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Film of the 90s

  • 10-04-2000 6:29pm
    #1
    Talliesin
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    PI
    What film beat PI last decade?
    None I tell you. Blair Witch ph3r3s PI's genius combination of Qaballa and modern math in a great triller.

    [This message has been edited by Talliesin (edited 10-04-2000).]


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  • #2
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    The Usual Suspects is the best film of the 90's without doubt. Pi was a bit too pretentiously w@nky for it's own good, if ya ask me (which you did smile.gif ).


  • #3
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,127 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    Hmmm...Sorry, "PI' falls into the Nice idea, well done, but not too enjoyable genre for me. (And Blair Witch?....interesting but laughable)

    "Cube" for simplicity, originality and atmosphere.


  • #4
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    i thought blair witch was brilliant.
    then again, im with the 'leave your pretentons of being a film critic at the door and let the film entertain you' gang.

    hmm, i'll have to think on that one. cant say anything stands out really.
    matrix, seven, gross point blank, la confidentioal etc etc etc


  • #5
    Shiminay
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    Spot on. The Blair Witch Project is the only film to have freaked me out as much. I've often had a fright from a film where the bad guy jumps out from behind the sofa (or whatever), but the "freaked-out"ness of the Blair Witch was amazing.

    I know it's not everyone's cuppa, but this is what I think smile.gif


    All the best,

    Dav
    @B^)
    http://homepage.eircom.net/~davitt


  • #6
    Von
    Closed Accounts Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Von


    Heavenly Creatures, La Haine or Goodfellas.


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  • #7
    TwoShedsJackson
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    Blair Witch was a load of over-hyped $hite - Yanks wouldnt know a scary film if it came up and bit them on the ar$e.


  • #8
    bubbles
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    Terminator 2
    Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
    Matrix
    Die Hard 1 & 2
    Robocop
    Sleepers
    Event Horizon
    StarShip Troopers
    Lock, Stock and 2 smoking barrels
    American Pie
    Austin Powers 1 & 2
    Pokemon - The Movie smile.gif
    Pulp Fiction
    The Van (me likes Roddy Doyle)
    The Slapper
    Star Trek - Generations - DIE KIRK DIEEE
    Star Trek - First Contact
    Waynes World, Waynes World, Its party time, Excellent !
    Trainspotting
    Devils Advocate
    Silence of the Lambs *90's ?


    To name just a few




  • #9
    the celtic tiger
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭the celtic tiger


    When was the naked gun released???

    These are in no particular order (except for Indy + TLC
    NUMBER 1)


    Anyway:

    The Lion King
    Die Hard (?90's?)
    Austin Powers
    Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
    Matrix
    Fight Club
    Forrest Gump
    Braveheart
    Usual Suspects
    Toy Story
    The Rock
    Four Weddings and a funeral
    A few good men
    Good will hunting
    Jurrasic Park
    Speed
    LA Confidential
    Terminater II
    Dances With Wolves
    Titanic
    Spice Girls: The Movie
    Shawshank Redemption
    Heat
    Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (although a 1989 film, is one of the greatest/ if not the greatest film of all time)
    The Naked Gun (1988 I think, but still a classic)

    There's a red herring in there....see if you can spot it???

    tct

    eek.gif

    I'm a bicycle!!


    In all seriousness....the greatest place on earth!

    [This message has been edited by the celtic tiger (edited 13-04-2000).]


  • #10
    TwoShedsJackson
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    Forrest Gump is utter crap, Four Weddings & A Funeral omg that was bad - I just want to punch Hugh Grant's head in when he starts that 'stuttering upper class Englishman' $hite. Gump was one of the most offensive pieces of Amerocentric imperialistic crap in history. No the most.


  • #11
    Draco
    Subscribers Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭Draco


    Spice Girls: The Movie?!?!?!?!?!
    Did you mis read the topic?
    It was complete and utter tripe!

    Draco


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  • #12
    FreaK_BrutheR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭FreaK_BrutheR


    The Pillow Book

    Pretentious Art **** YEAH!!!!!!!!


  • #13
    SPACE COWBOY
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭SPACE COWBOY


    Just seen LA Confidential yesterday and I thought I was bloody good.(One of the best of the 90's whitout a doubt)
    La Haine was also very good.


  • #14
    Hobbes
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    The 6th Sense. Saw it for the second time and it was better watching it. Finding all the clues. They wrote and directed it well.

    Nothing great about PI, a stolen idea. At first I thought it was going to be a remake of Umberto Ecos "Foucaults Pendulum". But like the Omega Code the movie really doesn't go anywhere at all.

    12 Monkeys, Gattaga I'd throw in with the 6th sense.


  • #15
    MiCr0
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    LIfe is beautiful was pretty class


  • #16
    the celtic tiger
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭the celtic tiger


    I said that there was a red herring in the list somewhere.....I would have thought you'd pick up on it...! And Hobbes, what are you on???? GATTACA!!!!!!!

    tct

    eek.gif


    I'm a bicycle!!


    In all seriousness....the greatest place on earth!


  • #17
    ThunderingMike
    Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭ThunderingMike


    Anything by the superb Peter Jackson. Master of special effects and black Humour :

    Bad Taste,
    Brain Dead,
    Heavenly creatures,
    The Frighteners.

    All class films. I think Bad Taste was in the 80's though. Anyone seen it?


  • #18
    Mills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Mills


    Usual Suspects or Seven
    Mills


  • #19
    Wyverne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 890 ✭✭✭Wyverne


    well if were talking about the best films of the 90's then why dud you all forget:

    1. The Fifth Element
    2. Blade Runner
    3. The Secret Of my Success(helen slater omg)
    4. Buffy the Vampire LAYER (not a film but..)
    5. Grosse Point Blank (I agree with this
    altho i did not like the ending very much
    6. Sixth Sense (Naturally)
    7. Die hard(er)(ed),
    8. L.A Confidential (definatly)
    9. Delirious (john candy -- best comedy of
    the 90's decade by far - brill film --
    rent it now, and u wont be disapointed,
    and if u are i'll give u all fifty quid
    compensation when ur at de next LAN!!!
    10. any of the Indiana Jones Movies,
    "No Indy was our dogs name"
    mUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


    Wyverne


  • #20
    ThunderingMike
    Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭ThunderingMike


    1. Fifth element was woefully shallow. Even for Luc Besson!
    2. Blade runner is from like 20 years ago smile.gif
    3. The secret of my oh who cares!
    4. There was a Buffy The Vampire Slayer film before the series if ye did'nt know. Donald Sutherland was in it. That is how sh!t it was.
    5. Grosse point blank I agree with. Easily one of the smartest comedies of the nineties
    6. Sixth snese was good by how the fook did it get all those oscar nom's?
    7. Die hard was before the nineties but had it been in the nineties I would have voted for it smile.gif
    8. LA con = ****ing brilliant(definately is right)
    9.I liked Delirious...when I was 5 and admired John Candy
    10. the last crusade I think was a nineties movie. Also very good. the others i believe were 80's.

    And that ladies and gentlemen is my un-necessary and pretentious assessment of Wyverne's post on the best movies of the last decade...i'm gonna go strip wall paper.


  • #21
    Bard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    What about...
    • The Matrix
    • The Crow
    • Austin Powers 2

    to name but a few... literally


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  • #22
    Zapper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Zapper


    AMERICAN BEAUTY.


  • #23
    Gamblor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Gamblor


    La Haine get a big thumbs up from me, The crow as welll ( enjoyed . just had to put my brain in a jar first smile.gif ) Basketballs, and loads more ... btw they have re done Battle of the planets as in redrawn same story line
    but it's in italian, but the pics look good !!
    ***** Feel my Evil Neon Claws *****


  • #24
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    as usual yis cant let other ppls opinions lie.
    ok, so half of the movies mentioned werent made in the 90's
    i mean blade runner? wake up and buy empire ffs! it bloody ancient.

    and the red herring was jurassic park which was boring.
    i didnt see titanic in there either which was a class film, or glengary glen ross which is another corker


  • #25
    the celtic tiger
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭the celtic tiger


    Oh contrare WWMan, I mentioned Titanic in a previous post and Jurassic Park is fantastic the first time you see it. It had it all, action, adventure, bad acting AND great special effects....similar to the matrix, no?

    tct

    eek.gif


    I'm a bicycle!!


    In all seriousness....the greatest place on earth!


  • #26
    whitetrash
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭whitetrash


    it was "Buffet the Vampire Layer" btw
    not buffy cause buffet(?) is phoebe/twin's last name

    ps :P to you if i'm wrong smile.gif


  • #27
    the celtic tiger
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭the celtic tiger


    I hope to fuc|< you're joking about Austin Powers 2. It sucked a$$! It was just the same jokes rehashed from the first one! The first one was great, the second one was not. And I think that the last Crusade (best film ever) was in fact 1989....I'll check that now. Yes 1989.

    tct

    eek.gif
    I'm a bicycle!!


    In all seriousness....the greatest place on earth!


  • #28
    tr1n1ty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭tr1n1ty


    reading the posts, it brought back memories of some of the movies that I had seen over the previous decade. I must say I thought American Beauty was excellent. But that came out here this year, so does it count?

    I also thought the Matrix was very good - well where did you think I got the name?
    To Infinity and Beyond!


  • #29
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Originally posted by tr1n1ty:
    I also thought the Matrix was very good - well where did you think I got the name?

    Ya, but do you look as good in leather wink.gif


    All the best,

    Dav
    @B^)
    http://homepage.eircom.net/~davitt


  • #30
    the celtic tiger
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭the celtic tiger


    AAs it happens, I look stunning in leather!

    tct

    eek.gif


    I'm a bicycle!!


    In all seriousness....the greatest place on earth!


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  • #31
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    oooooooooooooh....

    Dav shudders


    All the best,

    Dav
    @B^)
    http://homepage.eircom.net/~davitt


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