The MoFos Top 100 of the 90s Countdown - Redux

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1 week ago

Originally Posted by I_Wear_Pants

Fifth Element feels like a film that was supposed to start a franchise and ultimately didn't. I don't know how accurate that is or if it was always stand-alone. It just felt like they were building up to a sequel, yet we never got one. There was a lot of mythos there they could have explored if they wanted. I guess they didn't.

Franchises weren�t really a thing till later. The most anyone hoped for was a sequel. Star Wars and Star Trek were the only franchises going at the time. At least, that�s how I remember it.

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1 week ago

Originally Posted by beelzebubble

Franchises weren�t really a thing till later. The most anyone hoped for was a sequel. Star Wars and Star Trek were the only franchises going at the time. At least, that�s how I remember it.

That sounds reasonable. I didn't see it when it came out, I don't think I knew it existed until eight years later, so I'll take your word for it. It also came out two years before Episode I, so Star Wars was still just a memory (other than the Special Editions).

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1 week ago

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Remember Judgment Night (this showed in my youtube queue today).

Remember the Judgment Night Soundtrack? Now that was something.

Saw it in the theater. We did not love it.

stillmellow

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1 week ago

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Remember Judgment Night (this showed in my youtube queue today).

Remember the Judgment Night Soundtrack? Now that was something.

Holy crap! I had that soundtrack! It kicked ass!

The Movie sucked, but that soundtrack was amazing.

John-Connor

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1 week ago

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Remember Judgment Night (this showed in my youtube queue today).

Remember the Judgment Night Soundtrack? Now that was something.

Yes, we watched this on DVD or VHS and liked it alot.

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John-Connor

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1 week ago

Short Cuts is a gazillion times better than Magnolia. With solid performances by the all-star cast; Andie MacDowell, Jack Lemmon, Tim Robbins, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Chris Penn, oh and hello Julianne Moore

, to name a few. I respect the film more than I love it but understand the people that do love it. Watched The Fifth Element in the theatre on release but it didn't have the impact on me that Luc Besson's L�on: The Professional or Willis� Twelve Monkeys did.

Many list worthy titles have been talked about in the past couple of days. And because they most likely won't make it, I want to give some appreciation to.
Out of Sight, The Limey, Sling Blade and Tremors. All between

and

films. They're all on my top hundred from the decade but I didn�t have any more room left for them on my ballot.

Holden Pike

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1 week ago

Originally Posted by stillmellow

I had no idea that Sean Penn had a second brother in the business. At first I thought they meant singer Michael Penn.

And now i have "No Myth" stuck in my head.

Wait, you didn't know Chris Penn was Sean Penn's brother, but you did know Michael Penn is?!?

If you think that is surprising, just wait until you find out that Beau Bridges is the brother of Jeff and not, in fact, the cousin of Golden Gate and Nash.

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Holden Pike

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1 week ago

As for a blind guess on today's pair...I'll double up on Luc Besson right away and say L�on: The Professional plus more Takeshi Kitano with Hana-Bi/Fireworks.

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1 week ago

One last word about Short Cuts. I did like that Madeleine Stowe was in it. I loved her in anything I saw her in. Such a beautiful, talented woman. And she just sort of retired from the biz from what I've heard. A shame. Well, there's always the movies of hers I can watch again. Except for the one above.

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Cure

Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997

Starring

Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa

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The Thin Red Line

Director

Terrence Malick, 1998

Starring

Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Ben Chaplin

Captain Quint

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1 week ago

2-way tiebreaker broken up total ballots (9 to 8)

Director Terrance Mallick made his return after a 20-year hiatus with The Thin Red Line. Reportedly, the first assembled cut took seven months to edit and ran five hours. By the final cut, footage of performances by Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas, and Mickey Rourke had been removed (one of Rourke's scenes was included in the special features outtakes of the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD release).

Cure - The film was released by Shochiku-Fuji Company on December 27, 1997. It received widespread positive reviews from critics and is considered a progenitor of the explosion of Japanese horror media in the late 1990s and early 2000s, preceding other releases like Hideo Nakata's Ring and Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On.

In 2012, South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho listed the film as one of the greatest of all time

Cure was previously unranked, Red Line was #28

Allaby

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1 week ago

I thought Cure had an interesting premise, but for me the execution wasn't great. There are some good moments, but the film is not as compelling or interesting as it should be. I found it slow at times and it felt longer than it was. Performances were alright, but I wasn't that impressed with anyone. I didn't consider it for my ballot. The Thin Red Line is a film that I love. It's poetic and beautiful with a fantastic cast all contributing to the film's greatness. The Thin Red Line was my #4.

Seen: 46/46

Holden Pike

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1 week ago

In addition to The Thin Red Line placing #28 on the first '90s list it was also #17 on the MoFo Top 100 War Films.

ueno_station54

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1 week ago

i thought we had gotten too far into the countdown to see Cure i'm so happy. a movie i always really liked despite on paper not being my thing at all but catching it in theatre really illuminated how good and how evil this movie is. it helped that that was my wife's first time seeing it and afterwards her heart was still racing like crazy and said "that's the best movie i've ever seen". was #3 on my ballot

have ways wanted to see thin red line but haven't gotten around to it.

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1 week ago

54. Cure (1997) - I like Kiyoshi Kurosawa's stuff, and I first came across Cure during a Hall of Fame quite a while ago. Rated it 4/5. I used to write huge reviews here and just summarize quickly on letterboxd back then - so on the latter site I just noted : "Darkly atmospheric, mysterious and haunting. Kiyoshi Kurosawa film involving a chain or murders that seem to have been brought about by a psychology student who hypnotizes those he comes into contact with. Cold, quiet and dimly lit, with lengthy shots and an ending in keeping with it's lack of exposition - it leaves you with a feeling of dread." That pretty much sums it up. I'm a Pulse person, myself, but Cure is good enough.

53. The Thin Red Line (1998) - Yeah, a firm favourite this one. Rated 5/5 on letterboxd. After the most recent of many viewings I wrote "Who knew war could look so beautiful? Everything looks so crisp, with the bright greens of the vegetation contrasting with the reds, yellows and blacks of explosions. It gives the Americans fighting in this Guadalcanal campaign pause for philosophical musings - such is their proximity to death. I didn't appreciate The Thin Red Line enough when it first came out, but over time I've fallen in love with it's poetic wonder and visual refinement. Star-studded stupendousness." There's a lot more to be said, but I'm sure that'll all come out in this thread over the next 24 hours. The Thin Red Line couldn't not be on my ballot - I had it at #13.

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Seen : 47/48
I'd never even heard of : 1/48
Movies that had been on my radar, but I haven't seen yet : 0/48
Films from my list : 8 + 1 pointer

#53 - My #13 - The Thin Red Line (1998)
#57 - My #17 - Barton Fink (1991)
#66 - My #6 - Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
#68 - My #23 - Apollo 13 (1995)
#74 - My #18 - Election (1999)
#78 - My #2 - The Blair Witch Project (1999)
#81 - My #22 - Before Sunrise (1995)
#96 - My #15 - Fallen Angels (1995)
1-pointer - Deep Crimson (1996)

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ApexPredator

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1 week ago

Seen 24/48

Hadn't seen Cure or The Thin Red Line.

The List:
21. JFK (#59)
25. Hurricane Streets (1 Pointer)

CharlesAoup

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1 week ago

Wee! Cure was my third place!

The most interesting thing the movie does, to me at least, is how much you get to hate the villain without him being cartoonishly evil and clearly targeted at the audience so they stay and hope he gets what's coming, like Joffrey from Game of Thrones. I usually don't jive with serial killer type movies, but this one is so compelling, so perfectly paced and tempered. It's as hypnotizing as it should be, really. Did not see Thin Red Line though.

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