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

Started by Savonarola, June 29, 2015, 01:42:25 PM

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

Slacker (1991)
0 (0%)
Wayne's World (1992)
5 (12.2%)
Jurassic Park (1993)
2 (4.9%)
Clerks (1994)
7 (17.1%)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
11 (26.8%)
Reality Bites (1994)
5 (12.2%)
Clueless (1995)
3 (7.3%)
Suicide Kings (1997)
0 (0%)
Fight Club (1999)
5 (12.2%)
The Matrix (1999)
1 (2.4%)
The Phantom Menace (1999)
0 (0%)
Other
2 (4.9%)

Total Members Voted: 40

Martinus

Quote from: derspiess on June 29, 2015, 02:23:13 PM
Swingers is probably my favorite 90s movie.  Not sure I'd call it the "most 90s" movie, though.

Yeah. I think people are voting for their favourite movie, not the most quintessentially 90s movie.

Ideologue

Quote from: Syt on June 30, 2015, 02:18:43 AM
I guess American Beauty will be a controversial choice, but I think it encapsulates the middle class ennui of the time and aimlessness of the young generation.

Indeed--another reason to boost for American Beauty (albeit not moreso than Clerks) as "The Film of the 1990s" is how viciously people turned against it once the 21st century was underway.  Of course, you could say that about Fight Club.

I question Seven.  My third favorite Fincher film, and a big hit, and all that, but it practically takes place in an alternate dimension and while it has a lot to say it doesn't appear to me to be speaking for a decade or a generation.  Rather just for Andrew Kevin Walker's unpleasant time in New York, and David Fincher's skill at producing gross nihilistic shockers. :P
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celedhring

Pulp Fiction is the epitome of film postmodernism in the West, really. I agree with Ide that his effect on my generation was insane - I started film school two years after it was released and every-fucking-body was shooting and writing Pulp Fiction ripoffs - but it stands on its own. It's the perfect encapsulation and regurgitation of how films were made in America up to that point. One of my teachers used to quip that all of American film history existed so Tarantino could go and make Pulp Fiction.

Ideologue

See, that's the kind of overpraise that 20 years later sounds insane.

Douglas Sirk didn't make movies so Tarantino could put his name on a fucking steak.
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celedhring

Quote from: Ideologue on June 30, 2015, 03:17:34 AM
See, that's the kind of overpraise that 20 years later sounds insane.

Douglas Sirk didn't make movies so Tarantino could put his name on a fucking steak.

He said that in 2010 :p

He used to get very emotional when talking about films though. I loved him.

The Brain

Quote from: celedhring on June 30, 2015, 03:24:49 AM

He used to get very emotional when talking about films though.

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Malthus

Quote from: The Brain on June 30, 2015, 03:29:56 AM
Quote from: celedhring on June 30, 2015, 03:24:49 AM

He used to get very emotional when talking about films though.

Like me when I talk about Valhalla Rising. :ultra:

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For me it was Pulp Fiction - because it was a movie made up of borrowings from other eras, thrown together with ironic style -- an attitude that perfectly summarizes the '90s.
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If I had to pick a basket of films that I consider very 90s, and between them capture many of its aspects (at least in the rich world), then it would be:

- Trainspotting
- Clueless
- The Big Lebowski
- Office Space
- Pulp Fiction
- The Matrix

Of these, I reckon Pulp Fiction is the most 1990s of them all, even if it doesn't have flannel shirts or normcore.
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