Originally Posted By ToonKirby >In 1982, Gandhi won the Oscar and E.T. phoned home. Since then, Hollywood continued to entertain while embracing change.< The 25 top milestones of the past 25 years: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 2 Toy Story 3 Pulp Fiction 4 Do the Right Thing 5 Titanic 6 Fatal Attraction 7 There’s Something About Mary 8 Philadelphia 9 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 10 Batman 11 The Cable Guy 12 The Passion of the Christ 13 Pretty Woman 14 Mission: Impossible III 15 Scream 16 Fahrenheit 9/11 17 Total Recall 18 El Mariachi 19 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 20 The Matrix 21 GoodFellas 22 Saving Private Ryan 23 Star Wars: Episode I-III 24 sex, lies and videotape 25 The Bodyguard For what they have to say on each movie and why they picked them: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/top25-movies.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/life/t op25-movies.htm</a>
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I am in total agreement with the top choice, but have to take the Godfather trilogy over Goodfellas- even though they took it for the lower life view - Mob movies were a genre like westerns - basically forgotten - until the Godfather movies....
Originally Posted By ecdc Make sure you read the article. I almost didn't and it's pretty essential. This isn't a list of the best movies of the last 25 years, it's a kind of popourri of notable movie events. For example, Mission Impossible III is on here as an example of what a star's off-screen behavior can do to a film, while the Bodyguard is on here as an example of a film's soundtrack making money when the movie itself can't. Kind of a fun article!
Originally Posted By ToonKirby > but have to take the Godfather trilogy over Goodfellas< The key here too is that all the films are from the last 25 years.
Originally Posted By BeautysBeast the one thing bout these films they list is all money makers.Revenue doesnt neccesarily equal art.
Originally Posted By seanyoda In looking at the list, I'd agree with the impact of most of the films on Hollywood. I think the cases for "The Cable Guy" (first $20 mil star pay-out), "MI:III" (Tom Cruise's eratic behavior), "Total Recall" (Arnie) are a bit of a stretch. Where's "The Little Mermaid" (audiences return to animation), "Splash" (launch of Touchstone, allowing Disney to release more mature fare), and "Shrek" (someone other than Pixar produces a successful CGI feature, opening the door for more CGI studios)?
Originally Posted By ecdc Great points, seanyoda. Great points. While I agree that the new Star Wars trilogy should be on the list, they don't seem to offer any reason for it. Mine would be that audiences now expect more than great special effects in their action and comic book movies. The new trilogy isn't actually as different as people might think from the original trilogy, (think C-3POs lines in Attack of the Clones are bad? Listen to him at the end of Empire Strikes Back) yet it certainly isn't as loved.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <> but have to take the Godfather trilogy over Goodfellas< The key here too is that all the films are from the last 25 years.< good catch - you're right
Originally Posted By twirlnhurl I definitely see Shrek and The Little Mermaid as candidates for the list, but I don't think Splash was particularly groundbreaking for the industry as a whole. The list in the article is pretty well thought out, though.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Where's "The Little Mermaid" (audiences return to animation>> You could even make a case for Roger Rabbit. Perhaps to the the toon(yes that was on purpose)of animation shows that it's not just for kids.
Originally Posted By seanyoda You can be sure that in the world of visual effects, both Star Wars I-III and The Lord of the Rings trilogy owe a debt to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
