90's movies

I was just looking at some of the hit films from the 90's and found it interesting how so many came out one after the other with the same theme or characterization. This came about because I watched a film with Beyonce in it called "Obsession" and although it was decent, I couldn't help but think of the films it was paying homage to and how they were so much better handled, and then I wondered, why are the 90's femme fatal films better than today's? is it because of MTV culture? is it because everything is now diluted and mass produced to the extent that it is affecting films as well as music? I went to see the surrogates a while back too as the concept hit a chord with me as I had been thinking of writing a story for a while and it had very similar themes to that of this movie, however I was a bit disappointed with the way it was executed, such an excellent idea, but again, it was too conformist to "Hollywood" ideals, with the all american ending and over the top dramatization that prevented it from being a much better film.

I find myself looking more and more to world cinema to find some kind of enjoyment and originality, well nothing can be truly original, but in Hollywood you see the same principles over and over and over again, so it's nice to watch something different, even the J horror which was once a niche market has now become a sea of mass produced grudge girls, floating feet and twisted spines! I saw these traditions in an American film the other week, "the Unborn" and what a pathetic load of cack that was! It basically stole all the scare scenes from several Japanese horrors, such as the old man doing the spiderwalk, (well the famous spiderwalk first appeared in "The Exorcist", the only mistake there being that the director only filmed the walk from the side, failing to get more angles and takes, and as we know now from later films that it looks far more terrifying from the front!) reflections in mirrors etc and just mish mashed them all together in a film that has a ridiculous plot, is barely coherent in it's story-telling and is just plain daft and utterly pathetic and very badly acted!

Anyway rant over, I just thought I would blog about it, here is a list of some of the femme fatale films from the 90's:

Final Analysis 1992 (following 1986's No Mercy)

Basic Instinct 1992

Disclosure 1995

Single White Female 1992

The hand that rocks the cradle 1992 (not quite femme fatale but kinda)

Sleeping with the enemy 1990 (not femme fatale but lays in a similar vein)

The last seduction 1994

Devil in a blue dress 1995

Fear 1996

Poison Ivy 1992