When it comes to film decades, the 1990s was definitely one of them. From father-figure Terminators and weirdly sexy animated Disney characters to rampaging dinosaurs and an era before we knew Kevin Spacey was a rampaging sex criminal, the ’90s truly had it all. And with technology improving at such a rapid pace during the decade, we were treated to some of the most innovative movies of all time, from Pixar’s early dominance to the completely CGI Jeff Goldblum of Jurassic Park.
For such a great era of filmmaking, it’s difficult to pare it all down to the top movies of the ’90s, but here at Robot Butt, we don’t shy away from the hard work. Unless it’s manual labor. We will definitely do anything to get out of that.
So, without further ado, here are:
The Top 50 Movies of the 1990s
Goodfellas – Come for the soundtrack, stay for Joe Pesci beating a guy to death.
Pulp Fiction – Your favorite movie to watch in parts on YouTube.
Fargo – Brought to you by the Woodchipper Council.
Saving Private Ryan – Making elderly men experience panic attacks since 1998!
The Silence of the Lambs – Featuring the “Greatest Film Slurp” as ranked by the Hollywood Foreign Press.
Se7en – Look, there’s a 34% chance you’ll slit your wrists by the end of it.
Unforgiven – This sequel to Paint Your Wagon sadly cut all musical numbers.
The Big Lebowski – Free dimebag with every purchase!
The Shawshank Redemption – Look, and hear me out, what if he did kill his wife?
Groundhog Day – Bill Murray learns in 200 years what most of us know by eight.
Being John Malkovich – The movie that made your mom say, “I didn’t care for that.”
Beauty and the Beast – Nine of your 30-year-old female friends are still sexually attracted to the Beast.
JFK – Everyone killed Kennedy.
Dumb and Dumber – There has never been, nor will there ever be, a greater cinematic shit.
Home Alone – That guy was putting bodies in the salt.
Toy Story – Sid later suffered mental health problems from which he would never recover.
Edward Scissorhands – How does he go to the bathroom?!
Aladdin – A movie almost half as good as its SEGA video game.
The Truman Show – Coming to CBS fall 2020!
Fight Club – Your cousin’s favorite movie.
The Usual Suspects – Finding out Kevin Spacey is the villain’s not really gonna be a shock for modern viewers.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – The film that launched a thousand dorm posters.
Trainspotting – Some parts of heroin addiction are fun.
Eyes Wide Shut – You expect me to believe Tom Cruise could get sucked into a weird cult and wouldn’t have sex with Nicole Kidman?
Clerks – From the makers of Yoga Hosers!
The 50 Best Movies of the 1990s – Continued!
Jurassic Park – We’re all in agreement Jurassic Park totally works if not for Dennis Nedry, right?
Terminator 2: Judgment Day – James Cameron is going to send a version of himself back in time to start production on Avatar instead of this, so appreciate it while you can.
The Matrix – Morpheus probably should have been more upfront about just how shitty the actual world was.
Speed – Pop quiz, hot shot: What’s the best movie of the runaway-bus-that-can’t-slow-down-or-it-will-explode action subgenre?
Galaxy Quest – Tim Allen is going to call this a conservative metaphor at some point.
Toy Story 2 – John Lasseter’s comments at the time about his “secret Bo Peep drawings” in which she does “unspeakable things” with the other toys definitely take on a creepy meaning now.
Titanic – Why aren’t we all doing enough to find out what happened to Billy Zane?
The Sixth Sense – Due to the success of this film, Bruce Willis decided to play all future characters as dead as well.
Schindler’s List – We’ve all done a LOT worse than make out during this movie, right guys?
Boogie Nights – That fake dong is definitely sitting on someone’s mantle right now.
Wayne’s World – Proof that all people who do public access television shows from their basement end up becoming famous.
Happy Gilmore – One day, you’ll tell your grandkids about the mythical era in which Adam Sandler cared.
There’s Something About Mary – The movie that spawned a generation of people dousing their heads in jizz.
Clueless – Paul Rudd is somehow younger now than when he did this movie.
L.A. Confidential – A movie dozens of lists assure me is amazing despite the fact I remember absolutely nothing about it.
Starship Troopers – The story goes that Queen Elizabeth saw this film, immediately threw up, and screamed “AGAIN!”
The Lion King – A recent study shows that 76% of people had their sexual awakening when they saw either Simba or Nala as an adult for the first time.
The Blair Witch Project – The film that made snot terrifying.
Heat – A movie starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino and NEITHER plays a horny grandpa!
Batman Returns – Not only does this film hold up, but it contains one of the sexiest performances ever put on screen in Danny DeVito’s Penguin.
American Pie – The film that made fucking homemade pie cool again!
Glengarry Glen Ross – Fun Fact: Alec Baldwin’s “coffee’s for closers” speech was an unwelcomed ad-lib that cost the production 3 days of filming time and $627,000.
American History X – For this film, Edward Norton became a racist to better understand his character, and also for fun!
Point Break – To this day, no one can convince Gary Busey that he isn’t still filming this movie.
Forrest Gump – Look, the CIA probably tricked him into carrying out all those ‘60s assassinations.