Greatest 90s Movie Ever - Group B

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Pulp Fiction 

 

Tombstone just edging Fight Club for me. One of my favourite westerns. 

[Elite]

The Matrix as it's the greatest movie experience I've ever had, I was completely blown away by it.

 

Fight Club just pips Pulp Fiction for my second vote.

[YorkshireRed]

There’s some good ones here but quite easy for me.

 

Pulp Fiction

Groundhog Day

 

My children had to explain The Matrix to me. It was too much for my limited brain capacity. 

[SasaS]

Pulp Fiction and The Matrix.

[Carvalho Diablo]

A weaker group this one but still 2 crackers, Pulp Fiaction and Groundhog Day.

[Juniper]

Pulp Fiction and Fight Club

[Mudface]

Quite a tricky one, I could easily have voted for Boogie Nights, Fight Club, Groundhog Day or Apollo 13, but went for Pulp Fiction and The Matrix on the grounds that these are what I'd choose to watch this afternoon instead of the others.

[KMD7]

Tombstone and Fight Club.  

[Pidge]

Pulp Fiction and Groundhog Day.

[Mook]

This 90s tournament isn't doing too much for me so far. I think there's only been two films I like out of the first 16.

 

Gone for Boogie Nights & Tombstone here although neither of them are amazing films IMO.

[Tony Moanero]

No thought required - Pulp Fiction and Groundhog Day. I saw Fight Club at the pictures but rewatched it a few years ago and thought it was shite. I can’t stand The Matrix, probably the most bored I’ve ever been at the pictures. I’ve not seen the rest.

[Strontium]

The Matrix blew me away when I saw it at the cinema. The final nail in the coffin for all those dumb 80s-style action moves too, for which I am eternally grateful. No wonder Arnie went into politics right after this was released.

 

Magnolia is a marvellous piece of film-making that contains Tom Cruise's finest performance.

 

Finally, just a note on this poll's runaway leader, Pulp Fiction. A fantastically well-written, well-acted, well-directed film that says precisely nothing. An absolute triumph in epic vacuity.

[Tony Moanero]

4 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

The Matrix blew me away when I saw it at the cinema. The final nail in the coffin for all those dumb 80s-style action moves too, for which I am eternally grateful. No wonder Arnie went into politics right after this was released.

 

Magnolia is a marvellous piece of film-making that contains Tom Cruise's finest performance.

 

Finally, just a note on this poll's runaway leader, Pulp Fiction. A fantastically well-written, well-acted, well-directed film that says precisely nothing. An absolute triumph in epic vacuity.

John Matrix > The Matrix

[magicrat]

Pulp Fiction was great the others just good. 

[Bjornebye]

The Matrix, a film about the option between an 'artificial world' and the 'real world'..... 

 

Pulp Fiction is superb and if you don't get it then you just "don't get it". 

[SasaS]

25 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

The Matrix blew me away when I saw it at the cinema. The final nail in the coffin for all those dumb 80s-style action moves too, for which I am eternally grateful. No wonder Arnie went into politics right after this was released.

 

Magnolia is a marvellous piece of film-making that contains Tom Cruise's finest performance.

 

Finally, just a note on this poll's runaway leader, Pulp Fiction. A fantastically well-written, well-acted, well-directed film that says precisely nothing. An absolute triumph in epic vacuity.

Why do you think Pulp Fiction is particularly vacuous?  It's a story about a group of people who want to achieve things that are important to them or just get by. That is usually enough. You can even interpret the actions of Travolta and Jackson characters through their moral dilemmas.

[Strontium]

13 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Why do you think Pulp Fiction is particularly vacuous?  It's a story about a group of people who want to achieve things that are important to them or just get by. That is usually enough. You can even interpret the actions of Travolta and Jackson characters through their moral dilemmas.

 

It might be similar to my previously mentioned issue with Goodfellas. Nearly all of the people in this film are bad people.

 

As I say, I can recognise its technical excellence even if I don't like it as much as most.

[Bjornebye]

Personal tastes and I can see why many hold The Matrix up as a top film but for me even the dialogue about the foot massage at the beginning of Pulp Fiction alone is better than the Matrix. 

[SasaS]

24 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

It might be similar to my previously mentioned issue with Goodfellas. Nearly all of the people in this film are bad people.

 

As I say, I can recognise its technical excellence even if I don't like it as much as most.

You mean bad as in not relatable or morally corrupt, or that all characters are essentially villains?

 

I remember a discussion I had with someone arguing it was not great because it was too mannerist and this narrative structure has been done before etc. For me, the greatness  is in dialogue and in how characters are constructed through them. Tarantino knows how to "humanize" his villains, by making them of flesh and blood, people who extensively talk about pop-culture for example, which then, of course, launched a thousand bad scripts full of chatty opinionated villains throwing around more references than a Billions character.  

I remember going to see Pulp Fiction when it came out and expecting to hate it because it was sooo overhyped, there were irritating proto-hipster types around repeating dialogue lines but after 10 or 15 minutes I had to surrender, sit back and enjoy the shear brilliance of it.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Went for Groundhog Day and Tombstone. They're more personal favourites, as opposed to the greatest, but as brilliant as Magnolia is I'd always choose to watch Doc vs. Johnny Ringo over it. The film that convinced me to try growing a bit fuck off moustache.

 

"I'm your huckleberry"

[Bjornebye]

7 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Went for Groundhog Day and Tombstone. They're more personal favourites, as opposed to the greatest, but as brilliant as Magnolia is I'd always choose to watch Doc vs. Johnny Ringo over it. The film that convinced me to try growing a bit fuck off moustache.

 

"I'm your huckleberry"

Doc is one of the greatest "not the main character" characters in movie history. Unreal performance from Kilmer. 

[Harry's Lad]

Apollo 13 and Tombstone.

[VladimirIlyich]

Pulp Fiction and Magnolia.

[Paul]

7 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zero apostrophe crimes rep.