There's too many of them for any other year to stand a chance in a poll like this.

But didn't the first Star Wars come out in 1997, for those born after 1985?

Yeah, I thought the poll results would be a little more spread out... guess not.

PeterK

GRUMBLE....

Joe

97 was loaded with coolness--
Starship Troopers, 7 Years in Tibet, LA Confidential, The Edge, 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea (Scott), The Game, Air Force One, Last Stand at Saber River, True Women, U-Turn, Rough Riders, Gulliver's Travels, Red Corner, The Jackyl

96 was Nostromo, Sleepers, Mission:Impossible, and Shadow Conspiracy

95 was up with Nixon, Gojira vs Destroyer, Seven, Far From Home (Scott), Heat, Ed Wood, Fallen Angels

94 had maybe a couple (Interview with the Vampire, La Fille de D'Artagnan by Sarde, North Star by Scott, Little Buddha, Ashes of Time, Chungking Express)

93 had Jurassic Park, Gojira vs Mechagojira, Schindler's List, Tombstone, Into the West (Doyle), Malice, Rudy, Scent of Green Papaya, Geronimo an American Legend, Age of Innocence, Heaven and Earth, Wild Palms

92 had Basic Instinct, The Vagrant, The PLayer, half of Last of the Mohicans, Alien3, and Becoming Collete

91 had CAPE FRIKKING FEAR, Naked Lunch, JFK, Hook, Lionheart, Shogun Mayeda, Son of the Morning Star, Once Upon a Time in China, Honey I Blew up the Kid, Keeper of the City, and The Last Butterfly

90 had Total Recall, Russia House, The Grifters, The Field, Robocop 2, William the Conqueror, Hunt For Red October (so that's where we started associating men's chorus and subs into yet another cliche, just not here!)

1989 was all about Old Gringo, Farewell to the King, The Wash, The Winter People, King of the Wind, Cape Horn Cousteau, Channel Islands Waters of Contention Cousteau, Red King White Knight, Casualties of War, Born on the 4th of July, Indiana Jones 3, Warlock, Henry 5, Batman, Lost Angels (Sarde), Powaqaatsi, Nikita, Johnny Handsome

1988 was Lonesome Dove, Dead Ringers, The Deceivers, Shoot to Kill, The Penitent, Hellraiser 2, L'ours, Without a Clue, Raggedy Rawney, Last Temptation of Christ, Permanent Record, Alien Nation (JG), Rambo III, Criminal Law (and, uh, Rent a Cop!)

1987 was a nuclear meltdown with Ironweed, The Whistle Blower, Man on Fire, Lionheart, Robocop, The Dead-- all of them equally great, plus Extreme Prejudice, Lethal Weapon, The Kindred, Hellraiser, Less Than Zero, Rampage (Morricone), Empire of the Sun, Glass Menagerie, Spaceballs, Good Morning Viet Nam, No Man's Land, Living Daylights, Inner Space, Angel Heart, Witches of Eastwick, Straight to Hell, Walker

86- Marie Ward, King Kong Lives, Salvador, Crimes of the Heart, Queenie, Dien Bien Phu, The Mission, Short Circuit, The Fly, Link, Hoosiers, Highlander, Star Trek 4, Pirates, Spacecamp, Sid and Nancy, Blue Velvet, Crossroads, Big Trouble in Little China, Haunted Honeymoon

85-- Return to Oz (the last great classic score), Lifeforce, Revolution, Legend, The Shooting Party, Mountbatten, The Doctor and the Devils, Flesh+Blood, Ran, Baby Secret of the lost legend, Explorers, Young Sherlock Holmes, Santa Claus the movie, Tai Pan and Mad Max III (Jarre actually wrote two good scores, just those two), Spies Like Us, Into the Night, Real Genius, Silverado, Vagabond, Remo Williams, Clue, The Black Cauldron, After Hours

84- Greystoke, Cousteau Amazon, The River, Fort Saganne, Under the Volcano, The Natural, Red Dawn, The 4th Man, Supergirl, Gremlins, The Last Starfighter, Cop Killer (Morricone), Once Upon a Time in America, The Cotton Club, Indiana Jones 2, Streets of Fire, Repo Man, and Revenge of the Nerds

83-- just Under Fire, Twilight Zone. JUST. Also Psycho II, Le Marginal, Blue Thunder, Wargames, Max Dugan Returns, Curse of the Pink Panther, To Be or Not To Be, Videodrome, and of course, Scarface

82-- Conan, The Challenge, Poltergeist, ET, Genocide, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, First Blood, Night Crossing, Secret of NIMH, Quest for Fire, Five Days One Summer, Blade Runner, Frances, Sword and the Sorceror, Creepshow, The Dark Crystal, and that frikkin Mary Steenburgen flic scored by Rosenman!

81-- Eye of the Needle, and then several miles under: The Final Conflict, Dragonslayer, Heavy Metal, Heartbeeps, Masada, Outland, The Salamander, Le Professionnel, Rich and Famous, Inseminoid, Ghost Story, History of the World pt I, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Escape From New York, Wolfen (Safan), Whose Life is it Anyway?, Clash of the Titans, plus The Black Cat, The Howling and Blow Out (all 3 Donaggio)

80-- The Elephant Man, Altered States, Carny, The Empire Strikes Back, Caboblanco, Inchon, The Final Countdown, Long Riders, Hide in Plain Sight, Tom Horn, Tess, Dressed to Kill, and of course, American Gigolo!

Jurrassic Park
Malice
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Needful Things
Robocop 3
Much Ado About Nothing
Demolition Man
The Good Son
Dave
The Fugitive
Matinee
Grumpy Old Men
Tombstone
M.Butterfly
Addams Family Values
Grumpy Old Men
The Saint of Fort Washington
Last Action Hero
Cool Runnings
Point of No Return
Golden Gate
Schindler's List
Six Degrees of Separation
Sommersby
Fire In The Sky
Blood In Blood Out aka.Bound By Honor
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Kalifornia
Dennis the Menace
The Pelican Brief
The Sandlot
Josh and SAM
Age of Innocence
For Love Or Money
The Three Musketeers
Striking Distance
Another Stakeout
Robin Hood Men In Tights
Rising Sun
The Firm
Heaven and Earth
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The Secret Garden
Hard Target
Rudy
So I Married An Axe Murderer
Sleepless In Seattle (believe it or not, Marc Shaiman did write a score for this)
Cliffhanger
The Real McCoy
And The Band Played On
Robocop 3
Hocus Pocus
The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Straight Story
Gormenghast
Bringing Out the Dead
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Being John Malkovich
the General's Daughter
The Hi-Lo Country
Mystery, Alaska
Three Kings
The Red Violin
8MM
Ride With the Devil
House on Haunted Hill
The Matrix
East-West
Fight Club
Sleepy Hollow
Anna and the King
In Dreams
13th Warrior (aka Eaters of Jens Dietrich)
The Mummy
Sixth Sense
Snow Falling on Cedars
Stir of Echoes
Theory of Flight
Durango
Legend of 1900
Galaxy Quest
American Beauty
Green Mile
End of the Affair
Ravenous
Wonderland
Goodbye Lover
Hilary and Jackie
For Love of the Game
Cider House Rules
Dogma
existenz
Angela's Ashes
Phantom Menace
Message in a Bottle
The Hurricance
In Too Deep

no good scores there at all...

but hey, 1993 was the best year, if we're talking about the 90s only.

NP -- Million Dollar Hotel

Ravenous, one of the most original, and amazing scores. Creepy too.

TITUS AMAZING!!!!!

Magnolia...BRILLIANT!!!

Fight Club...AWESOME!!!

I DONT WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING OR ME AND MY EDITING BUDDIES WILL BUM RUSH ALL OF YOU!!!

1999: Had American Beatuy (best newman score yet) and my fav Tarzan!

--Kyp