Favoritest Movies of 1990

1990 was around when my mother left.  I don't remember when that was exactly, which seems odd because in the type of movies that take place in the only world the isipid Chelsea Handler can understand, the date of some major family trauma is etched in stone and Charlton Heston comes down from the higher echelon of your psyche with a cheap plastic cup bearing the date of the one, one offending day and a copy of the childhood home game.

Of course, when I watch movies that take plae in the only world palpable to Chelsea, I tend to think they're ridiculous fantasies because of all the concessions, contrivances, conveniences, and coincidences.  I don't remember the date my mother left, but heck it was the second time she did.  The first time being in fourth grade.  I had enough going on with starting High School, which is when she promised she would leave after she had come back the first time back in fourth grade...  



The benefit to my mother's abandonment of my father and I, aside from;

We went two summers in a row... Divorce is screwed up.

The side benefits were all the other overtures of bonding and distraction my father engaged in.  Star Trek Conventions; every one within driving distance.  The local sci-fi convention called Archon, renting movies on a weekly or better basis, going to the movies would become more and more regular until being a weekly habit as well, including going to the movies on Christmas, the first of which was Godfather Part III.  We were looking forward to it for months!  We had a Godfather movie marathon the week prior... (It's number 62, out of 109)

Trivial side note:  Back then, I was saving the ads for movies from Entertainment Weekly.  Full page movie ads were, the movie poster.  Also back then, my father and I kept a list of movies we saw together on the front of the refrigerator, and would rank them at the end of the year.
 
Well, this was the last list of the '90's, 181 movies made it into the fave of the decade round; that's 16,290 matchups, of which this lot in blue below me is responsible for 3087 of, or 19%.  So, I'll get to that...

1. The Hunt for Red October
2. Pretty Woman
3. Dances with Wolves
4. Back to the Future Part III
5. Pump Up the Volume
6. Total Recall
7. Spaced Invaders
8. By Dawn's Early Light
9. Predator 2
10. Memphis Belle
11. Frankenstein Unbound
12. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
13. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
14. RoboCop 2
15. DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
16. Robot Jox
17. Die Hard 2
18. Treasure Island
19. Edward Scissorhands
20. White Hunter, Black Heart
21. La Femme Nikita
22. Dick Tracy
23. Ghost
24. Tremors
25. The Rescuers Down Under
26. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia
27. Quigley Down Under
28. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
29. Marked for Death
30. Darkman
31. Men at Work
32. Young Guns II
33. Reversal of Fortune
34. Navy SEALs
35. Dreams
36. Narrow Margin
37. Hard to Kill
38. Kindergarten Cop
39. Vincent & Theo
40. Bird on a Wire
41. Jetsons: The Movie
42. The Bonfire of the Vanities
43. Hamlet
44. Quick Change
45. I Come in Peace
46. Postcards from the Edge
47. Days of Thunder
48. I Love You to Death
49. Joe Versus the Volcano
50. The Rookie
51. Captain America
52. The Guyver
53. My Blue Heaven
54. Air America
55. Taking Care of Business
56. Presumed Innocent
57. Short Time
58. Nuns on the Run
59. Repossessed
60. Blind Fury
61. Nightbreed
62. The Godfather Part III
63. Home Alone
64. Internal Affairs
65. Mr. Destiny
66. Green Card
67. The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter
68. Loose Cannons
69. Pacific Heights
70. Arachnophobia
71. Fire Birds
72. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
73. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
74. Goodfellas
75. Rocky V
76. The Freshman
77. Ju Dou
78. Miller's Crossing
79. The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
80. The Russia House
81. Awakenings
82. Three Men and a Little Lady
83. Another 48 Hrs.
84. Look Who's Talking Too
85. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
86. Crash and Burn
87. Misery
88. Cyrano de Bergerac
89. Flatliners
90. Mermaids
91. Lord of the Flies
92. Cadillac Man
93. Child's Play 2
94. Henry & June
95. The Two Jakes
96. Blue Steel
97. The Krays
98. Jacob's Ladder
99. Stanley & Iris
100. Wild at Heart
101. Wild Orchid
102. The Witches
103. Miami Blues
104. Revenge
105. White Palace
106. Stella
107. King of New York
108. Problem Child
109. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Legend: Onto the next Round! ( >/= .8) In the middle. I do NOT enjoy. (< / = .2)