HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture of 1994
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1994 were early high school days for me. My buddy told me I had to watch this new Pulp Fiction movie. We had a movie night, I watched it, and I came away asking, "What the fuck was that!?" Hated it. Didn't feel like the story being told out of time helped anything and was just done for pretentious reasons.
My wife's part of a Facebook group that decided to vote on the 53 best '90s movies, then everyone would watch one per week in chronological order and discuss afterward. Kind of like a book club only for '90s movies. At the end, there was supposed to be a big costume party where everybody came as one of the movie characters (I planned to attend as The Dude's Credence tape). COVID shot the party down but not the movie watching, so I watched a lot of '90s movies last year, Pulp Fiction one of them. I have a WAY better appreciation for it now than I did then. It would still probably be sixth at best on this list for me, but it's a great movie.
For me:
1.) LOTF
2.) Shawshank
3.) Gump
4.) Dumb and Dumber
5.) Clerks
6.) Pulp Fiction
7.) The Professional
Quiz Show*
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1,345,194.) Speed (seriously?)
*Don't think I've seen Quiz Show. Will have to check it out.
My wife's part of a Facebook group that decided to vote on the 53 best '90s movies, then everyone would watch one per week in chronological order and discuss afterward. Kind of like a book club only for '90s movies. At the end, there was supposed to be a big costume party where everybody came as one of the movie characters (I planned to attend as The Dude's Credence tape). COVID shot the party down but not the movie watching, so I watched a lot of '90s movies last year, Pulp Fiction one of them. I have a WAY better appreciation for it now than I did then. It would still probably be sixth at best on this list for me, but it's a great movie.
For me:
1.) LOTF
2.) Shawshank
3.) Gump
4.) Dumb and Dumber
5.) Clerks
6.) Pulp Fiction
7.) The Professional
Quiz Show*
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1,345,194.) Speed (seriously?)
*Don't think I've seen Quiz Show. Will have to check it out.
I thought Shawshank had a chance to win this year. Did not quite expect this margin.
1to392831weretaken
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It's flawless. The score alone is worth Best Picture. I think that's the problem with this bracket: More than one movie that are flawless, so it's just going to come down to which one is going to tug the right strings for each viewer just a little more. Naturally, being raped in prison is going to resonate most often at HCH.
Prison rape beats basement rape at HCH.
1to392831weretaken
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I was talking about Shawshank in the above post, but okay. Just saying there's really nothing to nitpick from multiple movies this year. Several are pretty much perfect.
I see movies winning awards these days and I am like what the fuck this piece of shit won but Shawshank and Pulp Fiction didn’t?
3 of the top 12 on IMDBhttps://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_100&sort=user_rating,desc
And Schindler’s List was just one year earlier. Movies aren’t made like this anymore.
I don’t know how a prison movie can have so many memorable quotes but that’s what makes it amazing.
3 of the top 12 on IMDBhttps://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_100&sort=user_rating,desc
And Schindler’s List was just one year earlier. Movies aren’t made like this anymore.
I don’t know how a prison movie can have so many memorable quotes but that’s what makes it amazing.
All the best movies @whlinder are TV shows now. I mean who even goes to a fucking movie theater anymore? It’s just gay ass comic book shit.
I would have bet $100k on @DerekJohnson voting for The Professional.
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I didn't realize The Professional was chock full o' Asian ladies...
IceManLikeGervin
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My 10 favorite movies from 1994 were:
Fresh
Sugarhill
Crooklyn
Mixed Nuts
The Inkwell
Hoop Dreams
Above The Rim
Natural Born Killers
Surviving The Game
Angels In The Outfield
But from the list I would go with Forest Gump...
Fresh
Sugarhill
Crooklyn
Mixed Nuts
The Inkwell
Hoop Dreams
Above The Rim
Natural Born Killers
Surviving The Game
Angels In The Outfield
But from the list I would go with Forest Gump...
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Andy Dufresne, the man who crawled through 500 yards of shit.
Agree with @dnc about Dumb and Dumber. Literally any girl, big or small, who can quote dumb and dumber increases 1 whole spot on the hot meter for me.
Some polls to consider:
Best line from Dumb & Dumber, and Best line from Forrest Gump. My dark, dark horse is "Dear God, make be a bird, so I can fly far far away. (repeat)"
Agree with @dnc about Dumb and Dumber. Literally any girl, big or small, who can quote dumb and dumber increases 1 whole spot on the hot meter for me.
Some polls to consider:
Best line from Dumb & Dumber, and Best line from Forrest Gump. My dark, dark horse is "Dear God, make be a bird, so I can fly far far away. (repeat)"
Never underestimate the Sisters.
Never even heard of Quiz Show or Leon: The Professional.
GrundleStiltzkin
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Andy Dufresne, the man who crawled through 500 yards of shit.
Agree with @dnc about Dumb and Dumber. Literally any girl, big or small, who can quote dumb and dumber increases 1 whole spot on the hot meter for me.
Some polls to consider:
Best line from Dumb & Dumber, and Best line from Forrest Gump. My dark, dark horse is "Dear God, make be a bird, so I can fly far far away. (repeat)"
Dumb and Dumber is my wife's favorite movie. I guess it hit well with her group of friends when it came out, so it was one of those things the girls would get together and watch it all the time.
As for Forrest Gump, something not very commonly appreciated is that Jenny may be the biggest villain in movie history. From the point in the movie where she's first shown as an adult to the closing credits, she is 100% evil. Sometimes I wonder if this was intentional or if the writers/producers this in mind when they were making the movie.
GrundleStiltzkin
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Andy Dufresne, the man who crawled through 500 yards of shit.
Agree with @dnc about Dumb and Dumber. Literally any girl, big or small, who can quote dumb and dumber increases 1 whole spot on the hot meter for me.
Some polls to consider:
Best line from Dumb & Dumber, and Best line from Forrest Gump. My dark, dark horse is "Dear God, make be a bird, so I can fly far far away. (repeat)"
Dumb and Dumber is my wife's favorite movie. I guess it hit well with her group of friends when it came out, so it was one of those things the girls would get together and watch it all the time.
As for Forrest Gump, something not very commonly appreciated is that Jenny may be the biggest villain in movie history. From the point in the movie where she's first shown as an adult to the closing credits, she is 100% evil. Sometimes I wonder if this was intentional or if the writers/producers this in mind when they were making the movie.
Not evil, but extremely broken.
Andy Dufresne, the man who crawled through 500 yards of shit.
Agree with @dnc about Dumb and Dumber. Literally any girl, big or small, who can quote dumb and dumber increases 1 whole spot on the hot meter for me.
Some polls to consider:
Best line from Dumb & Dumber, and Best line from Forrest Gump. My dark, dark horse is "Dear God, make be a bird, so I can fly far far away. (repeat)"
Dumb and Dumber is my wife's favorite movie. I guess it hit well with her group of friends when it came out, so it was one of those things the girls would get together and watch it all the time.
As for Forrest Gump, something not very commonly appreciated is that Jenny may be the biggest villain in movie history. From the point in the movie where she's first shown as an adult to the closing credits, she is 100% evil. Sometimes I wonder if this was intentional or if the writers/producers this in mind when they were making the movie.
Not evil, but extremely broken.
