The Great Movie Tournament - Nominations Thread: 1990s

[amd013]

Nomination #11

The Frighteners
1996

[mae]

All About My Mother (1999)
Pedro Almodóvar

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[Still Servant]

Here are some off my list, I'll hide it under spoilers:

Spoiler:

1. An Angel at My Table (1990)
2. Awakenings (1990)
3. Darkman (1990)
4. Days of Being Wild (1990)
5. Dreams (1990)
6. Henry & June (1990)
7. Journey of Hope (1990)
8. Ju Dou (1990)
9. Life Is Sweet (1990)
10. Postcards from the Edge (1990)
11. Problem Child (1990)
12. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
13. Slacker (1990)
14. Father of the Bride (1991)
15. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
16. Little Man Tate (1991)
17. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
18. Regarding Henry (1991)
19. The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
20. The Rocketeer (1991)
21. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
22. Basic Instinct (1992)
23. Bob Roberts (1992)
24. Candyman (1992)
25. Death Becomes Her (1992)
26. Howards End (1992)
27. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
28. Malcolm X (1992)
29. Single White Female (1992)
30. Stay Tuned (1992)
31. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
32. Fearless (1993)
33. Fire in the Sky (1993)
34. Grumpy Old Men (1993)
35. Money for Nothing (1993)
36. Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
37. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
38. So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
39. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
40. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
41. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
42. Greedy (1994)
43. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
44. Interview with the Vampire (1994)
45. Junior (1994)
46. Legends of the Fall (1994)
47. Reality Bites (1994)
48. Serial Mom (1994)
49. Sister My Sister (1994)
50. Stargate (1994)
51. Swimming with Sharks (1994)
52. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
53. Angels and Insects (1995)
54. Dead Presidents (1995)
55. Dolores Claiborne (1995)
56. Four Rooms (1995)
57. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
58. Institute Benjamenta (1995)
59. Now and Then (1995)
60. Safe (1995)
61. The Quick and the Dead (1995)
62. Albino Alligator (1996)
63. Breaking the Waves (1996)
64. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
65. Crash (1996)
66. Freeway (1996)
67. Head Above Water (1996)
68. Romeo + Juliet (1996)
69. Set It Off (1996)
70. Shine (1996)
71. The Cable Guy (1996)
72. The Frighteners (1996)
73. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
74. The Trigger Effect (1996)
75. Deconstructing Harry (1997)
76. Event Horizon (1997)
77. Gridlock'd (1997)
78. In & Out (1997)
79. Lolita (1997)
80. Ma Vie en Rose (1997)
81. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
82. A Bug's Life (1998)
83. Apt Pupil (1998)
84. Buffalo '66 (1998)
85. City of Angels (1998)
86. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
87. High Art (1998)
88. Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
89. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
90. Mulan (1998)
91. Rushmore (1998)
92. The X-Files (1998)
93. 8MM (1999)
94. All About My Mother (1999)
95. Analyze This (1999)
96. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
97. Better Than Chocolate (1999)
98. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
99. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
100. The War Zone (1999)

Some quality films on there. There are a few films on that list that I haven't seen yet that I'm really surprised haven't been nominated yet.

[sharki69]

Late night nomination....


The Addams family (1991)

https://youtu.be/4t2tdKD9tPs

[T-Dogz_AK47]

In-turn would like to nominate the phenomenal, Legend 1993; also staring the immutable Jet Li. Dir: Corey Yuen

Jet Li is all types of awesome in this. SECONDED.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

That last entry reminded me, that there's very few foreign language films in the tournament so far....

Lauded as being an existential masterpiece, my next nomination aims to rectify that. It currently holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 52 reviews, and an audience score of 94% based on over 35,000 user ratings.

"It's a film about destiny and chance, solitude and communication, cynicism and faith, doubt and desire; about lives affected by forces beyond rationalization. The assured direction avoids woolly mysticism by using material resources—actors, color, movement, composition, sound—to illuminate abstract concepts. Stunningly beautiful, powerfully scored and immaculately performed, the film is virtually flawless, and one of the very greatest cinematic achievements of the last few decades. A masterpiece."
- Geoff Andrew (Time Out London)

[T-Dogz_AK47]

NOMINATION #50

"l don't know whether l was on the good or the bad side. Here, at least, I know where the truth is."

Film: Three Colors Red
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Year: 1994
Plot spoiler with classic scene: No

Classic scene:

Movie trailer:

[Mattrick]

Rushmore (1998 )
Director: Wes Anderson

[Tommy]

NOMINATION #50

"l don't know whether l was on the good or the bad side. Here, at least, I know where the truth is."

Film: Three Colors Red
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Year: 1994
Plot spoiler with classic scene: No

Classic scene:

Movie trailer:

Second

[mae]

Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Krzysztof Kieślowski

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[T-Dogz_AK47]

Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Krzysztof Kieślowski

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And that's a very easy and HARD SECOND from me.

[RUBE]

Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Donald Petrie

[mae]

Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Donald Petrie

Seconded.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

NOMINATION #51

Film: Three Colors White
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Year: 1994
Spoiler with classic scene: No

"If I say I love you, you don't understand. And if I say I hate you, you still dont understand. You don't understand that I want you, that I need you. Do you understand?"

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[MikeDuke]

I nominate Breakdown. One I forgot about but really liked.

[mae]

I really feel like as someone said earlier in this thread, this will be the greatest list of 1990s movies ever, probably. I'm sure we'll miss some great lesser known gems and foreign films, but on the whole this will be the ultimate '90s tournament. I hope we can do this for all other decades as well. The older decades might need to be scaled down to 200 or even less titles, we'll be about that, but I'm sure we won't have any trouble in the 2000s and the 2010s.

[mae]

Safe (1995)
Todd Haynes

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[Iwritecode]

Hot Shots! (1991)
Jim Abrahams

Spoiler:

[MikeDuke]

I did not see Copland nominated. If it is not, I would like nominate it.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

I did not see Copland nominated. If it is not, I would like nominate it.

Easy tiger, you've jumped the gun again. Your nomination can be counted once one more person nominates something.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

NOMINATION #52

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends."

Film: Legends of the Fall
Director: Edward Zwick
Year: 1994
Spoiler with classic scene: No

Classic scene:

Movie trailer:

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Now we can count Copland.

[MikeDuke]

I did not see Copland nominated. If it is not, I would like nominate it.

Easy tiger, you've jumped the gun again. Your nomination can be counted once one more person nominates something.

Damn, I always think it's only two instead of three sorry .

[MikeDuke]

Now we can count Copland.

But it still needs to be seconded right?

[mae]

I'm shocked Batman Returns is still not seconded. How about:

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski

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