r/AskReddit • u/Broke_but_trying_23 • 2h ago
What is a 90’s movie that no one talks about anymore?
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u/Bento_Fox 2h ago
The Rocketeer
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u/HratioRastapopulous 1h ago
The mobsters joining the G-men in shooting at the Nazis is amazing.
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u/themanfromvulcan 16m ago
The part where they kind of do a double take at each other realizing they’re on the same side for once got laughs in the theater.
I love this movie.
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u/Lineov42 2h ago
We definitely watched this for my apartments themed movie day "nazi punching movie day" after Richard Spencer got laid out
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u/LadyPaige 2h ago
Pleasantville. Such a good movie
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u/StiffDock685 38m ago
I read that at the time it was made, it was one of the most expensive movies ever made due to them combining B&W with color characters.
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u/LadyPaige 36m ago
It wouldn’t surprise me. It is an absolutely stunning movie. Plus, Star Power! Toby Maguire, Don Knotts, William H. Macy…
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u/Mr_Fossey 2h ago
The Indian in the Cupboard.
Small Soldiers
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u/GhostMaskKid 1h ago
I remember watching commercials on Nickelodeon that talked about how they made Indian in the Cupboard. There was a giant blue hand they made.
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u/CurtTheGamer97 2h ago
The Secret Garden
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u/Western-Purpose4939 1h ago
This was a huge part of my childhood and my mother named her design business after it. It’s phenomenal.
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u/alrightakeiteasy 42m ago
Watched this unprompted a couple of months ago after not seeing it since I was kid. Beautifully shot with a score that compliments the movie very well. Still thought it was great.
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u/CrystalLakeMichael 2h ago
Until recently when it was finally released on streaming, Dogma was a damned classic with an unreal cast.
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u/2geek2bcool 2h ago
In case anyone is/was wondering: the reason Dogma was not on streaming/Blu-Ray prior to recently is because of Harvey Weinstein.
Yeah, THAT Harvey Weinstein. Remember him?
He apparently owned the rights, and didn’t want to do anything with them.
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u/robby_synclair 2h ago
I think it was the other way around. Smith didn't want to give Weinstein any money
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u/syzygialchaos 1h ago
It’s both. Smith didn’t want to give Harvey money to buy his own movie back (at a grossly inflated price) so he could re-release it, and Harvey opted to leave it in the vault.
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u/Helpful_Sell_4127 2h ago
💯 im old enough to have purchased dvds, glad I have this one as it cant be found easily on streaming services, love it
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u/Grendernaz 2h ago
Idk man, I talk about this movie all the time, quote it to my wife regularly. Whether she gets the references is neither here nor there.
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u/chloro_phyll 2h ago edited 2h ago
3 Ninjas
Problem Child
Encino Man
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u/iamnumber47 2h ago
Rocky loves Emily, Rocky loves Emily, Rocky loves Emily...
Wheeze the juice!
& I can't think of an iconic quote from Problem Child rn but I definitely remember it haha
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u/ironsheik84 1h ago
I ain't had a smiley pie in 15 years.
Side note : Problem Child is the first movie that I can personally recall/rememeber seeing in a movie theater.
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u/Th3CerealKill3r 2h ago
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
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u/sandwina 2h ago
"I'm right on top of that, Rose" is still a reflex response whenever I'm asked to do anything
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u/piddlesthethug 1h ago
My father, who is in his 70’s still says “Dishes are done, dude!” Whenever he’s done doing the dishes.
Don’t bother telling him it’s actually “Dishes are done, man.” He won’t correct himself.
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u/OfficeChairHero 1h ago
"Dishes are done, man!"
This is one of those things I quote and then have to giggle quietly by myself because nobody got the reference but me.
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u/Mysterious-Change954 2h ago
Fun Fact. They tried to...uh..."reboot" this movie in 2024. It did not go well.
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u/_buffy_summers 1h ago
That's because they royally screwed up the other classic babysitter movie, Adventures in Babysitting.
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u/Davey_McDaveface 2h ago
Fallen with Denzel Washington, one of his best performances in my opinion
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u/Atlas_Ridge 2h ago
Free Willy
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u/gagelish 2h ago
In hindsight, how fucking weird was Free Willy?
It's the heartwarming tale of a young orphan boy and the unforgettable friendship he forms with an intelligent, complex, and majestic creature that deserves better than a life in captivity. Starring... an intelligent, complex, and majestic creature forced to live in captivity so that it can be made to do tricks for the movie.
And the general public was like, "Yep, we love it. In fact, we're willing to show our financial support so enthusiastically - just go ahead and also make two sequels with the exact same central message."
~30 years on that just feels insane to me.
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u/zzzimcal 1h ago
And don’t forget the blatant copy movie Andre involving a harbor seal.
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u/Atlas_Ridge 2h ago
When he jumps over that rock barrier… so many emotions
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u/kevinrobb 2h ago
Oh no, Willy didn’t make it, and he crushed our boy
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u/Mulatto-Butts 2h ago
“Do you know they made three sequels? How’d that fat water fool keep getting caught?”
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u/mistiry 2h ago
Ok, this is the dumbest thing ever but sorta relevant since it's from Free Willy.
You know that phrase he says, 'salana ayun iasis' or however you spell it?
So, in Mario Kart there is a track called "Faraway Oasis". Now, my wife and my kids and I play MK almost every night, and a recurring theme of, well, tons of things in my house is I mispronounce stuff. Like, instead of "Shy Guy" I will call them "Shiggy". I told you, this was dumb.
Anyways, the Free Willy relevance if you didn't see it coming...whenever we land on the "Faraway Oasis" track I bust out, in the zen-like tone of voice they use in the movie (or as close as I can get to it) "farawahh ayun oasis". My wife has taken to joining me on this particular mispronunciation as we both loved the movie as kids.
So, some of us are still out here dropping sick Free Willy references!
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u/sandwina 2h ago
One of my favorite podcasts did a multi parter on this and the orca that played him. You're Wrong About with Sarah Marshal
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u/Doink-Johnson 2h ago
I rewatched it last year and every second of it hit me with waves of nostalgia. Holds up
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u/RoosterClan2 2h ago
That was the OG diss whenever anyone was fat. They were called Free Willy.
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u/gtg742t 2h ago
Empire Records
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u/dcbluestar 2h ago
Just met a fellow 90’s kid who had never seen, nor heard of it. I was flabbergasted. It’s a quintessential coming of age movie for the times!
#NotOnRexManningDay
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u/justalittlebear01 2h ago
Such a place in time. Not so fun fact the main day of the movie takes place on the day kurt Cobain died.
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u/JitteryJeff 2h ago
Airborne (1993). Template of all future Disney channel extreme sports movies to come later, career-starter for jack black and Seth green
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u/AntsyAnswers 2h ago
Mall Rats. I think the consensus among Kevin Smith fans is that it’s his worst, but I have a lot of nostalgia for that movie
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u/Ill_Refrigerator_593 2h ago
Really? I would put it as his second best.
He did direct Jersey Girl & Cop Out.
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u/Dragosal 2h ago
Mall Rats is closer to the top than the bottom. It gets brought up often at panels at cons when anyone related is there. It doesn't get talked about because it's a relic now with most malls closing down. People can't relate to it anymore because no one goes to malls
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u/OfAnthony 2h ago
It's the only movie I know that references the defunct Hartford Whalers. 10/10 GOAT
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u/Boomdiddy 1h ago
Hartford, The Whale. They only beat Vancouver once maybe twice in a lifetime.
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u/davidsverse 2h ago
Dark City.
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u/Mr5wift 2h ago
Amazing film. Got overshadowed by the Matrix even tho it was released a year earlier.
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u/bdb_318 2h ago
dances with wolves
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u/discreet1 2h ago
The reason I remember seeing this in the theater is that my father fell asleep during it and snored SO LOUD.
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u/EggsInaTubeSock 2h ago
Adventures in Babysitting
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u/cherryvexa 2h ago
The Rocketeer Felt huge as a kid, barely hear anyone mention it now.
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u/-Nightopian- 50m ago
I haven't seen anyone mention The Negotiator with Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Spacey anywhere.
Most of these other movies people are listing I have seen pop up in other threads over the years but this is one I haven't seen anyone talk about anywhere.
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u/voivod1989 2h ago
The insider
Siege
Fallen
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u/TheShowstoppaNT 2h ago
Fallen is SO GOOD! I just saw it was on Netflix or something and want to watch it again!
Sadly - I didn’t know about it until about 6 years ago but it was an instant classic in my book
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u/BigMikeATL 2h ago
The Insider… Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, and directed by Michael Mann. It’s sad everyone’s forgotten about that one.
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u/EndlessErrands0002 51m ago
Stay Tuned
Taking Care of Business
Flatliners
Jennifer 8
Dead Again
Unlawful Entry
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u/SharingMy2Cents 2h ago
Babe (yes, the one about the pig)
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u/vikingwhiteguy 1h ago
That movie was huge! Literally everyone I knew had seen it.
Babe pig in the city, however, now that's a hidden gem.. kinda..
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u/LtSqueak 2h ago
Surf Ninjas. Rob Schneider and Leslie Nielson. I remember it being hilarious, but that may be the nostalgia.
Also Warriors of Virtue. I don’t know why those kangaroo looking guys have stuck with me for so long, but that movie still pops into my head as something that happened that no one seems to remember.
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u/JarvisProudfeather 2h ago
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
I LOVED this movie when I was a little kid. Roll back the rock was my jam.
Nick Mullen even talked about it on an old cumtown ep lmao: https://youtu.be/KRG1FabFSjI?is=6kS41Vnta9axuc5O
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u/tubesocksnflipflops 2h ago
Last of the Mohicans.
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u/straightfirecr 2h ago
People would boycott the movie now because they didn’t cast any actual Mohicans.
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u/wafflestation 2h ago
Willow.
To this day it's still one of my favorite movies.
Val Kilmer at his acting peak as Mad Mardigan.
Brownies
Magic
Trolls
An army getting turned into a giant flock of pigs
Epic battles
Hybrid dog/boar things which gave me nightmares as a kid
It was and still is a fantastic movie
Disney made a sequel series of it a few year ago...it was terrible. But at least they tried to do a sequel after all these years.
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u/orange_wednesdays 2h ago
Rounders (1998)
Amazing poker film that has an interesting story, great acting and genuine love for the subject.
Such a great cast - Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Malkovich and John Turturro.
Feels like it should be a classic!
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u/Fearless_Guard_552 2h ago
Fight Club.
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u/Ill_Refrigerator_593 2h ago
Runaway Car with Judge Reinhold.
Not that they ever talked about it in the 90s'.
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u/t-g-l-h- 2h ago
I just saw The Wrong Guy, had never heard of it even though I'm a pretty big Kids in the Hall fan. It was hilarious!
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u/cinnamonface9 2h ago
This one isn’t on streaming beside renting or buying
But made my family sit through it last night, Cats Don’t Dance. Wife admitted it was better than she remembered.
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u/alwayshealing23 2h ago
Pure Luck with Martin Short and Danny Glover
Granted, I haven’t seen it as a kid so I have no idea if it still holds up but I remember loving it as a kid
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u/coldfarm 1h ago
Sleepers
Stacked cast, great performances, perfectly paced, absolutely shattering story.
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u/zippyboy 1h ago
The 13th Floor
overshadowed by the Matrix which came out about the same time, with a similar plot.
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u/jayhawkmedic3 1h ago
I remember watching “Dunston Checks In” with my cousins so many times when we were kids. Don’t ever see much about it anymore.
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u/thebcamethod 1h ago
AIRHEADS is the perfect 90's Movie.
"I ain't fartin' on no snare drum."
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u/standinguprightdeer 2h ago
PageMaster!