QuoteThe Shawshank Redemption and SavingPrivate Ryan would be up there with the best too.
I wonder what do people consider to be the best film or films of the 1990s. I was talking about it with A Face and he was considering putting up a poll about it if posters want to nominate some films from that decade for consideration. I thought about the subject for a little while and a few films pooped into my head from that decade like Schindlers List, The Three Colours Trilogy, Toy Story (surely one of the greatest animated movies ever), American Beauty, Groundhog Day and The Usual Suspects but if I were to pick one film from that decade it would be Fargo from the Coen Brothers.
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The Shawshank Redemption and SavingPrivate Ryan would be up there with the best too.
Coleman for Ireland
The Ghost and the Darkness for me
The Model Club
Tell all the Bohs you know
that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
I notice a rather American slant in the film selection. Here are a few crackers from the mainland that I would rate over any already mentioned.
Le Femme Nikita (Besson, Fr, 1990)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, Fr 1991)
Three Colours: Blue (Kieślowski, Fr, 1993)
La Reine Margot (Chereau, Fr, 1994)
Underground (Kusturica, Yugo, 1995)
Breaking The Waves (Von Trier, Den, 1996)
Insomnia (Skjoldbjærg, Nor, 1997)
Festen (Vinterberg, Den, 1998)
Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run (Tykwer, Ger, 1998)
Sitcom (Ozon, Fr, 1998)
All About My Mother (Almodovar, Sp, 1999)
And those are just some of the ones I've seen, naming eeach director only once. And I left out Taxi!
Has nobody else thought to mention The Butcher Boy?
NB: Written over the space of several hours, so I've prolly missed loads
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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Originally Posted by Dodge
Thin Red Line, Life Is Beautiful, Big Lebowski, True Romance and Aladdin would be my nominations
Two very good further shouts...would add Europa Europa (1990)
The Model Club
Tell all the Bohs you know
that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
Wanted to, but I never got to see all of it, owing to a rather rubbish reception I lived in when last it was on the box. I do rate Underground higher than the others though.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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Since non-US films mentioned i'll add The Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)
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.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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I'm only mentioning those I think have a real chance of being the very best films of the decade - in no particular order -
Three Colours White (and White only, not Red or Blue)
Silence of the Lambs
Cyrano De Bergerac
Unforgiven
Howards End
Raise the Red Lantern*
I'm sure I've forgotten some classics as well.
*Despite the fact that I said "in no particular order", Raise the Red Lantern was the best film of the decade.
Goodfellahs (USA 1990)
South Park -Bigger Longer Uncut (USA 1999)
Trainspotting (UK 1995)
Coneheads (USA 1994)
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Ghost,Swayze was brilliant in that and Top Gun.......pure genius
forrest gump
schindlers list
event horizon
The lion king
A perfect world
Chamon Mothafcuka......he heeee.
Probably La Haine (around 1995) a surreal film decades ahead of it's time....
It's the internet, stupid
Godamit! Top Gun was 1986 - what part of the 1990s is 1986? Use the incredibly powerful research tool if necessary there at your fingers
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Wasn't Pulp Fiction in the mid '90s? So why did no one mention it?
It would be an easy winner but for the fact there's stuff like Goodfellas, Fargo, and Silence of the Lambs in the mix.
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I THINK he might have been taking the ****.Godamit! Top Gun was 1986 - what part of the 1990s is 1986? Use the incredibly powerful research tool if necessary there at your fingers
Either that or he's a high profile presenter of a flagship digest show on TV3.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Pete, that film is from the 2000's not the 1990's
Some of my favourites
Fargo
Barton Fink
Magnolia
American Beauty
Trainspotting
Dumb and Dumber
The Mask
Buffalo 66
Shawshank
Truman Show
Usual Suspects
Fargo was crap.
Dumb and Dumber.
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