re: Is 1994 the greatest year for films ever?

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One of these is not like the others. That’s just a shite sandwich of a film.

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I agree. The Flinstone movie did suck

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I’m a sucker for 80s classics though

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1985 was good too:

Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
The Goonies
Brazil
Rocky IV
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Ran
Witness
The Color Purple
Weird Science
Out of Africa
Fletch
Cocoon
Silverado
National Lampoons European Adventure
Commando
St. Elmo's Fire
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Real Genius
Brewster's Millions
Pale Rider
After Hours
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Return of the Living Dead
Legend
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
A Room With a View
Police Academy 2
The Jewel of the Nile
Ladyhawke
Mask
Spies Like Us
To Live and Die in L.A.

What makes 1994 so great is that it took what was burbling under the surface and it exploded into the mainstream. Hell, it even had the completion of the Trois Coleurs trilogy, so it was doing great in the foreign film/Cannes bucket as well.

But what's funny is that the kings of indie cinema released one of their biggest bombs. Now, I love Hudsucker Proxy, but most would classify it as a lesser Coen brothers. And for this great year in which the indies went Hollywood, the kings of that sandbox (to use their metaphor) were largely absent.

Since we brought it up on the other Best Year thread, 1999 was such a closing of the era. We thought it was a stepping stone when in fact it was the last gasp. But what a way to go:

The Matrix
Fight Club
Eyes Wide Shut
American Beauty (ugh)
The Sixth Sense
Office Space
Toy Story 2
Magnolia
Boondock Saints
Girl, Interrupted
Being John Malkovich
Never Been Kissed
the Virgin Suicides
The Iron Giant
Galaxy Quest
Blair Witch Project
Dogma
Man in the Moon
Existenz
The Insider
Payback
Stir of Echoes
Boys Don't Cry
Mystery Men
Three Kings
Election
Go
Audition
The Straight Story
South Park
Pushing Tin
Bowfinger
Bringing Out the Dead (the only underrated Scorcese film)
Ghost Dog
Dick
All About My Mother
Arlington Road
Muppets From Space
Titus
200 Cigarettes
The Limey
Cradle will Rock
Julien Donkey Boy


I mean, just a spectacular, varied year.

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Footloose Children of the Corn This is Spinal Tap Splash Police Academy Romancing the Stone The Bounty Sixteen Candles The Natural Firestarter Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Once Upon a Time in America Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Ghostbusters Gremlins Top Secret! The Karate Kid Bachelor Party Cannonball Run II Conan the Destroyer The Last Starfighter The Muppets Take Manhattan The NeverEnding Story Revenge of the Nerds Purple Rain Red Dawn The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Amedeus 1984 The Terminator A Nightmare on Elm Street Oh, God! You Devil Beverly Hills Cop Dune Starman

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Pretty solid arse list there. Some of those I’d forgotten about. Like The Last Starfighter

Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber.

Damn, Jim Carrey.

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You forgot:

Blame it on Rio
Blood Simple
The Killing Fields
Night of the Comet
Missing in Action
The Toxic Avenger
Dreamscape
The Ice Pirates
Moscow on the Hudson
All of Me
Tightrope
The Flamingo Kid
Beat Street
The River
Racing with the Moon
Bolero (Bo Derek nude)
Irreconcilable Differences (Sharon Stone's first nude role)
Sheena (Tanya Roberts, nude.)

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No he didn't.