Boogie Nights
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
The Game
Good Will Hunting
LA Confidential
Lost Highway
The Ice Storm
Taste of Cherry
Life is Beautiful
Other - please specify

Apologies to Grosse Pointe Blank and The End of Violence. This should be an interesting battle between Boogie Nights, LA Confidential and The Game, though Fast, Cheap and Out of Control gets my vote - an endlessly inventive, captivating film that will leave your mind whirling.

A total neck-and-neck race between Boogie Nights and LA Confidential, but BN wins by a hair. Both are superior entertainments.

LA Confidential.

A Simple Wish, As Good as It Gets, Cube, Gattaca, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Seven Years in Tibet

My vote would go to The Game without question. One the best films ever made in my opinion.

My Top 10

1. The Game
2. Life is Beautiful
3. As Good as It Gets
4. Good Will Hunting
5. The Spanish Prisoner
6. Contact
7. The Edge
8. Titanic
9. My Best Friend's Wedding
10. Conspiracy Theory



Top 10 grossing films of 1997

600,779,824 Titanic (1997)
250,147,615 Men in Black (1997)
229,074,524 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
181,395,380 Liar Liar (1997)
172,620,724 Air Force One (1997)
147,637,474 As Good as It Gets (1997)
138,339,411 Good Will Hunting (1997)
126,805,112 My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
125,332,007 Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
112,225,777 Face/Off (1997)

L.A. Confidential

1. LA Confidential
2. Life is Beautiful
3. Princess Mononoke

LA Confidential...followed by As Good As It Gets and Titanic

Boogie Nights

Affliction
Chasing Amy
Ulee's Gold
Wag The Dog

are all great movies
but it's hard to beat L.A. Confidential

LA Confidential easy.

Titanic

This was the only year where I actually agreed with the Academy, yet it's not even listed in the poll. I know it gets a lot of hate, but really? Oh well. I stand by it.

K

Titanic (which is still the biggest film of all time and winner of numerous Oscars including Best Picture) doesn't make the poll list but Fast, Cheap and Out of Control does? WTF?

Oh well. My list would probably go:
1.Boogie Nights
2.Good Will Hunting
3.The Ice Storm

Runners up:
A Life Less Ordinary, The Edge, L.A. Confidential

Titanic wouldn't be my choice but it should at least be on the poll.

'Hard Eight'... would be my favorite probably... that movie was so special, just to watch the characters and enjoy the dialogue so much you don't give a damn if anything actually happens...

'Donnie Brasco'... i really liked this... Al Pacino actually acted which was nice...

'LA Confidential'... was a classic, stands up to anything from any 'age' of movies... damn near a masterpiece...

'The Edge'... just got out my DVD the other day... it's even better after like 4 or 5 times through...

'Boogie Nights'... really good movie...

'Good Will Hunting'... really good movie...

i thought 'Affliction' was 1998?... IMDB says 1999?... i like it either way... great performances...

wait a minute... does this type of poll go by the year a movie came out or the year it was made?...

where is that movie from '97 about the boat, and I don't mean Out To Sea? I'm not a big fan of it, but it's the biggest movie of all time

1. LA Confidential
2. Hana-Bi
3. Taste of Cherry
4. Happy Together
5. Lost Highway

1. Titanic
2. Liar Liar
3. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
4. The House of Yes
5. Good Will Hunting

Notice the poll says Best, not Biggest. Feel free to make your own Biggest Film of 1997 poll, and then we can all vote for Titanic.

Others :

Funny Games
The Sweet Hereafter
Cure

well, a lot of people are snobs about Titanic, and admittedly it's not something I have in my collection or want to add, but there are a lot of people who love the movie, so why act like you're better than them for thinking so?

Titanic has more votes than 6 of your poll choices too.

LA Confidential, easily. Boogie Nights a distant second.

How is Titanic not a choice? It's not my favorite, but it did win a record-tying 11 Oscars (including Best Picture) and is still the top-grossing movie of all time. There's no logical reason to exclude it from the poll.

Titanic should be a choice on the poll. If you're going to exclude movies based on lack of artistic merit or shameless audience manipulation, then Life Is Beautiful should be nowhere in sight.

I only included Life is Beautiful because it was in IMDB's top 250 of all time, so I figured it would have it's far share of fans here. I had actually forgotten about Titanic completely until it was first mentioned in this thread. You're right though - the highest grossing film of all time should have been a poll choice, regardless of it's artistic worth.