It seems natural that the first (working backwards) original cast Trek would win the year, but I actually wanted a specific movie to loose. I really really wanted it to loose, but it was beat out by two movies that I apparently like even less... more on them at the bottom of the list...
If I'd done this list 20 years ago, 2nd place would probably be different, I don't know where Hook would have placed back then, but I remember having problems with the color temperature of the lighting being too indoor for it's outdoor location. Star Trek VI was an event saying goodbye to the original cast, Hook wasn't a goodbye in presentation, but I recall an on-set interview before Hook's release with Spielberg; "Maybe Hook is going to be the last big show I put on."1 Hook would be the least 'dark' Spielberg movie for seventeen years... As I'm typing this, my daughter is reading over my shoulder and asks; "What's Hook?" Answer, a movie in need of a beautiful Blu-Ray release.
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Hook
- Beauty and the Beast
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- The Rocketeer
- JFK
- Defending Your Life
- The Addams Family
- Dead Again
- Shattered
- Once Upon a Time in China
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
- City Slickers
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
- Until the End of the World
- Hot Shots!
- Thelma & Louise
- The Silence of the Lambs
- For The Boys
- Father of the Bride
- The Doors
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
- Truth or Dare
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
- Point Break
- Class Action
- The Hard Way
- Bugsy
- Doc Hollywood
- Out for Justice
- Return to the Blue Lagoon
- Knight Rider 2000
- Necessary Roughness
- Soapdish
- Cape Fear
- Flight of the Intruder
- Once A Thief
- The Last Boy Scout
- Backdraft
- Billy Bathgate
- L.A. Story
- What About Bob?
- The Fisher King
- Grand Canyon
- Hudson Hawk
- Mobsters
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
- True Colors
- Suburban Commando
- Delirious
- Guilty by Suspicion
- Other People's Money
- White Fang
- Regarding Henry
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
- King Ralph
- Curly Sue
- Timebomb
- Pure Luck
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- F/X2
- Stone Cold
- The Perfect Weapon
- Naked Lunch
- Eve Of Destruction
- The Doctor
- Rover Dangerfield
- Little Man Tate
- Toy Soldiers
- Life Stinks
- Sleeping with the Enemy
- The Prince of Tides
- Oscar
- Dying Young
- Frankie and Johnny
- Rush
- The Marrying Man
- Nothing But Trouble
- Problem Child 2
- Highlander II: The Quickening
- My Girl
- The Super
Highlander II is such a frakking failure of a movie, it even failed to make it to the bottom of the list! A Completely forgotten, and completely forgettable Joe Pesci movie made it to the bottom. Way to fail, at EVERYTHING Highlander II, but the bottom of this one is a bit of a cesspool. Oh, #77 there, that's the movie that gave us Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven. I'm waiting for someone to compile in a book or blog or somewhere, a collection of songs everyone knows, that came to us via completely forgotten movies.
1] Also quoted in The films of Steven Spielberg By Douglas Brode
Legend: Onto the next Round! ( >/= .8) In the middle. I do NOT enjoy. (< / = .2)
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