Yes.
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Okay, I’m in. I think I can stand behind most of that.
I believe I’ve caught up all entries. 19 in so far. If you haven’t received a “tallied” response, please reach out to nudge me.
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Thanks for doing the work, appreciate it!
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Submitted. Do I think my number 1 is the best movie of the 90s? No. But I couldn’t put my childhood favorite that still makes smile anything but #1.
Don’t worry, this is a favorites list not a best of list. You are free to like whatever you want.
Shucks, I didn’t think to nominate Ghost Dog and Smoke (yes I love Forest Whitaker)
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Jarmusch another director that only hit home runs then
My absolute favorite place in the 90s (maybe ever tbh) was this divey old 30s era theater in Columbus Ohio that had fallen on bad times and someone bought the place and started showing nightly double features for 3 bucks. It was dilapidated und unclean (they never turned the light on) and had an actual dive bar in the back where you could smoke, eat and drink. Beers there were priced in line or cheaper with other neighborhood pubs and so they actually would just have local drunks hanging around the place. They also regularly had great film lineups. A weird mash up of second-runs, arthouse, and random older films that they found. I probably went there 200 times from 1992-1999. Now thinking about some of the best doubles I saw there and it is full of titles that could make a top 20.
Smoke/Saturday Night Fever (great, and what made me think of this).
Naked Lunch/Naked (unbelievable)
Crumb/Exotica (unseemly and also great)
Lone Star/Trees Lounge (actually amazing combo)
Crying Game/one of the Naked Gun movies (to give you an example of a typical combo there).
Blue Velvet/Lost Highway (more then one person got carsick at the beginning of LH after too many dollar PBRs - not me though!)
I will probably remember a dozen more of these today.
And yes, it is a yuppie joint now
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Am current again. 22 entries in and tabulated.
Deadline to submit is in just under 57 hours.
A top five is solidifying. Very close battle for the podium going on right now among [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted].
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Missing: A Bronx Tale and The Thin Red Line imo
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Can someone make a banner to get the last day votes in? The more the merrier.
We need some hot takes and predictions to spice up the thread.
- Goodfellas will not be in the top 5
- Jurassic Park will be ranked #1
- Titanic will not make the top 20
- PTA will not make the cut
I think it would be interesting to create a top 100 list by tabulating all the votes. Gives everyone a full list of movies that we can refer to when deciding to watch something from that era.
I assume a lot of the films in the top 20 will be ones most of us have seen, there are a lot of other classics that deserve some love too.
I’ve already watched a few films this week that have been on my watchlist for a while that I probably wouldn’t have bothered to watch anytime soon if they didn’t pop up in this thread.
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I will try to watch any ranked movies I haven’t seen. That is going to be my goal. I also would like to see the master ranking past twenty.
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PTA only made 2 movies in the 90s I think. One may be in some top 5s but I’d be surprised if it gets that high overall.
I will provide this.
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My hot predictions
Shawshank won’t make top 5
Forrest Gump won’t make top 15
Pulp Fiction is #1
Given the boards poker history, Rounders sneaks into the top 20
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I predict my top pick won’t be in the top 10, maybe not even top 20. On another day, I probably wouldn’t have picked in #1 but I was feeling a little nostalgic and since it came out I’ve learned context that gives it significant additional meaning.
Looking at some posts since I sent my list, there’s definitely a few I forgot that could have made it. I’m sure if I were to do it again in one month it would all be completely shuffled, and in a few years there might even only be a small overlap (I mostly picked movies I’ve seen in the last ~5 years)
except for my #1 pick, which imo is miles ahead of the competition and hope will feel similarly every time I rewatch it
Some predictions :
no comedy in top 20
no “international” movie in top 50
All of Shawshank redemption, Goodfellas, Heat, Pulp fiction, make it to top 5
yikes I hope not. Rewatched this recently with my kids and it didn’t hold up to my ~10yo memories at all…I remembered the raptors as the scariest thing ever but actually they’re very silly, goofing it up with Buster Keaton-style fall stunts in the kitchens…
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