What was the most 90s movie in the 90s?

[Savonarola]

I think Jennifer Aniston and Diedrich Bader add extra weight to its 90s nature.

Also the setting; an software company in the midst of the tech boom, is very 90s.  It's another one I missed.

[Eddie Teach]

to the idea of fucking a teenager.

Mrs. Robinson was alright with it.

Wasn't he a college grad?

[garbon]

Ah yes.

[Valmy]

Yeah he turns 21 as part of the plot of the film. Close enough I say!

[frunk]

Also the setting; an software company in the midst of the tech boom, is very 90s.  It's another one I missed.

It's tough to get a quickly come up with a complete list of prospects for a whole decade.

[Eddie Teach]

Swingers is too upbeat.

Not money.

It's not money because the message of Swingers is that there are three possible fates in life: suicidal despair, superficial self-indulgence, or microscopically improbable connection with the one person in the universe you are compatible with.

I chiefly remember the superficial self-indulgence. 

[Norgy]

Another movie that at least deserves to be shortlisted IMO is Trainspotting.

You could also add Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels from the UK.
Trainspotting was also set in the 1980s.
But it did have Archie Gemmill.

Here's what IMDB says:

The film doesn't intend to explicitly detail around what time it is set, and instead it hints its timeline through the music, as director Danny Boyle has stated in the making-of interview. Boyle also claims that it is set more precisely around the late 1980s. There are, throughout the feature, some suggestions that it may actually be set in the early 1990s, such as the techno music and a scene on which the characters talk about "Russian" sailors (which means that the Soviet Union may have already ended). Anyway, Trainspotting can be set anywhere between 1987 and 1993 (the year the novel was released).

Probably more reliable than my idea that Hibernian had a small upturn in the mid-80s.
After that, Edinburgh football (or fitba) has been in the words of Mark Renton "shite".

As a side note, anyone read any of the newer novels by Irvine Welsh? Last one I finished was "Porno", which wasn't all that great.
But it had the same cast of characters as "Trainspotting".

[viper37]

Nirvana is on the radio, coffee houses are popping up everywhere, you're wearing flannel and everyone is making an Indie film.  What movie most exemplifies this decade to you? 

Wayne's World and Pulp Fiction, equal.

Pulp Fiction represents everything real & overblown by fears of the time.  Gays everywhere that live to rape the first ass they see.  Blacks with guns going on a rampage.  Drug use going on wild with all its bad consequences.  Criminal walk freely without ever fear of the cops.  There's a bit of reality everywhere, but it's overblown.

Wayne's World, now, that's different.  That's because it represents the late teenage years in the 80s/90s, the adult that never wants to grow up, what it's about for many.  Like PF, it's a tad overblown - but what good movie isn't? Would be talk of Jurassic Park with velociraptors that looks like big chickens?  Had the T-Rex been so fearsome that he could see non moving objects and use its flair to find a prey (like you'd expect of most predators) would it have been a classice as it was? Pro'lly not.

JP and Phantom Menace can't really count as "90s movies" because of the sci-fi element, imho.

[Grey Fox]

All those movies are very good choices & represent a different face of the 90s.

I voted Clerks because to me, the 90s is represented by something in a mall barely out of the 80s.

[Savonarola]

JP and Phantom Menace can't really count as "90s movies" because of the sci-fi element, imho.

I just put "The Phantom Menace" on there as a joke.  I don't think Jar Jar taught us any fundamental truths about the 90s (well maybe that Bill Clinton's dialogue about race had failed.)

Jurassic Park, on the other hand was totally 90s.  It dealt with the fears of genetic engineering and corporate science-for-profit (then still relatively new).  It was also womynist film with lines like "We can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back."

[Ideologue]

Yet was about 30 years more progressive than JW.

Jorge, I've not read the novel, but The James McAvoy movie Filth, based on an Irvine Welsh book, is pretty good. I gave it a 6/10, but it's a hard 6/10.

[The Larch]

Voted Clerks. Mallrats would have been a great choice as well.

[Ed Anger]

Wild Things

[The Larch]

Wild Things

What about Showgirls?

[Ideologue]

Showgirls is fun.

I think Viper makes a good case, and the wacky dumb criminal indie subgenre exploded thanks to it, but with its timeless neverwhen (and deliberate throwback mentality), I'm not sold on Pulp Fiction at all.  I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks it's actually at the bottom of the first tier of his efforts? I think I remember when I ran the best Tarantino poll about a year ago, it won.