My Classics from the 90′s
I have an Amazon list several pages long (at least in the normal view), and several pages are taken up with dvd’s (93 total). Many of them are my favorites from the 1990′s, my personal classics. Let me share them with you.
Hook 1991 – One of the greatest Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Julia Roberts.
Maggie: [after Peter rescues her and Jack from Captain Hook] Daddy, let’s go home, please? He’s just a mean old man without a mommy.
Jack: Yeah, dad, let’s go. He can’t hurt us anymore.
Father of the Bride 1991 – Such a sweet Father/Daughter movie with Steve Martin
Newsies 1992 – One of the best musicals. Christian Bale singing and dancing. Oh, and Bill Pullman does a great job too.
Jurassic Park 1993 – As usual, the sequels aren’t very good, but I’d like to have them all together anyway.
The Fugitive 1993 – Harrison Ford, what else shall I say, and Tommy Lee Jones who looks like my father.
The Pelican Brief 1993 – Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington
Schindler’s List 1993 – Liam Neeson. Watched it in 10th grade, heart-breaking, when he realizes how many more he could have saved.
Sleepless in Seattle 1993 – Yeah, it’s a bunch of sap.
Jonah Baldwin: Talk to her, dad. She’s a doctor.
Sam Baldwin: Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.
Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do?
Sam Baldwin: Well, I’m gonna get out of bed every morning… breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out… and, then after a while, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic.
Annie Reed: Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance… nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was…
Becky: A movie! That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
Dennis Reed: Annie, when you’re attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
The Shawshank Redemption 1994
Outbreak 1995 – Dustin Hoffman is awesome in this. Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a great sidekick. This includes Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Spacey, Rene Russo, Donald Sutherland, and Morgan Freeman.
Sam Daniels: If you think I’m lying, drop the bomb. If you think I’m crazy, drop the bomb. But don’t drop the bomb just because you’re following orders!
Col. Sam Daniels: Just don’t get negative on me.
Major Salt: Affirmative
Sense and Sensibility 1995 – From one of my favorite Austen novels. Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman are great. Hugh Laurie also has a small but enjoyable role.
Congo 1995 – I think the movie is actually better than the book. I might say the same for Jurassic Park, and both are Crichton adaptations. It might be that the books have more descriptions of science than of the story.
Twister 1996 – The following is my favorite quote, it really requires the hand gestures:
Dusty (philip seymour hoffman): Red meat. We crave sustenance.
Jo: No, guys. We are not invading my aunt.
Dusty: Food.
Dusty, Rabbit: [others join in] Food.
Dusty, Rabbit, Beltzer: [the rest join in] FOOOOOOOOD!
Jo: Hey! We are absolutely not going.
Independence Day 1996 – Classic Will Smith with Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman.
David Levinson: We’re hit! We took a hit!
Captain Steven Hiller: [yelling] We’re not hit! We’re not hit! Stop side-seat driving!
David Levinson: [trying to make a break for the exit] Left! Left! Tunnel! Tunnel! Exit! Exit! Left!
Captain Steven Hiller: Where the hell do you think I’m going?
David Levinson: Ok, ok We’re we’re we’re uh…
David Levinson: Uh oh they’re closing up on us… they’re closing…
Captain Steven Hiller: Shut up, shut up, shut up!
David Levinson: Must go faster. Must go faster! Must go faster! Go, go, go, go!
Captain Steven Hiller: [escapes from the alien ship]
[screaming]
Captain Steven Hiller: Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
Captain Steven Hiller: Oh! Elvis has left the building!
David Levinson: Oh, thank you very much. Oh, I love you man
Dante’s Peak 1997 – Pierce Brosnan’s volcano disaster movie
Air Force One 1997 – Harrison Ford!! And Gary Oldman is the best villian here, as in The Fifth Element.
Men in Black 1997 – Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, you see my trend here.
Beatrice: You here to make fun of me too?
Kay: No, ma’am. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we’re aware of. May we come in?
Beatrice: Sure.
Conspiracy Theory 1997 Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts
Jerry Fletcher: A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
Jerry Fletcher: Love gives you wings. It makes you fly. I don’t even call it love. I call it Geronimo. When you’re in love, you’ll jump right from the top of the Empire State and you won’t care, screaming “Geronimo” the whole way down. I love her so bad, I just… whoa, she wrecks me. I’d die for her.
The Fifth Element 1998 – The greatest cast and incredible editing, switching between characters explanations of events and facts. So funny.
Korben Dallas: [Leans down and kisses Leeloo. Leeloo swipes his gun and holds it to his head]
Korben Dallas: You’re right, you’re right, I shouldn’t have done that. I’m sorry.
Leeloo: Senno ecto gammat!
Korben Dallas: I’m sorry, I’m sorry!
Leeloo: ecto gammat!
Korben Dallas: [In a later scene] When she woke up, she said a bunch a stuff. I didn’t understand any of it but… what does ‘ecto gammat’ mean?
Priest Vito Cornelius: Uh… never again, without my permission.
Korben Dallas: That’s what I thought.
DJ Ruby Rhod: What was that honey? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green
Priest Vito Cornelius: It’s a – it’s a – it’s a – it’s a – it’s a – it’s a…
DJ Ruby Rhod: No no no no no no. ‘Cuz if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off ‘cuz all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?
[the alarms sound]
You’ve Got Mail 1998 It’s just one of the cutest movies and has such a funny cast.
Joe Fox: What happened with that guy at the cafe?
Kathleen Kelly: Nothing.
Joe Fox: But you’re crazy about him.
Kathleen Kelly: Yes, I am.
Joe Fox: Well, why don’t you run off with him? What are you waiting for?
Kathleen Kelly: I don’t actually know him.
[cringes]
Joe Fox: Really?
Kathleen Kelly: I only know him through the, uh… you’re not going to believe this…
Joe Fox: Oh, let me guess. Through the Internet?
Kathleen Kelly: Yes.
Joe Fox: Hmm. You’ve… got mail.
Kathleen Kelly: Yes!
Joe Fox: Some very powerful words.
Kathleen Kelly: Yes…
Enemy of the State 1998 – Will Smith!
Robert Clayton Dean: What is happening?
Brill: I blew up the building.
Robert Clayton Dean: Why?
Brill: Because you made a phone call
Brill: What? That’s my best aloha shirt.
Robert Clayton Dean: Yeah, well say “aloha” to it.
Brill: I need sugar. I’m getting cranky.
Robert Clayton Dean: Getting?
Brill: You wanna take a poke at me?
Robert Clayton Dean: I don’t hit senior citizens.
The Mask of Zorro 1998 – Has the greatest dance between Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones. Anthony Hopkins is great too.
Mercury Rising 1998 – Bruce Willis helps an autistic boy who sees National Secrets in puzzles.
Practical Magic 1998 – Sanda Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Goran Visnjic and Aidan Quinn also good.
Gary Hallet: Did you or your sister kill James Angelov?
Sally Owens: Yeah, a couple of times.
Sally Owens: All I want is a normal life.
Aunt Frances Owens: My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!
Sally Owens: Well, it’s what I want.
Sally Owens: We were going to open a botanical shop. Where Mike would get all the ingredients and I’d make the stuff. He really loved my mint-oatmeal shaving cream. He couldn’t stop eating it.
Shakespeare in love 1999
Runaway Bride 1999 – I remember seeing this with my mother and sister. At this time, Julia Roberts was my favorite actress. She’s still great but there others on my list now, it’s mostly her older movies that I like.
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