What's everyone's top movies of 1990?

[DenOfEarth]

My top personal 25

1. Home Alone
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Goodfellas
4. Pacific Heights
5. Back to the Future 3
6. Darkman
7. Misery
8. Total Recall
9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10. Predator 2
11. Robocop 2
12. The Adventures of ford Mcfarlane
13. Tremors
14. Jacob's Ladder
15. Child's Play 2
16. Days of Thunder
17. Hard to Kill
18. Night of the Living Dead
19. Die Hard 2
20. Archnophobia
21. The Exorcist III
22. Edward Scissorhands
23. Wild at Heart.
24. Narrow Margin
25. Quick Change

HMs: Nightbreed, Navy Seals, Frankenhooker, Men at Work, The Witches, The Rescuers Down Under, Tales from the Darkside the movie (aka the true Creepshow 3), Gremlins 2, Hardware, I Come in Peace aka Dark Angel, Fire Birds, House Party, Dragonball Z The Tree of Might, The First Power, Lionheart, Ducktales the movie, The Ambulance, The Guardian, The Last of the Finest and Flatiners.

[Dark City Denizen]

Predator 2 & Robocop 2 are firmly under-rated movies that get too much hate.

I think you got all my favourites, but shout-out to Flatliners, which I’ve always enjoyed.

[DenOfEarth]

Originally Posted by Dark City Denizen

Predator 2 & Robocop 2 are firmly under-rated movies that get too much hate.

I think you got all my favourites, but shout-out to Flatliners, which I’ve always enjoyed.

Yes i enjoyed Predator 2 and Robocop 2 since i was 9 seeing the movies in theaters as i saw the first ones in theaters as well. I think Predator 2 is criminally underrated as it's not the same leftovers as the first as it didn't need to be in the jungle again as it went to the urban jungle in the summer in L.A. which makes it very refreshing and it didn't need Arnold again as afterall Dutch is the second star in the first movie but the true star of the movie is the title monster afterall and i like that there's also more predators in this movie. And Arnold had to do Total Recall which was a right choice and glad the script changed originally had Dutch but has a different character.

I like the direction as the director of the movie made up for his disappointing Elm Street 5 and i think this is his best movie no doubt. Nice pace, Danny Glover proves he can be a badass like in Lethal Weapon movies and lots of action with nice gore and make up effects even nice creature effects. Plus i think it's the last worthwhile Predator movie. I'll continue to defend the movie as it's one of my fave sequels.

Robocop 2 i think is underrated too as it's just as violent as the first movie but what i like about it is that it's a clever satire on political correctness just like the first one was a clever satire on media and corporations, i love Robocain which was a nice addition and all that. To me it with Robocop vs Terminator comics by Frank Miller were the last worthwhile robocop things in my view before he got watered down by 3, the TV show, the miniseries and remake which took away the badassness of the character Robocop away and turned him into a joke.

[Dark City Denizen]

Originally Posted by DenOfEarth

Yes i enjoyed Predator 2 and Robocop 2 since i was 9 seeing the movies in theaters as i saw the first ones in theaters as well. I think Predator 2 is criminally underrated as it's not the same leftovers as the first as it didn't need to be in the jungle again as it went to the urban jungle in the summer in L.A. which makes it very refreshing and it didn't need Arnold again as afterall Dutch is the second star in the first movie but the true star of the movie is the title monster afterall and i like that there's also more predators in this movie. And Arnold had to do Total Recall which was a right choice and glad the script changed originally had Dutch but has a different character.

I like the direction as the director of the movie made up for his disappointing Elm Street 5 and i think this is his best movie no doubt. Nice pace, Danny Glover proves he can be a badass like in Lethal Weapon movies and lots of action with nice gore and make up effects even nice creature effects. Plus i think it's the last worthwhile Predator movie. I'll continue to defend the movie as it's one of my fave sequels.

Robocop 2 i think is underrated too as it's just as violent as the first movie but what i like about it is that it's a clever satire on political correctness just like the first one was a clever satire on media and corporations, i love Robocain which was a nice addition and all that. To me it with Robocop vs Terminator comics by Frank Miller were the last worthwhile robocop things in my view before he got watered down by 3, the TV show, the miniseries and remake which took away the badassness of the character Robocop away and turned him into a joke.

First of all, God bless that movie theatre who let a 9-year-old in to see Predator 2 LOL.

In some ways, I can understand the movies’ critics. It is actually not a conventionally good movie, really. There are significant warts. But hot damn, it’s a ****ing blast of a ride. I appreciate the different setting, too. Paxton & Busey are entertaining in different ways, & let me give a big shout out to Morton Downey, Jr, who as reporter Tony Pope, has so many hysterical rants.

There’s a lot of laughs in Predator 2, it isn’t taking itself as seriously as the first film, & yet still respects the source & expands on it quite nicely in the last 20 minutes. Yes, it is heavy on stereotypes & the dialogue is mostly designed only for plot advancement, but the Pred has some great new weapons, the mythology is extended, & it’s just a fun ride, really.

This director also made another under-rated movie, The Ghost & the Darkness (1996).

[Mothravka]

1. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki)
3. The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov)
4. Siddheshwari (Mani Kaul)
5. Twilight (György Fehér)
6. No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira)
7. New York Portrait, Chapter III (Peter B. Hutton)
8. Mathilukal (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
9. Freeze Die Come to Life (Vitali Kanevsky)
10. In Memory of the Day Passed By (Šarūnas Bartas)

[DenOfEarth]

Originally Posted by Dark City Denizen

First of all, God bless that movie theatre who let a 9-year-old in to see Predator 2 LOL.

In some ways, I can understand the movies’ critics. It is actually not a conventionally good movie, really. There are significant warts. But hot damn, it’s a ****ing blast of a ride. I appreciate the different setting, too. Paxton & Busey are entertaining in different ways, & let me give a big shout out to Morton Downey, Jr, who as reporter Tony Pope, has so many hysterical rants.

There’s a lot of laughs in Predator 2, it isn’t taking itself as seriously as the first film, & yet still respects the source & expands on it quite nicely in the last 20 minutes. Yes, it is heavy on stereotypes & the dialogue is mostly designed only for plot advancement, but the Pred has some great new weapons, the mythology is extended, & it’s just a fun ride, really.

This director also made another under-rated movie, The Ghost & the Darkness (1996).

Well both Predator 1 and 2 are five out of five star movies in my book for me on my ratings. Like robocop is five out of five stars and Robocop 2 for me is 4 and a half out of five stars.

[CreasyBear]

Jacob's Ladder
The Hunt for Red October
Tremors
Total Recall
Misery
Goodfellas
Darkman
The Exorcist III
Wild at Heart
Back to the Future Part III

[Leslie Dame]

1 Dances with Wolves
2 Edward Scissorhands
3 Misery
4 Awakenings
5 Miller's Crossing
6 Home Alone
7 The Hunt for Red October
8 Total Recall
9 Jacob's Ladder
10 Back to the Future Part III
11 Wild at Heart
12 Die Hard 2
13 Tremors
14 Ghost
15 King of New York
16 The Witches
17 Night of the Living Dead
18 Mermaids
19 Nightbreed
20 Flatliners
21 Cry-Baby
22 Arachnophobia
23 Gremlins 2: The New Batch
24 Darkman
25 The Exorcist III

[Dark City Denizen]

Originally Posted by DenOfEarth

Well both Predator 1 and 2 are five out of five star movies in my book for me on my ratings. Like robocop is five out of five stars and Robocop 2 for me is 4 and a half out of five stars.

Personally I regard the first movies in those franchises as bonafide classics more than a cut above their immediate sequels, but I’m with you when you say the real drop-off for both comes with the third movies & beyond. They’re all just degrees of bad after the first two.

[DenOfEarth]

Originally Posted by Dark City Denizen

Personally I regard the first movies in those franchises as bonafide classics more than a cut above their immediate sequels, but I’m with you when you say the real drop-off for both comes with the third movies & beyond. They’re all just degrees of bad after the first two.

AVP 1 and 2 were just crap, Predators i found disappointing and The Predator 2018 was terrible.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by DenOfEarth

My top personal 25

1. Home Alone
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Goodfellas
4. Pacific Heights
5. Back to the Future 3
6. Darkman
7. Misery
8. Total Recall
9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10. Predator 2
11. Robocop 2
12. The Adventures of ford Mcfarlane
13. Tremors
14. Jacob's Ladder
15. Child's Play 2
16. Days of Thunder
17. Hard to Kill
18. Night of the Living Dead
19. Die Hard 2
20. Archnophobia
21. The Exorcist III
22. Edward Scissorhands
23. Wild at Heart.
24. Narrow Margin
25. Quick Change

HMs: Nightbreed, Navy Seals, Frankenhooker, Men at Work, The Witches, The Rescuers Down Under, Tales from the Darkside the movie (aka the true Creepshow 3), Gremlins 2, Hardware, I Come in Peace aka Dark Angel, Fire Birds, House Party, Dragonball Z The Tree of Might, The First Power, Lionheart, Ducktales the movie, The Ambulance, The Guardian, The Last of the Finest and Flatiners.

Wow that was actually a great year for movies

[drush9999]

Total Recall & Wild at Heart are my top picks for 1990

[DenOfEarth]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

Wow that was actually a great year for movies

And what are your fave movies of 1990?

[Rodney-2187]

I'll add:

Presumed Innocent
Young Guns II

[Warm Gun]

Goodfellas
Ken Burns' The Civil War
Madonna: Blond Ambition Tour Live in Nice*
Total Recall
Nikita
Close-Up
Edward Scissorhands
Dances with Wolves

*Watching Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90 right now, which is so far really good too.

[DR Herbert West]

1. Total Recall
2. Wild at Heart
3. Hardware
4. Tremors
5. Darkman

[The Sovereign]

A big year for crime films, although I guess a lot of years are.

Wild at Heart
Goodfellas
Miller’s Crossing
Miami Blues
Nikita
Home Alone
The Grifters
Misery
The Hunt for Red October
Henry & June
Metropolitan
The Two Jakes
King of New York
Tremors
Bad Influence
A Shock to the System
State of Grace
The Hot Spot
Mountains of the Moon
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

[Winslow Leach]

Goodfellas
Dick Tracy
Quick Change
The Grifters
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Home Alone
Darkman
Back to the Future III
The Hunt for Red October
Miller's Crossing

[Gacivory]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Cry-Baby
Frankenhooker
Total Recall
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Robocop 2
Die Hard 2
Metropolitan
Mo Better Blues
The Exorcist III
Wild at Heart
State of Grace
Goodfellas
King of New York
Miller’s Crossing
To Sleep With Anger
Home Alone
Predator 2

[Britbuffguy]

1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Tremors
3. IT
4. Young Guns 2
5. Home Alone
6. Days Of Thunder
7. Awakenings
8. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
9. Ghost
10. Child's Play 2
11. Misery
12. Gremlins: The New Batch
13. Men At Work
14. Flatliners
15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
16. Kindergarten Cop
17. My Blue Heaven
18. Arachnophobia
19. Ski Patrol
20. Robocop 2
21. Dick Tracy
22. Duck Tales: The Movie
23. Pump Up The Volume
24. Presumed Innocent
25. Wild At Heart