They’re all great.
American Beauty
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Goodfellas
Three colors trilogy
Taste of cherry
Twin peaks Fire walk with me
Heat
Casino
Hard boiled
Beau travail
Lost highway
A summer’s tale
Edward scissorhands
Starship troopers
Titanic
Total recall
Age of innocence
Point break
Clueless
Batman returns
Ronin
Dumb and dumber
Knock off
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Pi
Wild at heart
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Some that you guys missed:
Leon: The Professional
Beautiful Girls
The Road Home
Farewell My Concubine
Raise the Red Lantern
Cape Fear
True Romance
Wild Things
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
Encino Man
The Addams Family
Addams Family Values
Being John Malkovich
Hackers
Trainspotting
Dogma
Clifford
Buffalo 66’
Suicide Kings
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- The Double Life of Veronique
- Dreams (1990)
- The Commitments
- Underground (1995)
- Rebels of the Neon God
- Central Station
- Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Ratcatcher
- Land and Freedom
- Carla’s Song
- In the Name of the Father
- Shallow Grave
- Festen
- The City of Lost Children
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Also 12 Monkeys was mentioned but Gilliam brought out a couple of other good flicks in the 90’s:
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Fisher King
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Face/off
Con air
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Falling Down (1993)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
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If you do this it’s just gonna be people listing all the movies they remember seeing from the decade which won’t be very interesting. I recommend capping suggestions at X per decade, with the implicit assumption that all nominators will try to watch anything on the list they haven’t seen yet.
Most people aren’t going to go on a big watching odyssey before submitting their ranking. The list is favorite, not some notion of objective best. The only purpose of this phase is to compile a master list to ensure that people don’t leave eligible movies off their rankings by forgetting. I don’t think a particularly authoritative list is going to be made here. It’s really just an interesting exercise in crowdsourcing the forum’s taste.
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Alright, we’re opening for business.
I am now accepting your ranked top 20 lists from the 1990s via PM. Deadline for submission is 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, 2/27. I will tally and get a crowdsourced list posted sometime on Saturday the 28th. 1st place vote counts for 20 points, 2nd place for 19 points, and so on.
I have locked in my own top 20 list and will add others as they come in. Nominations list in the next post.
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Here is the master nominations list, offered up for brainstorming purposes only. Any 1990s movie is eligible even if not on this list, so feel free to submit from off-list, but honestly…good luck with having it land in the consensus top 20 if it isn’t on here. This is, as you can see, in alphabetical order:
10 Things I Hate About You
The Addams Family
Addams Family Values
The Age of Innocence
American Beauty
American History X
American Movie
The American President
Apollo 13
Arlington Road
As Good As It Gets
Austin Powers
The Basketball Diaries
Batman Returns
Beautiful Girls
Beau Travail
Beauty and the Beast
Before Sunrise
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Black Cat, White Cat
Boogie Nights
Boyz N the Hood
Braveheart
Breaking the Waves
A Brighter Summer Day
Buffalo 66’
Can’t Hardly Wait
Cape Fear
Carla’s Song
Carlito’s Way
Casino
The Celebration
Central Station
Chasing Amy
Chungking Express
The City of Lost Children
Clifford
Clueless
The Commitments
Con Air
Contact
Crash
Dazed and Confused
Defending Your Life
Delicatessen
Dogma
Donnie Brasco
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
The Double Life of Veronique
Dreams
Dumb and Dumber
Edward Scissorhands
Election
Empire Records
Encino Man
Existenz
Eyes Wide Shut
Face/off
Fallen Angels
Falling Down
Farewell My Concubine
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Few Good Men
Fight Club
The Fisher King
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Fucking Amal
Funny Games
The Game
Gattaca
Get Shorty
Glengarry Glen Ross
Goodfellas
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
Hackers
Hands on a Hard Body
Hard Boiled
Heat
Home Alone
Hoop Dreams
Independence Day
Infinity
The Insider
Insomnia
In the Name of the Father
Jackie Brown
Jerry Maguire
JFK
Jumanji
Jurassic Park
Kingpin
Knock off
L.A. Confidential
L.A. Story
La Haine
Land and Freedom
The Last of the Mohicans
A League of Their Own
Leaving Las Vegas
Legends of the Fall
Leon: the Professional
Life is Beautiful
The Lion King
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lost Highway
Lovers of the Polar Circle
The Lovers on the Bridge
M. Butterfly
Maborosi
Malcolm X
Matilda
The Matrix
Meet Joe Black
Miller’s Crossing
Misery
Mission: Impossible
My Cousin Vinny
My Own Private Idaho
Naked Lunch
Notting Hill
Office Space
Open Your Eyes
The Paper
Peppermint Candy
Philadelphia
Pi
The Player
Point Break
Pretty Woman
Primal Fear
Princess Mononoke
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Pulp Fiction
Pump Up the Volume
Pusher
The Quick and the Dead
Quick Change
Quiz Show
Raise the Red Lantern
Ratcatcher
Reality Bites
Rebels of the Neon God
The Remains of the Day
Reservoir Dogs
The Road Home
The Rock
Ronin
Rounders
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
The Sandlot
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Scream
Se7en
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Seven
Shallow Grave
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
A Simple Plan
Singles
The Sixth Sense
The Spanish Prisoner
Speed
Starship Troopers
Star Wars the Phantom Menace
Straight Story
Suicide Kings
A Summer’s Tale
Swimming with Sharks
Swingers
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Taste of Cherry
Terminator 2
That Thing You Do!
Thelma & Louise
Three Colors Trilogy
Three Kings
Titanic
Tombstone
Total Recall
Toy Story
Trainspotting
True Romance
The Truman Show
Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me
Underground
Unforgiven
The Usual Suspects
Varsity Blues
White Men Can’t Jump
Wild at Heart
Wild Things
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What kind of russian vote rigging is going on here?
Probably doesn’t matter, but if you’re using something to automatically tally votes this could split them.
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Good catch; edited.
But I’m manually tallying, so there won’t be any such issues anyway.
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I think that’s like the opposite of reassurance??
Pretty sure the correct play is to wait to see whether you approve of the results and then claim that I fucked it up only if you don’t like them.
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Got a preliminary list, but damn I am making some tough cuts.
And I even have a bonus list of 5 that I’m most disappointed I haven’t seen yet and can’t properly rate.
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Do we need to post 20 movies exactly? I’ve narrowed it down to 12 myself and don’t really want any other movies to get points 
Hard work knocking it down to 20, even harder ranking those. A lot were fairly arbitrary in the end and could easily shift position by as much as 8 on any given day. Today I think Starship Troopers is a better film than Philadelphia but then I’ve also just had coffee in the sunshine.
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Yes. Rest easy in the knowledge that at least the points for 13-20 will be weighted downward.
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