abe55

What Movie was the best of 1994?

fumanstan

Pulp Fiction.

project86

I picked Leon... I don't know if I picked right or not though. Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, and Leon are 3 of my all time favorites that I can't put in front of each other.

Arpeggi

Chungking Express.

Rockmjd23

Shawshank by a nose over Pulp Fiction.

FRwL

Ed Wood

Drexl

This was a great year for film IMHO, and I have a hard time deciding between Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption. PF probably gets the nod though.

BTW, Red (of the Three Colors trilogy) should have been on there instead of The Lion King.

Cathepsin

Red over Chungking Express

EdTheRipper

Shawshank Redemption or Ed Wood.

PopcornTreeCt

Léon

chuckd21

Pulp Fiction. But Shawshank and Ed Wood are right up there. 1994 was one of the last great years for movies.

wendersfan

Yep.

RobCA

Quiz Show

DeputyDave

Wow, so many good ones. I gues it would depend on my mood between:
Ed Wood
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank
Leon

RyoHazuki

Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, and Leon are all in my top 10.

But I gotta go with Leon. It may not be the best, but its my favorite.

Palaver

Pulp Fiction. One of the most influential movies ever made.

edstein

Shawshank. Although, I'm one of the last people on earth who has not seen Pulp Fiction.

superdeluxe

Pulp Fiction

NoirFan

My top ten:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Red (Kieslowski)
3. Chungking Express
4. Ed Wood
5. Satantango
6. Crumb
7. Leon
8. Fresh
9. Clerks
10. Quiz Show

I'm sure the number of people who vote for Forrest Gump will depress me to no end.

wendersfan

Only if by "influential" you mean "wholly derivative of movies that were actually influential".

Red Dog

That was a great movie year. I'd go with Shawshank.

Michael Corvin

I was one of the few people who saw Shawshank in the theater and loved every minute of it. Although in 1994 I would have gone with Forest Gump & Lion King, 14 years and many repeat viewings later, I'd give the nod to Shawshank. All the others are also great, but nothing from that year compares to the slow build and character moments between Red & Andy.

Palaver

Well, personally I feel that many great films tend to borrow from other great films (and other works) and put a fresh spin on them. Derivative doesn't neccessarily need to mean a bad thing.

But what I really meant was that it is a film has spawned a great number of imitators. Plus it tends to be the standard by which other films of that genre tend to be judged.

slop101

Even Tarantino would pick Chungking Express.

Charlie Goose

It hurts, really physically hurts, to see the turd that is Natural Born Killers on a list with those great movies.

Anyway, Pulp Fiction followed closely by Leon.