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by jedberg 549 days ago
I graduated in 1995 in LA. Going to the movies was something most of us did every weekend. Just show up and get a ticket for the next thing you haven’t seen yet.

Many consider 1994 the best single year for movies ever.

I got really lucky that that was also my peak movie going year.

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It was around this time, in a little city of about 15,000, in South Australia, when my mum received a gift and voucher from Blockbuster for being in the top ten for most movie rentals in one year.

This was a time when movies were on VHS tapes, and there was a bit before the start of the movie that said something like “have you seen every movie ever made?”[1]

And at the time it certainly felt like we had watch nearly everything that store and one other had over the previous five years.

1. https://youtu.be/VfuzebAAesk?si=z3-HYkZwJK6mmtWP - I think there was at least a couple variations

1994: Shawshank, Forrest Gump... can't think of others right now
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...

Pulp Fiction

Lion King

The Mask

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Dumb and Dumber

The Crow

Speed

True Lies

Interview with the Vampire

Natural Born Killers

Ace Ventura

Stargate

Clerks

The list goes on. Lot's of movies that turned out to be classics or cult classics, or the start of some great careers.

Pulp Fiction and Shallow Grave were two from 1994 that spring to mind for me.