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Rating the 90s
I've decided to go through a semi-comprehensive chronological list of films released between January 1990 and December 1999. I'm using the following as my source:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/index1990.php These are not going to be comprehensive reviews and if I liked the film as a child and have not seen it again in adulthood it stays as "like". Feel free to join me as I haven't seen a lot of these films. Will start with: January, 1 Brain Dead - $1,627,955 - <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BnCfUpw-i7A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Saw this film in 2010, it was originally released as Brain Dead, but many of you will know it as Dead Alive. I liked it. January, 12 Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III New Line - $5,697,588 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nY7n9IKerag" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Insane film. All I remember is that it wasn't very good. January, 12 Ski Patrol - $8,000,000 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0yikMEiBgu0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Not as funny as the trailer would suggest. Take that as you will. January, 19 Tremors Universal $10,000,000 $16,667,084 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/liJfZvXdiTE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> First time I saw this film was on basic cable. Loved the fuck out of it. All the sequels sucked. Too bad. |
Tremors is fucking awesome.
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I'm currently on a similar kick at the minute as I'm going through all the films on the top 250 list on imdb. Started it because I was bored, checked the list and realised there was a whole bunch that I hadn't seen, and so decided I'd watch all of them. Trying to watch like one a day, not always possible for whatever reason, but I'm currently on 96/250 having started on something like 62/250. I was going to make a thread like this and give little reviews on them all but then I just never got round to it.
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Absolutely fucking love Tremors.
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Well I watched Twelve Monkeys last night. I enjoyed it because I generally like anything involving time travel, but it didn't exactly "light my fire" in terms of groundbreaking storytelling. Bruce Willis was kinda just okay, Brad Pitt was at his comedic best though.
You did say brief reviews, right? |
I loved the soundtrack of Twelve Monkeys more than anything. Yeah, but don't let me limit you with that. The only hard rule here is it has to be a 90s movie.
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Braindead 8/10 - Better than the lotr trilogy
Tremors 8/10 12 Monkeys 7/10 Going to post a list of my 20 favourite movies of the 90s. Just gotta figure out what they are. |
Good luck, Mitch.
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Had to bump it to 25...
1. Pulp Fiction 2. A Brighter Summer Day 3. Boogie Nights 4. Magnolia 5. Barton Fink 6. The Sweet Hereafter 7. Goodfellas 8. Glengarry Glen Ross 9. Chungking Express 10. The Big Lebowski 11. Happiness 12. Beau Travail 13. Satantango 14. Being John Malkovich 15. Dead Man 16. Ed Wood 17. Rushmore 18. Fightclub 19. Groundhog Day 20. Before Sunrise 21. Three Colour Trilogy 22. Hoop Dreams 23. The Matrix 24. Terminator 2: Judgement Day 25. The Celebration Good decade for movies some runner ups were Fargo, Close-Up, Aladdin, Crumb, The Ice Storm, After Life |
I've only seen 11 of those films.
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Is Tremors that shit with the massive worms and shit?
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I was a little bored. Each rating is based on how much I liked it, how many times I have watched it or for nostalgia reasons. Some won't make sense obviously due to this.
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90/10.
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What the math man?
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Out of all the films from the 1990s, I think Dumb and Dumber was the most watched comedy I ever saw and the Bond films for action stuff not involving Schwarzenegger.
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Hard to Kill? More like Hard to watch. Wakka wakka wakka.
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Less a Fozzy joke and more a two old guys joke.
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Waldorf and Statler are the two old guys. But anyway I'm just gonna focus on 1999 bc in my opinion that was the best year in movies in my lifetime.
Fight Club 10/10-one of my favorite films of all time. Love the nihilist and anti consumerism tones of the film and it had Meatloaf with bitchtits. American Beauty-9.5/10-Lester doesn't give a fuck anymore and he almost fucks his kids friend. Magnolia-9/10-Tom Cruise shoulda won an Oscar for this. Office Space-10/10 I think anyone that has worked in a soul crushing office can relate. American Pie-7/10 Shannon Elizabeth. Eyes Wide Shut-7/10 more like Pants Around Ankles |
Bio-Dome was the greatest movie of the 90's. Period. End of discussion.
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I will do this soon enough, but Mallrats is probably #1 for me.
The summer of '90 looked pretty awesome. May 24th through July 18th. |
Mallrats was fun. I tried watching Chasing Amy about a year ago and it lost whatever magic I thought it had when I first saw it. Too bad.
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<table class="sortable" id="movies" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="TOP">February, 16</td> <td> </td> <td valign="TOP"> The Witches </td> <td valign="TOP">Warner Bros.</td> <td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT">-</td> <td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT">$10,360,553</td> <td valign="TOP" align="RIGHT">$15,360,553</td></tr></tbody></table><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8k0Li3BPTgQ?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8k0Li3BPTgQ?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>
I loved the shit out of this film and am looking forward to watching it with my kids when they get a little older. |
Demolition Man: 10 out of 10
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That movie happened in the future, man.
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February, 16 Nightbreed 20th Century Fox - $8,000,000
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3MntiEGXQFk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I was pretty obsessed with this movie as a kid. It was pretty unique, as a lot of 90s movies were, in that it tried to create empathy with the "monsters". I haven't seen the film in a long time (over a decade), I don't know how it'd hold up. I keep waiting for it to roll out on Netflix. |
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