Best film of the 90s..

As the title reads.......what do u regard as the best movies of the 90s. One english title and one foreign.

I'd say Pulp Fiction for the english quota, based primarily on Tarantino's crisp dialogue, that ripples with humour, found even in the most ironic situations.....and does not simply rely on vulgarity.
There is also an abundance of quoteworthy lines to found, amongst numerous small details only caught after multiple viewings.

That combined with a strong ensemble cast makes a real winner in my book _b

Regarding foreign film i'd have to say the Three Color Trilogy since they only really function as the entire trilogy.

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Check out THIS existing thread for picks of Best of the '90s.

Marty Scorsese's GoodFellas (1990) was the best of the decade in my book.
That would be followed closely by Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992), The Coen Bros. Miller's Crossing (1990) and Peter Weir's Fearless (1993)

My five favorite foreign-language films of the decade...
1. Delicatessen (1991 - Caro & Jeunet)
2. la femme Nikita (1990 - Luc Besson)
3. Insomnia (1997 - Erik Skjoldbaerg)
4. Run Lola Run (1999 - Tom Tykwer)
5. Nattevagten (1994 - Ole Bornedal)


You also may want to take a peek at THIS older thread too.

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I was going to say GoodFellas too.

It far outdoes everything that followed for the next ten years.

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hey holden, nice picks...

Run Lola Run is an absolutely fantastic film, no need to say my fav was goodf3llas, Miller's Crossing is a must see (although I'm a fan of most of Coen Bros work) Unforgiven was excellent, I saw the first half hour or so of fearless the other day but I fell asleep through it (it was on very late) now I'm pretty pissed off. Delicatessen was excellent, but City of the Lost children was better in my opinion.

A film everyone seems to have omitted is festen (made in 1998) - can't recommend it enough!

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Thought this could provide some food for thought.
Hopefully L.B and Holden will, well, tear this list apart.
The year 2000 wasn't technically in the '90's. So sue me.


Major Award Winners in the '90's

> academy awards

1990 -- Dances With Wolves
1991 -- The Silence of the Lambs
1992 -- Unforgiven
1993 -- Schindler's List
1994 -- Forrest Gump
1995 -- Braveheart
1996 -- The English Patient
1997 -- Titanic
1998 -- Shakespeare In Love
1999 -- American Beauty
2000 -- Gladiator


> golden globes

1990 -- Born on the Fourth of July
1991 -- Dances With Wolves
1992 -- JFK
1993 -- Unforgiven
1994 -- Schindler's List
1995 -- Forrest Gump
1996 -- Braveheart
1997 -- The People Vs. Larry Flynt
1998 -- Titanic
1999 -- Saving Private Ryan
2000 -- American Beauty


> sundance grand jury prize

1990 -- Chameleon Street
1991 -- Posion
1992 -- In The Soup
1993 -- Ruby In Paradise
1994 -- What Happened Was
1995 -- The Brothers McMullen
1996 -- Welcome To The Dollhouse
1997 -- Sunday
1998 -- Slam
1999 -- Three Seasons
2000 -- You Can Count on Me and Girlfight


> berlinale golden bear

1990 -- Music Box
1991 -- La casa del sorriso
1992 -- Grand Canyon
1993 -- Women from the lake of scented souls
1994 -- In The Name of the Father
1995 -- The Bait
1996 -- Sense and Sensability
1997 -- The People Vs. Larry Flynt
1998 -- Centeral Station
1999 -- The Thin Red Line
2000 -- Magnolia


> cannes palme d'or

1990 -- Sailor and Lula
1991 -- Barton Fink
1992 -- The Best Intentions
1993 -- Farewell my Concubine and The Piano
1994 -- Pulp Fiction
1995 -- Underground
1996 -- Secrets and Lies
1997 -- The Taste of Cherry and The Eel
1998 -- Eternity and a Day
1999 -- Rosetta
2000 -- Dancer in the Dark


> venice golden lion

1990 -- Rosencrantz and Guildestern are Dead
1991 -- Urga (Close to Eden)
1992 -- The Story of Qui Ju
1993 -- Short Cuts and Blue
1994 -- Before the Rain and Vive l'amour
1995 -- Cyclo
1996 -- Michael Collins
1997 -- Hana-bi
1998 -- The Way We Laughed
1999 -- Not One Less
2000 -- The Circle


> european film academy (the felix)

1990 -- Open Doors
1991 -- Riff-raff
1992 -- The Stolen Children
1993 -- Urga (Close to Eden)
1994 -- Lamerica
1995 -- Land and Freedom
1996 -- Breaking the Waves
1997 -- The Full Monty
1998 -- Life is Beautiful
1999 -- All About My Mother
2000 -- Dancer in the Dark



My fingers hurt.

My picks for best picture from 1990 to 2000 and the runner-ups would look like this for me.

1990
I know I'm going to get it on this one for not putting Goodfellas in

1.)Jacob's Ladder

Runner-up
Miller's Crossing


1991

1.)JFK

Runner-up
David Mamet's Homicide


1992

1.)Hard Boiled

Runner-up
Reservior Dogs


1993

1.)The Age of Innocence

Runner-up
Schindler's list


1994

1.)Ed Wood

Runner-up
The Hudsucker Proxy


1995

1.)Seven

Runner-up
Heat


1996

1.)12 Monkeys

Runner-up
The Ghost and the Darkness


1997

1.)The Game

Runner-up
2.)Boogie Nights


1998

1.)Pi

Runner-up
Hurlyburly


1999

1.)Eyes Wide Shut

Runner-up
Fight Club


2000

1.)American Psycho

Runner-up
Memento


Some great forgien movies of the 90's but no where close to all of the great ones maybe Holden can elabrate on this list and make it bigger and better.

2000 - Rivières pourpres, Les (The Crimson Rivers)

1997 - Insomnia

1993 - Sonatine

1992 - Hard Boiled , Zentrope , Orlando

1991 - Delicatessen

1990 - La Femme Nikita

I'll second La Femme Nikita.

shawshank redemption was a great movie

Um.
Yes.

Braveheart

i go with academy's picks in 1990,91,93,94,95,00
Im glad Gladiator won all though Crouching Tiger was a close second for me. 1998 pisses me off. Shakespeare in Love????????????????/you have got to be kidding me. Saving Private Ryan=best film that year. The Thin Red Line also a close second.

Gladiator was a BAD, BAD movie.
It was nice to look at in places. But it was BAD.
Please. Look at in the context of a story. It was not a good story. It really truly wasn't.

IT.

WAS.

BAD.

Best Picture?
Nah-uh.

If you want me to go further and really get into this film with a decent argument, please, I will be only to pleased to do so.

Best Picture? Nope. BAD? NO! Absolutely not. It was entertaining as hell...at least for me. It was exciting. It was violent. What more could you want?

A movie that isn't boring, cliched, corny, and overrated. Me and the bullet agree on something for once.

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Pshaw. Boring? Call it anything but boring. People being beheaded and fighting tigers and getting cut in half is anything but boring.

I like violence, don't get me wrong, but Gladiator's was boring. Call me crazy. Everything BUT the action scenes lulls me to sleep, and the action scenes themselves bore me, because it's full of stuff I've seen before in better movies.

Chris, there was only one scene of that film that WASN'T boring. It was the scene when those guys are wearing the heads of cows and they smash the slaves in the face and such. At the end of the scene Maximus asks, "Are you not entertained?" He should have added, "Because as far as entertainment goes, that's it for now, kids."

Reed was good. It often looked very nice. Morrocco was a great star of the show.

But it was trying to recreate something that it wasn't. It was trying to be an epic in the vein of Ben Hur or Spartacus. I don't dispute it could have been a great film (with the exception that in order to be truly epic it needs to be real), but it was slowed down by boring dullness. A storyline that was not interesting.

It was a boring film, with violence (and only two decent scenes of that anyway) injected to give it a jolt of life. And for a moment, yes, it was working. But you can only electroshock something into life a certain number of times before you burn it to death -- or you shock it too little and it dies.

Of boredom.

To each his own, to each his own.
At least Ridley tried. I blame the script, personally.

What can I say? I thought virtually every battle scene was entertaining. Longer than it had to be, I agree...but I still thought it was a good movie.

Wha? LOTR wasn't truly epic?

Ridley is visually superb, which is kind of a shame looking at some of the scripts he works with.

Exactly. To each his own, and may God have mercy on our souls.




Lol. I knew the moment I made the post that'd come back to get me. I don't think it's the special effects and fake buildings and statues and stuff that makes Fellowship an epic. I personally think it's the story.

I withdraw my comment, and change it a little, perhaps?

An epic isn't about what it looks like. Visually grandiose isn't epic. A story is epic. A tale is epic. Gladiator looks nice, but it ain't a good story.

How's that?
Nicer?