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According to whom?  IMDB sez Se7en, Heat and Braveheart are the 1995 top 3, not exactly chopped liver there, although grim subject matter and a substantial body count. Well made and entertaining for me at the time, a 44-year old ravenous consumer of films and books. Crimson Tide was #16, which was cool to see for a Tuscaloosa native.

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4 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

According to whom?  IMDB sez Se7en, Heat and Braveheart are the 1995 top 3, not exactly chopped liver there, although grim subject matter and a substantial body count. Well made and entertaining for me at the time, a 44-year old ravenous consumer of films and books. Crimson Tide was #16, which was cool to see for a Tuscaloosa native.

He's talking about box office numbers, not the best movies.

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Both '94 and '95 have an impressive list of movies to their name. I think a lot of those movies are memorable because channels like HBO or TBS just played them over and over and beat us over the head with them so now they are stuck in our minds as nostalgia. You don't get that anymore because nobody watches TV. 

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4 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

He's talking about box office numbers, not the best movies.

Except international box office numbers from that era are unreliable at best,  it wasn't until the 2000's with digital prints where most movies saw wide release globally. 

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1 hour ago, NorthLoop said:

Both '94 and '95 have an impressive list of movies to their name. I think a lot of those movies are memorable because channels like HBO or TBS just played them over and over and beat us over the head with them so now they are stuck in our minds as nostalgia. You don't get that anymore because nobody watches TV. 

I would think Blockbuster had a big effect on us too.  New releases dropping to video every weekend.  Lot's of great movies to choose from for date nights in high school.  Everyone saw everything at least once.

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2 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Both '94 and '95 have an impressive list of movies to their name. I think a lot of those movies are memorable because channels like HBO or TBS just played them over and over and beat us over the head with them so now they are stuck in our minds as nostalgia. You don't get that anymore because nobody watches TV. 

i think movies were just more awesome in the 90s than now.  it wasn't nostalgia.  i knew i was watching greatness at the time.  i remember walking out of shawshank and going holy shit. i remember walking out of fargo and going holy shit.  i remember walking out of sling blade and going holy shit.  i don't really do that any more.  i'm no longer the target audience, but i don't think anyone comes out of movies like that any more.

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That's because most movies now are either shitty sequels, unneeded crappy remakes, or mostly CGI with no plot (but lots of people in tights flying around).  I bet most of the movies mentioned above couldn't get made today.

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2 hours ago, ImNotMarkinson said:

i think movies were just more awesome in the 90s than now.  it wasn't nostalgia.  i knew i was watching greatness at the time.  i remember walking out of shawshank and going holy shit. i remember walking out of fargo and going holy shit.  i remember walking out of sling blade and going holy shit.  i don't really do that any more.  i'm no longer the target audience, but i don't think anyone comes out of movies like that any more.

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The quality of 90s films was top notch because Tarantino, Scorese, James Cameron, PTA, and Spielberg were all pushing the medium forward both story wise and stylistically. Movies looked better in the 90s before digital cameras took over until those cameras hit their groove in the late 00s. It's not just nostalgia or being shown over and over. There were so many original stories and everything wasn't IP based like it is now. Sure, there were lots of book adaptations like Grisham, Creighton, and Clancy novels as those were the IP money makers of that era. But think about all the original stories we got in the 90s that we no longer see. We'll get 2-3 good ones a year now if we're lucky. Sinners and F1 don't come along as much now because they rarely make money compared to consistent IP money. Most of the good original stories come out of the horror genre. Now, that doesn't excuse that there were derivatives that came out in 90s such as Die Hard in a ______ formulas for action movies. I'd still stack that decade against most other than the 70s in terms of overall quality. 

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