Personally I’d go with Independence Day if I had to pick a movie that felt the most 90s.
As a counterweight to all the american movies on this thread:
I recall Taxi being very 90s as well!
It’s a 90s movie about the internet, but it’s all technobabble magic and represented in a very made-for-TV way. Just the right balance of interesting plot and complete cringe which is pretty much how I remember the 90s.
Can I add Johnny Mnemonic to this list? Classic Keanu
“I NEED to get on-line. I NEED a computer!”
Information Overload! Rollins deserves to be an EGOT.
Gotta double the capacity of the 80 GB drive in my head
“Hack the planet!”
And you complete the 90s hacker trifecta with Sneakers
God that’s such a good movie. Probably gonna throw that on soon since haven’t watched it in years.
My wife rolls her eyes how every time I see a Honda Passport I say “My voice is my passport, verify me”.
The cast alone makes the movie worth it
“Mozart’s Ghost! The hottest new site on the internet!”
I’d add Speed. Sandra Bullock was the 90s it actress. And Keanu has already been mentioned in a couple of essential 90s titles.
The super Mario bros. Movie
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.”
Tremors, graboids!
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Felt like it was from the 70s.
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I looked it up, Six Degrees of Separation was inspired from a real incident in the early 1980s. I was wondering why it felt like something from a decade earlier.
SubUrbia is the 90’s distilled for me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086589/
As for movies from the 90’s, Jurassic Park would be my pick, with Forrest Gump a close second, but points docked for not being based wholey in the 90’s.
True Romance
While reading up on The Last Boy Scout, I found this:
Shane Black and Tony Scott both expressed dissatisfaction with the final film, and said in later years how the original script was far better. Scott accused Joel Silver of interfering with the production and swore off working with the producer again. His next film, True Romance, features an unflattering film producer character patterned after Silver.
Akira
Okay, it’s actually 1988, but it definitely got that 90s anime feel.
Sparked the worldwide anime boom, so yeah, pretty iconic.
Aliens/Alien3
Tempted to say The Matrix but it’s late in the decade.
Maybe Scream?
I think The Matrix can work! It feels very 90s to me as well!
Scream’s a good one. Postmodern horror flick.
Half-Baked
Yeah man!
It isn’t a movie itself, but the “work sucks” genre of films had its peak in the 90’s, specifically 1999.
Ha, yes. Office Space is a strong contender.
I always forget that came out in 1999. It is timeless.
It is because they updated the cover sheet.
Did you get the memo on that? Yeah, it would be great if you could use the new cover sheet.
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Nah man.
Nah.
I do believe you’d get yer ass kicked sayin somethin like that.
Sound like someone’s got a bad case of the
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Second post, but I realized the answer might actually be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze.
I feel like Forrest Gump might deserve consideration, but I’m not sure it tops some of the other picks here.
Edit: Also Aladdin and The Lion King
