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Forum Name: Quotes from the Studio
Topic ID: 54
Message ID: 7
#7, RE: 2015.06.02: They're That Rich
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-03-15 at 06:16 PM
In response to message #6
LAST EDITED ON Jun-06-15 AT 03:16 PM (EDT)
 
>>>(Have I ever mentioned how many movies I saw during the
>>>90s that I wish I could forget?)
>>
>>Can people remember a movie from the 1990s that they don't wish
>>they could forget?
>
>No.

Actually, I'm gonna have to retract that myself; a bit of research turns up that Predator 2 came out in 1990, and I love the hell outta that movie. Not only did it produce one of my favorite "theater audience reaction" moments (which I think I've described before), it possesses a standard of quipsmanship that sets it aside from almost all other '80s/early-'90s action movies (with the arguable exception of the Lethal Weapon films, coincidentally also starring Danny Glover).

That's a border case, though, and it could easily be argued that, as a film that came out in 1990 and a sequel to one that came out in 1987, it's really an '80s movie that didn't quite manage to be in its decade.

The only other counterexamples I can think of off the top of my head are animated movies (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, 1993, and the original Toy Story, 1995).

--G.
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