Favorite Movies of 1990?

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01-17-24

Originally Posted by Brody At Amity

A lot of my favs have been mentioned.

Just looking at 1990 releases and I noticed a lot of great thrillers came out that year:

Pacific Heights
Narrow Margin
Presumed Innocent
Misery
Arachnophobia
The Hunt for the Red October
Die Hard 2
Q and A
Bird on a Wire
Kindergarten Cop

^ Nice selection. Went through your top ten movie phone calls (great list idea by the way) I would add the phone call between John Malkovich and Clint Eastwood from In The Line of Fire '93.

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Brody At Amity

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01-17-24

Originally Posted by John-Connor

^ Nice selection. Went through your top ten movie phone calls (great list idea by the way) I would add the phone call between John Malkovich and Clint Eastwood from In The Line of Fire '93.

Thanks for checking that out.

Yes, that's definitely a call that's worthy of the list!

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stillmellow

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01-17-24

Originally Posted by JohnSpartan1982

Ah yes 30 years ago, i was 8 years old and saw lots of movies on video and theaters.

My top 25 movies of 1990.

Total Recall

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Goodfellas

Predator 2 (criminally underrated)

Darkman

Hunt for Red October

Exorcist 3

Robocop 2 (i find this very underrated and it was the last time Robocop was a badass who took no prisoners and all before becoming watered down)

Jacob's Ladder

Pacific Heights

Night of the Living Dead

Gremlins 2

Child's Play 2

Tremors

Back to the Future 3

Misery

Edward Scissorhands

Flatiners

Home Alone

Hard to Kill

Marked for Death

Archnophobia.

Nightbreed.

Die Hard 2

Days of Thunder

HMs: Frankenhooker, The Witches, Tales from the Darkside the movie, Graveyard shift, Marrow Margain, Men at Work, Dark Angel, First Power, Hardware, Lionheart, , Navy Seals, Rescuers Down Under, Ducktales the movie, The Amblunce The Guardian, The Last of the Finest and Fire Birds

That's a great list! Glad I'm not the only person who likes Night Breed. Check out the director's cut if you haven't already. Tremors is one of my favorites too. And I completely agree on Robocop 2.

The first TMNT is another one that kinda gets forgotten these days. It was a lot darker in tone than and of the other movies, and by far the most similar to the original comic.

Citizen Rules

Noir Time

01-17-24

There's only three movies that I love from 1990:
Dances with Wolves
Back to the Future Part III
Total Recall

mrblond

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01-17-24

Top tier:

Alice
The Hot Spot
Wild at Heart
Misery

Good:

Nikita
GoodFellas
Reversal of Fortune

Honorable mentions:

Pretty Woman
Presumed Innocent
Mermaids

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01-18-24

Using all of your lists up there, here's my favorite movies from 1990:

1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Total Recall
3. Back To The Future 3
4. Goodfellas
5. Predator 2
6. Die Hard 2
7. Cry-Baby
8. Gremlins 2
9.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10. Dick Tracy
11. Arachnaphobia
12. IT

The only movies here that Ive seen recently are Edward Scissorhands and Cry-Baby. The rest is going on old expired memory.

SpelingError

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01-18-24

1. Miller's Crossing
2. Goodfellas
3. Trust
4. Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
5. Misery

hacxx

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01-18-24

Only good movies.

Gideon58

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01-18-24

Originally Posted by mrblond

Top tier:

Alice
The Hot Spot
Wild at Heart
Misery

Good:

Nikita
GoodFellas
Reversal of Fortune

Honorable mentions:

Pretty Woman
Presumed Innocent
Mermaids

Nice to see some love for Alice...great movie.

Captain Steel

"Lois, I never lie."

01-18-24

Joe vs the Volcano

stillmellow

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01-18-24

Originally Posted by Mesmerized

Arachnophobia
Awakenings
Back to the Future Part III
Child's Play 2
Dances with Wolves
Ghost
Home Alone
The Hunt for Red October
It
Kindergarten Cop
Mermaids
Misery
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Repossessed
The Rookie
Total Recall
Tremors

Lot of good underrated gems here, including Psycho 4 (suggested tagline: please disregard the previous 2 movies).

stillmellow

Basic Non-B

01-18-24

I only meant this to be a top 10, but it was such a great year.

20. Robocop 2
19. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
18. Darkman
17. My Blue Heaven
16. Total Recall
15. Psycho 4
14. Kindergarten Cop
13. Goodfellas (overrated)
12. Jacob's Ladder
11. Nightbreed (Director's Cut)
10. Rosencranz & Guildenstern are Dead
9. Edward Scissorhands
8. Ghost
7. Back to the Future 3
6. The Witches
5. A Shock to the System (a hidden gem!)
4. Misery
3. Tremors
2. Home Alone
1. Miller's Crossing

John-Connor

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01-19-24

Originally Posted by stillmellow

I only meant this to be a top 10, but it was such a great year.
17. My Blue Heaven
11. Nightbreed (Director's Cut)
10. Rosencranz & Guildenstern are Dead
5. A Shock to the System (a hidden gem!)

^ Watchlisted, A Shock to the System looks good, great year indeed!

Prieneus

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01-19-24

Total Recall
Home Alone
Nightbreed
Misery
Ghost
Flatliners
BttF 3
Tremors
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Die Hard 2
Edward Scissorhands
Problem Child
Bird on a Wire

These come to my mind.

And from the lesser known ones:

Shadowzone

stillmellow

Basic Non-B

01-19-24

Originally Posted by Prieneus

Shadowzone was like a lower budget version of From Beyond (1986). If you haven't seen it, I recommend it.

It's always nice to see James Hong unexpectedly though. The lovely Maureen Flaherty was a welcome addition as well.

Wooley

Victim of The Night

01-19-24

In no particular order:

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
After Dark, My Sweet
Frankenhooker
Miller's Crossing
Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead
Arachnophobia
The Grifters
Paris Is Burning
The Freshman
Truly, Madly, Deeply
La Femme Nikita
Metropolitan
The Hunt For Red October
Total Recall

Captain Steel

"Lois, I never lie."

01-19-24

Originally Posted by Prieneus

Ooh! Flatliners!
One of my faves!

sawduck

Registered User

01-19-24

Miller's Crossing
Quick Change
Total Recall
GoodFellas
Pump Up the Volume
Back to the Future Part III
King of New York
Misery

skizzerflake

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01-19-24

I recall 1990 as a dead zone for anything great, but there were a bunch that I liked and were kinda well regarded.

Goodfellas
Dances With Wolves
Darkman
The Hunt for Red October
Jacob's Ladder
Postcards from the Edge
Pretty Woman
The Godfather III

Then, there were the ones I really enjoyed. Those would be

Home Alone
Edward Scissorhands
Ghost
Joe vs the Volcano
Tremors (an all time favorite, regardless of decade)
Cry Baby (a local favorite John Waters directing a somewhat local cast of misfits that included Johnny Depp in an early appearance, not to mention a character called "Hatchett Face")
Arachnophobia

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