Bluray wishlist/guide to 90s teen movies

Without giving away my age too much, back in the 90s I was a high school student and so these films really take me back to that time, the good and the bad. The fashion, the gadgets (old school mobiles), the music! Some were horror, some comedy...one was about teenage witches! The 90s just seemed to have so many great ones, to rival even the great John Hughes teen movies of the 80s!
Here is a selection of the movies I want to get on bluray!

Clueless 1995

Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Breckin Meyer

In my opinion Clueless is the best teen comedy of the 90s, and one of the best ever!

The craft 1996

Neve Campbell, Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Christine Taylor, Breckin Meyer, Skeet Ulrich

Cruel Intentions 1999

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Joshua Jackson 

Never been kissed 1999

Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Jessica Alba, Marley Shelton, Molly Shannon, John C Reilly

Empire records 1995

Liv Tyler, Robin Tunney, Renee Zellweger, Rory Cochrane

Reality bites 1994

Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo,  Steve Zahn


I realise this is not technically 'teen', but I loved it as a teenager and I think it speaks to older teens who are leaving school/college and going into the 'real world' and in between being a teenager and a 'grown up'.

10 things I hate about you 1999

Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik (Alex Mack)

Shes all that 1999

Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, Anna Paquin, Keiran Culkin, Usher, Lil' Kim, Clea Duvall

Election 1999

Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Chris Klein

So I just realised that most of these were released in 1999, not sure if that means I enjoyed them more this year or that most of the best ones were out in 1999.

Some others that I like too but not sure if I will get on bluray -

• Urban Legends 1998 - Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid

• Dazed and confused 1993 (I already have a really awesome criterion dvd copy so not sure on getting the bluray too) - Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich, Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Adam Goldberg, Ben Affleck

• American Pie 1999 - Tara Reid, Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy, Mena Suvari, Natasha Lyonne

• Drop dead gorgeous 1999 - Kirstin Dunst, Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy, Amy Adams

• Jawbreaker 1999 - Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz (Pre-dexter), Tatyana Ali

• Scream 1996 - Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy

• Scream 2  - Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joshua Jackson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Heather Graham, Liev Schreiber, Timothy Olyphant, Jerry O'Connell, Rebecca Gayheart, Portia Di Rossi, Jamie Kennedy

• The faculty 1998 - Josh Hartnett, Clea Duvall, Jordana Brewster, Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Usher, Elijah Wood

• I know what you did last summer 1997 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Johnny Galecki, Anne Heche

• Fear 1996 - Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg ( He is really terrifying in this film)

• Don't tell mom the babysitters dead 1990 - Christina Applegate 

Are there any that I may have missed? I just want to re-watch all of these movies all over again now!

Thanks for reading!

Prometheus Review June 2012

So I finally saw Prometheus yesterday afternoon!

First I want to get this out of the way - why are we now being shown entire scenes from movies aswell as the trailers while at the cinema? It totally spoils the film for some people. Before the movie started, not only did we have to sit through about 10 commercials, and the trailers (I actually enjoy the trailers), but we had to watch 2 spiderman trailers and a whole scene from spiderman. I understand some people like watching that much before they see a movie, and thats's fine, you can watch them online at home. But at the cinema I am pretty sure the majority of people would not enjoy sitting through that much footage of a film.

Anyway, onto the movie. I cannot see why it has had so much negative critisism. The film is brilliant, it is not perfect - but is 4/5 star film - it is certainly one of the best that has been released this year and I absolutly loved it from the begining to end.

The sets, visuals etc are absolutly fantastic, even down to the costume design with the spacesuit designs, they are brilliant and totally original without seeming over the top or over stylised.

When it comes to the acting, all the actors were great, but stand outs would be Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. Fassbender is just awesome, no matter what film he is in, he is just always totally immersed in his charactor but always in a realistic and natural way. His charactor is David, an android and he plays him as Davids favourite actor, Peter O'Toole. As everyone on board sleeps David spends his time on the ship walking around, playing basketball and watching Laurence of Arabia over and over (who knows how many times he has seen it, possibly hundreds). So its almost as if Fassbender is playing a charactor, playing a charactor.

He steals the show here, but Theron is also brilliant as the cold representative from Weyland Corp. She plays a great villain, but you can also get an understanding from her, for why she is, the way she is and at some points she has to do what she needs to.

The others were good too, I liked Noomi Rapace as the lead, shes a softer version of Ripley I would say. She is tough but only when she needs to be, she doesnt have an icy exterior at all times, she is almost child like in the way she is naive about other people and their motives and with her expectations but then as she realises that not all is what she expects she shows her tough side too!

Overall the story is great, if you know your history you will notice they have taken myths of what some people believe about the old civilisations and 'ancient aliens' and used that here to tell this story but in a really clever and intellegent way, they don't make the possibility of this belief some people have, laughable or silly. It really makes you think about, where we have come from and what really is out there. Whether that be good or bad, we will always wonder why we are here, what makes us so special that we can build technology, make films and music, write books, create space stations and if it is purely coincedence or were we 'engineered'?

The space jockeys (the engineers) are also very well done, I thought they were quite scary and there is a few scenes where you see them running and they reminded me of the way the predator moves, which is strange as we all know the terrible movies that were released 10 years ago were Alien vs Predator. Anyway, they really do try to explain the space jockey story here, but you can see there is room to tell more of their story in possible future films, but what they have done is show us how their story connects to the original Alien film and I personally found it a satisfying explanation. I know alot of people are still wondering if this is a prequel or not. I really think its pretty obvious that it IS a prequel.

I would definatley recommend going to see Prometheus, I avoided reading other reviews before going so I had a fresh point of view and so I would say other than the fact you have probably just read my review this is what you should do too. I havent put any spoilers in here (I could say much more), because I hate it when people do that so I hope you enjoy it too.

Have you seen it already? What do you think?

Thanks for reading



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Favourite movies 2000s

I am going to see Prometheus (finally!) tomorrow and I started thinking of what films have really stood out for me in the last 10 years, well since 2000! It was hard to choose but here are some of my favs in no particular order!

500 Days of Summer - 2009

 This has no become a bit of a cult film, but it is just such a good movie. Its a romantic/drama/comedy that works for men and women, its not too soppy and can be so heart-wrenching at times. It went against the typical romantic films and made the film a point of view from the mens perspective and showing that its not always the woman who gets hurt or heart broken but men too!

Zooey Deschanel and Jospeh Gorden-Levitt are perfect and you cannot imagine anyone else playing their charactors.

The soundtrack is also brilliant and has some classic smiths and pixies playing at different times during the movie. One particular scene which is really funny, where Tom (Goreden-Levitt) is drunk singing karoke of  the pixies song 'Here comes your man'.


Black Swan - 2010

I think these days it can be hard to get real emotional feelings when watching a movie, unless its a documentary or really hard hitting drama. I think Black Swan reall surprised people, I certainly felt over whelmed after watching it for the first time and did not expect to feel that way at all!
It is very dark, has supernatural undertones in some ways, and can really creep you out by getting into the mind of the charactor of Nina played by Natalie Portman. The ballet scenes are filmed beautifully and realistically too, which is very important I think. I did ballet when I was a kid and had all my aunties ballet books/annuals from the 1950s and 1960s and so I think I was always going to like this movie anyway, but I really think Darren Aronofsky did a brilliant job here and really showed just how great a director he really is!

Natalie Portman apparently worked really hard for 3 years leading to this role and it really does show! she became a professional ballet dancer in order for the dancing to come across as real as possible and she really did deserve her Oscar win for best actress.

28 days later - 2002

Obviously this started off ( along with shaun of the dead) the re-birth of the zombie movie into popular culture once again and if it hadnt been such a great movie then that possibly might not have happened. This british movie made by Danny Boyle went global and everyone went zombie mad!
It is not just a great zombie film but also a post-apocalyptic movie too! The London scenes are just amazing and I still really don't know how they did that, just made one of the worlds biggest cities seem totally empty!
It also made one of my favourite actors a star and that would be Cillian Murphy.

I think this is def my favourite zombie movie of the last 10 years, I did also like 28 weeks later, the remake of dawn of the dead, shaun of the dead, REC (original), zombieland and the tv series The Walking Dead, but nothing comes close the 28 days later in my opinion.

Atonement - 2007

I think this is the most beautiful film of the last 10 years and I just adore it! Not only does it look beautiful, it has amazing acting from all the main cast and a brillaint but sad storyline at the heart of it all. It also has a stand out score, using typewriter tapping sounds through out which of course is nodding towards the fact this film is based on a best selling book, but also the charactor who is at the centre of the whole twisted story is also a novelist herself, Briony (Played by Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai and Vanessa Redgrave at different ages) and writes a book about her experiences as a child and then as an adult with her sister Cecilia (Keira Knightly) and Cecilia's boyfriend Robbie (James McAvoy).

Zodiac - 2007

This is, in my opinion David Finchers best movie! I absolutly love Se7en, fightclub, the social network and his reworking of the girl with the dragon tattoo. But, to me this is his best work. And I think it could also be due to the fact the story is so enthralling, with the Zodiac killer never having been caught to this day still which makes it such an intrigueing watch. Also The acting is superb and I think it is definatly one of the best roles ever for Robert Downey Jnr.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - 2004

Probably watched Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind about 30 times now! There is nothing else like this, even today there still has been no other movie that has come close to the weird world of Joel and Clementine when it comes to romantic comedys/dramas. I love it!

Obviously there are alot of others that I havent mentioned here such as The Dark Knight, No country for old men, There will be blood, American Psycho and alot more, but these are just some that I wanted to pick out today!

Thanks for reading! =]


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