• Mikie
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    This didn’t fit in “what are you watching now” thread.

    Why 1999 Was Hollywood’s Greatest Year

    This got me thinking. 1999 really was a strong year. I would make a case for it being one of the best— but wondering about other years that I didn’t live through. What say y’all, if forced to choose?
  • jgill
    3.8k
    Paywall. I'm surprised people still go to movie houses to see a film. If one categorizes and focuses on westerns, for example, I suspect the Clint Eastwood spaghetti series might qualify. Just me. And not Hollywood.
  • Mikie
    6.7k
    I suspect the Clint Eastwood spaghetti series might qualify. Just me.jgill

    I like some of those too, but I was looking for a year.
  • Tom Storm
    9k
    Fin de siècle aside, I'm not especially keen on 1999's flicks. I don't have a favourite year, but my favourite decade is the 1970's. Most of those films I didn't see until the 1990's, when every film I saw from the 70's shat on the things being made then (and now). Or something like that.

    https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000019899/
  • AmadeusD
    2.5k
    The answer is 1994:

    - Leon: The Professional
    - The Crow
    - Natural Born Killers
    - Interview with the Vampire
    - Four Weddings and a Funeral
    - Corina Corina
    - Legends of the Fall
    - The Lion King
    - Forrest Gump
    - True Lies
    - Ed Wood
    - Bulets over Broadway
    - Pulp Fiction
    - Farinelli
    - Clear and Present Danger
    - Only You
    - Black Beauty
    - Don Juan
    - Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
    - The Shawshank Redemption
    - The River Wild
    - Stargate
    - It Could Happen To you
    - Immortal Beloved

    I could go on. Surely, this is a personal opinion. But its note debatable either ;)

    Same goes from albums. 1994 was an absolute watershed.
  • Tom Storm
    9k
    Fair enough. Of those, the only ones I liked/enjoyed were Leon; Natural Born Killers; Pulp Fiction. :wink:
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