By Year: 1999 – 1990
199910. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
199810. Armageddon |
199710. Men in Black |
199610. From Dusk Till Dawn |
199510. Hackers |
199410. Legends of the Fall |
199310. The Firm |
199210. A Few Good Men |
199110. The Last Boy Scout |
199010. Home Alone |
By Decade: The 90’s
 10. La Femme Nikita – Director Luc Besson is a master of taking a story with deep character development and mixing in some amazing action. Nikita is a story of a woman who has lost all value in life, but is given another chance, and a reason to live, if she agrees become a top secret spy/assassin. It is amazing to watch her character develop and find meaning in her life, while going through such amazing circumstances. |
 9. Hot Shots! Part Deux – This is the funniest movie I have ever seen. I laugh out loud every time I see it and I am always finding something new to laugh at. The movie follows a group of special forces on a mission to rescue some hostages (including the man that won the Nobel prize for the artificial appendix) from a country located between Iraq and A Hard Place. |
 8. Other People’s Money – This was the only film that made it to my top ten that I had never seen before. This is the type of movie that could never get made today, the type of movie that does not apologies or make up excuses for someone’s love of money. Not only that, it morally defends that persons point of view. This is a far better objectivist movie the the Atlas Shrugged films. |
 7. Reservoir Dogs – If you saw my last greatest movies of a decade list you will know how much I love Quentin Tarantino and this was the film that started it all. A film with a great set of characters, a unique setting (the rendezvous point after diamond robbery gone wrong) and that signature Tarantino dialogue. |
 6. Leon: The Professional – Luc Besson does it again, this time by exploring the relationship between a mentally stunted professional hit man (Jean Reno) and a 12 year old girl (Natalie Portman) that has just lost her parents. Again a great blend of character development and bloody action. Plus Gary Oldman makes a amazing bad guy. |
 5. The Thomas Crown Affair – This is one of those films that always puts a smile on my face. This is a very smart sophisticated love story with some great characters played by Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. |
 4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day – One of the greatest action films ever made. To take the villain from the first film (a cold murdering cyborg) and make him a good guy is one amazing twist. Plus the relationship between the terminator and John Connor is amazing to watch. |
 3. Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino is the master of finding amazing parts from low budget grind house films and assembling them together into something great. Some people call this stealing, but I think it takes a real genius to see the things that were overlook by everyone else and make them work where others had failed. Plus I think this movie is greater then the some of its parts. |
 2. Braveheart – “… they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!” By romanticizing this tale and adding in a moral underpinning, Mel Gibson has created something that is more then a story of a simple rebel uprising. He has created a universal story that will stand the test of time. Also this movie has the greatest battle sequence to ever appear in a movie before the introduction of CG. |
 1. Eyes Wide Shut – I will admit that the first time I saw this film I did not fully understand what was going on. But I have now seen it many times and every time I see it I take away some new and greater understanding. Like all other Stanley Kubrick films this film is perfect and I am a huge fan of everything he has done. So it should be no surprise that his final film, the one he completed just before his death, would take my top spot for best film of the 90’s. |