I love the early 90s.

[moreorless]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Yep, the end of the decade was pretty great.

Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Office Space
Fight Club
Magnolia
eXistenZ
Payback
Audition
8MM

It was arguably the last period were were it was possible for a number of directors with artistic ambition to build up status within Hollywood to the degree they can commend significant budgets.

We've had the odd one or two since that period like Lanthimos but its become progressively rarer and I think that actually is part of the reason for the decline in more ambitious Hollywood cinema, the clutch of directors who broke though back then are starting to decline and havent been replaced.

[Lianzantoro]

I'd consider 1999 the best year of that decade for films. But then again I was already an adult when the decade began. So I had no childhood nostalgia for the earlier years of that decade.
The Sixth Sense
The Matrix
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
American Beauty
American Pie
Stir of Echoes

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by The hitcher

In contrast, the late 90s were terrible.

Blade
The Matrix

Two amazing late 90's movies.

[The Architect]

Originally Posted by spider-neil

Blade
The Matrix

Two amazing late 90's movies.

Also Dark City, Saving Private Ryan, La Vita E Bella, Face/Off, The Mummy, The Insider, The Sixth Sense, L.A. Confidential, Fight Club, Gattaca etc.
I think is safe to say the 90's were great altogether. Good times...

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by The Architect

Also Dark City, Saving Private Ryan, La Vita E Bella, Face/Off, The Mummy, The Insider, The Sixth Sense, L.A. Confidential, Fight Club, Gattaca etc.
I think is safe to say the 90's were great altogether. Good times...

Schindler's List.
Short Cuts.
Magnolia.
VeggieTales: Battle With Dracula

[Leslie Dame]

Good times for B-Movie fans., This was when Full Moon Entertainment were at their peak. It felt like they released a new direct-to-video feature each week.

Puppet Master II
Demonic Toys
Subspecies
Meridian
Bad Channels
Dark Angel: The Ascent

The early 1990s also saw one of my favorite companies, Vestron Video, going bankrupt and out of business.

Still, lots of fond memories of going to the video rental store in the early 1990s.

[RossyG]

Good times. Films I saw theatrically in 1994

THE GREAT
Maverick
Speed
True Lies (I went twice. First time I’d ever done that)
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Pulp Fiction
Leon

THE GOOD
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Hudsucker Proxy
Forest Gump
Clear and Present Danger
Quiz Show
Stargate
Interview with the Vampire
Star Trek Generations
Dumb and Dumber
Pret-a-Porter
The Madness of King George
Shallow Grave
La Reine Margot

THE SUBPAR
Sirens
Naked Gun 33.3
Beverley Hills Cop 3
The Flintstones
The Mask (an audience full of talkers didn’t help)
Natural Born Killers
Road to Wellville

THE AWFUL
Wolf
Blown Away
North
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (again an obnoxious crowd didn’t help)
Shopping

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by RossyG

Good times. Films I saw theatrically in 1994

THE GREAT
Maverick
Speed
True Lies (I went twice. First time I’d ever done that)
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Pulp Fiction
Leon

THE GOOD
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Hudsucker Proxy
Forest Gump
Clear and Present Danger
Quiz Show
Stargate
Interview with the Vampire
Star Trek Generations
Dumb and Dumber
Pret-a-Porter
The Madness of King George
Shallow Grave
La Reine Margot

THE SUBPAR
Sirens
Naked Gun 33.3
Beverley Hills Cop 3
The Flintstones
The Mask (an audience full of talkers didn’t help)
Natural Born Killers
Road to Wellville

THE AWFUL
Wolf
Blown Away
North
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (again an obnoxious crowd didn’t help)
Shopping

Giving props to RossyG for calling out Wolf.

If you're going to make a werewolf movie, make a damn werewolf movie, not an analogy about the publishing industry. Just straight up derp.

[moreorless]

I would say the last gasp of great Hollywood gangster epics at the start of the decade with Goodfellas, Millers Crossing and King of Newyork coming out within weeks of each other.

[Ernest Rister]

Well, Tarantino and Guy Ritchie might disagree.

Also, the '90's, at least financially, were a good period for animation. 1993 alone saw Nightmare Before Christmas and the last wide release of Snow White, with The Lion King waiting in the wings and Pixar about to change the industry.

[kabal223]

Originally Posted by Yeti4928

1990-1994:

-Peak Schwarzenegger/Seagal/Van Damne.

-Live action kid movie boom (Ninja Turtles, Home Alone, Problem Child, Bingo, My Girl, Mighty Ducks, etc.).

-All those fun, trashy Fatal Attraction and Die Hard knockoffs.

-Peak Hood cinema.

-The Indie craze was just starting to take off

The best van damme movies are from the 80s:

Bloodsports
Kickboxer

[BluRayTim]

Originally Posted by Yeti4928

1990-1994:

-Peak Schwarzenegger/Seagal/Van Damne.

-Live action kid movie boom (Ninja Turtles, Home Alone, Problem Child, Bingo, My Girl, Mighty Ducks, etc.).

-All those fun, trashy Fatal Attraction and Die Hard knockoffs.

-Peak Hood cinema.

-The Indie craze was just starting to take off

The early 1990s was actually 1990 to 1993, while the mid 1990s was actually 1994 to 1996 and the late 1990s was actually 1997 to 1999.

[CaptainYoda]

How does RossyG remember every single movie he saw in the theater that year. I could probably look through a list of all movies released and make some guesses, but it was a long time ago.

[BudBaxter]

Originally Posted by CaptainYoda

How does RossyG remember every single movie he saw in the theater that year. I could probably look through a list of all movies released and make some guesses, but it was a long time ago.

Some of us nerds kept lists.

[BerC]

Originally Posted by BudBaxter

Some of us nerds kept lists.

Damn straight.

[RossyG]

Originally Posted by CaptainYoda

How does RossyG remember every single movie he saw in the theater that year. I could probably look through a list of all movies released and make some guesses, but it was a long time ago.

I went through the Wikipedia list for that year to make sure I got everything but clearly remember every trip. I know which cinema I saw them in and often remember whereabouts roughly I sat in the auditorium.

Generally I have a below par memory but for cinema trips I remember quite a lot.

This goes back to when my age was in single figures. I can certainly remember my first cinema trip for a film few remember called When the North Wind Blows.

Is this unusual? Cinema is my #1 favourite hobby and always has been. Perhaps I put too much thought into it.

[spanky87]

The quintessential early 90s film and star.

[7Mile]

Wolf awful? It's my favorite werewolf movie. By far.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by 7Mile

Wolf awful? It's my favorite werewolf movie. By far.

American Werewolf in London is mine, because it's actually a werewolf movie. Wolf was an analogy, and sure, that can work, but as a genre film, it left me feeling underwhelmed.

[Moviefan2k4]

My favorite '90s drama was released in the last year of the decade: Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams. It bombed in theaters because people expected an all-out comedy (I blame the trailer), but its truly a wonderful film. Sadly, Disney haven't even put it on Blu-Ray yet, much less 4K.