BOT Retrospective - Top 25 Movies of 1999. Deadline July 31. PM your lists to me.

[dxmatrixdt]

watching Following for the first time.  is it supposed to be any good or different from what i am seeing?  it premiered in Canada in 1998, but elsewhere in 1999.  is it eligible or any good?

it reminds me to hope that middle/low-class college student applicants refuse any trade school or engineering for philosophy or math classes.

and become a stoner and trip out to movies and think the t.v. is after you

Edited July 25, 2019 by 2010s Painkiller Race

[baumer]

Do you think maybe we could bump the dead lineup by week? I don't think we need another full seven days to get in lists. I'm very curious to see what finishes at number one for the year.

[dxmatrixdt]

is Tumbleweeds any good?

[Wrath]

Wow, that was brutal. I had to leave off a half-dozen movies that in most years would have been absolute locks to make the list, and there are still a few good ones from 1999 I haven't even seen yet like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and The Insider.

Edited July 25, 2019 by Wrath

[Rorschach]

1. Toy Story 2

2. Eyes Wide Shut

3. The Sixth Sense

4. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

5. The Iron Giant

6. Tarzan

7. Galaxy Quest

8. Sleepy Hollow

9. The Matrix

10. American Pie

[That One Girl]

Wanted to at least watch a few things before I submit a list for this, so I decided to play it safe and watch acclaimed Best Picture winner American Beauty.

 

What an awful movie lol

[Tower]

4 hours ago, That One Guy said:

Wanted to at least watch a few things before I submit a list for this, so I decided to play it safe and watch acclaimed Best Picture winner American Beauty.

 

What an awful movie lol

I didn't think it was awful, just mediocre. But having it as the best film of the year seems ridiculous to me in any year, much less such a great year like 1999.

[CoolioD1]

4 hours ago, That One Guy said:

Wanted to at least watch a few things before I submit a list for this, so I decided to play it safe and watch acclaimed Best Picture winner American Beauty.

 

What an awful movie lol

no but it's good that Kevin Spacey learned from that movie that trying it with teenagers is Not OK.

Edited July 26, 2019 by CoolioD1

[DAR]

American Beauty makes a good argument for a five year later Oscars

[Jake Gittes]

What's funny is i read American Beauty was actually considered a "cool" winner back then following the streak of Gump, Braveheart, English Patient, Titanic and Shakespeare in Love. You can see why, yet it's aged way worse than some of those movies.

[Sue Denim]

My top 10 (and not ashamed to admit that I liked "American Beauty" more than most...):

 

1.  Magnolia

2. American Beauty

3. Office Space

4. Go

5. The Green Mile

6. The Matrix

7. Thomas Crown Affair

8. Fight Club

9. Boy's Don't Cry

10. Election

[filmlover]

Gonna compile and submit my list either Monday or Tuesday when I'll finally have the time.

[Webslinger]

I... actually still really love American Beauty? I re-watched it a few months ago and its themes still resonate really well, even if it's dated and watching Kevin Spacey in that particular role is now awkward as all hell.

 

I'm hoping to catch a few more flicks in the days remaining before the deadline, but I have a list I could live with now.

[Morieris]

Oh thank god this board got bumped bc I had the time to write some out but couldn't find it.

[CoolioD1]

American Beauty has aged poorly because now 20 years later we're all enlightened enough to know there's nothing beautiful about a plastic bag that's non reusable! 

[Morieris]

1. The Matrix
2. Tarzan
3. Toy Story 2
4. Life
5. Galaxy Quest
6. The Iron Giant
7. The Sixth Sense
8. Mystery Men
9. Pokemon The First Movie
10. Deep Blue Sea
11. Stewart Little
12. Phantom Menace

 

More than I thought and also less than I thought.

[Cap]

TBH, I feel like just ranking all the films that came out in 1999 would've been easier.

 

Sent mine in.  American Beauty did not make the list.  

[grim22]

33 lists in already. This is definitely going to be the highest participation in a non year-end list.

[dxmatrixdt]

getting these out here while i feel like spewing out my guts

- Following - 85

- 13th Floor - 91

- Jakob the Liar - 71

- Cradle Will Rock - 83

- Bowfinger - 65

- The Mod Squad - 63

- Random Hearts - 64

 

[baumer]

On 7/26/2019 at 5:53 AM, Jake Gittes said:

What's funny is i read American Beauty was actually considered a "cool" winner back then following the streak of Gump, Braveheart, English Patient, Titanic and Shakespeare in Love. You can see why, yet it's aged way worse than some of those movies.

 

I completely disagree.  American Beauty, imo, is still one of the ten greatest films ever made.  You can hate Spacey all you want but that doesn't take away from the sheer brilliance of American Beauty.