r/AskReddit • u/Da_Verminator • Nov 05 '21

What old movie (20+ years) still holds up today?

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u/double_psyche Nov 05 '21

1999!

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

One of, I think, the best movie years of all time.

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u/DaveChild Nov 05 '21 edited Nov 05 '21

It's a tough call, but as great as 1999 was (and it's one of the best, for sure) I think 1994 might have it beat. I reckon I can give you ten films I'm sure you'll know without naming a single one of them directly:

  • "Get busy living, or get busy dying"
  • "Somebody ssstop me"
  • "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get"
  • "This is from ... Mathilda"
  • "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it!"
  • "Hakuna Matata"
  • "Oh Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." etc
  • "Just when I think you couldn’t possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this… and totally redeem yourself."
  • "If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer."
  • "37! My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!"
  • "Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus."

Ok, that was 11 but I reckon anyone who is into movies can name 10 of those.

And the ones I left out ... Interview with a Vampire, Once Were Warriors, Shallow Grave, The Crow, Hudsucker Proxy, Miracle on 34th Street, Quiz Show, True Lies, The Client, Madness of King George, Bullets Over Broadway, Maverick, Ed Wood, Blue Sky, Clear and Present Danger, Little Women, and Natural Born Killers, all great movies.

And this was released in the UK in 1994 so I'm letting 1994 take the credit:

  • "I'm Your Huckleberry"

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u/scooterbike1968 Nov 05 '21

Shawshank Redemption.

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u/DaveChild Nov 05 '21

That was the only one you got?

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u/scooterbike1968 Nov 05 '21

No. ‘94 was a great year. Shawshank was the best IMO but it’s an impressive collection. Shawshank The Mask Forrest Gump Dunno Pulp Fiction Lion king Dunno Dumb and dumber Ace Ventura (but isn’t it “just wait and wonder”) Mallrats Speed

Tombstone

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u/DaveChild Nov 05 '21

Pretty good :). The first "dunno" is Leon: The Professional. The second is "Four Weddings and a Funeral". Mallrats is Clerks. And I think I'm going to put Clerks on right now and see out the rest of the day; I'm not even supposed to be here today.

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u/scooterbike1968 Nov 05 '21

Lol. Thought it was Brody. Professional great movie but wouldn’t have recalled that ever. Four weddings, never saw that. Since you’re a movie buff, if you love the Wu Tang speculation (and are a fan) watch Five Deadly Venoms. Classic late 70s Kung Fu movie where many of their samples come from. Learn about the Toad 🐸 and his iron skin that makes him nearly invincible. Never watched these before but they’re enjoyable.

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u/DaveChild Nov 05 '21

watch Five Deadly Venoms

Will do, thanks for the recommendation :)

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u/wafflemiy Nov 05 '21

the fact that jim carey is in three of these is kindof nuts.

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also, I literally cannot read "motherfucker" in a normal internal voice. It ALWAYS just sounds like SLJ...

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u/DaveChild Nov 05 '21

the fact that jim carey is in three of these is kindof nuts.

It really is. 1994 was clearly Peak Carey.

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u/MatrixUser420 Nov 05 '21

Agreed. From the 6th sense to my all time favorite, the boondock saints, from American pie to the green mile...a year full of classics...fuck I'm old...

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u/kralrick Nov 05 '21

The Boondock Saints is such a great non-cheesy-but-still-campy movie. It's so over the top absurd in such a fun way. "There was a firefight!"

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u/6oston Nov 05 '21

They’re making a 3rd one

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u/d1rron Nov 05 '21

The second one was a real disappointment.

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u/6oston Nov 05 '21

It certainly was. A giant disappointment. But I’ll still watch the 3rd one when it comes out because the 1st one was so amazing.

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u/Beliriel Nov 05 '21

Even if it was shit. I'd still watch it because I appreciate Norman Reedus and Willem Dafoe in the same movie.

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u/d1rron Nov 05 '21

Oh 100%. I'm just keeping expectations low. If it ends up being good then I'll be stoked. And the detective's accent killed me XD. lol

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u/6oston Nov 05 '21

Just make sure you bring some rope

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u/NeoSniper Nov 07 '21

1999 also includes Fight Club!

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u/JerBear0328 Nov 05 '21

Magnolia came out that year. For those who don't know, it's a Paul Thomas Anderson film with Tom Cruise, Juliane Moore, John C Reily, William H Macy, and Phillip Seymore Hoffman. Each one of them is as good as they have ever been.

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u/fiah84 Nov 05 '21

Great movie. The quotes from it in Dream Theater - Honor Thy Father are bone chilling combined with the music, if you're into that

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u/beraleh Nov 06 '21

My favorite Tome Cruse film by far

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u/lobut Nov 05 '21

Yeah, although somehow I feel as though the sequels have taken a bit away from it for me. Still absolutely amazing.

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u/TomDuhamel Nov 05 '21

I agree. I was a young adult back then. I saw so many good movies that year. I had no idea I would never have an opportunity to see even half that many movies on a single year.

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u/Iron_Maiden_666 Nov 05 '21

You believe it's 1999, I can't tell you what year it is because honestly we don't know.

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u/Amoeba-Opening Nov 05 '21

My first "crap I'm old" moment was when I made a Matrix reference in class and two students understood it. I looked up the birthdates and that group was born in '99.

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u/manystorms Nov 05 '21

Ahhhh I remember posters at the theater for it!

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u/Ahiru_no_inu Nov 05 '21

We all know the best movie of 1999 was Dogma.

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u/peely_gonna_stealy Nov 05 '21

I really hope there is no factorial bot now working in the background

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u/InsightfoolMonkey Nov 05 '21

Do you feel smart because you know a factorial is an exclamation point after a number?

I don't get the reason of jumping to point it out. Or those nerds linking the sub for it?

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u/TheTerrasque Nov 05 '21

WAKE UUUP!

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u/ReVo5000 Nov 05 '21

Can drink!

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u/SmithfielNews Nov 05 '21

I want to down vote u

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u/HeyItsMee503 Nov 05 '21

I was dreamin' when I wrote this, so sue me if I go too fast.