# What were the best movies of the 90's?

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**Created:** [November 22, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-best-movies-of-the-90s/518500 "2009-11-22T04:54:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-best-movies-of-the-90s/518500/41 "2009-11-30T23:30:48Z")

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> [@kidneyfailure](#):
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> I sure wasn’t hating on _Gump_. I thought it was a great, touching movie that included practically every important American historical event since the 1950’s. Not seeing it on anyone’s list confused me since it was obviously one of the best and most well-known movies of the 90’s.
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> To each his own, though.

I didn’t mean to seem jerkish. It’s just that I’ve seen at least a few threads where _FG_ has been ridiculed and I don’t get the hate. I actually caught part of it on cable a couple nights ago and won’t deny there are some very “Hollywood” elements to it. That said, it was pretty consistent in its “Hollywood-ization” and the touching moments and clever effects – and there are multiple instances of both – still withstand the test of time.

My apologies for including you among the haters.

Not to hijack my own hijack, but I wrote that I could understand why people nobody included JFK in their Best Ofs, but may not have made it apparent why: the JFK conspiracy theorists are outnumbered by the “lone gunman” theorists on SDMB by about 10,000 to 1.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-best-movies-of-the-90s/518500/42 "2009-12-01T00:38:35Z")

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_**[ol]  
[li]Dead Man[/li][li]Pulp Fiction[/li][li]Breaking the Waves[/li][li]Chunking Express[/li][li]Princess Mononoke[/li][li]Audition[/li][li]Showgirls[/li][li]Funny Games[/li][li]Adaptation[/li][li]Groundhog Day[/li][/ol]**_\*\*\*\*\*\*

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-best-movies-of-the-90s/518500/43 "2009-12-01T01:12:39Z")

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Adaptation is from 2002.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-best-movies-of-the-90s/518500/44 "2009-12-01T03:41:34Z")

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Dang. OK, substitute _Being John Malkovich_.

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