The MoFos Top 100 of the 90s Countdown - Redux

The Blair Witch Project making it higher than some of the other great movies so far is... weird to say the least.

Don't get me wrong. I do enjoy it. It's atmospheric, creepy and the found footage format benefits the story instead of feeling like a gimmick. I can definitely see why it's become such a staple of the horror genre.

It's just far from an all-timer in my opinion.

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Blair Witch? Meh.

Beauty and the Beast is ok, but there's certainly better animated films from the 90s. But I think it's deserving of a top 100 spot though. Hopefully there's a few more animated that show yet. I'm still thinking 3 more should.

The Y2K panic seems very silly in retrospect, but it was about the fear computers were going to shut down the grid because of their programming. It wasn’t a magic day pulled out of thin air. Pretty sure computers aren’t worried about the technical definition of millennium.

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Blair Witch: Saw this first around the time it came out and it gave me genuine creeps. Revisited within the last year or so, and ... not so much anymore. Back then, the "found footage" technique seemed cool and edgy. But second time through, it was a tad annoying. Nothing against this ... might make a more focused "horror" list for me.

Beauty and the Beast: One of those movies I saw not because I wanted to, but because it was popular and I thought, well, guess I should try it, even though traditional Disney animation has rarely ever moved me. (Except for Bambi, shown to us impressionable first graders in school. Scarred for life. But "April Showers" always impresses.) Anyway ... BATB: Cute, entertaining, fluffy. I cant bring myself to like it or dislike it. It's just another movie. So not on my list.

Seen: 14/24
Ballot: 2/25
Sleepless in Seattle: #91 / My #3
Office Space: #95 / My #23

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Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

If you're looking for that kind of sense in an action movie, I think you're going to be disappointed more often than not. It's probably also not a very good action movie.

I really liked BWP when I saw it and I've seen it a couple of times since and still liked it. Last time I saw it was a few years ago and it really felt like a relic from a long time ago. Almost quaint. Strange to remember the reputation it came over here with from the US. So many people I know/knew at the time hated it (either because of the film or the motion sickness/headache they got), but I just ate it up. Folk Horror isn't really my bag, but I just like this film.

Obviously I've not seen BatB.

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One thing I love about Point Break... is when it was remade in like, 2015, everyone screamed and it bombed.

But when it was remade in 2001, it spawned 11 movies in total, and all of them are worse than that 2015 remake.

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The Blair Witch Project didn't make my ballot, but it was one of the contenders.

Beauty and the Beast is pretty good, but it was never in contention for my ballot.

Gummo, Blair Witch, Point Break....

Well at least the ones that matter showed up.

Have they ever made a movie based on the premise that the global computer crash would have happened?
If not, then I hereby officially claim story copyright for any projects dealing with that concept.

I remember renting the Blair Witch VHS and the lady behind the counter tried to convince me that it was all real, based on "new information" regarding missing actors.
Poor, gullible cow.

Die Hard 4.0

That's about a cyber attack, not the fallout of an unavoidable failure in the calendar data.

Swap out a computer nerd for a system crash and it's the same movie.

Worked for a systems security company in Silicon Valley at the time. Key engineers in the office as midnight began to dawn around the globe. I was on call to update the website in case anything noteworthy should happen. No one ... and I mean no one ... in the industry thought it would be anything but a snoozefest. Which it didn't. But we played the part because we knew that was what was expected due to the intense publicity.

I think one thing that kept the frenzy stirred up was that tech reporting at the time was relatively unsophisticated (still is, exacerbated by click-bait profiteering). I remember one story that drifted around the internet at the time, about the "leading edge" of the crisis, when a Florida business sent invoices for some time in the year 1900. Turns out they were using Windows 95, hadn't updated their system or apps for eight years.

On New Years Eve 1999-2000 I sent out about 400 text messages... I think 100 of which were random numbers I just typed in by hand, not knowing where they were going.

¥

I am the Millennium Bug
By simply opening this message, I have infected your phone.
And I will crash your phone by midnight.
Thank you for your time.
Goodbye

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The sheer amount of texts I got back was insane calling me every name under the sun.

I've never heard of the 2001 remake, but the 2015 one is among the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. I would be amazed if they manage to top it in its sheer agressive awfulness.

I would like to check out the original some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fa...ous_(2001_film)

Oh.

It was a joke.

Not exactly.
FF is a scene for scene, plot for plot remake of Point Break.

Swap surfing for illegal car racing... everything is the same.

This made me laugh. So true

Sounds like the beginning of a great Science Fiction Horror movie, when The Millennium Bug texts you back with a message like "You're next!"