desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2009-09-08 06:07 pm
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I'm not really a movie person. I've probably seen no more than 2 or 3 movies any year this decade. But last decade I watched more...and I'm just now realizing why: last decade was more awesome. Here are the awesome (either according to me or according to popular opinion) I've seen that came out in 1999:

10 Things I Hate About You
American Beauty
American Pie
Analyze This
Austin Powers
Being John Malkovich
Fight Club
Go
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
(and fine, I guess I'll put Star Wars: The Phantom Menace on here too)

Really, does any other year measure up to that? I'm happy to only watch 1999 movies for the rest of my life. In fact, I should really see 10 Things again sometime soon.

(For the record, I think I buy the theory that all the good writing and producing is going into TV rather than movies lately. I'd much rather watch The Wire (or The Sopranos or BSG or or or...) than most movies I've missed from the past 5 years.)
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[identity profile] metalphoenix.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, that really was an awesome year. Two of my favorite movies of all time are on that list (10 Things and The Matrix). Win, end of the 20th century!

Aw, sad, I lost my Kat icon when my extra userpics expired. It's here in spirit.

[personal profile] desh 2009-09-09 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
I probably don't even own a dozen DVDs (um, of movies, ignoring sporting events and concerts...), but Go and The Matrix are two of them, and 10 Things might be the next one I'd buy. So good.

On the other hand, the third Matrix movie was on TV the other day. Watched some. Should not have. REALLY should not have.

[identity profile] groovyjew.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
You may have a point there. But I really loved August Rush. Not that it was written well, just composed well. The soundtrack plays the music of the streets, cars, leaves, yelling people, all of it musical.

I'll watch 10 Things I Hate About You again with you any day.

[personal profile] desh 2009-09-09 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Never heard of August Rush. But you're totally on for 10 Things, if we can ever find time.

[identity profile] curlybopbop.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I want in on 10 Things! Apparently there is a 10 things tv show on hulu... I'm watching the pilot now. I'll report back. I'm skeptical though.

[personal profile] desh 2009-09-09 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, please let me know. I've downloaded 2 episodes, but haven't watched them yet.

[identity profile] curlybopbop.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I wasn't blown away by 10 things tv show. The movie is just so good that it pales in comparison.

Glee on the other hand... does not pale. It's fantastic. Somehow, I wonder if I'll ever be too old to enjoy tv shows about teenage angst. Not yet!

[personal profile] desh 2009-09-10 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, Glee, really? I saw most of the episode last night. (Weird change of pace to have a roommate with TV tastes independent of mine, but I could get used to it.)

I'd like it more if some of the adults (other than the main one) weren't absurd caricatures, if some of the kids weren't played by people older than you (I mean, the tall guy in glee club is played by an actor 3 years younger than the actor playing the teacher), if the singing scenes sounded at least a bit like they were from a gymnasium and not a music studio, and if they stopped using autotune. It's funny, and well-produced (I liked that last scene of the girl singing in 4 different places), but they need to tone it down a bit. Especially the wife.

Sorry. I'll still give it another shot, because yay, teen angst!
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