What a waste of a year of movies. Take the bottom 60 titles on this list, I'll never watch any of them ever again. We will not see a year this bad until 2010, but being fair 1996 is worse. As I continue this trip back, I hope I don't come across another year that stinks as badly. BUT, maybe just maybe its the number of movies I saw. 106! That's the third highest count on my list following 1990 at 109 and 1994 at 112 movies seen. So... maybe just maybe the more movies one sees the more crap they see. That's a shame. I was really hoping the the more you saw, the more likely you are to find hidden nuggets to treasure and enjoy... Well, maybe there were... where's my optimists hat? Oh, here it is covered in dust caked on by age. Well look at you two...
There were two gems that I probably would not have seen at the time If I only saw the popular movies to see. The Phantom is one of the worst marketed... screw the rhetoric here, the poster says "SLAM EVIL" I have no idea what that means, but it feels lame to me. It looks like it's trying to appeal to eight year olds, not real ones, but the tertiary characters on Leave it to Beaver. I know we're a year before South Park here, but how could you not know that that poster and everything about the movie looks lame to... humans. Everywhere, everywhen. But, The Phantom is a good movie. It's a fun to watch, Indiana Jones movie but the guy is in a purple body suit. Best of all, on Blu-Ray this movie looks good, really really good. To me this is the gold standard for how an old catalog title should be treated. I've read some complaints about the video quality, but lets put things into perspective. The Phantom is a BD from Lionsgate of a 1996 movie that grossed 17 million dollars. And it looks almost brand new. If an old popcorn flick that's life was somewhere between flop and bomb can look this nice; no movie you care about has any excuse. The other nugget, was the first movie I saw by Peter Jackson. It's fun too, but Peter Jackson's done better. On to the list.
- Independence Day
- Star Trek: First Contact
- The Rock
- Hamlet
- The Phantom
- Mars Attacks!
- The English Patient
- Mission: Impossible
- My Fellow Americans
- Jerry Maguire
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- Muppet Treasure Island
- Dragonheart
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
- The Frighteners
- Space Jam
- Romeo + Juliet
- Scream
- The Long Kiss Goodnight
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs
- Escape from L.A., aka John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
- Ransom
- Up Close & Personal
- The Arrival
- That Thing You Do!
- The Ghost and the Darkness
- Broken Arrow
- Rumble in the Bronx
- Swingers
- Spy Hard
- Tin Cup
- Police Story 4: First Strike
- Executive Decision
- Jingle All the Way
- A Time to Kill
- Twister
- Last Man Standing
- The Craft
- Bound
- The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Courage Under Fire
- Happy Gilmore
- Evita
- Eraser
- Multiplicity
- Beautiful Girls
- 101 Dalmatians
- The First Wives Club
- The Crow: City of Angels
- The Nutty Professor
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
- Maximum Risk
- Looking for Richard
- Mulholland Falls
- Dear God
- Bed of Roses
- Barb Wire
- Daylight
- Flipper
- Phenomenon
- Chain Reaction
- Michael Collins
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- One Fine Day
- Down Periscope
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Fargo
- In Love and War
- Michael
- Dunston Checks In
- Mary Reilly
- Alaska
- Bulletproof
- Striptease
- The Mirror Has Two Faces
- Larger than Life
- Extreme Measures
- Ghosts of Mississippi
- Sgt. Bilko
- City Hall
- She's the One
- Mother
- The Portrait of a Lady
- The Adventures of Pinocchio
- All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
- Sleepers
- The Preacher's Wife
- The Associate
- Diabolique
- Jack
- Eddie
- Mr. Wrong
- Heaven's Prisoners
- Kingpin
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
- Kazaam
- The Crucible
- The Fan
- The Pillow Book
- Thinner
- The Stupids
- Black Sheep
- Joe's Apartment
- Fear
- The Cable Guy
- Big Bully
Legend: Onto the next Round! ( >/= .8) In the middle. I do NOT enjoy. (< / = .2)
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