r/moviequestions

For me it's the:

"What is it?

Please tell me.

What is it?"

Said over and over by King Julian when Melman is actually telling him something in Madagascar (don't remember which one.)

I'm putting together a movie time machine for my kids (9 and 17), and I'd love some recommendations from people who actually grew up during the 80s and 90s.

I'm looking for your PERSONAL favorite movie from each year between 1985 and 2005. It doesn't have to be the most famous movie of the year, critically acclaimed, or even particularly well known.

I'm actually more interested in the movies that people remember fondly from growing up. Family movies, coming-of-age movies, teen movies, comedies, neighborhood/school movies, etc.

Especially looking for movies that really capture what that period felt like: the clothes, cars, houses, music, technology, schools, neighborhoods, family life, and just the general atmosphere of the time.

Maybe it was something you watched constantly on VHS, rented from Blockbuster, watched with your parents, or just a movie that takes you straight back to being a kid/teenager.

If you have the time, copy and fill this in. You don't need to answer every year:

1985:

1986:

1987:

1988:

1989:

1990:

1991:

1992:

1993:

1994:

1995:

1996:

1997:

1998:

1999:

2000:

2001:

2002:

2003:

2004:

2005:

BONUS: What ONE movie from this entire period gives you the strongest "I grew up in this era" feeling?

If you have time, I'd also love to hear a sentence or two about WHY you picked your movies.

I'm basically trying to build a crowdsourced nostalgia list instead of just looking at the same "Top Movies of the 80s/90s" lists over and over.

Thanks! 🍿📼

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I have never seen any of them

So recently I have watched "Creep", "Area 51", and "The Blair Witch Project". And right now im pretty into those kinda stuff, movies filmed in first person perspective. (I need more horror movies in first person perspective, give recommendations).

So, for context, im staring a film high school this September, and im thinking how it would be to make an low-budget horror movie. I have some ideas for 1-2 films, but there's one thing that I think about a lot. Would it be better if its first person perspective? So I wanted to ask what people think about it.

I know that "Creep" was like filmed as low-budget, first person perspective, movie that became a big hit. And "the Blair Witch Project" was creepy as f for people at the time, as some even left the theaters and threw up during the movie.

I feel like first person perspective is giving that scary vibe, like were the real person in that story, in that world. It feels more like a story were meant to see rather than just a movie. But im not sure if people feel the same or just feel like its a YouTube video that doesn't deserve to be called a movie.

So the question is, do you like first person perspective? To you, is it good for a started young director (filmmaker)?

Saw the movie few days ago. Is it a sci-fi? No, it's a comedy in space with lots of why and how.

Why the brigant shot the dog instead of just closing the door of the spaceship, which he did a moment later?

Why not supergirl bring the poisoned dog to a yellow sun system? The dog could 'breath' in space as SG, so it was from Krypton, too. Doesn't immune to all damages?

How the brigant knows SG is from Krypton and using a Green sun system as hideout?

How the brigant got so quick kryptonite and made it to a weapon for its SG weakener arrow?

Why was this move so bad had so fast forward so much to skip boring conversations?

Hands down for me the best entrance goes to Darth Vader in Episode IV A New Hope just seeing him the first time standing there looking at everything that happened and hearing that iconic breathing you’d think it was one of the stormtroopers but camera pointing directly at Vader you know it’s him. I remember my dad saying he got absolute chills seeing that in 1977 and me seeing it on vhs growing up I also got chills.