This is just conjecture and rumors but I read where she was doing Connery and that's why she got the break in Entrapement.  That and the Douglas marriage kept her at A list for a few years until she had mental issues, bipolar I think.

I'm curious how this goes.  I saw this awful movie preview yesterday.  It was for the gay/trans movie called Bros.  I'm objecting to it not because any of the trans, gay, woke nonsense, but it just looked a damn awful film whose jokes I didn't find funny at all.  Pretty sure Im not the only person who thought this film preview was awful.  I hope people are able to raise objections to this film (or any other film) based on the film itslef.

I don't actually mind Clooney.  I think he's miscast a little as this classic leading man type when he is kind of a smug asshole in most of his films.  I think he is an A listeer.  But I don't think his roles or rep matches what he actually is as an actor which I'm not sure makes any sense at all.

I find Matt Damon really boring though.  I think the Departed may have been the only thing I liked.  I remember watching The Talented Mr. Ripley and watching Jude Law act in circles all around Damon and wondering why the hell Law wasn't cast as Ripley. I too can stand Damon in Private Ryan but that's probably because he isn't in the movie that long.  I think Affleck is probably the worse actor of the two but I can tolerate him more than Damon.

I need to rewatch Schindler's List.  I remember being quite moved when I saw it in the 90s.  Of all the 90s films that were super over,  I've found that Forrest Gump doesn't really hold up.  I watched it a few years ago and just found it totally annoying and ridiculous.  This is not really a shot on Hanks who is a fine actor and still an A-lister now in the 2020s.  It's very hard to stay on top in Hollywood for that long.

Aside from the usual Fiennes roles that everyone seems to know, Strange Days that was a 90s film was a really good Fiennes (and sci fi movie).

The problem with Rappaport is he is a supporting actor.  Every time I see him elevated in something higher to that it fails.  I had a problem with the end of Inception too but it's a good film.

Nocturama.  This ones really weird.  A bunch of Parisian kids plan out a bunch of bombings  and hide out in a shopping mall afterwards.  Of the two parts , the bombing part/planning is the better half.  When they head to the mall, it stops the momentum for a bit.  I just find it hard to connect the consumer "aspect" to what I just watched.  It doesn't totally derail the film.   But watching it, you just realize what morons most of the characters are and how pointless the acts of terrorism were.  My fav part is when someone mentions their acts barely got mentioned on facebook.  Still I did enjoy this film and the beginning and end of this film where there is almost zero diaglogue is very intense and interesting.

Savage Three.  some 70s Italian crime film.  This one's too much of a downer for me and it isn't as good as the other's I've seen .  I like the cop that tries to solve the crimes but it is just depressing watching people commit crimes for the "hell of it"

Terminator 2 still had an 80s feel to it so the NIN song would not have worked at all, imo.

I remember The Blob (88 version) seemed to be on a lot on either TBS, USA or TNT during the 90s.  I always passed on watching it.  Anyway  a couple of years ago I finally watch it.  And you know what ?  It's a fucking fun film.  It's not somethng "deep" but you know what who cares?  I had fun watching it and wondering why the hell didn't I watch this sooner.  I think Kevin Dillion was the main star.  I think Keith David might have been in it, going off memory here.  I remember the ending being kind of bonkers and a lot of chaos and explosions.

I'm not an expert on it but it seemed horror in the early 90s hit a creative dry spell and most of the ideas/movies were of the DTV variety.

Knife + Heart--horror/slasher/giallo homage starring one of Johnny Depp's exes (not Amber Heard!).  In French.  Stars Vannessa Paradis (Depp had 2-3 kids with her) and this is really creative.  Lot of rain soaked scenes.  It's set in the 70s and I think it pulls off that aspect pretty well.  Also deals with obsession and lost love so it's not just a slash and blood soaked affair.  There's a"queer" element to the plot as the main character is a gay porn producer.  But you get used to that and it's not a big deal.  Kinda like Blow Out in that it deals with film making.  It was released in 2018.  So for me it's a relatively "new" film.

I watched this once EONS ago, must have been very early 90s or late 80s.  I didn't find it memorable then either.

Barcelona; 1994 film w/pre breakout Mira Sorvino.  I enjoyed this a lot more this time around, probably because I'm more familar with the director tendencies now.  I love the shots of 90s Barcelona too (film is set in the 80s but whatever).

The Villaness Korean action film rip off of Nikita/Point of No Return.  Watch it for the first ten 10 mins where it sort of resembles a video game.  Goes downhill from there for me.  The plot elements are familiar especially if you've seen one of the earlier two films.  Tedious to get through as I kept on dozing off

Il Mare:  Korean film w/an Italian name.  This was frustrating to watch.  It's well shot and has a nice kind of "Sleepless in Seattle" vibe.  But there's a sci fi element that isn't used to it's fullest potential.  Instead it goes full romance and I found it dull especially in the second half as I kept on waiting for something interesting to happen.  The ending is predictable as hell too.