movies

[C. Johny]

Because Brodie likes Into the Wild?

Oh, gotcha.

[Freed Roger]

For the 90's I'd go with (in no order)

Silence of the Lambs
Out of Sight
Glengarry Glen Ross
Big Lebowski
Seven
Fight Club
Before Sunrise
LA Confidential
Sleepy Hollow (not sure that would make many lists, but it's a personal favorite)
Payback (ditto)

Runners up: Three Kings, Unforgiven, Shawshank, Election, The Iron Giant, Office Space


Not a Pulp Fiction or Goodfellas fan.

I was glad to see American Beauty and Titanic not make the guys list.
Schindlers List should be on there.

also potential top ten could be :
Dead Man Walking
Braveheart.
River Runs Through it.


a few personal favorites from the era
-Last of the Mohicans
-Donnie Brasco
-Godfather III (1990)
-American History X
-The Fugitive
-Babe
-MAlcolm X
-Groundhogs Day

I could see having one of the disney animateds breakthroughs on the list -Beauty and the Beast or Lion King . Those were played on repeat loop for kids in the 1990s.

[thrill]

Edit - I'm going to try to order them.

1 The Big Lebowski
2 Boogie Nights
3 Fargo
4 Shawshank
5 The Unfogiven
6 Braveheart
7 Toy Story
8 LA Confidential
9 Rushmore
10 The Usual Suspects


Honorable Mention: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Miller's Crossing, The Matrix, Magnolia, Jurassic Park, Field of Dreams and a bunch I'm leaving out.

[ghostrunner]

[expletive]. I forgot Heat. That has to be in my list.

[jim]

La Vie en Rose

Big thumbs up from me.

[cardsfansince82]

Gomorra-Italian film intended to be a gritty, realistic portrayal of the modern Mafia in Italy. Sort of reminded me of City of God but not as good. I was pumped when I saw the trailer and heard it was "presented by" Scorsese. Tons of awards and positive press including some idiot from the Boston Herald who called it the "greatest mafia movie ever." It wasn't bad...you'll dig it on some level if you like mafia movies and hard core violence. But overall a bit of a letdown for me. Too many storylines, too many underdeveloped characters with unclear relationships and meh dialogue (assuming it wasn't lost in translation). I enjoyed it to an extent but probably won't ever feel the need to go back for seconds.

[JL21]

Gomorra-Italian film intended to be a gritty, realistic portrayal of the modern Mafia in Italy. Sort of reminded me of City of God but not as good. I was pumped when I saw the trailer and heard it was "presented by" Scorsese. Tons of awards and positive press including some idiot from the Boston Herald who called it the "greatest mafia movie ever." It wasn't bad...you'll dig it on some level if you like mafia movies and hard core violence. But overall a bit of a letdown for me. Too many storylines, too many underdeveloped characters with unclear relationships and meh dialogue (assuming it wasn't lost in translation). I enjoyed it to an extent but probably won't ever feel the need to go back for seconds.

I agree with all of this. But it does get bonus points for not turning into one of those horrible "everything ties together" movies like Crash, Babel, Amores Perros, etc...

[omaha_red]

Gomorra-Italian film intended to be a gritty, realistic portrayal of the modern Mafia in Italy. Sort of reminded me of City of God but not as good. I was pumped when I saw the trailer and heard it was "presented by" Scorsese. Tons of awards and positive press including some idiot from the Boston Herald who called it the "greatest mafia movie ever." It wasn't bad...you'll dig it on some level if you like mafia movies and hard core violence. But overall a bit of a letdown for me. Too many storylines, too many underdeveloped characters with unclear relationships and meh dialogue (assuming it wasn't lost in translation). I enjoyed it to an extent but probably won't ever feel the need to go back for seconds.

I agree with all of this. But it does get bonus points for not turning into one of those horrible "everything ties together" movies like Crash, Babel, Amores Perros, etc...

you need to get over those movies.. i'll agree that "crash" is the worst thing ever..
but babel and especially amores perros are good movie.. jerk

[JL21]

Gomorra-Italian film intended to be a gritty, realistic portrayal of the modern Mafia in Italy. Sort of reminded me of City of God but not as good. I was pumped when I saw the trailer and heard it was "presented by" Scorsese. Tons of awards and positive press including some idiot from the Boston Herald who called it the "greatest mafia movie ever." It wasn't bad...you'll dig it on some level if you like mafia movies and hard core violence. But overall a bit of a letdown for me. Too many storylines, too many underdeveloped characters with unclear relationships and meh dialogue (assuming it wasn't lost in translation). I enjoyed it to an extent but probably won't ever feel the need to go back for seconds.

I agree with all of this. But it does get bonus points for not turning into one of those horrible "everything ties together" movies like Crash, Babel, Amores Perros, etc...

you need to get over those movies.. i'll agree that "crash" is the worst thing ever..
but babel and especially amores perros are good movie.. jerk

I liked Babel. Amores Perros can go make love to itself.

[omaha_red]

Gomorra-Italian film intended to be a gritty, realistic portrayal of the modern Mafia in Italy. Sort of reminded me of City of God but not as good. I was pumped when I saw the trailer and heard it was "presented by" Scorsese. Tons of awards and positive press including some idiot from the Boston Herald who called it the "greatest mafia movie ever." It wasn't bad...you'll dig it on some level if you like mafia movies and hard core violence. But overall a bit of a letdown for me. Too many storylines, too many underdeveloped characters with unclear relationships and meh dialogue (assuming it wasn't lost in translation). I enjoyed it to an extent but probably won't ever feel the need to go back for seconds.

I agree with all of this. But it does get bonus points for not turning into one of those horrible "everything ties together" movies like Crash, Babel, Amores Perros, etc...

you need to get over those movies.. i'll agree that "crash" is the worst thing ever..
but babel and especially amores perros are good movie.. jerk

I liked Babel. Amores Perros can go make love to itself.

if i remember correctly.. you didn't even finish the movie.. totally lame