The other thread (Best Films of the Past 20 Years) generated a good discussion, so I thought some of you might like to continue on. I've changed the format slightly, hopefully for the better. Please give us your top picks, personal favorites, overrated/underrated, or whatever else you'd like to add to the conversation. I'll save my own comments for the individual "year in review" posts to come.
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Best Picture Winners:
Dances with Wolves, The Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, American Beauty
Notable Nominees:
Goodfellas, A Few Good Men, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Apollo 13, Fargo, Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense
Blockbusters:
Jurassic Park, Star Wars Ep. 1: The Phantom Menace, The Lion King, Independence Day, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Men in Black, Armageddon, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Ghost, Aladdin
Fan Favorites:
Total Recall, Pretty Woman, City Slickers, My Cousin Vinny, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Firm, Sleepless in Seattle, Toy Story, Men in Black, The Truman Show
Independent Films:
The Piano, The Grifters, Reversal of Fortune, Metropolitan, Henry and June, Barton Fink, The Player, Glengarry Glen Ross, Damage, Short Cuts, Six Degrees of Separation, Tom & Viv, Heavenly Creatures, Boogie Nights, Gods and Monsters, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia
British Films:
The Commitments, Howard's End, The Crying Game, The Remains of the Day, Shadowlands, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, The Madness of King George, Secrets & Lies, Trainspotting, The Full Monty, Mrs. Brown, Elizabeth, The End of the Affair
Foreign Language Films:
Life is Beautiful, Il Postino, Europa Europa, Raise the Red Lantern, Indochine, Belle Epoque, Eat Drink Man Woman, Antonia's Line, Kolya, All About My Mother
Best of the Rest:
12 Monkeys, A Civil Action, A River Runs Through It, American History X, As Good as It Gets, Basic Instinct, Boyz n the Hood, Cape Fear, Chaplin, Dave, Fight Club, In the Line of Fire, L.A. Confidential, Leaving Las Vegas, Misery, Out of Sight, Primary Colors, Quiz Show, Rob Roy, The Fisher King, The Hunt for Red October, The Prince of Tides, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Usual Suspects, Thelma & Louise, True Lies
