MOVIE RATING THREAD 1998

[DerickA]

Also, somebody should email this thread to Beatty. I read the LA Weekly thing and thought it was really funny that he had to deal with GODZILLA. You ruined GREMLINS 2 box office, that's what you get!

[nate.3.0]

Wasn't Take Me There on THE RUGRATS MOVIE soundtrack?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Both '98.

[Strang]

Wasn't Take Me There on THE RUGRATS MOVIE soundtrack?

Technically, that's Blackstreet featuring Mya. And Busta Bus' song on that CD beats anything you could possibly come up with.

[DerickA]

Wow, that was a pretty tight soundtrack too.

Finally did this.

Rushmore
Out Of Sight
Pleasantville
The Big Lebowski
Can't Hardly Wait
There's Something About Mary
Lethal Weapon 4
He Got Game
BASEketball
Primary Colors
You've Got Mail
The Truman Show
Wild Man Blues
Saving Private Ryan
The Parent Trap
The Wedding Singer
What Dreams May Come
The Big One
The Faculty
Stepmom
Gods And Monsters
Mighty Joe Young
American History X
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Rush Hour
A Bug's Life
Bride Of Chucky
Kissing A Fool
The Man In The Iron Mask
Small Soldiers
Mulan
The Waterboy
Dr. Dolittle
Blade
The Rugrats Movie
Full Tilt Boogie
Permanent Midnight
Antz
Spice World
Bulworth
Shakespeare In Love
Simon Birch
US Marshals
Mafia!
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
Star Kid
Apt Pupil
Rounders
T-Rex: Back To The Cretaceous
Dead Man On Campus
Godzilla
Wrongfully Accused
The Mask Of Zorro
Lost In Space
Armageddon
Blues Brothers 2000
Halloween: H20
Patch Adams
Psycho
Jack Frost
The Prince Of Egypt
Phantoms
The Avengers
The Big Hit

[Dan]

I figured you guys would've liked Bride of Chucky more than you did. It's definitely the best of all the Child's Plays, which obviously isn't a huge accomplishment, but I think it's genuinely funny a lot of the time.

[katy]

ps - On the '98 tip, talkin' Mya....  "Take Me There" > "Ghetto Superstar"

Word.  Although ultimately, I was more of a "My Love is like 'Whoa'" girl, but I'll save that for the appropriate year...

Also, I'm mad at all of you, because none of you has yet read Biskind's Beatty biography, STAR, after my repeated recommendations.  We need to discuss it!  It's so great.  It's called STAR!!!  C'mon, ANP book club.

[Hawkboy]

Also, I'm mad at all of you, because none of you has yet read Biskind's Beatty biography, STAR, after my repeated recommendations.  We need to discuss it!  It's so great.  It's called STAR!!!  C'mon, ANP book club.

I read it on your recommendation. If I remember correctly, Beatty was originally OK with it, but then changed his mind near the end, which kind of parallels the book's structure, where Biskind is complimentary towards him for most of the text, but at the end, the book's attitude suddenly shifts to "Fuck him, his career's toast". I wonder if Biskind wrote it chronologically.

[katy]

Biskind is complimentary towards him for most of the text, but at the end, the book's attitude suddenly shifts to "Fuck him, his career's toast".

Yeah, you're right, he does kind of smoke his cock for 500 pages and then alla sudden is like, "and he'll never work again".  But, granted, Biskind doesn't have much choice about the ending -- Beatty hasn't done a movie in what, ten or fifteen years?  He really should have published it at least a decade ago...it's odd.  Maybe he was holding out for Beatty to start cooperating again and then gave up.

Although, he isn't ALL compliments early on.  The part about Beatty on, I think, his first movie, looking in the mirror and primping his eyelashes...so great.

[Wolfe]

Derick, after all these years, you're going to tell me that LW4 doesn't beat MARY or fucking CAN'T HARDLY WAIT? I honestly feel like this is a betrayal of sorts.

[Wolfe]

I figured you guys would've liked Bride of Chucky more than you did. It's definitely the best of all the Child's Plays, which obviously isn't a huge accomplishment, but I think it's genuinely funny a lot of the time.

I had it pretty high. It and H20 being surprisingly good made '98 probably the last good year for the old-school horror franchises.

[Dobbin]

I'm making my list, now. None of you people saw SLAM or CHICAGO CAB (released on cable, I think, as DEATH CAB?) ?

Both are pretty high on my list; they're in the 1st bin.  

This is tougher than I thought it would be. I've started by making 6 bins: "Quality/really-good," "Stuff I liked," "Good enough for their genre," "Bleh," "Not good," "Stuff I actively disliked," then sorting those bins individually.

[Dobbin]

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
SLAM
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
RUSHMORE
OUT OF SIGHT
CHICAGO CAB/DEATH CAB
BULWORTH
A SIMPLE PLAN
THE BUTCHER BOY
THE MASK OF ZORRO
BLADE
THE TRUMAN SHOW
DIRTY WORK
NIGHTWATCH
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
APT PUPIL
MEET JOE BLACK
SMALL SOLDIERS
A BUG'S LIFE
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS
PLEASANTVILLE
THE MIGHTY
AMERICAN HISTORY X
DANGEROUS BEAUTY
DEEP IMPACT
EVER AFTER: A CINDERELLA STORY
DARK CITY
RUSH HOUR
RONIN
THE WATERBOY
VAMPIRES
THE NEWTON BOYS
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
THE SIEGE
ARMAGEDDON
ANTZ
LETHAL WEAPON 4
THE WEDDING SINGER
SPHERE
THE NEGOTIATOR
STAR TREK: INSURRECTION
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
THE LAST EMPEROR
SOLDIER
HARD RAIN
THE X-FILES:FIGHT THE FUTURE
THE NIGHT FLIER
KISSING A FOOL
SIMON BIRCH
MERCURY RISING
LOST IN SPACE
GODZILLA
THE AVENGERS
SNAKE EYES
WILD THINGS
THE THIN RED LINE
STEPMOM
PATCH ADAMS
HOME FRIES
Pi
STRANGELAND
PRACTICAL MAGIC
LAST DAYS OF DISCO






 

[Steve Lilley]

You liked GODZILLA more than LAST DAYS OF DISCO?

[Hawkboy]

But, granted, Biskind doesn't have much choice about the ending -- Beatty hasn't done a movie in what, ten or fifteen years?  He really should have published it at least a decade ago...it's odd.  Maybe he was holding out for Beatty to start cooperating again and then gave up.

Maybe he bought into the hype that Beatty was going to be in "Kill Bill". But yeah, the timing was all off.

I enjoyed the book, though - the Pauline Kael and Elaine May stories were just fascinating.  

[Dobbin]

I like root canal surgery and drinking buckets of vomit more than I liked LAST DAYS OF DISCO.