Personally I’d go with Independence Day if I had to pick a movie that felt the most 90s.

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    Home Alone. It’s a movie that really couldn’t take place today due to cell phones and the Internet making easier to communicate with someone if the landlines are down. Also, the family wouldn’t have been able to get through the airport like they did back then thanks to 9/11.

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    Interesting that Point Break (1991) and The Matrix (1999) book ended the decade. Point Break focuses on white 20 something kids that dropped out and started surfing, the The Matrix focuses on a 30ish white guy going through an existential crisis. At the beginning of the 90s there was still some hope, that a person could find a small counter-culture and create if not a wealthy life, of something satisfying. By 1999 all hope was gone.

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      Point Break would be my pick too despite the fact the early 90s had many sensibilities that look more like the 1980s to us now.

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    I’ll toss in Empire Records - the store set, the costumes, the music, the actors, the meandering listlessness… all scream “this is a 90’s movie about the 90’s”. Plus the whole Rex Manning plot is absolutely what happened to so many 70’s and 80’s artists. Not perfect by any means, but a great encapsulation of the decade.

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    This isn’t the most quintessential 90’s movie, or even a good movie, but the fever dream of Romeo+Juliet (1996) is the most 90’s thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

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    Gremlins 2. Not sure any other movie quote captures the absolute cocaine fuelled Hollywood of the early 90s.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l_jMhjVM

    There’s also a terrible John Leguizamo movie called The Pest, that I’m genuinely amazed didn’t end his career right there. The wife was suprised I hadn’t seen it, and as we started she just went “you’re going to hate it”.

    She was not wrong.

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      See, that’s cocaine fuelled Hollywood done right.

      What the question is asking is “what’s the most 90s movie of all time” and the answer can only be Kazaam, starring Shaquille O’Neil himself, and the Mars corporation products.

      It’s exactly as peak 90s as Space Jam without any of the charm or personality, which makes Kazaam precisely as soulless as that entire decade. It’s perfect