DeputyDave

Fight Club as #1
Man on the Moon #2
Audition #3

Decker

Being John Malkovich. Easily the best of the bunch and NOT EVEN A CHOICE HERE????

PopcornTreeCt

Fight Club is leading the poll, seriously? Haven't we had 9 years to reflect and realize the movie isn't that good?

amplified

My top 5 from the list...Many of my favs of 1999 were not included though.

1. American Beauty
1a. Magnolia
2. The Sixth Sense
3. The Matrix
4. Fight Club
5. The Insider

fumanstan

I think it's been 9 years of reflecting and realizing the movie kicks ass.

B5Erik

One bad/cheesy line, and one bit of serious miscasting doesn't negate all the good stuff in The World is Not Enough. Hell, the pre-credits sequence alone is better than most movies from 1999...

(I don't think 1999 was all that great of a year for movies.)

printerati

Yeah, none of my top 5 from '99 even made the list (The Straight Story, Snow Falling On Cedars, The Girl On The Bridge, Malkovich, and Lock, Stock).

Calculon

Voted other: South Park: BLU

RobCA

I'd have to go with The Sixth Sense, with Fight Club a very close second.

Edited to add:
I forgot Sleepy Hollow came out that year... guess I voted too soon.

Rob

movielib

If you were talking about Goldeneye at least you'd be talking about a good Bond movie (of course it wasn't '99). But to elevate one of the weakest of all Bond movies to the best film of one of the best movie years of all time is incomprehensible.

I'd say you're in a small minority with that opinion.

All my opinion, of course. (And just about everyone else's. )

calhoun07

Wow...I guess I never thought about how many great movies came out that year. And I have quite a few of the titles already mentioned on DVD.

And I just watched Fight Club tonight, and yeah...I'd say Fight Club. Hands down. It certainly could never have been made a couple years later.

abe55

On IMDb, it's rated as the 23rd best movie of all-time.

Like it or not, Fight Club is beloved by many.

Arpeggi

imdb rankings are bullshit, how can you possibly not know that.

zekeburger1979

Nearly 9 years later, American Beauty is still the #1 movie of 1999 for me.

hardercore

. Fuck IMDB.

abe55

It provides a good idea of what movies are popular with the general public. It's no ideal best movies list, but more of a popularity contest. And Fight Club is popular, which is why it ranks so high.

RichC2

Tracer Bullet

This.

DthRdrX

I'd give it to Fight Club from that list.

While The World is not Enough is a huge disapointment, I'd say it was Tommorow Never Dies that started the major downfall of the franchise.

orderandlaw

American Beauty...it's what cinema should aspire to be.

Quake1028

1.The Iron Giant
2.The Sixth Sense
3.The Matrix
4.Office Space
5.Dogma

Quake1028

Yeah, I agree. There was a time I would have had it in my top 3 from that year. Now it would probably crack my top 15.

calhoun07

This thread just got me thinking what I've told people I know for years now: 1999 was the last great year, and every year has been downhill since. In terms of a lot of things, not with just entertainment (I recall a lot of great TV from that period as well) but politically, economically, our standing with the world as a whole.

GreenVulture

Three Kings, though Rosetta is a very close second.

vcuram

He said it wasn't that good, not that it wasn't popular.

Just for fun, here's the best according to this site that combines a bunch of critics top lists (the numbers are where the film ranks in the top 1000 of all time):

All About My Mother (Almodóvar, Pedro; Spain-France) •625
Wind Will Carry Us, The (Kiarostami, Abbas; France-Iran) •720
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, Stanley; US-UK) •789
Fight Club (Fincher, David; US-Germany) •805
Topsy-Turvy (Leigh, Mike; UK-US) •898
Magnolia (Anderson, Paul Thomas; US) •902