After your passionate responses to our post on underappreciated ’80s films, we thought we’d give the ’90s a go: Which movie from that decade, in your opinion, doesn’t get the love it deserves? I nominate the 1994 thriller Blink (below), starring Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn. She’s a once-blind Chicago violinist who just received a corneal transplant and thinks she saw the man who killed her neighbor. He’s a cop who’s not sure whether he can trust the new eyes of his sole witness. I’m a girl who wanted to pee her pants.
Your turn.
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Here are some of my picks:
JACOB’S LADDER, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, WILD AT HEART, THE GODFATHER-PART III, THE DOORS, UNLAWFUL ENTRY, THE PLAYER, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, THE NIGHT WE NEVER MET, THE DARK HALF, MALICE, THE PAPER, STAR TREK: GENERATIONS and FIRST CONTACT, CRIMSON TIDE, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, IL POSTINO, AMISTAD, DEEP IMPACT, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, RANDOM HEARTS, THE GREEN MILE.
Is that enough?
I nominate The Good Son with Macaulay Culkin vs Elijah Wood! The top two kiddie actors faced off in that sleezy suspence thriller!
Oh, and Newsies! Great songs. Great dancing…I still call Christian Bale “that Newsies guy”.
I may be delving too much into cult territory here, but while these aren’t unknowns they definitely don’t get enough love.
Empire Records – “Not on Rex Manning day!” “Say no more, mon amour.”
Fear – “Wild Horses” couldn’t keep Marky Mark away from Tracy Flick.
Superstar – Yes, the Molly Shannon vehicle. It’s secretly brilliant, kind of a perfect take on all those schoolgirl coming of age movies. “Supermodel documentary hour!”
Threesome – Remember how fantastic Lara Flynn Boyle was/is? Also, amazingly improbable dorm.
“A Simple Plan” with Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton. Sure, it got a few Oscar nominations, but I don’t think it gets the love it deserves from audiences. I think it’s pretty much a perfect thriller.
Also:
“The Hudsucker Proxy”
“Bowfinger” with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy (hilarious!)
“Bullets Over Broadway” and “Deconstructing Harry” (definitely two of Woody Allen’s funniest, latter-career movies)
“The Game” (another near-perfect thriller)
That’s all I’ve got for now
To WadeCryBabyWalker: I understand your love for Empire Records. For a while, my friends and I were watching it every 2 weeks!!!
My movie form the 90s is Only You with Robert Downey Jr and Marisa Tomei. Don’t know why but I just love it!!!
Dream A Little Dream with Corey Feldman & Corey Haim. I’ve probably seen this movie about 20 times and I’m not sure why. There was something about it that I liked in the 90s (it may have been Meredith Salinger), but I tried watching it last year and that appeal is gone.
I’ll nominate the criminally underappreciated “Sneakers”, with Robert Redford, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, and many more. Very well done flick.
Dazed and Confused
Ceballos, you called it on Hudsucker Proxy and Bullets over Broadway. I’m always shocked when I hear people say they haven’t seen them. One more to add, though – Red Rock West. Nicholas Cage and Lara Flynn Boyle (before the skeleton-chic look), with Dennis Hopper calling J.T Walsh “Wayner” for the entire flick. Love it! Oh, and actually, I forgot one for the 80’s – The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension. Please tell me someone else has seen it…
Encino Man. ‘Nuff said.
my love for empire records is never ending. also fifth element- bruce willis you will always have my heart.
Joe versus the Volcano, every other Tom Hanks movie just sucks.
Only You and Malice have already been said, but I totally love them. And Sneakers! It’s sick how much I watch that movie. I would also like to add The Net, While You Were Sleeping, Dead Calm, and Little Big League.
I love Empire Records too. And my guilty pleasure from the 90s has to be Newsies… I don’t know how much respect it should get… but I still love it.