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By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Toasted Heretic
Subjective. For me, I'd say the greatest decade (can't knock it down to a year) would be the 70s.
Taxi Driver, The Godfather, The Conversation, The French Connection, The Excorcist, Sorcerer, Star Wars, Jaws, Enter the Dragon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mean Streets, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Wickerman, Apocalypse Now... for starters.
BackpackingNepal
Try to put 'American' movies on each sentences.
For European and Asian Cinema, Every year is the best.
CrazyGaijin
I'm not really sure what constitutes as the greatest year for movies, but I do know that it definitely wasn't in the last ten years: a decade of CGI superhero drivel and independent psuedo-moralistic nonsense.
rainyday
Mystery Men was far and away the best movie of 1999, how could that not merit a mention?
1glenn
The fact that "American Beauty" got Best Picture shows how bad the choices were for that honor. In most years, "American Beauty" would not even have been nominated.
IMO, 1939 remains the best year ever for movies.
Ah_so
I obviously meant 94 and 99.
FizzBit
The first Star Wars was 77, the second just made it into the 80’s with a May 1980 release.
Ah_so
If you think that Rush Hour makes 1998 one of the greatest years in the history of cinema I don't think many will agree.
The 2 great years for cinema in the 1990s were 94 and 98.
Joe Blow
Plus, American audiences got A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly all in 1967.
I mean, wow.
Serrano
1999 best year for movies? Close, but no cigar. That would be 1998 being as how that year included The Big Lebowski, Rush Hour and Mercury Rising.
Ah_so
And let's not forget the Back to the Future trilogy.
But I have a hunch you are fondly remembering what are essentially children's movies from your own childhood.
Derek Grebe
It was certainly a great year for Bond Films. The World Is Not Enough - easily Top Three material.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143145/
Fight Club, Green Mile, Magnolia, Girl, Interrupted (featuring A++ Angelina), Dogma, Galaxy Quest and Mystery Men...this chap might be onto something. Certainly a good year for films.
JapanFan
Missed them all.
goldorak
That's a very us-centric perspective imo.
Christopher Pelham
I’ll give him that it was in some sense significant that a new Star Wars trilogy started and that Blair Witch pioneered hand held movie making and online marketing, but Phantom Menace is widely regarded as so so and Blair Witch is actually a terrible movie. The Matrix was innovative and has had a huge impact on culture. American Beauty will I think hold up. But to compare that lot with some of the other classic years is nuts.
Take 1974: Godfather Part II, Chinatown, A Woman Under the Influence, Blazing Saddles, The Conversation, to name just a few.
Or 1967: The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night, Bonnie & Clyde, In Cold Blood, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Belle du Jour....
Kenji Fujimori
Nope, 80s movies rule. Original trilogy of Star Wars, Indiana Jones l and everything else basically. An era when optimistic thinking was high and no sensitive SJW folks then too.
FizzBit
I have to admit, some very great movies from 1999, but the best year ever? Hardly. Movies from 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976 are just as great.
Joe Blow
It wasn't the best ever but it was a great year. Saw almost every one of these films in theaters.
Can't think of a year since that came close.
Hubert Gulletchip
1999 was a great year. 1994 was a superb year! There have been many years of great movies. Since the dawn of filmmaking.