kingseanjohn Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 I excluded movies already meeting the threshold. I still have to leave off several movies worthy of nomination. Noms: Braveheart Fight Club Schindler's List American History X Green Mile Honorable Mentions: GoodFellas Forrest Gump American Beauty Truman Show Apollo 13 Magnolia Interview with the Vampire Boondock Saints Jerry McGuire Rounders Falling Down A Time to Kill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seminoles1 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 8 hours ago, Ozzy said: Agreed, Good Will Hunting is one of my top 10 movies ever made, even though arguably more a romance than a drama. But you have to nominate some others here as well, especially in such a stacked deck in this period of great movies, need some more opinions out there for the total, same can be said for @thrILL! Hold up. You consider Good Will Hunting a romance, but not The Princess Bride? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, seminoles1 said: Hold up. You consider Good Will Hunting a romance, but not The Princess Bride? Get over yourself. IMDb considers it one as well "drama, romance", it does not consider The Princess Bride a romance rather "Adventure, family, fantasy". But no, it is the best romance film ever made, bull****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DUKE Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 I was born in 1981, so the 90's is my prime growing up decade for movies, so these are the movies that helped shape me. All the long weekend and summer nights in middle/high school where I might knock out 2-3 movies if I wasn't playing video games or sports with my buddies. Official Nominations LA Confidential Braveheart Pulp Fiction Sense and Sensibility Unforgiven Honorable Mentions The Shawshank Redemption Good Will Hunting Heat Forest Gump The Fugitive Saving Private Ryan RoundersFight Club Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Rudy Apollo 13 Dazed and Confused Immortal Beloved Dances with Wolves The Insider As Good as it Gets The American President Interview with the Vampire Goodfellas Tombstone Primal Fear The Usual Suspects Seven The Professional Maverick Groundhog Day Reservoir Dogs Mrs Doubtfire The Green Mile Magnolia The Sandlot American Beauty The Talented Mr Ripley 10 Things I Hate About You October Sky Man on the Moon The Iron Giant Three Kings American History X He Got Game The Prince of Egypt What Dreams May Come Titanic Crimson Tide Amistad Donnie Brasco The Devil's Own The Devil's Advocate Rosewood Gattaca The Postman Wag the Dog Contact A Time to Kill Fargo Trainspotting The Ghost and the Darkness Jack Courage Under Fire Before Sunrise The Bridges of Madison County The Quick and the Dead Legends of the Fall Wyatt Earp Clear and Present Danger Blue Chips With Honors Philadelphia Fire in the Sky A Bronx Tale In the Line of Fire The Firm The Program Much Ado About Nothing Searching for Bobby Fischer A Few Good Men Last of the Mohicans Malcolm X Scent of a Woman The Bodyguard School Ties Far and Away A League of their Own Regarding Henry My Girl Defending Your Life Pretty Woman Edward Scissorhands Ghost Awakenings 1999 was another incredible year for movies, right up there with 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsfan4life51 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Good Will Hunting LA Confidential Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malfatron Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 17 hours ago, Ozzy said: Unforgiven (absolute classic but is clearly a western) A Western can be a drama, just like a war movie can 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Buck Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 (edited) . Edited June 24, 2020 by Uncle Buck Had to make a change in my nominations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Buck Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 16 hours ago, Ozzy said: Get over yourself. IMDb considers it one as well "drama, romance", it does not consider The Princess Bride a romance rather "Adventure, family, fantasy". But no, it is the best romance film ever made, bull****. A movie cannot be "the best romance film ever made" without a truly beautiful actress starring in it. This is an absolute must. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Buck Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 What an incredible decade for dramas! Every one of these movies is among the very best movies I've ever seen. Goodfellas Forrest Gump Braveheart Scent of a Woman A Bronx Tale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Uncle Buck said: A movie cannot be "the best romance film ever made" without a truly beautiful actress starring in it. This is an absolute must. In some ways yes but Sleepless in Seattle is a good romance and Meg Ryan is not some supermodel. Same with The Holiday, pretty actresses but neither are flat out gorgeous. In the romance Before Sunrise I can barely remember the actresses name but that is a really great film. The Bridges of Madison County is great, but not sure I would call Meryl Streep a supermodel either but she is a super actress and is great in tons of films. Officer and a Gentleman has Debra Winger, nothing awful and does a great job but again not some supermodel either. Sure it helps but is not always needed, the audience does need to have some affection for her or else usually it does not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seminoles1 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 15 hours ago, Uncle Buck said: A movie cannot be "the best romance film ever made" without a truly beautiful actress starring in it. This is an absolute must. This is pretty mean and shallow. Beauty is completely subjective. What about Brokeback Mountain or Call Me By Your Name? Can those not be considered because it features a gay romance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 14 minutes ago, seminoles1 said: This is pretty mean and shallow. Beauty is completely subjective. What about Brokeback Mountain or Call Me By Your Name? Can those not be considered because it features a gay romance? Umm, have you not seen Jake Gyllenhaal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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