The MoFos Top 100 of the 90s Countdown - Redux

Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the first to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture (1 of 6 noms - it won Oscars for Score and Song).

Walt Disney unsuccessfully attempted to adapt the story into an animated film during the 1930s and 1950s.



While Blair Witch was not the first "found footage" film, the indie hit took it to a whole new level and inspired a host of imitators - it had a great marketing campaign, effectively using the internet, listing its actors as either dead or missing, posting faux police reports... they went all the way on selling this as the real deal.

B&B was #97, while Blair was unranked on the previous 90s countdown

I have a feeling that Blair Witch gets the biggest part of the discussion

Saw both in theatre, neither made my list.

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90's Redux Seen: 15/24
My List 2/25
#12 The Crow
One Pointer: The Polar Bear King

Interesting, I had never heard of those original plans before. Sure makes me wonder what it would have looked like.

Blair Witch came so close to making my list... I think the influence it had on the industry is undeniable.
Every movie afterward wanted to be Blair Witch... even Romero got in on it with Diary Of The Dead.

Beauty and the Beast, never really got into Disney animation, even as a young kid so not much I can say on it.
I've seen it... and the early CGI was a nice touch, but, not my bag.

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Beauty and the Beast is wonderful, but I didn't have room on my list for it. Surprisingly, I have no animated films on my ballot. Blair Witch is overrated and not very good, in my opinion.

Seen: 24/24

Blair Witch was massively hyped at the time haha.
It was like someone had invented a whole new artform, aside from making the scariest movie ever.

The Blair Witch Project was #65 on the initial MoFo Top 100 Horror Films, then moved up to #34 on the reboot of that list. Beauty and the Beast was #97 on the original MoFo '90s list as well as #12 on both the MoFo Top 100 Aninated Films and the MoFo Top 100 Musicals.

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Both Blair Witch Project and Beauty and the Beast were good films. Neither one made the cut on my list.

Seen: 14/24

Beauty and the Beast has been my favorite fairy tale for the longest time. I used to watch the Disney animated version every Sunday morning with my daughter. She eventually hated it. We would watch whatever she wanted, then it. Then Disney came out with the god aweful live version. By then I had found Cocteau's version. A friend introduced me to Gans version in 2016. I have stayed away from Disney's completely after that. I have seen other animated and live version since then.

@Mr Minio introduced me to the Russian The Scarlet Flower.

Ah 1999 certainly was a moment. That marketing campaign for Blair Witch was something and then I watched it as like meh. Same thing for Y2K - great marketing campaign about the end of the world and then nothing happened meh. Still it was a cool idea and well executed. Beauty and the Beast is pretty good for a movie where people (and animals or candlesticks) randomly burst into song. Disney produced some quality and very popular animated films in the 90s - How many more are going to make it? Maybe only The Lion King?

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Blair Witch, only saw it once, and once was all I really needed. It's a beautifully uncomfortable example of the potential of low budget indie films, a very "less is more" film. They kept ithe mystery intriguing and the dialogue believable throughout. 100.

And Beauty and the Beast... WAS MY NUMBER 13! Beauty and the Beast is IMO the ideal example of what a Disney movie is all about. Not only does it bring back the fairy tale tropes of the classic age with some of the best music and direction so far, but It reinvents these tropes just by including the Beast in general. 100.

Seen 17/24

Ballot

#13. Beauty and the Beast
#15. Total Recall

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Blair Witch, along with maybe a slasher like Halloween, can be held up as an example of why I’m not really a horror person. The hype around this was massive, so off I go to the cineplex. The atmosphere is garbage, I don’t remember a single character, and the ending just feels so dumb to me. Yeah, I hate it.

Beauty And The Beast was high on my animated list, but I just didn’t have enough room for it. I put one animation on my list. This movie is gorgeous though, and the music is beautiful. Glad it’s here.

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I can't quite remember if I've ever actually seen The Blair Witch Project. I remember some of my high school friends raving about it when it came out and I think I might have seen it later at someone's house, but I'm not sure. I see that it's got a pretty short run time, so I may give it a shot sometime this weekend just for shits and giggles - or snot and screams, I guess? Whatever.

As much as I love animation, Disney's Beauty and the Beast has never been my kind of movie. I've never been one for fairy tales and princesses and instead prefer animated movies with animal protagonists. That the movie is a musical doesn't help either. Despite that, I've given it a few chances over the years and it just isn't my cup of tea.

Seen: 19/24
My Balllot:
9. Point Break (#79)
12. True Romance (#94)
24. Interview With the Vampire (#92)
25. Untamed Heart (One Pointer)

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Here's the funny thing, the new millennium didn't begin until Jan 1st, 2001.
There was no year 0.
It was Jan 1st 0001... to Dec 31st 0010.
So the next decade, started Jan 1st, 0011.

Decades and Millennia being with a year that has a 1 at the end, not a 0.

Jan 1st, 1971, is the start of the 70s... 1980 is the last year of the 70s.
The 80s don't start until Jan 1st 1981.

Jan 1st, 1991 is the first year of the 90s, the year 2000 is the last year of the 90s.

The new millennium that everyone was panicking about, started a year later than everyone thought.
It also means the Millennium Dome that the UK Gov spent billions of taxpayer money on, and then sold to 02 for £1... was built, used, and sold, 365 days too early.