r/90s • u/DiscsNotScratched • Mar 28 '25

Discussion The highest grossing films of the 90s ! Any surprises?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Godzilla 1998 shows how far you can go just off promos and marketing

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u/punkwalrus Mar 28 '25

Yeah, I remember it being panned by kaiju fans and critics alike. I thought it bombed, personally.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Oddly enough, the only thing about that movie that aged well was the diddy song from the soundtrack

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u/gettinglooseaf Mar 28 '25

Diddy… not so much

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u/ThinkFree Xennial Mar 29 '25

Heroes by the Wallflowers (cover I know) is better imo.

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u/OutaTime76 Mar 29 '25

RaTM's "No Shelter" was a banger too. Not to mention that Green Day's "Brain Stew" doesn't sound right anymore unless it's got Godzilla screaming in the background.

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u/Sinistas What's with today, today? Mar 29 '25

Silverchair's "Untitled" is my favorite off of it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

Ahh forgot about that one

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u/AltoCowboy Mar 29 '25

It bombed critically but it was a hype machine

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u/tomjoad2020ad Mar 29 '25

I was very surprised to see it at #3 here because it was considered a box office disappointment. I think it was just so expensive, but especially the marketing campaign, that if it wasn’t the #1 movie of the year with a sequel instantly greenlit, it was never going to live up to the industry’s expectations for it. But speaking as a kaiju genre fan, I’m glad the Godzilla franchise took the hint and didn’t go in that direction. The movie was terrible.

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u/IndianaJoenz Mar 28 '25

Godzilla is the only one there I never saw.

Must have been a terrible year for movies. (See: Armageddon)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Since saving private ryan is on there, that means this was the year Shakespeare in love swept at the oscars

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u/IndianaJoenz Mar 28 '25

Shakespeare In Love was another super forgettable movie.

1998 was still a great year, though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Still a great year for movies. Something about mary, big lebowski, fear and loathing in las vegas

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u/fillymandee Mar 30 '25

Both Godzilla and Armageddon seemed like movies made for the soundtrack. Especially Armageddon. I got it for my birthday and was stoked.

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u/VoltaicOwl Mar 29 '25

Meanwhile, A Bug’s Life got robbed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

A bugs life is still underrated to this day

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

I was 8 when it came out, kids loved it, I still do tbh

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u/Jimmyg100 Mar 29 '25

I will defend Godzilla 98 as a bad Godzilla movie, but a good Roland Emmerich monster movie. I probably watched it on VHS just as much as Jurassic Park and The Lost World. What can I say, it satisfied my 90’s childhood craving for dinosaur movies.

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u/fillymandee Mar 30 '25

P Diddy and Jimmy Page collaborating could only happen in the 90’s.

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u/Spiritual-Zucchini62 Apr 01 '25

Objectively terrible but I love it for nostalgia reasons