BOT Retrospective - Top 25 Movies of 1999. Full list revealed

[baumer]

2 minutes ago, captainwondyful said:

It is my least favorite of the Disney 90s Era.  You can't go from effing Alan Menken and Elton John to the drummer from Genesis who wrote Sussudio. Nope.

 

You mean from the guy who wrote Take Take Me Home and In The Air Tonight?  Yep, horrible writer there.  

[baumer]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

#20

 

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Notting Hill

#1 on 2 lists

Top 5 on 3 lists

Appears on 21 lists

 

 

 

One of my all time favorite romcoms. Features peak Julia Roberts and peak Hugh Grant and a great soundtrack for a romcom. A lot of iconic scenes as well.  This might have also been the final hurrah for the romcom as Roberts aged out of the roles and the crown of romcom queen was passed to Katherine Heigl.

 

Notting Hill also features one of the best romcom endings

 

 

 

 

 

Also one of my faves.  It's funny and sweet and as you mentioned, has one of the all time great endings.  

[grim22]

#111-138

 

I didn't verify eligibility, just took them as they came in

 

111	Drive Me Crazy
112	Trick
113	Analyze This
114	Blue Streak
115	Double Jeopardy
116	Drop Dead Gorgeous
117	True Crime
118	8MM
119	anywhere but here
120	Mansfield Park
121	Late August, Early September
122	Shiri
123	Get Real
124	Sweet and Lowdown
125	Taboo
126	An Ideal Husband
127	Brokedown Palace
128	the bone collector
129	Baby Geniuses
130	Flawless
131	Message In a bottle
132	chill factor
133	following
134	house on haunted hill
135	Ravenous
136	SLC Punk!
137	The Rage: Carrie 2
138	Wing Commander

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

129 Baby Geniuses

[baumer]

I had Brokedown Palace on my list.  I'm truly shocked that anyone could put Wing Commander on their list.  That is a true pos, imo.

[TalismanRing]

Just now, captainwondyful said:

It is my least favorite of the Disney 90s Era.  You can't go from effing Alan Menken and Elton John to the drummer from Genesis who wrote Sussudio. Nope.

It's near the bottom for that era fr me as well yet still good enough for top 25 of 1999

 

I prefer to remember Phil for White Nights' Separate Lives (but then I like to think about Baryshnikov & Hines)

 

[grim22]

#19

 

Spoiler

The Talented Mr. Ripley

#1 on 1 list

Top 5 on 5 lists

Appears on 26 lists

 

 

 

Matt Damon playing against type in his most chilling performance. This was a genuine thriller, almost like a Catch Me If You Can, just with more deceit and way more murder. 

 

 

[TalismanRing]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

#19

 

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

#1 on 1 list

Top 5 on 5 lists

Appears on 26 lists

 

 

 

Matt Damon playing against type in his most chilling performance. This was a genuine thriller, almost like a Catch Me If You Can, just with more deceit and way more murder. 

 

 

Patricia Highsmith - a hell of a writer who really knew her way around dark and twisted.

[cannastop]

7 minutes ago, grim22 said:

The Talented Mr. Ripley

I think I might have seen this on PBS when I was very young. Kind of weird.

[Maxmoser3]

My top films:

American Pie

South Park

Big Daddy

Dogma

Payback 

Varsity Blues

Blair Witch Project

House On Haunted Hill

Fight Club 

End Of Days

Stir Of Echoes

Deep Blue Sea

8MM

Blue Streak

Bowfinger

Austin Powers Spy Who Shagged Me

Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo

 

Good as teen but might like as an adult:

Rage Carrie 2

 

Need to revisit: 

The Mummy

Bats 

Analyze This

World Is Not Enough

Toy Story 2

Lake Placid

 

need to watch:

The Matrix

Entrapment 

Go

Idle Hands

 

Worst:

Life  

Wild Wild West and The Haunting Saw them on tape May have to rewatch to laugh at them or I may like them lol. 

 

A great year of films! 

Edited August 3, 2019 by Maxmoser3

[grim22]

#18

 

Spoiler

The Blair Witch Project

#1 on 0 lists

Top 5 on 6 lists

Appears on 24 lists

 

 

 

 

Writeup by @baumer

 

As much as this film is a horror by definition, it is more of a psychological study of the human spirit. This movie asks the question " How much can a human being take before we lose it?" And on that level The Blair Witch Project is perfect. We see three people that start off with good intentions and ambitious spirits and then we watch them unravel as fear sets in. And all throughout this film I kept asking myself how would I react if I was in the same situation? And the answer that I came to was,probably the same way that these three did. When you have human beings in what is seemingly a dire problem and an impossible location, how does that affect you? Do you laugh about it? Do you freak out on each other? Do you look for blame? Are you frightened? The answer to those questions is "Yes". You do all of them. The characters in this film are real people and what we see them go through is real....to an extent.  The "actors" were never in jeopardy or any real danger, but all the situations we see them in, although scripted, are genuine reactions.  Each actor was given notes as to what they were going to do but all of the reactions in the film are genuine.  And that is what makes this film as good as it is. We feel that we are watching this happen to three people that we know because the film actually gives us time to understand these characters. IMO, this is one of the more frightening films of the last 20 years.  And what makes it scary is the fear of not knowing. No one knows what it is that they are hearing. No one knows what it is that you see in that bundle of wood. It's red and wet and looks like blood and skin, but what exactly is it? Not knowing what's scaring these three people is terrifying. And it also has one of the best endings for any horror film.  Mike standing in the corner and Heather reacting to it left me terrified as I left the theatre.  It's not a film for everyone, but for those, like me, who loved it and appreciated it, it left an indelible mark.  Box office wise, it was made on a budget of $30,000.  The marketing budget initially was non existent as well.  But they put "person missing posters" up around Cannes when it played there.  Artisan and Daniel Myrick and Edward Sanchez were also one of the first producers to use viral marketing to their advantage.  And when all the dust cleared, it made 250 million dollars WW and it made millionaires out of Myrick and Sanchez, plus, as promised, they gave a cut to the three actors.  Heather Donahue, Mike Williams and Joshua Leonard all received 3 million dollars as a thank you.  This is truly one of the films that changed the landscape of Hollywood.  

 

[baumer]

Max...you haven't seen Matrix?  😲

[baumer]

@Avatree...why the not cool emoji for my Cruel Intentions comment?

[SchumacherFTW]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

@Avatree...why the not cool emoji for my Cruel Intentions comment?

Too old for him

[grim22]

My apologies, @chasmmi pointed out that Cruel Intentions was #1 on his list and it was listed as zero #1 votes. Turns out that i miscalculated the #1s list. I adopted a new scoring mechanism last year with 30 points for #1 instead of 25, but the #1 list generator was still looking for 25 points, so it was actually the #2s list.

 

My apologies again. The actual #1 on number of lists for the movies so far

 

Only Cruel Intentions and Talented Mr Ripley were #1 on 1 list each. All other movies haven't been #1 on any list.

 

Also, this means that the movie with most #1s also won the countdown,

[cannastop]

3 minutes ago, grim22 said:

My apologies again. The actual #1 on number of lists for the movies so far

 

Only Cruel Intentions and Talented Mr Ripley were #1 on 1 list each. All other movies haven't been #1 on any list.

 

Also, this means that the movie with most #1s also won the countdown,

huh.

 

This doesn't affect the order, does it?

[DAR]

20 minutes ago, grim22 said:

#18

 

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The Blair Witch Project

#1 on 0 lists

Top 5 on 6 lists

Appears on 24 lists

 

 

 

 

Writeup by @baumer

 

As much as this film is a horror by definition, it is more of a psychological study of the human spirit. This movie asks the question " How much can a human being take before we lose it?" And on that level The Blair Witch Project is perfect. We see three people that start off with good intentions and ambitious spirits and then we watch them unravel as fear sets in. And all throughout this film I kept asking myself how would I react if I was in the same situation? And the answer that I came to was,probably the same way that these three did. When you have human beings in what is seemingly a dire problem and an impossible location, how does that affect you? Do you laugh about it? Do you freak out on each other? Do you look for blame? Are you frightened? The answer to those questions is "Yes". You do all of them. The characters in this film are real people and what we see them go through is real....to an extent.  The "actors" were never in jeopardy or any real danger, but all the situations we see them in, although scripted, are genuine reactions.  Each actor was given notes as to what they were going to do but all of the reactions in the film are genuine.  And that is what makes this film as good as it is. We feel that we are watching this happen to three people that we know because the film actually gives us time to understand these characters. IMO, this is one of the more frightening films of the last 20 years.  And what makes it scary is the fear of not knowing. No one knows what it is that they are hearing. No one knows what it is that you see in that bundle of wood. It's red and wet and looks like blood and skin, but what exactly is it? Not knowing what's scaring these three people is terrifying. And it also has one of the best endings for any horror film.  Mike standing in the corner and Heather reacting to it left me terrified as I left the theatre.  It's not a film for everyone, but for those, like me, who loved it and appreciated it, it left an indelible mark.  Box office wise, it was made on a budget of $30,000.  The marketing budget initially was non existent as well.  But they put "person missing posters" up around Cannes when it played there.  Artisan and Daniel Myrick and Edward Sanchez were also one of the first producers to use viral marketing to their advantage.  And when all the dust cleared, it made 250 million dollars WW and it made millionaires out of Myrick and Sanchez, plus, as promised, they gave a cut to the three actors.  Heather Donahue, Mike Williams and Joshua Leonard all received 3 million dollars as a thank you.  This is truly one of the films that changed the landscape of Hollywood.  

 

It’s probably my least favorite movie ever

[grim22]

#17

 

Spoiler

10 Things I Hate About You

#1 on 2 lists

Top 5 on 8 lists

Appears on 26 lists

 

 

 

 

 

 

My personal favorite teen movie of this year. An adaptation of The Taming Of The Shrew, this movie instantly catapulted Heath Ledger into the mainstream and has a very talented young cast, each of whom went on to bigger things and one of whom is a cult leader in Hollywood now.

 

It also has the iconic Heath Ledger singing scene

 

 

 

[grim22]

4 minutes ago, cannastop said:

huh.

 

This doesn't affect the order, does it?

No, order is the same. Just affects one aspect, that is the #1 on X lists. 

[baumer]

3 minutes ago, DAR said:

It’s probably my least favorite movie ever