Personally I’d go with Independence Day if I had to pick a movie that felt the most 90s.
I’ll toss in Empire Records - the store set, the costumes, the music, the actors, the meandering listlessness… all scream “this is a 90’s movie about the 90’s”. Plus the whole Rex Manning plot is absolutely what happened to so many 70’s and 80’s artists. Not perfect by any means, but a great encapsulation of the decade.
That was a throw back to the 1980s Brat Pack, so you can group in the late 80s.
Pulp Fiction.
Has an 80ies vibe to me. I had to check, it was made in 94, but towards the end of the decade, pulp fiction already felt old, a classic.
Am I the only person who watched Singles (1993)? OK, pretty forgettable romcom, but absolutely the soundtrack of the 90s.
Oh, yeah. It unofficially spawned “Friends,” too. Also, if you watch the music videos of the OST songs, you’ll find many (all?) of them have a “Singles” movie poster hanging somewhere. What an amazing level of coordination.
Wayne’s World.
Wayne’s World was trying to recapture Mike Myers’ childhood in the 70s and early 80s. So doesn’t capture spirit of the 90s.
Hrm, I think you’re more right than I was.
False. Wayne’s world captures the spirit of today, but back when it was a counter culture.
What people don’t realize is the kind of snark and goofy jokes that exist all throughout the movie used to be unusual. Now it’s basically how everyone talks.
Hackers
Definitely my first thought
Ace Ventura
I was going to say The Mask
I was thinking of that one too. Many of the movies where Cameron Diaz plays the protagonists love interest can be summed up as a quintessential 90’s movie.
I heard animals in there, Ventura. I heard them again in there this morning, scratching around.
As a counterweight to all the american movies on this thread:
I recall Taxi being very 90s as well!
Biodome
Biodome
Sadly this might be the most 90s of 90s movie. Others like Terminator are sequels, or movies like You’ve Got Mail are scripts written 10 years prior. Biodome is a time capsule of mid 1990s.
Few more I can offer up are Freejack Tank Girl Don’t be a menace
What, do you think you’re so smart? Think you’re some rocket scientist?
Yes
…sorry
Home Alone. It’s a movie that really couldn’t take place today due to cell phones and the Internet making easier to communicate with someone if the landlines are down. Also, the family wouldn’t have been able to get through the airport like they did back then thanks to 9/11.
Akira
Okay, it’s actually 1988, but it definitely got that 90s anime feel.
Sparked the worldwide anime boom, so yeah, pretty iconic.
For me and my friend group: trainspotting
The trainspotting and the Jackie Brown soundtrack were the only CDs people wanted to hear at parties for a time. I learned to hate them both. The only boy who could ever teach me… And: I got a lust for life… Really annoy me now because of that.
The only boy… is from Pulp Fiction.
PCU
Point Break or Speed
Yep! I’m going for something like those two, stuff like Con Air or The Rock.
Six Degrees of Separation
Felt like it was from the 70s.
It’s from a period of film when multiplex cinema was exploding, there was so much demand for scripts that indy movies thrived. Six Degrees was so. much. talking. Which I could see how that made it feel like 70s movies a bit I guess.
Edit: same for Slackers.
Edit 2: oh, and The Last Supper
Mallrats 100%, followed by the Action Park documentary
