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| billyweeds |
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Ghulam wrote: Goodfellas is one of the best movies to come out in the 90's.
I did not care much for either Pulp Fiction or Fight Club.
I loved Pulp Fiction and sort of admired parts of Fight Club. Neither one is as good as GoodFellas. Or Leaving Las Vegas. Or Boogie Nights. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:55 pm |
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| Marc makes a really good point. Even Boogie Nights, which I like much better than Fight Club is filled with hommages, borrowings etc. It isn't it's own thing the way Fight Club is. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:26 am |
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My Top Ten of the Nineties
1. Raise The Red Lantern (Zhang, 1991)
2. Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999)
3. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
4. Ju Dou (Zhang, 1990)
5. Three Kings (Russell, 1999)
6. Blue (Kieslowski, 1993)
7. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)
8. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
9. Boogie Nights (PT Anderson, 1997)
10. The Big Lebowski (Coens, 1998)
I thought 1999 was an impressive year.
Might also have something to do with the fact that I got a VCD* machine that year, and so started watching film again. I made this list quickly, and feel like I might have left out some foreign films.
Fight Club would probably be in my next 5, along with Reservoir Dogs, Hoop Dreams, and Trainspotting.
I liked Fight Club when it came out, but it got overshadowed for me by other films that year. I have been meaning to re-watch FC, which could push it higher.
* VCD's represent a digital technology that never made it in America, but was quite big in Asia. On VCD, films were split on to two discs, so that in the middle of the movie you had to eject the first disc and slap in the second. Picture quality was less than DVD.
VCD's play in all Windows systems (I think it is MPEG-1 technology?). And VCD's are still sold in China, although they have been seriously eclipsed by Dvd's the last 4 years. VHS never made a big impact in China, and was used more in schools and business rather than private homes. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:57 am |
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| I don't have a firm 1990s list, but it would definitely include Schindler's List, The Silence of the Lambs, The Sweet Hereafter, Princess Mononoke and Secrets and Lies. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 12:43 pm |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 12:46 pm |
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There were at least ten movies of the 1990s I would put ahead of Fight Club. They include Leaving Las Vegas, Schindler's List, Boogie Nights, L.A. Confidential, The Silence of the Lambs, The Shawshank Redemption, GoodFellas, JFK, the Disney Beauty and the Beast, and Grand Canyon (yes, yes, I know, you hate it, don't go on at length about that).
Then there's my wife, who when she first saw Fight Club said, "That's the best movie I've ever seen." Floored me. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:37 pm |
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Quote: Grand Canyon (yes, yes, I know, you hate it, don't go on at length about that).
I didn't hate it, I felt sorry for it. No, I did hate it. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:39 pm |
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| Man, that's effing funny. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:18 pm |
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http://www.sundancechannel.com/film/?ixFilmID=7032
My Dad is 100 Years Old by Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini followed by Open City. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:22 pm |
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The Shawshank Redemption.
Ugh. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:30 pm |
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| Double ugh. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:18 pm |
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| Great, trenchant reviews, guys. Mind filling us in on what it was that made you go "ugh"? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:22 pm |
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| Grand Canyon, in addition to being a heartfelt, non-post-modern examination of modern life, had better dream sequences than any other movie I can think of, with the possible exception of Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman. (I think I like the ones in Grand Canyon better, though.) GC wears its heart unfashionably on its sleeve, and is therefore snob bait. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:52 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Grand Canyon, in addition to being a heartfelt, non-post-modern examination of modern life, had better dream sequences than any other movie I can think of, with the possible exception of Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman. (I think I like the ones in Grand Canyon better, though.) GC wears its heart unfashionably on its sleeve, and is therefore snob bait.
I really like Grand Canyon too. Among other things, it's a movie about how people would react if an actual miracle occured in their life. I like the bit where the two black characters are wondering why they have been set up on a blind date and decide it's because they are the only two single black people the white people know.
I don't believe in miracles, but I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for the sake of a movie. That's one of the reasons I love The Song of Bernadette. That and the feeling of tragedy when this delightful, lively young woman is sent to a convent, which is surely the last thing her Lady would want for her. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 12:28 am |
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Quote: Mind filling us in on what it was that made you go "ugh"?
the fact that it wasn't "mind filling". |
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