The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

OK, that makes sense. Thank you.

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I have officially started making my ballot. I organized my three 10/10 ratings of the decade at the top and have 36 9/10s to sort through.

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That's a lot of 9/10s ratio to 10/10. Only three perfect films in an entire decade? I probably would say my first 16 on my list are perfect films.

My list is nearly done too, in fact, I could probably go ahead and submit, because I don't think anything is going to change. The only thing could be my 25th pick, but rather than playing the single point game, I actually hope my 25th pick makes the countdown because it's a very fun and extremely underrated film.

What's the due date on our 90s lists again?

From the COUNTDOWN RULES in the first post in this thread:

"The deadline to submit your ballot is April 2, 2025, there will be no extensions, so study up"

The 1960's are probably my highest rated decade for film. Of the 52 films I've given 10/10s to, 15 are from that period.

How about the Luc Besson's grand hit Nikita [La Femme Nikita] (1990).
Are there fans?

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I think my top 2 are not going to get much love. They are from 1997 and 1993.

And this is what sets me apart from the rest.

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It's in my short list, that I've yet to cut down (I figure I have 2 months, I don't have to get to the painful part just yet) - Anne Parillaud was my best actress on the year, and it was among my personal best picture nominees.

I really like what was coming out internationally in 1990, The Nasty Girl, Ju Dou, My Fathers Glory/My Mother's Castle, The Match Factory Girl, and La Femme Nikita all rate high with me.

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Just an unfriendly, er, friendly reminder as you compile your lists as to what's eligible...

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Yeah, that's how it goes. I'm wondering how different this list will be from the first go round. My top one and two will 100 percent make the list, however I'd be shocked if either are in the top 10.

For sure..., the first Besson flick I saw theatrically. But it ain't gonna get the kind of support Léon: The Professional and probably even The Fifth Element are gonna get, vote wise.

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Both La Femme Nikita and Leon are amazing films and deserve a spot on the top 100 list. Leon is a more polished and realized film and the result of the "warm up" of Besson's earlier film similarly to how El Mariachi was a warm up for Rodriguez's Desperado, also from that same time period.

I love it when filmmakers hone or rework and revised previous material into something fresh or just different enough to do something special.

Another name that should be mentioned in connection with the 90's is Nikita Mikhalkov and his two epic works:

• The Barber of Siberia (1998)
• Burnt by the Sun (1994)

I apologize ahead of time if this was already addressed and I didn't catch it in the thread, but I was getting ready to submit my ballot and I saw The Audition (1999, Miike) wasn't showing up as an option as it was listed here under 2000.

I double checked the rules and to the best that I see we go by IMBD which has it listed as 1999 as does wikipedia, although I don't think it got wide release in Japan until March of 2000, but was screen at film festivals in 1999.

Is Audition a film that would qualify for this countdown?

TMDB is what the software and this site is tied to, so that's our ultimate authority - I talked this over with Yoda before we got going on the prelim, and as I said earlier in the thread, I'm not going to bother him with retooling the programing.

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Looks like I signed in on time for this one...

Hope Jurassic Park doesn't get skipped like it did for MoFo's All Time List that was done a couple years ago

Submitting my list as we speak

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Oh TMBD is a thing? That makes sense now. OK, I thought that was a typo for IMBD. I'm not familiar with TMBD, I can look into it. That's an easy fix for my ballot.