10 must-watch classics from the 90s to watch on HBO Max before the platform ends!

Recently, Warner released a memo confirming the shutdown of streaming platform HBO Max. One of cinema’s biggest, most powerful and oldest behemoths, Warner Bros. is a true pillar of Hollywood. The studio has just changed its board of directors, with David Zaslav taking over as head of the company. The fact may have a direct link to the new proposal to shut down and change streaming, as Zaslav quickly became known for his harsh and radical attitudes, such as the cancellation of the film Batgirl, which is practically ready and which is scheduled to premiere in 2022. According to the new CEO, the film just wasn’t good and fans didn’t deserve to receive it – thus the work was “thrown in the trash” and Warner will get a tax deduction.

The news coming now is that Warner, after merging with Discovery, will merge the Discovery+ channels with HBO Max into one streaming service, creating a new platform. This will mean another change at HBO in a very short time, as HBO Max has been running for just over 2 years – and before that HBO Go was its streaming service. The shutdown of the Max platform is expected to take place in mid-2023. We still don’t know more information, such as whether old subscribers will be automatically migrated to the new service. In any case, before the end of HBO Max, we decided to list you 10 essential classics of the 90s to discover on the platform before it is too late. Check it out below.

Considered one of the best mafia films in the history of cinema and the only one that can truly stand up to The Godfather and his sequel, this dramatic thriller is directed by none other than the master Martin Scorsese, considered the greatest director nowadays. activity. But not only that, Goodfellas still has the moral of being considered by at least half of its fans as the best film of Scorsese’s career, which is no small feat. In the plot, based on a book and a true story, Henry Hill recounts his trajectory when he was patronized in the mafia becoming one of its most important members. Actor Ray Liotta, who plays protagonist Henry, passed away recently, and rewatching the movie is a great way to pay tribute to him.

And if the article above is considered by many to be the best mob movie of all time, here we have a copy that can be considered the best western of all time. It is certainly the best in the opinion of the one who speaks to you. Here we have Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece – also considered cinema’s last great western and the last of the genre in the traditional sense in which the veteran Clint worked. Here, Eastwood produces, directs and stars as Bill Munny, a character that is the epitome of all the others the actor has played in movies like this. Here, the star was already old, so it’s interesting to think of the protagonist as the most mature phase of all the other gunslingers Eastwood made famous in his career. He married and raised a family, retiring from gunfights. But after the death of his wife and the bankruptcy of his farm, he has one last big job to do. But you will have a tough sheriff in front of you. The Unforgivables won the Best Picture Oscar, and the cast also includes Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman.

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We already had the best mafia movie and the best western movie on the list. Now is the time for the vast majority of moviegoers to see the best prison movie. Not only that, The Shawshank Redemption is still the all-time favorite movie for users of the internet’s largest movie site, IMDB. Based on a short story by Stephen King, the feature film tells the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), the new inmate of the fictional maximum-security prison in Shawshank, Maine, in the 1940s, who is innocent and has been wrongfully convicted. to kill his wife, whom he discovered was cheating on him. Thus, he faces the dilemmas of the place, faces the rigor and corruption of the director of the prison, and even manages to befriend several prisoners, in particular Red, role of Morgan Freeman.

Among the essential films of the 90s, it is clear that a production by director Quentin Tarantino could not be missing. And she arrives with what is still considered by many to be her best film. What is undeniable is that Pulp Fiction came as a turning point in the filmmaker’s career and would change cinema forever. The film was groundbreaking and highly influential, paying off to this day with its narrative style. Without Tarantino’s touch, the movie would be just another mafia genre. It turns out that the director and screenwriter was able to apply his unique flavor to the plot, where the characters spoke in a natural and uncompromising way, as if they were real people like you and me, and not movie characters. . It was the spice introduced by Tarantino in Pulp Fiction, where criminals arrive to kill a disgruntled person and before they talk about everyday occurrences such as foot massages.

This list is definitely full of great emblematic moments of the seventh art, admired and studied until today. All contained within HBO Max to be enjoyed at the touch of a finger. The 90s are home to some of the most cult films of all decades in Hollywood and when it comes to romance, ten out of ten moviegoers would list Before Dawn in the top 10 of all time. Written and directed by Richard Linklater, a filmmaker known for his candid and down-to-earth look at young people’s behavior, he realizes here a simple premise, but one that was certainly the dream of many young people: to fall in love with a foreign person in an exotic country on a trip. Ethan Hawke is an American boy who falls in love with a French woman (played by Julie Delpy) on a train in Vienna. The two spend an entire day together until the next morning. The film spawned two sequels spaced ten years apart.

We’ve had good examples of genres like Mafia, Western, Prison, and Romance so far on the list. Now it’s the turn of an excellent courtroom drama – which is not coincidentally regarded as one of the great examples of its subgenre, one that tackles a very dignified subject matter and is always very much in order. of the day: structural racism. In the 90s things were even worse, even more so when talking about the southern United States, a region that defended slavery and still has twisted thoughts embedded in its society. In this storyline, a black man (Samuel L. Jackson) must take justice into his own hands after his daughter is raped and nearly murdered by two white men who would get away with the crime. It’s up to the idealistic lawyer played by Matthew McConaughey to defend him from the death penalty. The film served as a turning point in the actor’s career, introducing him to the world. And the cast also includes Sandra Bullock – in what many consider her best film.

We now have another master in charge of this work, Paul Thomas Anderson. Here, the filmmaker decides to go behind the scenes of the porn industry at the height of its boom: the 1970s. It was the time when this type of production for adults was even released on the big screen and generated millions of dollars. of income. The film also serves as a love letter to one of Hollywood’s most underrated veterans, the late Burt Reynolds, who here gets the role of his life as a kind-hearted porn producer. Boogie Nights also served to reveal Mark Wahlberg, who inhabits the protagonist, a young man fascinated by this universe, who has become a star thanks to… his dowry.

Above, when I mentioned Time to Kill, I managed to omit the presence of the “damned” Kevin Spacey in the cast, since other actors have more important roles than him in the long run. But here, that task will be more difficult, given that Spacey stars in this still very expensive work by director Sam Mendes (1917). As much as Spacey is an unappreciative figure to everyone and anyone these days, we shouldn’t completely ignore the films he was in – after all, a film production is the entire work of several other people, no matter how starring some villains are. Here he saw the father of a family similar to those in the margarine trade. But just take a look to notice the huge cracks in this structure. Annette Bening steals many scenes as his wife.

Speaking of directors who were true masters of cinema, the one who will consistently feature in the list of nine out of ten moviegoers and industry professionals is Stanley Kubrick. On the program of this legend of the seventh art, some of the most appreciated masterpieces of all time and still much debated, such as 2001 – A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Lolita and The Shining. The 90s brought us his last work, as the director died before he could see the result of his farewell song ready. This is the film Eyes Wide Shut, an incursion into the underworld of a New York imagined by Kubrick, where the rich and powerful meet in a very private club, for carnal exchanges. A world that is foreign to the population and that belongs only to a privileged few. In the middle of one of the strangest nights of his life, the doctor played by Tom Cruise enters the scene. After his wife’s confession of betrayal, played by his real-life then-wife Nicole Kidman, the guy decides to “get lost” in the city, in what will prove to be not only the most unusual night of his life, but also the most dangerous.

Closing out the list of defining films of the 90s, we now have one that remains cult to this day, aging like fine wine even after more than 20 years since its debut. In fact, David Fincher’s Fight Club continues to gain new fans over time, with new generations rediscovering it with each new cycle. Fight Club was also one of those groundbreaking films that was way ahead of its time – one that would easily apply its plot to the times we’re living in now, reinforcing its timelessness. In the story, Edward Norton plays an apathetic young man, with no enjoyment in his life, who divides his time between work and home, following the flow of what normative society has planned for him. That’s when he meets Tyler, Brad Pitt’s character, the two become friends and soon sparks fly from this explosive mix. To relieve the stress of daily life, the duo create the fight club, a meeting place for ordinary citizens. This, however, is only the first step of an anarchic revolution of the working proletariat.

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