What was your favorite movie of 1994?

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

 

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.

 

That list is largely horrible.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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...

 

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.