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28-07-2008 14:28
But it would be animation that would advance beyond expectations with the release of the CGI animated movie Toy Story.
Toy Story was the first feature length movie produced by studio Pixar and animation would develop along these lines over the next decade bringing to the screen some of the most technically advanced animation movies of all time.
While Disney worked with Pixar they also enjoyed some solo success as The Lion King the highest grossing animated film of all time until the release of Finding Nemo (a Disney/Pixar computer-animated film). The Lion King still holds the record as the highest grossing hand-drawn animated film in history.
And earlier in the decade Beauty and the Beast became the first, and only, animated picture to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
But there would be one film that dominated the decade as two of the most promising acting talents, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, came together for James Cameron's Titanic.
The film went on to be the biggest grossing movie, the first to break the $1 billion barrier as it went on to gross over $1,8 billion at the global box office as well as collecting eleven Oscars, equalling Ben Hur's record.
Bringing Tarantio to prominence in 1994 Pulp Fiction took cinema by storm as it became the first indie picture to break the $100 million barrier.
As well as winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the film received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, with Tarantino winning for Best Original Screenplay.
With it's non-linear structure the film remains a classic in it's genre as well as creating interest in Tarantino's first picture Reservoir Dogs as well as revitalising the failing career of John Travolta.
Despite the such high esteem in which this film is held the Stephen King adaptation flopped at the box office but has, over the years, become a film phenomenon through word of mouth.
Darabont's film about one man's fight for freedom has become one of the greatest films in cinema history as it went on to receive seven Oscar awards, including Best Picture.
Director Bryan Singer's labyrinthine crime drama centres on five career criminals (played by Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, and Stephen Baldwin) who meet after being rounded up for a standard police line-up.
Upon their release, the men band together to pull off an intricate heist involving $3 million worth of emeralds.
Their success brings them to the attention of the enigmatic Keyser Soze, an unseen, nefarious, and mythic underworld crime figure who coerces them into pulling off an important and highly dangerous job.
The twist that follows makes The Usual Suspects one of the best crime thrillers of all time.
The decade defined CGI blockbuster and Spielberg's Jurassic Park led the way the film centres on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs and it's prehistoric cast took centre stage.
When released the film grossed $914 million at the box office, making it the biggest grossing film ever at the time, beating E.T which originally held the title.
The success of the original movie has spawned a successful franchise as The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic Park III (2001) all found success, Jurassic Park IV is currently in the pipeline.
An adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name Fight Club was one of the 'twist' movies that took the cinema by storm in the nineties.
The nameless protagonist, portrayed by Edward Norton, is an everyman and an unreliable narrator who becomes involved in a fight club with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and is conflicted in a relationship triangle with Durden and Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter).
While the film didn't do as well as expected at the box office it was well received well critically and was one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999.
The film did however gain a cult following when it was released onto DVD.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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