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Ok, so here is the new forum for all your favorite 70's Movies.

Lets make it as cool as the 80's one is!

The 90's site is some way off. When things get going, we'll let you know more :))


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I think it is great that there is now a 70s and 90s movies site. We needed one. Just to start it off what is your favorite movie made in the 90s. Some of mine are:
Empire Records
Dazed and Confused
Armageddon
Detroit Rock City
plus many others...

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The 90's reminds me of my highschool years (class of 1999), and it had some good movies. Here are some of my faves from the '90s, in no particular order.

Clueless
Poetic Justice
Switch
Gia
The Basketball Diaries
Romy and Michele's Highschool Reunion
Poison Ivy
Crybaby
The Mambo Kings
Pretty Woman
Prelude To A Kiss
Bed Of Roses

etc, etc, etc...........

Hopefully I can write pages for some of these films once the 90's page goes up :-)


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The 90s were bit of a blur to be honest, but heres my top 5 (even though its contantly changing!)

1) pulp fiction
2) true romance
3) glengarry glenross
4) swimming with sharks
5) reservoir dogs/ baz luhrman's romeo + juliet


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ok Nick, I'm confused.

"Ok, so here is the new forum for all your favorite 70's Movies."?

I'll chalk this up to daydreaming on your part. (don't ban me yet.;])

Nevertheless(sp), great 90's movies? Hmmmm, too many to list.....

Trainspotting?
Tombstone?
Matrix?
Ringmaster?(just kidding)
Ed and his Dead Mother? (no, seriously)

T.


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LOL --(D'oh!) You're right Tyler. Over-worked and under-paid

-thats my excuse!!! ;))))


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Aww Nick, you do a great job at making this such an amazing site, and we all certaintly appreciate you. If it weren't for you, none of us would be able to come to this wonderful site, so although we probably don't say it enough, thank you!! =-)!!!

~Bridgette~


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Awww, thanks babe. <smile>

It really means a lot :))))


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you're very welcome =-)

by the way Nick, what are some of your favorite 90's movies? The 90's was definitely the decade for major blockbuster films like "Titanic(which, I suppose, was mostly a chick flick) and high-energy films for guys (like "Terminator 2","True Lies", etc, etc). However, I love both the chick flicks and the guy movies. Overall, the 90's was a decade with well polished, perfect films. =-)


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Good question...Let me think...

Errr... Well, I did love some of the more outstanding big event pictures of the 90's like "T2", "True Lies" and "Titanic" (All Cameron movies!! --in fact all his movies are always at least very good if not brilliant)

I also truly loved some of the more "soft hearted" movies of the decade. Ones that spring to mind are "Beauty & The Beast", "Mr Holland's Opus" and "Pretty Woman".

And, of course, who could forget probably the most popular overall movie of the decade: "The Shawshank Redemption" !!

Other movies I really enjoyed would have to include the one's I listed as "honorary 80's Movies" including "There's Something About Mary", "She's All That" (A direct rip-off of "Can't Buy Me Love") and "Never Been Kissed".

Just looking back on the list it would seem I have a great soft spot for what most others call "Chick Flix"... So I'll add that I *loved* "Apollo 13" too :))))))


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Oh, and Tarrantino's "Pulp Fiction" and "Dusk 'Til Dawn" should be in there too!
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Arrrgh --and "The Matrix" --one of the best movies of the decade & one of the best sci-fi movies ever made IMHO :))
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All of those movies that you mentioned are great, I love them all too!

and ya, I have to say I have a soft spot for "chick flicks" too,hehe. Like I'm really anxious to see "Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese Witherspoon. It seems like a movie I would really like because I can something like it's plot happening to me! However, I'm always really looking forward to "Igby Goes Down". It's supposed to be one of those controversial, angst-ridden, coming-of age flicks, kinda like "The Basketball Diaries" and I LOVE movies like that. Plus, I think Kieran Culkin is really cute, :-)


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haha, I typed that up fast. I meant I could "see" something like Sweet Home Alabamas plot happening to me and I'm "also" looking forward to Igby Goes Down. It's always so funny when I type up typos on these messege boards, lol.
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Do you mean to tell me that this whole site is created by one guy? Nick somethingorother? Damn, he's a hard worker, then! Seriously, I thought it was a room full of hard workers, like in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory when the rich girl's dad is using his workers to look for the golden ticket.
However, now I know it's just Nick, alone in a room, furiously typing and programming, until his fingers bleed...

Thank you, Nick. I really enjoy this site.


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haha Carebear, well, Nick doesnt write the whole site, but he is the wonderful creator and editor, and he also supplies the beautiful pictures. The reviews and trivia and all that are written by whoseever name is on the site. Like, for example, Earth Girls Are Easy or Xanadu (just to name a couple) will say written by Bridgette Marie.Nick, however, has also written his share of great pages on this site. Also, I felt it was neccessary to thank Nick for creating such a wonderful site that aspiring writers and 80's lovers, like myself, can come and hang out at. He really is a sweetheart :-)
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Awwww. Hun, -you say all the right things :)))
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<blushing> Really? Thanks, but I'm only stating the truth :-)
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The 90s were a terrible time for me, filled with pain, torment and tortures even Dante couldn't fathom...

What 90s movies do I like?

-"Beauty And The Beast"
-"Silence Of The Lambs"
-"New Jack City"
-"Pretty Woman"
-"Sister Act"
-"Wayne's World"
-"Ghost"
-"Last Action Hero" (guilty pleasure)

That's it!

Though I enjoy these movies, my heart is forever with the films of the 80s. One of the few highlights in my nightmarish trip through Clinton's America was my discovery of all things 80s. I've become a raging 80s fan ever since...the movies you see listed are the only 8 movies of which I profess any fandom. Everything else just made me yearn for the days of Molly Ringwald...

Sincerely,

John Kilduff...the Rock Steady Flamethrower


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Note: That should say "the only 8 movies *of the 90s*...)
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Sorry to hear u didn't have much fun in the 90's rocksteady =(

But if we're all to be honest with ourselves, we've all suffered some hard times AND some good times in each decade that we've lived in, it's just that the 80's was a more magical time to me because I didn't really have any worries, my grandpa was still alive (I was closer to my grandpa than anyone else, even to this day), I was a kid, etc etc. However, the 90's was all about highschool and boys, which of course brought along it's share of pros and cons, but to be honest, each decade has its share of both good and bad times. :)


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I guess so, but in my case, bad far outweighed good in the 90s.

Good for me in the 90s:

-My discovery of 80s culture
-My years in Elementary School (1990-1992)

Bad for me in the 90s:

-My dad died in 1995.
-I was hospitalized in 1996 after snapping like a twig and saying outrageous things in my 8th Grade year.
-I transferred schools 3 times.
-I was beaten by a school bully while a teacher stood by and did nothing except send ME to the Principal's Office where I earned my (at the time) 9th In-School Suspension while the scumbucket who beat me got off with a slap on the wrist.
-I was trampled by the 5th Grade...not a specific class, but the entire 5th Grade. When I was crying and hurt, the teacher told me "Stand up and get to class".
-I was made fun of by everybody, including students, teachers, friends and even my own family.
-I was diagnosed with depression.
-I went through a period where I felt unduly attacked by everybody simply because I was making mistakes.

8 bad against 2 good...now you know why I wish the 90s never happenned.

Sincerely,

John Kilduff...the Rock Steady Flamethrower


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I'm so sorry John, I had no idea.

Highschool was tough for me at times too, of course I'm sure I didn't have anywhere near as bad a time as you though. A lot of girls hated me because I always went out with all the guys that they wanted to date, however I never stole any girls boyfriend. Girls can be very malicious, and in highschool a lot of them hated me simply because a lot of guys liked me. They called me names like slut and everything else mean and untrue that you can imagine, and one girl even wrote up a hitlist with people she wanted to kill and I was number three on the list. Again, it was simply because she was jealous of me that she wanted to kill me. Luckily, a teacher found out and the police escorted her away from the school and she never came back. I've always been closer to guys than girls too, I don't know why, I've just always gotten along better with them. When I read up on Madonna's younger years, it reminds me alot of my life in the past.

But anyways, are you from England by any chance? I'm an American, but I was reading in a magazine an article about Kelly Osbourne, and she was saying how all the teachers in England are really mean and treat you like s**t. I wasn't really sure if that was true though since I've never been out of the states.


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To John/RockSteadyFlameThrower:

Sorry to hear that you had such a bad time during your younger years.

Having grown up in the late 60's and throughout the 70's (and I'm 43 now), I will say that it wasn't easy to grow back then either. So, you're not alone.

But I will say that peer pressure and school violence has greatly increased over time, so it isn't suprising the last 12 years have such horrifying school violence incidents, namely the Columbine High School in 1999.

If this keeps up, at this rate, what's going to happen to teenagers in 2000 and beyond. It makes you shudder, doesn't it? It would make "Hannibal" seem like a comedy!

If you remember seeing the violent high school in "Class of 1984", perhaps now that movie seems ahead of its time.

However, it seems unfair to malign an entire decade just because of your experiences in your formative years.

On another note, regarding your "Favorite 90's Movies" list, it is interesting that the film you mentioned all came out in the early 90's.

But who knows, there are people who were teenagers during the 80's and grew up on John Hughes movies, and are now becoming filmmakers themselves. So maybe you'll see renaissance of 80's-type movies again.

Just remember Neil Young once said about 80's New Wave: "Every wave is new...until it breaks."


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It's not just personal experience...

I never really liked 90s music. I thought the TV shows weren't that good. I thought the fashions to be generic. I hated the commercials on TV.

I'm not a 90s fan...I feel you had it better in the 80s.

I guess that I'm saying that my dislike of 90s culture combined with my experiences in the alterna-decade is what's formed who I am...a 19-year-old 80s fanatic.

Am I a little better understood?

Sincerely,

John Kilduff...the Rock Steady Flamethrower

The decade all-around was bad for me on both the personal and cultural fronts.


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