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

[mrbasehart]

Welcome everyone, to List of Crap 58: Top Movies of the 1990s! I'll keep this brief (because I know everyone will probably skip this part) and just say thank you for the tremendous turn out in submitting your lists.  Also, fuck you for submitting so many lists, as collating that shit got super tedious after the fourth hour.  32 lists and 275 unique entries as quite a lot to contend with, and I just hope I haven't made any mistakes.

There were a few ties in the list, so to order them properly, the one with the most appearances on peoples' lists will be counted higher.  If the points and list totals are the same, instead of doing some fancy maths, I'm just going to call it a tie and they both (or all) share the same number.

I'll try and keep a regular update schedule, but I'm basically away from my computer completely for a few days over the next couple of weeks.

The supplemental lists will arrive somewhere in the middle of this list, as soon as I've decided how to format those.

So, without further ado...it begins! 

[mrbasehart]

The Sands Will Rise.  The Heavens Will Part.  The Power Will Be Unleashed.

#50 - The Mummy

(61 Points) 6 of 32 Lists - Highest Ranking - #5 Imrahil

Plot Summary - Evelyn Carnahan interested in the English Library at the beginning of the Hamunaptra urban archaeological excavations. She won with the help of Rick O'Connell, saved from his death. Her brother Jonathan and Rick, Evelyn, do not know the other group interested in mining in the same adventure. Unfortunately, everyone, eventually leading to this group laid the dead High Priest Imhotep's curse. "The Mummy" is awake, it needs a lot better than guns to send him back where he came from.

Release Date - May 7th 1999.

Worldwide Domestic Gross - $415,933,406

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Trivia fact! Warren Beatty was originally meant to play Rick O'Connell in an earlier 1980s update to The Mummy franchise, but dropped out due to creative differences with the then director, Ridley Scott.

[goflyblind]

movie poster image not working.

[mrbasehart]

Really? It's appearing for me.  Anyone else have the same problem?

[MontyServo]

Really? It's appearing for me.  Anyone else have the same problem?

That site blocks hyper-linking.  So we just see nothing.

Also, I was hoping we would be getting your personal thoughts on the choices,  Your reviews are always interesting to read.

[Johnny Unusual]

The Mummy was a fun movie.  Still, 61 points?  I'm surprised that the two awful sequel didn't kill any remaining enthusiasm for this one.

Apparently Universal is looking to make a new Mummy movie presumably unrelated to the Brendan Fraiser film.

[mrbasehart]

Really? It's appearing for me.  Anyone else have the same problem?

That site blocks hyper-linking.  So we just see nothing.

Also, I was hoping we would be getting your personal thoughts on the choices,  Your reviews are always interesting to read.

Ehn, this list's about you guys, not about me!

Okay, I'll sort out the poster things soon.  Give me a minute!

[Johnny Unusual]

I'm pretty sure that if we chose not to give you a minute the results would be the same.  But I'll indulge.

[MontyServo]

Really? It's appearing for me.  Anyone else have the same problem?

That site blocks hyper-linking.  So we just see nothing.

Also, I was hoping we would be getting your personal thoughts on the choices,  Your reviews are always interesting to read.

Ehn, this list's about you guys, not about me!

Fair enough.

I loved The Mummy.  Perfect summer popcorn flick.  Haven't seen it in ages though. 

[mrbasehart]

Ever Wanted to Be Someone Else? Now You Can.

#49 - Being John Malkovich

(62 Points) 6 of 32 Lists - Highest Ranking - #6 Asbestos Bill

Plot Summary - Craig, puppetry, filing in low-rise office in Manhattan. Although slightly askew Lotte married, he met a colleague, sexually frank Maxine. She was boring, to buckle wake, he found a portal leading inside John Malkovich: 15 minutes, you see, hear, feel the JM is all to do, then you belong to the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine business makes, sells for $ 200 people; she BAK Craig are more interested in Lotte, but only when JM Lotte inside. JM found how this is going, and tried to stop, but Craig believes that the portal as his Maxine, and as a puppet of the road to success. At the same time, Lotte found that those who are interested in the portal.

Release Date - October 29th 1999

Domestic Gross - $22,863,596

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Trivia fact! John Malkovich has at least 5 of the fake Malkovich heads from the infamous restaurant scene displayed prominently in his home.

[Relaxing Dragon]

So far so good. I watched The Mummy an absurd amount of times when I was younger (it was always on at a neighbor's house) and never really got tired of it (I also rather enjoyed the first sequel, come to think of it). Whatever it takes to get John Hannah the spotlight, although when it comes to Sommers' movies I always buddy up with Deep Rising in the end.

Also, obligatory:
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[mrbasehart]

It Came From Outer Space!

#48 - The Iron Giant

(62 Points) 7 of 32 Lists - Highest Ranking - #3 Smith Dr John Smith

Plot Summary - If the gun has a soul? A large mobile weapons from another planet sent to destroy Earth, but it arrived damaged and lost his memory. Soon after he met with the boy, Hogarth, who was expelled from school and enjoy the opportunity to have a true friend. However, soon reached a paranoid government agent Kent Mansley city, determined to destroy the giant at all costs

Release Date - August 3rd 1999

Domestic Gross - $23,159,305

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Trivia fact! The Iron Giant was originally meant to be a musical.  Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff developed it as a stage musical, using songs from Pete Townshend's concept album "The Iron Man," but McAnuff decided it would work better as an animated feature and pitched it to Warner Bros.

[Tripe]

It's a really good film though I wish it had been closer to the original book.

Hogarth's mum is foxy.

[Johnny Unusual]

Yay, Iron Giant.  Also, what language were the descriptions translated from?

[Kete]

Wow.  I'm shocked that Iron Giant isn't higher.  I'm not a huge fan, but I recognize its significance in the animation renaissance.