Under-rated, under-appreciated '90s movies ?

These things are subjective, but I'm looking for some thoughts/recommendations on '90s movies that you feel deserve more love, or a second look..

The Faculty

Unironically this

>Step on that scale, josh!
>Happily waddles onto scale
>GET OFF THE SCALE!

>he's perkisizing

i have a notebook of movies from the 90s i watched. this is gonna be a heavily bumped thread from me.

>American History x
>Amistad
>Analyze This
>Angels in the Outfield
>A Kid in King Arthur's Court
>Arabian Knights (with john leguizamo)
>Armaggeddon
>Army of Darkness
>As Good as it Gets
>Apt Pupil
>Apollo 13

>BUDDAY!
...buhdeeehhh...

>DON'T PEE IN ZE WATAH! DON'T DRINK ZE WATAH, HE JUST PEED IN ITS!

>Bartok the Magnificant
>Beastmaster
>Bebe's Kids
>Bedazzled
>Behind Enemy Lines
>Best of the Best
>Beverly Hillbillies
>Beverly Hills Cop
>The Big Green
>The Big Hit
>Black Mask
>Blankman
>Blast from the Past
>Blue Chips
>Blue Streak
>Boiler Room
>Boogie Nights (might be too lewd)
>Bound by Honor
>Bring it On
>Bulletproof
>The Believer (2002 actually but still good)

>Cabin Boy
>The Cable Guy
>Can't Hardly Wait
>Casper
>Cast Away
>Catch me if you can (2002 again but still good)
>The Chase (stupid Charlie sheen movie. loved it)
>The Client
>Clueless
>Coming to America
>Commando
>Coneheads
>Congo
>Conspiracy Theory
>Cool Runnings
>Cool World
>Courage Under Fire
>The Crow
>Cruel Intentions
>Crouching Tiger Hidden dragon (made in 90s, released in USA in 2000)
>Cry baby

btw im sure if you guys offered a confirmation on any movies i'm posting OP would probably be more willing to watch them

yo is that the cute girl from survivor borneo?

Keep going lad, I'm adding some of these to my back log. I'll say Ed Wood and Kicking and Screaming (1995, not the Will Ferrell film)

>A Dangerous Place (1994)
>Dangerous Minds (Michelle Phieffer kino)
>Deadman on Campus
>Death to Smoochy (2002 still worth watching)
>Deep Blue Sea
>Delta Force
>Demolition Man
>Desperate Measures
>The Devil's Advocate
>Dick Tracy
>Disturbing Behavior
>Don't Tell mom the Babysitter's dead
>Double Dragon
>Dracula Dead and Loving it
>Dragonheart (one of the few movies i saw in theatres. God it was glorious)
>Dr Dolittle
>Dumb and Dumber
>The Devil's Backbone (spanish by Gullermo del Toro)
>

some might not be kino but they were almost cultural at the time of the 90s. So if you're looking for underrated these are the movies that people actually talked about but might not be considered like 5 star movies

I fully understand, my nostalgia for the period makes me love them even if they're not exactly kino

>Edward Scissorhands
>Encino Man
>Enemy Mine
>Executive Decision
>Evil Dead 1 and 2 (technically 80s but Army of Darkness is 90s)
>Eyes Wide Shut (lewdness)
>Eve's Bayou

not sure what kind of movies ill try to tag more movies as to the genre so you can choose easier

Spawn.

>Face off (john travolta and nick cage with heavy overacting. oh it's damn cheesy good)
>The Faculty (teen horror kino)
>Fear (horror thriller. mark walhberg kino)
>Fear and loathing in los vegas
>A Few Good Men (Tom Cruise Jack Nicholson kino)
>The Fifth Element (this is just kino, fun to watch now that Valeryian is out in theatres)
>Finding Forrester (Sean Connery drama helping a gifted black kid from the projects)
>Final Destination (before the franchise went to shit)
>First Knight (sean connery as king arthur, richard gere as lancelot. Medieval fun)
>Fist of Legend (Jet Li kino)
>The Flinstones (halle berry so fine here)
>Fools Rush in (Matthew Perry accidently impregnates Selma Hayak. Hijinks ensue)
>For Richer or Poorer (Tim Allen turns to Amish style to avoid criminal charges)
>Forever Young (Mel Gibson as a frozen WW2 soldier gets thawed in the 90s)
>Free Willy (family fun saving orcas)
>From Dusk Til Dawn (Tarantino vampire kino)
>Futuresport (I loved it for my love of Dean Cain. It's about a new sport in the future. mix of like hockey skateboarding and lacross kinda)

>yfw this was Judd Apatow's first film

>Galaxyquest (pure Star Trek parody kino)
>George of the Jungle (pure Brendan Frasier Tarzan kino)
>The Ghost and the Darkness (Michael Douglas Val Kilmer hunt a man eating lion in Africa based on true story)
>Gi Jane (demi moore in military kino)
>The Girl Next Door (2004 movie but i remember being suprised at how good it was. Timothy Olyphant steals his scenes)
>Godzilla (i hated the movie but loved it as a kid. Great puff daddy song for it though)
>Go (kinda trippy movie with interconnected scenes. Katie Holmes is in it. Like an extremely watered down Requim for a dream)
>The Golden Child (Eddie Murphy's 2nd or 3rd best movie)
>The Good Son (elijah wood and Macauly Culken. kinda like the movie Orphan)
>Good Will Hunting
>A Goofy Movie
>Gone in 60 seconds (2000 but fun nick cage movie)
>The Green Mile (Tom hanks kino)
>The Guyver (shitty kino. monster suits aren't bad)

>Half Baked (dave chappelle stoner comedy cult classic)
>Happy Gilmore (adam sandler)
>Hard Target (gotta rep some Van Damme. He was my favorite)
>Hook (if you haven't seen this watch this peter pan kino now)
>Hot Shots part Deux (parody comedy gold)
>The Hurricane (denzel as a black boxer back in the day)
>Honey I shrunk the kids/blew up/ shrunk ourselves/ (rick moranis kills it in these 3)
>Homeward Bound (Animals are awesome good voices)

>Idle hands (teen comedy horror)
>Independence Day (love this movie)
>Instinct (Anthony Hopkins and Cuba gooding jr do good work)
>The Iron Giant (it's the best cartoon of the 90s. fun fact it's making a cameo in Ready Player One by Steven Speilberg)
>It
>The Italian Job (low rent Ocean's 11 but still fun in it's own right. Good cast)

i probably could have put these last few letters together cause not a whole bunch from them

>Jack (robin williams ages)
>Jerry Maguire
>Jingle all the Way
>Joe Somebody (tim allen gotta fight)
>Johnny Dangerously (throwback to like 1920s mobsters. good shit. kinda funny)
>Joyride (paul walker and friends get chased by crazy trucker)

Kull the Conquerer (kevin sorbo fun)
>King of New York (can never go wrong with christopher walken)
>Labamba (one of my moms favorite movies since she's mexican I was a kid but she taught me richie valens)
>The Last Dragon (80s but cult classic)
>LEgend of drunken master (jackie chan movie)
>Light it up (idk if it's good as an adult but as a kid i loved it. inner city kids get in some trouble)
>little big league (kid becomes GM of a baseball team)
>Little Giants (basically a crappy live action version of monster's inc)
>Loaded Weapon 1 (parody of Lethal Weapon. pretty fun. Also Lethal Weapon movies are ok)
>Life is Beautiful (very good movie by Roberto Benigni. It's kind of a comedy about jews in a concentration camp. I loved it)

Jumanji

The Indian in the Cupboard

>The Machinist (2004 but seriously fucked up seeing christian bale that skinny. look at pics if you need to. crazy. He's not a big guy here)
>Major League (charlie sheen and company as a disfunctional baseball team)
>Major Payne (funny movie. Damon Waynes)
>A man without a face (disfigured Mel Gibson movie. kinda good)
>The Man who knew too little (Bill Murray comedy about a 'fake spy who could be getting into real spy stuff)
>Mars Attacks
>The Mask
>The Mask of Zorro (again my mom loved antonio bandaras)
>Maximum Risk (just cause of van dammes sex scene with natasha henstrige. saw it as a kid)
>Memento (christopher nolan kills it in this memory bending movie)
>Men of Honor (cuba gooding trying to make it as a black naval diver)
>Merlin (mini series on tv with Sam Neil as Merlin.pretty good tv movie)
>Metro
>Mom and dad save the world
>miss congeniality
>Money Talks (one of my fav Chris Tucker movies)
>Mortal Combat (first one)
>Mr Destiny (Jim Belushi finds out what life would be like if he got the life he wanted

i totally forgot about that movie. all these movies and i cant believe i forgot that one. we read the book in school too

>murder at 1600
>murder by numbers
>My Best Friend is a Vampire
>My Boyfriend's Back

Leaving Las Vegas

>Naked Gun movie series
>The Negociator (this is one of those movies i really fall under what you want of "underrated 90s movies. it went such under the radar but super good. sam jackson and kevin spacey kill it)
>Neverending story 1 and 2 (my childhood)
>

The Langoliers

Mallrats
Man of the House

>Nothing to lose (tim robbins funniest movie imo)
>No Holds Barred (hulkamania brother also where gif related comes from i believe)
>Nuremburg (not sure if it was a tv movie or actual one but it's about the Nuremburg trials about the nazis)

Heavyweights cant be underappreciated, it's an excellent kids movie

Kingpin
Matilda
Michael

Hackers
Masterminds
American Shaolin
Deadly Revenge
Legionnaire
Man bites Dog
Night Flier
Toy Soldiers (1991)
Brainscan
Dead Man On Campus
Grosse Pointe Blank
Mean Guns

>O (a modern retelling of shakesperes Othello starting mekhi phifer and julia stiles)
>October Sky (not sure who else even knows about this movie. we saw it in chemistry class. SO GOOD Jake Gyllenhall kino)
>Once Bitten (jim carrey in a comedy vampire movie. semi entertaining)
>Out of Sight (George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez kill it in this movie. Loved it as a kid. Believe still have it on VHS)
>Over the top (just over the top macho arm wrestling with Sylvester Stallone so he can save his kid)
>One Hour Photo (2002 but Robin Williams takes a dark turn in this movie and it's haunting)

>(basically a crappy live action version of monster's inc)
I've seen that movie a thousand times and the other almost as many, I would never draw any comparisons between those. I still laughed.

My nigga, we watched October Sky in high school physics

First time I saw Ben Stiller, too
>mfw

>The Pagemaster (i'll love anyone who remembers or knows this movie)
>Palmetto (Elizabeth Shue and Woody Harrelson. some non nude but really sexy scenes from Shue)
>Patch Adams (who doesn't love Robin Williams in this)
>Paulie (family friendly movie about a bird named Paulie)
>Payback (mel gibson in a john wick type role except instead of a dog he wants to get his ridiculously low amount of money for a bank height he got betrayed on.)
>Peacemaker (George Clooney and Nicole Kidman try to stop terrorists. LOVE this one. Like the negociator this one is really underrated too)
>Pearl Harbor
>Pee Wee
>People vs Larry Flint (trial against the porn dude larry flint. i cant believe some of the movies i saw as a kid. no wonder im fucked up)
>The Pest (god i loved this stupid movie as a kid. if it was made today everyone would call it reddittier but it's not. it's fucking stupid retarded kino)
>The Phantom (probably one of the worst but also low key comic book movies made in the 90s. Except maybe the Shadow. But there's a certain effort in the characters that i enjoyed)
>Phone Booth (again one of those movies i think is highly underrated because it's not really considered deep. But it's really fun to watch through. and it's short)
>Pitch Black (Vin Diesals springboard role. Loved him in this)
>Pleasantville (reese witherspoon and toby maguire travel to 50s black and white and end up introducing color to the world. pretty fun)
>Poison Ivy (part 2 has alyssa milano in her softcore movie days. Also Embrace of the Vampire is totally Alyssa Milano sex kino)
>The Power within (one of those movies i think could become a meme cause of the dumbness of it)
>Primal Fear (again underrated beautiful. Edward Norton is so fucking based in this movie. Him and Richard Gere destroy this movie hard.)
>Problem Child and Problem Child 2. (for the meme and because it was good during childhood)
>Pulp Fiction
>The professional (natalie portman and jean reno have good on screen chemistry)

thanks for catching that. I meant Little Monsters is like Monster's Inc.

HOWEVER Little Giants about the kids football team is fucking glorious

"I use these for acid indigestion"
"so what are we gonna use these for?"
"intimidation"
GRRR

I'm glad to know we weren't the only ones. That actually makes me feel kinda good

>The Pagemaster
Made my mom take me to this one at the theater. She was super impressed with the part animated/part live action transition in the middle. My mom was always such a normie.

FUCK ME that's what it's called. I always draw a blank on this one. I try n describe it to people and either I can't articulate it well, or me and only 5 other people saw it. The kid riding his bike in the storm always made me uneasy as a kid.

Phenomenon
Problem Child 2

>The Quest (Van Damme trying to recreate blood sport. This movie meant a lot to me because one of the few movies I saw with my dad in theatres. We didn't really spend a lot of time together. And I loved Van Damme
>Radio Flyer (Elijah Wood and his brother are abused by his dad. Such a good movie that you didn't know they were being abused as a kid)
>Ransom (Mel Gibson tries to get his son back from kidnappers. Mel Gibson delivers hard)
>Renaissance Man (Danny Devito teaches literature to kinda dumb cadets in the army. You'd think it'd be a comedy but it's pretty well written. Underrated kino)
>Resevoir Dogs (Tarantino movie. Not my favorite but people love it so i'm including it)
>Robin Hood: Men in Tights (of all the parodies i listed this could be one of the most well known. Pretty good)
>The Rock (Probably my favorite Michael Bay movie and that's saying something. "Losers always cry about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen" god michael bay's macho style is needed so much right now)
>Rocketman (Harold Williams funniest movie imo. It's as stupid as you'd think and kid me loved it.)
>Romeo Must Die (god Jet Li and Aaliyah had good chemistry)
>Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (Lisa Kudrow and Mia Sorvino as ditzy girls going back to high school reunion. Kinda Legally Blondish but not at all)
>Rookie of the Year (kid hurts his arm, tendons tighten, he can pitch like 100 mph. Goes to play professional baseball. Lovely movie)
>Rounders (Matt Damon and Edward Norton in this movie. Playing poker sharks basically. Psycholically satisfying as fuck)
>Rush Hour (first one. god the tone of that movie gives me happy feelings. The ambiance of the movie and chinese culture integrated i thought was so well done. Love the first movie. not so much the next 2)
>Rumble in the Bronx (again not one of my favorites but a lot of people i knew thought this was jackie chans best movie in the 90s)

Brainscan

...

The Quick and the Dead

Richie Rich

>the scene with the colors in the library

>Cabin Boy
My nigga.

I mean I would say the animation could hold up even in today's movies if we still animated in that style. That's just me.

god yes the bike scene did the same to me.

>Swing Kids (Christian Bale and Wilson from House star as kids in Nazi germany who love swing music.)
>Sandlot
>The Santa Clause
>Save the Last Dance (Julia Stiles coalburning again with a black guy teaching her to dance)
>School of Rock (jack black movie. kinda good)
>School Ties (Brendan Frasier is awesome in this movie. definitely kino. You might also finally realize a Family Guy refererence when brian yells COWARD in the rain)
>Screwed (Bill Murray in a kinda retelling of Scrooge on christmas. but it's different)
>Shanghai Noon (owen wilson and jackie chan. 2000 movie of fun comedy)
>The Shawshank Redemption
>She's All That (i loved it as a kid sue me)
>Short Circuit 2 (a robot tries to fit in in New York City
>Shriek if you know what I did last Friday the 13th (parody)
>Silence of the Hams (parody)
>Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas (2003 underrated)
>Sister Act (the singing scenes were amazing)
>Small Soldiers (anything else, is just a toy)
>Soldier (Kurt Russel does a good job in this Universal Soldier type movie)
>Son in Law (Pauly Shore, Tiffany Amber Thisson. I probably should have put Bio Dome in the B as it's better)
>Space Cowboys (clint eastwood, tommy lee jones. few others going up into space)
>Spawn (someone mentioned it in the thread but i want to echo it. good movie. and they making a new one)
>Speed (keanu does good work here)
>Stargate (the movie the series is based off of. My mom loved this movie and loved Kurt Russell)
>Street Fighter (i dont care what anyone says. This movie was the best movie made in the past 50 years. Van damme all day)
>The Station Agent (not even close to 90s but i want to recommend it. it's the most entertaining boring movie ever)

im actually thinking about watching it now. i mean i gotta go to bed soon but i think i am actually going to give it a rewatch in these next few days over the weekend

haha gotta rep the low key comedies

there was another movie i wanted to watch but cant remember anything about it. i think the title has munchkin or something in the title. it's about traveling or something on the seas i think. i cant recall really

>tears of the sun (bruce willis is a soldier who leads a team to save monica bellucci who's a doctor in nigeria)
>10 things i hate about you (modern telling of shakesperes taming of the shrew. Heath Ledger is in it. Julia Stiles in one of her non coal burning roles. Good movie overall)
>the 13th warrior (Antonio Banderas and group of medieval warriors like vikings and shit try to hunt down some monster things that are attacking people)
>Tremors (cult classic pretty much)
>Toy Soldiers (as recommended by i just wanted to back up his recommendation i liked this movie)
>The Truman show (ed wood esque a bit? but completely different. im guessing you already know this movie though)
Varsity Blues (James Van der Beek Football drama. good stuff)
>Volcano (natural disaster fun)

my pages are stained so the last few letters and probably the rest of the letters here aren't going to have a lot. sorry

Street Fighter
Showgirls
Striptease
Seven
Santa with Muscles
Sleepers
Sling Blade
Space Jam

>warriors of virtus (the costumes on the roos were incredible and i loved the fighting. metal roo was my favorite)
>What women want (mel gibson is a sexist who can read women's minds)
>Wild America (3 brothers take a trip into the wilderness and bond and stuff)
>Wing Commander (it was a stupid movie but i liked it)
>With Honors (brendan frasier is an elitist who has to deal with a homeless dude who stole his thesis and will give him pages back for food and shelter)

the rest of my pages are completely stained. so cant get anything from them. but hope you at least enjoyed some of these movie recommendations. I gotta go to bed. This was pretty fun to do. hopefully other people have recommendations for you as well and maybe my list can help jog people's memory

Keep in my mind i was super young in the 90s so not all my movies are really grown up. but some were thanks to my mom. I saw a lot of R rated movies as a kid which looking back is pretty crazy. i had no supervision lol

>Space Jam
>underrated

Ah Seven. Yeah that's definitely a good one.

What Dreams May Come

niceeeeeeeeeeeee

That's in my top 10 favorite 90s movies

Watched 8mm last night based off of a Sup Forums thread and it was pretty damn good. Quality P.I. movie with a nice performance from Joaquin Phoenix and a well-written plot.

I watched that movie recently too. Weird.

People are way too hard on this movie, I felt like it was hilarious but I have a very weird sense of humor
If you laugh at surreal shit you might like it too

I see there are more fellow Fancy Lads here than I would have expected. Carry on, gentlemen.

Probably already mentioned but the entire Pauly Shore filmography