Greatest Film(s) of the 1990s

**stann** · 08/01/2009, 2:10 PM

Was just about to post La Haine too (1995 I think).

Winner must be Pulp Fiction.

Honourable mentions for Fargo, Shawshank, I Went Down, Nil By Mouth and Secrets And Lies.

**pete** · 08/01/2009, 3:47 PM

Originally Posted by Heliodorus

Pete, that film is from the 2000's not the 1990's

Doh! No excuse given I even wrote down the year

**HarpoJoyce** · 08/01/2009, 4:27 PM

A fish called wanda
The crying game.

(Hav't thought about, just want to mention films no-one else has.)

**Lionel Ritchie** · 09/01/2009, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by HarpoJoyce

A fish called wanda
The crying game.

(Hav't thought about, just want to mention films no-one else has.)

...not a 90's movie. Released in 1988.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 09/01/2009, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Some of my favourites

Fargo
Barton Fink
Magnolia
American Beauty
Trainspotting
Dumb and Dumber
The Mask
Buffalo 66
Shawshank
Truman Show
Usual Suspects

Movies I have not seen yet. ah The Mask ...my first viewing of Cameron Diaz and my subsequent arrest for lewd conduct having unwittingly dragged myself clean out of the cinema. What a day that was...

**dfx-** · 09/01/2009, 2:12 PM

Originally Posted by Bluebeard

Downfall? I would rate that as one of the weakest films of the 1990s. Indeed, so weak it was that it was little more than a number of books and diaries, not a remote degree of cinematic sense. The film was greatly enhanced by being made, in the following decade.

Weaker than Titanic?

The Mask

**Neish** · 09/01/2009, 2:25 PM

Originally Posted by dfx-

Weaker than Titanic?

Not much weaker the Titanic, except prehaps Pearl Harbour but I hear Australia has the potential to steal the crown

Originally Posted by dfx-

The Mask

Well the mask did gives us Cameron Diaz, worthy of a few brownie points

**SaucyJack** · 09/01/2009, 2:53 PM

Seven
There's something about Mary
Resevoir dogs
The last of the mohicans
The last Boy scout

**Bluebeard** · 09/01/2009, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by dfx-

Weaker than Titanic?

In terms of Downfall as a film of the 1990s, it is rubbish - it didn't exist in a cinematic sense until mid 2003, when storyboards and rushes were being cobbled together.

And are you suggesting that Titanic is weaker than Showgirls, Striptease or Mannequin on the Move? And that isn't considering Z grade tat like Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy, Jason Goes to Hell, The Neighbor, etc.

**gustavo** · 09/01/2009, 11:10 PM

I enjoyed Titanic , not bad at all

**Neish** · 10/01/2009, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

I enjoyed Titanic , not bad at all

I really hope you are being sarcastic

**Lionel Ritchie** · 10/01/2009, 11:25 AM

Titanic and Pearl Harbour have massive amounts in common actually in terms of their structure, bloatedness, fluff and the fact that you can join either with only 20 minutes left and miss absolutely nothing of substantial import to the core story.

**Neish** · 10/01/2009, 2:27 PM

Originally Posted by Bluebeard

In terms of Downfall as a film of the 1990s, it is rubbish - it didn't exist in a cinematic sense until mid 2003, when storyboards and rushes were being cobbled together.

And are you suggesting that Titanic is weaker than Showgirls, Striptease or Mannequin on the Move? And that isn't considering Z grade tat like Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy, Jason Goes to Hell, The Neighbor, etc.

No but it wasn't much better. Titanic was just an average long drawn out love story with a big special effects budget

**Bluebeard** · 11/01/2009, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by Neish

No but it wasn't much better. Titanic was just an average long drawn out love story with a big special effects budget

Economically, and in terms of waste of human time on a grand scale, probably the worst film of the 1990s alright. However, remove the context of feeling ripped off, and Titanic is not nearly as bad as Mannequin on the Move, for example, it was better made, even if indulgently written and shot, and certainly more watchable. And then look at Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy. About 15 minutes should be enough...

That said Titanic is a dreadfully bland film, and certainly not one I care for. For the record, I'd rather have a tooth removed than have to watch Titanic again. Unless I was getting my end away as a result, in which case, I'll buy the DVD.

And while I'm here, I will controversially name Die Hard 2 as one of the best American flicks of the 1990s...

**Closed Account 2** · 11/01/2009, 2:14 AM

yippie kay yay to that

**HarpoJoyce** · 11/01/2009, 4:45 AM

The Grifters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHS5KfDmxg

**Heliodorus** · 11/01/2009, 2:13 PM

Any chance a mod would set up a poll?

**eamo1** · 11/01/2009, 3:45 PM

Great decade for films.
A Bronx Tale.
Forrest Gump.(cant believe none of ye mentioned that one yet,a classic).
Shawshank Redemption.
Those 3 are my top 3 favourite movies ever and are all from that decade.

**noby** · 12/01/2009, 7:25 AM

Titanic wasn't weak, per se. It's just that they left the bulkhead doors open.

Throwing that much time and effort at it (not to mention money) they had the potential to make a great movie about the Titanic - instead they went for this schmuck of a love story. It didn't even feel like a love story; more like two annoying kids running around on a ship.

**Bluebeard** · 12/01/2009, 8:59 AM

Originally Posted by noby

Titanic wasn't weak, per se. It's just that they left the bulkhead doors open.

Throwing that much time and effort at it (not to mention money) they had the potential to make a great movie about the Titanic - instead they went for this schmuck of a love story. It didn't even feel like a love story; more like two annoying kids running around on a ship.

The best moment in it was that love scene in a car, if I correctly recall, for two reasons:
1. The way the hand reaches out against the steamy window - a shot straight out of Cameron's other films Aliens and one of the Terminators, possibly 1.
2. It was a Saturday in Savoy one, and the place was jammed - it was early in the run and I had no idea what I had naively agreed to. We got the tickets early in the day for that evening. I only got a hint of it when we arrived and the telltale signs were to be had by looking at the crowd - teenies, tweenies, couples with a bloke looking either mildly irritated at missing Match of the Day or with a bloke looking like he was desperately hoping that this would guarantee him getting his hole that night. We sat down, and from before the trailers, the crowd of teenage girls in the row behind me and my mot of the time were talking sixty to the dozen, about how "Jacinta was a duuuuuuuuurty prossey, talkin' ta Sharrr'n's Way-un", and the like. This generally continued the whole time, with short breaks, when they switched from irritatingly gossiping to irritatingly simpering every time di Caprio appeared on screen (nearly said "came on screen" there - people might get the wrong idea

).

Anyway, when the love scene is on the cards, there was that standard moment in the mainstream cinema of "We're an adult audience, and we are now going to pretend that we can watch this film with a critical eye, so instead of giggling, we'll be silent". It was complete silence. Things developed, everyone knew what was next, and then, from behind me, this low, but owing to the silence, incredibly clear teenage voice said "Sllllluuuut!". Needless to say, the place errupted. Best damn thing to happen in the whole film.

I'd still do Kate Winslet all the same though.