TOP 10 FILMS OF 1991!, Your favs of '91... |
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TOP 10 FILMS OF 1991!, Your favs of '91... |
 Feb 11 2004, 12:31 PM
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1991
1. JFK (Oliver Stone) - Oliver Stone's solid, in depth, somewhat shocking story of the JFK conspiracy was the best film of the year. Brilliantly photographed, edited and acted. One of the best films ever. 2. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) - One of the best crime-dramas ever put to film. Creepy, edgy and clever. Hopkins and Foster in top form, Demme's greatest achievement as director. 3. The Commitments (Alan Parker) - A wondeful tale about a group of locals from Ireland who form a soul band and their slow rise and quick fall that follows. 4. Mortal Thoughts (Alan Rudolph) - A very underrated film about the murder of an asshole (Bruce Willis) in Jersey, told to us after the fact by the suspect (Demi Moore). Strong performances by Moore, Willis and Glenne Headly. 5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron) - The sequel to "The Terminator" measure's up to its predecessor, and far surpasses its visuals. Solid storyline and incredibly well produced. A great sci-fi actioner. 6. The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam) - Another great effort from Terry Gilliam that has a famous radio shock-jock and a homeless man that become friends and oddly find themselves...and try to find the Holy Grail. 7. Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck) - Yet another underappreciated police story about two undercover DEA agents who get addicted to drugs while trying to bust one of the biggest drug dealers in the USA. Notable performances from Jason Patric and Jason Jason Leigh as the two cops. 8. Bugsy (Barry Levinson) - A classicly styled film about the life of Bugsy Siegel. Beatty's best performance to date and one of the best biopics about a mobster. 9. Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese) - Scorsese's remarkable remake of the 1961 classc, and even goes beyond its greatness. Robert De Niro in one of his best roles and a wonderful breakthrough performance by Juliette Lewis. One of the few prime examples that remakes can be as good or better than the original. 10. Barton Fink (Joel Coen) - The Coen Brothers at it again with another strange tale, this time about a playwrite selected to screenwrite a wrestling film, but can't due to writer's block. As always, great performances to be found, especially Michael Lerner as the Hollywood bigshot, John Goodman as the nosy neighbor and John Mahoney as an alchoholic has-been writer. Other worthy mentions: Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton) The Dark Backward (Adam Rifkin) Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh) Dogfight (Nancy Sovaca) Frankie & Johnny (Garry Marshall) The Indian Runner (Sean Penn) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Nicholas Meyer) UJ -------------------- "Fuck the Oscars, I've got a Spike." - Robert Rodriguez, (at the 1st Annual Spike Awards)
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Feb 11 2004, 12:33 PM
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 why so serious  Group: Staff Alumnus Posts: 8611 Joined: Jul 9 2003 From: 1537 Paper Street Member No.: 366 |
T2 and Silence Of The Lambs are the only two I can think of...
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Feb 11 2004, 01:51 PM
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 ...the blind man dreamt he was blind. Group: Staff Alumnus Posts: 6857 Joined: Jul 10 2003 Member No.: 372 |
1) JFK
2) Silence of the Lambs 3) T2 4) The Commitments -------------------- The were proclaiming the end of the world, remption through penitence, the visions of the seventh day, the advent of the angel, cosmic collisions, the death of the sun, the tribal spirit, the sad of the mandrake, tiger ointment, the virtue of the sign, the discipline of the wind, the perfume of the moon, the revindication of darkness, the power of exorcism, the sign of the heel, the crucifixion of the rose, the purity of the lymph, the blood of the cat, the sleep of the shadow, the rising of the seas, the logic of anthropophagy, painless castration, divine tattoos, voluntary blindness, convex thoughts, or concave, or horizontal or vertical, or slping, or concentrated, or dispersed, or fleeting, the weakening of the vocal cords, the death of the word.
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Feb 11 2004, 01:58 PM
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 Ambassador of Madness Group: Member Posts: 377 Joined: Nov 4 2003 From: Colorado Member No.: 688 |
#01 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
#02 - The Silence of the Lambs #03 - Cape Fear --------------------  |
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Feb 11 2004, 07:25 PM
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My top 5 of 1991:
01. Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale/Wise) 02. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme) 03. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Cameron) 04. Boyz N'Da Hood (Singleton) 05. Barton Fink (Coen) -------------------- Too many moviegoers are stuck in the present and recent past. When people tell me that "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" or "Total Recall" are their favorite films, I wonder: Have they tasted the joys of Welles, Bunuel, Ford, Murnau, Keaton, Hitchcock, Wilder or Kurosawa? If they like Ferris Bueller, what would they think of Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot's Holiday," also about a strange day of misadventures? If they like "Total Recall," have they seen Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," also about an artificial city ruled by fear?
- Roger Ebert |
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Feb 11 2004, 08:57 PM
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 one pedantic & ornery sumbitch  Group: Elite Member Posts: 8329 Joined: Mar 2 2003 From: Portland, OR USA Member No.: 208 |
1991
 "Wallace Beery!...Wrestling picture!...Whaddya need, a roadmap?!?" 1. Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen) 2. The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam) 3. Delicatessen (Caro & Jeunet) 4. The Commitments (Alan Parker) 5. L.A. Story (Mick Jackson) 6. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) 7. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Barr & Hickenlooper) 8. Cape Fear (Marty Scorsese) 9. Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks) 10. Bugsy (Barry Levinson) 11. Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh) 12. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) 13. Truly, Madly, Deeply (Anthony Minghella) 14. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin) 15. City of Hope (John Sayles) 16. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott) 17. Blood & Concrete: a love story (Jeffrey Reiner) 18. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) 19. Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch) 20. Hear My Song (Peter Chelsom) 21. Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang) 22. The Indian Runner (Sean Penn) 23. Men of Respect (William Reilly) 24. Hudson Hawk (Michael Lehmann) 25. Beauty & the Beast (Trousdale & Wise) HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Adjuster, Dogfight, Rush, Homicide, Kafka, Impromptu, The Rocketeer and Boyz N the Hood. -------------------- "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very, very brightly...Revel in your time."
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Feb 12 2004, 08:26 AM
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 NY chew through the machine Group: Staff Alumnus Posts: 12543 Joined: Jul 13 2003 From: Pittsburgh. Member No.: 380 |
1. Barton Fink
2. The Silence of the Lambs 3. Beauty and the Beast -------------------- And I will remember your name and face on the day you are judged by the fun house cast.
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace, with a cane to the sky like, "None shall pass!" C-Money and Karl Kash |
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Feb 14 2004, 11:27 PM
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 Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain  Group: Webmaster Posts: 10989 Joined: Jul 3 2002 From: Saint Paul, Minnesota Member No.: 3 |
1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2. Barton Fink 3. The Fisher King 4. The Commitments 5. The Silence of the Lambs 6. Dead Again 7. Defending Your Life 8. Cape Fear 9. JFK 10. My Own Private Idaho -------------------- "Don't fuck up, because if you fuck up, you're fucking yourself." - Drunken words of wisdom from 10k
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Feb 15 2004, 02:29 AM
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 they call me Mr. D(lord knows why)  Group: MJ Movie Junkie Posts: 14984 Joined: Nov 21 2002 From: Marshalltown, Iowa, USA Member No.: 81 |
1991
 Let me be a concubine. Isn't that the fate of a woman? 1. Raise the Red Lantern 2. JFK 3. Thelma and Louise 4. City Slickers 5. Cape Fear 6. Curley Sue 7. King Ralph 8. Terminator 2 9. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 10. Fried Green Tomatoes Let me just add I think this was probably the best year of the 1990s and one of the toughest for me to narrow it down to a top 10, hell the top three are in my top 10 of the entire decade. -------------------- |
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Feb 15 2004, 02:46 AM
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 World's Best Boss Group: Staff Alumnus Posts: 2752 Joined: Feb 1 2003 Member No.: 178 |
I didn't see many movies this year. Truth be told, I didn't really start getting into movies until around '93/'94. But here is my top 5 for the year:
5. The Doors 4. The Silence of the Lambs 3. Hook 2. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1. JFK -------------------- Would I rather be feared or loved?
Um, easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me. |
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Jun 21 2005, 05:44 PM
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they call me Mr. D(lord knows why) Group: MJ Movie Junkie Posts: 14984 Joined: Nov 21 2002 From: Marshalltown, Iowa, USA Member No.: 81 |
I'll have to update my list since I've seen several more films from this year. Also I'm about to watch Bugsy.
 ----- *updated list. 1. Raise the Red Lantern 2. City Slickers 3. My Own Private Idaho 4. Delicatessen 5. JFK 6. Thelma and Louise 7. Barton Fink 8. Cape Fear 9. Beauty and the Beast 10. Curley Sue 11. Homicide 12. King Ralph 13. Terminator 2 14. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 15. Fried Green Tomatoes 16. Silence of the Lambs 17. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 18. Hook 19. The Rocketeer 20. The Adams Family -------------------- |
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Jun 21 2005, 06:11 PM
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one pedantic & ornery sumbitch Group: Elite Member Posts: 8329 Joined: Mar 2 2003 From: Portland, OR USA Member No.: 208 |
I love Bugsy. Like Donnie Brasco, not mentioned as much as it deserves when it comes to Gangster flicks. Beatty is great as Benjamin, I love Kingsley as Meyer Lansky ("Ben, I don't understand this desert thing of yours. What are we, Bedouins?"), Mantegna as George Raft, Keitel as Mikey Cohen and Elliott Gould got the best role he had been handed since the '70s. And then there's Annette Bening, who had just broken out in The Grifters the year before, and it's no wonder Beatty fell for her. Bebe Neuwirth has a nice little cameo too. All terrific.
Now I doubt Ben "Bugsy" Siegel was quite as Beatty protrays him here (but neither was his Clyde Barrow for that matter), especially all the wide-eyed idealism and dreaming, but as a cinematic fiction it's great stuff. 
-------------------- "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very, very brightly...Revel in your time."
- Tyrell (Joe Turkel), BladeRunner (1982) |
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Jun 21 2005, 11:07 PM
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they call me Mr. D(lord knows why) Group: MJ Movie Junkie Posts: 14984 Joined: Nov 21 2002 From: Marshalltown, Iowa, USA Member No.: 81 |
Loved the movie. Beatty played "Bugsy" with a lot of character and class I thought because of his very idealism and dreaming, and managed to even find humor in the role. Several laugh out loud moments also with his crazy antics and ways of getting people into business with him. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it definitely does work as cinematic fiction based on real events. Annette Bening as the love interest was good and the movie avoided stupid and sappy romantic moments, probably because she was his business partner as well as his lover and focused a lot on that aspect. Great movie about a man who wanted a dream and went so far as to sacrifice himself and everything he had to achieve it, even if he didn't live to see it. Regardless of whether or not the real Ben Siegel was in it for the legacy as much as the movie would have us believe, it's still great. Wonderful and horrifying death scene for Warren Beatty too.
Grade: A -------------------- |
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Jun 21 2005, 11:17 PM
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 We Bite! Group: Elite Member Posts: 11297 Joined: Nov 15 2004 From: Orange County, CA Member No.: 1226 |
James Toback's script for Bugsy is outstanding, all the performances are terrific, and Barry Levinson directs with lots of style and balls. It just seems to be one of those fortuitous sets of circumstances, especially for the viewer.
EDIT- Most of the characters in the film are people who actually lived and are named. Annette Bening plays Virginia Hill, who was the subject of a 1974 TV movie, The Virginia Hill Story, where she was played by Dyan Cannon, and Harvey Keitel played Bugsy! -------------------- You're gonna need a bigger boat. Amen, Bubba!
"I've done stuff I ain't proud of, and the stuff I'm proud of is disgusting." (Moe, The Simpsons, Mother's Day 2005.) |
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Jun 22 2005, 07:46 PM
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We Bite! Group: Elite Member Posts: 11297 Joined: Nov 15 2004 From: Orange County, CA Member No.: 1226 |
Very late and I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but it wouldn't be anything which you guys already included. So, here goes:
1. Beauty and the Beast 2. Bugsy 3. The Silence of the Lambs 4. JFK 5. Once Around 6. Barton Fink 7. Europa, Europa 8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 9. The Prince of Tides 10.The Rocketeer I will admit that there are at least 25-30 more movies which I'd recommend to all movie watchers. -------------------- You're gonna need a bigger boat. Amen, Bubba!
"I've done stuff I ain't proud of, and the stuff I'm proud of is disgusting." (Moe, The Simpsons, Mother's Day 2005.) |
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