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Chaz

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  1. Did you read the set visit at AICN? He revealed a third act spoiler that's a lot different from the book. Made me less excited.
  2. Moonlight is one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. And and I saw it in October 2016, months before anyone had even heard of it. /calledit
  3. And Ryan Phillipe in that towel. ❤️ Starship Troopers is getting a 4K release in September. I need to pick that up. I loved that movie and haven't seen it in years. It was a lot of fun at the time.
  4. 1997 was another stellar year. Some of my favorites: The Fifth Element L.A. Confidential Anastasia Boogie Nights Hercules Event Horizon Scream 2 I Know What You Did Last Summer Grosse Point Blank Princess Mononoke Wag the Dog Plus, it was the debut of a home video WOM monster: Austin Powers. It performed modestly at the box office, but became a monster hit on home video which led to two huge sequels. Howard Stern had a #1 book, album and movie in '97, along with having the #1 radio show in the country. He was at the peak of his power. A group of friends and I went to see Spawn for one of our birthdays. It was my first R-rated movie at the theater. We all liked it, but again, that film has not aged well. Things that were exciting at ten are not so much at 30. Another movie that has held up well over the years is the vehicle that made Jennifer Lopez a star...Selena. I'd argue that it has been seen by more young people today than most of the movies in the top ten for '97. It has had incredible staying power.
  5. Its biggest weekend was actually Christmas '97. It took in $35 million. It made $32 million over the four day Valentine's Day weekend in '98. Just imagine that number...nearly two months after release. Lordy!
  6. It spent 16 weeks at #1! That was an incredible feat in 1998, when people still bought albums. It blocked Madonna's Ray of Light, widely considered one of the best Pop albums of the decade, from getting the #1 spot. It also kept Shania Twain's Come on Over, the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist in the U.S., from hitting #1. Interesting side note: Celine's "My Heart Will Go On" only spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. At the time, a song was only eligible to chart if it had a commercially released CD single. They never released a single for the song until the end of its run, and they only made a limited number. It quickly sold out and allowed the song to debut at #1 on the Hot 100 and stay there for two weeks. If they had released a single earlier, it likely would have ranked among the biggest #1 hits of all time.
  7. The pop culture behemoth. It was absolutely inescapable. We haven't seen anything like it since. I was in the fifth grade when it released, and I did not see it in theaters. I grew up in a small town and the nearest movie theater was 45 minutes away, so I wasn't able to see it even though I was totally into the mania surrounding it. I had to lie to my friends when they talked about it and pretend that I had seen it too. I probably played "My Heart Will Go On" six times a day for weeks. I still listen to it every couple of weeks. One of the best songs of the '90s. The VHS released on September 1, 1998. I faked sick that morning so that I would be able to stay with my grandmother. She took me to Wal-Mart and the two-taped release was in a huge cardboard display at the front door. We went back to her house and I was finally, after 10 months, able to see Titanic. I eventually owned it on DVD (The 2005 Commemorative Edition is still the definitive) and Blu-ray. I still have to watch every time it plays on T.V. Just one of those classics that has ridiculous staying power.
  8. I don't think there is a person under 35 who couldn't sing you "Make a Man Out of You."
  9. For my money, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is below only Beauty and the Beast on the list of greatest animated films of the '90s. Take out the gargoyles and you have a perfect film.
  10. 1996 was a pretty great year. Some of my favorites: The First Wives Club Beavis and Butt-head Do America The Hunchback of Notre Dame Mars Attacks! The Birdcage Matilda The People vs. Larry Flynt The Craft Happy Gilmore Evita Space Jam (pure nostalgia) The Frighteners The Rock Jingle All The Way (pure nostalgia; I love a '90s economy movie) The Mirror Has Two Faces And, of course, Scream, ID4, Twister (horrible fucking movie, but I loved it at 10), Jerry Maguire, 101 Dalmatians, Fargo and Sling Blade.
  11. I want John Cena to take my asscheeks in each of his hands and then rip me in half like a phone book.
  12. Love me some Scream! I was just the right age to start enjoying Horror movies when Scream released in '96. I turned ten years old that year and Scream really scared me. I even love the teen slasher flicks that it inspired, like I Know What You Did Last Summer. That movie had a lot more gay subtext that I gravitated toward, though.
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