The MoFo Top 100 of the Nineties
 

Greetings. Wasn't the Millenium Countdown fun? Even though most of you picked the wrong movies I still enjoyed it. Picking the crazy decade of the nineties as our next countdown is an obvious choice, chances are it will members here have seen more from this decade than any others, from the previous century/millenium that is. So here we go. And don't worry about which films you pick, if I feel you've made the wrong choice(s) I'll simply change it to something that I feel is more deserving. And just to get things started right, American Beauty is the wrong choice. You have been warned.

Rules
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-Submit your top 25 movies to me in a PM with the title "Username - Mofo Top 100 of the Nineties"
(of course, don't put "Username" in the title, I want you to include yours. I think this will make it easier for me to search through if need be, so thanks in advance)
-Your top 25 must be ranked 1-25, and no ties, those are lame anyway.
-Deadline for entries is July 1st, 2013. No exceptions.
-No changes to the list once it has been submitted! You don't have to submit your list until July 1st so take your time, especially if you're the indecisive type. None of this, "I just saw Three Colours: Blue for the first time and want to add it to my list." or "I completely forgot about American Beauty!" You see, that last quote is double-lose, for one you're making post-submission changes, and two you're voting for American Beauty. Not good.
-I think I'll keep Brodinski's rule of "New members can send in their Top 25 as soon as they've been on the MoFo for one month. This measure is taken so that the list isn't influenced by members who've been on here for a week and then pack their bags and never come back. If we get too many of such lists, the Top 100 wouldn't be really representative of the MoFo's taste." I like this rule.
-And this one as well: "Films that are part of a series (Three Colours Trilogy) must be regarded as SEPARATE films. It is not permitted to submit an entire trilogy as one entry."
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-Films will be given points as follows: 1st gets 25 points, 2nd gets 24 points, 3rd 23 points, and so on until 25th gets 1 point.
-As for which films will be eligible for inclusion into the countdown I'll keep it simple, any film with an imdb year between 1990-1999.
Examples:
Mystery Train: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097940/ - Not allowed.
Night on Earth: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/ - Allowed!
Get it? Great.
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-NEW RULE - Do not post your lists until after the complete top 100 has been posted. If you do, as of Feb 20th, 2013, your list will be disqualified.

So I think that's it for the rules, but as I am dictator of this little project I'll change them as I see fit, should anyone question my authority. Okay, I'm joking about that, and while I'm confessing about my joking I'll add that (being uncertain everyone will get that I was joking - you never know) of course I won't be changing people's lists, and of course you can vote for whichever film you like, even American Beauty.
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So let's thank Brodinski for the great work he did for our last countdown. And I'll thank Yoda too, our fearless leader, who has kindly volunteered to help.

May the best film win!
(probably Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction, but that's okay)

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Members' lists so far:

The Rodent
Guaporense
Miss Vicky
Sexy Celebrity
Tyler1
cricket
syj
Camo
Nausicaä
Cream
TokeZa
teeter_g
Hitchcockian
Frightened Inmate No. 2
Thursday Next
nostromo87
Gunslinger 45
mark f
TheUsualSuspect
rauldc14
edarsenal
Harry Lime
Brodinski
Cobpyth
edwardc77
Gabrielle947
Pussy Galore
linespalsy
Mr Minio
Sinny McGuffins
Psychic Isaac
gandalf26
meatwadsprite
Frank The Tank
Skepsis93
Masterman
Mingusings
Sane
Godoggo
honeykid
jal90
Daniel M
JayDee
donniedarko
jiraffejustin
wintertriangles
Yoda
HitchFan97
ThomasP
stevo3001
TylerDurden99
BlueLion
Deadite
DexterRiley

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Skepsis' 90s list
1. American Beauty

Come to think of it that's actually a very distinct possibility. That is, unless I see something I prefer between now and July.

Looking forward to it already. :)

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I need to start making the list!

I'm happy to follow the rules, Harry, but I don't think that I can submit Three Colours Trilogy as separate entries. I think that should be an exception.

No exceptions, sorry. And hey, I agree, personally I thought LoTR should have been one entry, but we can't start making exceptions for this or that.

How about this? Three Colours Trilogy fans, I propose that we should only vote for Blue as the representative for the entire trilogy. Does that work?

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If it was possible with Lord of the Rings then it's possible with Three Colours.

EDIT: Blue is the worst of them to me, so no. Red is the best. :P

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Should be less to catch up on to compose a list but a lot more out of memory. Are we strictly ruling out members posting lists here? Would be handy for some prompts.

Yeah...but...that doesn't matter.

I think it's best if they keep their lists private until the end like we did last time. I'll look around for other lists, top tens of each year, top of the decade, if that will help.

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Yeah, I can always look myself despite being reasonably lazy but that would be good.

Help avoid point 4 on dem rulz ;)

That suits me fine. Fair deal.

I think we should allow the trilogy to be voted for as a whole. You wouldn't split up The Decalogue into 10 movies, Kieslowski's films are intended to be whole, it's just not commercially viable.

That being said, I think we should definitely come up with some system to make sure it's well represented. I think Mr. Minio is right, Red is the best, you seem to think Blue is the best, but there's no reason to divide us. Also, will our list be ordered or unordered?

EDIT: Nvm, just saw it's supposed to be ordered, lame.

Commercially viable, wow. Well, first off it's technically not a movie, and second...
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Again, like Minio you seemed to miss the point, it does not matter which one we pick. I chose Blue because it was first, that's it. Red is my favourite of the trilogy as well, despite your assumptions. And in the end it does not matter, vote for whichever of the trilogy you like, all or none, Red or Blue or even White. It was just a proposal to solve the problem.

Films that are part of a series (Three Colours Trilogy) must be regarded as SEPARATE films. It is not permitted to submit an entire trilogy as one entry. This rule stands and lists that do not comply will be disqualified.

And to just make this one last point here, if you don't like it you don't have to enter.

Seperate films are seperate films, it doesn't matter if they're intended to watched any other way. If it meant that much, they'd wait and release them all at once.

Secondly, Blue is easily the best of the Colours Trilogy.

Thirdly, of course it's ordered! That's how it gets ranked. However, once it's over and we start posting our individual lists, then we'll get to see them in their full glory and the discussion can continue unrestrained.

Bring on the 90's! Possibly my favourite decade in cinema and, after the 1970's, the best.

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Disregard.

What's the difference between everyone agreeing to back one and putting the three together? Seems like a whole lot of fuss for nothing. I say separate them, just like LOTR in the last countdown.

I'm voting for Blue as it is so...sure!

But thematic trilogies are different from chronicle trilogies/quads/etc, thus I see literally no reason why you would count Three Colours as one entry. Wayne's World 1&2 on the other hand...

You're probably right, but by allowing one trilogy then we open the door for other films of the sort.

Actually, as it stands with only individual films, both Red and Blue will likely make the list, what with all the support I've seen here. Add Veronique and we have three Kieslowski films in the top 100 which is pretty cool. I change my mind, no proposed film to represent all three. Hope others agree.

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Yippee-ki-yay, MoFo!

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I still have to see Red but as of right now I prefer White to Blue and may vote for it. I like the first, but I don't see the meat of the Three Colours sandwich getting much love around here, which is a shame because I think it's very good. Underrated, maybe.

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Mark can't wait for the new Die Hard movie.

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Sent my list in...

Probably got one or two that everyone else has voted for, but most of mine have probably been overlooked by everyone else.

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Not true; I just wanted to use that line.

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As for counting trilogies as one big film... I think that's daft.

Ok, LOTR and Three Colours etc everyone says "They're one big movie"

But surely then Alien can be classed the same way. And Die Hard, Spider Man, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Star Wars and so on and so on...

The way I see it... a film is a film. Whether it's part of a wider series or not.

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I say if the Three Color fans wanna go and rally behind one movie to gauruntee a good position, let em do it. But I think the official countdown should keep em seperate. Less fuss that way

Also, I'm waiting till the end to submit my list again.

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I'll definitely wait until the end to submit my list. I have a lot of watching to do, at least as much as I did going into the Millennium Countdown.

My list is done, just needs to be put in order. This was way harder than the Millenium list. So many of my favorites are from the 90's.

Looking forward to being a part of it.

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Just compiled my "to-watch" list...needless to say I'm waiting til June to submit.

Question, why is the thread under the Member Reviews area?

I suggest for you Only Yesterday (1991). I think this movie is really a must see that few people here have watched.

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Contained my list.

There is a world of difference between the Lord of the Rings and any other series you cited.

The Lord of the Rings was produced and filmed as a single film, based on a single book (which also was cut into three parts by the publisher) and released in three 3 hour parts over three years for the obvious reason that nobody would sit through a 9 hour film. If any series of films should be understood as a single film it is The Lord of the Rings.

While ALL the series you cited began as a single movie project, which then, after the initial success, convinced the producers to deliver "more of the same", and they made several other films, filmed and produced each on its own.

I liked most films I watched from this list and there are 5 movies there in my own list. Though there are some rather mediocre stuff there for my tastes (i.e. Lion King, Unversal Soldier, Scream, Die Hard With A Vengeance). But overall, still a good list.

First you submit your list six months before the due date, then you go and share your list with everybody when Harry already said "No List Sharing!"

I will not "+Rep away :D" like you said. For starters, Flatliners should have been your #1 movie (so with possibly my help, it could get on the list), not that godawful Alien 3. And WHERE the Hell is Young Guns II? You are so not loyal.

July is a long wait, though. I would have made the due date in March.

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I didn't see the no sharing rule... woops.

As for Young Guns II... it's rubbish.

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Very pumped for this, and I think July is a good due date. Gives everyone real time to think about it. Like many others, you probably won't get my list until May or June at the earliest.

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All the movies I've selected are long time favorites, so even if I was to watch and love something in the meantime, these 25 have time on their side and there's no way some new favorite's going to usurp any one of them. So my list will be submitted as soon as I settle on an order.

Edit: Okay list sent.

And Harry Lime will be happy to see that I, in fact, did not vote for American Beauty. He probably won't be too happy with what I did vote for, but I didn't vote for American Beauty. :D

Three lists already in just over half a day. Remember, no changes so take your time. Personally, I think I could submit my list now and it won't change much. But then I don't have to submit my list and worry about changing it, do I? Sweet.

Does anyone know how many lists were submitted for the last one? I say we try and beat it.

Looking at your list we'll have four or five in common for sure. I especially like seeing #3 that high.

And yes, let's try to refrain from posting our lists here. If everyone did it then there'd be no point in having the countdown. Mind you, it would save me some work.

Yoda. That guy. Anyway, he's fixed it. Thanks, Yoda.

Blue's my favourite of the trilogy, sometimes. My favourite used to be White, and I still adore it, but I just love theres just something about Blue that just does it for me. Red's the most critically acclaimed, and it's an excellent film, but it's probably my 'least' favourite of the trilogy.

Got it on blu ray the other week, excellent transfers, but then, Artificial Eye often have them.

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I've narrowed my list down to 62. Perhaps by July I'll have narrowed it down to the requisite 25. Although there's every chance I'll have seen more films by then, so maybe that will be easier said than done.

I don't see the problem with regarding a trilogy as separate films. They are separate films, and sometimes one is better than another. The only issue is that it takes up space on your list if you intend to vote for more than one part, I suppose. But splitting didn't harm Lord of the Rings in the Millennium countdown, and at least with it split nobody could say 'it's only number one because you combined the three films'.

And that's one of issues I have. I want all Three Colours films to do really well, but there are at least fifty 90's films that can make my top 25, I really want to give every film a chance.

Besides, if we enter them as separate films, they could easily get lost in the shuffle. Some very few will vote for Blue, some for White, a lot for Red. It just makes the chances of any film getting a decent position or even actually making the top 25 rather slim.

I think some trilogies can be viewed as separate entities, but Three Colours is an exception. Each of the three colours represent a colour of the French flag, this is thematically important when looking at all the films as a whole. If you were to split them up individually then it somewhat loses that thematic relevance, I think.


I think i'll have to watch every single 90's film that made it to my Top 100 (though that list would change drastically today) and some more I admire a lot. I'll watch at least one a week until the week before the deadline. Should be exciting.

Although it isn't a rule, I think people should not post their own lists until it's over or very close to over. Just spoils it a bit by giving a preview of what to expect.

Also I don't see why people are in such a rush to post their list already. Are you sure there isn't some hidden gem that you could watch over the next 6 months and wish to include it. You will also have to pester Harry Lime with pm's asking for certain films to be taken off and changed.

So just take your time mofo's, catch up on some you have missed.

Speaking of which could someone post a list of some of the better foreign films that could have been missed by those of us who generally don't stray to far from the mainstream.

I could... but I'm afraid that would give others a clue about my list. Currently, there are 12 foreign films on my list.

Well you could pm me if thats ok.

No. He already said that once lists are submitted they are final and he will not allow ANY changes.

Like I said, all of the movies I've chosen are long time favorites. Many of them I've loved since the date of their release, meaning they've held special places in my heart for a dozen years or more. No new favorite is going to change that.

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Great stuff, really looking forward to this. Probably wont submit my list for a while to see if I end up watching any more great films from the 90s, at the moment I have 5 definite films on my list and quite a few others which I think will make it.

That's right, no exceptions.

Cool.

Here's mine:

1. Flubber
2. Volcano
3. Home Alone 3
4. Chairman of the Board
5. Baby Geniuses
6. Barney's Great Adventure
7. 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
8. Metro
9. Plump Fiction
10. Cop and a Half
11. Eraser
12. Street Fighter
13. Highlander II
14. Cool as Ice
15. Cyborg 2
16. Batman and Robin
17. Kazaam
18. Speed 2
19. Godzilla
20. Rocky V
21. The Haunting
22. Tomorrow Never Dies
23. Terminal Velocity
24. The Peacemaker
25. Waterworld

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My one stipulation is that everyone votes for Army of Darkness

Vote for Following and i'll make sure to vote for Darkness

Don't worry Prestiege, Following will be on my list. And I ask for nothing in return

......I like Waterworld

I also like Waterworld.

I see what you did there.:D

Personally I would have had Highlander 2 at no.1.

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Waterworld, Eraser and Godzilla are all fine, enjoyable films.

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My list (which I've started working on and could send in anywhere from minutes to now to months from now, depending on where my moods take me) is probably going to look similar to Rodent's and Brodinski's. I love too many "bad" movies from the 90's.

Much like kiteboarding is a fine, enjoyable experience too... until you crash onto the beach and die.

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I reckon Harry should actually take that as Brod's list... just because.

Kazaam should be higher.

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I have sent my list. There are 10 foreign language films, 15 English language films (including one French film made in English). There are 20 live action films and 5 animated films.

My favorite film list had some severe shocks when I watched some categories of films that I wasn't aware before (i.e. foreign language films).

My 25 1990's favorites list, though, is not going to change over the next 5 months because I plan to watch more old films and more films from the last 12 years instead of 1990's films.

I just sent my list in... I will reveal 5 movies on my list in case any of you want to help them gain points:

Pump Up The Volume
Scream 2
Kindergarten Cop
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
A Very Brady Sequel

That is all.

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^^ I remember when you used that video for my Battle of the MoFos game (which you won).

You know, it's a best of the 90s list. Not worst.

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Broods is at it again... "My movies could beat up your movies"

To each his own of course. It's all in good fun, and I've always been like that. Meh.

Not saying it will be on my list (and I'm not saying it's not), but The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a fantastic film.

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I have 20 films that are figuring to be locks for my list. The other 5 are potentially up for grabs between now and June.

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Judging by your Top 10, D, Shawshank is #1, Unforgiven should be #2...

:D

I can use it in response to about half of your posts.

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Wouldn't make my list, but I love A Very Brady Sequel. Naturally, I prefer the first, though. :D

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert is one of the best movies of the nineties. Not sure it'll make my final 25, but it's close.

"That's all this country needs, a cock in a frock on a rock."

I don't prefer the first at all. It's not bad - it's funny - but the sequel is way better, in my opinion. I really enjoy it - it's campy, it's wild, it's got good humor, it's got RuPaul, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Rosie O'Donnell, it's got non-porn incest, it's got Hawaii and a drug induced cartoon sequence. I think it's a gem.

It would be a damn shame if it didn't make the countdown.

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I'm gonna rewatch both my potential number ones before submitting, since neither are on my top 10 I guess I'm even keeping that secret. Well if you've seen my Top 31 horror list, than you know one of the two potential winners.

That is if I don't see a new number one by June...

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I've been plowing (fast-forwarding) through a lot of 90's stuff for this. Attempting to construct the ultimate list.

Damn. It's really hard to make this list. I narrowed it down to 60 names now, with 12 who are sure to appear.
How do you guys actually make these top 25-lists? Some films are very hard to compare to eachother, in my opinion.

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I do it in a flimsy, best-I-can-do-so-screw-it kinda way.

I filled out mostly using the 1990's films from my top 100 favorites. The ordering was pretty much the same as in my top 100 favorites. Them I filled out remembering the other most memorable films I watched from the 1990's.

Though you appear to have watched a greater number of films than I did, so it may be harder to narrow it down.

Whatever one has the coolest DVD cover.

When is the deadline?

EDIT: Nevermind, I got it. Duh, forgot to look at the first page.

I just go with my gut feeling of which ones I love best, while also factoring in things like originality and, for this list, how well the films represent what I picture when I think of the decade.

Edit: I should add that if I truly love a movie, it'll be found in my DVD collection(http://www.angelfire.com/music6/walt...s/Year.html#90). So I start by copying and pasting the qualifying movies from my website and then start eliminating and arranging them according to the factors listed above.

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I write down the ones I can think of offhand, check years, and then I check some "Best Of" lists to see if I'm forgetting anything (which always happens, as I'm not really used to thinking of movies in terms of specific decades).

Then I put them into rough tiers, and then just do comparisons. I look at one and ask myself whether or not I like it more or less than the ones just above or below it, move it up or down correspondingly, and repeat for awhile. A few minutes later, I've got a pretty decent approximation of my preferences. At that moment in time, at least.

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I already have lists of every movie I've ever (remembered having) seen ranked and organized by year-of-release. I put together my top overall 25 from that list and between now and when I submit it I'll go back and look at it periodically, until I feel okay with the ranking.

Doesn't seem to be a lot of Micheal Mann love on the forums but I just want to remind people of his 3 amazing 90's films.

Last of the Mohicans
Heat
The Insider

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I was scrolling through my 1001 Films you must see before you die book and sure enough-- The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

I also have a list like that (but alphabetically ordered). I'm just having difficulties comparing some movies with eachother. Oh well, I still have some time. I already have my number 1, so that's already something!

The authors of that book surely had to fill out 1001 films, so they truly had to use anything available. I watched, I think, only a little over twice that number of films over my life. Usually these greatest movies lists have like 250 movies, so you can keep out anything that's not surely gold.

Anyway, that book has some crappy movies and they left some obvious classics as well.

Overachiever. :p

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I could knock up a list fairly quickly, but I'm hoping to revisit some old favourites, as well as a few I'm unsure of, before the deadline.

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So,any recommendations what to watch? :D

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Satantango

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Showgirls

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I know that's an attempt at irony, but Showgirls is definately worth watching.

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Here's my watchlist for this one.

Unforgiven
Dances With Wolves
Malcolm X
Sling Blade
Titanic
Braveheart
The Usual Suspects
The Sixth Sense
Barton Fink
JFK
Dead Man Walking
The Piano
Quiz Show
Jackie Brown
Short Cuts
Shakespeare in Love
The English Patient
Scream
Three Colours: Red
Breaking the Waves
Secrets and Lies
Miller's Crossing
In the Name of the Father
Three Kings
Eyes Wide Shut
The Fisher King
Edward Scissorhands
As Good As It Gets
Princess Mononoke
Out of Sight
A Few Good Men
The People vs. Larry Flint
Slacker
12 Monkeys
Jerry Maguire
The Last of the Mohicans
Pretty Woman
Misery

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Showgirls doesn't caught my eye and Satantango is just too long.Short Cuts looks interesting,I used to love comedy and drama mix. :)


Ok,I made my short watchlist of films I'll deifinitely see: JFK,The Funeral,The Fifth Element,Barton Fink