The MoFos Top 100 of the 90s Countdown - Redux

I like Twelve Monkeys but it's been a long time since I last watched it. If I'd gotten around to a rewatch, it might have had a chance at my ballot but I didn't. Glad to see it here.

I haven't seen Sense and Sensibility.


Seen: 42/52
My Balllot:
7. A Perfect World (#61)
9. Point Break (#79)
10. Edward Scissorhands (#64)
12. True Romance (#94)
17. The Fifth Element (#56)
24. Interview With the Vampire (#92)
25. Untamed Heart (One Pointer)

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Ooh, doubled my output today!


6. The Remains of the Day (#75)
11. The Fugitive (#72)
15. Sense and Sensibility (#49)
22. Twelve Monkeys (#50)

12 Monkeys is amazing and it's an A film, so I came very, very close to putting it in my list, but ultimately didn't want to cut out anything I had on it.

Perhaps the best use of the Dutch angles since The Third Man or East of Eden.

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Two more great movies make the countdown!

I've seen both and really liked them too. I watched them again in prep for this countdown and wrote this about them:

Are these good things? They sound tongue-in-cheek, which I frequently find amusing.

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Man I forgot about Twelve Monkeys or it would have made my list. Oh well. It's cool to see it on here. Terry Gilliam rocks, and anyone who knows me probably knows why I think that. It's a captivating film, although I think I only watched it the once many years ago. That's probably why I forgot about it.

I don't know anything about Sense & Sensibility.

That should put me at 17/52 seen. I know I've seen a fair amount of 1990s films. I guess I just see obscure and weird things.

If vive l'amour doesn't make this countdown top 100 it'll be hilarious.

Like others have said, 12 Monkeys was a big favorite back in the day. However, I haven't seen it in a long time, which is probably why I didn't put it on my list. Still think about it often, though, plus it has my man David Morse in a small role.


Same applies to Sense and Sensibility. I absolutely loved it when I saw it, but it's been easily 20 years since. I've been meaning to rewatch it for a while cause this is one that really stuck with me, and even had it on my short list.

So once again, no votes from me.


SEEN: 34/52
MY BALLOT: 4/25

12 Monkeys was inspired by a film in my top 100. La Jetée.

dude...

Sense and Sensibility (1995), what a pleasant surprise to see this film making the list so high, even much higher than the cult in the scope Remains of the Day (1993). I didn't know that it is so known and loved movie in the forum.
This title been often on the TV channels here during the last decade so I've seen it several times. What a style... Rickman, Thompson, Grant, Winslet... wow!
No vote from me, it would make my top 50 though.


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I've seen 12 Monkeys once, about 15 years ago, need re-watch. I have other Gilliam film on my ballot, slightly hope to see it in the next couple of reveals.

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Indeed, Emma Thompson won the Oscar for adapted screenplay, and she succeeded in weaving a lot of humor and cleverness into the dialog while still (to my uneducated ears at least) remaining true to Austen.

I'm usually not one to notice blocking and staging, but this scene is always just so satisfying.



Marianne has chided Elinor for her apparent coldness, and in a completely uncharacteristic outburst Elinor finally confesses her secret and her pain. And Marianne stands paralyzed, teary-eyed with guilt. And ... it is Elinor who must rise and go across the room and comfort the sister who just wounded her. Such a powerful way of continuing to build the two sisters' characters and relationship even this far into the narrative.

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It expands both the short film and Gilliam's skills as a director into new territories. So a comment like "dude..." suggests that you are likely proud of some right to decide for other people what should be their preferences. Word of advice, no one here would hate you if you liked Dragon Ball Evolution.

Actually, lemme make another point on Gilliam. Gilliam is half-an-inch away from one of those "special place" directors on my Directors List, reserved for directors who get 3 movies scored 100. Both Holy Grail and 12 Monkeys are 100 for me. Fisher King would've been a 100, but it slightly dragged on, so... I gave it a 99.5. HA.

But if you can go from fantasy parody to sci-fi thriller with a movie like Brazil in between, it kind of suggests that he can direct anything. And you gotta admire the artistry of a man who tries to make a movie in which half of people love it and half of people hate it... and it scores 51% on RT (Fear and Loathing). The guy UNDERSTANDS people.

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I grew up in the 1990s and I've only seen one third of these films. What on Earth did I watch?

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Surprised about Sense and Sensibility. It's good. Top 50 good? Well I don't think so but it's not up to only me. Raul wants me to bring out the gong but sorry buddy can't do it. We have standards here. It's all very scientific. 12 Monkeys is awesome and am happy to see it this high up. It didn't make my list but would have made my top 50. I appreciate that we can have La Jetee, an amazing short, groundbreaking even, and we can have 12 Monkeys, a remake at its core but expanding on its predecessor, and being just as exceptional in its own way. Knowing Hollywood and history it could have easily gone the other way.

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All I know is The Waterboy had better make this list!

12 Monkeys is one I've actually seen, and though I thought it was okay, that's all I really felt about it. I think like many people it's most memorable part is just Brad Pitt playing an asylum patient for a few scenes.

Didn't know or totally forgot that it was a Terry Gilliam movie. Terry Gilliam has always been the weakest of the Pythons to me, his animations merely added a bit of unhinged personality to their skits, and while some love his movies, they are a pretty consistent miss for me.

I think the only ones I've actually "liked" were Time Bandits and Baron Munchausen, but despite their eccentricities (or perhaps because of their eccentricities), I struggle to remember much about them.

I should probably rewatch them, but 12 Monkeys is much too serious to share their appeal and I didn't bother to rewatch it for this Countdown.

I also saw Fisher King recently, mainly because it was a recommendation based on my preferences and it's just the bad kind of Robin Williams movie. I didn't even know Fear and Loathing was a Terry Gilliam movie, but now that it is...

...well let's just say that he's not quite David Lynch levels of "get the **** away from me".

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Interesting how Sense and Sensibility was in almost half of the ballots that 12 Monkeys was in, and still got more points. Three people have already said they had S&S at either #1 or #2 so that should give you an idea of the kind of film it is.

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I've never seen Sense and Sensibility and don't really know much about it.