favourite mid 90s movies?

[zombie no.one]

what are some of your favourite movies from the years 1994 - 1996 era of releases?


USUAL SUSPECTS, FARGO, and CASINO would all be in my top 10 of all time... 3 masterpieces

SE7EN is also excellent, imo

PULP FICTION is easily one of my top 10 first time watches (pretty much when it came out iirc), blown away... but I can barely re-watch it, despite a few goes... not exactly sure why?

[zombie no.one]

I must also give props to the work of unintentional genius that is THE HOWLING PART 7: NEW MOON RISING 

[Rev. Powell]

It was a great era, especially for independent cinema in the US. lots of my favorites are in this short period.

PULP FICTION
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
DEAD MAN
SLING BLADE
CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE
FARGO
DEAD MAN WALKING
CEMETERY MAN
HEAVENLY CREATURES
12 MONKEYS

Heck, even FORREST GUMP was memorable, if not a favorite, and I remember SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION as being kinda good even though I couldn't tell you much about the plot today.

[bob]

Pulp Fiction
Hoop Dreams
Fargo
Dumb and Dumber
Clear and Present Danger   
True Lies
Happy Gilmore
Speed
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
The Rock      
Clerks
GoldenEye   
Seven
Braveheart   
Mortal Kombat   
Casino
12 Monkeys   
Primal Fear
King Pin
Last Man Standing
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
Heat
The Game

[zombie no.one]

forgot SPECIES... I know it's kind of popcorn fare, but honestly my fav sci-fi horror ever

HEAVENLY CREATURES

only saw that once but it made an impression

The Rock      

planning on watching this again(?) because I think I have it confused with another movie, and it's possible I've never seen it...

SPEED was a fun rewatch, recently. so long since I last saw it

[zombie no.one]

there's a few movies I saw back then which I have really good memories of, but I'm apprehensive to rewatch in case they turn out to be rubbish!... SFW and FREEWAY fall in this category

[bob]

forgot SPECIES... I know it's kind of popcorn fare, but honestly my fav sci-fi horror ever

HEAVENLY CREATURES

only saw that once but it made an impression

The Rock      

planning on watching this again(?) because I think I have it confused with another movie, and it's possible I've never seen it...

SPEED was a fun rewatch, recently. so long since I last saw it

at some point

loose plot: Nicholas Cage is a scientist; Sean Connery is a prisoner who is hired by to break into Alcatraz to stop Ed Harris' group of machineries from shooting missiles at the USA from Alcatraz

[M.10rda]

This was a great era for film and some Great films have been mentioned.

A personal favorite that I would contribute to the mix:
Hal Hartley's AMATEUR
I'd reckon that's my single favorite film from '94-'96. A beautiful object.

Per ZNO's first post...
PULP FICTION aged a bit poorly, imho. It was epochal in that moment, but Tarantino made better films after PULP FICTION (and actually I think RESERVOIR DOGS is also probably better than PULP FICTION).

And other folks made films like PULP FICTIOM that were better than PULP FICTION.
I'd nominate one that hasn't been mentioned yet:
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
...Probably the second greatest Christopher Walken performance after DEER HUNTER, and he never moves anything below his collarbone.
Also Oscar-worthy/career-best performances from Andy Garcia, Fairuza Balk, and Christopher Lloyd, with a serious contender from Treat Williams, in service of a screenplay that is more quotable than Tarantino & Avery's for PF.

  But that's just me, what do I know?

[HappyGilmore]

Some of these might be off a year or so, but

Clerks
Mallratsb
Pulp Fiction
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Scream
Fargo
Dumb and Dumber
Ace Ventura Pet DetectiveI
Shawshank Redemption
Mortal Kombat
Usual Suspects
Toy Story
Forrest Gump
Batman Forever
Showgirls
Street Fighter. For Raul Julia.

2Nominations from 1997: Chasing Amy and Scream 2. If there's a late 90s list, they'd be on mine.

There's others that I'm thinking about, but it's late here and I'm a bit tired

[lester1/2jr]

The Game (1997)

[claws]

1. The Shawshank Redemption 1994
2. Pulp Fiction 1994
3. Forrest Gump 1994
4. Se7en 1995
5. The Usual Suspects 1995
6. The Lion King 1994
7. Casino 1995
8. Fargo 1996
9. 12 Monkeys 1995
10. Ed Wood 1994

Never seen:

Heat 1995
Toy Story 1995
Trainspotting 1996
Sling Blade 1996

Seen, but didn't care much:

Léon: The Professional 1994
Braveheart 1995

[zombie no.one]

A personal favorite that I would contribute to the mix:
Hal Hartley's AMATEUR
I'd reckon that's my single favorite film from '94-'96. A beautiful object.

cool, never heard of it. just found Barry Norman's (I guess kind of our Roger Ebert circa 80s/90s?) review on youtube. (he liked it).

I'd nominate one that hasn't been mentioned yet:
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
...Probably the second greatest Christopher Walken performance after DEER HUNTER, and he never moves anything below his collarbone.
Also Oscar-worthy/career-best performances from Andy Garcia, Fairuza Balk, and Christopher Lloyd, with a serious contender from Treat Williams, in service of a screenplay that is more quotable than Tarantino & Avery's for PF.

  But that's just me, what do I know?

I know I've seen this, but back then I would watch a lot of films in.... an alternate state of mind. maybe a rewatch in order 

[zombie no.one]

Chasing Amy

think this might be the only Kevin Smith film apart from CLERKS that I actually enjoyed... gotta be honest I was really disappointed with MALLRATS

The Game (1997)

I recently found out The Game the rapper was named after this film. always thought that was a terrible rapper name.

9. 12 Monkeys 1995

ok enough of you have now mentioned this one for me to do a rewatch. I don't remember much about it tbh

[HappyGilmore]

A few I left off that I liked:
Lion King
Reality BitesIt's
Ed Wood
Mars AttacksIt's
12 MonkeysIt's
Se7enb
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Clueless

There's so many films released in the 90s I saw. I started the decade at 6 and was 15/16 when they ended.

Chasing Amy

think this might be the only Kevin Smith film apart from CLERKS that I actually enjoyed... gotta be honest I was really disappointed with MALLRATS

I can see that about Mallrats. Seems like an even split on people who hate it and love it. I feel his three best films are Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma.

[Rev. Powell]

Other great ones from the era this thread reminded me of: THE USUAL SUSPECTS, ED WOOD (surprised I forgot that one), SHOWGIRLS (so bad it's good category).