1992-2001 - How would you rate it in terms of film?

Personally I would rank it as one of the best and most creative periods in American Cinema, sandwiched in between the mostly formulaic late 80s early 1990s and the somewhat stagnant reboot happy 00s and 10s. You had some great foreign films and independent movies influencing the major studios, the neo noir, and experimentation with the traditional linear narrative in films like Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, as well as later films like Memento.

What says you?

 

Schindler's list, Silence Of The Lambs, Shashank, Fargo, Casino, The Usual Suspects, The Big Lebowski, Toy Story 1 & 2, Terminator 2, Seven, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Spirited Away, American Pyscho, Cast Away, Memento and many more.

Yeah, I think it's safe to say it's one of the greatest era in American film.

 

I'd give it a healthy 72.9/124

 

A GOLDEN AGE!
An era where movies start to do (for me) what music (pop/rock/soul/hip-hop) did in the previous decade!

 

It's a solid period for movies. Not sure why you started with 1992 though. I get it that in reality - culturally decades don't start at the numerical beginning necessarily, but 1991 is definitely a beginning of 90s films. Silence of the Lambs is not an 80s movie.

 

Silence of the Lambs is great, but I don't really think of it as a product of the 1990s or the 1980s. If I was going to use 1991, I think it would be more because of Slacker. I think 1992-2001 covers Reservoir Dogs through 9/11, which changed the tone in American culture in general.

 

Plenty, plenty of great stuff. It was truly the time when "independent film" started to have a very healthy life of its own.

 

Either "Slacker", or perhaps "My Own Private Idaho".

 

1994 was especially solid. You had:

The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Forrerst Gump
Natural Born Killers
Leon: The Professional
The Crow
Interview With A Vampire
Legends Of The Fall
The Lion King
Dumb & Dumber

 

Some of my favourite films are from that time frame.

 

I thought you started at 91, so a few of the films I mentioned wouldn't count. Still, even without that year, it's still a great era. And 1990 ain't too shabby either with Goodfellas. Boyz-n-the-hood along with Silence & T2 is one of my favorites from 91.

 

I'm not going to fault you for including some from 1991.

 

Boy, I can't get behind some of the films proffered in this thread as evidence of a golden age.

 

I think the 90s is second only to the 70s as far as a great film decade. After that, I'd probably go with the 50s, if not for Street Car, then for the magnificent Akira Kurosawa.

Still, Tarantino & Fincher are two of my favorite directors and delivered nothing short of masterpieces in that decade (not counting Alien 3). I think Reservoir Dogs is even better than Pulp Fiction for whatever it's worth, but those two alone could make that decade worthy of anyone's attention. And I'd put Saving Private Ryan up there with Apocalypse Now & Full Metal Jacket as a fantastic war movie, which is saying a lot considering those two are among my absolute favorite films of all time. Just a great decade. And include 2000/1, and, as I said, you get a grandslam of a decade for film.

Imo, there are still plenty of great ones out now in fact, it's hard to keep. It's just a shame many of em won't get half the marketing buzz that the new Thor(and I like superhero movies) will, or worse, 50 Shades of horse****.

 

Let's not forget the dawn of PIXAR!

 

Some movies I like between 1992 and 2001

1993 - The fugitive
1994 - Speed
1994 - True lies
1994 - Shawshank redemption
1994 - Momkey Trouble
1994 - Its a Low down dirty shame
1995 - The Net
1995 - One Mans Justice
1996 - Marked Man
1996 - Eraser
1997 - House Arrest
1998 - Enemy of the state
1999 - Office Space
1999 - Entrapment
2000 - Romeo Must Die

 

The last great decade for movies imho

 

What about 2000/2009?
Or 2010 /2017 ( not quite a decade yet,getting there)?

 

But is literally is a product of the 90s and a standard of its genre (or in some ways the creation of one).

 

I think of it as more timeless.

 

There are timeless New Hollywood era films that still synonymous with their era.

 

Here is what I like from 2000 on.. (Some stuff as I may miss some (Ah man!!))

2000 - Romeo Must Die (i listed this earlier)

2002 - Clockstoppers (Its OK)

SAW - 2004

SAW II - 2005

Firewall - 2006

 

My favorite decade for film is the 70s but to be fair, every decade has it's hits and misses. The 90s brought in a lot of disaster films and summer blockbusters staring Will Smith which I really didn't like. The 90s had it's good films as well but nothing that really stands out to me at the moment.

Well, there was Terminator 2 which was awesome. I also loved The Unforgiven.

 

Nineties Tarantino could do no wrong,

 

Great time for movies...

Now it's all sequels and remakes...