My top 10 for 1998 Honorable mentions: Ring, Out of Sight, Gods and Monsters, Happiness, Black Cat White Cat, Buffalo 66, The Negotiator, The Daytrippers, What Dreams May Come, City of Angels. 10. Shakespeare in love 9. Open Your Eyes (original version of Vanilla Sky) 8. Hilary and Jackie (film of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre and her sister) 7. The Truman Show 6. Saving Private Ryan 5. The Thin Red Line 4. My Name is Joe (Ken Loach classic) 3. The Idiots 2. The Dreamlife of Angels (underrated French film about two young women trying to make a life for themselves in Lille) NUMBER ONE: FESTEN
Great video!! 1998 was a great year. I love The Truman Show and Big Lebowsky About 1999, my favourite movies would be: - BEING JOHN MALKOVICH - AMERICAN BEAUTY - THE SIXTH SENSE - FIGHT CLUB - THE MATRIX - THE GREEN MILE - EYES WIDE SHUT - THE THIRTEENTH LEVEL (maybe it's too similar to The Matrix, but I like it anyway) - DOGMA - MAGNOLIA - MYSTERY MEN (Best superhero parody ever, and it was made way before superhero movies were so common) - SOUTH PARK - OFFICE SPACE - IRON GIANT
Another fantastic list! I absolutely love your lists and narration. Thank you so much for suggesting so many wonderful movies for me to watch! Please keep these coming! 👍🏻❤️🎥🎞️🎬
I really love the music for Thin Red Line. Especially the unreleased tracks (ones heard in the film or alternate tracks) some of which ended up on the La La Land Records release.
My top 10 of 1998: 1. Babe: Pig in the City 2. Dark City 3. Antz 4. The Thin Red Line 5. Elizabeth 6. Forever Fever 7. Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero 8. Waking Ned Devine 9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 10. Primary Colors
I was a failing art student when I first watched the Red Thin Line back in 1998. After watching that movie I started to become influenced by nature and 12 years later became a PhD. It highlights the beauty of life and how lucky we are living on planet Earth, but within a whisker your life could be gone. (thanks for keeping on making these videos).
@@1-2manyI was in a cinema in Swansea and I came out with a new perspective on life. Movies can change peoples lives for the better. I just hope this generation understands the power of film.
Your commentaries are a delight, helpful and informative, and just to add some light on the "shake cam" history, the 1960's Kubrick Film "Dr. Strangelove" used it for the Military fighting scenes specifically for the realism of filming while under fire.✌
One of my favourite years with so many films i love. In a less good year in my opinion any of my favourite 6 would be worthy of number 1 position. These are my favourite 12: 12 You've Got Mail 11 John Carpenter's Vampires 10 Halloween: H20 9 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer 8 Curse Of The Puppet Master 7 There's Something About Mary 6 Bride Of Chucky 5 Urban Legend 4 Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels 3 Lethal Weapon 4 2 Deep Impact 1 The Negotiator
My personal 20 for 1998 20. Very Bad Things 19. Lethal Weapon 4 18. Halloween H20 17. Can't Hardly Wait 16. Pleasentville 15. Fallen 14. There is Something About Mary 13. Rush Hour 12. Blade 11. The Waterboy 10. Wild Things 09. Armageddon 08. The Negotiator 07. Patch Adams 06. BASEketball 05. What Dreams May Come 04. Dark City 03. Deep Rising 02. The Truman Show 01. American History X
Love your content! Generally consider myself to be well-watched but these list make me realise just how many gaps I have to fill, especially when it comes to foreign language films. I've been bingeing your videos recently but I've failed to take proper notes on all of the cool sounding films I'm yet to see... you don't happen to have a google doc or similar with all of your top 10s (or 20s) so far, do you?
@@Zed-fq3lj There was a cluster of good movies in the 90’s that all centered on groups of people who destroyed each other over how to split a fortune-alongside these 2, add Trespass and Reservoir Dogs. They all hearken back to Treasure of the Sierra Madre and, even further back, to Chaucer. Disagree about A Simple Plan. The film closely follows the 1993 novel on which it’s based, so not a ripoff. Both are very good with talented directors at the helm.
"God I miss shorter movies" THATS IT RIGHT THERE! I just rewatched Zoolander and my goodness is that a short fun romp. Its so short you want to watch it again. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Saving Private Ryan Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Armageddon A Bug's Life Halloween: H20 Out of Sight The Mask of Zorro Small Soldiers Godzilla What Dreams May Come Patch Adams The Siege The Truman Show Fallen City of Angels
I’ve seen “The Thin Red Line” and “Saving Private Ryan” but that was a long time ago, I think I have to give them both a rewatch. My number one has to be the Greek film “Eternity and a Day” but “Lebowski” and “Happiness” would also be high on my list.
Also in 1998 : - Ronin : John Frankenheimer's second to last movie, and one of his best. - High Art : a harsh look at love, art, and the selfishness that drives it all.
I must've been one of the few that actually saw A Simple Plan at the cinema; it's still one of my favorites. Honorable mention to John Carpenter's Vampires - not a great movie, but definitely a guilty pleasure. Thank you for another great list!
LA Writer and critic Michael Ventura, who is personal friends with Terrence Malick, watched a five hour cut of The Thin Red Line and said it was one of the greatest films he'd ever watched. He said the theatrical cut foregrounded the Hollywood stars and ruined a masterpiece. No way to confirm any of this (and Ventura is quite the eccentric with a dark soul), but it is interesting. Very pleased to see a shout out to Afterlife, which was on many critics' top ten lists of the year, and A Simple Plan, which never, ever gets its due as a completely successful, slam bang noir film. Yeah, '98 sure did have a bumper crop. I think it got overshadowed by 1999, plus you've got a bunch that weren't appreciated until later. Lots of great independent movies - Buffalo 66, Croupier, Dancer Texas - Pop 81, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Illuminata, The Opposite of Sex, Pi, Permanent Midnight, Sliding Doors, Pecker, and Waking Ned Divine. Guess the late 90s were the peak of the indie majors. Two of my personal favorites (in addition to Out of Sight, which would be a top five for me) are now both pretty obscure. First I'll never forget the bizarre tightrope performance from Warren Beatty in the great leftist fantasy Bulworth. And I've recently learned that Stanley Tucci hates his second directed feature, the old-fashioned boat-faring farce The Imposters with Oliver Platt, but boy howdy has it given me giggle fits every one of the dozen times I've watched it.
The dogma 95 movement helped me feel better about my shit film making career as I didn’t have any budget! 😂😂 But I earnestly tried. Some of us don’t make it and others do. Smoke Signals was an influential film on me from 1998 and helped me open my eyes to the Native American way a life. Black Robe (can’t remember the year) is another I would recommend. Central Station is a good film if you’re not into asteroids destroying the earth….because…. I’ll take Deep Impact over Armageddon any day of the week and twice on Thursday. That scene you referenced in Saving Private Ryan is heart breaking because the 2 soldiers are NOT speaking German there…I suggest anyone interested in WWII as to why I say it’s heartbreaking. And who’s a Peter Phile? 😉 (can someone name the reference to Happiness?) I love the absurdist-ness of life if I’m honest. I SOOOOOOOOO wish we could get a director’s cut to the Thin Red Line! And I will say that I LOVED Nick Nolte in this film. Call me odd, but to me he truly takes his work seriously and it’s a shame he’s been the butt if so many jokes.
Awesome channel but where is Another Day in Paradise, James Woods at his best. Did this film get cancelled or something, I never hear anybody talking about it anywhere?
The thing is I appreciate your takes even when I don't agree with them. You both clue me in on films I haven't yet seen, and make me reexamine some I already have. I am probably one of the few cinemaphiles who loves Shakespeare In Love. But people forget it was cowritten by Tom Stoppard, one of the greatest playwrights of the age. It is a Shakespearean romantic comedy (in the bard's famously farcical style) wrapped up in quasi-biography of the Bard. Is it a lot of romantic froth? Well yes of course, and if one succumbs to its charms, it is lovely. Any film with the late great Tom Wikinson, Geoffrey Rush, Simon Callow, Imelda Staunton, Colin Firth and Dame Judy Dench can hardly be that bad. Joseph Fiennes is a credible young bard (and famously--and historically--unfaithful), and Gwyneth Paltrow is rather endearing in the film. Did she deserve the Oscar for that? Probably not, but that does not mean she was poor in it. I believed the love story. And as Harry might say, Ben Affleck is in it too.
I think Shakespeare in Love is kind of like The How Green Was My Valley of 1998. A really good film that gets undue hatred simply because it beat better films to win best picture.
One might say that about Mrs. Miniver, the following year's monster winner. Weirdly, I've been thinking about that film, propagandistic as it is, as war clouds again hover over Europe.
It was a coin toss between #'s 1 & 2... My Top 10: 10. Run Lola Run 9. The Waterboy 8. Cube 7. Blade 6. The Faculty 5. Rush Hour 4. Wild Things 3. The Truman Show 2. Dark City 1. American History X
My Best Movies Of 1998 A Bug’s Life Rush Hour Dr. Dolittle Saving Private Ryan The Players Club Blade Small Soldiers Lethal Weapon 4 Senseless Belly I Got The Hook Up Half Baked He Got Game Armageddon Enemy Of The State U.S. Marshals The Negotiator The Big Hit The Big Lebowski Blues Brothers 2000
Wow man, i agree with most of your pics in this year s list, and you chose my favourite film of 1998 number 1, the great Thin Red Line. You Sir are correct 👍
TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998: 1. Saving Private Ryan 2. Ringu 3. The Truman Show 4. A Bug's Life 5. Rushmore 6. Mulan 7. American History X 8. The Thin Red Line 9. The Prince Of Egypt 10. Croupier
First, I think "Cutters way" it the Prequel To The Big Lebowski , His Vietnam Vet, getting out of the Wheelchair, Don't like saving private Ryan. Hate "The thin red Line" ( Only my opinion) Here is my list, 1. Dark City ( Glad it was a flop, or they would have ruined it Too) 2.Truman Show, 3.Big Lebowski 4.Ringu ( Hiroyuki Sanada has " died more times than Sean Bean) 5.Ronin. 6. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas 7. Very Bad things. 8.Rushmore 9.Lock Stock and two smoking Barrels 10. Armageddon. ( yes I know, it's got Steve Buscemi in it)
1998 was another glorious year for cinema where we had numerous masterpieces! This is an ok list (apart from Celebration which is meaningless pretentious excrement which induces epilepsy 🤢) but the order of movies is (always) questionable and just 10 places for 1998, such a rich year is not enough! Not to mention 'Mask of Zorro' , one of the best action adventures of the decade??!!! Simple Plan is a good movie but an inferior rip off (Shallow Grave 1994) 1998: 1.The Big Lebowski 2.Truman Show 3.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 4.Saving Private Ryan 5.The Barber of Siberia 6.The Mask of Zorro 7.Mulan 8.The Thin Red Line 9.The Legend of 1900 10.Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 11.Dark City 12.Enemy of the State 13.Pleasantville 14.The Dinner Game 15.There's Something About Mary 16.What Dreams May Come 17.The Prince of Egypt 18.Gods and Monsters 19.Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law 20.American History X 21.Apt Pupil
Norman is a supressed homosexual in Gus Van Sants version. Vince Vaughn clearly plays his as such, and he grows lethal when women come into focus/spur his hetro sexuality. Its an interesting take on the lore... and I enjoy it for the deviation from Hitchcocks vision.
