The MoFos Top 100 of the 90s Countdown - Redux

7. True Romance (1993)
9. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
20. Sonatine (1993)
23. Porco Rosso (1992)
25. Stay Tuned (1992) (1 pointer)

First 15 in, 4 made my list so I guess I voted correctly. I don't know how many comedies are going to make the cut so happy to see My Cousin Vinny score highly.

Stay Tuned was my 1 pointer, it's a John Ritter comedy about a man sucked into a TV with the catch being it's Hell. Eugene Levy and Jeffry Jones also star in the film. It's really a remarkable use of blending the society of the 90's Cable with episodic set pieces of torture told in a tight 90.



I was going back and fourth on animated or foreign titles, so I compromised and put Porco Rosso. Sonatine also made my list mostly because the other foreign options left me with a sense of apathy.

True Romance made my top ten, it's my favorite of the Tarantino films, mostly because someone else directed it and focused it more to a cohesive story that didn't take all those side trips that Tarantino loved. I don't think Tony Scott would ever make another list from me in any category.

As for the other nom's,


Red - It's fine, I rewatched White recently and they are good films but not really that memorable.

Gummo - hated it, the extreme film era of the 90's had a ton of overrated dogs in it I think Gummo is the worst of the bunch.

Deadman and What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Johnny Depp two-fer, I really don't care for Jarmusch films I find them to be incredibly dull. Gilbert Grape is okay but it's aged poorly and they wouldn't make it today.

The Celebration was fine when I first watched...got worse on second viewing.

Office Space, nice to see a comedy showing up it was good but somewhat overrated.

Interview with a Vampire, I think this might be underranked to be frank one of the better Vampire movies of all-time and a damn solid period piece. This might be Brad Pitt's best work.

The Crow, one of the best comic films of the 90's that led to a terrible franchise.

Gattacca is fine I think this could use a prestige TV remake because the ideas where great as a science fiction neo noir but they didn't have the focus to tell a good noir story.

Total Recall a film that I consider one of the last of the 80's films, the parts are better than the final result

Sleepless in Seattle a romcom made the final 100...bit of a shock I wonder if a second one will make it.

Seen 14/15

Another fine pair to make the countdown. Same as yesterday, both of these are in my top 150 of the decade but not on my ballot.
Dead Man, is also my 27th favorite Western of all time, Jarmusch is dope. It would be cool if Night on Earth and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai also make the list but I doubt they will. I've re-watched Gattaca for a Sci-Fi Hall of Fame and that made my appreciation for it grow. It's currently 64th on my all time Sci-Fi 100.

Seen 15/16
Ballot 00/25

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I recently rewatched Gattaca and it holds up pretty well. I wish we got weird little sci if noir movies like this more often.

Haven’t seen Dead Man.

Two very good films which didn't make my ballot.

And we have reached one of the most glaring omissions from my ballot, with Gattaca. What a shame I managed to space this one out, as I place it in the top echelon of science fiction filmmaking. Really chuffed off about it, but at least it made it onto the list. Believe it or not, this isn't the most egregious mistake I made with my ballot, with a couple of other films I am stunned I somehow missed still to come. This is what you get when you don't put enough time and effort into the ballot process. It's my own damned fault!

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I blame Maria Montessori.

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

My name isn't Robert, but I have so, soooooo many lists it's easy as pie to find the appropriate one, and pop out a quick 25, easy peasy.

And people laughed and said I was wasting my time on such things... but who's got the last laugh now, who?! Certainly not the people who don't have a ready-made list when they need one in a pinch.

Yeah, that was me. I'm really happy I was able to get it onto the countdown at all, though I'm slightly aghast that my contribution was necessary to make it happen, because it's a minimalist masterpiece (in part because it doesn't feel minimalist).

One of many lovely little details throughout the film. There are literally dozens, some of them extremely clever. We detail most of them in the podcast we did about Gattaca almost exactly ten years ago, actually! You can listen to it immediately:



And here's the discussion thread for it where we get into even more.

Gimme Danger is actually the only thing I've seen from him.

There's a Mofo Podcast playlist on YouTube!

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Dead Man is a movie I love so much, it's on my ballot! It's the first movie, out of three seen and sixteen revealed, I actually like, and it's on my list. I wasn't sure if it'd even make the countdown.

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I hate insomnia. Oh yeah. Last year I had four cases of it, and each time it lasted three months.

Indeed. Should've done it sooner. I do have an embedded player for the MP3s on here which I used in all the threads and stuff, but I find people are just a lot more likely to click if it's YouTube/familiar. So they're basically all up there now.

More later but Dead Man is the first film from my list to show up. It's spectacular and is my no. 10 pick. More later if I get time, but it's a clever and unique film - a tone poem and hallucinary revisionist western made by a great filmmaker. It's a film that I absolutely love despite my misgivings about it's all too simplistic "white man bad" and "nobel savage" characterizations and world view. While the themes were done many many years before and presented far more dynamically and less obviously in Little Big Man and even moreso in The Searchers, Jarmusch's style and atmosphere is anything but conventional.

Dead Man is a film that I infinitely admire and also is a prime example that we don't have to agree with a film's message or view to find brilliance in it.

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Gattaca and Dead Man fall into that category of "always meant to see but still haven't." No excuses, just haven't. Therefore, not on my list, dammit!

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Exactly. That is definitely one of the things I think of when I say "It's a good script." I quite liked Trotter at the end. Same goes for the Sheriff.

I didn't take that as a joke by Stan but as a demonstration of how ignorant he was about this place and people.
I hear what you're saying about Tomei, I guess the fact that I met people whose accent seemed that outlandish to me when I finally went to Brooklyn and the fact that she's from there made it more credible to me.

It occurred to me when watching Alphaville that Uma's character in Gattaca had echoes of Ana Karina's Natacha von Braun. Maybe not quite as innocent but I thought it was there. Anyone else get that vibe?

Totally agree with this.