Disney's Challengers: Put it in a flower pot and you'll see what you shall see

THUMBELINA

1994

Written and directed by Don Bluth (based on the story "Tommelise" by Hans Christian Andersen)

Spoilers: moderate

Nightmare Week: I don't know why you like these stupid old fairy tales

WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE

1994

Written and directed by Wes Craven

Spoilers: high

What can I say? I'm a spy

TRUE LIES

1994

Written and directed by James Cameron (based on the screenplay La Totale by Claude Zini, Simon Michaёl, and Didier Kaminka)

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part XLV: Slimy, yet satisfying

THE LION KING

1994

Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff

Written by many

Spoilers: high

Middle-age wolf

WOLF

1994

Directed by Mike Nichols

Written by Jim Harrison, Wesley Strick, and Elaine May

Spoilers: moderate

Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! I, the miserable and abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.

MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN

1994

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Written by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont (based on the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley) 

Spoilers: inapplicable, right?

I've been looking for an original sin, one with a twist and a bit of a spin

THE SHADOW

1994

Directed by Russell Mulcahy

Written by David Koepp

Spoiler alert: mild

They're not sending their best

BLOWN AWAY

A bomb-based thriller that's too wacky for its own good, yet, perhaps, not quite wacky enough, Blown Away splits the difference between sobriety and absurdity somewhat awkwardly, if never quite so awkwardly that the good parts (which is to say, the cool parts) wind up lost.

1994

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

Written Jay Roach, John Rice, and Joe Batteer

With Jeff Bridges (Lt. Jimmy Dove), Suzy Amis (Kate), Lloyd Bridges (Max O'Bannon), Forest Whitaker (Officer Anthony Franklin), and Tommy Lee Jones (Ryan Gaerity)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Give my regards to King Tut, asshole

STARGATE

For preserving space opera between Return of the Jedi and The Fifth Element, Stargate absolutely deserves its cult.

1994

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich

With James Spader (Dr. Daniel Jackson), Kurt Russell (Col. Jack O'Neill), Viveca Lindfors (Catherine Langford), John Diels (Lt. Kawalsky), French Stewart, for some reason (Lt. Ferretti), Mili Avital (Sha'uri), Alexis Cruz (Skaara), Erick Avari (Kasuf), Djimon Hounsou (Horus), Carlos Lauchu (Anubis), and Jaye Davidson (Ra)

Robert Zemeckis, part X: Dear God, make me a bird

FORREST GUMP

All its layers of sometimes-contradictory meaning aside, Forrest Gump remains a superb and moving work of cinema, devoted to our ongoing failure to understand the journey without a goal that we've decided to call "life."

1994

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Written by Eric Roth (based on the novel by Winston Groom)

With Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump), Sally Field (Mrs. Gump), Robin Wright (Jenny Curran), Haley Joel Osment (Forrest Gump, Jr.), Mykelti Williamson (Bubba Blue), and Gary Sinise (Lt. Dan Taylor)

Spoiler alert: high

I like these little calm moments before the storm

LEON

Would you believe that a Luc Besson movie has serious problems?  It's true!

1994

Written and directed by Luc Besson

With Jean Reno (Leon), Natalie Portman (Mathilda), and Gary Oldman (Stansfield)

Spoiler alert: moderate