Comments on: The 10 Best Films Of 1997

By: Villemar

Villemar — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 06:52:00 +0000

In reply to Thor2013. Props for Akari's Nowhere!

By: Villemar

Villemar — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 06:51:00 +0000

In reply to Phil Surtees. Go listen to Celine Dion with a box of tissues and cry about it.

By: Phil Surtees

Phil Surtees — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:03:00 +0000

Typical! Aside from making more money than any other movie up until that point, Titanic was not only nominated for a record tying number of Oscar, it won a record tying number of them, having also won 4 Golden Globes – including Best Picture – and it is on SIX of the AFI’s Top 100 Lists, including Best Movies Of The Last 100 Years. UNLIKE ANY OF THE OTHER MOVIES ON THIS LIST. When Titanic was re-released in 3D it made more money than a lot of blockbusters do in their initial theatrical run. Why? Because it’s a bloody brilliant movie! Ah … but it’s not popular to rate it so you don’t even MENTION it, even in the list of runners-up. I hope you feel sufficiently cool and hip, because you look like a pack of ignorant idiots…

By: ReallyReallyBigMan

ReallyReallyBigMan — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:16:00 +0000

1997 was a better year for movies than I’d realized. You covered most of them. Forgot Titanic and Life is Beautiful.

By: jmbrr

jmbrr — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:58:00 +0000

In reply to Sergei. It is certainly damn fun movie,which you can not often find these days. Such as Starship. Aside from being probably the best satire that has ever done, Verhoeven's directing is top notch.

By: Joey Lee

Joey Lee — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 05:55:00 +0000

Chasing Amy

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 05:33:00 +0000

Mad props for not mentioning the boat movie.

By: lostjack

lostjack — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:33:00 +0000

In reply to Silga. Both Affliction and Spanish Prisoner were released in the US in 1998.

By: Silga

Silga — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:02:00 +0000

1. Boogie Nights
2. Jackie Brown
3. Affliction
4. The Spanish Prisoner
5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
6. Gattaca
7. L.A. Confidential
8. The Fifth Element
9. The Game
10. The Rainmaker

By: Pedro Canhenha

Pedro Canhenha — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 22:51:00 +0000

The ones that I would add to this list include David Fincher’s The Game, Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, Pedro Costa’s Ossos and Steven Spielberg’s Amistad.

By: Sergei

Sergei — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:55:00 +0000

In reply to Chris Parkes.

97 in particular was really well-written. It’s always great when you can find that perfect sentence to sum a film up. Even though I’m one of the weirdos who loves Happy Together way more than In the Mood for Love, their summary of it is fantastic.

Some other favorites:
“It’s just simply endlessly watchable, a gorgeous-looking, phenomenally acted noir tale that can achieve more in its relatively brief running time than most of your peak-TV faves do in 10 hours.” This sentence idea needs to be a feature. There are a lot of impressive films that TV series would be wise to take note of despite the difference in storytelling length.

“It’s a rousing, thrilling adventure tale, with a dizzying level of imagination and creativity to the various creatures and sequences its showcases, like a sort of pastoral “Star Wars.”

But for the record, does anyone’s dad love Inglorious and Django? The warring factions between those two probably splits up the dad-sphere too.

By: Sergei

Sergei — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:38:00 +0000

In reply to jmbrr. I'll take The Fifth Element over Starship Troopers (which has a 'OK, I get it' vibe not privy to replays.) I once lived in a collective house where the only movie we could all agree on is Fifth Element, old and incoming roommates. It was such a funny coincidence considering how much the internet world shrugs the film off. The Fifth Element actually seemed like a plausible future...something a lot of sci-fi films seem to stumble creating. A more neon, ad-drenched dystopia.

By: loudrockmusic

loudrockmusic — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:22:00 +0000

Dang. Not one Hal Hartley mention for the whole decade.

By: MarkoP

MarkoP — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:38:00 +0000

No Fireworks?

By: Chris Parkes

Chris Parkes — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:05:00 +0000

Playlist can you please, please put these lists together into some sort of e-book? I LOVE them!

By: Mountain Trails

Mountain Trails — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:58:00 +0000

You guys are really covering the lesser known films. Bravo.
10 more worth considering.

Mother and Son [Sokurov] Amazing film!
On Guard [de Broca]
Affliction [Schrader]
Children of Heaven [Majidi]
The Saltmen of Tibet [Koch]
Ulee’s Gold [Nunez]
Mr Jealousy [Baumbach]
The King of Masks [Tian-Ming]
The Life of Jesus [Dumont]
The Full Monty [Cattaneo]

By: Clay Castille

Clay Castille — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:32:00 +0000

Little Dieter is the shit.

By: John W

John W — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:31:00 +0000

I gotta remember to bookmark all these lists.

By: jmbrr

jmbrr — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:31:00 +0000

90s rock… It is hard to keep it at ten:

1.L.A. Confidential
2.The Devil’s Advocate
3.Starship Troopers
4.Conspiracy Theory
5.Liar Liar
6.Face/Off
7.Cop Land
8.The Game
9.The Fifth Element
10.Lost Highway

Of course there are honourable mentions: Event Horizon,Wag The Dog,Alien Resurrection,Scream 2, Police Story 4,Welcome to Sarajevo,Amistad and I Know What You Did Last Summer.

By: Thor2013

Thor2013 — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:02:00 +0000

1. Sue (dir. Amos Kollek)
2. The Mirror (dir. Jafar Panahi)
3. Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch)
4. Mother and Son (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov)
5. Gummo (dir. Harmony Korine)
6. Nowhere (dir. Gregg Araki)
7. The Eel (dir. Shohei Imamura)
8. Henry Fool (dir. Hal Hartley)
9. Cure (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10. Chasing Amy (dir. Kevin Smith)

By: Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:57:00 +0000

1. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
7. Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
8. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
9. Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
10. Ice Storm (Ang Lee)

By: lostjack

lostjack — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:43:00 +0000

Man 1997 was a good year for movies:

AIR FORCE ONE
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
THE APOSTLE
AUSTIN POWERS
BOOGIE NIGHTS
BREAKDOWN
COPLAND
DONNE BRASCO
THE EDGE
FACE/OFF
THE FULL MONTY
THE GAME
GATTACA
G.I. JANE
GOOD WILL HUNTING
GROSSE POINTE BLANK
THE ICE STORM
IN & OUT
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN
JACKIE BROWN
THE RAINMAKER
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
LIAR, LIAR
MEN IN BLACK
NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN
SUBURBIA
THE SWEET HEREAFTER
TITANIC
ULEE’S GOLD
WAG THE DOG
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN