# Movie of the Year , anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 1999, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650 "1999-11-06T10:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/1 "1999-11-06T10:29:00Z")
wow, quite a few good films this year… which one(s) do you think are the best and why? * * * Chief’s Domain - [http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi](http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi) ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/2 "1999-11-06T19:11:00Z")
American Beauty. I’m still waiting on _Girl, Interrupted_ and _Sleepy Hollow_. * * * “Excrement. That is what I think of J. Evans Pritchard, PhD.” --Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society Chris’ Homepage: [Domestic Bliss](http://www2.crosswinds.net/~domesticbliss/) ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/3 "1999-11-06T19:19:00Z")
**Fight Club.** * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Konrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Konrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Konrad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/4 "1999-11-06T21:16:00Z")
Fight Club. ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/5 "1999-11-06T21:42:00Z")
im waiting on sleepy hollow, end of days, and the green mile iheard man on the moon is supposed to be good too who knows, but maybe one of them may be the best… * * * Chief’s Domain - [http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi](http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi) ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/6 "1999-11-06T21:58:00Z")
If somebody says “Titanic” I’m gonna puke. * * * This space for rent. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/7 "1999-11-06T22:33:00Z")
If somebody says **Titanic** , I’d tell them to get a calender. 😉 * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/8 "1999-11-06T22:36:00Z")
What year is this, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/9 "1999-11-06T23:15:00Z")
Oh oh oh, there’s just so many! I want them all! Oh, what’s the best one? Shrug. I want them all! Except that one, it’s ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_of\_Finland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@Tom\_of\_Finland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_of_Finland)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/10 "1999-11-07T00:27:00Z")
“The Straight Story”, “Bowfinger” or “Being John Malkovich” ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/11 "1999-11-07T08:09:00Z")
American Beauty, but I agree it was a good year for movies, Larry ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/12 "1999-11-07T09:09:00Z")
American Beauty is the movie of the year AND the decade. H * * * * * * This is a non-smoking area. If we see you smoking, we will assume you are on fire and act accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/13 "1999-11-07T12:08:00Z")
Sory folks, but from an Englishman, ‘Saving Private Ryan’…yeah, yeah, yeah…I’m in tears. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/14 "1999-11-07T12:43:00Z")
I haven’t seen many movies this year (I’m not much of a movie-goer anyways) and one that comes highly recommended but probably won’t even screen here because of the total fuck-up that was promotion of it, is _Iron Giant_. But of the few movies I have seen, I would put _Sixth Sense_ as the best. Though, naturally, my _favourite_ was The Phantom Menace. I probably won’t even see American Beauty, and definitely won’t see Fight Club or Being John Malkovich (I hate John Malkovich, and to see inside a warped version of his mind frankly terrifies me). Ooh! _Toy Story 2_ is meant to rock like nothing before! Gotta gotta gotta… * * * -PIGEONMAN- Hero For A New Millennium! [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - updates every Wed & Sat ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/15 "1999-11-07T15:28:00Z")
Wasn’t \* Saving Private Ryan \* last year? I thought \* Shakespeare in Love \* beat it out for best picture… Anyway, best movie I’ve seen this far is \* American Beauty \*. Worst is \* Eyes Wide Shut \*. ---
**Author:** ![Rincewind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Rincewind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rincewind)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/16 "1999-11-07T16:02:00Z")
The best movies I’ve seen this year are: The Iron Giant The Sixth Sense American Beauty Fight Club I’d probably chose The Sixth Sense as the best of those. I’m waiting for: Toy Story 2 The Green Mile The Man in the Moon and Sleepy Hollow * * * “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” Isaac Asimov ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year-anyone/10650/17 "1999-11-07T16:47:00Z")
_Dogma_ just might get my vote for year’s best comedy. I’ll be checking it out when it come out next week(?). * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing.