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What was your favorite movie of 1994?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Versatile, Feb 10, 2013.

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What was your favorite movie of 1994? (Pick three.)

  1. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    6 vote(s)
    7.7%
  2. Blue Chips

    2 vote(s)
    2.6%
  3. Bullets Over Broadway

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. Clear and Present Danger

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. Clerks

    12 vote(s)
    15.4%
  6. The Crow

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  7. Dumb and Dumber

    13 vote(s)
    16.7%
  8. Ed Wood

    5 vote(s)
    6.4%
  9. Forrest Gump

    12 vote(s)
    15.4%
  10. Four Weddings and a Funeral

    3 vote(s)
    3.8%
  11. Hoop Dreams

    11 vote(s)
    14.1%
  12. Interview with the Vampire

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  13. Legends of the Fall

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  14. The Lion King

    5 vote(s)
    6.4%
  15. Natural Born Killers

    3 vote(s)
    3.8%
  16. The Paper

    6 vote(s)
    7.7%
  17. Pulp Fiction

    33 vote(s)
    42.3%
  18. The Shawshank Redemption

    33 vote(s)
    42.3%
  19. Speed

    1 vote(s)
    1.3%
  20. True Lies

    6 vote(s)
    7.7%
  21. Quiz Show

    6 vote(s)
    7.7%
  22. The Client

    5 vote(s)
    6.4%
  1. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    I prefer 1997 ...

    Con Air
    Face/Off (I must have seen this six times in the theater)
    As Good As It Gets
    L.A. Confidential
    Event Horizon
    Tomorrow Never Dies
    Wag the Dog
    Star Wars Special Edition (the first time I saw SW, ah to be 17 again)
    Air Force One
    Titanic
    Cop Land
    The Peacemaker
    Speed 2: Cruise Control
    The Postman
     
  2. Hey Diaz!

    Hey Diaz! Member

    Dumb and Dumber and then Clerks.

    I thought Pulp Fiction was brilliant, but it's one of those movies that I'll watch once and don't have any desire to see again. Comedies have much more replay value for me.
     
  3. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    That list is largely horrible.
     
  4. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    If Speed 2 didn't give it away, I was being a smart ass.

    Well, except for Event Horizon, Face/Off, and As Good As It Gets.
     
  5. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Wag the Dog and L.A. Confidential are good. And Titanic was epic, if not good.
     
  6. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Reality Bites is a pretty big omission. It's a big touchstone for the Gen X'ers.
     
  7. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Pulp Fiction by a mile for me...

    Love Shawshank... Love Ed Wood, Hoop Dreams and Clerks.

    Forrest Gump just doesn't hold up. I remember loving it the first time in the theater and then seeing it again and thinking, "Why did I like that so much?"

    I don't know if True Lies is "underrated" but it's definitely one of Schwarzenegger's best movies.
     
  8. cowboy2001

    cowboy2001 Member

    Yeah, prison rape is always the one thing that has audiences on their feet applauding with tears of joy.
     
  9. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    Hated Forrest Gump and I have never understood how the movie got such acclaim.

    I think Pulp Fiction and Hoop Dreams are the best two. When I saw Pulp Fiction, the place was half empty and I don't think anyone took a breath the whole movie. I don't think there were 20 people in the theater when I saw Hoop Dreams and it got a standing ovation at the end.

    True Lies -- that could have been a great series of movies had they decided to make sequels. Tom Arnold was legitimately great in that movie.
     
  10. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    My kids were born in '90 and '93, so Lion King was probably the only one I actually saw in a theater in '94 (not to mention four billion times again on VHS tape).

    I've seen Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers since then and enjoyed both, and I did watch about an hour of Shawshank Redemption on TV this past on Friday night.
     
  11. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Two of my favorite moviegoing experiences ever were seeing Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction in the theater.

    Reservoir Dogs, I knew nothing about going in other than Keitel was in it. I was blown away...

    Pulp was a bit different... Because of Reservoir Dogs and the buzz surrounding it, I had huge expectations... Those expectations were exceeded before the Pumpkin and Honey Bunny sequence before the opening credits...
     
  12. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I liked NBK a lot, but there is too much Oliver Stone and not enough Tarantino in it... That's to be expected since Stone directed it.

    It's interesting... As violent as Tarantino's movies are, I don't know that I've ever been "disturbed" by any of his movies, with the possible exception of the ear scene in Reservoir Dogs.

    NBK disturbed me. I don't mean that in a bad way, because that was definitely what they were going for, I just think the cartoonish nature of the violence in most of Tarantino's films makes them more watchable.
     
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