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Look\u2014they just made movies better in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n
While today\u2019s landscape is crammed with sequels and remakes and endless discourse, the best films of the 1990s were, for the most part, true originals. To add to that, a good film resulted in a long relationship with it. Rather than watching something once, writing a pithy Letterboxd review, and forgetting about it within three days, \u201990s films existed on love-worn VHS tapes, to be played again and again until the outfits and most quotable one-liners were practically imprinted on the brain.<\/p>\n
While I\u2019m not going to list every single \u201990s movie worth watching\u2014that would take an age\u2014there are definitely a few stand-out cult classics worth returning to. Below, the best \u201990s movies to watch\u2014or rewatch\u2014for some much-needed escapism.<\/p>\n
What happens when you bring two weirdos together and have them star in a David Lynch film? Watch Wild at Heart<\/em> to find out. The film follows lovers Lula Fortune (Laura Dern) and Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage), who are separated after Sailor is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife. Two years later, Lula picks him up, hands him his snakeskin jacket, and takes him to see the thrash metal band Powermad. As this is a Lynch film, explaining the rest of the plot would be a pointless exercise, but expect plentiful violence, stylish surrealism, and a road movie that\u2019ll shock and delight in equal measure.<\/p>\nDeath Becomes Her<\/em> (1992)<\/h2>\n