Top 20 films of the 1990's POLL

[JavaJulien]

1. The Truman Show - #54
   
2. Pulp Fiction - #1
3. Malcolm X - #91
4. Princess Mononoke - #30
   
5. GoodFellas - #2
   
6. The Shawshank Redemption - #3
   
7. Fight Club - #12
8. The Prince of Egypt - Unranked
9. Reservoir Dogs - #33
   
10. The Silence of the Lambs - #10
    
11. Fargo - #13
    
12. The Matrix - #5
    
13. Schindler's List - #17
    
14. The Big Lebowski - #16
15. The Lion King - #28
16. Run Lola Run - Unranked
17. Boyz N The Hood - Unranked
    
18. Jurassic Park - #8
    
19. Saving Private Ryan - #6
    
20. Terminator 2 - #7

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by JavaJulien

So is that why the number 1 didn't get a poster like all the other threads?

No, I don't have anything to do with that. I'm guessing it's just because of time constraints, I got him the scores pretty late last night.

For me the biggest surprise is how well Se7en scored. I believe it got more votes than any other film, except for maybe Goodfellas, (just not the highest votes). It seemed to find its way into everybody's list. I think it's a very ordinary mediocre film, it looks like a TV-show episode to me, I wouldn't even consider it for my top 100.

[Dumbhuman]

The funny thing is I own about half of the top twenty on Blu-ray or DVD, but only The Big Lebowski was on my personal list of favorites. So it's not that I feel it's not a list of good films, but I don't feel it's particularly inspiring either.

I am happy at least that my last choice, Kore-eda's fantastically meditative ode to cinema and memory, After Life, is above The Boondock Saints, even if only because of alphabetical order. Any chance we can swap the actual symbol for Pi in there to similarly spare Darren Aronofsky the embarrassment of having his first work below Troy Duffy's?

[Dumbhuman]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

For me the biggest surprise is how well Se7en scored.

Personally I don't think that's nearly as surprising as seeing Satantango as #72!

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by Foggy

The Idiots is listed twice as well.

If that's the only mistake I made while performing multiple operations on 2160 points of data, then I won't lose any sleep.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by a clockwork orange

The Matrix shouldn't have made the top 20

Jurassic Park is ranked too high 15- 20 slot is where it should have fallen.

No way that Speed(79) is a better action movie then Hard Boiled(81), no F-ing way!

wrong

wrong

and wrong

[LegacyCosts]

Safe boring results, even if I did contribute to some of them

[Al_The_Strange]

Well, I'm okay with the results. Seen them all except for LA Confidential, voted for about six of them. Might just be a little disappointed that there's not enough love for Baraka, American History X, and various others, but I think most of what's on there are darn good films anyway (and I do feel a little bad for not voting on The Goodfellas or Shawshank Redemption).

[qb2333]

LA Confidential is a pretty good flick. You should check it out

[Scholer]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

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What are your favorite films from the 1990s? Only lists with twenty choices will be taken to account for the poll.

EVERYONE, assign point values, if none are assigned, we will assume an even spread of ten points for each choice.

Will be tallied around January 20, 2013.

The Results:



1. Pulp Fiction 723
2: Goodfellas 647
3: Shawshank Redemption 543
4: Se7en 457
5: The Matrix 417
6: Saving Private Ryan 405
7: Terminator 2: Judgement Day 395
8: Jurassic Park 381
9: Heat 378
10: The Silence of the Lambs 345
11: Braveheart 336
12: Fight Club 335
13: Fargo 317
14: Unforgiven 311
15: Forrest Gump 307
16: The Big Lebowski 300
17: Schindler's List 284
18: Toy Story 261
19: The Thin Red Line 245
20: L.A. Confidential 244


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Rosetta 17
Three Kings 17
The Wind will Carry Us 17
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 16
BASEketball 16
Frankenhooker 16
In the Name of the Father 16

........

The Negotiator 13
The Prince of Egypt 13
Princess Goh 13
La Promesse 13
Romeo + Juliet 13
Shakespeare in Love 13
Slacker 13
The Wind Will Carry Us 13


[/spoiler]

My List:

Magnolia - 20
Leaving Las Vegas - 19
Beloved - 18
The Thin Red Line - 17
Boys Don't Cry - 16
Being John Malkovich - 15
Good Will Hunting - 14
The Sweet Hereafter - 13
Bound - 12
Flirting - 11
The Rapture - 10
Strange Days - 9
The Last Seduction - 8
Farewell My Concubine - 7
Heat - 6
The People vs. Larry Flynt - 5
The Crying Game - 4
A League of their Own - 3
Boogie Nights - 2
Mother and Son - 1

The Wind Will Carry Us is listed twice, it should be listed once with total 30 points.

[Kevin Holly]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

If that's the only mistake I made while performing multiple operations on 2160 points of data, then I won't lose any sleep.

Well said

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by a clockwork orange

The Matrix shouldn't have made the top 20

Jurassic Park is ranked too high 15- 20 slot is where it should have fallen.

No way that Speed(79) is a better action movie then Hard Boiled(81), no F-ing way!

That's why I had very little enthusiasm for this decade poll. By this point, the bad taste of children completely takes over as the overwhelmingly dominant factor. I was actually surprised that some good films made the cut, I thought it would just be a three-way slugfest between Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, and The Matrix, with the rest filled out with even worse popular tripe. Jurassic Park may have finished a bit high, but I would take it over all but two of the films that finished ahead of it.

...Oh well, I guess at least it proves we weren't rigging the results.

Originally Posted by LegacyCosts

Safe boring results, even if I did contribute to some of them

A safe boring list, for a safe boring decade.

Originally Posted by Scholer

The Wind Will Carry Us is listed twice, it should be listed once with total 30 points.

... and it's still barely half enough points to even get it into the top 100, so who really cares?

How 'bout you score the next one, and we'll see if you do any better.

[Scholer]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

... and it's still barely half enough points to even get it into the top 100, so who really cares?

How 'bout you score the next one, and we'll see if you do any better.

It wouldn't hurt to just correct it. As far as I see, thats the only mistake in the whole list. And frankly I don't see how my saying to correct a mistake is any sign of disrespect to the one who is calculating the polls.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

That's why I had very little enthusiasm for this decade poll. By this point, the bad taste of children completely takes over as the overwhelmingly dominant factor.

A safe boring list, for a safe boring decade.

"the bad taste of children"? condescending much?
that is strictly your opinion, which bears no more or less weight than anyone else's, including mine... which is that the 90's are by far one of the BEST decades for film, second only to the 80's

[Infernal King]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

"the bad taste of children"? condescending much?

Beat me to it.

I am disappoint mjbethancourt

[JavaJulien]

One thing this list does show me though is I still need to see Se7en and Heat.

[SilentDawn]

Originally Posted by JavaJulien

One thing this list does show me though is I still need to see Se7en and Heat.

Yeah, you should definitely get on that.

[franken_psycho1990]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

"the bad taste of children"? condescending much?
that is strictly your opinion, which bears no more or less weight than anyone else's, including mine... which is that the 90's are by far one of the BEST decades for film, second only to the 80's

The 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's were better decades for movies than the 90's.
The 90's are exactly when movie making just started to decline and once we get to the 00's, It was completely ruined except for a few movies.

[Tony208]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

OK, guys, can we please refrain from criticizing other people's lists?

Please try to keep the conversation respectful.

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

That's why I had very little enthusiasm for this decade poll. By this point, the bad taste of children completely takes over as the overwhelmingly dominant factor.

ahaha now who's acting like a child

[Kevin Holly]

Originally Posted by franken_psycho1990

The 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's were better decades for movies than the 90's.
The 90's are exactly when movie making just started to decline and once we get to the 00's, It was completely ruined except for a few movies.

90s > 80s yo