This is a heroic use of this KZread channel, I love a massive topical unpacking and I don’t think there are too many other people I’d trust to hit it.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

I've been trying to achieve heroic status for years, but now that I've arrived, I think I'm ready to go full cowardly.

I've been a subscriber to this channel for over a year, and this is my favorite video you've posted. I love the top 10 lists, but this was like a mega version of one those. Because the 1970s and 1990s were such amazing time periods in film history, it would be awesome if you did a video like this for each year of those decades. I know it would be a lot of work, but well worth it.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words and I'd love to do more videos like this. 1971 is a year that I'd love to tackle.

99 was stacked. Keep making videos like this and you have a lifer in me James! 👍

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Ty sir! There are so many good years I want to get to: 1939, 1971, 1982, the list goes on and on.

This was a great watch. I enjoyed every minute. I was 18 in 1999, so a lot of these films are very memorable for me. Thanks for putting in the hard work. You got a good thing going, my dude. Keep it up! 🤘

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words and I'm thrilled to hear you enjoyed my rant. I'll definitely be back with a similar format for some other major years in movie history like 1971.

@isaiahyinko7182

6 ай бұрын

I was born in 1999 (march 18th).

really enjoyed this one james

@psychotronic_x

6 ай бұрын

and you should definitely check out the 13th floor its very similar to the matrix but less concerned about the action and more with the philosophical implications

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sticking with me! Felt like a true movie commentary marathon.

I liked this, thanks James!

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

The thanks goes to you for being able to endure the sound of my voice for this length of time. By the time I was finished editing the video, I was ready to put myself in time out.

Wow this was freakin awesome!! Epic video! Anything from the 90s taking me back to my teens is greatly appreciated! I recommend Arlington road and mystery men, both really great films. Otherwise I agree with all the ones you skipped or attempted watching 😂

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Good to know! I'll add Arlington Road and Mystery Men to list. I have a feeling I am not yet totally finished with commentary about 1999.

@adrodr2

6 ай бұрын

arlington road has one of the best shocking plot twist I’ve ever seen 👌

How do you do it James?! Thank you for this video. 99 was one of my favorite years in film and in my life. Crazy how we were living similar lives back then. I was the same age working at a video store in Southern CA. Watching everything that came out and studying film in college.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Very cool! We probably crossed paths at some screenings. It was such a good time to be a young film freak.

I too, James, was a complete biscuit head lol.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

If we had had access to all these modern day dispensaries in the late Nineties, I'm not sure I would have survived the experience.

One of your best videos! Like this format

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks! I really enjoyed putting it together.

Loved this video James! Took so many notes on movies to check out. Keep em coming!

This was such a fun EPIC video James! Loved it! Thankyou.

The Matrix as “cinematic orgasm”, well said, well said.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Rewatched some scenes last night. It kicks so much ass.

This was such a format, going month by month and giving all films some time. Thanks.

I'm still shocked we are the same age, and grew up/lived in Virginia at the same time (you near Charlottesville, me near Arlington)! We're both gettin' old 😄😄

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

We're going to blink and I'll be making a 50th anniversary video on the same topic, lol.

@salomaonplanetsaturn

6 ай бұрын

Age is just a number 🕺☺️ I got a birthday today - 37 years old Still fresh like a gourmet salad 😎

1999 was nowhere near 25 years ago, if it was that would mean I would be turning 38 years old this year. Fuck I’m old.

@SimonCoulton

6 ай бұрын

41, nfi how that happened…

@everythingisawesome76

6 ай бұрын

Hey! I just turned 47. What are you trying to say young man?

@marca5883

6 ай бұрын

Settle down youngster, you have a while till you ache constantly💚🇬🇧🌱

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

And the good news is, the aging process only get worse in your Forties. Enjoy your Thirties while you can!

Really enjoyed the format of this video. Well done!!! Mystery Men is a must see, if for no other reason than the great cast. I hope you take the chance.

This is already the best youtube video of 2024! Will watch again. Thanks!

Cruel Intentions is one of Emerald Fennell’s favorite movies, which is super apparent in Saltburn. Also, there’s a pretty good book called “Best. Movie. Year. Ever.” It’s sort of like “Our Band Could Be Your Life,” but, instead of DIY bands, it picks like 20 movies from ‘99 and focuses one chapter on each. …and Detroit Rock City and Drop Dead Gorgeous are awesome.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the heads up about Detroit Rock City and I'll definitely be seeing Drop Dead Gorgeous. Amy Adams looks delightful in it.

From 1998 - 2000 my girlfriend and went to the cinema almost every weekend because didn’t have any cable TV package, and we became really really good at theater hoping. So every trip to the movies was a double feature. 1999 was a legendary year for movies.

@harrihaffi2713

5 ай бұрын

cool

Excellent video.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks for taking my video for a spin!

Wow💚🇬🇧🌱 I'm getting comfy & going to enjoy this one👌

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks! I was definitely testing the limits of my endurance with this one.

The Mist, Carrie and Christine - movies are better than books , in my humble opinion. Existenze - played on TV for about a year in 2000 ☺️ at least one time a week and more I am at the beginning of the video. I got two crystal clear memories from 1999 (movie centred) 1. My disappointment with the Star wars episode 1(I was 12 years old, perfect demographic for it. But.. I hated most of it , especially Anakin and Jar Jar. It had one redeeming quality - Darth Maul) 2. Poster for the Matrix and then about a month later - movie. I played VHS tape literally every day , after school ☺️ I was obsessed with that movie.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

You and I see eyeball to eyeball on The Phantom Menace. What a mess, but Darth Maul was a total fucking badass. The Matrix is vastly superior in every way, shape, or form.

You did an amazing job with this video when you mentioned all about my mother and that you liked ❤

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

I need to see more movies by Almodóvar. 'Matador' is next on my list.

The Wood with Omar Epps is a good coming of age movie.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

I still need to see it. Big fan of Omar Epps.

Great video once again! I do not like the version of Payback I saw on video as a kid, felt super generic even as a youngster. However, Helgeland got kicked off of the production because of his darker vision for the movie, so there is a shorter and totally reworked directors cut called Payback: Straight Up which turns it into one of the most nihilistic, amoral action movies of the 90's. More violence, tighter pacing, and Mel Gibson is an absolute motherfucker throughout, constantly seeking out a fight, as opposed to his careful plotting in the theatrical cut. Keep up the good work, James!

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Very cool! The Straight Up version sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the heads up!

You’re an animal! I thoroughly enjoyed this unpacking of 99. It was an eye opener on just how different cinema and movie culture was compared to now. I was 16 at the time, so the R rated movies of the year had that “taboo” feeling for me when they came out. It’s wild how tame a lot of movies that are released these days are in comparison to then!

I must not had a much a life in 1999 . I watch many of these mid movies. 😬

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

I was right there with you. If I was awake, I was trying to fit as many movies as possible into each day of my life.

I haven't seen Life in years, but remember it being a lot of fun.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Very cool! Yet another piece of evidence that comedy was in a really healthy place at that time.

@jmil843

6 ай бұрын

@@geekinwithJamesHancock co-sign Life is a great movie

The 90s were such a great time to be alive and for movies. Sighs. I miss it. Although not a blockbuster, I really like Thirteen Floor. Good film and now as I am older, I like it more than The Matrix. Same goes for Dark City.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Very cool! I will add The Thirteenth Floor to my list. I've been curious about it for 25 years and I guess I should finally give it a chance.

Freddie with all his gross hair product 😆

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

He was not afraid to just slap it on in generous quantities.

I was 14 in 99.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

When you look back on the effects heavy flicks of that era, how well have they aged in your opinion?

@salomaonplanetsaturn

6 ай бұрын

Me 12. You are 1985 ?

@skatealex1

6 ай бұрын

​@@salomaonplanetsaturn1988 here. Guess that'd make me 11 then

@Vexarax

6 ай бұрын

@@geekinwithJamesHancockI was 10 in 99 but mum didn’t have anyone to watch movies with so I’d seen most of these by about 14. Imo many of them aged incredibly and keep getting getter as time goes by :D they have a creativity and ingenuity that seems lacking in many modern movies, but I can say that about so many movies (and TV shows) from 2010 and before going right back through time of course. But yeah the 90s and early 2000s was an EPIC time for movies :D they just get better with age as well. Edit: some of my favourites are ones like Snatch, 12 Monkeys (the original Bruce Willis one), Jurassic Park, Fight Club, Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Memento, Minority Report.. I could go on and on :D

@salomaonplanetsaturn

6 ай бұрын

@@skatealex1 I am 1987 😎 5 of jab

Hopefully this doesn’t come across as weird - I have the exact same edition of The Hobbit!! :D I’ve owned it since I was 10 (I’m 35 now). Alan Lee’s illustrations are amazing - it’s a gorgeous book ^_^ (my edition of LOTR is illustrated by Alan Lee as well) :D happy 2024!

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Happy 2024 to you as well. And high five to a fellow Alan Lee fan! One of the best ever to do it.

Thanks for this retrospective James. I watched The 13th Warrior for the first time recently & although not good it might have been the movie I needed at the time. Wonder what might have been if John McTiernan was allowed to execute his vision before the studio & Michael Crichton fucked it. eXistenZ was my intro to Cronenberg's filmography. Fuckin love The Limey! Three Kings is still my favorite D.O.R. film. It's unforgivable I've yet to see The Insider & must correct this pronto.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

You're in for a treat with The Insider. The cast really brings the heat.

Well done James💚🇬🇧🌱👌

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sticking with me!

If you saw most of the movies from that time frame, then 2001’s “Not Another Teen Movie” is required viewing.

Fucking loved it my fellow gen x'er!!!

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

High five! I experienced some serious flashbacks from this era, both good and bad, while putting this together.

@dizzyspins1667

6 ай бұрын

@@geekinwithJamesHancock hehe yeah, but you always go hard! Turned out to be another slam dunk👍😄

29:23 - the only reason why anyone went to watch “Wing Commander” is because the first Trailer for the new Star Wars movie (Phantom Menace) was playing exclusively attached to “Wing Commander”. W.C. was So Bad we all decided to tell anyone who asked that we had watched “Baby Geniuses” (31:18) instead (knowing how bad B.G. was going to be).

Totally agree: Sleepy Hollow is absolutely the last time I enjoyed Tim Burton.

@isaiahyinko7182

6 ай бұрын

I was born in 1999.

The best thing about "Man on the Moon" is the song by R.E.M.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

100%

I was in 7th grade in 1999. These movies helped form me as a person. Loved this, thanks

I remember seeing the Blair witch project for its premiere at midnight on Halloween here in the UK & the trailers had scenes from US theatres of the audiences leaving in states of horror & panic, my friends & I were so disappointed in what we saw on screen...

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Yeah it was definitely the victim of being overhyped but all alone with a decent buzz it got its hooks into me.

que cantidad de películas memorables. muchas de ellas siguen siendo mis favoritas. que buen video

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias por echarle un vistazo y estoy totalmente de acuerdo con lo de 1999. Un año increíblemente bueno para las películas.

@mariafernandaparedes975

6 ай бұрын

@@geekinwithJamesHancock realmente no esperaba ver todo el video de un tirón pero me trajo tan buenos recuerdos que fue imposible dejarlo para más tarde. como se extrañan las comedias !

Nice mention of Sweaty Wally.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Mr. Lerner! Holy smokes. Sending you a text. Hope your number is still the same.

Oh look at that. It's been 53 years since 1971. Potential follow-up? I know you think highly of that year

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Strong contender for my favorite year of movies. That video would be a blast to make.

I’m one of the few that like the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair over the OG

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Nice! Sounds like I need to revisit the remake.

Hey friend. Could you help finding the name of a movie from maybe end of 1990ers? Just three scenes I can remember. So it is like this. Scene 1 A man and a boy are on an excursion in the forest near a gorge. Maybe the man is the boys stepfather. Then the boy goes away for a short tiem to look for stones. The man stands on the edge of the cliff and looks out. Then another man comes out from behind a tree and pushes the other from the cliff to death. An old woman from a window watches the murder. Scene 2: The murder goes to the widow of the killed man for an evening date that was made before the murder. He plays innocent and offers wine. She tells him that the husband (maybe his name is Jim) is dead. Scene 3: The man steals some photographs in a photoshop. Maybe thats some evidence on the crime. The wife of the victim afterwards wants to take them but is too late. It could be that the murder is the first husband of the woman and wanted to kill his successor. But that part is speculation.

What other years do you think are worth discussing like this 2003? 2007?

saw a cd called absolute summer music 1999 the other day so 1999 has been on my mind lately. Think my favorite movies from that year would be wing commander or the iron giant. can't really decide which one I like the most. I might need to rewatch to decide, but those two do come to mind. Besides phantom menance they might be the only movies I've watch more than once from that year. might have to check out that ganster movie you mentioned.

Eyes Wide Shut continued to grow on me with every watch. When i watched it in the theater it was decent, but was disappointed... and the abrupt ending kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Then I watched a rental of it and I enjoyed it even more and I've since watched it several times and is one of my favorite movies. I've watched Eyes Wide shut more than any other Kubrick film and I've seen Full Metal Jacket and The Shinning several times. There are so many things to dissect... It's definitely his most ambitious project. The Shinning was his other project where there was a lot of hidden and deeper things going on. Eyes Wide shut takes takes that ball and quadruples down on it and I'm not talking about the stuff in Eyes wide Shut that Kubrick ends up handing the audience on a patter. I theorize he divulged certain things because there are deeper layers within that, but at first it appears as though he exposes one of the bigger mysteries to the audience.

Great minds think alike! I also did a 1999 list on the basis that I like Scorsese, Fincher, Wachowskys, Jarmush, Mangold, Coppola and Nolan (one year later) films of that year than from 2013. Heck, I'll give a pass to The Phantom Menace over some Disney SW stuff. In hindsight the sci-fi fandom was way better served with Galaxy Quest than SW... The Limey is way too underrated, Three Kings is the most rewatchable film by David O'Russel...so many films! Alexander Payne might be the only director who surpassed his 1999 film and Election is a great film. 1999 may be the best year for American movies in my lifetime - heck, I resigned a job Fight Club/American Beauty style which was not a good idea 🤪 I still have the Sight and Sound mags of that year somewhere… A word on EWS: conspiracy theories get it wrong on the basis that a true cinephile recognized that film is masterpiece while watching it for the first time on the theater. It gets better with time, specially if you read some Jung and Bataille.

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

If I had to make a choice I might lean toward 1982 or 1994 as being better years for movies overall, but there was no denying that in the Fall of 1999 it seemed like the movie biz was undergoing a major metamorphosis.

The period of 22-23 I just remember being lost. I don’t got any good memories from that period in my life. So I’m kind of jealous you had a good time at that age

The Rage Carrie 2 is pretty good. I liked it.

Life is a fantastic movie. Cannot recommend it enough. Murphy and Lawrence are on fire.

Im 31 and I am in that same state that u were smoking weed and appreaciating movies obsessively lol

I do recommend watching The 13th Floor, it's a great and utterly overseen movie. Maybe because of The Matrix, but I dare say that it is some ways even better.

Mystery Men was really good, its a straight up comedy.

Why was October Sky offensive???!!

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

Inoffensive, but I mumbled my words.

@jackelynbarragan3772

6 ай бұрын

@@geekinwithJamesHancock my bad! I should've rewinded that part. Love this year '99 movie review. Be kind, rewind 🤟🏽

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

@@jackelynbarragan3772 Be kind, rewind! Hell yes.

BEST: The Matrix WORST: Wild Wild West

don't sleep on The Rage: Carrie 2, it's no masterpiece, but i've seen far worse horror films and its worth the 90 minutes or so for the angsty late 90's early 2000's soundtrack alone... it's almost not even a Carrie movie, it was pretty clearly just another movie with "Carrie" tacked on for name recognition... but the common threads it does have with Carrie is interesting. the "prom scene" (at least this films version of it) was pretty interesting and kind of intense for a 1999 affair. and it somewhat serves as a mirror to the themes of the original, idk exactly how to explain it... but there are many worse ways to spend 90 minutes of your life. also, almost every Stephen King movie i have watched has been better than the book... Carrie, Christine, The Mist, Shawshank, and Stand By Me are all better films than books... even Cujo and Salem's Lot are about equally as good film/book... i havent read Shining or Pet Semetery yet, but those films will be hard to beat too... idk, i love King, but a lot of his adaptions (when done right) have been spot-on or superior to the source material.

Hancock is the man!

Sardar udham.... Should be in that list....

@geekinwithJamesHancock

6 ай бұрын

lol, it is on a very list.

@deogiriyadav8399

6 ай бұрын

@@geekinwithJamesHancock waiting for that day....