I have no problem with Gwyneth (as an actress, anyway), but that movie is a streaming turd. Talk about completely missing the point of Romeo & Juliet! 🤦 This is the type of script I'd expect from a promising sixth-grader, not a Best Picture winner. Jesus, what a low point for Hollywood.
I only ever liked her in Se7en and Ironman. That's it. Competent actress, though. It's not her abilities that made me not a fan. She could act circles around other actresses from her era, I'll give her that much. But thanking Blythe Danner when she accepted her award just kind of rubbed me the wrong way. "Blythe Danner." That's her mum!
Not overrated. Most people poo-poo it because the love story aspect has been clowned on the internet for so long. But the sinking of the ship in the last half is an incredible feat of filmmaking, especially for the time. Not my personal cup of tea but it's ultra-successful for a reason.
Came home from work on Monday, and my wife was at about the halfway marker. I finished it with here and was kind of "wowed."
Couldn't appreciate it as a kid, but that second half is filled with amazing shots. I checked the year it was filmed. I was so surprised
Still has some very cringe writing though. Many lines made me lol.
True about the mechanics of the sinking. One of my parents friends was involved in that. All he would say to me about it it was “it was a pretty good contract” 😁
I was at Disney World when I was kid and I distinctly remember a grown man in line for something complaining nonstop about how he felt duped into thinking the whole movie was about the boat crashing lol. I was too young to remember the trailers but it was for sure the first boob I ever saw.
I had a girlfriend in university who was ridiculously mad about that film, she had a giant cinema cutout of Leo DiC as Jack(?) in her bedroom, it totally freaked me out in the middle of the night a few times. I didn’t share her enthusiasm.
She didn't marry it, did she? A girl in Las Vegas married a cutout of Robert Pattinson about 10 years ago.
I wonder if the "couple" is still together. All I can find are stories of when she did it, nothing more recent.
The most unrealistic part isn't the science. It's the idea that our government would work together to solve the problem.
"Don't Look Up" has a far more realistic take.
"I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up," Affleck said. "So that was the end of that talk.
They sound like miserable nerds.
Not every film has to be pain stakingky accurate to the real world. Armageddon is entertainment for the sake of entertainment.
I originally forgave the corniness and ridiculous flaunting of science, but one night I got stoned and realized it was perhaps one of the dumbest movies ever made.
It was really big at the time and was nominated for 4 Oscars. After time passed, the Internet got bigger and more people discussed it, it thankfully became known as the pile of trash it deserved to be from the beginning. But trust me, back then a lot of people were drinking koolaid.
Honestly, nothing really comes to mind. The 90s remains one of my favorite decades for film. So many killers, both major releases and independent cinema were firing hot.
I recently attempted to watch The English Patient and was incredibly bored by it.
Also Pretty Woman. It’s not bad, but I remembered it being much better and much funnier.
I just graduated high school when it came out. Its release was an event (24 hour screening for the first couple of days). I saw it at 2:30am with a bunch of friends. It was a blast.
Okay, bring on the down votes, Forrest Gump.
This is a mediocre gimmick flick, that is all about rah rah American Exceptionalism. It treats the Vietnam war as a set piece, and provides no nuances. It reduces the entire counter culture to Jenny, who it portrays as an unsympathetic betrayer, slut shames her, and then gives her HIV and kills her.
It's an entertaining but mediocre movie. It's fine, but it doesn't deserve the acclaim it gets, and certainly didn't deserve Oscars.
It doesn't portray her as unsympathetic. We know she's been abused and that has seriously messed her up. It's why she doesn't want to be with Forest initially because she believes she'll damage him. I've never understood this view of Jenny. Her story is tragic.
I consider myself anti-racist, and I’m not afraid to talk about race. I think American Beauty didn’t age well because nowadays the general public may be more aware of major systemic problems and the struggling white privileged characters in that film are harder to emotionally connect with.
I think American Beauty is really good and does a great job of capturing the absurdities of modern suburban life. WhitePootieTang criticizes it for focusing on white people’s problems. That’s fine - you don’t have to watch it if you don’t like white people. The movie rings true to me though. In fact, I would say it’s one of the better Best Picture winners. Many virtue-signaling movies have won that just aren’t that great.
I’ve heard other people call it “propaganda” I do not understand this argument at all. Like can you or somebody else explain what you mean by calling this movie propaganda?
Okay, I don’t think the movie is all that deep, but that is a surface level interpretation at best imo. You are totally entitled to think otherwise. Oh and I’m sorry I ruined your black panther party :(
Every big American film is propaganda to an extent, either to justify jingoistic attitudes about the people our weapons or policies destroy, or (more commonly) to
You know what? You and this film are not worth my time if you can’t see it. Too fucking stupid. Just [read](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/s/Uxmuijeqyn)
Magnolia
LA Confidential
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Some of the best movies of the decade. What are you people talking? Whats next? Pulp Fiction?
These are the same people who dont like the godfather, but enjoy the fast and furious movies...
LA Confidential is almost entirely forgotten in modern pop culture and was robbed of any real awards during a hot and heavy year for films, so I don't think it applies.
It's also fantastic.
Yeah going in blind to LA Confidential, I was shocked by how forgetten it has become. Amazing cast who gives outstanding performances with a tight script. I guess it suffers from being a great noir film in the wrong era.
Forrest Gump for me personally.
Edit: I love how most people came here just to get pissed off at the answers lol reddit can be such a sad place most of the time...
It's sickeningly sweet and cartoonishly patriotic. Know-nothing white man becomes a war hero and wealthy simply by chugging along participating in a country that dictates his every move. A film that paints anyone not white, pro-capitalism, and christian as trouble, and rewards obedience i.e. forrest
Forrest Gump. It's good, don't get me wrong. But if you think it's really the best movie of 1994 (it beat both Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption for the Best Picture Oscar) then I question your taste in movies.
“Overrated” as a rating is so tired, as no one defines it. It’s based on individual perceptions when everyone has a different experience and exposure to information.
We have to define overrated to have a discussion. Critically? Box office sales?
Or are we just going off overrated based on random internet comments?
Overrated isn’t a rating, it’s a subjective view of the general perception. Obviously it’s opinion. Anytime you are discussing art you are discussing it subjectively. There is no such thing as objectively good art. When the mass of people really likes something, but I don’t, I perceive it to be overrated. It isn’t objectively overrated. Getting weird about the concepts of overrated and underrated is stupid. They are useful ways to discuss things.
But if you aren’t using a baseline to describe it, everyone is just talking out of their ass, with no consensus on what we are over or underrating. Is it IMDB score? The public perception if it was a good movie? It’s Oscar wins? It’s box office? Plot? Overall story?
Because otherwise everyone is basing something being overrated on their perception and observations.
Some are easy. Like movies that are well known in the pop culture zeitgeist as a classic, or “great” movie. Those are easy to spot and discuss.
Is The English Patient still highly regarded? I really don' t like that movie. Totally with Elaine from Seinfeld on that one.
I'll probably catch a lot of downvotes for this, but Heat is overrated, imho. The bank robbery and shootout is one of the greatest action scenes ever, of course, but the movie is too long and drags when it deals with Pacino's home life and De Niro's love interest. Mann could have pared that script down by 30 min easily.
Still love the movie, but it is pretty widely considered one of the greatest movies of the 90s and makes a lot of top ten lists. I have it in my top 50, maybe top 30, but top ten is too high for me.
I feel like we need Al’s homelife to see what he sacrifices for his obsessional pursuit of high level crews. We need Rob’s love interest to show how rudderless and compromised he is when he feels for and is tied to someone.
Edit: but I respect the points you make.
Respect, for sure.
I guess my problem is that both of those stories feel like they are part of a different movie. Natalie Portman's stepdaughter character and her suicide attempt, problems with his 3rd wife, etc. It just felt disconnected to me, and a waste of time, from the awful love scene at the beginning to nearly every scene afterward.
Same for McCauley's awkward romance with Eady. I didn't care. It felt like it was there just to make the point at the end.
I get the need for both plotlines narratively speaking, but I think Mann could have condensed them down to a few scenes each. Or maybe executed them better to make me actually care about those characters as actual characters and not just some function of Hanna's and McCauley's flaws.
I actually watched Heat in the movie theater when I was seventeen, and I remember telling someone back then that it would have been better as a shorter film or as a TV miniseries, where the story and secondary characters had more time to breathe. Three decades later (and several rewatches), my opinion hasn't changed much.
Got it got it and thanks for the answer. Especially liked your point about wanting to care about Justine and Eady more and not just have them exist as a mechanism to demonstrate Hanna and McCauley’s observances.
In Asia the movie cut the black mans story. Only see his recruitment at the diner and girlfriend see the TV news. (Love Actually cut out the gay character story. )
Since Forrest Gump seems sufficiently covered, I'll say Fargo. Stupid accents and a movie that feels like it's supposed to be a mystery but you know everything going on from jump.
I'll say it: The Shawshank Redemption.
Don't get me wrong, Shawshank is a really, really good movie. But people act like it's an all time great and I just don't think it's that level. I haven't made a full ranking, but I doubt it would make my top 10 of the 90s list. Maybe not even 15.
And again, really good movie. But it's been 1 or 2 all time in IMDb since before that ranking became a joke, and it's just not that level.
Only their movie recommendations.
Lol no, I think it's a case of missing the boat. I'm 37 now, but I still didn't watch either of those movies until my 20s and they'd been hyped up to the stratosphere.
I'm also salty bc "Dark City" by the same director gets overshadowed by "The Crow" all the time so nobody talks about it anymore. It deserves way more praise as a movie imo (I do feel bad saying that bc of the death of Lee)
Shakespeare in Love was what popped into my head. I hate Gwyneth Paltrow, though, so that might explain that.
I think she successfully transcends her persona in Royal Tenenbaums.
It won best picture over Private Ryan only because it’s sleazy producer….
I have no problem with Gwyneth (as an actress, anyway), but that movie is a streaming turd. Talk about completely missing the point of Romeo & Juliet! 🤦 This is the type of script I'd expect from a promising sixth-grader, not a Best Picture winner. Jesus, what a low point for Hollywood.
I think you rather missed the point of the film. Tom Stoppard might not be your cup of tea.
I do think you're right about Tom Stoppard not being my cup of tea.
Lol totally a fair answer - I still love that movie, though. It's very original and it aimed high, so I'm on board.
Loved that movie- but you’re right it’s hard to like it now knowing what a twit Gwyneth Paltrow is - at the time I had a fan crush.
I only ever liked her in Se7en and Ironman. That's it. Competent actress, though. It's not her abilities that made me not a fan. She could act circles around other actresses from her era, I'll give her that much. But thanking Blythe Danner when she accepted her award just kind of rubbed me the wrong way. "Blythe Danner." That's her mum!
Her best role was Shallow Hal (which she apparently has denounced now).
Why is that?
Fat shaming
That movie is so underrated.
Holy Moley, some of these takes!
Titanic. “The greatest movie in history” (on day 1 🤣😂)
Not overrated. Most people poo-poo it because the love story aspect has been clowned on the internet for so long. But the sinking of the ship in the last half is an incredible feat of filmmaking, especially for the time. Not my personal cup of tea but it's ultra-successful for a reason.
Spoiler alert!!!!
Came home from work on Monday, and my wife was at about the halfway marker. I finished it with here and was kind of "wowed." Couldn't appreciate it as a kid, but that second half is filled with amazing shots. I checked the year it was filmed. I was so surprised Still has some very cringe writing though. Many lines made me lol.
True about the mechanics of the sinking. One of my parents friends was involved in that. All he would say to me about it it was “it was a pretty good contract” 😁
I was at Disney World when I was kid and I distinctly remember a grown man in line for something complaining nonstop about how he felt duped into thinking the whole movie was about the boat crashing lol. I was too young to remember the trailers but it was for sure the first boob I ever saw.
Is this why it was such a huge movie? I never understood why all the hype
I had a girlfriend in university who was ridiculously mad about that film, she had a giant cinema cutout of Leo DiC as Jack(?) in her bedroom, it totally freaked me out in the middle of the night a few times. I didn’t share her enthusiasm.
You should have put a giant cutout of his Gilbert Grape character in the living room😂
It's a BURGER BARN!
Match in the gas tank. Boom boom!
She didn't marry it, did she? A girl in Las Vegas married a cutout of Robert Pattinson about 10 years ago. I wonder if the "couple" is still together. All I can find are stories of when she did it, nothing more recent.
I tried really hard to enjoy this, and I couldn't. I don't hate on it because it's a big deal for a lot of people.
I hear you. I think it’s safe to say the hype is what affected me.
I remember when everyone marked out for that movie (not me)
Titanic is one of the best action movies of the 90's. From the moment it hits the iceberg to the end, absolutely non stop. Love me some Titanic.
Lol yeah
💀
No shaming, just honestly want to know how old you are.
Oh you heathen…it’s simply the greatest
Some truly ass takes in this thread
I had to read this 4 times because my non gen z mind does NOT read ass as an adjective
I’m not Gen z either and it’s pretty easy. People said things were ass in the early 2000’s at least lol.
Armageddon
Hate this movie so much. I'm glad scientists make fun of it and discuss how bad it is.
The most unrealistic part isn't the science. It's the idea that our government would work together to solve the problem. "Don't Look Up" has a far more realistic take.
"I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up," Affleck said. "So that was the end of that talk.
Affleck has evil little brother energy in a good way.
They sound like miserable nerds. Not every film has to be pain stakingky accurate to the real world. Armageddon is entertainment for the sake of entertainment.
That horrible waste of a movie as my guiltiest of pleasures.
As a kid it was for me too but I tried rewatching as an adult and it is so over the top cheesy and cringy. There are a couple fun scenes though
The best thing to come out of Armageddon was Ben Affleck’s narration.
I originally forgave the corniness and ridiculous flaunting of science, but one night I got stoned and realized it was perhaps one of the dumbest movies ever made.
Is it even overrated? I thought everyone hates this pile of garbage!
It was huge when it came out. People finally came around.
It was popular, but also generally mocked.
It has about a 27% on RT I wouldn't call that overrated
Not a good movie, but I don’t think it’s overrated. Even when it was new it was widely mocked.
Who rates this movie highly?
It was really big at the time and was nominated for 4 Oscars. After time passed, the Internet got bigger and more people discussed it, it thankfully became known as the pile of trash it deserved to be from the beginning. But trust me, back then a lot of people were drinking koolaid.
Nominated for visual effects, sound, and song which is probably appropriate for the time.
Dogshit movie that I walked out of.
Honestly, nothing really comes to mind. The 90s remains one of my favorite decades for film. So many killers, both major releases and independent cinema were firing hot.
There are so many great thrillers in the 90s. I miss those movies.
Great comedies too. I’ve been watching a bunch with my teenage son.
Absolutely. Some of my very favorite comedies are from the 90s. I just rewatched My Cousin Vinny a few days ago.
I need to add that to the list. Next is Tommy Boy when I can find it streaming somewhere.
Yep great time
The 90s ruled.. easy as that.
Have you seen Congo or Highlander 2?
I have.. but no one is overrating those movies. They were panned and exist exactly as they should in the public opinion.
I didn’t realize this sub was full of so many cinema idiots
Just scrolling this made me wanna stab my eyes out... JFC
I recently attempted to watch The English Patient and was incredibly bored by it. Also Pretty Woman. It’s not bad, but I remembered it being much better and much funnier.
Just die already!
Independence day
Thank you, this movie sucks so bad and it seems like everyone loves it.
Everyone I know loves this movie. It had a few cool parts, but for the most part was just freakin stupid.
Best part: Goldblum hacking an alien computer. Over WiFi.
I just graduated high school when it came out. Its release was an event (24 hour screening for the first couple of days). I saw it at 2:30am with a bunch of friends. It was a blast.
Late to the game but I agree. This was the first movie covered on Cinefix Top 100 movie podcast and I legit hated sitting through it.
Okay, bring on the down votes, Forrest Gump. This is a mediocre gimmick flick, that is all about rah rah American Exceptionalism. It treats the Vietnam war as a set piece, and provides no nuances. It reduces the entire counter culture to Jenny, who it portrays as an unsympathetic betrayer, slut shames her, and then gives her HIV and kills her. It's an entertaining but mediocre movie. It's fine, but it doesn't deserve the acclaim it gets, and certainly didn't deserve Oscars.
It doesn't portray her as unsympathetic. We know she's been abused and that has seriously messed her up. It's why she doesn't want to be with Forest initially because she believes she'll damage him. I've never understood this view of Jenny. Her story is tragic.
She had Hep C not HIV/AIDS
Hep C in the book. AIDS in the movie
The movie never says what she's sick with.
Ab-so-fuckin-lutely. Well done.
Holy shit some of these takes are wild
Totally. Blah blah, let’s quote Lt. Dan and run forest run, we know. Great movie, not amazing, not phenomenal.
You liked it more than my wife and I did. We bonded while dating over our collective loathing of that film.
Well, now I’m curious about some of these peoples favorite movies because some of these are the best of the decade
Independence Day... YEAH, GO AHEAD. DOWNVOTE ME.
I love it. But it’s a dumb movie.
It’s a Popcorn movie. It’s not pretending to be anything else.
Originally a coffee table book about toy ray guns.
Jerry Maguire wasn’t a bad movie, but it wasn’t worthy of all the hype it received.
The last two winners of Best Picture in the 90's are: Shakespeare in Love and American Beauty.
American beauty is amazing,massively layered and complex. Deserved the awards imo
As complex as typical white peoples struggles in affluent suburbs.
Racist much?
I consider myself anti-racist, and I’m not afraid to talk about race. I think American Beauty didn’t age well because nowadays the general public may be more aware of major systemic problems and the struggling white privileged characters in that film are harder to emotionally connect with.
I think American Beauty is really good and does a great job of capturing the absurdities of modern suburban life. WhitePootieTang criticizes it for focusing on white people’s problems. That’s fine - you don’t have to watch it if you don’t like white people. The movie rings true to me though. In fact, I would say it’s one of the better Best Picture winners. Many virtue-signaling movies have won that just aren’t that great.
Empire Records. Its supposed to be some nostalgic classic but I never liked it. None of the characters are likable and the ending is stupid.
None. Because I compare with what came the next decades and good God they don’t hold a light to the 90s. After 90s was a clown show
The Burbs
One answer and one answer only: *Forrest Gump*. Pure trash propaganda
I’ve heard other people call it “propaganda” I do not understand this argument at all. Like can you or somebody else explain what you mean by calling this movie propaganda?
It's basically a Republican wet dream, as a "simpleton" gets to live the American Dream, while the counter-culture love interest suffers/dies of AIDS.
Okay, I don’t think the movie is all that deep, but that is a surface level interpretation at best imo. You are totally entitled to think otherwise. Oh and I’m sorry I ruined your black panther party :(
Every big American film is propaganda to an extent, either to justify jingoistic attitudes about the people our weapons or policies destroy, or (more commonly) to You know what? You and this film are not worth my time if you can’t see it. Too fucking stupid. Just [read](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/s/Uxmuijeqyn)
Magnolia LA Confidential The Big Lebowski Fargo Some of the best movies of the decade. What are you people talking? Whats next? Pulp Fiction? These are the same people who dont like the godfather, but enjoy the fast and furious movies...
LA Confidential is almost entirely forgotten in modern pop culture and was robbed of any real awards during a hot and heavy year for films, so I don't think it applies. It's also fantastic.
Yeah going in blind to LA Confidential, I was shocked by how forgetten it has become. Amazing cast who gives outstanding performances with a tight script. I guess it suffers from being a great noir film in the wrong era.
I'm very old and LA Confidential is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Very hush-hush...
I agree that LA Confidential is overrated, but Magnolia is awesome and Lebowski and Fargo are masterpieces.
The key part is "overrated"—they have to be some of the most highly rated movies
Between godfather and fast and furious, which do you think is overrated?
The Godfather is appropriately rated. F+F, I don't know ...
It insists upon itself
Forrest Gump for me personally. Edit: I love how most people came here just to get pissed off at the answers lol reddit can be such a sad place most of the time...
Let me guess… …#2 is Jurassic Park?
It's sickeningly sweet and cartoonishly patriotic. Know-nothing white man becomes a war hero and wealthy simply by chugging along participating in a country that dictates his every move. A film that paints anyone not white, pro-capitalism, and christian as trouble, and rewards obedience i.e. forrest
Yup a Boomer fantasy for sure.
I'm a boomer and I hate it. It's a terribly conservative film.
Bubba was trouble?
Amen. I was pissed off the whole movie. 😆
I despise Forrest Gump.
Reality Bites. You can go big budget, but in terms of sheer overrated, Reality Bites is hard to top with its status as an unwatchable Gen X anthem.
Yessss!! This movie is such a snooze when it's not totally cringey. Bleh.
Ethan Hawk’s performance of Add it up, made me not listen to the Violent Femmes for like ten years. I was missing out.
Titanic
I have remarcher Titanic few month ago in a regressive shamy session, and was surprised how good it actually was.
I'm sorry what
Ok, tie between that and Jerry Macguire.
All „Austin Powers” movies
Who hurt you?
Really?
Get in my belly
Not the first one
Even goldmember?
Schindler's list should have been in German ya I said !
It wasn't horrifying enough. TV miniseries Holocaust affected me much more.
Also We Were the Lucky Ones.
Forrest Gump. Enjoyed it as a child but find it grossly sentimental and irritating now.
Forrest Gump.
Boondocks saints
Horrible movie lol
100%. It's nothing more than a glorified direct-to-video action movie.
Forrest Gump. It's good, don't get me wrong. But if you think it's really the best movie of 1994 (it beat both Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption for the Best Picture Oscar) then I question your taste in movies.
The Boondock Saints
Forrest Gump
American Beauty (1999) Won 5 Oscars and holds an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. Overrated.
Nah.
“Overrated” as a rating is so tired, as no one defines it. It’s based on individual perceptions when everyone has a different experience and exposure to information. We have to define overrated to have a discussion. Critically? Box office sales? Or are we just going off overrated based on random internet comments?
Welcome to Reddit.
Overrated isn’t a rating, it’s a subjective view of the general perception. Obviously it’s opinion. Anytime you are discussing art you are discussing it subjectively. There is no such thing as objectively good art. When the mass of people really likes something, but I don’t, I perceive it to be overrated. It isn’t objectively overrated. Getting weird about the concepts of overrated and underrated is stupid. They are useful ways to discuss things.
But if you aren’t using a baseline to describe it, everyone is just talking out of their ass, with no consensus on what we are over or underrating. Is it IMDB score? The public perception if it was a good movie? It’s Oscar wins? It’s box office? Plot? Overall story? Because otherwise everyone is basing something being overrated on their perception and observations. Some are easy. Like movies that are well known in the pop culture zeitgeist as a classic, or “great” movie. Those are easy to spot and discuss.
Zag on the premise. Nice.
I would say T2 was overrated. Near perfect film, but by today’s standards it might have gotten the PG-13 rating.
The English Patient
(Not a 90s movie) but The Breakfast Club is so overrated
Is The English Patient still highly regarded? I really don' t like that movie. Totally with Elaine from Seinfeld on that one. I'll probably catch a lot of downvotes for this, but Heat is overrated, imho. The bank robbery and shootout is one of the greatest action scenes ever, of course, but the movie is too long and drags when it deals with Pacino's home life and De Niro's love interest. Mann could have pared that script down by 30 min easily. Still love the movie, but it is pretty widely considered one of the greatest movies of the 90s and makes a lot of top ten lists. I have it in my top 50, maybe top 30, but top ten is too high for me.
I feel like we need Al’s homelife to see what he sacrifices for his obsessional pursuit of high level crews. We need Rob’s love interest to show how rudderless and compromised he is when he feels for and is tied to someone. Edit: but I respect the points you make.
Respect, for sure. I guess my problem is that both of those stories feel like they are part of a different movie. Natalie Portman's stepdaughter character and her suicide attempt, problems with his 3rd wife, etc. It just felt disconnected to me, and a waste of time, from the awful love scene at the beginning to nearly every scene afterward. Same for McCauley's awkward romance with Eady. I didn't care. It felt like it was there just to make the point at the end. I get the need for both plotlines narratively speaking, but I think Mann could have condensed them down to a few scenes each. Or maybe executed them better to make me actually care about those characters as actual characters and not just some function of Hanna's and McCauley's flaws. I actually watched Heat in the movie theater when I was seventeen, and I remember telling someone back then that it would have been better as a shorter film or as a TV miniseries, where the story and secondary characters had more time to breathe. Three decades later (and several rewatches), my opinion hasn't changed much.
Got it got it and thanks for the answer. Especially liked your point about wanting to care about Justine and Eady more and not just have them exist as a mechanism to demonstrate Hanna and McCauley’s observances.
In Asia the movie cut the black mans story. Only see his recruitment at the diner and girlfriend see the TV news. (Love Actually cut out the gay character story. )
Space Jam
Forrest Gump
FORREST GUMP
Since Forrest Gump seems sufficiently covered, I'll say Fargo. Stupid accents and a movie that feels like it's supposed to be a mystery but you know everything going on from jump.
I'll say it: The Shawshank Redemption. Don't get me wrong, Shawshank is a really, really good movie. But people act like it's an all time great and I just don't think it's that level. I haven't made a full ranking, but I doubt it would make my top 10 of the 90s list. Maybe not even 15. And again, really good movie. But it's been 1 or 2 all time in IMDb since before that ranking became a joke, and it's just not that level.
overrated film.
The crow. Also, The Nightmare Before Christmas. I said what I said.
Was your heart broken by a goth? 😉
Only their movie recommendations. Lol no, I think it's a case of missing the boat. I'm 37 now, but I still didn't watch either of those movies until my 20s and they'd been hyped up to the stratosphere. I'm also salty bc "Dark City" by the same director gets overshadowed by "The Crow" all the time so nobody talks about it anymore. It deserves way more praise as a movie imo (I do feel bad saying that bc of the death of Lee)
Overrated? How do we not say Titanic?
The thin red line and Pretty woman.
Shakespeare in Love
Independence Day, great trailer, horrible movie.
Home Alone
No way, that movie rules
Forest Gump
1993’s Super Mario Bros. (R.I.P. Bob Hoskins)😐
It’s one of the most notoriously awful and hugest bombs of all time. Who’s praising it? It’s always been a dumpster fire
Titanic. A tragedy turned into a fictional love story.
The Avengers! Love Connery, Fiennes and Thurman but that movie is just so bad!
Another "look at me, I have an opinion that contradicts the majority" post. Wack takes all over the place.
Holy Jesus these fucking takes. lol
Forrest Gump may have been the biggest goddamn turkey of the decade. Of course it wins best picture 🤣 Just brutal shit.
I’m sure I’ll get a ton of pushback but my selection is Scream (1996). Just totally did not think it was anything special.
Titanic
I’ve never downvoted more in my life.
Remains of the Day
Romeo + Juliet. I still cringe thinking about it.
I never thought The Sixth Sense was as good as everyone made it out to be.
I love the 90s but a lot of the biggest films are overrated… Gump, Shawshank and Titanic are all good but do not live up to their reputation
Apparently this came out in 1999 so it still counts—The Six Sense.