Beauty and the Beast
While the blockbuster movies were now common place on the big screen it wasn't really that genre of film that was the talk of Hollywood.
The nineties brought major changes in the animation genre as well as Tarantino leading the way when it came to the independent movie as he found further success.
Pulp Fiction took the world by storm when it was released in 1994, Grossing over $107 million at the U.S box office it became the most successful cult hit of all time and the first indie film to gross over $100 million. And the film was made for just $8 million.
The film interweaves three tales, told in a circular, fractured manner, which only fully connect by the time the final credits roll.
The first story focuses on Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), two hit men on duty for "the big boss," Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), whose gorgeous wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), takes a liking to Vincent.
In the second, a down-and-out pugilist (Bruce Willis), who is ordered to take a fall, decides that there’s more money in doing the opposite.
The final chapter follows a pair of lovers (Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth) as they prepare to hold up a diner.
Pulp Fiction still remains one of the most commercially successful independent movies as Tarantino once again highlighted the growing interest in this genre of film and it could do well at the box office if marketed successfully.
Disney's 'tale as old as time' is a contemporary retelling of the classic French fairy story an remains one of the most popular animations almost twenty years after it's release.
The release of Beauty and the Beast saw a return to form for Disney and the film remains the only animation ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The enduring legacy of Beauty and the Beast is the movie's heart and soul, the telling of a simple fairy story with unforgettable characters who deliver the message that the greatest thing that you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
And for an animation to deliver so profound a message in so convincing a way is, even to this day, an amazing achievement, the ballroom scene is one of the best moments ever committed to film.
But 1999 brought about major changes to the animation genre as Toy Story became the first feature film in history to be produced using only computer animation.
Ok so the film only grossed $358 million at the global box office, sounds a lot but next to the likes of Finding Nemo it really isn't, however John Lasseter and co paved the way and set a very high standard
Thanks to Toy Story the face of animation changed beyond recognition, The Lion King remains the last traditional animation movie to enjoy major box office success, as the CGI floodgates opened.
Pixar became a true master of this film genre as Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille and Wall-E have all followed all getting gradually more sophisticated in the techniques being used.
The decade defined CGI blockbuster and Spielberg's Jurassic Park led the way the film centres on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs and it's prehistoric cast took centre stage.
When released the film grossed $914 million at the box office, making it the biggest grossing film ever at the time, beating E.T which originally held the title.
The success of the original movie has spawned a successful franchise as The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic Park III (2001) all found success, Jurassic Park IV is currently in the pipeline.
Despite the such high esteem in which this film is held the Stephen King adaptation flopped at the box office but has, over the years, become a film phenomenon through word of mouth.
Darabont's film about one man's fight for freedom has become one of the greatest films in cinema history as it went on to receive seven Oscar awards, including Best Picture.
Other movies that made an impact during this decade include The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, Trainspotting, Fight Club and Scream.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw