Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

[LawrenceA]

Okay, I went back and added fuller lists for the past several years we've covered. Not as long as I had been doing earlier (I've omitted my "Likes"), but with full favorites, docs, and least favorites. I hope they aren't too irritating.

[CinemaInternational]

Now it is 1994's turn. The next year up will be 1933.

1994 (films seen: 87)

The Best


1 Quiz Show
2 The Browning Version
3 That's Entertainment! III
4 Widows' Peak
5 Crooklyn
6 Ed Wood
7 Immortal Beloved
8 Little Women
9 Tom and Viv
10 I'll Do Anything
11 Corrina, Corrina
12 Second Best
13 Don Juan DeMarco
14 Four Weddings and a Funeral
15 Muriel's Wedding
16 Serial Mom
17 The Hudsucker Proxy
18 Pret-a-Porter
19 The Shawshank Redemption
20 Black Beauty
21 Guarding Tess
22 It Could Happen to You
23 Speechless
24 Angie
25 Death and the Maiden
26 Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
27 Love Affair
28 The Ref
29 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
30 Vanya on 42nd Street
31 Blue Sky
32 Three Colors: Red
33 The Client
34 When a Man Loves a Woman
35 I.Q
36 Nobody's Fool


The Worst


1 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2 Disclosure
3 The Pagemaster
4 The New Age
5 The Little Rascals
6 Milk Money
7 D2: The Mighty Ducks
8 Blown Away
9 Il Postino
10 Wyatt Earp
11 Angels in the Outfield
12 Three Colors: White
13 The River Wild
14 Being Human
15 Legends of the Fall
16 Forrest Gump

[Feinberg]

1994

Of the 195 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ...

Le Colonel Chabert
Pulp Fiction
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Once Were Warriors
Bullets Over Broadway
Kabloonak
Hoop Dreams
Crumb
The Shawshank Redemption
Quiz Show
Trois Couleurs: Rouge
Bandit Queen
Muriel's Wedding
To Live
The Last Seduction
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Burnt by the Sun
Trois Couleurs: Blanc
Heavenly Creatures
Shallow Grave
Eat Drink Man Woman
Ed Wood
Wyatt Earp
The Wooden Man's Bride
Serial Mom
Blue Sky
Little Women
Farinelli: Il Castrato
C'etait Le 12 Du 12 Et Chili Avait Les Blues
Before the Rain
The Mask

and here are some that I didn't care for at all ..

Sodbusters
Double Happiness
Mustard Bath
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
On Deadly Ground
Exit to Eden
Love and a .45
The Flintstones
The Specialist
Road to Saddle River
Trapped In Paradise
I.Q.
Fall Time
Gladiator Cop
Red Scorpion 2
Separate Lives
Mesmer
Broken Harvest
Il Mostro
Threesome
Viva L'amour

[Swithin]

A few 1994 favorites:

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Barcelona
Ed Wood
Four Weddings and a Funeral
La Reine Margot


Disappointments of the year:

Bullets Over Broadway
Pulp Fiction

[LawrenceA]

1994

Favorites
The Shawshank Redemption
Ed Wood
Ashes of Time
Before the Rain
Bullets Over Broadway
Chungking Express
Crooklyn
Eat Drink Man Woman
Forrest Gump
Il Postino
Leon, the Professional
Little Women
Natural Born Killers
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
Shallow Grave
Three Colors: Red
Wyatt Earp

Favorite Documentaries
Hoop Dreams
Crumb

Least Favorites
Car 54, Where Are You?
On Deadly Ground
Death Wish 5
Exit to Eden
Highlander: The Final Dimension
In the Army Now
It's Pat: The Movie
Leprechaun 2
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
Street Fighter

[kingrat]

1994:

Favorites:

Quiz Show
That's Entertainment III
Hoop Dreams
Forrest Gump
Wild Reeds
Muriel's Wedding
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Guarding Tess (one of my husband's favorites)

Also liked:

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Clear and Present Danger
The Client
Eat Drink Man Woman
Three Colors: Red
Three Colors: White
True Lies
Widows' Peak

[Detective Jim McLeod]

1994 films seen-41

The Best

Ed Wood
The Shawshank Redemption
Shallow Grave
Once Were Warriors
Pulp Fiction
Muriel's Wedding
The Hudsucker Proxy
Death And The Maiden


The Worst

The Crow
The Shadow
Foreign Student
New Nightmare

[skimpole]

I've seen at least 50 movies from 1994. Here are my favorites:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Death and the Maiden
3. Speed
4. Chungking Express
5. Satantango
6. The Puppet Masters
7. Vive L’Amour
8. Through the Olive Trees
9. Little Women
10. Ed Wood
11. Clerks
12. Ashes of Time
13. Wild Reeds
14. That’s Entertainment, Part III
15. Cold Water
16. To Live

And here are some of my least favorite:

Forrest Gump
Burnt by the Sun
Natural Born Killers
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

[LawrenceA]

Are we done doing this? I can't quite get the scheduling. Sometimes it seems to be a new year every other day, and then it's over a week.

[CinemaInternational]

Are we done doing this? I can't quite get the scheduling. Sometimes it seems to be a new year every other day, and then it's over a week.

I'm sorry about that. I'll be getting back to it. I was sick last week and because of that wasn't posting as much.

[LawrenceA]

Are we done doing this? I can't quite get the scheduling. Sometimes it seems to be a new year every other day, and then it's over a week.

I'm sorry about that. I'll be getting back to it. I was sick last week and because of that wasn't posting as much.

Hope you're feeling better, and get to it when you get to it.

[CinemaInternational]

It's finally time for 1933. The next posting will be a joint 2003/2019 affair.

The Best:

1 She Done Him Wrong
2 Duck Soup
3 I'm No Angel
4 42nd Street
5 Queen Christina
6 International House
7 Little Women
8 Only Yesterday
9 Berkeley Square
10 Hold Your Man
11 Bombshell
12 Dinner at Eight
13 King Kong
14 Peg O' My Heart
15 Tillie and Gus
16 Torch Singer
17 Gold Diggers of 1933
18 Footlight Parade
19 The Private Life of Henry VIII
20 Wild Boys of the Road
21 Rafter Romance
22 Morning Glory
23 One Man's Journey
24 The Silver Cord
25 The Kennel Murder Case
26 Heroes for Sale
27 Sweepings
28 Secrets
29 Reunion in Vienna
30 When Ladies Meet
31 The Stranger's Return
32 A Bedtime Story
33 Christopher Strong
34 Female
35 Jennie Gerhardt
36 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
37 Professional Sweetheart
38 Penthouse
39 Adorable
40 Sons of the Desert
41 The Bitter Tea of General Yen
42 The Invisible Man
43 The Little Giant
44 Double Harness
45 The White Sister
46 Night Flight
47 Dancing Lady
48 Another Language
49 Flying Down to Rio
50 Lady for a Day
51 Melody Cruise
52 Midnight Mary
53 Lady Killer
54 This Day and Age

The Worst:

1 Deluge
2 Picture Snatcher

[Swithin]

Ten from me, for '33:

42nd Street
Duck Soup
Flying Down to Rio
Gold Diggers of 1933
I’m No Angel
The Invisible Man
King Kong
Lady for a Day
Little Women
She Done Him Wrong


Some credit due here:

Alice in Wonderland
Secret of the Blue Room
The Vampire Bat

[Feinberg]

1933

Of the 83 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ...

King Kong
Eskimo
Dinner at Eight
Quatorze Julliet
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Duck Soup
Counsellor-At-Law
Queen Christina
I'm No Angel
She Done Him Wrong
Lady For a Day
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Kennel Murder Case
Don Quixote (the French version)
The Invisible Man
Looking Forward
State Fair
Little Women
Design For Living
Viktor and Viktoria
Another Language
Mystery of the Wax Museum

and here are some that I did not care for at all ...

Flying Down to Rio
Tonight Is Ours
The Emperor Jones
The Man From Monterey
Laughing at Life

[Detective Jim McLeod]

1933 films seen-19

The Best

King Kong
Duck Soup
Sons Of The Desert
Golddiggers Of 1933
The Invisible Man
Wild Boys Of The Road
Baby Face
She Done Him Wrong

The Worst

Night Of Terror
The Whispering Shadow