List of Crap #58 - Top Movies of the 1990s - The Countdown!

[ScottotD]

Ugh, Forrest Gump? And that beat The Mummy?

Look at that, something we agree on.  The only film I've ever walked out of.

[Asbestos Bill]

So these descriptions were written by Bob a couple months ago?

[MontyServo]

Forrest Gump was kind of a weird one for me.  The first time I saw it I kind of enjoyed it but the more I thought about it the more I despised it.  The fact that it won Best Picture over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption is kind of mind boggling looking back on it.  Hell, even 4 Weddings and A Funeral (which also lost Best Picture that year) is a hell of a lot better than Gump.

Utter sentimental claptrap that is only sentimental if you remember the '60s, '70s, and '80s through some sort of drug haze.  Hate this movie with a passion. 

[Relaxing Dragon]

Gump is one that gets a lot of hate these days, something I really think is mainly due to it winning way more awards than it should've and generally being too big for its britches (this usually happen when an otherwise decent but non-deserving film takes top prize... so, needless to say it happens a lot). Yeah, the movie is past even Spielberg levels of forced sentimentality, but I still rather like it. Found it sort of charming, just this dude wandering through life and making history happen along the way.

[mrbasehart]

Up is Down, Black is White, and Nothing is What it Seems.

#44 - Miller's Crossing

(67 Points) 4 of 32 Lists - Highest Ranking - #4 a pretty girl is like

Plot Summary - Tom Reagan, Leo, in an unknown era ban on town crime boss consultants. When Leo and rival boss Johnny Caspar feud over gambling, and who is being deceived Casper, Tom tried to keep the peace. Instead, he found themselves in ambush, and the transfer of loyalty that nothing seems war.


Release Date - September 21st 1990.

Domestic Gross - $5,080,409

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/zYifReJJn4M?" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/zYifReJJn4M?</a>

Trivia fact! Writers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen suffered writer's block while writing Miller's Crossing. They took a three week break and wrote Barton Fink a film about a writer with writer's block. The name of Tom Regan's residence is "The Barton Arms". In one of the newspapers an article reads 'Seven Dead in Hotel Fire,' another reference to Barton Fink.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

Wayne's World is one I absolutely loved when it came out but I haven't seen it in ages and am worried that it hasn't aged well.  Need to revisit it at some point.

It hasn't.

yeah, right, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

That was really funny.......not!

Knock it off.

ahomosayswhat?

[mrbasehart]

Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams, and they all could come true.

#43 - Aladdin

(68 Points) 5 of 32 Lists - Highest Ranking - #3 Pak-Man

Plot Summary - Aladdin, the street rat, is the only person who can enter the caves and retrieve the magic lamp dark prime minister Jaffar. Aladdin is trapped in the cave with his sidekick, Abu, accidentally discovered the lamp residents. Aladdin's development and wizard, and his desire to become a prince chasing Princess Jasmine's feelings. When Jafar finally steals the lamp, and won three of their own wishes, Aladdin must rely on their own intelligence, to deceive Jafar and save his friends and the Kingdom.


Release Date - November 13th 1992.

Domestic Gross - $217,350,219

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/PRZYofwA78w?" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/PRZYofwA78w?</a>

Trivia fact! In early visual development, Aladdin resembled Michael J. Fox. As the film developed, Jeffrey Katzenberg didn't think Aladdin had enough appeal to women, so he asked that Aladdin be beefed up a bit to resemble Tom Cruise.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

Tom Cruise?  I don't see it...

[mrbasehart]

That's three so far today, isn't it? So two more.

There may not be any updates tomorrow or Saturday.  I am working a combined 30 hours for those two days, so I may not get around to posting anything.  I have the entries completed for that time, but I don't really want to dump them out all at once. 

[a pretty girl is like]

Yay!  It's my favorite Coen Bros. movie.  Thanks in large part to the great Jon Polito.  Up until I saw him in an episode of It's Always Sunny in Pennsylvania this last year, I honestly thought Jon Polito was dead.  In fact, I would always get sad watching Miller's Crossing because I'd think about the world not having Jon Polito in it anymore.  And then I saw him on tv and I was all like oh okay then, Jon Polito's not dead.  Nice.

Trivia fact! In early visual development, Aladdin resembled Michael J. Fox. As the film developed, Jeffrey Katzenberg didn't think Aladdin had enough appeal to women, so he asked that Aladdin be beefed up a bit to resemble Tom Cruise.

And he ends resembling David Schwimmer instead.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

Tom Cruise?  I don't see it...

How 'bout now?

from the side, yes

[a pretty girl is like]

Tom Cruise?  I don't see it...

How 'bout now?

It looks like David Schwimmer is about to make out with Tom Cruise. 

[D.B. Barnes]

Tom Cruise?  I don't see it...

How 'bout now?

It looks like David Schwimmer is about to make out with Tom Cruise.

I'll be in my bunk. Wait, what?!?

[mrbasehart]

Apparently Jennifer Connelly was the inspiration for Jasmine.  That explains why I voted for her in that poll that time.

[mrbasehart]

10 a DAY?!? Do you know how much time I put into - oh, let's call it crafting - crafting these entries?!?