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Wow what a great set of movies too
by ianwalter 2y ago
Wow what a great set of movies too
- jedberg 2y ago1999 is considered by many enthusiasts as a peak movie year. It was a great cap to a great year. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1999-01-01,1999-12-31 https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...
- ianwalter 2y agoI guess I never really thought about it, but yea a lot of bangers on that list
- cjbgkagh 2y agoOh that explains it, I thought it was just when I came of age. I did become suspicious that perhaps it wasn’t just a personal bias when I noticed the same movies on lists made by very different age groups.
- jedberg 2y agoI graduated in 1995 in LA. Going to the movies was something most of us did every weekend. Just show up and get a ticket for the next thing you haven’t seen yet. Many consider 1994 the best single year for movies ever. I got really lucky that that was also my peak movie going year.
- alex1138 2y ago1994: Shawshank, Forrest Gump... can't think of others right now
- Lio 2y agoPulp Fiction and Shallow Grave were two from 1994 that spring to mind for me.
- jedberg 2y agohttps://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1994-01-01,1994-12-31 https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas... Pulp Fiction Lion King The Mask Four Weddings and a Funeral Dumb and Dumber The Crow Speed True Lies Interview with the Vampire Natural Born Killers Ace Ventura Stargate Clerks The list goes on. Lot's of movies that turned out to be classics or cult classics, or the start of some great careers.
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- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoIt was around this time, in a little city of about 15,000, in South Australia, when my mum received a gift and voucher from Blockbuster for being in the top ten for most movie rentals in one year. This was a time when movies were on VHS tapes, and there was a bit before the start of the movie that said something like “have you seen every movie ever made?”[1] And at the time it certainly felt like we had watch nearly everything that store and one other had over the previous five years. 1. https://youtu.be/VfuzebAAesk?si=z3-HYkZwJK6mmtWP https://youtu.be/VfuzebAAesk?si=z3-HYkZwJK6mmtWP - I think there was at least a couple variations
- j45 2y agoThat is one pretty unbelievable list.
- vladgur 2y agoOf course it was peak - the Matrix came out
- globular-toast 2y agoNobody even knows about Dark City which came out the same year. Because the freaking Matrix came out too. That's just how many good films there were that year. If Dark City came out today it would be lauded as most original thing in a decade.
- IOT_Apprentice 2y agoDon’t forget about Equlibrium with Christian Bale as a Tetragrammaton Cleric. Gunkata.
- koudelka 2y agoDon’t forget about The 13th Floor, also from 1999.
- vladgur 2y agoYoure right, Dark City was amazing. But the elevator lobby shootout from Matrix -- that scene ruled my home theater configuration for at least a decade
- OliveMate 2y agoWorth mentioning Office Space as well for 99. All three of those films comprise the Pre-Millennium paranoid, existential, system of control trilogy.
- lazystar 2y agohuh, american beauty was 99. i always remember the "plastic bag caught in the wind" scene - when i was in middle school, years before i saw the movie, i was sitting on the sidelines during football practice and saw a plastic bag caught in the wind. it was hypnotizing, enrapturing - i dont know how long i watched, but that floating bag caught against the side of the school building was one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen.
- globular-toast 2y agoIt was peak music too. I really don't think things have got much better since 1999. If you watch/listen to something even from 1997 it seems dated. But 99? Could have been made yesterday.
- auselen 2y agoI wasn’t aware of this, was still a teenager at that time. May be because of this I was never impressed with later years…
- JKCalhoun 2y agoI punched in 1972 and there were some fantastic movies that year (The Godfather, Deliverance, Cabaret, Solaris, Jeremiah Johnson, Aguirre - the Wrath of God, The Last House on the Left, Silent Running, The Heartbreak Kid, Fat City, etc.). Also tried 1973 — same (The Day of the Jackal, Soylent Green, Westworld, The Wicker Man, Papillon, American Graffiti, The Sting, Serpico, Mean Streets, High Plains Drifter, Don't Look Now, Badlands, The Long Goodbye, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Three Musketeers, Fantastic Planet, etc.). I think they simply made better movies decades ago.
- kizer 2y agoMaybe if they stopped the endless reboots, remakes, sequels and derivatives. There’s still a good one every once in a while. Oh well, I know what movie I’m watching today… you’ll shoot your eye out, kid!
- JKCalhoun 2y agoWelcome to Hollywood's two decades of superhero movies.... I'm sure historians will greedily watch many of the classics of this early part of the 21st Century. It's Christmas, I shouldn't be so negative. I think I'll indulge in Alastair Sims' version of "A Christmas Carol".
- cjbgkagh 2y agoIt’s the J.J. Abrams misery box storytelling that ruined most TV shows / movies for me. Turning lazy writing from a vice into a virtue. Many shows now feel like they’re actively and intentionally wasting my time, ironically curing me of my desire to watch TV/Movies freeing up time for better uses. The other lazy writing is the lack of conflict resolution enabling a continuous source of needless conflict, making an entire show out of a situation that could have easily been resolved if there had been a single ‘adult’ in the room. This has the added problem of normalizing the extreme confrontational or evasive communication styles as opposed to productive engagements. I guess this is what happens when TV raises a generation and then that generation goes on to make their own TV shows, each cycle worse than the previous. As bad as ‘engagement’/‘rage bait’ YouTubers are now I shudder to imagine what the next generation would bring.
- tux 2y agoThe Mummy (1999) was the first theater movie for me, it was an epic experience!