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Top 101 Movies of the 90s. We are done. If I knock out Amadeus/Brazil/Ran, We get to have an 80s countdown!! (1 Viewer)

Another personal favorite that has been talked about a bit at the start of the draft.  I'd have to look at home, but I think this was my #15 of the decade.  

#47:  THE ICE STORM

This is the flick people were talking about that unlike American Beauty gets the look behind the curtains of suburbia a bit more correct. 

 
Hello from the peanut gallery!

Dude, Eyes Wide Shut higher than Casino?  Also, I would personally have The Usual Suspects much higher.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Another personal favorite that has been talked about a bit at the start of the draft.  I'd have to look at home, but I think this was my #15 of the decade.  

#47:  THE ICE STORM

This is the flick people were talking about that unlike American Beauty gets the look behind the curtains of suburbia a bit more correct. 
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what "people"?

it was me 😎

and, yes, it blows the ####### doors off of AB - which was basically a cartoon.  

Ang Lee flat-out killedT it. 

 
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KarmaPolice said:
These were each of our #39 movies.   

67/68:  

EYES WIDE SHUT

THE CRYING GAME

Who drafted which movie? 
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I didn't see any discussion on Eyes Wide Shut.  I tried to watch it when it came out.....but I found it painfully boring and too artsy fartsy.  I'm not a huge Kubrick fan though.  I do love The Shining, and Full metal Jacket is a classic.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
Another personal favorite that has been talked about a bit at the start of the draft.  I'd have to look at home, but I think this was my #15 of the decade.  

#47:  THE ICE STORM

This is the flick people were talking about that unlike American Beauty gets the look behind the curtains of suburbia a bit more correct. 
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This one rates pretty high for me as well

Kevin Kline got so pissed at that key party 

 
TripItUp said:
Fight Club feels a little undervalued for me.  Groundbreaking on multiple levels at the time.
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Very undervalued.  Stylistically groundbreaking and ahead of its time on its repudiation of male materialism.  Something that really stuck with me at the time and has remained to this day.

 
Keith R said:
Very undervalued.  Stylistically groundbreaking and ahead of its time on its repudiation of male materialism.  Something that really stuck with me at the time and has remained to this day.
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There was a lot of debate in the Recently Watched movie thread about it. I’m in the minority on it and didn’t have it on my list. I liked it enough when I watched it but it didn’t blow me away by any stretch. Maybe it was all the hype for it. I had heard from so many friends about how it was the best movie ever. Also most of the people I knew who really loved it didn’t see it as a repudiation of male anything. They saw it as corporate America and PC culture were emasculating men and that men needed to embrace their inner caveman. Now given where society has gone, it creeps me out and is the total opposite of my POV. I realize the movie was satirical but when so many people read it as Biblical, I can’t separate that. 

 
Don Quixote said:
No “The Cutting Edge” yet? Bold move putting it in the top half. :toepick:
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One of my roommates in college played hockey in HS and just absolutely HATED this movie.   Would rant and rant about how no self respecting hockey player would ever do that.   It was pretty funny.  

 
"there ain't no gas in it" 

#46:  Sling Blade

Speaking of odd movies that my friend group would watch over and over and quote.  I didn't get a chance to rewatch in the last couple months, so I hope it's one that still holds up.  This was my #40 and 80s #76 if I wrote that down correctly.  

 
Ilov80s said:
There was a lot of debate in the Recently Watched movie thread about it. I’m in the minority on it and didn’t have it on my list. I liked it enough when I watched it but it didn’t blow me away by any stretch. Maybe it was all the hype for it. I had heard from so many friends about how it was the best movie ever. Also most of the people I knew who really loved it didn’t see it as a repudiation of male anything. They saw it as corporate America and PC culture were emasculating men and that men needed to embrace their inner caveman. Now given where society has gone, it creeps me out and is the total opposite of my POV. I realize the movie was satirical but when so many people read it as Biblical, I can’t separate that. 
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I probably watched it at the perfect time in my life.  Fresh out of grad school, just starting my career, unmarried.  I was not really lacking and definitely not insomniac but the emptiness of materialism really resonated with me, as did the simultaneous appeal and danger of groupthink.  There was just SO MUCH I unpacked from this movie. 

Plus the fact that I found it immensely entertaining on an in-the-moment level helped as well.  Edward Norton + Brad Pitt + the director of Seven = Keith R's. late 1990s wheelhouse to a T

 
KarmaPolice said:
"there ain't no gas in it" 

#46:  Sling Blade

Speaking of odd movies that my friend group would watch over and over and quote.  I didn't get a chance to rewatch in the last couple months, so I hope it's one that still holds up.  This was my #40 and 80s #76 if I wrote that down correctly.  
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I figure...one of 'em was from Arkansas. Heh heh. Get it?

 
KarmaPolice said:
"there ain't no gas in it" 

#46:  Sling Blade

Speaking of odd movies that my friend group would watch over and over and quote.  I didn't get a chance to rewatch in the last couple months, so I hope it's one that still holds up.  This was my #40 and 80s #76 if I wrote that down correctly.  
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couldn't love this flick more if i tried ... flawless work, imo - with a cast that was pitch perfect in every sense.  the performances all floored me, remarkable script and direction ... lyrical, disturbing, gut wrenching, poetic ... incredible experience. 

Carl lives on as one of the most evocative studies of the past 50 years - BBT earned an eternity of goodwill in breathing life into this project. 

 
otb_lifer said:
couldn't love this flick more if i tried ... flawless work, imo - with a cast that was pitch perfect in every sense.  the performances all floored me, remarkable script and direction ... lyrical, disturbing, gut wrenching, poetic ... incredible experience. 

Carl lives on as one of the most evocative studies of the past 50 years - BBT earned an eternity of goodwill in breathing life into this project. 
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John Ritter in particular stood out to me.  Knowing how slapsticky silly he usually was, seeing him so restrained really played in to how a semi-closeted homosexual man would have to act in a red state's small town in order to survive.  Yet, he wasn't just a figure but a three-dimensional person who did let his feelings show, in a very careful and quiet way.

 
KarmaPolice said:
"there ain't no gas in it" 

#46:  Sling Blade

Speaking of odd movies that my friend group would watch over and over and quote.  I didn't get a chance to rewatch in the last couple months, so I hope it's one that still holds up.  This was my #40 and 80s #76 if I wrote that down correctly.  
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me and my buddies would always say the “ French fried pataters” line

also we’d do the “I like a girl with hairy arms…” one

 
Keith R said:
John Ritter in particular stood out to me.  Knowing how slapsticky silly he usually was, seeing him so restrained really played in to how a semi-closeted homosexual man would have to act in a red state's small town in order to survive.  Yet, he wasn't just a figure but a three-dimensional person who did let his feelings show, in a very careful and quiet way.
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lifetime of chops were just waiting to bust out and be fulfilled - yeah, dude could bring it ... the nuance he lent to that character's complexity was amazing. 

Robert Duval as the backwoods shut-in really sticks with me too ... just like Kilgore, he wasn't on screen much, but he left his prints all over the imagination of the viewer. 

 
otb_lifer said:
couldn't love this flick more if i tried ... flawless work, imo - with a cast that was pitch perfect in every sense.  the performances all floored me, remarkable script and direction ... lyrical, disturbing, gut wrenching, poetic ... incredible experience. 

Carl lives on as one of the most evocative studies of the past 50 years - BBT earned an eternity of goodwill in breathing life into this project. 
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come with us, as we sneak into the movies....

otb- LOVED IT

ef- meh.

 
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