I would include spike lee's Do the Right Thang,  Boyz N da Hood.

I would include spike lee's Do the Right Thang,  Boyz N da Hood.

Yes The Matrix rules supreme!  Excellent list Joe, glad to see Dark City in there, I think that film is underrated.

However I would've gone with Scream instead of Strange Days cause Scream is nice and it revived the horror genre in the 90s.

Nice to see Dark City get a nod on this list. And Hanso I agree Scream should be on this list over starnge days....But what about Blade? Its the reason why the comic book movie is so big now. And what about Golden Eye? I love goldfinger as much as the next bond fan, but IMO Golden Eye is the best of them all(though Goldfinger and Casino Royale are close) And no Star Trek 6, by far the best Trek Film of the 90's. And the Sixth sense? really? The endding was so obviouse and is not worth another watch. Instead of that it should be the Usual Suspects...theres an endding you dont see comming.

Great List. I agree Hanso; Scream was a great genre film....and many will slap me, but dangit I think ID4 deserves some mention.

On another note, your article on Avatar was simply brilliant my friend. Truly well-written and very thought-provoking. Too many people doubted Cameron's ability to deliver. All of his films have been across the board saturday afternoon movie type stuff. But you know what? So was stuff like star wars and Indy freaking ana Jones.

The movie gods surprised me with a ticket for opening night @ the Ontario IMAX3D in Cali, and I went with about 20 people, most of whom I told they must see this film in 3D. They were hesistant, even so-so, expecting the movie to be decent or good at best.

When it was all over, and we were outside talking, every single person who went said that they are absolutely going to see this movie again, and half of us were going to go again had we had the money and time. All of the people who went are not hardcore movie fans like myself (Been following this since it's whispers back in '97 after Titanic was done), but they were in utter awe of the film, and the filmmaking. One of my more religiously inclined friends said this

"If there was ever a time when I thought the world would come close to creating anything that looked like heaven on Earth, it was this movie."

We all are going back in a week or two, and that's what the movie industry doesn't realize yet. People are still waiting to see this movie and people are planning on going back to this movie. I easily see it having decent legs well into the end of January, maybe even the first week of Feb before the Wolfman comes out (which looks freakin sweet). The only question is what does the final tally end up being?

450?

475?

500?

600?

1.25(worldwide)?

1.5?

Article owned son!

Good solid list Joe, I think there should be some honorable mentions included such as Independence Day, MIB, ans Star Trek 6 and of course Star Trek First Contact. Scream is an important film because it did help turn horror around even if in the process it spawned a thousand awful clones and led us down the road to films like Saw which I think is a sign that horror is bottoming out again because those films are vile. However the original Scream was great, had a good mystery to it, and was actually really funny as well. As great as a list of the top films of the 90s is I would like to see a worst list as well because wher the 80s succeeded in bringing genre films to centerstage there were a lot of failed and somewhat humorous attempts to cash in on this in the 90s and I think that deserves its own article because sure Keanu made the Matrix, but does anyone remember another film he made called Johnny Mnemonic? Yeah it was umm pretty bad.

Movie guy I agree man Avatar was awesome and for me it seems like the more I think about it the better it gets. I too want to see it again.

 I was anticipating the most overrated movie of the 90s would be number in The Matrix.  I never cared much for it..  Keanu Reeves is miscast as Neo.  He has no charisma and doesn't have the demure of someone who will save the human race.  To me, his acting ability peaked as Ted in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."  Since I couldn't take him seriously in the role, the movie didn'twork for me.  I also didn't find the world outside the Matrix very interesting.  It's just another bombed out post apocalyptic world.  We're supposed to leave the Matrix for that.  You gotta agree with the traitor that the world of the Matrix is better even if it isn't real.  So what are humans fighting for?  Nothing.  Finally, I found the whole movie have an overblown sense of self.  I rolled my eyes at the all bs philosophy in this movie that I found to be nonsense.  I actually the sequels more because I found them unintentionally humorous at times.  By the time I went to a showing of "Revolutions," I was laughing pretty hard.  You see someone avoid a bullet once, maybe it was cool.  The tenth time, ho-hum.

Why was Total Recall left off the list?  It was Arnold's best after the Terminator movies.  No True Lies either?  Goldeneye?  I'll stand up for ID4, Stargate, and Phantom Menance too.

Is Groundhog Day considered genre?  It deals with a time concept.  I thought that movie was great.

Dark City being on this list validates it, but The Matrix ruins it, especially at #1! Personally, I thought The Matrix sucked Big Green Donkey D*cks!

What's funny is, the 90's show how movies got weaker in story and started concentrating on FX more.

Even though it was panned, I think The Phantom Menace should have been on the list, at least at #10. It changed, for better or worse, the proliferation of CGI in movies forever.

As some have said, NO Total Recall? Independence Day? True Lies? WTF?

As far as best Trek film of the 90's.....hands down, First Contact!! Hell, First Contact is the best of Trek except for Wrath of Khan, and it's CLOSE there, IMHO!

So far, I think the 80's was the decade we all seemed to want MORE movies on the list than the others that were done. The 80's was a fantastic decade of movie making, and I think the medium peaked then, and it's gotten steadily worse as time has moved on. Don't get me wrong, we have had great movies since the 80's, but not on the scale of the 80's! I think movies were growing and getting better since this listing started with the 60's, but the 80's movies were so much fun and had so many more "original" movies, as well as those that weren't so original, but pushed the stories better. I miss that decade. I went to movies in the theaters almost every weekend then. Now, maybe once in a few months, or for those special movies like Avatar that come out. The explosion of the Internet, iPods, DVD's, big screen TV's, and cable TV have changed movies and how we watch them compared to the 80's, especially, when computers were really just getting going, and Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet(that's sarcasm, folks!). Oh well, we can still enjoy those by-gone days and movies thanks to DVD's! I know I do! Over 200 DVD's and counting!