The MoFos Top 100 of the 90s Countdown - Redux

[Captain Quint]

It's Saturday somewhere, so let's get this baby diapered and ready for bed... no, wait that doesn't make sense... let's wake this baby up and get the redux started! That's better...

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Poster courtesy of Holden Pike

Here it is... 80 Balloteers gave votes to 566 features, 100 of which will be spotlighted on this thread over the next month and a half.

* A few key points: Do NOT reveal the contents of your full lists until we come to the end (or near end, as I hear some of you do it) - allow the countdown to unfold naturally, allow the element of surprise.

* I ask that you leave past complaints behind - That stuff was for prelim, and we can't do anything about it now, so let's look forward and enjoy the 'what is' rather than continue to grumble about 'what isn't'

Before we begin the countdown, let's set the table by looking at what was going on in cinema in the 90s.

In the States, a group of American filmmakers with a distinct, idiosyncratic voice burst on the scene -- among them, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne, writer Charlie Kaufman, and Wes Anderson.

The Danish film movement Dogma 95 is born

The Berlin School film movement in Germany emerges late in the decade, led by Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, and Thomas Arslan.

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And I was impressed with what was happening in Iran with directors like Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Dariush Mehrjui (The Pear Tree), Majid Majidi and the Makhmalbaf Film House, led by father Mohsen (pictured above) and daughter Samira (The Apple) - (mother Marziyeh will join them in 2000 with her stunning directorial debut The Day I Became a Woman)

More?

Pierce Brosnan becomes Eon's fifth James Bond. Sadly, Q, Desmond Llewelyn would die in a car accident shortly after filming The World Is Not Enough in 1999.

And Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is released in 1995 - it will go on to be considered the longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema, it's been shown daily to this posting.

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In the 90s Parker Posey was crowned "Queen of the Indies", Jim Carrey fever broke out, Pretty Woman made Julia Roberts a worldwide star, and June Squibb made her big screen debut at the age of 61 in "Alice".

A handful of other acting film debuts - Leonardo DiCaprio (Critters 3), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shout), Reese Witherspoon (The Man in the Moon), Cate Blanchett (Paradise Road), Natalie Portman (Léon: The Professional), Kate Winslet (Heavenly Creatures), Peter Dinklage (Living in Oblivion), Mads Mikkelsen (Pusher), Viola Davis (Substance of Fire), Amy Adams (Drop Dead Gorgeous), Hugh Jackman (Paperback Hero)

And Gene Hackman (RIP) presented the award for Best Supporting Actress to 11-year-old Anna Paquin, in her debut role in The Piano

https://youtu.be/xElXtoO_WmA?si=fIc0YggChtEYzr1i

Future stars who were born in the 90s Include... Dev Patel, Margot Robbie, Daisy Ridley, Mia Goth, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Paul Mescal, Anya Taylor-Joy, Margaret Qualley, Hailee Steinfeld - and 2025 Oscar winner Mikey Madison enters the world in March of 1999.

A few who passed on... Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo, David Lean, Frank Capra, Satyajit Ray, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Burt Lancaster, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Marcello Mastroianni, Robert Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart, Akira Kurosawa - and Brandon Lee is accidentally killed on the set of the Crow.

As to what were the biggest and brightest releases on the decade? That's what we're here to share and discuss.

But first, our 1 pointers and a list of contributors.

[Captain Quint]

The List
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100. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2549955#post2549955)
99. Sonatine (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2549956#post2549956)
98. The Celebration (1998) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2550242#post2550242)
97. Gummo (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2550243#post2550243)
96. Fallen Angels (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2550530#post2550530)
95. Office Space (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2550531#post2550531)
94. True Romance (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2550968#post2550968)
93. Porco Rosso (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2550969#post2550969)
92. Interview with the Vampire (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2551292#post2551292)
91. Sleepless in Seattle (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2551293#post2551293)
90. Three Colors: Red (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2551536#post2551536)
89. The Crow (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2551537#post2551537)
88. My Cousin Vinny (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2551835#post2551835)
87. Total Recall (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2551836#post2551836)
86. Gattaca (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2552164#post2552164)
85. Dead Man (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2552165#post2552165)
84. A Few Good Men (1992) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2552446#post2552446)
83. Dumb and Dumber (1994) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2552447#post2552447)
82. Strange Days (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2552779#post2552779)
81. Before Sunrise (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2552780#post2552780)
80. Lost Highway (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553132#post2553132)
79. Point Break (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553133#post2553133)
78. The Blair Witch Project (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553482#post2553482)
77. Beauty and the Beast (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553484#post2553484)
76. A Moment of Innocence (1996) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553717#post2553717)
75. The Remains of the Day (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553718#post2553718)
74. Election (1999) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553938#post2553938)
73. Close-Up (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2553939#post2553939)
72. The Fugitive (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2554167#post2554167)
71. The Double Life of Véronique (1991) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2554168#post2554168)
70. Home Alone (1990) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2554498#post2554498)
69. Good Will Hunting (1997) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2554500#post2554500)
68. Apollo 13 (1995) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2554736#post2554736)
67. Three Colors: Blue (1993) (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2554737#post2554737)

and so on and so forth - posted as they are revealed.

[Captain Quint]

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1. Tugg - who officially sent in the first list
2. Holden Pike
3. exiler96
4. MovieFan1988
5. Nope1172
6. MovieGal
7. LeBoyWondeur
8. Burning
9. TheUsualSuspect
10. ScarletLion
11. SpelingError
12. The Rodent
13. iluv2viddyfilms
14. Torgo
15. Allaby
16. Hey Fredrick
17. Wigram
18. mrblonde
19. Deschain
20. Thief
21. Little Ash
22. seanc
23. TheManBehindTheCurtain
24. Ash TheStrangeOne
25. Thursday Next
26. WrinkledMind
27. Harry Lime
28. Death Proof
29. CharlesAoup
30. ScannerDarkly
31. beelzebubble
32. ChunkyMonkey
33. xSookieStackhouse
34. PHOENIX74
35. mojofilter
36. Rusty G
37. Fabulous
38. Diehl40
39. nyctc7
40. KeyserCorleone
41. John-Connor
42. Robert the List
43. Laverc
44. Steve Freeling
45. Frightened Inmate No. 2
46. wositelec
47. MovieBuffering
48. pahaK
49. scemo
50. dadgumblah
51. John W Constantine
52. MovieMeditation
53. rauldc14
54. LAMb EELYAK
55. urkillinmesmalls
56. Cobpyth
57. I_Wear_Pants
58. stillmellow
59. Miss Vicky
60. ueno_station54
61. Siddon
62. kgaard
63. Raven73
64. cricket
65. CosmicRunaway
66. schanier
67. Citizen Rules
68. Takoma11
69. Omnizoa
70. honeykid
71. ApexPredator
72. sawduck
73. Taz
74. gbgoodies
75. Yoda
76. Wyldesyde19
77. mattiasflgrtll6
78. Captain Quint
79. Sedai
80. Captain Spaulding - who contributed the last

[Deschain]

It begins!

(Deschain being 19 on the list of balloteers. Ka is a wheel)

[Captain Quint]

One is the loneliest number... except when paired with 32

The 1-Pointers

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Pickpocket
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Cemetery Man
The Polar Bear King
Baraka
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Ox
The Long Day Closes
Mother and Son
The Basketball Diaries
Hide and Seek
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Beautiful Dreamers
Fear
Music of the Heart
A Midwinter's Tale
Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
DragonHeart
Dogfight
Stay Tuned
The War Zone
The Legend of Drunken Master
The World Is Not Enough
The Comfort of Strangers
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Untamed Heart
Life
Stalingrad
Hurricane Streets
Kiler-ów 2-óch
Deep Crimson

[Miss Vicky]

I’m a little surprised The Basketball Diaries got only one point. I haven’t watched it in a long time but I remember it being good. Of the rest, I’ve seen Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Hide and Seek (that’s got to be Allaby’s), The War Zone (gotta be cricket), and my own 1 pointer. I’ll wait to say which is mine in case people want to guess.

[Captain Quint]

Some interesting pictures there.

The Ox was directed by cinematographer Sven Nyquist and features some top notch acting, especially from Stellan Skarsgård. https://letterboxd.com/film/the-ox/

Pickpocket was Jia Zhangke's feature debut - it was recently restored and currently showing at the Criterion Channel. https://letterboxd.com/film/pickpocket-1997/

The War Zone, directed by actor Tim Roth, good picture, well-acted, but man, that was some difficult viewing, the subject matter is painful. https://letterboxd.com/film/the-war-zone/

[Robert the List]

Brilliant OP.

[WrinkledMind]

Top opening mate.
Also, amused at the mention of DDLJ. I should have made everyone watch it in the group watch. It's a chill romantic flick.


Lastly my one pointer is missing. Which means someone else shares my wonderful taste in movie.

Of the one pointers that made it, I have to highlight The War Zone & give a shout out to cricket who chose it for the group watch. Brilliant but horrifying movie.

[Captain Quint]

Thanks', you two, for that ray of sunshine, I appreciate the kind comments, makes it feel like it was worth the effort (And no, I'm not fishing, lol, just thanks, and thanks for the likes too.)

And I'm glad the DDLJ mention amused... yeah, we should have had a watch party for it - since we can't all make it to Inda for a showing, that would have been the next best thing.

Oh, and a round of applause for Holden's poster. Pretty cool of him to do that.

[MovieFan1988]

Have seen so far: 1 - Fear - It's one of my favorite thriller movies and imo, both Witherspoon and Wahlberg did well with their roles in the movie.


Have not seen so far: 0

My Ballot List So Far:
#25 - Fear

[ApexPredator]

Have seen so far: 1 - Fear - It's one of my favorite thriller movies and imo, both Zellweger and Wahlberg did well with their roles in the movie.


You mean Reese Witherspoon, right?

[Harry Lime]

Wow fast turnaround. Thanks again for hosting, Captain!

[Harry Lime]

Also if anyone wants a quick recap of the first 90s countdown here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCNnruQE0fA

Credit: weeman (https://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=78785)

[John W Constantine]

One of those deserved 1000 points. I'll let you figure it out.

[MovieGal]

I knew my #25 is a 1 pointer. I think only Allaby and I have seen it. I shared it with him.

[Harry Lime]

And yeah great first post, Captain, and poster, Holden. Also happy to see that Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey made the list!

[Captain Quint]

Also if anyone wants a quick recap of the first 90s countdown here you go:

That was freakin' hilarious, I was in stitches :laugh:

One of those deserved 1000 points. I'll let you figure it out.

I'm ashamed of myself for not putting it on my list (not being a smart-a--, I seriously do like the film, buuut, I just had others ahead of it)

[MovieGal]

4 people know which is mine and i only know 1 who belongs to someone else.

[MovieMeditation]

The Legend of Drunken Master was my one-pointer…

Jackie Chan is a huge part of my childhood and I remember being impressed and entertained very early on by his unique combination of fighting skills, agility and comedy.

The 90s was sort of the huge turn for his career where he gained international stardom with of course especially Rush Hour.

And while those films especially introduced me and made me a fan, it was my constant fascination that also drew me back through his filmography all the way back to his humble beginnings as well.

And while there are many great ones and many iconic ones I feel like The Legend of Drunken Master / Drunken Master II might be close to absolute peak for Jackie.

There might be greater films of his in different aspects, but when it comes to how the fighting choreography and especially his speed, I feel like he has never been faster or more agile than he was here.

This felt like one of the last pure and raw displays of his talents before it slowly got mixed in with bigger budgets and stardom. And the whole drunken fighting stuff just adds an extra element of creative spice that is quite fun.

[SpelingError]

Baraka
The Long Day Closes
Mother and Son
DragonHeart
The Legend of Drunken Master

Seen the following. None of them made my ballot, but they're all very good.

[SpelingError]

Also, enjoy hosting, CQ!

[Captain Quint]

The Legend of Drunken Master was my one-pointer…

That's my favorite Jackie Chan movie and if we ever do a Martial Arts countdown, that would be in my top 10, easy.

[SpelingError]

I predict that 14/25 films on my ballot will make the countdown.

[Torgo]

The Long Day Closes is mine. It's a semi-autobiographical coming of age movie by Terence Davies. There's not much plot, but it doesn't really need one for how well it lets you walk in the shoes of an imaginative young man in post-WWII England. I'd describe it as a visual tone poem, especially since the soundtrack is amazing.

[MovieMeditation]

That's my favorite Jackie Chan movie and if we ever do a Martial Arts countdown, that would be in my top 10, easy.
Glad to hear more love for it!

Of course I know that in Jackie and martial arts circles it is very respected and loved. But yeah, I honestly expected that it might not be on the one-pointer list. Glad I put it there though so it got some shine anyways.

[Allaby]

I’m a little surprised The Basketball Diaries got only one point. I haven’t watched it in a long time but I remember it being good. Of the rest, I’ve seen Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Hide and Seek (that’s got to be Allaby’s), The War Zone (gotta be cricket), and my own 1 pointer. I’ll wait to say which is mine in case people want to guess.

I would guess Untamed Heart is your one pointer.

[MovieGal]

I predict that 14/25 films on my ballot will make the countdown.

I bet my #1 doesn’t make it. I just have a feeling.

[Allaby]

Hide and Seek (1996) was my one pointer. For me, it is an underrated hidden gem and a beautiful, honest, and funny look at lesbian adolescence. I like how it weaves together interviews and documentary elements with a narrative story.

[SpelingError]

I bet my #1 doesn’t make it. I just have a feeling.

I know a few people here are fans of my #1, so it may still make the countdown somewhere.

[SpelingError]

Hide and Seek (1996) was my one pointer. For me, it is an underrated hidden gem and a beautiful, honest, and funny look at lesbian adolescence. I like how it weaves together interviews and documentary elements with a narrative story.

EDIT: I've also seen that one, I forgot about it.

[Miss Vicky]

I would guess Untamed Heart is your one pointer.

It is indeed. Objectively not a great movie, but I love it anyway.

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Untamed Heart
(Tony Bill, 1993)

I was OBSESSED with this movie when I was about 13 years old. My family had recorded it off of cable and I watched this every day after school for weeks. At the time, I thought that this tale of a shy loner who wins the love of his crush after saving her from a vicious attack was the most romantic thing ever and that Christian Slater was just dreamy. Granted, Slater does a great job of infusing his portrayal of Adam with a child-like innocence and curiosity that keeps him endearing - and he looks damn good doing it - but my nostalgia for this movie is doing a lot of heavy lifting in keeping me from hating it because holy shit is that man a walking red flag. I read a review of this on Letterboxd that simply said "If Christian Slater were ugly this would've been a horror movie" and that reviewer is not wrong, because the reality is that this movie is about a stalker who gets his victim to fall in love with him by saving her from some even worse men - and only manages to do that because he was stalking her. And the feminist in me wants to hate this movie for that, but that 13 year old girl in me still thinks Christian Slater's Adam is dreamy and romantic and I'd be lying if I said I don't still love it.

4.0

[MovieGal]

I know a few people here are fans of my #1, so it may still make the countdown somewhere.

My #1 and #2 are great films based off actual events. I just have a feeling ppl forgot about them.

[Robert the List]

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Good shout. Glad that got a point.

And
The Long Day Closes

surprised that only got 1 vote. It was very close to making my list. Lovely film.


Any news on how many points are needed to make the 100?

[Allaby]

Out of the one pointers, I have seen:

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Baraka
The Long Day Closes
Hide and Seek
Fear
Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
The War Zone
The World Is Not Enough

Hide and Seek was my one pointer. I considered Baraka, but didn't have enough room for it.

[MovieGal]

Allaby, i knew i sent you the link, just wasnt sure if you watched it.

[Allaby]

Allaby, i knew i sent you the link, just wasnt sure if you watched it.

No, I didn't get around to watching it yet.

[Allaby]

I predict 20 of the films on my ballot will make the countdown.

[rauldc14]

Whoever voted for Life: seriously mad props!

[John W Constantine]

Nobody's probably heard of my #1

[seanc]

Most people have probably only seen my #1 like 10 times

[mattiasflgrtll6]

There's one movie I could've made a one-pointer, but I always want my top 25 to be 100% honest. If I happen to pick a one-pointer, cool, but if I don't it doesn't matter. You'll probably understand which one had no chance of making it high once I reveal my full list.

[Yoda]

Nobody's probably heard of my #1
I can see John's ballot and...I will not say whether this is true or a huge troll.

[Yoda]

It is indeed. Objectively not a great movie, but I love it anyway.
I just wanna say these are the kinds of opinions I always love. Clear-eyed love that accounts for flaws (or even kind of ends up liking them) rather than the defensive kind that needs to push back on any criticism.

[Deschain]

Bogus Journey is a wild movie. Fear is pulpy fun. And I’m happy to see a Bond movie get mentioned.

Can someone give me a crash course on the Drunken Master movies? I like Jackie Chan but have only seen the Police Stories and Rumble in the Bronx. Looking up Drunken Master on IMDB and the information is baffling. There’s a bunch of them from the ‘70s, a couple coming out the same year even. But then 2 and 3 are both from ‘94, and none of them seem to be titled Legend of the Drunken Master. What’s up with these things and where do I start?

[KeyserCorleone]

Every time I think of The World is Not Enough, I think of the Garbage video for it. As well, I'd have expected Dragonheart to make at least 3 points.

[ueno_station54]

i thought there was a couple things from my ballot that had a decent chance of making it but looking at the previous countdown it's likely i'm gonna go 0/25 lol.

[MovieGal]

I hope at least 5 of mine make it but doubtful.

[Citizen Rules]

Who can guess which of those 1 pointers was mine??? It's not hard to do if you know anything at all about me and my movie taste. S take your best guess...

The One Pointers:
Pickpocket
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Cemetery Man
The Polar Bear King
Baraka
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Ox
The Long Day Closes
Mother and Son
The Basketball Diaries
Hide and Seek
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Beautiful Dreamers
Fear
Music of the Heart
A Midwinter's Tale
Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
DragonHeart
Dogfight
Stay Tuned
The War Zone
The Legend of Drunken Master
The World Is Not Enough
The Comfort of Strangers
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Untamed Heart
Life
Stalingrad
Hurricane Streets
Kiler-ów 2-óch
Deep Crimson

[mattiasflgrtll6]

Just noticed Life is among the one-pointers. Props to the person who picked it! Always found it one of Eddie Murphy's best and most underrated movies. Both incredibly funny and surprisingly touching.

[Allaby]

Who can guess which of those 1 pointers was mine??? It's not hard to do if you know anything at all about me and my movie taste. S take your best guess...

The One Pointers:
Pickpocket
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Cemetery Man
The Polar Bear King
Baraka
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Ox
The Long Day Closes
Mother and Son
The Basketball Diaries
Hide and Seek
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Beautiful Dreamers
Fear
Music of the Heart
A Midwinter's Tale
Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
DragonHeart
Dogfight
Stay Tuned
The War Zone
The Legend of Drunken Master
The World Is Not Enough
The Comfort of Strangers
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Untamed Heart
Life
Stalingrad
Hurricane Streets
Kiler-ów 2-óch
Deep Crimson

Everyone Says I Love You?

[MovieGal]

Citizen Rules, do you know which one was my one pointer?

Just curious

[Wooley]

I am mostly staying out of this but I will throw in that if I had submitted a list Baraka would have at least 11 points.

[Citizen Rules]

Everyone Says I Love You?Nope, not mine, but I did see it and enjoyed it quite a bit.

[The Rodent]

The List
With a graph showing, without details, the contents of that list - the total hours, countries, and directors.
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100.
99.
98.

and so on and so forth - posted as they are revealed.

Be interesting to see a similar graph that takes into account all the movies that were voted for ;)

[Citizen Rules]

@Citizen Rules (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=84637), do you know which one was my one pointer?

Just curiousI don't know it but I just now looked up everyone of those 1 pointers and my best guess is yours was
The Polar Bear King

[Citizen Rules]

Huge props to whoever selected Stalingrad, that's one helluva a WWII movie and it's told from the invading Germany armies viewpoint on the Eastern Front, Soviet Union. I wish I had room for that movie myself on my ballot.

[MovieGal]

I don't know it but I just now looked up everyone of those 1 pointers and my best guess is yours was
The Polar Bear King

The themes of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" also appear in the 1991 film "The Polar Bear King," also known as "Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon," which is almost an exact parallel to the fairy tale.

My two favorite fairytales are The Beauty and The Beast and East of the Sun, West of the Moon, which is Norwegian, so yeah, it fits me perfectly.

Every film on my list fits me perfectly in cinematic taste.

[Citizen Rules]

The themes of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" also appear in the 1991 film "The Polar Bear King," also known as "Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon," which is almost an exact parallel to the fairy tale.

My two favorite fairytales are The Beauty and The Beast and East of the Sun, West of the Moon, which is Norwegian, so yeah, it fits me perfectly.

Every film on my list fits me perfectly in cinematic taste.I like trying to guess what film would be a good fit for someone. That's what we did in the Personal Recommendation Hall of Fame (though it's not really a HoF) it's about winning points for selecting movies for the other members that hopefully they loved. I think I will be doing another round of that one of these days, you should join.
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=66680

[MovieGal]

I like trying to guess what film would be a good fit for someone. That's what we did in the Personal Recommendation Hall of Fame (though it's not really a HoF) it's about winning points for selecting movies for the other members that hopefully they loved. I think I will be doing another round of that one of these days, you should join.
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=66680

Lol no!. Ppl would pick a film i dont want to see.

You, I trust, as well as a few other...less than a handfull..

[Thursday Next]

I have seen only 5 of those 1-pointers, including my own.

[MovieFan1988]

You mean Reese Witherspoon, right?

Yea, I meant her, I feel like a goofball with that mistake :D

[MovieFan1988]

I have seen only 5 of those 1-pointers, including my own.

Only seen 3 of them Including mines, Fear, Life and OO7: The World is Not Enough

[iluv2viddyfilms]

One is the loneliest number... except when paired with 32

The 1-Pointers


The Basketball Diaries
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
The Comfort of Strangers


These are all genuinely solid films, so methinks that they were not necessarily "gimmick" one-pointer votes, but genuine picks.

I know for my 25th film, I don't use it as a one-pointer, but rather a genuine pick.

[Holden Pike]

Happily my #25 choice was not a one-pointer. I am not super confident that it'll make the collective Top 100, but very glad at least one other MoFo named it.

As for my favorite of this list's one-pointers...

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[Thief]

I’m a little surprised The Basketball Diaries got only one point. I haven’t watched it in a long time but I remember it being good.


Also haven't seen it in a while, but as far as I'm concerned, this is still Leo's finest performance (closely followed by Gilbert Grape and Hollywood)


As for the others, I think I've seen four more... Fear, Bill & Ted's, the Bond one, and Untamed Heart.

[Thief]

Is Dragonheart the one where Sean Connery voices the dragon? Stars Dennis Quaid if I remember correctly? If so, also seen that one.


Also my #25 didn't make it, so high five to whoever else voted for it.

[KeyserCorleone]

https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=106864





I want this lizard. I want to own this lizard. And now I have to put this lizard into the sequel of my avatar's source sake.

[MovieGal]

Is Dragonheart the one where Sean Connery voices the dragon? Stars Dennis Quaid if I remember correctly? If so, also seen that one.


Also my #25 didn't make it, so high five to whoever else voted for it.

Yes.

I think its a great film for its age.

[Captain Quint]

Baraka's pretty special, as is Samsara (2011) from the same director

I did entertain a cult favorite for my 25th slot, one that most folks find disturbing (and it is) so I knew I'd be alone with it (no one else voted for it, so yes it would have wound up among the 1-pointers). The movie I have there instead is pretty amazing I think - but it only showed up on 1 other ballot. So, my mere point was no help at all (but even if I gave it the max of 25, it still would have been left out in the cold - it needed 3 or 4 more voters)

[mattiasflgrtll6]

Huge props to whoever selected Stalingrad, that's one helluva a WWII movie and it's told from the invading Germany armies viewpoint on the Eastern Front, Soviet Union. I wish I had room for that movie myself on my ballot.
I saw it a few months ago. I thought it was very human and refreshingly absent of obvious patriotic elements. It's one of the war films to make me cry. Sob uncontrollably even.

[stillmellow]

The War Zone, directed by actor Tim Roth, good picture, well-acted, but man, that was some difficult viewing, the subject matter is painful. https://letterboxd.com/film/the-war-zone/


OOF! That's a rough watch. A good movie, but not for the squeamish.


I'm surprised my one point pick isn't up there. Meaning someone else voted for it. It'll be interesting to see if it made the top 100.


Wild stab in the dark, but was Mother Goose Rock N Rhyme Moviegals?

[Gideon58]

These are all genuinely solid films, so methinks that they were not necessarily "gimmick" one-pointer votes, but genuine picks.

I know for my 25th film, I don't use it as a one-pointer, but rather a genuine pick.

LOVED The Basketball Diaries

[stillmellow]

Who can guess which of those 1 pointers was mine??? It's not hard to do if you know anything at all about me and my movie taste. S take your best guess...

The One Pointers:
Pickpocket
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Cemetery Man
The Polar Bear King
Baraka
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Ox
The Long Day Closes
Mother and Son
The Basketball Diaries
Hide and Seek
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Beautiful Dreamers
Fear
Music of the Heart
A Midwinter's Tale
Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
DragonHeart
Dogfight
Stay Tuned
The War Zone
The Legend of Drunken Master
The World Is Not Enough
The Comfort of Strangers
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Untamed Heart
Life
Stalingrad
Hurricane Streets
Kiler-ów 2-óch
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I'm going to guess Legend of the Drunken Master, because it's my favorite of the 1 pointers.


Shout out to whoever voted for Stay Tuned. Extremely campy fun.


Life is certainly underrated, and a very good prison film. Most films of that genre doesn't give nearly as much attention to the side characters, or humanize the majority of the prisoners as much.


Mother Goose Rock N Rhyme is Shelley Duvall at her hottest. I will die on that hill.

[Robert the List]

A few who passed on... Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo, David Lean, Frank Capra, Satyajit Ray, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Burt Lancaster, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Marcello Mastroianni, Robert Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart, Akira Kurosawa - and Brandon Lee is accidentally killed on the set of the Crow.


What a list that is. Some names in there.

I would just add Marlene Dietrich.

And also:
Jacques Demy
Leonard Bernstein
John Candy
River Phoenix

[ueno_station54]

Mother Goose Rock N Rhyme is Shelley Duvall at her hottest. I will die on that hill.
my pfp for a reason

[Citizen Rules]

I'm going to guess [as Citizen Rules' 1 pointer] Legend of the Drunken Master, because it's my favorite of the 1 pointers...Nope:D That's probably one of the least likely movies for me, I don't like martial art films.

[kgaard]

One of the 1-pointers is mine. It was definitely going on my list, though I did keep flipping it with my #24 (which I suspect I am also the only one to vote for).

[Thursday Next]

Nope:D That's probably one of the least likely movies for me, I don't like martial art films.


Was yours The Englishman who went up a hill...?

[Citizen Rules]

Was yours The Englishman who went up a hill...?
Nope, but that is still on my watch list for the 90s. Yes I'm still cramming 90s movies until I've watch them all. Well alot of them anyway.

[Citizen Rules]

One of the 1-pointers is mine. It was definitely going on my list, though I did keep flipping it with my #24 (which I suspect I am also the only one to vote for).Was your 1 pointer Dogfight?

[MovieFan1988]

Who can guess which of those 1 pointers was mine??? It's not hard to do if you know anything at all about me and my movie taste. S take your best guess...

The One Pointers:
Pickpocket
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Cemetery Man
The Polar Bear King
Baraka
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Ox
The Long Day Closes
Mother and Son
The Basketball Diaries
Hide and Seek
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Beautiful Dreamers
Fear
Music of the Heart
A Midwinter's Tale
Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
DragonHeart
Dogfight
Stay Tuned
The War Zone
The Legend of Drunken Master
The World Is Not Enough
The Comfort of Strangers
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Untamed Heart
Life
Stalingrad
Hurricane Streets
Kiler-ów 2-óch
Deep Crimson

I'm going to guess DragonHeart?

[kgaard]

Was your 1 pointer Dogfight?

Yes, well done! Great performances from Lili Taylor and the late River Phoenix that deserve to be spotlighted.

[cricket]

I did entertain a cult favorite for my 25th slot, one that most folks find disturbing (and it is) so I knew I'd be alone with it (no one else voted for it, so yes it would have wound up among the 1-pointers).

I must know what this is, my guess would be Bad Boy Bubby which almost made my ballot.

[cricket]

First time something of mine made the 1 pointer list. It never occurred to me that nobody else would vote for The War Zone. Yes it's extremely disturbing because of how serious and real it is.

My favorites of the others are Basketball Diaries and Life.

[Citizen Rules]

Yes, well done! Great performances from Lili Taylor and the late River Phoenix that deserve to be spotlighted.I recently saw Lili Taylor in Arizona Dream (1993). Her character's story arc was very moving without aiming for sentimentality. I was really impressed with that film and Lili Taylor.

[Citizen Rules]

I'm going to guess DragonHeart?Nope not mine, but I did watch it for a HoF. I liked it OK, but not really my type of movie.

[Citizen Rules]

I was just re-reading this thread, love that first post by our host, lots of film history...ah I remember the 90s like it was yesterday.

[stillmellow]

Nope, but that is still on my watch list for the 90s. Yes I'm still cramming 90s movies until I've watch them all. Well alot of them anyway.



Well, that was my second guess, so I'm out of ideas.

[stillmellow]

Nope not mine, but I did watch it for a HoF. I liked it OK, but not really my type of movie.


Wait, it wasn't the Warzone, was it?

[Citizen Rules]

Wait, it wasn't the Warzone, was it?Nope, Cricket said that was his 1 pointer.

[Wyldesyde19]

The Ox was my 1 pointer.

Also, when mentioning The
Makhmalbaf family one should also mention daughter Hana who came into directing during the aughts. Along with her mother and sister, as already mentioned by our host, they helped pioneer Iranian cinema from a a woman’s perspective.*

Alas, it would not last as long as I believe they were all chased out. Iran has a history of mistreating their directors and actresses

[Captain Quint]

I must know what this is, my guess would be Bad Boy Bubby which almost made my ballot.

It was The House of Yes - while the subject matter makes viewers uncomfortable (I have movie pals who rated it 1-star, 2, for that reason), for those who can handle it, it’s worth a watch, if only to see one of Parker Posey’s quintessential roles and performances from the 90s.

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[gbgoodies]

The 1-Pointers

Baraka
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Basketball Diaries
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Everyone Says I Love You
DragonHeart
Stay Tuned
The World Is Not Enough
Untamed Heart


Out of the 1-pointers, I've seen these nine movies. I liked most of them, but the only ones that I considered for my list were Everyone Says I Love You and Untamed Heart.

My 1-pointer didn't make the 1-pointers list, but there were too many 1990s movies that I love for me to try to make the 1-pointers list. I'm hoping that it makes the actual countdown.

If I had been trying to pick a movie for the 1-pointers list, I would have moved my #2 movie to my #25 spot, but I love that movie too much to drop it down that low.

[mattiasflgrtll6]

Only seen Celebrity, Everyone Says I Love You, Life and Stalingrad. Celebrity is an interesting choice since it's one of the few Woodys I don't like at all. The pacing is really slow and Kenneth Branagh gives a performance that gets on my nerves. It might be the most annoying Woody Allen impression I've ever seen.
It does have redeeming qualities however, like the dropdead gorgeous Charlize Theron (I wish she had been in it much more) and it still inspires the occasional chuckle.

But I do like Everyone Says I Love You. It's something unique in his filmography and Woody has a pretty good singing voice. The stories are also generally good (Though the one where Skylar falls in love with a criminal stretches believability a little). Well worth watching.

And I would like to see an explanation from the Celebrity submitter, as I'm curious what you see in it that I don't :)

[LeBoyWondeur]

I don't know how rewatchable The World Is Not Enough is, but the theme song is a cracker.

We need to expose the culprit who voted for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

[Allaby]

We need to expose the culprit who voted for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

It was probably Yoda.

[MovieFan1988]

I don't know how rewatchable The World Is Not Enough is, but the theme song is a cracker.

We need to expose the culprit who voted for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

If I had to guess it's either John Connor or Raul, if not one of them must have Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey then

[ApexPredator]

Who can guess which of those 1 pointers was mine??? It's not hard to do if you know anything at all about me and my movie taste. S take your best guess...

The One Pointers:
Pickpocket
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Cemetery Man
The Polar Bear King
Baraka
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Ox
The Long Day Closes
Mother and Son
The Basketball Diaries
Hide and Seek
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Beautiful Dreamers
Fear
Music of the Heart
A Midwinter's Tale
Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
DragonHeart
Dogfight
Stay Tuned
The War Zone
The Legend of Drunken Master
The World Is Not Enough
The Comfort of Strangers
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Untamed Heart
Life
Stalingrad
Hurricane Streets
Kiler-ów 2-óch
Deep Crimson

Miss Vicky: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle?
Citizen Rules: Cemetery Man?

I did have one of the entries here, feel free to guess. Although Rotten Tomatoes imports might have a bit of an advantage...

[Little Ash]

By my count, I've seen six of the 1-pointers. It's a little tough to recall which movies I saw at the time vs. which ones I remember people talking about a lot (The Basketball Diaries) or seeing a lot of ads for and probably bits of (Stop! Or My Eyes Will Melt and The Englishmen Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down The Height of His Fame.)


Seeing a movie like, Bill and Ted's Bogus Recollection of Milly Vanilly, on that list does remind me that I was pretty young at the beginning of the 90s and, boy, did I have some questionable taste then. Not now of course, my taste is impeccable. *Clutches copy of Troll 2* to his chest.


The one movie from the 1-pointers list that I recognize, but have never seen, that I know I should is Baraka.


My 1-pointer isn't there, so that means someone else voted for it. The movie from my list I'm guessing I'm the only person who voted for it is my #23, but we'll see at the end!

[LeBoyWondeur]

I made my list a few months ago, can't remember what I've voted for let alone the ranking.

[The Rodent]

I made my list a few months ago, can't remember what I've voted for let alone the ranking.

It'll be in your inbox. When sent, there's an auto message with your list.
(just don't post the whole thing before the countdown has ended :D )

[Frightened Inmate No. 2]

maybe not the best time to admit this, but my one-pointer was paul schrader's opaque masterpiece the comfort of strangers. this is what i wrote about it on letterboxd two years ago, prior to the recent allegations:

https://letterboxd.com/inmate/film/the-comfort-of-strangers/1/

"two guileless dipshits on vacation aimlessly wander their way to their own doom, always unwitting participants in its fruition (mirroring the heartbreaking story mary tells from her childhood). such tantalizing pretension, reflecting schrader's distrust and fear of all beautiful seductive surfaces. rupert everett has this vacuous arrogance to him, while natasha richardson couldn't be more adorable. everett is the only character without a story to tell–he's all brooding surface–which makes him the perfect sex object to be emasculated and coveted. the movie intentionally deprives us of real psychological insight, leaving us to forever ponder what is it exactly that drives them closer together after their encounter with the other couple. i love movies that let themselves be fundamentally unknowable, provided they leave you wanting to know. when you can listen to a movie's haters list off its logical inconsistencies and it only draws you in more. just the perfect kind of evocatively inscrutable cautionary tale that i could think about for the rest of my life and never come any closer to figuring out. i suppose that's just the inevitable outcome of schrader doing pinter, although it's walken who makes the whole thing sing."


the only other one-pointer i've seen is fear, which is a wonderful piece of trash (complimentary) and would've made my own top 50.

[Captain Quint]

The Ox was my 1 pointer.

Also, when mentioning The
Makhmalbaf family one should also mention daughter Hana who came into directing during the aughts. Along with her mother and sister, as already mentioned by our host, they helped pioneer Iranian cinema from a a woman’s perspective.*

Alas, it would not last as long as I believe they were all chased out. Iran has a history of mistreating their directors and actresses

Yeah, that was an oversight, shouldn't have left out Hana - or her brother Maysam, who is kind of the jack of all trades in the family, editor, cinematographer, producer, sound... you can see him onscreen in his fathers, "The Gardener" and he directed a doc about his sister Samira. I love the whole film family thing they have going.

And your last comment is sadly, and shamefully true.

[LeBoyWondeur]

It'll be in your inbox.
I have an inbox? Why does nobody tell me these things?

[mrblond]

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995) That's my #25.

Master class film work - acting, dialogues, screenplay..., full of brilliant characters in a very entertaining unique story. It was high on my comedy countdown ballot and I've tried hard to make room for it in my 90's list. Obviously, it is not quite known title in this place.

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[Citizen Rules]

...
Citizen Rules: Cemetery Man?Gawd no!:D I hate horror films.

[Wooley]

Happily my #25 choice was not a one-pointer. I am not super confident that it'll make the collective Top 100, but very glad at least one other MoFo named it.

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Saw it in 70mm a couple times when it was released. Wowza.

It's such a pleasure.

[Thief]

So... when are we starting, huh? When are we starting? Tomorrow? When?

[Thief]

Happily my #25 choice was not a one-pointer. I am not super confident that it'll make the collective Top 100, but very glad at least one other MoFo named it.

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Saw it in 70mm a couple times when it was released. Wowza.

Haven't seen it, but this looks gorgeous.

[mrblond]

Out of the One-pointers list, beside my movie - The Englishman Who Went up a Hill..., I've seen (many times) three others:

Celebrity
Everyone Says I Love You
The World Is Not Enough

Nice to see that two users voted for these two Woody movies though I think Everyone Says I Love You deserves much more than one point. It was high on my musicals countdown ballot. Anyway, for the 90's I went with two other of the Allen's films. "Everyone Says..." would probably make my top 40 of the nineties.
As for the other two, I'd say Celebrity would be in my top 80 and The World Is Not Enough has a chance for my top 100 of this decade.

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[Captain Quint]

So... when are we starting, huh? When are we starting? Tomorrow? When?


I consulted with Johnny Mathis and he said we'd definitely be launching on the 12th of Never...


and that's a long, long time.

[stillmellow]

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995) That's my #25.

Master class film work - acting, dialogues, screenplay..., full of brilliant characters in a very entertaining unique story. It was high on my comedy countdown ballot and I've tried hard to make room for it in my 90's list. Obviously, it is not quite known title in this place.

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Not top 25 for me, but a very delightful movie. Warm and upbeat comfort cinema.

[stillmellow]

Gawd no!:D I hate horror films.


Then Stop or My Mom Will Shoot was YOU! It was you all along!

[Citizen Rules]

Then Stop or My Mom Will Shoot was YOU! It was you all along!Nope:p, but I could probably watch that one. Same with The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), sounds like my type of movie.

[SpelingError]

Happily my #25 choice was not a one-pointer. I am not super confident that it'll make the collective Top 100, but very glad at least one other MoFo named it.

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Saw it in 70mm a couple times when it was released. Wowza.

I should rewatch that one soon. It's been way too long.

[Thief]

I consulted with Johnny Mathis and he said we'd definitely be launching on the 12th of Never...


and that's a long, long time.
Darn it!

[PHOENIX74]

Deep Crimson was my 1-pointer. Based on real-life "Lonely Hearts Killers" Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who were known to have killed up to 20 people between 1947 and 1949, this 1996 Mexican film starts an absurd comedy but gets darker and darker the further we venture until we find ourselves in the midst of a nihilistic nightmare. It's a classic, and it's brilliant - worth seeking out if you like the sound of it.

https://i.postimg.cc/7ZqPwrY4/deep.jpg

Whoever gave their 1-point slot to Dogfight - I like you very much.

[Robert the List]

What puts me off Baraka is the staged scenes. They just strike me as a bit dishonest.

[exiler96]

It was The House of Yes if only to see one of Parker Posey’s quintessential roles and performances from the 90s.

Has Parker Posey made it "big enough"? I always wish she appeared in more good things. Take one or two roles, her 2000s and 2010s come off as way too dry for an actress wih such presence.

[Captain Quint]

I think it's cool that she's still in the game, still a presence on TV and film, still gets talked about (SNL riffing on her White Lotus character). I don't know who the Christopher Guest or Hal Hartley of this era is, who could use her talents to their best, but I'm happy when I see her, even in a smaller role (last year's Thelma).

[John-Connor]

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Awesome opening post and poster @ Captain Quint and HoldenPike!

I'll be posting the 'actor stats' again.. MoFos can now do a blind guess at which actor/actress will show up on the countdown the most.. for maximum credit and bragging rights. :)

Only saw about half of the 32 one-pointers, watchlisted a couple interesting ones. Didn't include docs on my list otherwise Baraka would surely be in my top ten.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot wasn't my one-pointer MovieFan1988.. Also didn’t vote for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey but it was in consideration. My guess is CaptainSpaulding voted for that one? My #25 is a film that's probably in the top ten on a couple MoFos ballots.

[Captain Quint]

Awesome opening post and poster @ Captain Quint and HoldenPike!

I'll be posting the 'actor stats' again.. MoFos can now do a blind guess at which actor/actress will show up on the countdown the most.. for maximum credit and bragging rights. :

Oh poopie - so what do you do with that? Is this at the end of the countdown, or something you do throughout?

The past week or so, in addition to working on the list, the ties... I've worked on brief overviews of what we just saw - top actors, directors, new to the list graphs, etc, after every 25th entry.

I'm cool with you doing actors, especially with this being something you've done for a while - mine is more just the folks at the top, after every 25 and not a full list. I just want to make sure I'm not stepping on your toes.

That said - I will post stats for "movies by year", list the directors, and offer up other tidbits at the very end - the numbers have been totaled, the charts have been built and just waiting to be shared after the reveal of our #1 at the very end.

I'm only mentioning this so that no one tracks stats in this countdown bit by bit and then at the end, I just swoop in and post my stuff and...
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[rauldc14]

I did not have a one pointer this time. Props to whoever also voted for my number 25.

[John-Connor]

I did not have a one pointer this time. Props to whoever also voted for my number 25.
Lemme guess.. The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997) ;)

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[Wooley]

It was The House of Yes - while the subject matter makes viewers uncomfortable (I have movie pals who rated it 1-star, 2, for that reason), for those who can handle it, it’s worth a watch, if only to see one of Parker Posey’s quintessential roles and performances from the 90s.

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Loved that movie.

[MovieFan1988]

While Captain Quint is slacking off to get this "ship" moving :D

Let's guess #100 and #99

My guesses: Speed and Point Break

[John-Connor]

Hard to guess this early on, my initial guess (which is usually wrong) : Matilda (1996) and Leaving Las Vegas (1995).

So I'll say:

To Die For (1995)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

[Little Ash]

Without working with any hints, my guesses are:
100. Con-Air
99. The Addams Family


Did I just take the 100th film from the last version of this list and the 100th most popular movie from the 90s on letterboxd? I did.

[The Rodent]

Nah, we gonna kick off with two Seagal movies...

100. Fire Down Below
99. On Deadly Ground

[rauldc14]

Lemme guess.. The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997) ;)

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Darn it. You got me!

[cricket]

100. The Sixth Sense
99. Donnie Brasco

[rauldc14]

So what's funny is this whole time I thought Brave Little Toaster was nineties and I almost legit sent a ballot with it on it. :laugh:

[rauldc14]

100. Casino
99. Titanic

[The Rodent]

100. Troll 2
99. Highlander 2: The Quickening

[Holden Pike]

I was just re-reading this thread, love that first post by our host, lots of film history...ah I remember the 90s like it was yesterday.

I know the general age ranges of some of you regulars, but for the sake of this countdown, chime in as to what your ages were during this decade. I realize some of you are younglings and were born in the 21st century. Which is often still difficult for me to wrap my aged brain around.

I was nineteen on January 1, 1990. My birthday is in May so the '90s were my twenties, essentially. By this time I was a HUGE and very serious movie buff. I was going to at least eight to ten movies a month (at least), at both cineplexes and arthouses, so most any of the titles that will appear on this countdown I saw during their original theatrical runs. My LaserDisc collection started in 1991 and swelled to over 800 titles by the time DVDs took over the market in 1997-ish. I attended my first film festivals in the 1990s. Film wise, it was an amazing decade for me, personally.

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That's me on the roof of my apartment in San Francisco just after I moved there in the fall of 1995. It was more difficult to take selfies back then, but thanks to timers on cameras it could be done.



How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

[Sedai]

I have been ridiculously busy lately, but I did manage to check quite a few titles off of Holden Pike's 1990s list, and one of the films ended up on my ballot. I also checked off a couple more of the neo noir from the 90s in the process.

[Holden Pike]

As for a blind guess on the first two titles of the countdown, I'll go with....The Fugitive and The Sixth Sense.

[Miss Vicky]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

On January 1, 1990, I was 8 years old (I turned 9 in May of that year).
On December 31, 1999, I was 18. That was the year I graduated High School.

[Yoda]

Still working on my end! But I'm nearly done. Fingers crossed I can finish today.

[The Rodent]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?


On January 1, 1990, I was 8 years old (I turned 9 in May of that year).
On December 31, 1999, I was 18. That was the year I graduated High School.

MV is like, 8 months older than me :D :D :D :D

Jan 1990 I turned 8...
Graduated at the end of 97 when I was still 15 and became a working man and had to pay for my own cinema tickets from then on :(
Was fun though... I worked in the music industry from beginning of 98 to end of 2000 and spent every weekend in the clubs dancing to the music I'd been producing during the week.

[ApexPredator]

January 1990: I was 16, a sophomore in high school.

December 1999: I was 26...still recovering from being booted out of the Army.

It may have been only 10 years, but it was a world of difference when it came to film.

[mrblond]

I was nineteen on January 1, 1990. My birthday is in May so the '90s were my twenties, essentially. By this time I was a HUGE and very serious movie buff. I was going to at least eight to ten movies a month (at least), at both cineplexes and arthouses, so most any of the titles that will appear on this countdown I saw during their original theatrical runs...

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

Very nice call 👍

Amazingly, all of the above is just the same here. Except the birthday month is April and I visited theatres about five times a month (arthouses and classic movie theatres mostly). In addition, since 1990, I had taken rental VHSs regularly.

Below photo is one of the theatres I've often visited during the 90's. It was closed in around 2001 (it is still there empty).
I remember seeing here Magnolia, The Sixth Sense and many others.

(the photograph is taken before the 90's, probably this is the 70's)
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[ApexPredator]

100. Happy Gilmore
99. Six Degrees of Separation

As for actor, let's go with Tom Hanks.

[The Rodent]

January 1990: I was 16, a sophomore in high school.

December 1999: I was 26...still recovering from being booted out of the Army.

It may have been only 10 years, but it was a world of difference when it came to film.

Music was the same.
The 3 years I was in the industry was during that Ibiza movement that took place, and movies like The Beach and Kevin And Perry Go Large became a thing to capitalise on the music movement.

My claim to fame is Cher's "Believe" becoming the biggest selling single at that time, I was the guy that made all 11 million copies.
I actually made 13 million copies, and it sold 11m on release.
If you bought Cher's Believe on cassette when it was first released, you're holding a cassette tape that I myself, actually held in my hands during its production :) :D

[John-Connor]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?
I was 12.. and started going to the theatre with my High School buddies, we had a cheat system. We used to buy one ticket to get into the theatre and after the first film we would hide in staircases, elevators, bathrooms, fire escapes and balconies etc. And then sneak into another film. :D I think I’ve seen 70% of this decade's films in the theatre, good times, good memories and overall just a great decade to be a teenager.

https://image.parool.nl/208317940/width/2480/passanten
( ^ Picture of the theatre I visited most before renovation, sadly it looks like a factory nowadays. :bored:)

[mattiasflgrtll6]

I'm bored. Impatiently waiting for the top 100 to start.:napoleon:

[Yoda]

:tucci:

[mrblond]

While Captain Quint is slacking off to get this "ship" moving :D

Let's guess #100 and #99


OK, my guesses:

100. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
99. Arizona Dream (1993)

[stillmellow]

I'm going to go with Nic Cage


100. Face/Off
99. Con Air


Fun fact: Nic Cage had no break between filming the two movies. He went right from the set of Con Air to Face/Off.

[Miss Vicky]

I100. Face/Off
99. Con Air


I'll be sad if these movies are this low on the countdown. Of course, I'll be far more sad if they miss it entirely so... I guess I'll be kind of happy if they are the first to show?

[seanc]

I know the general age ranges of some of you regulars, but for the sake of this countdown, chime in as to what your ages were during this decade. I realize some of you are younglings and were born in the 21st century. Which is often still difficult for me to wrap my aged brain around.

I was nineteen on January 1, 1990. My birthday is in May so the '90s were my twenties, essentially. By this time I was a HUGE and very serious movie buff. I was going to at least eight to ten movies a month (at least), at both cineplexes and arthouses, so most any of the titles that will appear on this countdown I saw during their original theatrical runs. My LaserDisc collection started in 1991 and swelled to over 800 titles by the time DVDs took over the market in 1997-ish. I attended my first film festivals in the 1990s. Film wise, it was an amazing decade for me, personally.

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That's me on the roof of my apartment in San Francisco just after I moved there in the fall of 1995. It was more difficult to take selfies back then, but thanks to timers on cameras it could be done.



How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

I graduated in ‘94, so the 90’s were definitely my formative years. Certainly started my movie fandom then, but really didn’t start branching out beyond multiplex stuff until probably 12-15 years ago. Certainly a late bloomer in that regard. Often jealous of these 16 years old mofos that come around and are watching foreign and art house stuff. I went to work at Blockbuster right after HS and stayed there for a few years, that was my first management job. I would say that’s when I started to get into directors like Tarantino, Scorsese, and the Coens. Back then I didn’t really think about directors though, I would watch movies based in cast and trailers. I can see now that I was already a believer in auteur theory without having a clue what that was, just by what appealed to me and the movies that became my faves. 90’s is probably still my favorite decade for movies, although the 70’s has made its case over the last decade for me. 90’s talk certainly makes me nostalgic, so this should be fun.

[Holden Pike]

As for some overall Redux List guesses...

Director with the most titles: Joel Coen
Actor with the most titles: Robert DeNiro
Year with the most titles: 1994
Number of new titles from first list: 38
Number one: GoodFellas
Number of Best Picture Oscar winners: 7
Number of animated films: 9

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[Deschain]

I was 3 in 1990, around the time you stop being a baby and start remembering the world. In 2000 I turned 13 which was the start of my teen years. So I like to joke that my entire childhood was the ‘90s. :D

[Captain Quint]

Still working on my end! But I'm nearly done. Fingers crossed I can finish today.

This gets me so pumped up I'm going to get up and dance (well, old man dance) to one of my favorite 90s movies songs!

https://youtu.be/ajNTIklt8do?si=roPGTrQhU7OyAGKc

[Yoda]

This gets me so pumped up I'm going to get up and dance (well, old man dance) to one of my favorite 90s movies songs!

https://youtu.be/ajNTIklt8do?si=roPGTrQhU7OyAGKc
We haven't even started and I've already got my first "ahhhh crap I forgot about that one."

[Holden Pike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urg0E2FlbnQ

[Thief]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

January 1, 1990 = 12 years old
December 31, 1999 = 22 years old

I went from a zit-faced teenager playing with G.I. Joe's and laughing at TMNT cartoons to a recent college graduate already working IT. Formative years indeed.

[Yoda]

I was 5 1/2 when the 90s started. And I started this site about seven months after they ended.

[honeykid]

Everyone says I love you was my 1 pointer. There were a couple of people on here who I thought might have it on their list somewhere, so I'm both happy and slightly sad to see here on the 1 pointer list. Of course, I could have picked a number of Drew Barrymore films of which I could be certain to be 1 pointers if that was all I wanted, but I do so love this film and it's pretty much in the right place. I'd say that final third of my list would either be changed or moved about on any given day.

Here's a pic from the film, it's from a scene where she's sad she hasn't met me. :D

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tV_7PUCoj5o/maxresdefault.jpg


Excellent job with the opening posts Captain Quint and the artwork, Holden Pike. :cool::up:

Has for which post is CR's? Which is the oldest film there? Because, even in a decades list, I'll still guess the oldest one is his. :D

[Holden Pike]

We haven't even started and I've already got my first "ahhhh crap I forgot about that one."
At least it placed on the MoFo Top 100 Musicals (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=71234), at #31 (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2504988#post2504988).

https://64.media.tumblr.com/819ae67e07cd8c6613e5298442ec89d7/fca99107d806300f-c7/s500x750/cee7cfc17163abe5fc6bcedc0601877f8f72c630.gif

[MovieFan1988]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

May 26 1990 - I was only 3 years old.

The first movie I saw in theatres was Toy Story which was in 1995.

1996 when I was 9 is when I started get into movies, especially Horror movies at a young age, thanks to my bro and cousin for that around the same ages as me :laugh:. Halloween and Friday the 13th grew on me fast, then came Scream :).

May 26, 1999 - I was 12 and always enjoyed watching new movies and sometimes renting out movies that I have seen until I finally got the DVD of that movie. Watching movies is like a hobby of mines, I like it better than getting into the music stuff.

[The Rodent]

Just waiting on someone to come in and say "In 1990, my parents weren't even born yet"

[WrinkledMind]

I was 5 years & 3 months old, when the nineties started. An important decade in my life.
Cable TV came into India, which itself dumped its socialist policies & opened up to liberal economics, starting the country's boom.

Saw my first real movie in the theatres & it was Problem Child.

Back then we only had 10-12 channels, & Cartoon Network would shut down at 18:00 in the evening & switch to Tuner classic movies. Saw a bunch on movies on English movie channels.
TV really was my life.


I was 5 1/2 when the 90s started. And I started this site about seven months after they ended.
Making sites by 15, when the internet was relatively new. You would have made your parents very proud, if they were Indian.

[MovieGal]

My daughter was born in 1993. She was very young when i started taking her to movies. She learned at home, you sit and watch. When they re-released the first 3 Star Wars films, she was able to sit through them and she already loved them from watching at home.

[Citizen Rules]

My one pointer, which no one guessed.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.g95JIyeow_scLdiu51hElgHaDM%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=10625100c5e4e9965e75b5fce2dabb8f592b6bd8553c1001487d210c047bd51c&ipo=images
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Dir Alan Rudolph

A period piece biography about writer, poet, critic and satirist Dorothy Parker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker) and her group of intellectual writer artist friends who met regularly at the Algonquin Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Round_Table) in Manhattan for a 10 year period from 1919-1929. The movie is told from the view point of an older and even more jaded Dorothy Parker in the late 1940s and 1950s. Those segments of the older Dorothy are done in black & white, with her memories of the past (which is most of the film) being done in color.

Interesting subject matter that was also the subject of PBS' American Masters TV series: The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch (https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/the-algonquin-round-table-about-the-algonquin/527/). One of the few films where Jennifer Jason Leigh has a lead starring role.

The dialogue is hard to pick up at times as the director uses overlapping conversation technique and Jennifer Jason Leigh does an accent that is hard to understand at times though I believe her accent is spot on for the real Dorothy Parker. I just wish the post sound mixing had been tweaked so that the spoken words were more audible. The performances were fine in this smaller indie film and the cast is stacked with many recognizable names and faces. I would watch this one again.

[The Rodent]

Where's the liiiiist!?

https://media.tenor.com/OKITth-yBKEAAAAM/lloydchristmas-dumbanddumber.gif

[Holden Pike]

My one pointer, which no one guessed.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Dir Alan Rudolph

The dialogue is hard to pick up at times as the director uses overlapping conversation technique and Jennifer Jason Leigh does an accent that is hard to understand at times though I believe her accent is spot on for the real Dorothy Parker. I just wish the post sound mixing had been tweaked so that the spoken words were more audible. The performances were fine in this smaller indie film and the cast is stacked with many recognizable names and faces. I would watch this one again.
Alan Rudolph is Robert Altman's most obvious disciple. He was Altman's second assistant director on The Long Goodbye and California Split, then promoted to assistant director on Nashville, before writing Buffalo Bill & the Indians or: Sitting Bull's History Lesson. Then he left to make movies of his own, which were often produced by Altman and many of which are very Altmanesque in look and technique, and they both use and reuse a lot of the same actors. Rudolph's debut feature, Welcome to L.A. (1976), is like a 1970s dry run for Short Cuts. Rudolph was probably at his best when he moved a bit away from being so identifiably Altman-lite, as in Choose Me (1984) and The Moderns (1988), but Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is very much Altmanesque, including the overlapping dialog.

In many ways it may be Rudolph's most accessible and successful picture, with the fabled Algonquin Round Table being a terrific subject.

For me it isn't in the class of Altman's best in the 1990s, but it is a good flick, to be sure.

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[Sedai]

Year with the most titles: 1994


I have several friends who will argue ad nauseum about how 1999 was one of the best years in cinema in the history of the medium, so if it's not '94, it will most likely be '99.

[Sedai]

And.... I see the first mention of a film I somehow cut when juggling films around and forgot to put on my ballot. Lame.

[The Rodent]

And.... I see the first mention of a film I somehow cut when juggling films around and forgot to put on my ballot. Lame.

I hate to break it to you but Free Willy2: The Adventure Home was never going to make it.

[seanc]

I have several friends who will argue ad nauseum about how 1999 was one of the best years in cinema in the history of the medium, so if it's not '94, it will most likely be '99.

I hear this constantly as well. Despite’99 having my favorite movie, broadly I prefer ‘94.

[Tugg]

I gave the most points to 1998 movies. 4/14 top movies on my list are 1998 movies.

[cricket]

Turned 19 in May 1990. You would think I would have done a lot of cinema going during that period, but instead it was a ton of partying and getting in trouble. Only saw 5 of the 25 I voted for at the cinema.

[The Rodent]

Just checking my own entries (oo-er)...

I got most picks from 91 and 98... I'm pretty even across the decade though.

[MovieGal]

In January of 1990, I was 22 yrs old. I had always been a movie watcher. Out of my 25 films, I saw ( i typed saw backwards to 'was') 18 in the cinema and 9 of my top 10 on the list.

[cricket]

4 from 94
4 from 95
5 from 99

[Wyldesyde19]

I have several friends who will argue ad nauseum about how 1999 was one of the best years in cinema in the history of the medium, so if it's not '94, it will most likely be '99.
I’ve seen that claim as well over the last few years. Criterion recently did, as well, when they released a collection celebrating the year 1999 in their channel last year.

[The Rodent]

Where's the liiiiist!?

https://media.tenor.com/OKITth-yBKEAAAAM/lloydchristmas-dumbanddumber.gif

[MovieGal]

Sorry for typos, im doing many things. Working, thinking of the review for the film Im watching and reading this thread.

[Citizen Rules]

In 1990 I was in my late 20s...So my 30s were mostly in the 1990s and of course I remember the 90s well. But I didn't watch movies unless it was on a date and I soon figured out a movie wasn't always the best date idea, it's dark and you really can't talk. I did meet my wife in the late 19 90s though we didn't go to many movies, maybe only one on the first date.

I didn't really start watching movies passionately until the mid 2000s...Oh I'm still watching 90s movies right now! I'm loving this countdown because unlike most of you I haven't seen a ton of 90s movies but have mainly focused on mid 20th century movies. I'm finding they made a lot of great film in the 90s! Glad we're doing this countdown.

[Captain Quint]

30s, newly married, running a video store, I was always a film nut, loved them since the 60s - so to be surrounded by all those tapes was heaven... and if we didn't have a flick I wanted to watch, well we'll just put it on order (greatest foreign film section town, btw). Also decided to pick up my guitar, get back to writing songs and playing gigs. So, I was busy, busy - work, marriage, movies, music... oh and making sure I got home in time to watch MST3K when a new ep aired. Which actually helped me to appreciate B-movies (some folks think fans of that show must hate those flicks, in my case, quite the opposite, I came to have much affection for them).

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

[ueno_station54]

wasn't born until late '91 so i don't have too many vivid memories of the decade.

[Holden Pike]

Still working on my end! But I'm nearly done. Fingers crossed I can finish today.
Patiently waiting, like Carlito in the john.
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[Yoda]

We're on track.

I definitely made a...strong choice...on the presentation of this one.

[Little Ash]

Age-wise, I was 10 on Jan 1st, 1990, which would have been 4th grade (or maybe fifth? I'm bad at counting), in the middle of an area that's a mixture of suburban and rural California to being 20 on Dec 31st, 1999, in the middle of college in the Bay Area. Between that time, I managed to actually go from the mixture of suburban and rural to the rural for high school. Access to movies during that time was just mainstream multipled stuff that was in a town a half hour away. Somewhere along the way, my family got a satellite dish, which greatly increased the movies I had access to. And then college, which seemed like just a radical change of how things should be.


It might be surprising, given that limited access, when Pulp Fiction came out in '94, it still didn't seem that revolutionary to me (spoiler, not on my ballot). Enough movies from the 70s played on basic channels, I guess.


So my sense of the 90s is wild because those are formative movie watching years for me, but in reality, I'm thinking of more of that '95-'99 era. If I look at the very beginning of it, I go, "oh, I was really young in mind and sensibilities when this decade started."

[Holden Pike]

We're on track.
I definitely made a...strong choice...on the presentation of this one.

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[The Rodent]

Where's the liiiiist!?

https://media.tenor.com/OKITth-yBKEAAAAM/lloydchristmas-dumbanddumber.gif

[stillmellow]

January 1, 1990 = 12 years old
December 31, 1999 = 22 years old

I went from a zit-faced teenager playing with G.I. Joe's and laughing at TMNT cartoons to a recent college graduate already working IT. Formative years indeed.


You are 1 year older than me.

[stillmellow]

30s, newly married, running a video store, I was always a film nut, loved them since the 60s - so to be surrounded by all those tapes was heaven... and if we didn't have a flick I wanted to watch, well we'll just put it on order (greatest foreign film section town, btw). Also decided to pick up my guitar, get back to writing songs and playing gigs. So, I was busy, busy - work, marriage, movies, music... oh and making sure I got home in time to watch MST3K when a new ep aired. Which actually helped me to appreciate B-movies (some folks think fans of that show must hate those flicks, in my case, quite the opposite, I came to have much affection for them).


Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now


Hello, fellow Mst-ie! I still need to catch up on the latest season, but I've seen every episode seasons 1-12. My whole family are fans. We've have dvds of all the ones that came out on dvd.

[stillmellow]

Although there are a couple of the 'troubled youth' ones I only half paid attention to, and barely remember.

I literally remember nothing about Daddy-o.

[MovieGal]

Back in 1991, AMC started their MovieWatcher promotion, which I believe, is now their Stubs program. I remember seeing 8 movies in 7 days. I was a die hard movie watcher then, and still am now.

[I_Wear_Pants]

Ooh I have a one-pointer.

[rauldc14]

100. Pulp Fiction 2
99. Shawshank Redemption 2

[stillmellow]

100. Pulp Fiction 2
99. Shawshank Redemption 2


Do NOT give Hollywood ideas!

[exiler96]

I remain the youngest lad here (that I know of). Born in '96, I did not start following movies (anything other than animated ones) and thus creating memories with cinema - until 2007 or '08...

But always had a soft spot for the 90s movies (and music). Not only because stuff like Pulp Fiction and Fight Club were the things that got me into film more seriously, and of course every decade has it's "zeitgeist" and beautiful works of art... but I find some inexplainable things appealing about them, especially aesthetic-wise... and this look of theirs differs from a 50s classic let's say Douglas Sirk, you know what I mean? some of the so-called cult classics of the decade are heavily dated imo, but still endearing for me. Might be something reminding me of my childhood unconsciously; just the vibe of them. I'm way more confident to talk like this about 00s.

[Thief]

You are 1 year older than me.
You mean you are 1 year *younger* than me :shifty:

[stillmellow]

You mean you are 1 year *younger* than me :shifty:


Whatever boats your float. 🙃

[iluv2viddyfilms]

My Predictions:

100. The Rock
99. Shakespeare in Love

[mattiasflgrtll6]

You think a movie with The Rock will make the list? Sorry to tell you this, but his first one came out in 2001:whoopi:

[MovieGal]

You think a movie with The Rock will make the list? Sorry to tell you this, but his first one came out in 2001:whoopi:

There is a film called The Rock with Sean Connery

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9802-the-rock?language=en-US

[Thief]

There is a film called The Rock with Sean Connery

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9802-the-rock?language=en-US

I'm pretty sure they know that :laugh:

[MovieGal]

I'm pretty sure they know that :laugh:

Sure sounded like they were referring to Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock. :lol:

[stillmellow]

You think a movie with The Rock will make the list? Sorry to tell you this, but his first one came out in 2001:whoopi:


That post would make Nic Cage very sad.

[gbgoodies]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

I turned 24 years old in May of 1990. I went to the movie theater a lot in the first half of the decade, but my in-theater movie watching slowed down quite a bit in the second half of the decade.


As for some overall Redux List guesses...

Year with the most titles: 1994

Based on my list, and how I usually do with these countdowns, that sounds about right: :lol:

1990 = 1
1991 = 6
1992 = 3
1993 = 4
1994 = 0
1995 = 3
1996 = 2
1997 = 3
1998 = 1
1999 = 2

[mattiasflgrtll6]

Sure sounded like they were referring to Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock. :lol:
I was, that was the joke ;)

[Thief]

Year with the most titles: 1994


I think it will probably be between that and 1999.

[Little Ash]

Since everyone else normally guesses '94 or '99 for most number of movies, I'm going to go for '97. Just to be different.

[Deschain]

Hello, fellow Mst-ie! I still need to catch up on the latest season, but I've seen every episode seasons 1-12. My whole family are fans. We've have dvds of all the ones that came out on dvd.

The new cast is a lot of fun and there’s always a couple real bangers of episodes per season. Rifftrax has been on a roll too with their love shows and putting out some stuff for free on YouTube. :)

[PHOENIX74]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?

The 90s made up around half of my teenage years and half of my 20s - and that seems like such a long time ago now.

[mattiasflgrtll6]

How about you MoFos? How old were you in the 1990s?
Well, in 1999 I was three...

[Thief]

I remain the youngest lad here (that I know of). Born in '96, I did not start following movies (anything other than animated ones) and thus creating memories with cinema - until 2007 or '08...


Well, in 1999 I was three...

https://y.yarn.co/2d1468a4-8719-43bd-8186-8577a360259b_text.gif

[LeBoyWondeur]

I was cloned in the 20th century, but I'm not sure if I was the first version (or last).

[Captain Quint]

3lists62pointsWhat's Eating Gilbert Grape (https://www.movieforums.com/movies/1587-whats-eating-gilbert-grape.html)Director
Lasse Hallström, 1993

Starring
Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mary Steenburgen

[Captain Quint]

5lists62pointsSonatine (https://www.movieforums.com/movies/7500-sonatine.html)Director
Takeshi Kitano, 1993

Starring
Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura

[The Rodent]

We waited 4 days for that? :laugh:

[Captain Quint]

Our long national nightmare is over, and the countdown has commenced!

The 2-way tie was broken by most ballots (5 to 3)

Some stuff and nonsense

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19-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio received his first nominations for the Academy Award & Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Grape was previously unranked

Sonatine is one of them Asian movies that Hitler looking dude didn't care for in the previous 90s countdown. It was ranked 43rd in the previous list.

[KeyserCorleone]

Sonatine spent more time focusing on the cool factor rather than thickening the plot, like a J.J. Cale album. But also like J.J. Cale, this can still satisfy. Kita O's direction and acting help it to get by, which is incredible considering that this man started out as a comedian and even had his own game show. 75/100

Seen 1/2

[Captain Quint]

Presentation? Me, I love it, I had no clue what Yoda was going to come up with look wise, and I was no help at all, what the hell do the 90s look like anyway?

But I love it, it's bold and brash and colorful. It jumps out at you - If that's what the 90s look like, I approve.

Another thought - I'm a night owl, so, you'll probably get a steady diet of these in the morning hours. About the time most of you are waking up, they'll likely be a surprise waiting for you online.

[KeyserCorleone]

Presentation? Me, I love it, I had no clue what Yoda was going to come up with look wise, and I was no help at all, what the hell do the 90s look like anyway?

Like this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWz8dg2tGH8

He played it safe going with Sega Genesis box background.

[Holden Pike]

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Sonatine was #43 on the original MoFo Top 100 of the 1990s, #84 on the original MoFo Top 100, and #90 on the MoFo Top 100 Foreign Films. We like it, we really like it!

This is the first MoFo list appearance for What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

[Holden Pike]

And how '90s is this for a day to start the countdown: Do you know what April 8th is? IT'S REX MANNING DAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3MsD5FCug

[Miss Vicky]

Both are solid movies. I prefer Gilbert Grape over Sonatine (that Grape features two of my favorite actors doesn't hurt), but neither made my ballot.

Seen: 2/2
My Balllot:
25. Untamed Heart (One Pointer)

[John-Connor]

https://media1.tenor.com/m/E66rEaIdOJ8AAAAC/sonatine-1993.gif

Sonatine is a cool film, Kitano is a boss! I'm presuming Fireworks/Hana-Bi also placed but higher? Which would be a good thing. I have both Kitano films in my 90's top 150.
Been way too long since I've seen What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and didn't give it a re-watch. But do remember liking the film and it's cast. So far I've enjoyed every Lasse Hallström film I've seen; Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, Dear John, Chocolat and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. 👍

Good start of the countdown, I also like the presentation style. Seeegaaa..:cool:


Seen 2/2
Ballot 00/25

[kgaard]

I haven't seen Sonatine. I'm pretty sure I've seen What's Eating Gilbert Grape about a million years ago; if so I remember nothing of it. Neither on my list, therefore.

[MovieFan1988]

Have seen so far: 1

Have not seen so far: 2

My Ballot List So Far:
#25 - Fear - One Pointer

Here's what I would have had if I participated on the list in the 90's countdown list (2013) which I was not a part of since I joined the site in 2015.

49 Seen

51 not seen

If I had a ballot list for the old 90's countdown list - only 10 movies would have made it. Hopefully to go pass that number in this one. :)

[mattiasflgrtll6]

I'm surprised to see Gilbert Grape only barely make the list. Makes me a bit more worried about some of my picks.
Nonetheless, a deserving inclusion. Everybody does a fantastic job, and the conclusion is some of the most my heart has ever been broken during a movie.

[MovieMeditation]

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was sort of in the running for making my list. But so was a huge amount of movies since it’s a packed decade with many great movies and many of which I have seen.

So yeah, ultimately it didn’t make it but I think it’s a great film last time I checked.

I haven’t seen Sonatine. Not sure I’ve even heard of it tbh…

[MovieGal]

I have not seen Sonatine. Im not sure its something i would enjoy.

I saw What's Eating Gilbert Grape long ago.

Neither on my ballot.

[Captain Quint]

I've seen everything in the top 100 - and just went and had a quick look, and I've seen them all until the 217th entry - so that's a good run. I'll have to add that 217th flick to my watchlist just for the heck of it.

So, I need to crash, but I wanted to read the posts here before I did (I was hoping to see CRs reaction, since he campaigned for #100).

I'll return with 2 more in the AM tomorrow.

[exiler96]

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Can't see your pic, but any man with a Lawrence avatar is my friend

mattiasflgrtll6 :highfive:

I also know he wrote once in my "last great performance you saw" thread and it's still one of my favorite posts on that thread... wish he showed up and spit his knowledge more often... sharing is caring fam!

As for the poll... what a nice film for the #100. I wish Johnny Depp could've make a comeback after the court win(or was it?)... Still one of DiCaprio's 2 or 3 best performances... and Darlene Cates was a gem. May she rest in peace.

[seanc]

Seen both of today’s. Neither exactly blow my har back, but both are fine. Grape probably deserves a rewatch at this point. I have seen it a handful of times, but it is definitely 20+ years at this point.

[Deschain]

Love the presentation. 62 points seems like a lot for the bottom of the list. I wonder if the points are gonna get much higher or if everything is gonna be super tight.

[Little Ash]

Sometimes I think I've seen bits and pieces of What's Eating Gilbert Grape, but then remember that it's Benny and June that I've seen a little bit of. I do have a Johnny Depp starring movie somewhere on my ballot. Hopefully it'll make the countdown.


Takeshi Kitano is someone I've encountered more as an actor (e.g. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Battle Royale, a number of others) than as a director (Hanna-Bi, and only Hanna-Bi). I've not seen Sonatine but I had heard of the title (though nothing of contents. Presumably stylish crime movie, I guess without reading the synopsis). I'll probably get around to some of his films some day. I say the trailers for Hanna-Bi on so many VHS tapes I rented back in the late 90s... it only took nearly three decades for me to watch it.

Seen: 0 for 2.

[Torgo]

Sonatine is like Norm from Cheers of the countdowns. It shows up in every one of them!

But anyway, it is my favorite Kitano movie, who is one of my favorite directors, but it still didn't make my ballot. It probably would have if we got to choose 30-50 movies. If you don't know anything about Kitano, I believe this would be a good entry point into his filmography.

[Citizen Rules]

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

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...that the movie only made #100, geez:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I'm stunned I tell ya! I really thought that it would've placed much higher. *add insulting comments here:D:D:D*

I had What's Eating Gilbert Grape as my #2 giving this gem of a film 24 points...And no this is not some nostalgic favorite movie of mine. I seen it once like 20 years ago and watched it again for my Back to the 90s (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=71706) movie watch log.

[Citizen Rules]

..what the hell do the 90s look like anyway?...Like this (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2515078#post2515078)

Love the countdown's presentation style, it pops! And really liking Quint's daily reveal followup post, nicely done!

[ueno_station54]

ngl takeshi kitano makes me want to turn the tv off any time i see him.

[rauldc14]

It's been a long time, but I hated Sonatine.

Gilbert Grape is pretty good but I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to see it on here.

[Thief]

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I think I said it in the Prelim thread when the topic came up, but I haven't seen What's Eating Gilbert Grape in a very long time. I do remember liking it, and thinking DiCaprio was great, but it's mostly a blur (which will probably be the case with a lot of 90s films).

I haven't seen Sonatine. My experience with Kitano is very limited; only seen Violent Cop.

[Thursday Next]

I thought Sonatine would be higher. I had it at #5. Looks like quite a high points threshold to make the list.

[Wyldesyde19]

Seen neither. Gilbert Grape is one I keep putting off but I guess I should see it soon.
Sonatine is Kitanoand I have no excuse for not watching it yet. I expect Hanabi to appear as well, which I have seen

[Wyldesyde19]

I've seen everything in the top 100 - and just went and had a quick look, and I've seen them all until the 217th entry - so that's a good run. I'll have to add that 217th flick to my watchlist just for the heck of it.

So, I need to crash, but I wanted to read the posts here before I did (I was hoping to see CRs reaction, since he campaigned for #100).

I'll return with 2 more in the AM tomorrow.

That’s actually quite impressive!

[Robert the List]

I've seen everything in the top 100 - and just went and had a quick look, and I've seen them all until the 217th entry - so that's a good run. I'll have to add that 217th flick to my watchlist just for the heck of it.

So, I need to crash, but I wanted to read the posts here before I did (I was hoping to see CRs reaction, since he campaigned for #100).

I'll return with 2 more in the AM tomorrow.

That's absolutely insane.

It wouldn't surprise me it there's at least 100 in that 216 that I've not seen.

I'm delighted that you're finally going to get to watch Bodyguard though.

[Citizen Rules]

I've seen everything in the top 100 - and just went and had a quick look, and I've seen them all until the 217th entry - so that's a good run. I'll have to add that 217th flick to my watchlist just for the heck of it...Damn impressive!

[cricket]

I haven't seen Gilbert Grape but would like to at some point.

Sonatine was just ok for me.

[mrblond]

#100. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) was my #8 for eighteen of my points.

I saw this movie twice in a theatre when it came out and several more times since then. Lasse Hallström became one of the noted figures in my circles. That's a perfectly filmed unique story with great cast. Juliette Lewis, in her hey days, here in one of her four cult films in a row, wow! Hope the other three also going to make the list. To share here, I had a crush on this lady in those years.
Yes, I was also shocked to see Gilbert Grape on the edge at #100. I Hoped, it gonna make top 80.

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25. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill... (1995) [one pointer]

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[Citizen Rules]

#100. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) was my #8 for eighteen of my points.
...Juliette Lewis, in her hey days, here in one of her four cult films in a row, wow! Hope the other three also going to make the list. To share here, I had a crush on this lady in those years... After watching What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, I decided to watch some of Juliette Lewis' 90s films as she impressed me as a really solid actress. Last night I watched That Night (1992) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105572/), good film and a strong performance from Juliette Lewis.

[mattiasflgrtll6]

It will definitely never make it on here, but Kalifornia is one of her standout performances if you ask me, and is an overlooked gem worthy of more appreciation. Also features Brad Pitt at his very creepiest and most repulsive.

[Thief]

It will definitely never make it on here, but U-Turn is one of her standout performances if you ask me, and is an overlooked gem worthy of more appreciation. Also features Brad Pitt at his very creepiest and most repulsive.

You're probably thinking of Kalifornia, which features both Lewis and Pitt. U-Turn is the one with Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Billy Bob Thornton, among many others.