90 BEST Movies of the 1990s

The 1990s is arguably the greatest decade in cinema history! Let's break down this game changing era in film by ranking the 90 Best Films, the 15 Worst Films, the Childhood Classics and the 90s movies you've never even heard of!
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[@samcooper1095]

Looking forward to 2000 best movies of the 2000s!

[@evansmith7150]

I was thinking of this same comment XD

[@MrMarcprudhomme1]

Or if they go the same way as this episode, the 0 best movie of the 00's. I feel it would be a shorter episode than this one!

[@conororeilly1306]

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[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

GONNA BE EPIC

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[@slimnave4846]

Good list! Obviously not every great film can fit into this list, so here is a handful of movies not mentioned: Being John Malkovich, Lone Star, The Three Colours Trilogy, Close-Up, Breaking the Waves, Princess Mononoke, All About my Mother, The Celebration, Chungking Express, Naked, 12 Monkeys, Underground, Central Station, The Iron Giant, Hana-bi, Run Lola Run, Safe, Braindead, Lost Highway, American Movie, and Taste of Cherry.

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

For sure!

[@shoheiohtaniofficial]

Lost highway's up there Shoutout Boogie Nights, Forrest Gump, Hard 8, and Wild at Heart too. Other than that they got all of my faves

[@brentbare7280]

The 90s was one of the greatest decades for movies & music.

[@jotade2098]

Remains of the Day, 12 Monkeys, Bullets Over Broadway and Galaxy Quest would have made my list. Fun show as always, thanks for posting :)

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[@phila3884]

Before you even get started ..Tombstone and Talented Mr Ripley- packed full of well-known stars and ultra-entertaining to watch over and over...

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[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@phila3884 The Talented Mr Ripley is so good!!! The cast in that is amazing and how Italy 🇮🇹 is used as a location in the film is gorgeous!!

[@ChubbyChecker182]

​@@andrewburgemeister6684Much better than the Netflix version

[@michellecrocker2485]

RIP James Earl Jones. He made the lion king the jaugernaught it still is

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@michellecrocker2485 What a legend he was and what a great voice he had!! ❤️

[@michellecrocker2485]

@@andrewburgemeister6684 he had what I can only say was “ THAT voice “. The rare voice that you instantly recognize it anywhere

[@claykeough7898]

Great bad guys always make every story better

[@edgardoaponte4915]

i love whenever you guys talk about older movies. i was born in 1999, but my mom collected dvds and vhs, so i have memories of a lot of these. i dont watch many new movies im more of a reader. you guys keep me up to date. been bingeing the last couple of months. also from Massachusetts. Middleboro to be exact. love this podcast.

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

No way!! Massholes!!

[@dustinjones4674]

It’s funny you’re doing this list right now. I started a few years ago watching old movies and doing my own lists, top 30 of the 30s, top 40 of the 40s, etc. I am currently doing top 90 of the 90s. I don’t have a final list but I know my #1 will be my all-time favorite movie, The Silence of the Lambs.

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

Great pick 😎

[@dustinjones4674]

Ha! Just finished the episode, guess we agree!

[@ChubbyChecker182]

The 90s was a great decade for movies, particularly from 94-99. I think that is the best 5 years of movies ever. Some great variety too, it felt like every week there was a new, interesting movie to see, nowadays it like every 4 months.

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@ChubbyChecker182 I think part of it was because movie complexes had so many screens so the studios were putting out more movies to have variety at those theatres. Also video rentals and home media was a big driver back then, even if a film didn’t do that great in the cinemas it could have a massive second life on home video or cable broadcasting, The Shawshank Redemption is probably the most famous example of this.

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

No doubt!

[@x9thousand8]

97 bud , huh "what are you on right now?"

[@gary0078]

Lost Highway by Lynch , underrated masterpiece

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[@nathanwinning8331]

For me, Jurassic Park is THE 90's movie. Pure spectacle and awe, and doesn't sacrifice verisimilitude like a lot of movies today.

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[@claykeough7898]

Well said. As far as big budget adventure movies I'd have to agree 💯 It's so original and it's story and characters are well thought out and not overlooked like they are in so many big budgets. It has so much heart and the action adventure is just the big bonus.

[@royalewren]

I have never clicked so fast.

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[@tylerdunn2015]

I remember watching American Psycho in the '90s when it came out, good on you guys for including it as a '90s picture

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[@brentbare7280]

American Psycho was always a 2000 movie to me.

[@scottbarkley496]

Love these lists .. make all kinds of them plz 🙏

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[@GabrielDiaz_21]

Finally the 90’s! I’ve been excited for this , If we had to wait any longer I think I would have UNSUBSCRIBED! U guys are the best new pod out there ! 🍿

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Thanks!!

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

The 1990s was an incredible decade, one could say it was a renaissance in film similar to the New Hollywood period of the 1970s in terms of the number of smaller films that were coming out but leaving a huge legacy!! It's something we'll probably never see again, but I cherish a lot of these films and the time period in my heart and memory!!

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[@conditiontraders6825]

You guys have to do a single episode on "Idiocracy" it is the best underrated comedy movie that no one is talking about and it is written and directed by Mike Judge. Ps: Big fan of the show. Been listening to you for over a year and just having a blast.

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Thanks! Will do 🫡

[@conditiontraders6825]

@@raidersofthelostpodcast_ Thanks guys!

[@michellegriggs3378]

James....the song you're thinking of is "it's too late to apologize"

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[@claykeough7898]

ID4 hit when I was the perfect age(about 14). I'll never forget how engaged everyone in the packed theater was and the entire audience jumped up and erupted after the presidents speech!! Still the only movie I've ever been to where that happened. Great memory and experience for me being a film lover.

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[@francescaestelle2886]

I remember watching 5th Element, The Green Mile, Point Blank,& Die hard as a kid RELIGIOUSLY all on TNT! Those were the days.

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[@DanielGarcia-us7tf]

Rush Hour 1 was wild!!!

[@michellecrocker2485]

My decade! Talk about the recent actors, I’m like “ yeah okay “ but mention the 90s people? Now, you have my attention

[@DanielGarcia-us7tf]

Mr. Frost from 1990 is a good Jeff Goldblum horror film. The Mighty with Sharon Stone is terrific!!!

[@DanielGarcia-us7tf]

Darkman with Liam Neeson from Sam Raimi is fantastic!!!

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[@adrodr2]

anyone seeing this list could argue the 90s was not the best decade ever? and there are even more great movies!

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Legit!

[@ChubbyChecker182]

My Top 10 90s movies 1. Shawshank Redemption 2. The Matrix 3. Goodfellas 4. Something About Mary 5. Terminator 2 6. Millers Crossing 7. Total Recall 8. Jurassic Park 9. The Sixth Sense 10. Schindler's List

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[@dannysmithx]

Three more 90s Movies You Didn't Know Existed: "National Lampoon's Senior Trip" (1995) starring Jeremy Renner, "The Big Hit" (1998) starring Mark Wahlberg, and "All I Wanna Do (aka Strike)" (1998) starring Kirsten Dunst. Why do I specifically mention those three films? I'm an actor in them too! 🤓

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[@michellecrocker2485]

I never watch thrillers but Se7en? It passes for a good mystery movie and I like it

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@michellecrocker2485 Se7en is one of the best of all time, I think I prefer it over Fight Club in terms of Fincher’s films but both are amazing!

[@briansalvador3954]

No Mighty Morphin Power Rangers shout out?!?! UNSUBSCRIBED

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[@patomacko1017]

I love this podcast 👍

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[@willwalker6894]

My Top 25 List of 1990’s 1. Goodfellas 2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3. Unforgiven 4. Pulp Fiction 5. Jurassic Park 6. The Lion King 7. Se7en 8. Boogie Nights 9. Toy Story 10. The Matrix 11. Forrest Gump 12. Saving Private Ryan 13. The Big Lebowski 14. Silence of the Lambs 15. Boyz n the Hood 16. True Romance 17. Heat 18. Kids 19. Being John Malkovich 20. Clerks 21. Friday 22. Buffalo 66 23. Eyes Wide Shut 24. Fargo 25. Scream

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[@GabrielDiaz_21]

The brotherly bickering is one of the best parts of the show , super relatable and absolutely hilarious 😂🍿but if u guys don’t do a Harry Potter episode soon I might have to UNSUBSCRIBE !

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

Thank you!! 😂🫡

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It’s been a while lol

[@SpyKiFTW]

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 2. The Idiots 3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 4. Perfect Blue 5. The Lovers on the Bridge 6. Buffalo ’66 7. Happiness 8. Gummo 9. Princess Mononoke 10. Eyes Wide Shut 11. Breaking the Waves 12. Boogie Nights 13. Being John Malkovich 14. Leaving Las Vegas 15. Lost Highway 16. Before Sunrise 17. The Baby of Mâcon 18. Secrets & Lies 19. Fucking Amal 20. Comrades, Almost a Love Story My top 20 not on your list. All of these are in my top 30 of the 90's haha.

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

Can’t believe we missed some of these!

[@SpyKiFTW]

@@raidersofthelostpodcast_ There's just too many great 90's movies!

[@jeffrenfroe91]

I enjoyed this video. As I enjoy all of your videos. I haven't posted in quite some time. I was going to just let you know I hadn't unsubscribed. Then you didn't include Wild at Heart in this list. I must unsubscribe! Lynch, Cage, Dafoe, Laura Dern. Sex, violence and an awesome soundtrack. I will personally send you my own copy of this DVD. One of the most quotable movies of the 90s. Thank you for turning me on to movies I haven't seen, or seen in awhile. I want to return the favor.

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Thanks 😂😂😂😂😂

[@alijah1539]

I'm at the beginning, and if Small Soldiers isn't on this list, I'M UNSUBSCRIBING!! Keep up the great work guys 👍

[@alijah1539]

You pronounce my name (Ah-lie-jah) Elijah but with an A

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

Don’t worry it is!

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[@shoheiohtaniofficial]

90s is the goat movie decades So many thrillers

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[@michellecrocker2485]

The Disney Renaissance was the bulk of my childhood and geez, I miss it

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@michellecrocker2485 Beauty and The Beast was a popular one in my household along with The Lion King!!I think we actually still have those tapes at my parent’s place!

[@michellecrocker2485]

@@andrewburgemeister6684 those 2D style animations are classics and I wish Disney was still doing them

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@michellecrocker2485 it’s a shame it’s all just live action adaptions these days and not the classic animations they put so much heart and soul into 😔

[@JesterNit]

Face/Off wouldn’t be on my list

[@superunknown2812]

I honestly cant think of any movies i didnt like from the 90s no matter the genre.

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[@kristophertardy3163]

What's up with the pliers?? lmao

[@michellecrocker2485]

Not big on Tom Cruise but this movie always feels very 90s. The story one we don’t get a lot and that’s someone who has this kind of enlightenment and even if this epiphany doesn’t sit well with most people around them, they stick with their beliefs in it

[@phila3884]

Curious, a lot of people say they're not big Tom Cruise fans. Wonder what that means- you don't actually like many of his movies, or he personally turns you off so you mainly avoid his movies? I'm a fan, but also he IS the biggest movie star on the planet...

[@michellecrocker2485]

@@phila3884 for me, it was always that many of his movies didn't really interest me all that much, Jerry McGuire the only one i kinda like

[@domwalker6526]

No boogie nights? No three colors?? Dudes come on! Good episode though

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

Dude. I was so pissed yesterday that I spaced on it

[@domwalker6526]

@@raidersofthelostpodcast_ I was waiting for boogie nights and at least 3 colors red. But guys I get it. Only 90 is tough. This was a good video and list. Nothing like the 90s

[@MrMarcprudhomme1]

1999 the best year for movie? I think you meant 1994. Poor math skills.... UNSUBSCRIBE!

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[@samroberts3342]

Every person who likes horror movies needs to watch audition. I think it’s one of the best horror movies ever made.

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[@michellecrocker2485]

Fight club. Such a guy movie but Brad Pitt makes it watchable

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[@PAPPADASH]

you kind of oknly said the positive things about the 90s this is likely because you were born in 1990, but a huge part of the 90s kind of sucked, I'm talking about the early to mid 90s, it wasn't until Tarantino that the 90s actually got good, and that was in the late 90s. Pulp Fiction is what started the quality independent movies you got from about 95-96 into the 00s. Also 1997-to 1999 was some of the best years for high school comedies, thanks to American Pie, but you had other ones like 10 things I hate about you, can't Hardley Wait, She's all that, etc. So no doubt the late 90s were good. Now my issue with the 90s is two fold. The entire Horror Genre was dead in the 90s. Until Scream in December of 96 so bassically 1997. Scream rebooted the entire Horror Genre, and allowed horror to have good actors, and slashers, etc. Before scream though way back in 1991 there was a little movie called "Silence of the Lambs" which killed horror. Along with that, and the fact movie sequels were expected to make less money, and be worse the the original you got a lot of sequels to great stuff in the 80s. Return of the Living dead 3, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, Basket Case 2, Gate II, You get the worst Jason, Freddy, and Michael Movies, you end up with an entire genre that was awesome in the 80s and dead in the 90s until screm. So Silence of the lamb killed horror, and everyone was trying to make "Thrillers" like Silence of the Lambs, and Basic Instinct, Cape Fear, hand that rocks the cradle, single white female, etc instead of horror. A lot of early 90s movies don't hold up well, if you go watch stuff like "The Firm", or "The Net" there are a lot of Drama's from the early 90s that for some reason have a wierds look and feel to them. They have terrible sound effects, and music that seem extremely dated, and just plain goofy when you watch them today. Go watch "The Firm" again. The other thing is CGI the early 90s had a dead horror genre but what also makes it extremely bad and the worst decade for horror by far judging from 1970's till today, is CGI. The 90s was a time where CGI started being used but it looks completely horrible. So the little bit of horror we got a lot of t he times there were scenes that just could have, should have, and would have looked better if done with practical. Movies like Hellraiser 3 come to mind with the opening scene whee the guy gets ripped apart by chains. It's done with CGI and it looks terrible, in Hellraiser 1 the dad is ripped apart by chains and it's one of the best moments in horror ever, it's gruesome, and awesome, with a creepy line "Jesus Wept" I mean compare that to Hellraiser 3 chain ripping, and WTF. Another bad some other bad CGI was in Lord of Illusions, which had some insane practical gore in it, but then you have CGI like in Swans house shortly after swan "DIES". So horror was a dead genre and what we got a lot of the times was not great. Comedies like "What about Bob, Ace Ventura, Cable Guy, were great, but then you get a lot of bad movies too like Mr. Baseball, Beverly Hills Cop III, Basically what I'm saying is 1990 through 1996 was a pretty bad time with some of the least iconic movies overall, and a lot of movies that don't hold up well. The later 90s 96 to 99 were a lot better because of Tarantino, Mirimax, and Wes Craven, along with great hard R comedies. But half the decade sucked, vs the 80s which the entire Decade was awesome, because in the 80s it was Practical, the Mom and Pop VHS stores were thriving, so the demand for more movies was there, and even the cheap movies had something about them that was great, you had companies like Cannon Films in the 80s. You had writers and directors in making Iconic new movies, with new ideas. Even remakes in the 80s weren't really remakes at all, they were brand new movies that improved on an idea, like "The Fly" "The Thing" "The Blob".

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For sure

[@hardinsciver5930]

Watched the Full Episode 2x 😎

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[@Drumsanddragons]

So glad Trainspotting made the list!

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[@acemarot]

is it too late to apologize if I call you out for getting the song lyrics wrong where did you get turn around from 😂 (jk hopefully you get my joke)

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[@SandraSchuckDeLong]

I have 2 movies for you guys to watch that are so good and I don’t think you have ever heard of them. So please watch these 2 movies. One is. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man and the other one is Ironweed.

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lol!

[@BishopWalters12]

Top 10 favorite movies from the 1990's for me in no real order. True Romance Scream 12 Monkeys Dumb and Dumber My Cousin Vinny Dark City American History X The Usual Suspects Jurassic Park Natural Born Killers

[@raidersofthelostpodcast_]

Great picks

[@fabriciorodas4961]

Got worried yall were gonna put titanic at #1 Love silence of the lambs Not #1 for me but pretty fkn great Just happy it was wasn’t titanic

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😂😂😂 don’t worry hahaha

[@Jays-ug9bd]

OFFICE SPACE SHOULD BE TOP 20

[@ryanpatsalides]

I’ve scrolled through the entire comment section and not one person had pointed out that American Psycho came out in 2000, not the 90’s and for that, I have to UNSUBSCRIBE. (Still love y’all, we all make mistakes)

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[@JesseAlcala-v1h]

What about The Crow?!?

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Good but not quite!

[@RyanFraize]

Where is American Pie?

[@biscardipictures1253]

Yesterday I wrote this podcast a 5 star review. We all make mistakes in life and clearly that was one of them. I can not believe the slander spoken about the masterpiece that is batman and robin. Simply unforgivable. I am being serious when I say that it will always be superior to batman midgins. Unsubscribed!… forreal though where is Chungking Express???

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[@MasonKuenstler]

NO IRON GIANT?!?! That’s it boys. “You stay, I go. No following” because I’m UNSUBSCRIBING

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[@guyoteri3740]

Is it a crime movie or a movie about poker? 😂

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[@turnerburner922]

Mission Impossible is like 4th best of the franchised not 2nd. It’s not better than 3,4 or 6.

[@boris4240]

No text list of this movies? Am I need to watch all episode? U know what’s coming …

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[@patomacko1017]

I love Basic instinct in my oponion best erotic thriller.

[@claykeough7898]

No Army of Darkness? One of the most ambitious and original films of our time!? Unsubscribed. 🤪

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[@DanielGarcia-us7tf]

Batman and Robin was atrocious!!!

[@rinedgecombe8165]

No Princess Mononoke? Might sadly just have to unsubscribe… I’ll be back eventually though

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Almost 😭😭

[@damienburke4996]

You absolutely said that Zoller was a tragic character. UNSUBSCRIBED!!

[@damienburke4996]

If you guys promise to never, ever sing again I’ll resubscribe.

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James can’t help it

[@MrMarcprudhomme1]

In the blade section you said epitome instead of eponymous.... Poor english skills... UNSUBSCRIBE!

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[@batmanwholaughs3547]

This is why Superman works alone UNSUBSCRIBED

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[@kristophertardy3163]

Wait! Where the hell is "Thin Red Line" ?!?!?! ... UNSUBSCRIBE!!!!!!! Blows "Saving private ryan" out of the water, IMO. Not to even get mentioned is WILD to me

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AHHHHH missed that

[@ArsenioGarate]

Your camera died? Uuunsuscriiibe

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[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

I don’t know if James was actually trying to sing Timberland One Republic - Apolagize and butchering the words or just flexing his pipes to Anthony but I’m not here for it, 90s kid out UNSUBSCRIBE!

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😂😂😂😂😂😂we don’t know either lol

[@TravisRyan9]

The song goes “it’s too late to apologiiize” so yeah, it’s too late to apologize for that mistake. UNSUBSCRIBED!

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[@rison7339]

If you guys ever stop fighting I will UNSUBSCRIBE.

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[@dilpickle168]

No mention of 1995 power rangers movie UNSUBSCRIBE

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Land before time, fuck yeh throw it on ! Lol

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