Trying to list the best movies is such an examination of personal choice that every person on the planet - every movie-gowing person, anyway - would come up with a castly different list of the best movies of last year much less the greatest movies of a decade or a century.I, for example, have mentioned my thoughts for best films of the 90's before, crutiquing a critic's choices as a spur to discuss my personal top ten.
I'm back again today to look at a couple of much more thorough lists of the best of the 90's as well as my few thoughts here and there.
First, the two lists - part #1 and part #2.
Agreed - outstanding films
- Thin Red Line
- Short Cuts
- The Truman Show
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- LA Confidential
- American Beauty
- Election
- Boogie Nights
- The Player
- Three Kings
- The Matrix
- Pulp Fiction
- Chasing Amy
- Fight Club
- The Usual Suspects
- Silence of the Lambs
- Unforgiven
- The Big Lebowski
- Schindler's List
- Goodfellas
- Groundhog Day
- Pi
- The Fugitive
- Shakespeare in Love
- Good Will Hunting
- The Nighmare Before Christmas
- Being John Malkovich
- Heat
- Seven
- Sneakers
- Braveheart
- Trainspotting
- Grosse Point Blank (maybe my favorite on the list)
- Dazed and Confused
- JFK
- Miller's Crossing
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- Ronin
- Reservoir Dogs
- Jurassic Park
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Magnolia
- Fargo
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Swingers
- The Piano
- A Simple Plan
- Bound
- Jackie Brown
- Terminator 2
- Barton Fink
- Wayne's World
- Quick Change
- Pretty Woman
- American Movie
- Rushmore
- Fallen Angels
- Howards End
- Titanic
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Wild at Heart
- Babe
- Everyone Says I Love You
- Out of Sight
- Chungking Express
- Kicking and Screaming
- Breaking the Waves
- Cantral Station
- Funny Games
- Flirting with Disaster
- Velvet Goldmine
- Safe
- Three Colors: Red
- In the Company of Men
- Kundun
- Saving Private Ryan
- Ed Wood
- My Own Private Idaho
- Delicatessen
- Bottle Rocket
- Heavenly Creatures
- Hard Eight
- Smoke
- Happy Together
- Cemetary Man
- Fresh Bait
- Existenz
- Dark City
- The Insider
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Raise the Red Lantern
- Hearts of Darkness
- Fireworks
- Husbands and Wives
- The Double Life of Veronique
- Zero Effect
- Baraka
- The Eel
So I have three questions for you folks out there:
- Which films have I overrated? Which did I say were outstanding but that you think deserve to be moved downward?
- Which flicks have I overrated?
- And which movies have I missed out on that I should put highest on the list?
3 comments:
Truman show I've never really understood the greatness of. Maybe just because when it came out I was still loving the comedic Jim Carrey and the switched urked me.
Resevoir Dogs I would jump up to the top tier, if for nothing else because of the talk that the movie still gets ("Who killed Brown?" Or pink, whichever one it is I forget now...yea yea, ironic I know)
And...wow... Saving Private Ryan, now. I don't care what the excuse is, that's required viewing.
I think Groundhog Day was brilliant and deserves a move up and that Chasing Amy was kind of boring.
Truman Show is one of my favorites and I think it is genious.
Groundhog Day has the same issue that nearly every other comedy ever has had to suffer: it's a comedy. It's always so hard to recognize a comedy as a GREAT FILM because it doesn't have the same emotional depth and impact that a drama has.
It doesn't play itself seriously, so it's harder for critics and fans to take it quite so seriously.
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