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Personally I'd go with Independence Day if I had to pick a movie that felt the most 90s.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 7 months ago (6 children)

It isn't a movie itself, but the "work sucks" genre of films had its peak in the 90's, specifically 1999.

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[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

For not-the-best-90s-movie-but-most-strongly-dated-to-the-90s I'd have to go with You've Got Mail

If someone had told me Independence Day was early 2000s (pre 9/11) I wouldn't have doubted it. Same with the Matrix really.

But You've Got Mail seems rooted to that mid to late 90s early internet feel. Two massive stars. Lots of 90s fashion etc

Possibly also Mrs Doubtfire. Reasons there being very 90s exploration of divorce, prosthetics that weren't available in the 80s and a theme (man sneaking into kids lives in disguise) that I don't think would have gotten traction 2000s onwards for being too creepy. Makes it a very 90s film.

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[–] miseducator@lemmy.world 72 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 7 months ago

Ugh, as if.

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 76 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Terminator 2 is in a weird spot since it's a sequel to an 80s movie but is itself a 90s movie. But I'd nominate it for this award.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a quintessential 90s movie sequel to a quintessential 80s movie

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago

Space Jam, for sure.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Falling Down (1993), Freeway (1996) are two that I saw fairly recently and the 90's were jumping off the screen.

Pauly Shore had 90's career. Encino Man (1992), Jury Duty (1995), Bio-Dome (1996). His only movie of the 2000's was Pauly Shore is Dead (2003) which was about no one caring about him anymore.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Falling Down is a movie we should all watch again.

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[–] ChaoticGoodHeart@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago

SubUrbia is the 90's distilled for me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086589/

As for movies from the 90's, Jurassic Park would be my pick, with Forrest Gump a close second, but points docked for not being based wholey in the 90's.

[–] Mellow12@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Friday 1995

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Feels leftover 80s to me. Or that weird transition period

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When I saw it years later I misunderstood what Wayne meant when, talking of Stacey having bought him a gunrack and being mental, he says "get the net!"

To late 90s me it sounded like he was talking about the internet, sarcastically telling Stacey to "get the internet" as in "be cool, get with the times, stop being a dork"

When pointed out to the me he's referring to the much older trope of catching crazy people with giant butterfly nets, I realised how solidly pre-internet Wayne's World is. And can't be quintessentially 90s for me for that reason.

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[–] Vector@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The Matrix and Jurassic Park come to mind.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Jurassic Park was ahead of it’s time. I don’t really think of it as a 90s movie.

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 months ago

Got Jurassic Park in 4k on my Plex server.

Looks absolutely amazing still.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 105 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I almost said Mallrats but Clerks is also pretty iconic for the era.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

JLH was unbelievably hot in that movie. that blue shirt and skirt. Whew.

Hit me right in the late teens.

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago

Reality Bites.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Tempted to say The Matrix but it’s late in the decade.

Maybe Scream?

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I think The Matrix can work! It feels very 90s to me as well!

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 60 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The Net

It's a 90s movie about the internet, but it's all technobabble magic and represented in a very made-for-TV way. Just the right balance of interesting plot and complete cringe which is pretty much how I remember the 90s.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’d add Speed. Sandra Bullock was the 90s it actress. And Keanu has already been mentioned in a couple of essential 90s titles.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

That’s my second choice after Hackers

MESS WITH THE BEST

DIE LIKE THE REST

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And you complete the 90s hacker trifecta with Sneakers

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

God that's such a good movie. Probably gonna throw that on soon since haven't watched it in years.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Can I add Johnny Mnemonic to this list? Classic Keanu

"I NEED to get on-line. I NEED a computer!"

[–] ChaoticGoodHeart@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago

Information Overload! Rollins deserves to be an EGOT.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Gotta double the capacity of the 80 GB drive in my head

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 7 months ago

"Hack the planet!"

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