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Shawshank is the goat...
I would recommend Tin Cup if you have never seen it. Good movie to watch with the wife as well.
Still the highest rated movie on the IMDb charts.
https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/?ref_=nv_mv_250
@razorachilles @ug@UGA4Life Loved Grumpy Old Men, but my favorite Matthau-Lemon movie was The Odd Couple.
Also, I've been tuning in to TCM of late and just finished watching Some Like it Hot. It stars Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe. Filmed in '59, but the story takes place in the '20s. It also includes Pat O'Brien and George Raft, prominent actors during the Prohibition Gangster Era.
The original Odd Couple was a great movie...but also love what Krugman and Randle did with those roles on the TV version. Rarely are remakes better/as good as the originals, but both Oscar/Felix tandems were excellent in their own way. Sort of like how Ricky Gervais' David Brent and Steve Carrell's Michael Scott are different intrepetations of the same character in The Office (UK version vs US)...love them both!
Reminds me....True Romance was so good & one of the best scenes ever with Dennis Hopper
Agreed! Just had to shoehorn a Big Lebowski reference in there if we’re talking 90s movies.
At this point, something important needs to be said.
A list of top 90's films that doesn't include True Romance and The Big Lebowski is a really sh!tty list!!! 😲
(Thanks for catching it. Both of those are candidates for Top 10 of the Decade...)
Directed by the great Billy Wilder!
Along with Christopher Walken. One of the greatest scenes in the history of film.
Not everyone knows it but Quentin Tarantino wrote that script. The late Tony Scott (Ridley Scott's brother) directed.
Oh my, I'll just stick with the original Hunter S Thompson: "Bad craziness!"
Thanks for the reminder that the Brits released many of my all-time favs in the '90s.
Thankfully some discerning forum members have already pointed out several glaring omissions from my OP. Dazed and Confused, The Big Lebowski, True Romance, The Matrix, and Reservoir Dogs, just to name a few.
Here are some more that I noticed when I went back and reviewed it further:
Groundhog Day, Eyes Wide Shut, Rushmore, The Ice Storm, Heat, The Sweet Hereafter, Scream, Starship Troopers, Seven, My Own Private Idaho, Swingers, The Blair Witch Project, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Malcolm X, Hoop Dreams, Singles, There's Something About Mary.
Unless I missed it, this list is missing one of my all time favorites. I watched Boyz n the Hood so many times I could quote 95 percent of it.
I hesitate to mention one other movie in the same post because it couldn't be further from Boyz, but Ace Ventura is a classic IMHO.
Boyz is in the OP, but I missed Ace. Jim Carrey was definitely funny back then, before he started to take himself seriously. So many comedians fall into that trap later in life...
some smaller movies I haven’t seen mentioned
Freak Talks About Sex starring Steve Zahn, Josh Hamilton and not much else. Captures that weird time post-college and before getting an actual job in a medium size town while getting over an ex
Safe Men starring Steve Zahn (again), Sam Rockwell, and Paul Giamatti. From the guy who brought you I Love You Man, two karaoke singers get mistaken for safe crackers. Also be on the lookout for young Mark Ruffalo. One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.
Thursday starring Thomas Jane and Aaron Eckhart before they were almost stars. Former gang leader trying to go straight gets paid a visit from an old accomplice and his old life meets his new one. Tense as all get out.
if you can find these, they’re all worth the less than 90 minutes of your time