1995 in film. • Page 2

1. Casino
2. Se7en
3. Heavyweights

 

A highly influential year for me. Billy Madison and Tommy Boy were on repeat in my house. Two of my favorite comedies ever

 

Apologies to Heat, Now and Then, 12 Monkeys, and Before Sunrise but:

1. Toy Story
2. Clueless
3. Babe

 

1. Toy Story
2. Before Sunrise
3. Clueless

 

I just thought it was slightly more obscure... but I guess this is a movie voting thread on a music message board, so I shouldn't be surprised.

 

it’s an extremely beloved movie pretty much all over the internet haha

 

The greatest movie trilogy of all time.

 

For those of you that like Before Sunrise, I can really highly recommend Eric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife from 1981. It has that same simple approach to love and chance, with two characters meeting on a bus and then wandering Paris in an afternoon together, without necessarily having any long term future or romantic prospects.

I imagine Linklater must have been influenced by it before making Before Sunrise.

 

The Before films pull off a very interesting thing. Linklater is about one movie ahead of the characters in terms of age, so he is able to look back and both celebrate the feelings and passions while also seeing the shortcomings and disappointments of those eras in our lives. Before Sunset is my personal favorite, but part of that is because it is the one that speaks the most to my life, when you stop feeling like a young person while having to except the encroaching limitations imposed on you by responsibilities that could be easily ignored in your twenties. I do hope that Delpy and Linklater can resolve their differences and show us what our fifties can look like.

 

I forgot how good the first Toy Story is

 

1. Heat
2. Toy Story
3. Clueless

Shout outs to Casper, Billy Madison, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Seven, Casino

 

1. Showgirls
2. Before Sunrise
3. Heat

I need to rewatch the top 2 to decide on the order but giving it to Showgirls because I just love that someone made that movie. Tommy Boy is a favorite of mine, Leaving Las Vegas is a movie to show people who think Nick Cage can’t act, Mallrats is nostalgic but not sure if it holds up.

 

Showgirls is incredible. As sharp and scathing as anything Verhoeven has ever made.

 

I took a film class in college and the professor was a big Verhoeven fan, said Showgirls is a masterpiece

 

I remember Kids being a bit of a cultural phenomenon. It had all these rumors around how it was filmed, and that it was basically just filming these friends like a documentary. I remember it created all this dialogue about how this generation was off the rails and parents need to know what their kids are up to. I just don’t think there had ever been a US film that raw and realistic at depicting its teenage characters, and it kind created this unfounded fear that these were your typical kids instead of viewing them as individual characters in a movie.

 

I assumed Kids was a lock at number one for a certain poster.

 

Not when Billy Madison is the same year

 

I knew Die Hard 3 was successful and all but I didn’t realize it was the highest grossing movie that year. Samuel L Jackson really couldn’t go one year in the 90s without a hit

Waterworld was a “flop” in the sense that it was the most expensive movie ever made and couldn’t recoup

 

When that movie came out my friend's mother kept talking about it. I had never seen an adult so obsessed with a movie before.

 

Die Hard with a Vengence was the first R rated movie I saw in a theater. I don’t even think I saw the first two before that.

I still have a soft spot for Waterworld. It’s a fun adventure movie but I prefer the longer director’s cut. It ended up becoming somewhat profitable after video rental/sales.

 

Before Sunrise wins it with 29 votes. Heat was in second place with 15 votes. Before Sunrise will move on to the bracket.

 

Billy Madison was robbed you fucking cowards

 

Is Billy Madison still actually funny, though? I haven't rewatched old Sandler films in years. I know the old Jim Carrey films are mostly bad now.

 

Yes

 

if anything was robbed, it is Heat