The nineties was one of the best decades for movies and was a period where many films broke the mould and new ground.
We have already looked at some of the movie that defined the noughties and now it is time to look at the movie the nineties will be remembered for.
- Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg was back in the director's chair in 1993 with Jurassic Park as he returned to the blockbuster.
The movie was a big screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel and a bidding war for the movie right had started even before the book had been published.
And seeing as Spielberg had kicked off the blockbuster idea two decades before with Jaws he was just the man for this project.
And Jurassic Park broke new ground with the use of computer-generated imagery and the way to bring a huge vision to the big screen was changed forever.
The movie went on to gross in excess of $900 million at the global box office and was one of the most successful movies of the decade - not to mention it paved the way for blockbusters to come.
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- Toy Story
Another landscape that changed during the nineties was the animation genre. Beauty and the Beast was the first animation movie to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars but it was Pixar and Toy story that changed the genre forever.
In 1995 Toy Story hit the big screen and was the first film in history to be produced using only computer animation.
This movie really threw the book on boundaries out of the window as Pixar created a movie with a really timeless feel - not to mention a group of characters that everyone fell in love with.
Toy Story marked the arrival of the greatest animation franchises of all time and the way that animation films were made would never be the same.
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- Pulp Fiction
When it comes to independent film no movie made a bigger impact in the nineties that Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
The movie grossed 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.
Not only did he shows that an independent film could have real power at the box office but he showed that the none linear structure really could work in a movie.
The movie won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to be nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture.
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- Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese returned to the director's chair in 1990 to deliver one of his finest movies Goodfellas.
Goodfellas is one of the greatest movies in the gangster genre and Scorsese breathed new life into this genre of film with this release.
It is the technical elements that he used to shoot the film is really what makes it such a powerful watch as he includes unbroken takes, slow motion and fast cutting - all of which contribute to the pulsing pace.
The movie is now over twenty ears old and it is still widely regarded as one of the best American movies of all time.
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- Clerks
1994 saw Kevin Smith make his big screen directorial with Clerks and it was to be a comedy movie that introduced the world to 'geek chic'.
The movie cemented Smith as a bit of a maverick filmmaker and Clerks went on to become a bit of a franchise.
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Other movie that had a big impact in this decade include Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, and Clueless.
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