Weekly Discussion: Your Favorite 90's Films • Page 2

The Matrix (1999)
The Lion King (1994)
Heat (1995)
Desperado (1995)
The Professional (1994)
Mortal Kombat (lol)

 

1. The Lion King (1994)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
3. Toy Story (1995)
4. Good Will Hunting (1997)
5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
6. Groundhog Day (1993)
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
8. Aladdin (1992)
9. Toy Story 2 (1999)
10. Jurassic Park (1993)
11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
12. Titanic (1997)
13. The Sixth Sense (1999)
14. The Crow (1994)
15. Space Jam (1996)

damn near impossible, had to limit myself to 15

 

That one is pretty dark

 

This one

 

Drunken Master II (some of Jackie Chan's best work)

Theres a ton more but most have already been said so whatever.

 

I can't even begin to try and make a list....I'm very fond of my childhood tastes haha and I love everything the 90s has to offer.

But first off the top of my head include Clueless, Titanic, Homeward Bound, Scream, and of course all Disney movies.

 

Top 5 I remember watching as a kid in the 90s: Hook, Free Willy, The Little Rascals, The Mighty Ducks and D2: The Mighty Ducks.

 

So many good titles guys ;D yesterday they aired American Pie on TV so I watched it again with my girlfriend, it's not very deep, but it's pretty nostalgic, it was great to hear all those songs.

 

Me fucking too, like those exact 5

 

I feel like the biggest dick for leaving out Free Willy and Hook. 2 of my favorite movies of all time

 

Many of my favorite filmmakers put out some of their strongest work in the 90s: Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown), Coens (Fargo, Barton Fink, the Big Lebowski), Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Slacker, Before Sunrise, SubUrbia), PTA (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Total Recall), Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Schindler's List), Spike Lee (Malcolm X), Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore), Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, I even like Dogma).

Then there are master filmmakers whom either only put out one film in the 90s, or I've only seen one of their 90s films, or only one of their 90s films are worth mentioning: Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day, Chantal Akerman's From the East, Sodebergh's Out of Sight, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Scorsese's Goodfellas and Malick's the Thin Red Line.

Outside of the independent scene explosion I actually think the 90s were really weak in mainstream movies, few of the big blockbusters had anything substantial to say when put up against a Verhoeven or Spielberg, but I have a few favorites in Terminator 2, the Sandlot, the Toy Story films, There's Something About Mary, Three Kings, Election, Princess Mononoke, Kicking and Screaming, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kids, the Iron Giant, Se7en, Office Space, True Romance, Hoop Dreams, Unforgiven, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Titanic.

I spent a lot of the 90s watching kids movies or dumb comedies, I'm sure most of them don't hold up well (I'll defend the Sandlot, however). I liked Adam Sandler fare there was a boom of kid-centric sports movies in the decade. Little Big League, Rookie of the Year, Little Giants, Angels in the Outfield, the Mighty Ducks. Rather than insist they're good and hold up, though, I'll let them live in the 90s, where as a kid I quite enjoyed them.

Oh, and a Goofy Movie was pretty dope.

 

Wholly agree on the action front (though not necessarily with all the films you chose) but I would say it was pretty much downhill for how most action films and how action in any genre of film was shot by the time the early 2000's rolled by. Only have to look at how well filmed the action scenes in a pair of films that weren't action films in say Titanic and the pyroclastic flow scene in Dante's Peak were filmed with long shots and practical effects, today they would be edited and made just like you stated.

 

As for some of my favorites (in no particular order) -

Casino
American Beauty
In the Line of Fire
Speed
True Lies
Falling Down
Jurassic Park
The Silence of the Lambs
Jackie Brown
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Tremors
Goodfellas
The Ref
L.A. Confidential
Dead Man Walking
Heat
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Usual Suspects
Total Recall
Face/Off

 

1. Braveheart
2. Before Sunrise
3. End of Evangelion
4. Groundhog Day
5. American Beauty
6. Aladdin
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Fight Club
9. Trainspotting
10. Tarzan
11. Pulp Fiction
12. Boogie Nights
13. The Matrix
14. The Silence of the Lambs
15. Se7en
16. Edward Scissorhands
17. Falling Down
18. Beauty and the Beast
19. Toy Story
20. Twelve Monkeys

That's probs my top 20.

 

Not enough people appreciate Falling Down.

 

Anything Nic Cage did.

Shawshank
Schindler's List
Braveheart
Gladiator
Speed
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Wayne's Word 1/2
Scream
Event Horizon

Loads more.

 

1. Scream (obviously)
2. Heat
3. Jurassic Park
4. T2
5. Goodfellas
6. Fight Club
7. Scream 2
8. Se7en
9. Twister
10. Speed

 

Watched Being John Malkovich last night, that should be on my list.

 

I've yet to see this..it's embarrassing.

 

Do it, it's so good.

 

Anyone say The Birdcage yet?

 

My favorite Robin Williams film, also the first R-rated film I saw in the theater.

 

I've been on a weird kick the last week or two where I just want to watch horrible 90s movies...

Freaked
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
Spaced Invaders
Troll 2

All that kind of shit has been all I've been watching lately. Any other golden doozies?