re: Unpopular Opinion: 1999 is the best year for movies

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In the Mouth of Madness

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I'm a big fan of HPL. This movie was decent, but nothing special.

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If I had more time on my hands I'd go digging to see what year did the movie industry in. The shite they've been putting in theaters the past few years has been horse shite.

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The comic book/tent pole era vacuumed up all the money into one pile

Studios now will take bigger budget risks for these massive properties only needing one to pan out to make money (also knowing they can fudge the numbers to cover any major losses) instead of taking a ton of other smaller risks with lesser reward


And I don’t want anyone to take this as an indictment on those tent poles/franchises themselves- they put out fun movies and they make a frick ton of money and it’s well done a lot of the time— there is just simply an inadvertent cost or response of that happening which is squeezing out other genres

On the other hand I think it’s the same mechanism that has lead to a rise in horror movies and their quality in the past few years. They are one of the few types of movies that are dirt cheap to make, while having a massive ceiling for ticket sales, and usually an ability to stretch across multiple sequels

You missed some good ones from 1999:

Election
The Limey
Go
The Hurricane
Bringing out the Dead
Ravenous
October Sky

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1995

Braveheart
Usual Suspects
Seven
12 Monkeys
Casino
Toy Story
Heat

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I don't think anything is beating this here. Impressive AF

1962

Lawrence Of Arabia
Dr. No
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lolita
The Longest Day
Hari Kiri
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Cape Fear
Jules And Jim
The Exterminating Angel
The Music Man
The Manchurian Candidate
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
Knife In The Water
Mutiny On The Bounty

The fact that Phantom Menace and Blair Witch were both '99 films, drags your theory down to the bottom of the ocean.

1996 Lots of big summer blockbusters, lots of great comedies, lots of action/thrillers, lots of good kid movies.

Titanic
The Birdcage
Independence Day
Mission Impossible
Twister
Scream
Ransom
12 Monkeys
Executive Decision
Space Jam
Fargo
Don't be a Menace
Jerry Maguire
Happy Gilmore
Mars Attacks
The Rock
The Cable Guy
The Nutty Professor
101 Dalmations
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Eraser
The English Patient
From Dusk til Down
BioDome
Black Sheep
Primal Fear
The Craft
A Time to Kill
Matilda
First kid
Tin Cup
Mighty Ducks D3
Sleepers
Swingers
High School High
Romeo and Juliet
Jingle all the Way

and the two last but not least:
Barbwire & Striptease

and just last:
Kazaam