re: 1993 to 2006 was the golden age for Hollywood drama/epic films and it isn’t even close

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A Woman Under the Influence, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,

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Never seen these two. Going to check them out over the weekend.

Of your other '74 films listed that I've seen, they were all great EXCEPT "The Gambler". It was James Caan with a pretty hot "love interest" in an interesting plot, but I just wasn't feeling it.

I’ve had this thought before. It’s 1989-1994.
Hear me out:

1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Weekend at Bernie’s (Suck it. That movie rules. I couldn’t leave it out of a best of list)
Field of Dreams
The Abyss
Batman
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (also cannot be left out)

1990
Miller’s Crossing
Dances With Wolves
Goodfellas
Hunt for Red October
Edward Scissorhands

1991
Cape Fear
JFK
Terminator 2
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Silence of the Lambs
Point Break

1992
Of Mice and Men
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Last of the Mohicans
A Few Good Men
A River Runs Through It
Unforgiven

1993
Jurassic Park
Tombstone
Schindler’s List
The Fugitive
True Romance

1994
Interview with a Vampire
The Crow
Shawshank Redemption
Legends of the Fall
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction

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The Green Mile - meh

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Better than The Shawshank Redemption. It has a smaller group of characters and a smaller-scale prison which makes it more enjoyable to watch.

I’m trying to figure out how does a list entitled “Golden age for drama/epic films” as being between 93 and 06 and includes King Kong but doesn’t have Jurassic Park or Kingdom of Heaven.

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1989-1994.

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What made you decide on those bookends?

For instance, 1995 had:

Crimson Tide
Brave heart
Seven
Apollo 13
12 Monkeys

And Sylvester Stallone screaming in his thick accent “I am the law.”

I agree. Apocalypto is an amazing film. It’s Mel’s best work.

Someone has no idea what epic means in Hollywood speak. If you want epic films from Hollywood you have to travel back to the mid 1950s through late 1960s.

The King ane I
The Ten Commandments
The Seven Samurai
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Longest Day
Lawrence of Arabia
How the West Was Won
Dr. Zhivago
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Judgement at Nuremburg
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West

Epics are films that either have a two and a half to three hour run time or have a cast of three or four Academy Award winners in them and usually go on to get nominated for a shitload of Oscars themselves.

I don't take the 90s seriously in film.

The Saccharine safe Decade. Think Full House but on the big screen.

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Here are some films from the '70s

The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, The Conversation, Lenny, A Woman Under the Influence, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Harry and Tonto, Young Frankenstein, Hearts and Minds, Phantom of the Paradise, Murder on the Orient Express, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, California Split, The Gambler, Parallax View, The Sugarland Express, Thieves Like Us, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Perhaps I should specify - these are the films from one year: 1974

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*ding*ding*

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I’d give it 3 out of 4 stars.

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That sex scene between Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry should bump it up to 4/4 stars!