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1999 the last great year at the movies
Posted on 2/6/18 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 2/6/18 at 12:31 pm
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In a time when multiplexes are bloated with franchise product, it is easy to call 1999 the last great year at the movies.
That long-ago 12-month stretch offered everything a carnivore of cinema could hunger for: The Matrix. Fight Club. Eyes Wide Shut. Magnolia. Election. The Talented Mister Ripley. American Beauty. Bringing Out the Dead. Boys Don't Cry. Toy Story 2. The Iron Giant. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Any Given Sunday. Existenz. Galaxy Quest. Go. Run Lola Run. The Sixth Sense. Three Kings. Titus. The Blair Witch Project. And on and on and on.
Across genres and up and down the budgetary scale, 1999 proved to be a revolutionary year. Some filmmakers were working at the top of their game (Michael Mann's perfect journalism drama The Insider, Steven Soderbergh's puzzle-box crime thriller The Limey), while others were making incendiary debuts that foreshadowed the many masterpieces to come (Sofia Coppola's poignant The Virgin Suicides, and her then-husband Spike Jonze's head trip Being John Malkovich). There were only a half-a-dozen sequels, and fewer remakes or reboots. Even the lowbrow offerings were memorable at worst, radical at best (Deep Blue Sea, Dick, Office Space).
Yet a cursory look at the past few years – and all the myriad masterpieces since delivered – seems small compared to the achievements of 1999. Even an analysis of the box office, admittedly hardly an arbiter of quality, inches this theory forward. In 1999, the top-10 highest-grossing films of the year included five original films – that is, with no intellectual property attached – including a quiet horror story that twisted genre conventions (The Sixth Sense), a groundbreaking sci-fi-philosophical-whatchamacallit (The Matrix) and an ultra-low-budget experiment that rocked the indie world (The Blair Witch Project). In 2017, eight of the year's highest earners were sequels or spinoffs of no special distinction, the remaining two reboots of equal measure.
Even seasoned critics and observers at the time sensed something special was going on.
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Posted on 2/6/18 at 12:35 pm to RLDSC FAN
I was working at a movie theater that year, was a great time to get to see films for free.
The thing I remember most that year though was American Pie for Nadia.
The thing I remember most that year though was American Pie for Nadia.
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Posted on 2/6/18 at 12:38 pm to RLDSC FAN
All I know is 2017 was about as bad as I can remember for movies. It's been awful for years now though.
I used to go see about 10 movies a year. Now I go see about 2-3 at most.
I used to go see about 10 movies a year. Now I go see about 2-3 at most.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 12:39 pm to RLDSC FAN
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The Blair Witch Project
Sucked and gave me a headache.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 12:52 pm to RLDSC FAN
2007 was a better year for movies than 1999. There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men and Zodiac all came out that year not to mention films like Assassination of Jesse James, Knocked Up, American Gangster, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, etc...
Posted on 2/6/18 at 1:10 pm to Bench McElroy
1999 had some great films, but some of this is the hazy fog of nostalgia talking. We simply don't remember that 1999 had just as much dreck as now. Take a look at the highest grossing films of the year:
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1. Star Wars: Phantom Menace
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Toy Story 2
4. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
5. The Matrix
That's a terrible reboot of the biggest franchise film ever, a cartoon Disney sequel (albeit a very good one), and a nearly forgotten comedy that spawned a franchise. Sure, you had the false promise of The Sixth Sense and a genuinely groundbreaking film in The Matrix, but how is that so much different from now?
I mean, there's just as many genuinely awful films on the 1999 ledger as in 2007 that people saw in droves. Inspector f'n Gadget nearly broke $100 million.
And were the best films truly that great? American Pie won the Oscar, and it's a piece of garbage. The Blair Witch and Matrix were groundbreaking, but with the benefit of hindsight, how much of their influence was actually good? Blair Witch, especially, spawned a string of awful, tedious shaky cam knockoffs.
Sure, Fight Club came out. It also made $37mil. Which is more than the Iron Giant made. Or Being John Malkovich. then, as now, there's lots of great movies being made just outside the mainstream. Maybe later film audiences will catch up with Lady Bird or Logan Lucky... or maybe not. Such is life.
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1. Star Wars: Phantom Menace
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Toy Story 2
4. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
5. The Matrix
That's a terrible reboot of the biggest franchise film ever, a cartoon Disney sequel (albeit a very good one), and a nearly forgotten comedy that spawned a franchise. Sure, you had the false promise of The Sixth Sense and a genuinely groundbreaking film in The Matrix, but how is that so much different from now?
I mean, there's just as many genuinely awful films on the 1999 ledger as in 2007 that people saw in droves. Inspector f'n Gadget nearly broke $100 million.
And were the best films truly that great? American Pie won the Oscar, and it's a piece of garbage. The Blair Witch and Matrix were groundbreaking, but with the benefit of hindsight, how much of their influence was actually good? Blair Witch, especially, spawned a string of awful, tedious shaky cam knockoffs.
Sure, Fight Club came out. It also made $37mil. Which is more than the Iron Giant made. Or Being John Malkovich. then, as now, there's lots of great movies being made just outside the mainstream. Maybe later film audiences will catch up with Lady Bird or Logan Lucky... or maybe not. Such is life.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 1:35 pm to Baloo
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and a nearly forgotten comedy that spawned a franchise
spy who shagged me was second in the austin powers trilogy
Posted on 2/6/18 at 1:40 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
Like I kept track the order of the friggin Austin Powers movies.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 1:40 pm to RLDSC FAN
Office Space
Posted on 2/6/18 at 2:51 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Office Space
Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:05 pm to Baloo
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American Pie won the Oscar, and it's a piece of garbage.
Would you say the apple pie scene or the Jim/Nadia scene was the Oscar winning moment of American Pie?
Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:12 pm to Baloo
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We simply don't remember that 1999 had just as much dreck as now
It think it’s true that when we look back we get a better appreciation for the overall quality in a given year then in the here and now in most cases. But ever year has plenty of crap especially if we go off box office numbers. 1994 gets mentioned as one of the 2-3 best years for cinema history and the #5 grossing film was The Flintstones
From the best picture nominees 94,97,98 are all outstanding.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:28 pm to jchamil
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Would you say the apple pie scene or the Jim/Nadia scene was the Oscar winning moment of American Pie?
I think it was Stiffler swallowing Kevin’s load from the cup of beer that really did it.
Or perhaps Jim stocking his junk in the Apple pie.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:33 pm to Baloo
The top 10 highest grossing movies of 1999 included 7 original ideas. 2017? 6 sequels and 4 reboots.
My favorites of the year?
Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, The Green Mile, Office Space, Any Given Sunday, American Pie, Analyze This, October Sky
My favorites of the year?
Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, The Green Mile, Office Space, Any Given Sunday, American Pie, Analyze This, October Sky
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Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:34 pm to jchamil
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Would you say the apple pie scene or the Jim/Nadia scene was the Oscar winning moment of American Pie?
Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:52 pm to Bench McElroy
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2007 was a better year for movies than 1999. There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men and Zodiac all came out that year not to mention films like Assassination of Jesse James, Knocked Up, American Gangster, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, etc...
I'm not sure it was better, but it is at least in its class. 2007 was probably the last great year.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:58 pm to Baloo
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Like I kept track the order of the friggin Austin Powers movies.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 3:59 pm to Baloo
Pretty sure American Pie didn't win the Oscar that year...American Beauty I think is the title you were looking for.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 4:01 pm to Othello
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All I know is 2017 was about as bad as I can remember for movies.
2016 was much, much worse. I don't think it's even a contest. I think the only time I left the theater giddy was "Kubo and the Two Strings". I liked La La Land, but it's not really my cup of tea. Deadpool was pretty cool. But if we were to do my Top 10 from the past 2 years, I'm not sure a single one from 2016 makes the list.
Posted on 2/6/18 at 4:06 pm to partywiththelombardi
American Pie would've been a better choice.
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