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I knew this would be a difficult decade to boil down to nine films but whoa-man! It’s been nearly impossible. So the way I came up with to fix that is to just cheat and do two different lists and a big old fifty-four way tie. First, just to get them out of the way, my top 9 most ridiculously quintessentially “90s” blow-the-roof-off-the-theater-for-being-so-90s movies! Meaning these movies are, I think, representative of the 90s either in scale, “datedness,” or amount of fun to watch versus actual quality. I’ll try to explain which is which in the actual list.
9. The Net- Made the list because I reference it all the time, ludicrous.
8. Con Air- Nicolas Cage is the 90s.
7. Waterworld- So bad and so expensive and SO awesome.
6. The Rock- A friend of a friend has the final scene with the flares as a full size back tattoo. Nicolas Cage is the 90s.
5. The Matrix- Bullet-time changed movies forever. For better or worse.
4. Fight Club- THE movie for adolescent males of the 90s.
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- Shaped so many lives.
2. Pulp Fiction- A truly excellent film.
1. Independence Day- “Welcome ta Erff!”
Ok, so those are those. The following are my favorite films of the 1990s, take it or leave it.
9. Dead Man
8. Toy Story
7. Die Hard with a Vengeance
6. Waiting for Guffman
5. Kafka
4. The Limey
3. Fargo
2. The Big Lebowski
1. Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park got the number one slot, not because it’s my absolute favorite movie of the 90s probably, but because it hit me like a ton of magical movie bricks and was one of the leading factors of my going into the film field.
Tied for number ten on this list are the following, in no particular order: Reservoir Dogs, Boogie Nights, Silence of the Lambs, The Hudsucker Proxy, Back to the future part III, Edward Scissorhands, Ernest Goes to Jail, Jacob’s Ladder, Miller’s Crossing, Tremors, Barton Fink, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, Delicatessen, Naked Lunch, Aladdin, Batman Returns, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Man Bites Dog, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Noises Off, Army of Darkness, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ninja Scroll, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Crow, Maverick, Radioland Murders, The Shawshank Redemption, Stargate, Braveheart, The City of Lost Children, Twelve Monkeys, The Usual Suspect, Crash (1995), From Dusk Til Dawn, Mission Impossible, Muppet Treasure Island, Trainspotting, Cube, The Fifth Element, L.A. Confidential, Lost Highway, Princess Mononoke, American History X, Dark City, Pi, Rushmore, The Truman Show, The X-Files, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, eXistenZ, Galaxy Quest.
Obviously some of those are better than others but hey, I like all of them!
So there’s a whole big giant crazy post about my thoughts on the 90s! What do you think? Think I’m crazy? Let me know about it! Respond in the comments section.
Man, the 80s might have been the most fun decade, but good lord the 70s were chock full of awesomeness! A fair number of my favorite movies of all time came out of this wacky decade. And a good amount of the movies I feel the worst about not having yet seen are from the 70s, the original Solaris, F for Fake, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, House… to name a few. 1974, for example, Chinatown, The Conversation, Blazing Saddles, AND Young Frankenstein!? That’s out of control.
So here are my favorite 9 movies from the 1970s:
9. Jaws
8. Don’t Look Now
7. Young Frankenstein
6. Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope (1977 Version)
5. Straw Dogs
4. Alien
3. Apocalypse Now
2. The Conversation
1. Chinatown
There you have it. 9 Awesome films! My other favorite 70s flicks include (but aren’t limited to): A Clockwork Orange, Klute, THX 1138, Walkabout, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, The Sting, The Holy Mountain, Jesus Christ Super Star, Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno, A Boy and His Dog, Dog Day Afternoon, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Carrie, Eraserhead, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Suspiria, Wizards, The Deer Hunter, The Jerk, Mad Max, and Phantasm.
Thanks to Derek for suggesting a movie, I wasn’t super crazy about that one though, so it didn’t make the list. I’ll just let you all guess which movie it was.
I want to hear your comments on this! Give me your favorite movies from the 70s, or any decade!
My god this was hard! In going back to do this list I came to the realization that the 1980s were probably the most fun decade of all time for movies, and maybe even for music as well! That doesn’t necessarily mean the best, but the most fun. So I went through the 80s and boiled my list down to a nice even forty-nine, then I got that down to 18, then my final 9! I’ll plop the full list at the bottom of this post just for funsies.
I was born in the 80s, thus my point of view on the decade is very, let’s say, nostalgic, as is the case for many people my age. So take this list for what it is, my FAVORITE nine movies of the 80s, not particularly what I think are the BEST 9, but the ones I like the most. Party. Party all the time.
Over the next few days I’ll be posting my favorites for the other decades, most notably the 90s, 70s, and 60s! So keep your peepers glued for that!!
Without further stalling for time here are my top 9!
9. Blade Runner
8. Mystery Train
7. The Goonies
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5. Ghostbusters
4. Back to the Future
3. Die Hard
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1. The Princess Bride
So there you have it. My favorite nine movies of the 1980s! Close runners up, in no particular order were: Brazil, The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, Labyrinth, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Akira, Beetlejuice, Dead Ringers.
Slightly less close runners up were: Dark Crystal, The Shinning, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Das Boot, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, The Thing, Trading Places, This is Spinal Tap, Stranger Than Paradise, Ran, Vampire Hunter D, Blue Velvet, Down by Law, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Flight of the Navigator, The Fly, Little Shop of Horrors, Ernest Goes to Camp, Hellraiser, Predator, The Running Man, Withnail and I, Coming to America, Scrooged, Vampire’s Kiss, The Abyss, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Back to the Future Part II, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Sex, lies and videotape.
Special thanks to Derek and Amanda for helping me remember some of my favorite movies of all time were from the 80s!
Phew. Now that I’ve listed pretty much every movie from the 80s, why don’t you tell me what your favorites are?
Click here or on the little speech bubble by the post title to comment!
In looking back over 2010 I found myself surprised by several things: how few movies I had hated, how many movies I had just not bothered to see (because they looked so terrible), and how few movies I had actually loved. I could posit theories as to why 2010 was such a lackluster year, but you’re not here to read lots of words, you’re here for short things, because you have very little patience, which is great. So first I’ll give you my top nine then I’ll give you my bottom eight.
BEST of 2010
9. I Am Love
8. Monsters
7. 127 Hours
6. Social Network
5. Inception
4. Get Low
3. Black Swan
2. The King’s Speech
1. Winter’s Bone
Runners up: True Grit, Scott Pilgrim, Tangled
WORST of 2010
8. The Ghost Writer
7. Salt
6. Iron Man 2
5. Legion
4. Hot Tub Time Machine
3. Daybreakers
2. Youth in Revolt
1. Robin Hood
You’ll notice that there are only eight worst movies, that is because at this juncture I can’t afford to see movies that look super bad, so it’s only movies that I give a chance and turn out terrible that I see. You’ll also notice that several of my worst movies are movies that a lot of other people liked (i.e. The Ghost Writer). Feel free to comment with your thoughts.
Maybe I just wasn’t the target demographic for that Ghost Writer. Maybe I was just pissed by bad trailers making the movie seem like something it wasn’t so I was in the wrong mood, like how the trailer for Cyrus made it look like a comedy, which it wasn’t. That said, Iron Man 2 was boring as hell, Legion was just terrible, Hot Tub Time Machine was nothing but predictable clichés, Youth in Revolt was just pedantic boring overly-self-aware garbage, and Robin Hood didn’t have any actual character motivation or genuine believability. That was probably among the meanest sentences I’ve written all year, sorry! The crazy thing is that I like Ridley Scott, and Chinatown is one of my favorite movies of all time. Maybe I just had really high expectations.
For full disclosure purposes there are a few movies I have yet to see that I wish to, some of them are shocking that I haven’t seen them yet (and I am very ashamed don’t worry.) These are: Marwencol, I love you Phillip Morris, Rare Exports, TRON: Legacy, Blue Valentine, Biutiful, MegaMind, Buried, Let Me In, Enter the Void, The Town, Catfish, I’m Still Here, Mesrine, Machete, Animal Kingdom, Dinner for Schmucks, Winnebago Man, The Kids are All Right, Splice, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, and The Square.
Likewise, there are a fair number of movies that look so bad I probably won’t see them until this site starts doing well enough that I’m paid to do it, these are: Skyline, Burlesque, Yogi Bear, Little Fockers, Saw 3D, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Devil, Eat, Pray, Love, Knight and Day, Marmaduke, The Wolfman, and a bunch more that aren’t even worth listing because they’re obvious.
So that’s 2010 in review, from my point of view anyways. What about you? I’d love to see your best and worst of the year, post them in the comments!
