It was a good year but not really one of my favorites like it is for a lot of people. There’s a lot of good comedies. Big Daddy, Galaxy Quest, Office Space, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Also stuff like American Beauty, The Mummy (guilty pleasure), and Toy Story 2.

1999 also had great stuff like Three Kings, Bringing Out the Dead, Toy Story 2, American Beauty, and Fight Club.

If you want to get nostalgic I have a good Go memory.

Remember Movie Phone? It was a number you would call and a recording would tell you movie showtimes in your area. You could search by zip code, or you could search by title. You would search by the first three letters of the title. Because of its very short title Go had a special recording made for it. First Mr. Movie Phone would say the usual, “Please enter the first three digits, etc.” Then he said, “If you’re search for the movie Go, just press 1.”

I saw 45 of the top 100 grosses of 1999 in theaters. I don’t get close to that number anymore.

I never really got into films like Fight Club or The Matrix I think is a reason the year doesn’t stand out a lot to me. I know there were more films than those two, but I feel like those two get pointed to a lot. Both are fine movies but that’s about as far as they go for me.

I do not expect that I will EVER have another theatrical experience like I had with The Matrix. I worked in movie theaters and video stores around this time. In 1999 I worked for Suncoast. Yet somehow, I knew literally NOTHING about this film. I never saw a trailer. Never saw a commercial. Hadn’t read anything. Didn’t know what genre it was. Didn’t know who was in it. Hell, I had never even heard of it. I could not have been any colder or fresher.

A co-worker came in to work and said, “You have to go see this. I am not going to say another word about it until you go see it.” I went one afternoon during the week (I even remember my wife was at her grandma’s with our three small children, including our daughter who was just a few weeks old). My wife asked what I was going to see and I said, “I don’t have a clue. But I was told I had to see it as soon as possible.”

I was riveted to the screen the whole time. I didn’t want to leave when it was done. My mind was blown, my reality was shaken. My eyes hurt. I wanted more.

I went back to work and couldn’t shut up about it. My co-worker finally said, “You need to go here” and gave me a website to visit ... DVDTalk. After lurking for some time, I joined and stared chiming in. I used a coupon code from here to buy The Matrix on DVD. I didn’t even have a DVD player.

1994 was a great year for movies, no doubt. I’m kind of leaning toward ‘95 as the year to beat though.

Unfortunately, I believe he is long gone from here. I don’t think he was active, more a deal lurker.

Then again, I could be wrong. I don’t recall ever knowing who he was on here.