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Varsity blues, life, american pie, enemy of the state, 6th sense, magnolia, the wood, iron giant, big daddy, the best man, deep blue sea, eyes wide shut, talented mr ripley, the mummy, bowfinger, office space, green mile, fight club, the matrix, american beauty, star wars episode 1, any given sunday, austin powers spy who shagged me, blair witch, dogma, toy story 2, mystery men, summer of sam, blue streak
 

 

and a bunch other i cant remember off the top of my head. iirc, 1985 was pretty good too

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5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I'm pretty sure Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump and Jurassic Park were all in theaters at the same time in 1994. 

But none of those are Deep Blue Sea. 

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10 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I'm pretty sure Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump and Jurassic Park were all in theaters at the same time in 1994. 

The Lion King, Forrest Gump, True Lies, Speed & The Client were the top 5 movies of July 1994

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Hopefully the super hero movies and safe remakes and sequels bombing at the box office will lead Hollywood to pull back on the budgets and strive for quality again soon. They got lazy with every hero movie and sequel setting records. Although this year guardians 3 was solid and across the spider verse was great but the spider verse movies are an original take on the genre so not cookie cutter. 

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1939 would like to have a word with all of you.  Movies released in 1939 are:

The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the Wind

Stagecoach

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jamaica Inn

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Of Mice and Men

The Hounds of the Baskervilles

Dark Victory

Gunga Din

Son of Frankenstein

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Four Feathers

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Only Angels Have Wings

Dodge City

Gunga Din

The Little Princess

Destry Rides Again

Another Thin Man

The Roaring Twenties

The Four Feathers

Union Pacific

Drums Along the Mohawk

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Gulliver's Travels

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

It's a Wonderful World

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

They Made Me a Criminal

Each Dawn I Die

Allegheny Uprising

King of the Underworld

Stanley and Livinsgstone

 

I am sure that I am missing some.  Just a few on my list.

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2007: There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Michael Clayton, Assassination of Jesse James, Zodiac, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Ratatouille, 3:10 to Yuma, Once.

The first three listed are 3 of my 5 favorite movies this century. Hot Fuzz and Superbad are probably 2 of my 5 favorite comedies this century. Pretty great year.

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23 minutes ago, mininghorn88 said:

1939 would like to have a word with all of you.  Movies released in 1939 are:

The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the Wind

Stagecoach

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jamaica Inn

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Of Mice and Men

The Hounds of the Baskervilles

Dark Victory

Gunga Din

Son of Frankenstein

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Four Feathers

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Only Angels Have Wings

Dodge City

Gunga Din

The Little Princess

Destry Rides Again

Another Thin Man

The Roaring Twenties

The Four Feathers

Union Pacific

Drums Along the Mohawk

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Gulliver's Travels

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

It's a Wonderful World

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

They Made Me a Criminal

Each Dawn I Die

Allegheny Uprising

King of the Underworld

Stanley and Livinsgstone

 

I am sure that I am missing some.  Just a few on my list.

You said Gunga Din twice

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1 hour ago, MrBig said:

The Lion King, Forrest Gump, True Lies, Speed & The Client were the top 5 movies of July 1994

forrest gump, quiz show, shawshank, pulp fiction, and 4 weddings + a funeral were the 5 nominated movies of 1994. also the professional, hudsucker, nobody’s fool, the paper, ed wood, and if you’re into that sorta thing, ace ventura.

1994 was a great movie year. 

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I was born in '85, so I missed out on a lot of the more adult movies of the 90's until I was older. But over the years I have come to realize that the late 80's through 90's was truly a renaissance of movie making. If they had the technology we have now to make the movies they made back then...well they probably would have used it as a crutch like they do today.

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1991

  • Terminator 2
  • Hot Shots!
  • JFK
  • Point Break
  • Thelma and Louise
  • Hook
  • Necessary Roughness
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • American Kickboxer
  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
  • The Addams Family
  • Boyz in the Hood
  • Billy Bathgate
  • Cape Fear
  • The Doors
  • Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown
  • Delta Force 3 The Killing Game
  • Doc Hollywood
  • Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
  • Europa
  • Dune Warriors (the David Carradine one)
  • Father of the Bride
  • Garfield the Cat Gets a Life
  • Flight of the Intruder
  • Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
  • Highlander II The Quickening
  • The Hitman (Chuck Norris one)
  • Jungle Fever
  • The Last Boy Scout
  • Lionheart (Jean Claude van Damme version)
  • Mannequin Two: On the Move
  • House Party 2
  • Hudson Hawk
  • New Jack City
  • Problem Child 2
  • Return to the Blue Lagoon
  • Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
  • Star Trek VI
  • Toy Soldiers
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
  • What About Bob
  • Wild Orchid 2
  • Rocketeer

I don't give a fuck about everything after Terminator 2, just wanted to post 1991 because of T2.

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1981 was very solid for popcorn flicks:

Raiders of the Lost Ark 
The Evil Dead 
Porky's     
Excalibur     
Clash of the Titans 
Escape from New York    
An American Werewolf in London    
Stripes    
Das Boot    
The Road Warrior    
Time Bandits    
Blow Out    
For Your Eyes Only    
Heavy Metal    
Chariots of Fire    
Scanners    
The Fox and the Hound    
History of the World: Part I    
Arthur    
Dragonslayer    
 

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1975

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Barry Lyndon

Dog Day Afternoon

Jaws

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Eiger Sanction

The Man Who Would be King

Nashville

Rollerball

Shampoo

The Stepford Wives

Three Days of the Condor

The Wind and the Lion

 

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17 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Varsity blues, life, american pie, enemy of the state, 6th sense, magnolia, the wood, iron giant, big daddy, the best man, deep blue sea, eyes wide shut, talented mr ripley, the mummy, bowfinger, office space, green mile, fight club, the matrix, american beauty, star wars episode 1, any given sunday, austin powers spy who shagged me, blair witch, dogma, toy story 2, mystery men, summer of sam, blue streak
 

 

and a bunch other i cant remember off the top of my head. iirc, 1985 was pretty good too

this is one of the dumbest troll posts I’ve ever seen.  and I’ve seen many. 

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15 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

1939 would like to have a word with all of you.  Movies released in 1939 are:

The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the Wind

Stagecoach

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jamaica Inn

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Of Mice and Men

The Hounds of the Baskervilles

Dark Victory

Gunga Din

Son of Frankenstein

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Four Feathers

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Only Angels Have Wings

Dodge City

Gunga Din

The Little Princess

Destry Rides Again

Another Thin Man

The Roaring Twenties

The Four Feathers

Union Pacific

Drums Along the Mohawk

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Gulliver's Travels

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

It's a Wonderful World

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

They Made Me a Criminal

Each Dawn I Die

Allegheny Uprising

King of the Underworld

Stanley and Livinsgstone

 

I am sure that I am missing some.  Just a few on my list.

How fucking old are you?

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1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

Look at the movies that opened the same weekend Weird Al's UHF did.

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And that's just one weekend in '89. Not even the whole year.


 

Shag: The Movie? Looks like the rest had been in theatres already.

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15 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

And registered the texags.com domain immediately thereafter.  

Ok, you have gone too far.  I just turned 57.  A proud 1988 UT grad.  Just because I was at Texas during some dark ages of football (84 thru 88) doesn't make me that old!  I just like old movies.

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16 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

forrest gump, quiz show, shawshank, pulp fiction, and 4 weddings + a funeral were the 5 nominated movies of 1994. also the professional, hudsucker, nobody’s fool, the paper, ed wood, and if you’re into that sorta thing, ace ventura.

1994 was a great movie year. 

My grandma drug me to see Quiz Show in the theatre. I was like 11 and was bored out of my mind.

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17 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

1939 would like to have a word with all of you.  Movies released in 1939 are:

The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the Wind

Stagecoach

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jamaica Inn

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Of Mice and Men

The Hounds of the Baskervilles

Dark Victory

Gunga Din

Son of Frankenstein

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Four Feathers

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Only Angels Have Wings

Dodge City

Gunga Din

The Little Princess

Destry Rides Again

Another Thin Man

The Roaring Twenties

The Four Feathers

Union Pacific

Drums Along the Mohawk

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Gulliver's Travels

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

It's a Wonderful World

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

They Made Me a Criminal

Each Dawn I Die

Allegheny Uprising

King of the Underworld

Stanley and Livinsgstone

 

I am sure that I am missing some.  Just a few on my list.

The Hound of Baskervilles (1939)

Pretty weak, compared to pre-code Hollywood mysteries and compared to the book, which was itself a little uneven. I guess that's because it's mostly British with Basil Rathbone being the lead as Sherlock Holmes.

The book review, crosspost:

I like mysteries pretty decent and I like pre-code Hollywood movies, so I've read and watched a lot of Dashiel Hammett, but have actually never read or seen anything except the very common and popular culture references of Sherlock Holmes e.g. pipe, hat, Baker St., "Elementary, Dear Watson", etc.

So I picked up and read this and it was pretty decent. Reminded me of good mix of late Victorian literature (a little Frankenstein) and Romanticism (Edgar Allen Poe/Goth/Rue Morgue).

All in all, I enjoyed how it was written, very sportingly and articulated as I guess you'd wont from an 1890's English gentleman but even in small doses the arrogance of Holmes is overbearing IMO

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14 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

1991

  • Terminator 2
  • Hot Shots!
  • JFK
  • Point Break
  • Thelma and Louise
  • Hook
  • Necessary Roughness
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • American Kickboxer
  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
  • The Addams Family
  • Boyz in the Hood
  • Billy Bathgate
  • Cape Fear
  • The Doors
  • Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown
  • Delta Force 3 The Killing Game
  • Doc Hollywood
  • Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
  • Europa
  • Dune Warriors (the David Carradine one)
  • Father of the Bride
  • Garfield the Cat Gets a Life
  • Flight of the Intruder
  • Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
  • Highlander II The Quickening
  • The Hitman (Chuck Norris one)
  • Jungle Fever
  • The Last Boy Scout
  • Lionheart (Jean Claude van Damme version)
  • Mannequin Two: On the Move
  • House Party 2
  • Hudson Hawk
  • New Jack City
  • Problem Child 2
  • Return to the Blue Lagoon
  • Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
  • Star Trek VI
  • Toy Soldiers
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
  • What About Bob
  • Wild Orchid 2
  • Rocketeer

I don't give a fuck about everything after Terminator 2, just wanted to post 1991 because of T2.

Yeah, 90% of those suck balls.

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8 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

1981 was very solid for popcorn flicks:

Raiders of the Lost Ark 
The Evil Dead 
Porky's     
Excalibur     
Clash of the Titans 
Escape from New York    
An American Werewolf in London    
Stripes    
Das Boot    
The Road Warrior    
Time Bandits    
Blow Out    
For Your Eyes Only    
Heavy Metal    
Chariots of Fire    
Scanners    
The Fox and the Hound    
History of the World: Part I    
Arthur    
Dragonslayer    
 

much better

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18 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

I was born in '85, so I missed out on a lot of the more adult movies of the 90's until I was older. But over the years I have come to realize that the late 80's through 90's was truly a renaissance of movie making. If they had the technology we have now to make the movies they made back then...well they probably would have used it as a crutch like they do today.

The crutch is Chinese box office. 

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1987.  Fight me.

Three Men and a Baby

Masters of the Universe

Leonard Part 6

Garbage Pail Kids

Teen Wolf Too

Superman IV: Quest for Peace

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

Jaws: The Revenge

Meatballs III

Hunk

My Demon Lover

Like Father, Like Son

Hello Again

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