1999: last great year of cinema

Was 1999 cinema’s last great year?



(best ignore the last part, the argument put forward against by the feminist, LGBT idiot)

 

last great year? nah

 

Read it.
Offer up an alternative year.

 

2007 stands out.

No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, Eastern Promises, Gone Baby Gone, Juno, The Assassination of Jesse James, and Michael Clayton all came out that year.

The first two are cinematic masterpieces, and the rest were very good/excellent.

 

2018 baby!

Black Panther
Avengers: Infinity War
Aquaman
Deadpool 2
Bohemian Rhapsody
Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse

 

It does, but compare to:
Being John Malkovich
Magnolia
Fight Club
Election
Rushmore
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
Three Kings
Office Space
The Insider
Bringing Out the Dead
Eyes Wide Shut
Summer of Sam
Ghost Dog : The Way of the Samurai
Man on the Moon
The Talented Mr Ripley

The sheer amount of great movies in that year is really tough to beat.

 

Without comic book movies the last few years would have sucked twice as much as they presently do.

 

i'll give it the Sixth Sense, and Being John Malkovich...the rest of the movies are no better or worse than the following few years

 

Although I never saw BJM, I’d add Fight Club and The Matrix to that list and from there agree that the remaining movies from that list that I have seen are just ok.

 

There's at least ten on that list that rate 7-8/10

 

a 7-8/10 is not a 'great' movie though

 

Wow. What a year!

 

but googling 'movies from 2000' or 'movies from 2001', etc produces ok results too....1999 could be better but not miles ahead

 

Shows how shitty movies have become now that studios are basically making movies for China

 

I'd actually say that Three Kings is the best movie on that list.

 

From these years, I really liked:
Gladiator
American Psycho
Meet The Parents
Remember The Titans
The Perfect Storm
High Fidlelity
Men Of Honor
Boiler Room
Mulholand Drive
Oceans 11
Training Day
Blackhawk Down
The Royal Tenembaums
Blow
Jeepers Creepers

But a lot of these are fun, entertainment pieces, I guess.

 

It's hard to beat 1974:

Chinatown
GF II
The Conversation
The Parallax View
The Taking of Pelham 123
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Towering Inferno
Murder on the Orient Express
California Split
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Black Christmas
The Gambler
The Sugarland Express

 

I think Traffic is the best movie made between 2000-2001.

 

Never seen it!

 

You're a movie buff and never saw Traffic? Da fuck?

It's one of the best movies of the 00s.

 

1977 RULES!

Star Wars
Close Encounters of The Third Kind
Annie Hall
Saturday Night Fever
The Goodbye Girl
Sorcerer
Kentucky Fried Movie
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Duelists
Looking For Mr. Goodbar
The Duelists
Smokey & The Bandit
SlapShot
Eraserhead
Suspiria
A Bridge Too Far
The Gauntlet
Pumping Iron
One on One

 

74 beats 77.

Chinatown, GF II, and The Conversation are all better than any films on that list.

I think Sorcerer is the best of 77, btw.

 

Seriously?

 

It's obviously Fight Club. Good shout on Sorcerer for 77, great movie. The Duelists is also an underrater film.

 

ROTFL 'Sorcerer' a remake of an old french film 'Wages of Fear' better than Star Wars? That film got mixed reviews and bombed at the box office too. Through the years it has harvested better reviews from people who never saw the original. But that is basically it. Good film, but not better than many others in my list.

 

It's not a remake, just based on the same novel. I'd say it's the best movie on your list, but it's all subjective of course.

 

Everything is subjective when it comes to art either it be movies, music or a painting. I still consider Picasso extremely overrated and his art pure shit while some people rated him above DaVinci, Michael Angelo, Rubens or Rembrandt.

 

Yeah, The Duelists was very good.

 

We're grown now, Panch. Star Wars is fucking gay.