Defining a decade with a movie: 1990s

Boddha · May 14, 2005

Pulp Fiction. There are a lot of others but Pulp Fiction is the only one I saw more than once at the cinema.

DreadPirateMurphy · May 14, 2005

I thought to check out some of the top grossing movies:

1999: Phantom Menace
1998: Armageddon (behind Saving Private Ryan)
1997: Titanic
1996: Independence Day
1995: Batman Forever (behind Toy Story)
1994: Forrest Gump
1993: Jurassic Park
1991: Terminator 2: Judgement Day

I have to vote for Jurassic Park as the movie that most defines the theme of the 90s. "Plot doesn't matter, as long as we have cool, computer-generated effects." Other top-grossing films include Men in Black, Twister, Mission: Impossible...heck, The Flintstones made over $130 million...

Filby · May 14, 2005

Definately Jurassic Park. The special effects in that movie blew me away like nothing before or since.

Clerks sneaks in as a close second.

johnsemlak · May 14, 2005

I can't pin one film down.

Seven, the Shawshank Redemption

Gosh, the 90s didn't really produce many good films, now that I think of it.

I've never thought Pulp fiction was a good as it was hype up at, but it did have imiatators.

That the Matrix being suggested hte defining film of the 90s just proves to me that the 90s didn't produce many good films.

Captain Tagon · May 14, 2005

Boondock Saints, hands down for me.

Matrix a distant second.

Asmo · May 14, 2005

Frukathka said:
Persoanlly I'd choose Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

What the man said.

Asmo

Ankh-Morpork Guard · May 14, 2005

johnsemlak said:
Gosh, the 90s didn't really produce many good films, now that I think of it.

I don't know, I think the '90s have had a bunch of very good movies, but none of them are hugely genre/time/whatever defining as much as other decades have had.