Personally I’d go with Independence Day if I had to pick a movie that felt the most 90s.
Wayne’s World.
Wayne’s World was trying to recapture Mike Myers’ childhood in the 70s and early 80s. So doesn’t capture spirit of the 90s.
Hrm, I think you’re more right than I was.
False. Wayne’s world captures the spirit of today, but back when it was a counter culture.
What people don’t realize is the kind of snark and goofy jokes that exist all throughout the movie used to be unusual. Now it’s basically how everyone talks.
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Felt like it was from the 70s.
Can’t believe no one mentioned Men In Black and Mulan.
Interesting that Point Break (1991) and The Matrix (1999) book ended the decade. Point Break focuses on white 20 something kids that dropped out and started surfing, the The Matrix focuses on a 30ish white guy going through an existential crisis. At the beginning of the 90s there was still some hope, that a person could find a small counter-culture and create if not a wealthy life, of something satisfying. By 1999 all hope was gone.
Point Break would be my pick too despite the fact the early 90s had many sensibilities that look more like the 1980s to us now.
Akira
Okay, it’s actually 1988, but it definitely got that 90s anime feel.
Sparked the worldwide anime boom, so yeah, pretty iconic.
For me and my friend group: trainspotting
The trainspotting and the Jackie Brown soundtrack were the only CDs people wanted to hear at parties for a time. I learned to hate them both. The only boy who could ever teach me… And: I got a lust for life… Really annoy me now because of that.
The only boy… is from Pulp Fiction.
I had a “back to the 90s” chill day with my brother this spring. Johnny Mnemonic got us in the feels the hardest :).
Just rewatched that as well. Some of my favorite parts:
- It’s set in 2021
- His brain implanted hard drive holds a whopping 80GB. He uses a “doubler” to increase his capacity to 160GB. The whole plot of the movie is that he loads 320GB in, which leaks into his brain, and he has to get it back out before it kills him.
- The encryption key to the data is photos of a tube television screen that have to be faxed to the recipient.
- One futuristic aspect to his hotel room is that the TV wakes him up with a personal message on screen and then he uses it for a video call.
- The local rebels are a group called the Low-Teks - led by Ice-T. They end up having the highest end tech.
- The best doctor around is Henry Rollins.
Johnnys head would probably explode if he even heard of the data storage clusters I was (and still am) working with on a daily basis in 2021.
The fifth element
Yeah, the 90s were a good time for movies that could not have been mainstream in any other decade. I’d place Judge Dredd, Demolition Man and Total Recall in the same “corny, but excellent” league as the 5th Element.
Then you had unofficial double features of sorts: Smoke/ Blue In The Face, Casino/ Goodfellas.
12 Monkeys needs to be mentioned as well, it’s probably the most palatable movie on my list.
In the “disconcerting, but unforgettable” league, I’d place As Good As It Gets, The Crossing Guard and, of course, the grisly “8 mm.”
Ace Ventura
I heard animals in there, Ventura. I heard them again in there this morning, scratching around.
I was going to say The Mask
I was thinking of that one too. Many of the movies where Cameron Diaz plays the protagonists love interest can be summed up as a quintessential 90’s movie.
As a counterweight to all the american movies on this thread:
I recall Taxi being very 90s as well!
Biodome
Biodome
Sadly this might be the most 90s of 90s movie. Others like Terminator are sequels, or movies like You’ve Got Mail are scripts written 10 years prior. Biodome is a time capsule of mid 1990s.
Few more I can offer up are Freejack Tank Girl Don’t be a menace
What, do you think you’re so smart? Think you’re some rocket scientist?
Yes
…sorry
The super Mario bros. Movie
New answer: Clerks.
Other’n a couple others named? My Cousin Vinny.
(Some quotes to help my arguement: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes/ )
My absolute favorite comedy.
Yep, it’s really a lot of fun. A little hard on some parts of both southern culture and NY culture, but just enough to make it even funnier. Not just Pesci as a lawyer and all the lawyer jokes; making a judge out of Fred Gwynne so he could make all those facial expressions he’d perfected was a casting winner. So was Marisa Tomei. And the characters that played witnesses … to this day when I’m saying ‘I guess’ it always comes out with that drawl. Every scene in the film was comical first, and never let up. Masterpiece.
Couldn’t agree more. I’m a car, guy so the fact that the final argument hinged on that was aces. And I think my favorite part was just a little thing that happened at the beginning. Most people wouldn’t even notice, but when the prison guard brought Vinny to the jail cell, Vinny gave him a tip. Just cracked me up!
Fun fact, did you know Marisa Tomei won the Oscar for her performance? Totally deserved it.
Yeh, she was outstanding. That ‘poor little deer’ scene in that Brooklyn accent alone.
“What is a yute?”
The Big Lebowski
Great movie, but what makes it about the 90ies.
Main characters are mid-life Vietnam veterans, the movie made White Russians cool (probably more from the cult following it got in the 00s), also bowling alleys( and LA ;) had their heyday in the 90s
