Lets just keep it in the 90s since if it were just "fave 5 movies all time" the conversation would be WAY too broad.
1. Braveheart
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Fight Club
4. Rudy
5. American History X
I tried. I can't do just 5.
1. Unforgiven
2. Braveheart
3. Jurassic Park
4. Forrest Gump
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Silence of the Lambs
7. The Sandlot, only because they filmed it in my neighborhood, me and all my friends were extras and as a kid, I loved that movie.
Don't forget Shawshank
Just 5 is too hard! I'll start with
Pulp Fiction
Schindler's List
Sling Blade
The Lion King
American Beauty
but there are many more!
Man, that's difficult for me to choose, I'm gonna go way beyond 5 and just list some fav's off the top of my head, sorry....
Rudy
Legends of the Fall
Shawshank Redemption
Casino
Heat
Braveheart
Blown Away
Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
A Civil Action
Jerry Maguire
Menace II Society
Timecop
Meet Joe Black
The Insider
Seven
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Leon: The Professional
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Pulp Fiction
Rocky 5
Reservoir Dogs
Desperado
TMNT 2 lol
Home Alone 1 & 2
Murder in the First
True Romance
The Truman Show
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Dumb and Dumber
anic
Goodfellas
The Wedding Singer
He Got Game
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Man on the Moon
Life
American History X
Interview with A Vampire
Ghost
Friday and Next Friday
Primal Fear
and list goes on...
Rudy would be my definite #1 though
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Usual Suspect
Lion King
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
American Beauty
Toy Story
5. BASEketball
It's kind of funny because you go back to the beginning of this movie and they're taking the whole free agency thing a little too far, with the one dude saying he spent a season as a greeter at the Desert Inn, and then he holds up a Vikings jersey and says he's happy to play in the fine city of Miami, while his agent whispers in his ear that it's actually Minnesota. And then all of the stadiums named after name brand products, and the jokes about teams changing cities. "The Jazz moved from New Orleans to Utah where they don't allow music. The Raiders moved from Oakland to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland. Nobody seemed to notice."
We already saw the Sonics move to OKC, Brett Favre tease the Jets into thinking they had a good team (after doing it to the Packers for like the last decade), next fall the Cowboys will probably be playing in the "National Enquirer Mega-Stadium" instead of Texas Stadium. Who knew the guys who made South Park could predict what I consider the downfall of American sporting.
2. Jumanji
This movie is really ing good if you saw it when you were a kid. If you see it now, it kind of leaves a bad taste in your mouth because you know Kirsten Dunst is smashable now, in 2009, but she looks eight years old in this movie, and I don't know if you like going to bed at night smelling like a pedophile, but I don't. Secondly, it's kind of a downer that the Alan's girlfriend grows up to look like Bonnie ing Hunt, who's about as hot as Frosty the Snowman taking a vacation in Siberia. No really, even in 1995 she was that bad. You should see her now. I'm just kidding. But seriously, you should. Honestly, I would've gone with Laura Linney for that role. But that's probably why I'm not a casting director. But hey, at least I'm not a casting director that's giving Bonnie Hunt work to do in Hollywood. Because I'd kill myself if I were.
3. Detroit Rock City
Gotta throw this one in there as it's gotta be one of the most underrated movies ever. I'm not the biggest KISS fan... I mean the appealing thing about KISS is the costumes, the makeup, the fact that Gene Simmons has banged like half as many women as Chamberlain and then beat a lie detector test saying he didn't. It makes matters worse that if you think of KISS now, what comes to mind is Gene Simmons' reality show where his y, bas son gets more airtime than Gene. And when I say bas , I mean it. No really, look it up. Kid's parents aren't married.
But DRC is a good movie if only because Jam's mom reminds me a lot of my mom, just not that extreme. The only place my mom has Jam's mom beat is her two choice brands of music are like the music equivalent of ESPN programming back to back 12 hour marathons of the World Series of Poker and Women's Tennis and airing it on the flagship station instead of The Ocho (the answer: country music and christian music). But the original John Connor gets to bang Shannon Tweed off camera, which clocks in as the second hottest movie romance of the 90s. Losing, of course to the Winslett-DiCaprio scene in anic in which monosylab1k creamed his pants twice when he saw it the first time. Jury's still out on whether he was turned on by Winslett or DiCaprio though.
But if you like rock music (DRC has a pretty good selection of non-KISS stuff on the soundtrack too) and want to see a handful of actors who star in a movie that unrightfully killed all four of their careers, you'll like this movie.
2. The Matrix
The only thing that stopped this movie from breaking the top 3 all-time sci-fi movie rankings was the two completely atrocious sequels it received (minus the "orgasm cake" scene in Reloaded, that was ing brilliant and deserved an Oscar... for what I don't know, but it deserved one)...and the legions of nerds on the internet who incorporated "Neo" into their screen names. Seriously, if you did this, you're a ing loser. If you did "Mr. Anderson," that's still cool and all... but that Neo was everywhere. And still is. And it's ing annoying. This movie would have been number one on my list if Samuel L. Jackson played Morpheus and dropped some F bombs throughout the film. That would have made up for the letdown known as the 2003 Matrix Sequels.
1. The Truman Show
If you think BASEketball got it right by predicting the future in the sports world, this movie nailed the future of American popular culture right between the eyes: Reality TV. They even nailed it down to the part about how reality TV is fake and scripted! No, seriously. This movie is responsible for the reality TV phenomenon. And the reality TV phenomenon is responsible for duping the TV watching public into following ridiculous and fake shows. If you've ever been forced to sit through an episode of "Brett Michaels Rock of Love," you'll probably agree with these arguments. I mean, a rock star that needs to star in his own reality show to get pussy? What the ? Then you have like American Idol, which last season fielded four contestants in the top 12 who had pre-existing record deals and albums you could have bought before they started butchering Beatles songs in front of the largest television audiences possible for a reality show. And to make it worse, the AI producers got Amazon.com to pull these pre-existing albums from their website during the season to kill the su ion. God damn you, Jim Carrey. Look what you started.
anic
white men can't jump
"my mothers too drunk to be an astronaut"
"I lost the money"
+1
American History X
Se7en
Philadelphia
The Silence of the Lambs
American Beauty
This was a hard list to put together. Good movies and the 1990s don't go well together. The early part of the decade was about the glorification of sex and violence. The middle of the decade was about kids and action films, and the end was about finding the stupid funny.
The 'art' movies experiemented with camera angles and time. All the stars were showing us how the stupid American people would accept any drunk as an Anti-Hero. The acting was bad and we were so used to it that we could make the best horror movie of the decade in 30 days and a hand-held.
This decade has been about the method actor--to a scary level--and great storytelling. Can we have an intelligent romantic comedy (Sweet November?) or a good drama without a gun please?
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Office Space
Judge Dredd
Waynes World 2
CB4
House Party
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Dirty Work
Tommy Boy
Black Sheep
Shawshank
anic
Braveheart
Forrest Gump
American History X
man on the moon
dazed and confused
Dumb and Dumber
Office Space
Forest Gump
American History X
American Me.
Detroit Rock City...nice JT
5,Fight Club
4.Goodfellas
3.Matrix.....Sequels sucked
2.The Professional
1.Se7en
Forest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Tombstone
Silence of the Lambs
Happy Gilmore
Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
Se7en
Clerks
Pulp Fiction
Off the top of my head, and not necessarily in that order.
, and Fargo.
ing insanity, by the way.
Goodfellas
Shawshank
The Matrix
Terminator 2
Gattaca
Friday
...and Cool Runnings...and Home Alone
These should also be on my list.
Forgot The Goodfellas, too. I wonder what my top 5 from the new millenium would include.
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