Contributed By Guest Blogger WILL SHERROD
- We were asked to “Pick Flick.”
- A plastic bag in the wind became Oscar worthy art.
- Mr. Anderson took a slow-mo step down the rabbit hole.
- We learned the rules of a fight club.
- We got an inside look into the mind of John Malkovich.
- Three snot nosed teenagers stumbled into the wrong cabin.
- Lola ran. Over and over again.
- George Clooney, Marky Mark, and Ice Cube found some gold.
- A bunch of random people happened to sing an Aimee Mann song at the same time.
- Forrest Gump Jr. “saw dead people.”
The list goes on. I truly believe you could troll the last decade and be hard pressed to come up with ten movies that live up to the standard of originality produced in 1999. The last year of the 90’s was groundbreaking for the motion picture industry.
I feel like it was an echo from older pages of cinematic history (a 1970’s-style revolution). Sigh… Just coming up with this list makes me wish I could go back and party like it’s 1999.
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not to bring the mood down, but…
10 years ago, 2 kids walked into a Colorado high school and shot the place up…
We’re not doing much better these days…
I’m not sure if the above comment has anything to do with the post- but this one does!
Damn 99 was a great year. That was the year I woke up to music and writing as something I couldn’t quit. Many of those movies inspired me for sure.
Wow, I was 8 years old in 1999 and I saw most of those movies when they were released! (Fight Club is still my favorite movie of all time).
‘99 was a great year indeed.
Ryan, have you read Dave Cullen’s “COLUMBINE”? It’s fantastic.
Jay, I applaud your parents for letting you watch ‘Fight Club’ at the ripe ol’ age of 8. And, if you watched it without their prior consent, then I applaud you.
a great year. however, let us not forget the travesty that was The Phantom Menace.
Never thought about it, read the list of films, and you are right, it was an awesome year. I can remember where I saw each one of them.
That was a great movie summer…..remember seeing American Pie, Big Daddy, Sixth Sense, Blair Witch, all in the same theater. Good Times.
Wonderfully put. I was 17 in 1999 and I never thought I’d get the chance to say this but, when I was seventeen, it was a very good year…my name was Brian McGee, heh.