1999 is regarded as one of the most consequential Hollywood movie years ever - bold films about identity and perception that play with the cinematic form (The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, The Sixth Sense, just to name a few), and many from major studios connecting broadly with audiences. What a time! But a quarter century later, which major releases still hold up and admirably define the year, which get close, and which have aged like milk?
Frightful Femme Kirsten Therkelson and Good Trash Media's Dalton Stuart stop by to look back on a formative year with Dick Sanford - but wait...they've been tasked by the U.S. government to build a MOVIE HALL OF FAME for 1999, or else there will be serious geopolitical consequences! These three podcasters must bravely become arbiters of culture and decide together on the NINE best or most culturally representative films of 1999 in order to save the world! The stakes have never been higher!
There are over thirty films to choose from! How will they ever do it and come out with their sanity intact?!
The Hall of Fame Shortlist
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
The Mummy
American Beauty
Wild Wild West
American Pie
Deep Blue Sea
Jawbreaker
Galaxy Quest
Bowfinger
The Blair Witch Project
Three Kings
Eyes Wide Shut
The Green Mile
Cruel Intentions
Toy Story 2
The Sixth Sense
Girl, Interrupted
The Talented Mr. Ripley
10 Things I Hate About You
Fight Club
Man on the Moon
Lake Placid
The Insider
The Iron Giant
Being John Malkovich
Magnolia
Bringing Out the Dead
Big Daddy
Election
Boys Don’t Cry
Office Space
The Straight Story
The Matrix
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