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I have no doubt that I am. Thinking about the oldest kid, he spooked easy and we watched animated movies a lot. When we got into more live action movies, we either watched crap that I had emotional attachment to from that age he was (mostly 80s movies) or newer stuff. His favorites were Bill and Ted, Karate Kid, Kicking and Screaming, and Kevin James movies. We never really bothered with 90s family movies that I hadn't seen.
Definitely wouldn't make a list of 100 Best movies, but it's definitely one my favorite guilty pleasure movies. It's like they started out making a serious heist flick, and then took a major detour into hilarious slapstick and over the top ridiculousness (which they even acknowledge in the final scene.) You can tell the cast had a lot of fun making it. Even Sandra Bernhard is funny in this. Another guilty pleasure for me would be Nothing But Trouble - Chevy Chase, Akryod, John Candy in another so over-the-top, beyond ridiculous movie you wonder WTF were they smoking when they made it?
The sequel was just o.k. It was good to revisit the characters, but it didn't have the same sharpness to it that made the original so great.
I agree. That scene is an all-time great.you are a movie junkie.
it was released in 1993.
1993!
Tarantino script - Slater, Arquette, Kilmer, Rapaport, Pitt, Sizemore, C Penn, Pinchot, Oldman, Hopper, Walken, Gandolfini ... etc.
matter of fact, i'd be hard pressed to find better movie making than the Hopper/Walken/Gandolfini "Sicilian" scene. if that 10 minute passage ain't the best of the 90s, it's sure as #### tied for first.
i'd be interested in what those 5 are ...
bottom line is that leaving this off a top 100 is travishmockery enough ... but never bothering to even have ONE sit with it, for a cat who loves flix as much as you do, is downright absurd.
Was this the movie based on Little Red Riding Hood? I remember loving it but haven't seen it in about 25 years.btw, if anybody was craving more bat#### crazy Amanda Plummer, she amped it up to the Nth in the 1996 gem i mentioned a couple days ago ... man, you guys really missed to boat on "Freeway" - easy top 10 for me.
Dan Hedeya, Brooke Shields, Reese W, Brittany Murphy, Keifer S, Bokeem Woodbine, Conchetta Ferrel ... just a sensational black comedy - cannot get enough of it. Reese peaked here, imo, in her first starring vehicle - if you've never seen it, you'll never look at her the same afterwards.
OK, MR. POTTY MOUTH?!?
I would agree with these three for sure. Fischer and Presumed Innocent as kind of off the standard great movie discussions that were really good. Presumed Innocent is one of my all time favorites. I love that type of movie.
Geena: Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
Agree with your assessment, but not sure it sniffs my top 100, and I have it on DVD. its such a slow moving movie for me with little snippets of action. Didn't care for the ending.
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Ione, right?
Ad rock down with the ione. Listen to the #### because both of them is boney. Got to do it like this like chachi and joanieyes, AND Fairuza
have you seen "The Rachel Diaries", where Ione vexes a young Jagger wannabe?
breathtakingly beautiful young lady.
He spent all of Heathers mugging and doing an over-the-top impression of Nicholson, and wasn't much different here. Not my thing. But everyone/everything else in True Romance, I loved.
There isn't a day that goes by that I can't relate a Seinfeld situation to something that happened that day. It truly is incredible how applicable that show is to this day.
Maybe you were referring to something else but it was pretty high on our countdownNo Good Will Hunting?
Yikes!!!
Gump is so out of place in 2021. It's a Boomer "remember when" story.
I wouldn't take it that far. Some people did. Most of us were riveted by Pulp Fiction in the theatres and thought Shawshank was the better movie, but Gump should crack the top hundred, if you ask me.
You aren't being unreasonable. Obviously it was a huge commercial and critical success. It's part of a long distinguished history of long populace movies that won over the country upon release by tapping into a certain nostalgia or zeitgeist at just the right time. Titanic, Gone with the Wind, Yankee Doodle Dandy, How the Was Was Won, The Ten Commandments.
I don't get it. Obviously it isn't meant to be any kind of realistic portrayal of anything. So is it meant to be allegorical? We get a tour of the most memorable sights, sounds and events of a generation through the eyes of someone who is incapable of understanding what is happening around him. I just don't get it or what it is trying to do.
The book was a young adult novel. It was meant to teach some history through a protagonist who essentially let the other characters speak for him. It was meant to be a bit of a lesson, and a bit of a humorous epic, like Don Quixote. Imagine Forrest as a 240 pound, 6'4" ridiculous-looking autistic savant (mathematics), and you've got the book. Unlike in the movie, he
Honest answer is probably a couple months. Looking at my initial list of 60-70 that I made the last couple days and thinking about my experience with the rewatches, I am not going to watch nearly as many as I did for the 90s, but I did write down about 20-25 that are on my radar for either watching for the first time ever or just in a very long time. I am going to be opinionated and uncompromising about my top 50-70, and not much is going to change if I watch Karate Kid for the 300th time.Thanks to KP and 80s for a really fun thread. Different opinions are what makes this board interesting...a great time was had by all.
So when is the next one?
Yep. History through the eyes of a person with severe limitations and a problem with social niceties, too. He tells the story as an ur-rationalist in this case, which gives things a very methodical, cold feel to them. All the more for Groom to sort of avoid politics and present the history as almost a factual thing, rather than have it wrapped up in any bias (of course, just doing that winds up biased). But to present the history as dispassionately as he does is also a choice to inure himself of critical dissent from the novel's interesting politics, something the author didn't really avoid in the end.
