Best year for movies?

I want to think the six-month writers strike of mid-1988 was some contributing factor to the subpar films that were shot in '89 and released in 1990.

 

Logan’s Run? Or playboy?

 

A very partial list of 1999 movies, some of which I saw in the theater:
American Beauty* — Who's the king? Who's the king?
American Pie
Analyze This
Any Given Sunday
The Astronaut's Wife* — Odd film with a predictable ending.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Being John Malkovich
The Blair Witch Project* — Saw it before the "secret" was out. Creepy as hell.
Bowfinger* — Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin together in a not funny movie.
Boys Don't Cry
The Cider House Rules
Dogma* — Alanis as god
Double Jeopardy* — The year's worst film, and maybe the decade's worst. Ashley Judd's nadir, and that's saying something.
End of Days* — An unremarkable Arnold film.
Election
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club* — All jacked up on testosterone coming out of the theater. Didn't last.
Girl, Interrupted
The Green Mile
The Hurricane
Magnolia
Man on the Moon
The Matrix* — Kicked off the franchise, and made Keanu a box office draw.
October Sky
Runaway Bride
The Sixth Sense* — Literal goosebumps.
Sleepy Hollow* — Johnny Depp pretty much sucks, as does the movie. Cartoon was better.
Snow Falling on Cedars
South Park movie
Summer of Sam
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Three Kings* — Do the thing you're scared of, and the courage comes after. That's why I jumped off a cliff on the Buffalo River in Arkansas.
Toy Story 2
Varsity Blues
The Virgin Suicides
Wild, Wild West
The World is Not Enough* — "I thought Christmas only came once a year." Whole theater: groan

*Saw in theater

 

Hell of a year. Plus Notting Hill, the ultimate counter-programming opposite a terrible Star Wars.

 

I've seen each of those movies at least six times.

 

I saw Being John Malkovich with three or four other couples after we all drank a hell of a lot of wine over dinner.

Not the kind of movie you want to see in a theatre when you're even the least bit impaired. I've not seen it since.

 

Same with me and Sunshine Spotted Mind or whatever the fuck that was called

 

Well, to each their own. I thought it was pretty damn funny.

 

Originally was thinking 1994, but I'm gonna say 1993 was better:

Schindler's List
Jurassic Park
Groundhog Day
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Sandlot
The Fugitive
Sleepless in Seattle
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Philadelphia
Dazed and Confused
Rudy
Shadowlands
What's Love Got to Do With It
The Crying Game
Army of Darkness
Falling Down
Swing Kids
Lost in Yonkers
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Menace II Society
The Firm
Hocus Pocus
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Program
Cool Runnings
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Fatal Instinct
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

 

Spluh?

 

Lol I guess I moved the cursor there. Fixing that.

 

I know the Oscars have been moved up from March, but dang, I remember when they aired on the same night at the NCAA final. Probably a blessing for the actresses who can finally eat after a month long fast during awards season.