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The 50 Best Movies of 1999
Posted on 3/26/19 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 3/26/19 at 5:54 pm
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Welcome to 1999 Movies Week, a celebration of one of the best years in film history. Throughout the week, The Ringer will highlight some of the year’s best, most interesting films, but there’s no better way to prove what a high quality, diverse year ‘99 was at the box office than by ranking the movies.
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Top 10
1) Fight Club
How did this movie change popular culture? Functionally, the movie poster provided the sole piece of interior decorating in countless college men’s dorm rooms from 1999 to, roughly, 2010. More broadly speaking, Fight Club articulated a moment of inarticulate masculine alienation and rage that has only gotten louder and more grotesque as the years have gone by. Whether you consider the movie a warning, a sick burn, or an instruction manual depends on your point of view, but it’s not too much of a leap to say that much of what has happened to the world since ‘99—9/11 (Durden creepily makes reference to “ground zero”), Occupy Wall Street, Reddit, men’s rights, online troll culture, our obsession with diseases and maladies and our search for cures, hysteria about free speech and political correctness, the twilight of white men and late-period capitalism, the rise of MMA, and Donald Trump, to name just a few things off the top of my head—can be found in the cigarette-burned frames of this movie.
2) The Matrix
3) Office Space
4) Magnolia
5) The Talented Mr. Ripley
6) Election
7) The Blair Witch Project
8) 10 Things I Hate About You
9) The Sixth Sense
10) American Pie
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Posted on 3/26/19 at 5:54 pm to RLDSC FAN
Unpopular opinion:
Both The Matrix and Office Space should be over Fight Club
Both The Matrix and Office Space should be over Fight Club
Posted on 3/26/19 at 6:16 pm to RLDSC FAN
Stopped reading at Phantom menace coming in at number 21
Posted on 3/26/19 at 6:23 pm to Lawyered
The 50 Films Most-Liked by College Students, Both Ironically and Not, of 1999 (with just a few greats thrown in for good measure).
American Beauty at 26. The capsule review says nothing positive. If there's nothing positive to say, why is it on the list? Just because something won best picture doesn't mean it matters 20 years later. Often the opposite is true
American Beauty at 26. The capsule review says nothing positive. If there's nothing positive to say, why is it on the list? Just because something won best picture doesn't mean it matters 20 years later. Often the opposite is true
Posted on 3/26/19 at 6:29 pm to RLDSC FAN
Saying nothing about the ratings 1999 had plenty of movies this board reveres in there niches.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 6:31 pm to RLDSC FAN
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43. Galaxy Quest
Is a top 20 movie of 1999.
In fact, it's one of the best satires of all-time.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 7:21 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I don't want to live in a world where movies like Dogma and The Mummy are rated below She's All That and Deep Blue Sea
Posted on 3/26/19 at 8:24 pm to RLDSC FAN
Being John Malkovich at No. 17 is criminally low, IMO. My favorite movie of 1999. The Limey at 33 also seems low too.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 9:25 pm to RLDSC FAN
Whoever wrote this has horrible taste in movies.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 9:49 pm to RollTide1987
It's the Ringer... so of course it needs to be pretentious and edgy
Posted on 3/26/19 at 9:50 pm to RollTide1987
It feels almost consciously "anti-snooty."
Cruel Intentions is trashy fun. I have a hard time considering that kind of film the 14th best of a strong year. It's the 14th film of 1999 I'm most likely to watch with a large group of friends when the party is winding down.
I'm not going to check the article again for this, but did they mention in the intro that this is English-language only? We're missing some classic foreign cinema from 99.
Cruel Intentions is trashy fun. I have a hard time considering that kind of film the 14th best of a strong year. It's the 14th film of 1999 I'm most likely to watch with a large group of friends when the party is winding down.
I'm not going to check the article again for this, but did they mention in the intro that this is English-language only? We're missing some classic foreign cinema from 99.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 9:58 pm to RLDSC FAN
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I am quite fond of Magnolia.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 10:01 pm to RLDSC FAN
Fight club, IMO, is the most overrated critically praised movie of all time
Posted on 3/26/19 at 10:15 pm to Jay Are
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American Beauty at 26. The capsule review says nothing positive. If there's nothing positive to say, why is it on the list? Just because something won best picture doesn't mean it matters 20 years later. Often the opposite is true
She's bagging on it b/c of Spacey. Yes, he's a fricked up fricker but it's still a great movie.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 10:23 pm to cfish140
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Fight club, IMO, is the most overrated critically praised movie of all time
It was not critically praised. It was a critical and commercial flop that found a huge audience on DVD over the course of the early 2000s.
That said, I do think it is now overrated by the culture at large.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 11:19 pm to WicKed WayZ
Hard to argue Fight Club is not #1 of 1999...The Matrix, big budget pop hit notwithstanding, was disgustingly well done.
There should be little doubt about what flick gets #1 for 1998.
...but that's just like, my opinion, man.
There should be little doubt about what flick gets #1 for 1998.
...but that's just like, my opinion, man.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 11:23 pm to AlonsoWDC
Magnolia is in my top 5.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 10:32 am to CTexTiger
It's a weird list. I'm shocked The Ringer rated FIGHT CLUB so highly, as its not really their kind of movie. I love it, and think it is the best satire and deconstruction of American culture ever made, but damn, it is a dark, nihilistic film.
There's some classics buried low in the rankings like STRAIGHT STORY, BOWFINGER, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, GALAXY QUEST, GHOST DOG, THE LIMEY, and ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER... all of which I would've had in the top 25. But I do like that they gave head nods to some glorious trash CRUEL INTENTIONS and AMERICAN PIE, which have both aged surprisingly gracefully.
I dislike about half of their top 10. MAGNOLIA is one of my most hated critically acclaimed films, I loathe TALENTED MR RIPLEY with a depth I can hardly describe, THE SIXTH SENSE is gimmicky but okay I guess, and 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU is one of those movies that I get the cult for but geez... talk bout overselling it.
There's some classics buried low in the rankings like STRAIGHT STORY, BOWFINGER, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, GALAXY QUEST, GHOST DOG, THE LIMEY, and ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER... all of which I would've had in the top 25. But I do like that they gave head nods to some glorious trash CRUEL INTENTIONS and AMERICAN PIE, which have both aged surprisingly gracefully.
I dislike about half of their top 10. MAGNOLIA is one of my most hated critically acclaimed films, I loathe TALENTED MR RIPLEY with a depth I can hardly describe, THE SIXTH SENSE is gimmicky but okay I guess, and 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU is one of those movies that I get the cult for but geez... talk bout overselling it.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 11:08 am to Baloo
Just to try it, here would be my off-the-cuff top 10:
Fight Club
The Matrix
Audition
Office Space
Iron Giant
Being John Malkovich
Galaxy Quest
Blair Witch Project
Election
Bringing Out the Dead
And while not on my top 10, I'm sad to see these films not make the top 50 at all, as they likely would have made my personal list: Mystery Men, Arlington Road, Stir of Echoes, Payback, eXistenZ, Man in the Moon, Never Been Kissed, Boondock Saints, Titus, 200 Cigarettes, Pushing Tin, Cradle Will Rock
Fight Club
The Matrix
Audition
Office Space
Iron Giant
Being John Malkovich
Galaxy Quest
Blair Witch Project
Election
Bringing Out the Dead
And while not on my top 10, I'm sad to see these films not make the top 50 at all, as they likely would have made my personal list: Mystery Men, Arlington Road, Stir of Echoes, Payback, eXistenZ, Man in the Moon, Never Been Kissed, Boondock Saints, Titus, 200 Cigarettes, Pushing Tin, Cradle Will Rock
Posted on 3/27/19 at 11:36 am to RLDSC FAN
Stopped reading at Girl, Interrupted one spot below Pokemon: The First Movie.
Thanks for letting me know not to take this seriously at all.
Thanks for letting me know not to take this seriously at all.
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