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Rik Mayall in a green-and-yellow striped suit, taped inside a jack-in-the-box, back to wreck Phoebe Cates's life for her own good. Gene Siskel called it one of the worst films he had ever seen. A generation of kids rented it until the tape wore out.
A teenager's premonition gets a handful of classmates off Flight 180 before it explodes, and then Death comes back for them, one elaborate accident at a time. Final Destination (March 2000) turned an unused X-Files spec script into a $113 million hit and a franchise whose Rube Goldberg death scenes made a generation nervous about every loose screw and dangling wire.
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The big-budget 1998 reboot of Irwin Allen's 1960s space family, with Gary Oldman as the sneering Dr. Smith, Matt LeBlanc, then starring in Friends, and Dick Tufeld back as the voice of the Robot. It knocked Titanic out of first place and then got a 27 on Rotten Tomatoes.
Four girls, one summer in 1970, a treehouse fund and a cemetery séance: the 1995 sleepover staple with Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffmann and Ashleigh Aston Moore, and Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, Rosie O'Donnell and Rita Wilson as who they grew into. Critics shrugged; cable and VHS made it a classic anyway.
Two detectives, a nameless city where it never stops raining, and a killer working his way through the seven deadly sins. David Fincher's 1995 thriller ends with a box, and with an ending the studio fought to change and lost.
Samuel L. Jackson took the job because of the title, the internet spent a year turning the title into a running joke, and New Line reshot the movie to add the line the fans had already written for him. Snakes on a Plane (August 2006) was called perhaps the most internet-hyped film of all time, then opened to $15 million, a gap analysts still call the Snakes on a Plane effect.
Odette, Derek, the sorcerer Rothbart, and "Far Longer than Forever." The 1994 princess movie that wasn't Disney, from a director Disney had fired, opened the same week The Lion King came back to theaters and died. Then it sold two and a half million tapes and spawned eleven sequels.
Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a 1985 wedding singer dumped at the altar, and Drew Barrymore as the waitress he writes "Grow Old With You" for. The film that proved Sandler could be sweet, and the first pairing of two stars who kept coming back to each other.