The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

Just finished it.
At half way or so I thought I was going to have it down as a masterpiece.
And although I don't really understand it, I also found the last I guess 5 or 10 minutes or so to be...powerful? effective? compelling?
There was a period prior to that though of maybe half an hour where I did feel it had become a little to abstract and a little too surreal. I was never waiting for it to end as such, but I became less absorbed.
I'm not really sure what it was about. Was it about death? was it a ghost story? was there an element of sci-fi?
Regardless, I found it a largely immersive and satisfying experience. An unusual and interesting combination of styles, and in spite of not really understanding it I did also feel a level of cerebral and emotional engagement.
I'm confident that it makes my 90s ballot, even if it might not quite make my 200 masterpieces list, I would have to reflect on that.
He is a very interesting director, and I'm sure his work has influenced others.

I think your source might be different to mine CQ, but glad you've found it. My copy was not a perfect picture and a couple of issues with the sub-titles, but generally sufficient.

Based on my imdb ratings, I've now seen 757 films from the 90s. Sixty-six of them I rated a 9/10 or higher, so that means at least forty-one films that I rated a 9 or higher will not make my ballot.

Kolya (1996)

I wonder, how many are familiar with this Czech movie? An Oscar and Golden Globe for Foreign Language film winner.
Very touching and interesting story! Please, don't miss it!

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I've narrowed my list down to 50. Cutting it down to 25 will be hard...

Yo @Sedai, you working on your list?

Mine is already turned in.

I have quite a bit of watching still left to do. As usual, I will put my list in at the last minute, just before the deadline!

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It's not making this Lynch fan's list. This falls well down into the lower half of his catalog for me. That said, at least two other 90s Lynch films will at least be in contention for slots.

Like all the cool kids do.

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Disappointed that TMDB has 'Beau Travail' as a 2000 film.

That would have ranked very highly in my list.

Bollocks: and 'Audition'

This is not going well.

I have submitted

Yeah it's lame and it would be very high on my list too but what can you do? I actually just emailed them after reading your post haha

Even on the page: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14626-beau-travail
It says Beau Travail (2000) and right under it 09/16/1999.

The lengths a movie nerd will go for a decade countdown on a movie forum...Well it only took me about a minute. They probably won't change it - my guess is they don't count festival release dates even though everyone else does.

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Mine's done.
Will hold fire in case someone pulls some phoenix out of the flames between now and April.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Just a reminder not to forget one of the most notable appearances in the cinema of the 90's.

Hope, this thread is still in operation.

Another reminder for a cult movie:

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

1 month down, 2 to go.

I've received 10 lists to date, and while you've all done wonders and I've enjoyed going through them, I have to say ScarletLion submitted my favorite - it's quite a collection, and that's all I'll reveal of it, but were I to name a "champion of the 90s" for January, that would be who I'd select.

Congrats! This is all I could afford by way of a crown, wear it with pride

OK, so I was looking back through the thread, and I apologize for being a little slow and stupid, but... what are the rules to nominate a film from the 1990's to watch?

Are we only do one at a time or can anyone nominate a film or do we need to watch and write a review on one of the other member's nominees before we can nominate a film?

Not sure what works, if someone could explain.

Or does each person just get one nomination and then throw it out there?

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I have my list "done" but I'm holding off on a watching a couple more films that for whatever reasons I haven't gotten around to seeing yet from the 1990s.

I think this post is referring to the Group Watch Thread. If someone else could kindly explain to him that if he removes the host from his ignore list, he might actually be able to read the rules, I would appreciate it. I can’t explain it to him because I am that host.

Also, he is ineligible to nominate anything until he removes me from his ignore list.

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Wikipedia and IMBD have Beau Travail as a 1999 film and I know it's typically brought into conversation as one of the great films of 1999 when people discuss that year being one of the best ever.

I'm assuming that this is for the 1990s Countdown Group Watch thread.
The rules are in the first post of that thread, but apparently you have the host on your ignore list, so you can't read the rules.

Basically, you have 3 days (from the date the movie is nominated) to watch the most recently nominated movie in that thread, and comment about it in the thread. (It doesn't have to be a review. It can be a simple comment like "I watched it and I liked it", or "I didn't care for this movie", etc., or a review if you would prefer.)

Then the host will use a random number generator to pick the next person to nominate the next movie from the people who watched the current nomination and haven't nominated a film yet.

However, you won't be able to nominate a movie unless you remove the host from your ignore list.


This is the reply from Miss Vicky that you can't read because she's on your ignore list:

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