10 Things About 90s Movies Everyone Misses Today
5. Big Passionate Speeches
Who doesn't love a big speech?
History has been shaped by them. Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, JFK. You can go back as far as the Sermon on the Mount to find examples of people coming together to listen to someone talk very loudly about something very important.
The 90s are no exception, with more impassioned speeches in the decade's film output than you can shake a megaphone at.
The classic example is Independence Day, when the President rallies the Earth's troops for one last battle against the aliens. Bill Pullman does a terrific job with the monologue, getting a reaction most actual presidents could only dream of.
But it's not just the leader of the free world who got to make these kinds of grand proclamations. A football coach did it in Any Given Sunday, a blind war veteran did it in Scent of a Woman, and other characters not played by Al Pacino got to have a go too.
It might be cliched now, but that's because the 90s made it so. In a world full of doubt and dishonesty, maybe a good ol' fashioned rousing speech is precisely what the world needs.