I was looking for something to read and stumbled upon a book that claims that 1999 is THE BEST year in movies ever. I harrumphed... but then I looked at the list. DAMN! A lot of good movies came out in 1999 - maybe not anything that I would consider a favorite of all time, but A LOT OF GOOD MOVIES.

Here's IMDB list of the top rated movies of 1999: [www.imdb.com]

And here, I just grab some titles (the numbering is IMDB's - I skipped some that I deemed unworthy - you might feel otherwise):

1. American Beauty

2. The Green Mile

3. The Matrix

4. The Sixth Sense

5. The Cider House Rules

6. All About My Mother

7. Angela's Ashes

10. Titus

11. Boys Don't Cry

12. Being John Malkovich

13. The Blair Witch Project

15. Magnolia

17. Stir of Echoes

18. Go

19. Sunshine

22. The Straight Story

23. Fight Club

24. Girl, Interrupted

25. Toy Story 2

31. Election

32. Man on the Moon

37. The Hurricane

1939 was good. It seems like 1969 was.

Read an article a while back saying 1974 was one of the all-time best years for films.

1939 was a stand out for its time and it still holds up!

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1939 was a stand out for its time and it still holds up!

Gone With the Wind was made closer to the time period it portrayed than it is to today.

1939 was still the standout
Here are just 20 of the films released that year.

Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
The Four Feathers
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Young Mr. Lincoln
Only Angels Have Wings
Stagecoach
Wurthering Heights
Gunga Din
Dark Victory
Beau Geste
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Drums along the Mohawk
Dodge City
Destry Rides Again
Of Mice and Men
Each Dawn I Die
Union Pacific

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There were some pretty decent movies made in the 70's.

‘99 was a pretty good year.

It has been posited that 1939 and 1999 were Hollywood's two best years of all time.

[www.latimes.com]
[filmschoolrejects.com]
[www.indiewire.com]
[www.nytimes.com]

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/09/2019 06:46PM by N-OS X-tasy!.

Odd, I've only seen 2 of the listed 1999 movies.