Now, I'm very serious about these two Verhoeven flicks. First off, Metacritic, where did you get that release date for Basic Instinct? That thing came out in 1992, while Total Recall WAS 1990. Everybody gets an opinion but from where did those five responders crawl out? I notice that the only person who graded it without commenting gave it a 10. I wonder what these critics or "users" would rate this thing if Hitchcock had directed it?

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Originally posted by mark f:
First off, Metacritic, where did you get that release date for Basic Instinct? That thing came out in 1992, while Total Recall WAS 1990.

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Ooops! That's fixed now. The year was a typo... Thanks...

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
South Park
Usual Suspects
Slacker
Dazed and Confused
Man on the Moon
Truman Show
and the best film of the 90's

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE!

The Big Lebowski is the greatest movie ever.
also,
Buffalo 66
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Trainspotting
High Fidelity
Dirty Work (Norm Macdonald is a comic genius)

01 The Shawshank Redemption
02 Pulp Fiction
03 American Beauty
04 Sling Blade
05 Fargo
06 GoodFellas
07 Reservoir Dogs
08 Field of Dreams
09 Schindler's List
10 Unforgiven

It seems that my picks are very similar to the previous poster - Royalfisticuffs.

However, he/she lists Field of Dreams...I'm very positive that came out in the 80's.

I wanted to do a Top Ten, but couldn't whittle down one from my list of 11.

Anyway, here we go...

1. Schindler's List
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Truman Show
4. My Name is Joe (Scottish movie not seen too much in America...won a best actor award at Cannes, though)
5. Shall We Dance? (the original Japanese version...not the American version that will have Richard Gere and JLo in it. Oh the blasphemy!)
6. Fargo
7. Sling Blade
8. Unforgiven
9. Boogie Nights
10. Goodfellas
11. Boys Don't Cry

i'm surprised to see that Being John Malkovich has not been mentioned. and Run Lola Run. those are both excellent.

also, the best movie of the 90s, i would have to say is Trois Couleurs: Red.

I would have to say the best film of the 1990s is Good Will Hunting. What a great flick and it never gets old.

Pulp Fiction
Three Kings
The Truman Show
The Matrix
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Saving Private Ryan
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
The Usual Suspects
Office Space

I was tempted to put The Emperor's New Groove, but I wasn't sure if it was made in the 90's.

K-Dog

Has any one here seen "Welcome to the Dollhouse", the debut film by Todd Solondz. Or am I just insane to think it's one of the best films of the 90's.

Yes, I saw "Welcome to the Dollhouse".

I thought it was interesting, and I was glad I saw it.

But one of the best films of the 90's? With all due respect, I don't think so.

Ah, what about Errol Morris's docs----or are documentarys not allowed. Id say "The Thin Blue Line" was one of the more important films of the decade.

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Ah, what about Errol Morris's docs----or are documentarys not allowed. Id say "The Thin Blue Line" was one of the more important films of the decade.

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I agree with you, Eccentro. It was released in 1988, but I believe the repercussions all occurred in the 90s, so I guess that makes it one of the most important films of both decades.

P.S. Documentaries always count. Any kind of film can count, including shorts, animation, maybe even home movies (well maybe not unless it gets distributed somewhere.)

My favorites are

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
The Hunt for Red October
Rushmore
Heat
Silence of the Lambs
Fight Club
Shawshank Redemption

here are my top ten favorites of the 90's
1Braveheart
2The Shawshank redemption
3Titanic
4American beauty
5Stir of echoes
6Varsity blues
7October Sky
8 8seconds
9Beauty and the beast
10 The lion king

Hey I appreciate all comments good and bad
Thanks

Top ten 90's
Truman Show
Matrix
Forrest Gump
Green Mile
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction
Silence of the Lambs
Braveheart
Being John Malkovich
6th sense
Stir of echoes? I mean that was ok but definitely not one of the best.

I did leave off quite a few non-English language films, notably Cyrano de Bergerac and Europa, Europa. I also left off all the "cool" flicks.

There must be some more lists out there. Join in.

This is by no means a definitive list, just ten I can think of sitting at work.

Heat -- This probably is my favorite of the 90's
Rushmore
The Truman Show
Office Space
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Magnolia
The Thin Red Line
Shakespeare In Love
The Fugitive

My Probable Top 10 of the 90s:

1. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
2. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
3. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
4. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
5. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shamaylan)
6. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
7. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
8. American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
9. Resevoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
10. Lone Star (John Sayles)

Oddly, Kevin Spacey was in 4 of my top 10 films (#2,6,7, & 8).

Honorable Mentions: Goodfellas, Barton Fink, Red Rock West, Boogie Nights, Chasing Amy, Fargo

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10. Lone Star (John Sayles)

Nice inclusion. I just watched it again not too long ago.