GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1995

[CiG]

RYM film chart

Deadline is DECEMBER. If you need an extension just say so and it will absolutely be considered. This is usually just a soft deadline to make sure everybody doesn't become complacent.

REMEMBER for those of you who haven't seen many films from this year or in general, you can always submit lists as small as only having 5 submissions.

Rules:

- Please submit at least 5 films.
- First place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- Feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- Feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- Feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- If you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, the maths will be worked out.

 

[Goodman]

Here is my rating:

1. The Langoliers
2. Dolores Claiborne
3. The Tuskegee Airmen
4. Apollo 13
5. Father Of The Bride Part 2
6. Assassins
7. Judge Dredd
8. Mortal Kombat
9. «Jumanji»
10. Waterworld

 

[Slammed]

1. Bad Boys
2. Mallrats
3. Billy Madison
4. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
5. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
6. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
7. Hackers
8. Grumpier Old Men
9. Die Hard with a Vengeance
10. Nick of Time

 

[CiG]

1. Casino (Martin Scorsese)
2. Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)
3. Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
4. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
5. Heat (Michael Mann)
6. Dead Presidents (Allen & Albert Hughes)
7. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
8. Tokyo Fist (Shinya Tsukamoto)
9. Kids (Larry Clark)
10. Shinjuku Triad Society (Takashi Miike)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Fuck, this ones gonna be hard. Huge year for me.

 

[CiG]

I feel bad for leaving off Friday. Literally 11th spot.

 

[Bloopy]

1. 12 Monkeys
2. Evolver
3. Welcome to the Dollhouse
4. Hackers
5. Se7en
6. Burial of the Rats
7. La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
8. Empire Records
9. Harrison Bergeron
10. The Addiction

Watched both Hackers and Evolver for the first time, loving the mid-90s computer graphics. I forget how Evolver ended up on my watchlist but it's on YouTube in full. It's like a more tame Chopping Mall but still entertaining, with the robot voiced by William H. Macy having some of the funniest lines.

 

[Burkhard]

1. Mighty Aphrodite
1. Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave
3. Fallen Angels
4. Dracula: Dead and Loving it
5. Batman Forever*

*Haven't seen many movies from this year, so I only included this one to be able to participate, since I assume that a German dubbed version and an original version with German subtitles (I have seen both of "Mighty Aphrodite") don't count as two different movies. At least one of my picks also showed up in another list. As I really loved the first two, I put them both at no. 1 (i.e. they both get 9.5 points).

 

[TageRyche]

Okay, 1995 must have been a year when I sat my ass in front of the TV or in the movie theater a LOT. I went through the first 520 movies on that ranking site and I saw a LOT of the movies. However, it was easier to narrow down my list because while I saw a lot of those movies, a good majority of them (even if I liked them) I probably haven't seen them in a couple of decades.

I had to cut two movies out because while I loved them, they were HBO original movies not theatrically released. I try to stick to theater releases for my list. That means the darn good The Tuskegee Airmen and the simply superb Citizen X aren't in my rankings. Honestly, if I made an exception, Citizen X would probably be somewhere in my Top 3. That's how damn good that movie was.

That left me with 14 movies to whittle down to the final Top 10.

1. Braveheart
2. Hackers
3. Empire Records
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Die Hard with a Vengeance
6. Apollo 13
7. Waterworld
8. Mr. Holland's Opus
9. Boys On The Side
10. The Usual Suspects

 

[CiG]

I've got nothing for Australian films this year. There's a bunch that I wanna see like Metal Skin, The Life of Harry Dare, Angel Baby, Back of Beyond...

Should've put this here instead.

Favourite action movies of 1995:

1. Crying Freeman (Christophe Gans)

One of the greatest manga adaptions ever!

2. Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong)


3. Soldier Boyz (Louis Morneau)


4. Assassins (Richard Donner)


5. Sudden Death (Peter Hyams)

 

[Vegard Pompey]

5. Sudden Death (Peter Hyams)
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I've had a scene seared into my brain since childhood of a guy fighting a bigger, monstrous guy, eventually turning the tables on him and killing him with some sort of industrial machinery, and it's bothered me for fucking decades that I don't know what movie is from! This gif sparked an immediate pang of recognition so I looked it up and yup, the fight does end with the badguy being fed into a plate-stacking(?) machine. I'm 99% sure this is it, thank you so much! I have to watch this movie now.

Weird how the mascot suit didn't register in my memory at all lol

 

[CiG]

I want to move on from this year already. Anybody else planning to do a list?

 

[RadicalThrasher]

I want to move on from this year already. Anybody else planning to do a list?

I'll do it this weekend

 

[no country for old wainds]

run.................. IT'S A STAMPEDE!

1. Heat (dir. Michael Mann)
2. August in the Water (dir. Gakuryu Ishii)
3. Like Grains of Sand (dir. Ryosuke Hashiguchi)
4. The Addiction (dir. Abel Ferrara)
5. Showgirls (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
6. Casino (dir. Martin Scorsese)
7. Safe (dir. Todd Haynes)
8. Ghost in the Shell (dir. Mamoru Oshii)
9. Before Sunrise (dir. Richard Linklater)
10. Jumanji (dir. Joe Johnston)

 

[Einherjar86]

1995 is the year of momentary favorites--a few I still love though.

1. Se7en
2. Ghost in the Shell
3. 12 Monkeys
4. The City of Lost Children
5. Heat
6. The Usual Suspects
7. Strange Days
8. Dead Presidents
9. Casino
10. Braveheart (my love for this film lies primarily in its sheer absurdity and clueless humor; lots of fond memories, some friends and I made an amateur parody of it back in high school)

 

[Vegard Pompey]

10. Braveheart (my love for this film lies primarily in its sheer absurdity and clueless humor; lots of fond memories, some friends and I made an amateur parody of it back in high school)

Did you recreate the mooning scene?

 

[Einherjar86]

I think our main focus was the terrible Scottish accents.

 

[AbelTim]

1. Heat
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Casino
4. Seven
5. Kids
6. Dead Presidents
7. The Basketball Diaries
8. Waterworld
9. Die Hard With A Vengeance
10. Leaving Las Vegas

 

[RadicalThrasher]

1. Braveheart
2. Heat
3. Casino
4. Sudden Death
5. Heavyweights
6. Waterworld
7. The Hunted
8. Judge Dredd
9. Tales from the Hood
10. Lord of Illusions

 

[CiG]

Simplified Results:

1. Heat (Michael Mann) 41
2. Casino (Martin Scorsese) 33
3. Braveheart (Mel Gibson) 29
4. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) 27
5. Se7en (David Fincher) 23
6. Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii) 21
7. Hackers (Iain Softley) 20
8. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Mel Brooks) 14
=9. Dead Presidents (Albert & Allen Hughes) 13
=9. Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds) 13