Films of 1999
Submitted by critic on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:18
Tags:
- All About My Mother *** 1/2
- American Movie ****
- Analyze This **** 1/2
- Another Day in Paradise **
- Any Given Sunday ** 1/2
- Arlington Road ***
- Being John Malkovich *****
- The Blair Witch Project *
- Boys Don't Cry *****
- Bringing Out the Dead **
- Cookie's Fortune ****
- Cradle Will Rock ****
- Dick ***
- Dogma *** 1/2
- The Dreamlife of Angels *** 1/2
- EDtv ***
- The Emperor and the Assassin **** 1/2
- eXistenZ *** 1/2
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai *****
- Girl Interrupted *** 1/2
- Go ****
- Felicia's Journey **** 1/2
- Fight Club **
- Galaxy Quest ****
- The Green Mile ****
- Hideous Kinky *** 1/2
- Hurricane ** 1/2
- The Insider *****
- Liberty Heights ****
- Life * 1/2
- Limbo ****
- The Limey *****
- Magnolia ***
- Man on the Moon *** 1/2
- The Matrix *****
- Mifune *****
- Mumford *****
- Not One Less *****
- Oxygen ***
- Run Lola Run **** 1/2
- Sleepy Hollow ****
- The Straight Story ****
- Summer of Sam *** 1/2
- The Third Miracle ****
- Three Kings ****
- Topsy-Turvy *****
- Toy Story 2 *****
- The War Zone **
- Wild Wild West *
- The Winslow Boy ***
What was your opinion of "Fight Club", my vote for the best movie of 1999. I'm curious because I agree with many of your selections.
I suppose this, then, will be our falling out. ;)
Fight Club - **
Many of the same problems I had with Natural Born Killers sprung up here. The film used a type of violence for kinetic effect that it later seemed to criticize. Certain scenes were undeniably effective, but the film seemed to fest upon itself in a frustrating way. It lit the candle at both ends, and I felt stuck in the middle left with little.
Trainspotting showed both the appeal and the danger of drug addiction without allowing the two sides cancel each other out. I felt that Natural Born Killers and Fight Club were films at war against themselves, and I found the results less than thrilling.
Can we still be friends?