MOVIE RATING THREAD 1998

[Dan]

The Big Lebowski
Can't Hardly Wait
Rushmore
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Saving Private Ryan
BASEketball
There's Something About Mary
Babe: Pig in the City
Dirty Work
Orgazmo
The Truman Show
You've Got Mail
Half Baked
Pi
Zero Effect
Pleasantville
Bride of Chucky
The X Files: Fight the Future
Spiceworld
Permanent Midnight
Very Bad Things
A Bug's Life
A Night at the Roxbury
Velvet Goldmine
Safe Men
Happiness
Wild Things
Out of Sight
Lethal Weapon 4
The Waterboy
Antz
Soldier
The Wedding Singer
Jane Austen's Mafia
Your Friends and Neighbors
American History X
Slums of Beverly Hills
Snake Eyes
The Replacement Killers
Killer Condom
The Last Days of Disco
Dark City
The Butcher Boy
Wild Man Blues
Clockwatchers
Small Soldiers
Apt Pupil
Meet Joe Black
Halloween: H2O
Disturbing Behavior
City of Angels
The Negotiator
Rush Hour
Bulworth
Kissing a Fool
Shakespeare in Love
Henry Fool
Lolita
Almost Heroes
The Opposite of Sex
Dead Man on Campus
Buffalo '66
Blade
Ronin
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
Belly
The Newton Boys
Pecker
Senseless
Deep Rising
Fallen
Clay Pigeons
Primary Colors
Kurt and Courtney
Six Days, Seven Nights
Four Days in September
Black Dog
Firestorm
Wrongfully Accused
Two Girls and a Guy
The Big Hit
Mr. Nice Guy
The Mask of Zorro
A Perfect Murder
U.S. Marshals
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Sliding Doors
He Got Game
The Horse Whisperer
Home Fries
Deep Impact
Suicide Kings
Knock Off
The Players Club
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Object of my Affection
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Desperate Measures
Armageddon
Mercury Rising
Hope Floats
The Parent Trap
Godzilla
Species 2
Phantoms
Urban Legend
Jack Frost
The Avengers
Jerry Springer: Ringmaster
Sphere
The Thin Red Line
Hard Rain
54
Lost In Space
Major League: Back to the Minors
One Tough Cop (this was the first movie my household ever owned on DVD)
Krippendorf's Tribe
My Giant
Sour Grapes
Enemy of the State
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Patch Adams
Psycho
What Dreams May Come
Doctor Dolittle
Chairman of the Board
Blues Brothers 2000

[katy]

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

How about all the backstage battles over DICK TRACY?  That memo from the studio -- epic.  Derick needs to read for that chapter alone.

[Donnacha]

I'm amazed to see Pi so low.

[Dobbin]

I'm amazed to see Pi so low.

I couldn't watch Pi. I tried a bunch of times. It felt like a being in a student-film class and having to watch the stuff the people in the class did.

[Shawn]

I couldn't watch Pi. I tried a bunch of times. It felt like a being in a student-film class and having to watch the stuff the people in the class did.

I feel even worse for subjecting you to my student "film" now.  I promise I got a lot better. although I loved PI so I suppose that's subjective.

[DerickA]

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.

Those first 10 have a really high concentration of love. Around PARENT TRAP it all becomes mediocre. I watched H20 for the first time very recently and it was pretty terrible. All glossy and pretty with the WB kids in it.

[Wolfe]

I'm amazed to see Pi so low.

I forgot to rank PI. It was interesting, but I don't think it would have charted very high on my list, either.

[Wolfe]

I watched H20 for the first time very recently and it was pretty terrible. All glossy and pretty with the WB kids in it.

By HALLOWEEN sequel standards, H20 is pretty terrific. It was a huge rebound from CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS.

[DerickA]

I prefer Halloween movies to be messy and awful.

[Shawn]

By HALLOWEEN sequel standards, H20 is pretty terrific. It was a huge rebound from CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS.

It didn't have nearly enough Paul Rudd in it.

[Wolfe]

It didn't have nearly enough Paul Rudd in it.

JGL shored up the difference.

[sean]

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 never saw your recommendations.  I read it back when it first came out, that was kind of why I finally watched 'Reds', even though it was a bit belated, and probably why I watched 'Shampoo'.  My biggest memory, aside from what Hawk said, is the stuff about 'Bulworth', which I more-or-less agree with, that it's overflowing with ideas and underflowing with coherence.  I also remember there being a running motif in Beatty's career that he has something unique or interesting, and then backs off of it (I believe there were at least two examples where he was supposed to play bisexual, especially 'Bonnie and Clyde' where he professed excitement about it, before ultimately deciding not to).

[Dalton]

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 started it today and can't put it down.  He's such a dick it's perfect.

[ExpendablesFan]

By HALLOWEEN sequel standards, H20 is pretty terrific. It was a huge rebound from CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS.

I used to think this but it isn't really true. They are both pretty terrible but at least Curse has Pleasence and Haddonfield on Halloween. And 4 and 5 are insanely watchable. H20 is a chore now.

[Wolfe]

I used to think this but it isn't really true. They are both pretty terrible but at least Curse has Pleasence and Haddonfield on Halloween.

I disagree. CURSE is much, much worse. Than most movies, really. H20 is mostly pretty solid. There are even a couple of scenes that are actually kind of scary, like the opening with the nurse and the scene in the rest-stop bathroom. I think it's about even with II, but not as good as 4.