie #11

[Holden Pike]

I never grooved much to Benny & Joon (1993). Not a terrible movie, but mostly forgettable. Much like Untamed Heart (1993) and The Butcher's Wife (1991) from that same time period, I know these titles have their supporters but they all three feel a little forced and artificial, to my taste. They all sort of play around the edges of dark, weird humor, but without fully committing to it, playing it too safe when push comes to shove. And they also want to be sorts of fables, but they don't quite embrace that tone convincingly, either. What's left comes off as ineffectual, to me.

For a modern fable with characters of questionable mental health from that period that I wholeheartedly recommend, try Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991). It is plenty dark and weird but also sweet and genuinely hopeful. It holds up extremely well nearly thirty-five years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65wgbFGGeM

[honeykid]

I was a big fan of Johnny Depp's back then. He had a great 90's but the early/mid is the best. Also check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape? if you've not seen it and make sure you've seen Ed Wood, too.

[Citizen Rules]

I was a big fan of Johnny Depp's back then. He had a great 90's but the early/mid is the best. Also check out What's Eating Gilbert Grape? if you've not seen it and make sure you've seen Ed Wood, too.What's Eating Gilbert Grape was the first time I seen Depp, that was back when the film came out, he was good in that, good movie too. Ed Wood a lock for my ballot!

[Sedai]

I never grooved much to Benny & Joon (1993). Not a terrible movie, but mostly forgettable. Much like Untamed Heart (1993) and The Butcher's Wife (1991) from that same time period, I know these titles have their supporters but they all three feel a little forced and artificial, to my taste. They all sort of play around the edges of dark, weird humor, but without really committing to it. And they also want to be sorts of fables, but they don't quite embrace that tone convincingly, either. What's left comes off as ineffectual, to me.

For a modern fable of characters of questionable mental health from that period that I wholeheartedly recommend, try Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991). It is plenty dark and weird but also sweet and genuinely hopeful. It holds up extremely well nearly thirty-five years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65wgbFGGeM

As I read your post about Fearless, this film came to mind as I recalled some of the roles Bridges was picking up around this time - this is probably my favorite era of his career. I adore The Fisher King, and have seen it several times.

[Holden Pike]

What's Eating Gilbert Grape was the first time I['d] seen Depp, that was back when the film came out. He was good in that, good movie too. Ed Wood a lock for my ballot!
Not sure how you missed Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, "21 Jump Street", Cry-Baby, Edward Scissorhands, Tom Petty's music video, and the glossy pages of Tiger Beat magazine (suitable for framing) to only have noticed Johnathan Depp in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, but so be it!

Johnny Depp made the original MoFo Top 100 of the 1990s list five times: Dead Man (#35), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (#46), Ed Wood (#49), Donnie Brasco (#72), and Edward Scissorhands (#96). I wouldn't expect Benny & Joon to suddenly rise above all of those on the collective list once re-polled, but we shall see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0

[mrblond]

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Benny and Joon (1993)
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik

...
90s movie #11

Loved this movie when it came out. Then, I was fully in love with Mary Stuart Masterson.
The film is in my top 50 for consideration but I doubt it gonna find a place in the tiny 25-slot ballot.

[mrblond]

What's Eating Gilbert Grape was the first time I seen Depp, that was back when the film came out, he was good in that, good movie too.

Here is one more big admirer of What's Eating Gilbert Grape and the above recommended The Fisher King. Seen both dozen of times. Both are lock for my ballot.

[mrblond]

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Hope people won't forget the James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993)
That's an acting!

[Holden Pike]

I am sure The Remains of the Day has long been forgotten. At least for purposes of a ballot like this.

[iluv2viddyfilms]

I am sure The Remains of the Day has long been forgotten. At least for purposes of a ballot like this.

I have never seen it, but you know what?

F it!

It's going straight to number one on my ballot as a blind placement! More Oscar bait period pieces are needed for this list, which is why Shakespeare in Love will be my number two followed by The Cider House Rules in third!

[Citizen Rules]

Not sure how you missed Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, "21 Jump Street", Cry-Baby, Edward Scissorhands, Tom Petty's music video, and the glossy pages of Tiger Beat magazine (suitable for framing) to only have noticed Johnathan Depp in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, but so be it!

Johnny Depp made the original MoFo Top 100 of the 1990s list five times: Dead Man (#35), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (#46), Ed Wood (#49), Donnie Brasco (#72), and Edward Scissorhands (#96). I wouldn't expect Benny & Joon to suddenly rise above all of those on the collective list once re-polled, but we shall see.
Who said I missed those movies...I've seen them all except 21 Jump Street (tv series) and Donnie Brasco. Oh and I've never have or will read Tiger Beat magazine:D

[Citizen Rules]

Loved this movie when it came out. Then, I was fully in love with Mary Stuart Masterson.
The film is in my top 50 for consideration but I doubt it gonna find a place in the tiny 25-slot ballot.I read at one time Winona Ryder was to play the part of Joon. I'm sure she would've been good but Mary Stuart Masterson had this endearing quality in the movie that makes one care about her character.
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Hope people won't forget the James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993)
That's an acting!Good one! I have that on my rewatch list.

[iluv2viddyfilms]

Who said I missed on those movies...I've seen them all except 21 Jump Street (tv series) and Donnie Brasco. Oh and never have or will read Tiger Beat magazine:D

Or people who were coming of age in the early or mid 90s who weren't huge film fans back then. A million possibilities. Also sure he's in Platoon for maybe... 30 seconds of screen time? Does he even have a line in Platoon? I'd have to rewatch it, but yeah ignore Holden being Holden (yes, we love him and have for decades!).

What's Eating Gilbert Grape is probably the first time many people noticed Depp, because not many mainstream movie goers were watching John Waters films in 1993 or reading Teen Beat or Tiger Beat or Whatever Teenie Bopper magazines. I could see an argument for Edward Scissorhands which back in 1991 or 1992 was the first time I became aware of him at the tender age of nine or ten, but he wasn't Johnny Depp to me, he was the weird dude in the funny outfit with wild hair and scissorhands. You're not alone in thinking What's Eating Gilbert Grape was the first time Depp became a blip on people's radar.

[Citizen Rules]

Or people who were coming of age in the early or mid 90s who weren't huge film fans back then. A million possibilities...True enough, in the late 80s, early & mid 90s, I was way more interested in night life, dating, girls/girlfriends (but only one at a time as I'm a nice guy:p), cars, hiking etc, etc...than being glued to a screen watching movies. I seen Nightmare on Elm Street first run on a date but I guarantee I was more interested in my date than memorizing the names of the actors in the movie.

[MovieGal]

I think Citizen Rules should watch Jim Sheridan's In The Name of The Father

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[Citizen Rules]

I think Citizen Rules should watch Jim Sheridan's In The Name of The Father

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I think I probably will watch it, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if I seen it years ago.

[MovieGal]

I think I probably will watch it, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if I seen it years ago.

I have seen it many times being a fan of Day-Lewis and the director Jim Sheridan .

[SpelingError]

Have you seen this one, CR?

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[Citizen Rules]

Have you seen this one, CR?
Heard of it, but never seen it.

[Citizen Rules]

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A League of Their Own (1992)
Director: Penny Marshal


Had I not rewatched this last night it would've made my ballot. I seen it once before like 20 years ago and I remembered it being this really heartfelt movie...what was I thinking:p Don't get me wrong it's a fun watch, but too many low hanging gags that would've been funny on Laverne & Shirley but in this movie they just seemed like skit jokes, like SNL did back then. Heck we even get SNL alumni Jon Lovitz doing his shtick and doing it and doing it until I was glad he was off the screen.

The ending however ties into the real Baseball Hall of Fame with the now older women players attending the ceremony for the introduction of th Women Professional Baseball players. The ending works so well that it evaluates the rest of the movie. Won't make my ballot but fun enough to watch or rewatch.
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90s movie #12

[Captain Steel]

I am sure The Remains of the Day has long been forgotten. At least for purposes of a ballot like this.

I just had to comment that my great niece is Emma Thompson.

Not the actress, of course, (she's only 4) but she has the same name. I mention it because whenever I comment to her parents about Remains of the Day (or any other movie that Emma Thompson was in) they have no idea who or what I'm talking about.

They don't seem to know that there was a somewhat famous actress with the same name they gave their daughter. Thus Holden Pike's post is confirmed - for the current child-bearing generation Remains of the Day is long forgotten.

[Robert the List]

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Hope people won't forget the James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993)
That's an acting!
Good shout.
It's in my favourite films list and will definitely make my ballot.

[honeykid]

I'd be stunned if Remains isn't on my list. It's on my 100, so it should be a shoo-in for this. In The Name Of The Father I saw once and thought was very good, even Emma Thompson with her 'I'm acting' acting.

[Holden Pike]

Okay, here's something I can't wrap my mind around, reading up on past posted rules and they all say, "do not share your list", but isn't saying, "this is a guarantee to make it on mine", revealing what's on your list? Not the order, sure, but if you post this several times, and campaign for movies, we're getting a bit of picture of what's there, right?

That's not intended as a dig, just a newb curious about this apparent contradiction.
Definitely don't give position on your ballot, but yes, there is a bit of a grey area. You are encouraged to talk up titles, especially on these early run-up posts, and your voting intent may well be wrapped up in that. Talking about shortlists and sentiments like, "I have to make room for that, for sure!" are kind of inevitable. And fine. Plus talk is cheap. Saying you're gonna vote for this and that, then actually doing it are two different things.

Be cool and just refrain from posting actual, ranked lists.

[Captain Quint]

Okay, here's something I can't wrap my mind around, reading up on past posted rules and they all say, "do not share your list", but isn't saying, "this is a guarantee to make it on mine", revealing what's on your list? Not the order, sure, but if you post this several times, and campaign for movies, we're getting a bit of picture of what's there, right?

That's not intended as a dig, just a newb curious about this apparent contradiction.

[John-Connor]

103624

103632

Co-signing these two all time favorites, because they weren't on the first mofo 90's list?!

One of my favorite final shots in cinema.

[xSookieStackhouse]

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Benny and Joon (1993)
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik



I'd heard about this movie ever since it first came out over 30 years ago, so I finally watched it and was impressed. I had thought this would be some silly early movie with Depp hamming it up, nope it's not like that at all. Benny and Joon is a solid well written and acted story that focuses not on Depp's character but on Benny (Aidan Quinn) who runs a small car repair shop and watches over his mentally challenged but bright adult sister Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson) who is the other main focus in the movie.

Benny has no life because Joon can be a handful and needs constant supervision. A well meaning case worker want's Benny to place Joon in an adult care center, which Benny is opposed to. What changes things is when Sam (Johnny Depp) is kicked out of his uncle's house and is literally dumped into Benny's lap. A relationship develops between the odd but kind Sam who loves old movies and Joon, that then causes conflict that Benny is unsure of how to resolve.

Actually the story is more complex than that but I don't want to give away too much. This is a character driven story with an intelligent script that avoids going for low hanging fruit. I credit the director for his choice in making an intelligent film with strongly defined characters. This will probably make my ballot.


4.5



90s movie #11

ahhh johnny depp <3 . love his movies

[Citizen Rules]

Okay, here's something I can't wrap my mind around, reading up on past posted rules and they all say, "do not share your list", but isn't saying, "this is a guarantee to make it on mine", revealing what's on your list? Not the order, sure, but if you post this several times, and campaign for movies, we're getting a bit of picture of what's there, right?

That's not intended as a dig, just a newb curious about this apparent contradiction.I tried answering this yesterday but I couldn't post because of the site issues.

It's always been OK for people to say things like, 'this will make my ballot' or 'this movie is a lock for my ballot'...It's an important part of the countdown to promote movies that MoFos think deserve a spot on the countdown, with hopes others will watch them too, that's traditionally.

Of course posting an entire ballot list or partial ballot list with numbered positions, during the countdown is a big no no.

I should give you a heads up, some MoFos will start posting their ballot list after the countdown gets to the final top 10. I am not a fan of 'post-ejaculation:p' but it does happen in the countdowns when some get to aroused:D. Hope that helps, I'm sure you'll be one helluva host!

[Captain Quint]

Then I'll start peppering my posts with subliminal messages [Farewell My Concubine], even if it's an unrelated thread [Exotica] - also, because of the forum issues [Ju Dou], it appears that Holden has the power of future sight and was able to answer my question before I asked it. [La Promesse] - it still looks like that, even after I did a hard refresh. Funny [Dark City] - shall order never be restored?

Also, while I can't give an exact date as to when the prelim thread will go up (holidays and all), rest assured, Yoda and I are in conversation - hopefully the forum will not have any more tantrums, and we can get this baby up and running in the not-too-distant future. (somewhere in time and space, la la la? - he said, referencing another 90s movie)

Note: I just threw out titles that came to mind, not saying they'll make my 25, but they are worth adding to the watchlists and checking out

[Robert the List]

It's not a world beater but The Scent of Green Papaya 1993 is worth considering giving a watch.
Add a Vietnamese film if you've not already got one.

Definitely an inspiration for Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Actually I've undersold it there. It's a solid 8.75 I reckon. Really strong final Act.

Also, I just 'got' the movie title, and it made me lol. Superb. Best incorporation of the title of the movie within the movie ever!!

[Citizen Rules]

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Dir: Steven Spielberg


I seen this once before but I only remembered the African 'slave' revolt on the ship Amistad, the rest of the movie was like a new watch to me. 20+ years ago I watched this on DVD and I'm sure the Africans language had subtitles. I read that Spielberg had Amistad released in the theaters without subs so that we the viewer could feel the difficulty of not understanding a foreign language. However when it was released on DVD supposedly it did get English subs. I watched this on the internet and no subs, which made it hard until we get to the main part of the imprisonment and court trials in the U.S. courts 1839.

The story itself is fascinating but I don't like all the choices Spielberg made. For example Morgan Freeman is a black 'freeman' and in the north U.S. there were educated free black people at the time, but it's rare enough that his character deserves more airtime and we deserve to learn his back story on how he became free. Same with the black man who was found to speak both English and Mende (the west coast African language), he was critical to bridging the gap between the whites and Africans who couldn't understand each other....but what was his story? Was he born in Africa and educated in the U.S.?

Some of the historical facts are wrong which is always a disappointment.

Besides the revolt on the slave ship I was bored with some of the later scenes and found myself checking the clock way too often.
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90s movie #13

[John-Connor]

Hunt for Red October is the most entertaining American movie out there.
^ Yeah..! It's time we get this film on a mofo list.👍
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[I_Wear_Pants]

^ Yeah..! It's time we get this film on a mofo list.👍
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I've always enjoyed the film. I found it through the SpongeBob movie trailer vis SpongeBob was playing with submarines and they had clips from Hunt for Red October, Das Boot, and U-571 (I believe), and the most entertaining of the three-second clips, there were a dozen or so, were from Hunt for Red October, so I just had to watch it. I loved the film. I haven't watched it as much lately, which is because I haven't rewatched as much lately.

[Citizen Rules]

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Apollo 13 (1995)
Dir: Ron Howard


Third rewatch of Ron Howard's film of the ill fated flight of Apollo 13. Even if you're not interested in historical space flight and even if you don't care about learning more about this amazing period, the film is still a riveting & harrowing tale of survival at great odds. One of my favorites. Memorable.

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90s movie #14

[seanc]

Apollo 13 is a great one

[Citizen Rules]

Apollo 13 is a great oneI think it has a moon-shot of making the countdown.

[Citizen Rules]

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A Month by the Lake (1995)
Dir: John Irvin


I really enjoyed my time watching A Month By the Lake as it's a low key British film, not looking to over power the viewer. It's not overly dramatic or bombastic in anyway. The story is simple yet effective. It never spoon feeds it's story to the audience or makes any kind of bold statement it simply lets the story unfold naturally. The setting is 1937 in a lakeside resort on the shores of Lake Como, where it was filmed. Lynn Redgrave and Edward Fox are masterful in their characters but never become. The American actress Uma Thurman nicely fits into the story playing a young mischievous woman from the states.

rating_4

90s movie #15

[MovieGal]

Citizen Rules

Some of these rewatched films from the 90s have really aged. And not very well.

[Citizen Rules]

@Citizen Rules (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=84637)

Some of these rewatched films from the 90s have really aged. And not very well.Which ones?

[MovieGal]

Which ones?

For one, The Rocketeer.

[Citizen Rules]

For one, The Rocketeer.Ha, that's funny as I never seen it but I remember hearing about it when it came out. It was such a big deal back then, but now no one talks about it. I might check that out just to see what it was all about. Maybe that is.

[MovieGal]

Ha, that's funny as I never seen it but I remember hearing about it when it came out. It was such a big deal back then, but now no one talks about it. I might check that out just to see what it was all about. Maybe that is.

I watched Friday last night. Yeah not that great like it used to be.

[Citizen Rules]

I watched Friday last night. Yeah not that great like it used to be.It's set in the 1930s or 40s? I seem to remember it was a period piece.

[MovieGal]

It's set in the 1930s or 40s? I seem to remember it was a period piece.

No Friday is a modern set movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113118/?ref_=ext_shr

The Rocketeer is in the 1930s.

[Citizen Rules]

No Friday is a modern set movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113118/?ref_=ext_shr

The Rocketeer is in the 1930s.Never heard of Friday.

[MovieGal]

Never heard of Friday.

All these films I have watched lately are rewatches.

Just seeing what is for free on my firestick.

[honeykid]

For one, The Rocketeer.

But that was never good. :D

Friday I saw once and thought it was good, but I've not seen it since about a 6-12 months after its release.

[John-Connor]

Watching The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) right now, for the first time (sort of), so far so good!
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[ynwtf]

Watching The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) right now, for the first time (sort of), so far so good!
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Ya know, for the kids!

[Jackie Daytona]

Rocketeer was a cool idea that didn’t pan out well in the execution. Revisiting the goofy pulp superhero/sci-fi concepts from the 30s is a nifty concept for a movie, I could see a decent Flash Gordon remake working in the right hands.

[Citizen Rules]

Watching The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) right now, for the first time (sort of), so far so good!
I seen that long time ago and liked it, it's on my To Rewatch List before I send in my ballot.

[John-Connor]

I seen that long time ago and liked it, it's on my To Rewatch List before I send in my ballot.
Really enjoyed it, it's actually perfect for viewing on new years eve.

[ynwtf]

Really enjoyed it, it's actually perfect for viewing on new years eve.


Was a favorite of mine as a kid. I try to watch it every few years or so.


Welcome to the cult!!

[gbgoodies]

I rewatched Small Soldiers (1998) last night. It has a great voice cast, and it's a lot of fun.

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[jackkyy]

"The Sixth Sense" (1999)
The Sixth Sense is a hauntingly brilliant psychological thriller that defined 90s cinema. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, the film tells the story of a young boy who can see ghosts and the psychologist who tries to help him. Featuring unforgettable performances by Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment, the movie is best known for its atmospheric tension and jaw-dropping twist ending. With its eerie mood, emotional depth, and iconic line, "I see dead people," this film remains a timeless classic of the decade.

[Citizen Rules]

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Love Field (1992)


An interesting theme and intriguing characters set in a turbulent time during President Kennedy's visit to Dallas in 1963. The first 43 minutes of the film was fascinating with Michelle Preffier as 'Lurene' who has a Jackie Kennedy fixation and sports a Marilyn Monroe hair-do. She's shocked by the assassination of JFK and is determined to go to the funeral. Her husband ignores her wishes, so she sneaks out of the house and boards a bus in Dallas for Washington D.C.

Lurene is chatty and flaky, but a kind soul. She strikes up a conversation with a black man 'Paul' played by Dennis Haysbert who's on the bus with his little daughter who's quite shy. He's leery of contact with her but she keeps trying to befriend him.

In the first 43 minutes we subtly see the effects of racism and prejudices. My favorite scene is when Lurene is setting next to Paul on the bus and an older black woman looks over with a disproving look. The movie doesn't tell us why the lady has that look, but we know it's because in the deep south a white woman seated next to a black man spells trouble for all, especially for the black people on the bus.

The film however goes over the top when they miss the bus and go on the lamb as the father has illegally taken his daughter from an orphanage where she's being abused. When Paul steals a car the film becomes over the top to be really effective. However good performances from the cast and the period piece sets look great.

rating_3

90s movie #16

[iluv2viddyfilms]

But that was never good. :D

Gah! The Rocketeer was one of Disney's best if not the best live action film from them. Great cast and writing in that film and it's just so, so much fun and mixing the Golden era Hollywood stuff and late 30s Los Angeles into the historical rise of Nazi Germany plays so well. Timothy Dalton is great as the swashbuckling Hollywood star/villain type of John Wilkes Boothe-like character. It's a fun and classy film and I actually enjoy it more than any of the Indiana Jones films. It also has that comic book Batman, Dick Tracy, The Shadow vibe going on. Great James Horner score and we all love Alan Arkin. Make a double bill of it with The Aviator. It's in serious consideration for my list.

[Gideon58]

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Chaplin (1992)
Director: Richard Attenborough


Good movie about the great Charles Chaplin. This easily could've been a 3 hour long movie and it still would've held my attention. Robert Downey Jr. makes a great Chaplin, he loses himself in the role and in that way the movie works well, I believed he was Chaplin. I don't have much to say, except I wish it was longer and that says alot.
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90s movie: #3




Robert Downey Jr was a lot better than the movie

[Gideon58]

I love Regarding Henry. It's very likely to make my list.

I love Regarding Henry too…my favorite Harrison Ford performance

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Yahoo! This was pretty fun and for a light heartened take on the Robin Hood story Kevin Costner was a good choice. The entire cast was well choosen: Morgan Freeman as the reliable mentor, a role he often plays. Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham, better known to Harry Potter fans as 'Severus Snape'. Michael Wincott as Guy of Gisborne who I swear played the same damn role in Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the lovely Maid Marion played by the equally lovely Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

I found this version of Robin Hood to have much of the spirit of Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
rating_3_5++

90s movie #17

[honeykid]

Long before my g/f became my g/f we had a movie swap and this was the film she loved that I hadn't seen. Naturally she got the better part of the deal as I gave her Reservoir Dogs. I say she got the better of the swap, but I think we both felt the other did. :D

[Harry Lime]

Thumbs up for Apollo 13. Great 90s movie. Great movie.

[Citizen Rules]

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Regarding Henry (1991)

'After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.'

This was entertaining enough and I did like the premise and the actors, but the film was a fail on both the writing side (J.J. Abrams) and directing (Mike Nichols). The script by Abrams is sappy and not well focused, it plays out more like a feel good drama-comedy than an introspective drama.

In looking at Abrams' IMDB credits he's mainly known for doing fluffier stuff so I'm not surprised he failed to write this movie with any deeper emotions than the typical light entertainment movie. We never really see how jerky of a person the lawyer (Harrison Ford) is except the one brilliant scene in the movie where he apologizes to his daughter for getting mad at her, for spilling her drink on his piano. In his apology for getting mad he tries to explain to his daughter his reasoning, but ends up blaming her again. The film needed more scenes of that caliber. It needed a bit more on the front end establishing how Ford's character was super jerky as it was he really didn't get to know him before his accident.

In the next scene he's shot in the head and his rehabilitation starts. I liked the actor who played his therapist, Bill Nunn but geez did he chew the scenery or what. I blame the director for not having Bill Nunn tone down his character. I will say his last scene in the movie with Ford was a good one.

What really bugged me is Ford's character is clearly brain damaged and struggling, he just learned to read a line in a children's preschool book...then like the next scene he's hired to go back to work in a prestigious law firm. What? That really pissed me off as it was so daff...Yes, some scenes later we learn that the senior partner of the law firm had hired Ford back out of respect for his father who had helped create the law firm, but that scene needed to come at the end of the back to work scene.

The thing is this is the type of movie I usually like so I'm more critical of the lazy writing and unfocused direction then I normally would be.

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90s movie #18

[MovieGal]

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Regarding Henry (1991)

'After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.'

This was entertaining enough and I did like the premise and the actors, but the film was a fail on both the writing side (J.J. Abrams) and directing (Mike Nichols). The script by Abrams is sappy and not well focused, it plays out more like a feel good drama-comedy than an introspective drama.

In looking at Abrams' IMDB credits he's mainly known for doing fluffier stuff so I'm not surprised he failed to write this movie with any deeper emotions than the typical light entertainment movie. We never really see how jerky of a person the lawyer (Harrison Ford) is except the one brilliant scene in the movie where he apologizes to his daughter for getting mad at her, for spilling her drink on his piano. In his apology for getting mad he tries to explain to his daughter his reasoning, but ends up blaming her again. The film needed more scenes of that caliber. It needed a bit more on the front end establishing how Ford's character was super jerky as it was he really didn't get to know him before his accident.

In the next scene he's shot in the head and his rehabilitation starts. I liked the actor who played his therapist, Bill Nunn but geez did he chew the scenery or what. I blame the director for not having Bill Nunn tone down his character. I will say his last scene in the movie with Ford was a good one.

What really bugged me is Ford's character is clearly brain damaged and struggling, he just learned to read a line in a children's preschool book...then like the next scene he's hired to go back to work in a prestigious law firm. What? That really pissed me off as it was so daff...Yes, some scenes later we learn that the senior partner of the law firm had hired Ford back out of respect for his father who had helped create the law firm, but that scene needed to come at the end of the back to work scene.

The thing is this is the type of movie I usually like so I'm more critical of the lazy writing and unfocused direction then I normally would be.

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Back when it came out, it was a hit. It's aged and cinema has changed so much since the 90s.

I can say I like films in the 2000s more and it may be because of the digitalization.

The films are more cleaner and clearer.

[Citizen Rules]

Back when it came out, it was a hit. It's aged and cinema has changed so much since the 90s.

The films are more cleaner and clearer.I'm not sure if I follow. You say Regarding Henry has aged? In what way, I didn't see that myself.

I can say I like films in the 2000s more and it may be because of the digitalization. I'm not sure what you mean by that? Specifically what do you mean by digitalization?

[MovieGal]

I feel Regarding Henry has aged. It's a good film but you can tell the celluloid is gritty .

My other comment is in the 2000s they went with a digital process when making films.

Celluloid vs Digital, there is a big difference.

Edit: when I rewatched Regarding Henry recently, it was not remastered. It seemed like an older, gritty copy.

[Citizen Rules]

I feel Regarding Henry has aged. It's a good film but you can tell the celluloid is gritty .

My other comment is in the 2000s they went with a digital process when making films.

Celluloid vs Digital, there is a big difference.

Edit: when I rewatched Regarding Henry recently, it was not remastered. It seemed like an older, gritty copy.Oh I see you mean the video quality, yeah that's probably true.

[Citizen Rules]

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River of Grass (1994)
Director: Kelly Reichardt


Kelly Reichardt's first film. The theme of her film is: a bored to tears housewife abandons her baby and husband and takes to the open road with an aimless drifter, their incompetence in crime yields some humorous moments...we then follow this odd couple's ineptitude as they go on the lam.

Reichardt's budding style is apparent with this introspective look at the loan individual, who's lost due to circumstances. Cozy ( Lisa Bowman) is the lost soul. The director's use of voice over narrative gives us a window into Cozy's mind and forms an intimacy that many bigger films lack. Cozy seems real as does the film's world of run down motels and dead end towns.

One can see the greatness in Reichardt with an eye for pulling the viewer into a world of 'nothing' people. The film is rough cut in the opening sequences, I image Reichardt didn't have the funds or means to film more back story for Cozy so went with photographs. It works but isn't as polished as her later movies would be. At 76 minutes this is an easy watch.
rating_3

90s movie #19

[Citizen Rules]

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Blast From the Past (1999)

'A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter.'

Whenever I see a movie for the second time and enjoy it even more than I had the first time and I really liked it the first time around, then I'm going to heap praise on it! Blast From the Past, ain't deep, ain't arthouse, ain't epic and I loved it. It was fun, it had lots of detail and world building, I had a blast watching it. Enough said.

rating_4



90s movie #20

[Harry Lime]

Kelly Reichardt's later, non-90s work is much better, I think. And yeah I agree Blast from the Past is a lot of fun. Not four star level for me but I liked it and actually have been tempted to watch it again after...geez 25 years! Ugh time...

[MovieFan1988]

Citizen Rules - Have you seen the movie, Goodfellas, if not here's another movie recommendation. Great mob movie and one of my favorite 90's movies. I think this movie will get the #1 spot on the new 90's countdown list like it did on the old one. if not, I can see it being at least at #2 or #3.

[Citizen Rules]

Kelly Reichardt's later, non-90s work is much better, I think. And yeah I agree Blast from the Past is a lot of fun. Not four star level for me but I liked it and actually have been tempted to watch it again after...geez 25 years! Ugh time...Yup I agree Kelly Reichardt later work is better, she improved that's for sure, but I can still see with River of Grass that she had talent and a unique style. One of my favorite directors working today.


@Citizen Rules (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=84637) - Have you seen the movie, Goodfellas, if not here's another movie recommendation. Great mob movie and one of my favorite 90's movies. I think this movie will get the #1 spot on the new 90's countdown list like it did on the old one. if not, I can see it being at least at #2 or #3.Yup I'm sure Goodfellas is going to be super high on the countdown. It's a good movie but not the kind that I usually like.

[Citizen Rules]

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The Joy Luck Club

(Wayne Wang 1993)

'Four Chinese women along with their mothers delve into their past and try to find answers. Slowly, this search helps them to understand the complex relationship they share with each other.'

I liked this but with the stories of eight different Chinese American women there's just not enough time to do justice to all of their stories. Glad I watched it, enjoyed it but I wish this had been done as an eight-twelve hour mini-series.

rating_3_5

90s movie #21

[Citizen Rules]

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The Postman (Kevin Costner 1997)


I liked it! I don't give a hoot what the majority thinks, never have and never well. Just like the postman in the movie, I follow my own path. This was my second time watching this and I not only enjoyed it but it easily held my attention over the 3 hour time span. I've seen plenty of short 90 minute movies that have me bored to tears and checking the clock. The Postman has more than enough going on with its world building and themes of hope. I always enjoy the vastly different visions of future worlds in post apocalyptic sci-fi and The Postman has it's own unique take on that.

The production values are high with numerous on location shooting done in the wilds of the west coast, that adds to the feeling of isolation with civilization gone leaving only a few survivors living in small communities. Now I think I'll get ready to go to the post office.

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90s movie #22

[Citizen Rules]

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Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)

Currently rated 5.9 at IMDB, and I enjoyed it! And that's rating it too low...this is a romantic-adventure-comedy, you can't hold it to the same standards as a drama. Sure this is silly and all the jokes don't land but the overall story of two different people stranded on a tropical island works! The film was shot on location on the beautiful island of Kaua'i. That is one big reason why I liked the film so much the other was lovely

Anne Heche. Anne really shines in this movie, she's cute, she's feisty, she's funny and she has a great natural short hair-do, she looked great. I was impressed with her enough to watch another of her 90s films. I'm rating this one high out of pure fun enjoyment.

rating_3_5
90s movie #23

[Allaby]

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Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)

Currently rated 5.9 at IMDB, and I enjoyed it! And that's rating it too low...this is a romantic-adventure-comedy, you can't hold it to the same standards as a drama. Sure this is silly and all the jokes don't land but the overall story of two different people stranded on a tropical island works! The film was shot on location on the beautiful island of Kaua'i. That is one big reason why I liked the film so much the other was lovely

Anne Heche. Anne really shines in this movie, she's cute, she's feisty, she's funny and she has a great natural short hair-do, she looked great. I was impressed with her enough to watch another of her 90s films. I'm rating this one high out of pure fun enjoyment.

rating_3_5
90s movie #23

I agree with your review. This was a fun one and is underrated. It's a 7/10 from me.

[Citizen Rules]

I agree with your review. This was a fun one and is underrated. It's a 7/10 from me.I'd never seen it before and had only seen Anne Heche in Return to Paradise (1998). Think I'll watch her 90s movie Volcano. Have you seen that?

[Allaby]

I'd never seen it before and had only seen Anne Heche in Return to Paradise (1998). Think I'll watch her 90s movie Volcano. Have you seen that?

Yes, I enjoyed Volcano.

[Citizen Rules]

Yes, I enjoyed Volcano.Good, I hope I like it too.

[Allaby]

Good, I hope I like it too.

If you end up enjoying Volcano, you should check out Dante's Peak.

[Citizen Rules]

If you end up enjoying Volcano, you should check out Dante's Peak.I could watch that, thanks!

[gbgoodies]

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Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)

Currently rated 5.9 at IMDB, and I enjoyed it! And that's rating it too low...this is a romantic-adventure-comedy, you can't hold it to the same standards as a drama. Sure this is silly and all the jokes don't land but the overall story of two different people stranded on a tropical island works! The film was shot on location on the beautiful island of Kaua'i. That is one big reason why I liked the film so much the other was lovely

Anne Heche. Anne really shines in this movie, she's cute, she's feisty, she's funny and she has a great natural short hair-do, she looked great. I was impressed with her enough to watch another of her 90s films. I'm rating this one high out of pure fun enjoyment.

rating_3_5
90s movie #23


I don't think I've seen Six Days, Seven Nights since I saw it in the theater, but I remember liking it, and not understanding why the reviews weren't good.
It's on my list of rewatches for this countdown to give it a chance to make my list.

[Citizen Rules]

I don't think I've seen Six Days, Seven Nights since I saw it in the theater, but I remember liking it, and not understanding why the reviews weren't good.
It's on my list of rewatches for this countdown to give it a chance to make my list.It's a really fun movie that isn't trying to be super serious. If you like Harrison Ford he's good in it and I thought Anne Heche paired well with him. I know this is silly but I hope it could make the countdown. It might make my ballot just because fun equal good to me.

[gbgoodies]

It's a really fun movie that isn't trying to be super serious. If you like Harrison Ford he's good in it and I thought Anne Heche paired well with him. I know this is silly but I hope it could make the countdown. It might make my ballot just because fun equal good to me.


I love Harrison Ford. I rewatched Patriot Games (1992) already, and it was just as good as I remembered.
I'm going to try to rewatch Clear and Present Danger (1994) for the countdown too.

I have no idea if any of these movies will make my list, but I'm sure that a few of his movies will make my list.
Presumed Innocent (1990), Regarding Henry (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Sabrina (1995), Air Force One (1997), and Random Hearts (1999) are all on my potential list right now, but that list has to be narrowed down quite a bit.

[Citizen Rules]

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The Hudsucker Proxy
(Coen Bros 1994)


Nobody does visuals like the Coen brothers and The Hudsucker Proxy. Come to think of it no one tells stories like the Coens do either. Loved this story that's based on a true incident, the movie is a blast, the true life incident just plain weirdly sad. But only the Coens would take such an event and turn it into an eye poppingly creative film.

Loved the casting here of Tim Robbins as the dim witted but nice guy who's duped into being president of Hudsucker Industries with the idea that he'll screw up and depress the stocks allowing the board of directors the chance to buy up cheap stocks....then they will fire him. Loved Jennifer Jason Leigh as a fast talking 'girl reporter' who does one heck of a Katherine Hepburn/Rosalind Russell delivery. This is making my ballot.

rating_4_5
90s movie #24

[Citizen Rules]

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Convicts (1991)

'Horton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.'

Ugh, this sounded good from the synopsis and with Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones I thought I could ignore the dismally low IMDB score of 5.7...I was wrong. The director Peter Masterson isn't known for directing hit movies and with the go nowhere, says and does nothing Convicts I'm not surprised.

rating_2_5
90s movies #25

[cricket]

I took a peek at the 1st page, haven't seen your HoF nom or a couple others, but I see zero films that I'd be interested in watching or watching again lol. We really have different tastes my friend.

[Citizen Rules]

I took a peek at the 1st page, haven't seen your HoF nom or a couple others, but I see zero films that I'd be interested in watching or watching again lol. We really have different tastes my friend.That's true:D

[Holden Pike]

The Hudsucker Proxy is definitely the Coen's most underrated/underappreciated flick. It is in the Top Ten of their filmography for me, and too often I see it listed near or even at the very bottom of folks' lists. It is a NYE watch tradition in my house, anyway. Die Hard on X-Mas Eve, Hudsucker on New Year's.

That being said, as much as I love it, Hudsucker won't make my ballot. Miller's Crossing is my all-time favorite Joel & Ethan movie, as well as one of my favorite movies, period. Barton Fink isn't far behind it. Hudsucker is in my Top 100 of the decade, but not the Top 25.

And I like Convicts, but the Duvall picture from that period I like even more is The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995). Produced by Clint Eastwood, directed by James Keach, co-starring Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Billy Bob Thornton, and Brian Dennehey.

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[Yoda]

The Hudsucker Proxy is definitely the Coen's most underrated/underappreciated flick. It is in the Top Ten of their filmography for me, and too often I see it listed near or even at the very bottom of folks' lists.
I've never understood the response to it. I feel like the fact that it was ostensibly more of an attempt to go "mainstream" (it was a big jump up in budget for them, I think?) put some weird expectations on it. But it's gorgeously shot and very, very funny. Coen comedies are very hit-and-miss for me but The Hudsucker Proxy is hit-hit-hit.

It's gonna be on my list.

[Yoda]

Loved Jennifer Jason Leigh as a fast talking 'girl reporter' who does one heck of a Katherine Hepburn/Rosalind Russell delivery.
Yeah, it's a delight. At one point I'd memorized (and could recite without stumbling over my words) both sides of her entire exchange in the newsroom with Bruce Campbell's "Smitty." Not sure if I still could but I imagine I'd manage most of it, the way the lyrics to a song still come to you once it gets started.

[Citizen Rules]

Regarding the Coen bros...I loved Barton Fink the one time I watched it, it's due for a rewatch and should make my ballot. I thought highly of Miller's Crossing but not a personal favorite. I've never seen Fargo so will be watching that in my quest to view 100 1990s films. And The Big Lebowski isn't getting anywhere near my ballot:cool:

[Holden Pike]

I've never understood the response to [The Hudsucker Proxy]. I feel like the fact that it was ostensibly more of an attempt to go "mainstream" (it was a big jump up in budget for them, I think?) put some weird expectations on it. But it's gorgeously shot and very, very funny. Coen comedies are very hit-and-miss for me but The Hudsucker Proxy is hit-hit-hit.
At the time I think the cost of the movie got tied up in the professional reviews, which is too bad. As for audiences, I think either they weren't familiar enough with the classic Screwballers to appreciate the homage or were so familiar with the genre they found it lacking in direct comparison to Preston Sturges. I dunno? I loved the damn thing from the first viewing, which had plenty of empty seats.

In the below Siskel & Ebert television episode, The Hudsucker Proxy was their third review, starting at about six and a half minutes in if you wanna fast forward. They both gave it thumbs down, though with some reservations. They liked the visuals a lot but somehow found it lacking in consistent comic energy. HERE (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hudsucker-proxy-1994) is the link to Ebert's two-star print review.

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[Citizen Rules]

Yeah, it's a delight. At one point I'd memorized (and could recite without stumbling over my words) both sides of her entire exchange in the newsroom with Bruce Campbell's "Smitty." Not sure if I still could but I imagine I'd manage most of it, the way the lyrics to a song still come to you once it gets started.That's impressive as Jennifer Jason Leigh delivers rapid fire dialogue like they did in old 30s-40s newsroom movies.

[Holden Pike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgX1clgR-7w
"That gag's got whiskers on it."

[Yoda]

"...here comes the gravy. The chump really likes me. A Muncie girl! Oh! And say, did I tell ya'?"
"He didn't offer you money, did he?"
"A sawbuck."
"Ten smackers! Let's grab a highball!"
"On Norville Barnes."

...

"Copy!"

(I did not watch the video just above and have not seen the film in many years.)

[FilmBuff]

I've never understood the response to it. I feel like the fact that it was ostensibly more of an attempt to go "mainstream" (it was a big jump up in budget for them, I think?) put some weird expectations on it. But it's gorgeously shot and very, very funny. Coen comedies are very hit-and-miss for me but The Hudsucker Proxy is hit-hit-hit.

It's gonna be on my list.

I'm a pretty big fan myself, though I don't know whether anyone thought it would help them go "mainstream". When it was released, WB didn't know what to do with it or didn't care. It never even went wide, maxing out at 126 screens (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2673378817/weekend/) - an incredibly low number for a studio release.
It made less than $3m upon original release - no doubt way less than it cost to make.

[Citizen Rules]

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Come See the Paradise
(Alan Parker 1990)


This is the only movie I've seen that's largely about the west coast Japanese American's internment in 'camps' during WWII. The movie doesn't shy away from how wrong it was and how life in these 'relocation camps' was for the Japanese Americans who mostly are were born in the U.S. and were citizens. Not only is it an important film it was well done too. It held my attention and I learned things I didn't know. I thought it was acted by all the actors and it's one movie I'd watch again.


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90s movie #26

[Gideon58]

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Convicts (1991)

'Horton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.'

Ugh, this sounded good from the synopsis and with Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones I thought I could ignore the dismally low IMDB score of 5.7...I was wrong. The director Peter Masterson isn't known for directing hit movies and with the go nowhere, says and does nothing Convicts I'm not surprised.

rating_2_5
90s movies #25

I’ve never heard of this movie

[gbgoodies]

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Come See the Paradise
(Alan Parker 1990)


This is the only movie I've seen that's largely about the west coast Japanese American's internment in 'camps' during WWII. The movie doesn't shy away from how wrong it was and how life in these 'relocation camps' was for the Japanese Americans who mostly are were born in the U.S. and were citizens. Not only is it an important film it was well done too. It held my attention and I learned things I didn't know. I thought it was acted by all the actors and it's one movie I'd watch again.


4+

90s movie #26


I haven't seen it in a long time, so I may be remembering it wrong, but I think I'll Remember April (1999) is about the west coast Japanese Americans during WWII, but it's not specifically about the "internment camps". It's not a well-known movie, but it stars Pat Morita, Pam Dawber, Haley Joel Osment, and Mark Harmon.

[Citizen Rules]

I haven't seen it in a long time, so I may be remembering it wrong, but I think I'll Remember April (1999) is about the west coast Japanese Americans during WWII, but it's not specifically about the "internment camps". It's not a well-known movie, but it stars Pat Morita, Pam Dawber, Haley Joel Osment, and Mark Harmon.I hadn't heard about that one, but I'll watch it, thanks!

[gbgoodies]

I hadn't heard about that one, but I'll watch it, thanks!

If I remember correctly, it was a pretty good movie, but don't set your expectations too high.
I'm looking forward to your review of it. If you give it a good review, I might rewatch it for the countdown.

[Citizen Rules]

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Canadian Bacon
(Michael Moore 1995)

'The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.'

Yeah, that Michael Moore who's best known for making political type documentaries (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11). Either you like his work and think he's clever...or not. This is the only thing from him I've seen and it's not a documentary, it's a comedy satire of a political situation. Think of it as a comedy version of Wag the Dog (1997).

rating_3_5+
#90s movie #27

[LeBoyWondeur]

Wow, lots of 90s films in this thread I had never heard of before.
I'm not saying that I want to watch everything, but even so, not every film is available on streaming or DVD (or an affordable DVD. I'm not going to pay $$$$$ on ebay just to find out if the film is any good).

[Citizen Rules]

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Cookie's Fortune
(Robert Altman 1999)

'Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.'


I've become a fan of Robert Altman's movies at least when he makes films like Cookie's Fortune. This is set up like some of other Altman's films as it's an ensemble cast of diverse personalities set in the small Mississippi town of Holly Springs. The movie is filmed on location in Holly Springs which effectively functions as another character in the movie. I liked the way Altman never rushes a scene but allows the moment to play out and linger long enough to feel like we're part of the story. I really enjoyed this.

rating_4

90s movie #28

[MovieGal]

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Cookie's Fortune
(Robert Altman 1999)

'Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.'


I've become a fan of Robert Altman's movies at least when he makes films like Cookie's Fortune. This is set up like some of other Altman's films as it's an ensemble cast of diverse personalities set in the small Mississippi town of Holly Springs. The movie is filmed on location in Holly Springs which effectively functions as another character in the movie. I liked the way Altman never rushes a scene but allows the moment to play out and linger long enough to feel like we're part of the story. I really enjoyed this.

4

90s movie #28


I actually know where Holly Springs Mississippi is. It's right on the other side of the Tennessee line.

I have customers in that town.

[Citizen Rules]

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Delirious
(Tom Mankiewicz 1991)

Delirious flopped when it came out, critics didn't like it and audiences staid away. But almost 35 years later and I say this movie deserves a second look. I thought this was funny and I loved the premise of a New York tv soap opera writer (John Candy) getting knocked in the head and waking up in his own vision of the soap he's been writing. Even better when he finds out he can write on his typewriter and change the story including making himself to be the hero in a power play for a secret weight reduction formula that the ultra rich and evil Hedison family wants to acquire at all cost! It's a comedy, it's a satire on the night time soaps that were popular at the time. It even has soap opera diva Emma Samms looking good too.


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rating_3_5
90s movie #29

[Citizen Rules]

I actually know where Holly Springs Mississippi is. It's right on the other side of the Tennessee line.

I have customers in that town.
You need to see that movie then.

[MovieGal]

You need to see that movie then.

I may.

I already turned in my ballot.

[Citizen Rules]

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Sphere
(Barry Levinson 1998)


That image probably makes the sci-fi movie Sphere look way cooler than it is. Based on a Michael Crichton novel, I expected more. I blame the director as the movie as delivered turned out to be derivative of other well known sci-fi films. Just take the sphere shape and horror elements from Event Horizon combine them with a dangerous intelligence that communicates passive aggressively through the humans computer, ala 2001 and then throw in some stuff from The Abyss and Deepstar Six...and you get the idea for Sphere. I wouldn't mind all that but when the director has the actors responding to the giant alien ship and other stuff like they were casually shopping at Wallmart, then the movie loses any excitement and all believability. It gets sillier too towards the end of the movie. Most interesting thing was the helicopter pilot who was played by Huey Lewis of 80s music fame.

rating_2_5

90s movie #30

[honeykid]

Think of it as a comedy version of Wag the Dog (1997).

I thought Wag The Dog was the comedy version of Wag The Dog?

[Citizen Rules]

I thought Wag The Dog was the comedy version of Wag The Dog?That would be Canadian Bacon:p

[Citizen Rules]

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Paradise (1991)
Dir. Mary Agnes Donoghue


I liked this much more than I thought I would. I thought this might be like a Hallmark movie, sweet and sappy, but nope it wasn't. Paradise is a serious look at what happens to a married couple when their only child dies. When a couple loses a child it often destroys their relationship as the pain of their loss causes them to retreat in ways very much like what happened in the movie. When we meet Ben (Don Johnson) he's a jerk, he's full of anger and keeps people at bay by being bitter and in that way he has an 'anger shield' that protects him from future hurt.

When I seen this was written and directed by a woman I knew it had a good chance of being an intelligently told story that explored the inner psyche of people suffering from loss. I thought Don Johnson did a good job at playing a bitter man and at the same time reaching out to Willard (Elijah Wood) as he would've to his own son and in that way helping to heal himself and resolve his inner conflict. Melanie Griffith seemingly was the 'nice lady' but as the film progresses we see that she's frightened to feel anything, especially for her husband who she drives away as she's full of guilt believing that she was responsible for her son's death. She gives a good performance especially in the tense bedroom scene when she breaks down and tells her husband she's afraid to feel anything and needs to protect herself by feeling numb to the world, that was a strong scene and it rang true. The entire story arch of the couple to me is what powers the movie even though much of the scenes are focused on the two small kids.

The kids themselves are not just there to be cute, they're dealing with abandonment and self delusion with finally accepting the truth that their fathers are deadbeats and won't be in their lives. Thora Birch as the little girl was one heck of an actress. Solid acting by everyone in the movie.

I loved the shooting location in rural South Carolina. That's the reason I decided to watch this as I love movies set in out of the way places as the setting can add alot of character....Sorry this is so long, Paradise is one of the few movies that makes me think alot and hence I wrote a lot.

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90s movie #31

[gbgoodies]

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Paradise (1991)
Dir. Mary Agnes Donoghue


I liked this much more than I thought I would. I thought this might be like a Hallmark movie, sweet and sappy, but nope it wasn't. Paradise is a serious look at what happens to a married couple when their only child dies. When a couple loses a child it often destroys their relationship as the pain of their loss causes them to retreat in ways very much like what happened in the movie. When we meet Ben (Don Johnson) he's a jerk, he's full of anger and keeps people at bay by being bitter and in that way he has an 'anger shield' that protects him from future hurt.

When I seen this was written and directed by a woman I knew it had a good chance of being an intelligently told story that explored the inner psyche of people suffering from loss. I thought Don Johnson did a good job at playing a bitter man and at the same time reaching out to Willard (Elijah Wood) as he would've to his own son and in that way helping to heal himself and resolve his inner conflict. Melanie Griffith seemingly was the 'nice lady' but as the film progresses we see that she's frightened to feel anything, especially for her husband who she drives away as she's full of guilt believing that she was responsible for her son's death. She gives a good performance especially in the tense bedroom scene when she breaks down and tells her husband she's afraid to feel anything and needs to protect herself by feeling numb to the world, that was a strong scene and it rang true. The entire story arch of the couple to me is what powers the movie even though much of the scenes are focused on the two small kids.

The kids themselves are not just there to be cute, they're dealing with abandonment and self delusion with finally accepting the truth that their fathers are deadbeats and won't be in their lives. Thora Birch as the little girl was one heck of an actress. Solid acting by everyone in the movie.

I loved the shooting location in rural South Carolina. That's the reason I decided to watch this as I love movies set in out of the way places as the setting can add a lot of character....Sorry this is so long, Paradise is one of the few movies that makes me think a lot and hence I wrote a lot.

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90s movie #31



Great review of Paradise. It's one of my favorite movies.

[Citizen Rules]

Great review of Paradise. It's one of my favorite movies.Thanks for choosing it for the 90s Group Watch, otherwise I'd never seen it. I will certainly keep it in mind for my ballot.

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A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

Good stupid fun.
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90s movie #32

[Holden Pike]

I agree with one of the words in that three-word review.

[Citizen Rules]

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lol @ totally 80s font.. :cool:Yeah that image was pretty 80s, what do you think of the new image I have on the 1st post now? Is it more 90s looking?

[John-Connor]

Yeah that image was pretty 80s, what do you think of the new image I have on the 1st post now? Is it more 90s looking?
Looks fine CR. :D👍

[honeykid]

I agree with one of the words in that three-word review.

I'd probably agree, but I tried once and couldn't get into it, so I can't say for sure. That said, I am confident I know which it is and that I'd agree. :D

[Citizen Rules]

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A River Runs Through It
(Robert Redford 1992)


Nice to look it but unfocused with ill defined characters and way too much voice over narration from Robert Redford. The on location Montana scenery and the fly fishing on breath taking forest rivers was the highlight. Brad Pitt breathed life into his character but the lead Craig Sheffer wasn't allowed to develop his character and so was more a place holder for the beautiful scenery.

rating_3_5
90s movie #33

[Citizen Rules]

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A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Dir. Alfonso Arau


Nice to look at period piece movie about a returning WWII vet who returns home to his wife a woman who he hardly knew and discovers she's not the woman he thought she was. Keanu Reeves is the vet. Once he leaves his wife he meets a pregnant Mexican American woman who's wealthy family owns a huge vineyard in Napa Valley California. The Spanish-Italian actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón is the unmarried pregnant woman returning home to a strict family, fearing the worse from her very stern father. She bumps into the vet on a bus and after getting to know each other he offers to accompany the young woman to her family's vineyard estate, pretending to be her husband. But only for one day at which time he will leave, making it appear that the husband has left the young woman.

The film has a great setting and some solid acting from Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Giancarlo Giannini who plays her father...and from veteran actor Anthony Quinn who plays the kindly grandfather. Keanu Reeves well is more or less himself. The story can be cliched at times and a bit overly wrought but still enjoyable as long as one doesn't look for perfection here.

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90s movie #34

[Citizen Rules]

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Dir. Emir Kusturica


So many great images in this indie surrealist dark comedy to choose just one. Stand out performances by the entire cast (Johnny Deep, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis and Lili Taylor). Fascinating direction & script from Serbian direction Emir Kusturica. I'm not sure what I just watched but I'm impressed!

rating_4

90s movie #35

[SpelingError]

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Dir. Emir Kusturica


So many great images in this indie surrealist dark comedy to choose just one. Stand out performances by the entire cast (Johnny Deep, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis and Lili Taylor). Fascinating direction & script from Serbian direction Emir Kusturica. I'm not sure what I just watched but I'm impressed!

rating_4

90s movie #35

I haven't gotten to that one yet, but I'd also recommend Time of the Gypsies (it's from the 80's though) and Underground. With the latter film, I was just as mind blown as I was baffled by what I had watched. It will likely make my ballot.

[Citizen Rules]

I haven't gotten to that one yet, but I'd also recommend Time of the Gypsies (it's from the 80's though) and Underground. With the latter film, I was just as mind blown as I was baffled by what I had watched. It will likely make my ballot.I was just looking at the director's other films and Underground caught my eye. Time of the Gypsies is highly rated too, that title sounds familiar, I wonder if it was ever a nom in an HoF...too lazy to go and look:p

[Citizen Rules]

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As Good As It Gets (1997)
Dir. by James L. Brooks.


I'll give the dog rating_5. Helen Hunt was pretty good here and as my friend Gideon would point out she won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a single mother waitress being pursued by a bat-ass-crazy and way nasty Jack Nicholson. I liked Greg Kinear as a nice guy, gay artist who has to endure gay bashing from his next door apartment neighbor Jack Nicholson. The insults get ugly and I don't believe I've ever said this before but I'll say it now, this film hasn't aged well. It's suppose to be a romantic comedy but egads, could there ever be a worse romantic match between Helen Hunt and psycho abuser Jack Nicholson. Why this is rated 7.7 on IMDB is beyond me. I did like the ballsiness of the story at first, but Nicholoson's over the top character wore me out. Then the movie creeped me out when Helen Hunt falls for him.

rating_2_5
90s movie #36

[mrblond]

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Dir. Emir Kusturica


So many great images in this indie surrealist dark comedy to choose just one. Stand out performances by the entire cast (Johnny Deep, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis and Lili Taylor). Fascinating direction & script from Serbian direction Emir Kusturica. I'm not sure what I just watched but I'm impressed!

rating_4

90s movie #35
👍
I'm glad you saw this movie during the preliminary period.

[Citizen Rules]

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I'm glad you saw this movie during the preliminary period.It might make my ballot.

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Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Dir. Tim Robbins

'A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.'


Interesting but hard to follow as there are lots of characters based on real people. Fast paced it helps to pay close attention and to read about the fascinating subject matter before watching. Big cast with lots of stars to many to name!

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90s movie #37

[cricket]

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As Good As It Gets (1997)
Dir. by James L. Brooks.


I'll give the dog rating_5. Helen Hunt was pretty good here and as my friend Gideon would point out she won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a single mother waitress being pursued by a bat-ass-crazy and way nasty Jack Nicholson. I liked Greg Kinear as a nice guy, gay artist who has to endure gay bashing from his next door apartment neighbor Jack Nicholson. The insults get ugly and I don't believe I've ever said this before but I'll say it now, this film hasn't aged well. It's suppose to be a romantic comedy but egads, could there ever be a worse romantic match between Helen Hunt and psycho abuser Jack Nicholson. Why this is rated 7.7 on IMDB is beyond me. I did like the ballsiness of the story at first, but Nicholoson's over the top character wore me out. Then the movie creeped me out when Helen Hunt falls for him.

rating_2_5
90s movie #36

Easily my favorite movie of the thread, although I haven't seen it in quite a while. I considered picking it for you in the past in the Personal Rec HoF, good that I didn't.

[Citizen Rules]

Easily my favorite movie of the thread, although I haven't seen it in quite a while. I considered picking it for you in the past in the Personal Rec HoF, good that I didn't.Stay tuned, I'm still shooting for 100.

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Waterworld (1995)

Dir. Kevin Reynolds


I don't care what people say this is one enjoyable and spirited movie! First off the movie looks great! Really big in scope. It's a big budget, spectacular film that was filmed out on the great blue Pacific ocean. No fakey miniatures and water tanks here, the sets are huge and look real, very real. Kevin Costner was a powerhouse in the 1990s and he's perfectly cast here as the laconic 'mariner' who sails the open seas of waterworld in his very cool tri-haul catamaran. Dennis Hopper is a blast as a colorful one eyed leader of the 'smokers' who's home base in an old oil freighter. This one is making my ballot and going towards the top of it too.

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90s movie #38

[Harry Lime]

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what all the fuss was about. I saw that movie six times. It rules!

[John W Constantine]

I'm curious as to what the movie industry would have become if Waterworld had Titanic level success. What type of movie world would we live in today?

[seanc]

Count me among the Waterworld fans but at the top of my list? No. Just too much 90’s goodness.

Is there a moment in a movie more funny and disturbing at the same time then when Costner picks up Tina Majorino and tosses her into the ocean because she’s annoying him?

[Torgo]

I'm curious as to what the movie industry would have become if Waterworld had Titanic level success. What type of movie world would we live in today?https://i.postimg.cc/BbSqRg67/images.jpg

"It'd be a lot wetter, that's for sure..."

[John W Constantine]

No doubt lol

[Citizen Rules]

I'm really wanting to see the extended version of Waterworld... 'Waterworld Ulysses Cut', which adds 40 minutes. Anybody see that? Better yet were can I find it besides buying it.

[Citizen Rules]

Count me among the Waterworld fans but at the top of my list? No. Just too much 90’s goodness.

Is there a moment in a movie more funny and disturbing at the same time then when Costner picks up Tina Majorino and tosses her into the ocean because she’s annoying him?Waterworld needs the votes! Let's face everybody is voting for the biggies. Waterworld can use all of your votes!

[seanc]

Waterworld needs the votes! Let's face everybody is voting for the biggies. Waterworld can use all of your votes!

If you can prove to me everyone is voting for The Mirror and Maborosi I will join you. ;)

[Citizen Rules]

If you can prove to me everyone is voting for The Mirror and Maborosi I will join you. ;)The Mirror and Maborosi sounds pretty good. You should pop into the 90s Group Watch, watch a film or two that appeals to you and if you're chosen to select the next movie, that would be a good one and I'd watch it, maybe it would even make my ballot.

[Miss Vicky]

I enjoy Waterworld but haven't seen it in quite awhile. I'm thinking I might need to do a Kevin Costner movie marathon like I used to do when I was a kid.

[MovieGal]

Waterworld needs the votes! Let's face everybody is voting for the biggies. Waterworld can use all of your votes!

I'm not voting for the biggies. I vote for what I enjoy. You know me better than that.

I know at least 4 of mine are pretty close to unknowns.

[Citizen Rules]

I'm not voting for the biggies. I vote for what I enjoy. You know me better than that.

I know at least 4 of mine are pretty close to unknowns.I actually haven't figured out my list yet, but probably most of the biggies aren't my favorites.

[Citizen Rules]

I enjoy Waterworld but haven't seen it in quite awhile. I'm thinking I might need to do a Kevin Costner movie marathon like I used to do when I was a kid.Costner is one of my favorite actors. I'll probably try to watch most of his 1990s films before I send in my ballot. I'm sure at least several of them will be making it.

[Miss Vicky]

Costner is one of my favorite actors. I'll probably try to watch most of his 1990s films before I send in my ballot. I'm sure at least several of them will be making it.

Costner was my favorite actor when I was a kid. He'll have at least three movies on my ballot.

[Citizen Rules]

Costner was my favorite actor when I was a kid. He'll have at least three movies on my ballot.Costner's 90s feature movies, I've only seen the ones that I bolded...I really liked them too. I did see JFK but not watching that again. But do you have any of these that I haven't bolded that you might be voting for? If so I'll try and watch them.

For Love of the Game (1999)
Message in a Bottle (1999)
The Postman (1997)
Tin Cup (1996)
Waterworld (1995)
The War (1994)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
A Perfect World (1993)
The Bodyguard (1992)
JFK (1991)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Revenge (1990)

[Holden Pike]

You've never seen A Perfeft World?!? Yes, do see that. One of Clint's best films and, for my money, Costner's best performance.

[cricket]

I like Revenge a fair amount but it's probably the last one I'd recommend to you.

[seanc]

I think you could like The War as well, buy definitely second Perfect World as the first choice.

[Citizen Rules]

You've never seen A Perfeft World?!? Yes, do see that. One of Clint's best films and, for my money, Costner's best performance.I had my eye on A Perfect World but with 200+ 1990s movies to watch/rewatch I can't watch them all before I submit my ballot...but on your recommendation I'll bump that one up so I can watch it, thanks.

I like Revenge a fair amount but it's probably the last one I'd recommend to you. And on your recommendation I'll bump that one off my watch list:p I'm sure you're right I'd probably not like it.

[Citizen Rules]

I think you could like The War as well, buy definitely second Perfect World as the first choice.The War it is, I'll add that to my must watch before submitting my ballot list. I could use an entire year just to explore 90s films. But what do we have left in the watch period? A couple months or less? I better get watching!

[Jeff]

The 90s was a special time, i started realizing the basic desire to watch movies around the beginning of the decade, if you haven't yet, see Frankenhooker, it's a blast!!

[Citizen Rules]

The 90s was a special time, i started realizing the basic desire to watch movies around the beginning of the decade, if you haven't yet, see Frankenhooker, it's a blast!!Looks fun, but I don't think my wife will go for watching that one:eek: