PatAg said:

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Adam Sandler movies

Airheads - 94
Billy Madison - 95
Happy Gilmore - 96
Wedding Singer - 98
Waterboy - 98
Big Daddy - 99

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Jim Carrey

Ace Ventura - 94
The Mask - 94
Dumb and Dumber - 94
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - 95
The Cable Guy - 96
Liar Liar - 97
The Truman Show - 98

Ave VEntura is a good call out

PatAg said:

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Adam Sandler movies

Airheads - 94
Billy Madison - 95
Happy Gilmore - 96
Wedding Singer - 98
Waterboy - 98
Big Daddy - 99

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Airheads is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but the rest of that is a hell of a run.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Jim Carrey

Ace Ventura - 94
The Mask - 94
Dumb and Dumber - 94
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - 95
The Cable Guy - 96
Liar Liar - 97
The Truman Show - 98

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And 1994 has to be over of the top calendar years for a movie star ever.

Took page 3 for the right answer....

Might Ducks
92/94/96

You could argue that Might Ducks kicked off the kids sports movie franchise:
Sandlot
Rookie of the Year
Little Big League
Little Giants
Angels in the Outfield
Lady Bugs
Air Bud
I'm sure I'm missing some.

90s was basically dominated by Jim Carey and Will Smith. Jim Carey was the highest paid actor of the time. Will Smith had all of his movies, Fresh Prince (1990-1996) and his album Big Willie Style with Miami, Gettin' Jiggy with it, and Just the Two of Us.

you could also argue that it was the decade of SNL

• Wayne's World (1992)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• It's Pat (1994)
• Stuart Saves his Family (1995)
• Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
• Superstar (1999)

TexasAggie_02 said:

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you could also argue that it was the decade of SNL

• Wayne's World (1992)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• It's Pat (1994)
• Stuart Saves his Family (1995)
• Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
• Superstar (1999)

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+Tommy Boy '95 (wasn't a sketch but was broadway video/snl)

True, as well as Black Sheep.

AliasMan02 said:

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PatAg said:

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Adam Sandler movies

Airheads - 94
Billy Madison - 95
Happy Gilmore - 96
Wedding Singer - 98
Waterboy - 98
Big Daddy - 99

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Airheads is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but the rest of that is a hell of a run.

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Airheads is a good suggestion for the "good bad movie" thread

mic suede said:

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TexasAggie_02 said:

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you could also argue that it was the decade of SNL

• Wayne's World (1992)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• It's Pat (1994)
• Stuart Saves his Family (1995)
• Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
• Superstar (1999)

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+Tommy Boy '95 (wasn't a sketch but was broadway video/snl)

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Maybe just decade of SNL alum movies?

Joe dirt was 01 but feels like 90s

TexasAggie_02 said:

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90s was basically dominated by Jim Carey and Will Smith. Jim Carey was the highest paid actor of the time. Will Smith had all of his movies, Fresh Prince (1990-1996) and his album Big Willie Style with Miami, Gettin' Jiggy with it, and Just the Two of Us.

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For 90-94 it's gotta be Macaulay Culkin right?

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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TexasAggie_02 said:

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90s was basically dominated by Jim Carey and Will Smith. Jim Carey was the highest paid actor of the time. Will Smith had all of his movies, Fresh Prince (1990-1996) and his album Big Willie Style with Miami, Gettin' Jiggy with it, and Just the Two of Us.

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For 90-94 it's gotta be Macaulay Culkin right?

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Arnold: Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, T2 and True Lies

Timmy Tom Hanksalotopus had a pretty strong 90s.

Tom Hanks dominated the entire decade

Wesley Snipes had a surprisingly great 90s, especially if you somehow fudge in 89s Major League.

Has Toy Story been mentioned

Movie studios cared about stars, not franchises, in the 90s. And it's hard to say anyone could come close to Hanks in the 90s.

Date: Movie: Global box office:
Dec 10, 1999 The Green Mile $290,701,374
Nov 19, 1999 Toy Story 2 $511,358,276
Dec 18, 1998 You've Got Mail $250,800,000
Jul 24, 1998 Saving Private Ryan $485,035,085
Oct 4, 1996 That Thing You Do! $34,557,416
Nov 22, 1995 Toy Story $365,270,951
Jun 30, 1995 Apollo 13 $335,802,271
Jul 6, 1994 Forrest Gump $679,838,260
Dec 22, 1993 Philadelphia $201,324,422
Jun 25, 1993 Sleepless in Seattle $227,899,326
Jul 1, 1992 A League of Their Own $132,440,066
Dec 19, 1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities $15,432,314
Mar 9, 1990 Joe Versus the Volcano $39,381,963

Edit: Sorry for the terrible formatting. It was spaced out and readable when typing the post. No idea how to keep it that way.

Over 3.5 BILLION

atm0812 said:

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Movie studios cared about stars, not franchises, in the 90s.

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This is definitely true. What is also true is that for most of the 80s and 90s sequels were largely seen by critics, actors, directors, and pop culture shapers as crass and largely belonged to the Friday the 13th type horror films. Stallone was widely mocked for doing rocky 12 and Rambo 7 (at a time when there had only been 4 rocky and 2 or 3 rambo films) by SNL and Mad mag and late nite shows.
There was still an idea that movies were a higher level of artform than television and the actors and directors didn't really move between movies and television.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Well you know we need the story. Spill it.

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He was my last interview last year for the Hollywood's Leading Men book I got hired to write. He was in the hospital so it was a call instead of on Zoom. At the end of the allotted time, he asked for my # so he could call me if he thought of anything else.

Unfortunately he never did, because I had hoped to be in public and put him on speaker and answer, "OH, hello my good personal friend Arnold Scharzenegger, how are you?"

3 Ninjas -- 1992
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up -- 1993
3 Ninjas Kick Back --1994
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain --1998

Myers had a good run too.

92 waynes world
93 axe murderer
93 waynes world 2
97 austin powers international man
98 studio 54
99 austin powers spy

austin power goldmember and shrek 1 just missed the 90s.

Just read the whole thread through, and the overarching theme of the 90's to me from everything listed, is that the 90's were the decade of lighthearted comedies.

Sandler, Carey, all the SNL movies, Austin Powers...

It was an era of laughter. Comedies seem to have steadily fallen out of favor since about 2000. Maybe with the exception of Will Ferrell for a while in the early 2000s. I remember going years on end without running out of funny movies to watch because they came out faster than I could watch them. Seemed like an endless supply at the time.

But I guess there's not much sense in making huge expensive franchise films when you can sell tickets like hotcakes with some lighthearted jokes and a well known comedian to deliver them.

John Francis Donaghy said:

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Just read the whole thread through, and the overarching theme of the 90's to me from everything listed, is that the 90's were the decade of lighthearted comedies.

Sandler, Carey, all the SNL movies, Austin Powers...

It was an era of laughter. Comedies seem to have steadily fallen out of favor since about 2000. Maybe with the exception of Will Ferrell for a while in the early 2000s.

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You can also say the opposite and that the 90s was the decade of darkness and dystopia. It may have started in the late 80s with RoboCop, Akira and the Tim Burton Batman movies. Music was dark with grunge and industrial music. Movies like T2, The Crow, Dark City, 12 Monkeys, Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix, Seven, Fight Club, Pi. Also Aeon Flux. There were dark comedies like Fargo and The Big Lebowski and though they were 2001 and 2002, Donnie Darko and Minority Report felt very late 90s.

I'll add Bill Murray to my lost of 90's comedy factories. He had some great ones in the 90s. Kingpin, What About Bob, Groundhog Day, The Man who Knew Too Little, and Rushmore to name some of his bigger ones.

Jfc how did it take this long for this to come up. I'm disappointed in myself and everyone else on this thread.

Alien 3
Alien Resurrection

Austin Powers 1997
The spy who snagged me 1999
Goldmember (almost 90s) 2002

The answer is Scream.