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Aww sugar honey iced tea! 1995 was a monster year in film. I took a look at the list and wondered if there were going to be any good movies. Damnit! There are plenty of great movies during the year and it is going to be tough figuring out my top 10. Do I go straight action or sprinkle in some romance and horror. The 90s and 00s will be tough to do but here are MY top-10 films of 1995. Spoiler, I am going to start each one with a famous quote from the movie.
Toy Story
“To infinity and beyond!” The movie that put Pixar on the map. It was the first entirely computer-animated feature film, as well as the first feature film from Pixar. The film introduced the world to toys and the characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear. Toy Story is one of the greatest films ever made and one you can watch over and over again.
Seven
“There are seven deadly sins, captain: Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride, Lust, and Envy.” I have to put Seven on the list. Seven is a thrilling film starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as partner detectives who hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. The sloth scene is one thing but the scene with “What’s in the box?” will make your head spin.
Bad Boys
“Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?” Will Smith and Martin Lawrence star as two Miami narcotics detectives, Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey who hunt a thief that stolen massive amounts of drugs from the police precinct vault. The film is funny, entertaining and one of the best that started it all for the Bad Boys franchise. Everyone wants to be Mike Lowrey!
Friday
“Bye Felicia.” Friday has to be on the list as it is one of the funniest films that everyone should watch on a Friday. How do you get fired on your day off? Set in South Central Los Angeles, Friday stars Ice Cube as Craig and Chris Tucker as Smokey, who go through some shit on a Friday. Trouble ensues when Smokey owes a drug dealer some money and the ever presence of local bully Deebo.
Mortal Kombat
“Finish Him!” I don’t care what anyone says. Back in the day during 1995, Mortal Kombat was the shit. Went straight from the arcade to the movie screen. They even rebooted the series but you gotta give love to the first one. It made Scorpion, Sub Zero, Radian, Goro, Shang Tsung, Sonya Blade and many others come to life.
Heat
“Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” Michael Mann’s crime thriller has legends Al Pacino as an LAPD detective trying to track down career thief played by Robert De Niro. The film is thrilling but the scene that set it off was the bank robbery scene. It was one of the most intense scenes in movie history and used in GTA.
GoldenEye
“I am invincible!” GoldenEye is the seventeenth film in the James Bond series. This time around, Pierce Brosnan takes up the mantel of the legendary spy. The story is pretty good with Bond fighting to prevent a former MI6 agent from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown. The film brings in legendary singer Tina Turner to sing the iconic theme song. The video game was the start of the first shooter world. It was all about the proximity mines.
Crimson Tide
“In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.” In this thriller that pits Denzel Washington against Gene Hackman, the film takes place during a period of political turmoil in Russia, in which ultranationalists threaten to launch nuclear missiles at the United States and Japan. The story takes major influences on the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the film, there is a clash of wills onboard a nuclear missile submarine. When commanding officer and his new executive officer have conflicting interpretations of an order to launch their missiles, the fate of the world rest in their decision.
Jumanji
“Jumanji, Jumanji, Jumanji!” Need to give props to the OG film. In this Robin Williams film where he is actually toned down, it is a film I saw at least six times in the theaters. The film revolves around a supernatural board game that releases jungle-based hazards upon its players with every turn they take. The film pops off in 1969 where a young boy named Alan Parrish becomes trapped inside a game and doesn’t get release until 26 years later. The film is entertaining and makes you not want to play board games but in a funny and entertaining way.
The Usual Suspects
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that… he is gone.” The Usual Suspects is one of those films that you sit back and didn’t see the major twist at the end. Anyone who said they figured out the whole thing or saw it coming is full of sugar honey iced tea. The story follows the interrogation of Roger “Verbal” Kint, a small-time con man, who somehow and someway is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship at the Port of Los Angeles.
