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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Best Film of 1998? |
Shakespeare In Love won the oscar. Saving Private Ryan won the box office. Were they the best films though? The only thing we know for sure about 1998: Size Matters. |
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| Author: | Algren [ Sat Jun 28, 2025 5:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
I mean, Titanic won the box office for 1998  And, yeah, Saving Private Ryan is excellent. It's definitely in the top 5 best films of the year. But for me all of these are also in my top 5, lol: Six Days Seven Nights Blade Lethal Weapon 4 Antz A Perfect Murder U.S. Marshals Halloween H20 The Negotiator Ronin Out of Sight Mercury Rising The Big Hit John Carpenter's Vampires Mr. Nice Guy Knock Off Interestingly, The Big Lebowski came out in 1998, I suspect a lot of people will say that. |
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| Author: | Shack [ Sat Jun 28, 2025 10:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
I think The Big Lebowski is the champ for me here. A lot of the others have been forever but: The Truman Show A Bug's Life The Waterboy/The Wedding Singer Babe: Pig in the City Armageddon Half Baked, A Night at the Roxbury and BASEketball may not have been perfect, but I'll give them a HM for being silly little comedies Looking at the box office numbers the one that jumps out is Stepmom being over 200m inflated. People were really feeling their Julia Roberts. |
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| Author: | stuffp [ Sat Jun 28, 2025 6:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
Armageddon easily no.1 Also actually saw it in that year and got the VHS at the time. The Big Lebowski is no.2 for the year, but it was only after I saw it a second time around 2002/2003 when I started loving it. Round off my top 5 with Rounders, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Ronin. Of course SPR is great, but it just wasn't quite THE film for me then, I like Shakespeare In Love as well and I didn't mind it won that year. |
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| Author: | zwackerm [ Sat Jun 28, 2025 10:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
Year i was born |
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| Author: | MadGez [ Sun Jun 29, 2025 8:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
Algren wrote: I mean, Titanic won the box office for 1998 And, yeah, Saving Private Ryan is excellent. It's definitely in the top 5 best films of the year. But for me all of these are also in my top 5, lol: Six Days Seven Nights Blade Lethal Weapon 4 Antz A Perfect Murder U.S. Marshals Halloween H20 The Negotiator Ronin Out of Sight Mercury Rising The Big Hit John Carpenter's Vampires Mr. Nice Guy Knock Off Interestingly, The Big Lebowski came out in 1998, I suspect a lot of people will say that. Not me. Big Lebowski never did it for me. You list a film I forgot about but was surprisingly good - The Big Hit. Randomly saw this in a theatre because my cousins friend worked there and let us in for free. It was the only film we wanted to see at that moment and it was surprisingly fun. |
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| Author: | MadGez [ Sun Jun 29, 2025 8:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
zwackerm wrote: Year i was born I feel so old  
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| Author: | MadGez [ Sun Jun 29, 2025 8:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
stuffp wrote: Armageddon easily no.1 Also actually saw it in that year and got the VHS at the time. I remember how anticipated it was and how disappointing it opened but it rallied with strong legs to get it over $200m. Disappointing because its 3 day was below Deep Impact and I guess following Godzilla disappointing in May – with all films in the shadow of Titanic huge 1998 gross ($488m or $1B adjusted) in the first half of 1998! However, looking at adjusted numbers Armageddon fairs much better : $86m 3-day/$129m 5-day. Total : approx. $486m (more than Minecraft or Lilo & Stitch this year) It also spawned one of the biggest songs of the year - I Dont Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith. |
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| Author: | MadGez [ Sun Jun 29, 2025 10:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
Great year for film. Personally, it has to be Saving Private Ryan but all in my Top 5 are very strong. Saving Private Ryan American History X There's Something About Mary Ronin Rushmore Rounders Rush Hour Urban Legend Antz Enemy of the State The Truman Show Wild Things The Big Hit Out of Sight A Perfect Murder The Siege Apt Pupil Can't Hardly Wait A Simple Plan |
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| Author: | Flava'd vs The World [ Mon Jun 30, 2025 1:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
I made this thread with the intention of crowning Deep Rising as the best film ... but then The Big Lebowski successfully defended its title on a rewatch. It's just such an amazing film with the best writing and iconic lines one after another (shut the fuck up Donnie, you're out of your element!) 1. The Big Lebowski 2. Deep Rising 3. There's Something About Mary 4. Half Baked 5. Baseketball 6. Rush Hour 7. Blade 8. The Waterboy 9. Small Soldiers 10. Run Lola Run / American History X HM: The Truman Show A Bug's Life Arrmageddon The Negotiator - actually just watched this for first time last night Dr. Doolittle The Opening of Saving Private Ryan The beginning of Christopher Nolan's film career The idea of Dark City The tricycle scene in Wild Things Really terrific year for comedy. Almost all the top films are very funny. Especially the end of AHX ( :-p ) |
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| Author: | Algren [ Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best Film of 1998? |
Damn, I left off Rush Hour. #fail |
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