Quick explanations: (1) I refer to the teens in 1999 films as Gen X when, by the end of the 90s, these people would belong to the early Millennial age group or "xennials". But frankly because there was so much overlap I think they still culturally embody many Gen X traits and utilize the teen tropes of earlier 90s movies. (2) Rushmore technically premiered in 1998 - but it received a wide release in 1999 which is why Raftery includes it in his book! Thank you for watching!

@Doctor_Straing_Strange

Жыл бұрын

I just discovered your channel, you're great!

@bennruda11

Жыл бұрын

I am not gen x or millenlial or whatever nonsense term they call my generation. Born 84, we are more the internet generation but can't stand these nonsensical name terms

@Doctor_Straing_Strange

Жыл бұрын

@@bennruda11 you just said the most gen x thing I've ever heard lmao

@kilgore_trout_37

Жыл бұрын

Came here for this- apologies for the narcissism of small differences but yeah, I’m an elder millennial or Xennial (terrible word but accurate description) - in 99 I was 18 going on 19, living on my own, and 100% one of those teens you described watching Being John Malkovich in the theater. But the American Beauty kids are 16, solidly millenials. The thing we have in common is coming of age as the millennium dawned, which may be vague but it is what it is when you draw these imaginary lines in the sand. I love Gen Xers, but I’m not one. I was home watching MTV while those kids were driving to school in their acid washed jeans. It’s painfully clear to me because I married a Gen Xer, and he gets none of my references, but a useful shorthand for remembering the difference- John Green: Gen Xer, Hank Green: Elder Millenial

@kilgore_trout_37

Жыл бұрын

Pop Girly Edition; Elder Millenials: Britney(81), Christina Aguilera(80), Beyoncé (81), Pink (79) Nicki Minaj (82) Gen Xers - Mariah (69), Janet (66) Alanis Morissette (74), Sinead O’Connor(66) Shania Twain (65) Björk (65) Cuspy - Shakira (77) We’ll take her ¯\_(°ペ)_/¯

I feel like a24 is now the Miramax of the 2020s. Anyone else see the pattern? Being able to shove big names into quirky and thoughtful films like Everything Everywhere All at Once sweeping the Oscars. Also A24 branching into streaming with Euphoria and Beef.

@LuisSierra42

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, was thinking exactly this, although i would say A24 is more "artsy" than Miramax

@demonslayermk235

Жыл бұрын

Who's the new Harvey Weinstein then? 😢

@sksksks7533

Жыл бұрын

@@demonslayermk235 hopefully no one 😭

@Dm34421

Жыл бұрын

A24 was taking risks in the early 2010s: spring breakers, bling ring, ex machina, moonlight, Florida project

@Nirax3

Жыл бұрын

Agree. While many (mostly film snobs) have declared the end of A24's risky and influential era, I for one am totally okay with a little more mainstream friendly movies and streaming shows. I even think the success of EEAAO can be compared to American Beauty in terms of shared feelings of generations: We have since moved past cynicism. We are faced with a globalized and digitalized world. We feel overwhelmed and might still be tempted to resort to cynicism, but like Jobu Tupaki, underneath that we crave genuine connection and empathy. EEAAO made me feel understood and I don't mind at all that it works as a spectacle popcorn movie too.

Thank you to your Dad and the many other engineers who made Y2K into a joke instead of a disaster. It was a legit concern and because the engineers did their job so well, nobody ever really understood how important what they did actually was. My favorite Y2K error that actually happened was a 105 year old man in New York who got a letter telling him he needed to register for kindergarten.

@LuisSierra42

Жыл бұрын

Everybody thought the world was going to end, those were good days

@reflectsonlife

Жыл бұрын

I had the opposite happen to me! In 2000 after a weekend trip from Seattle to Vancouver BC, I wasn't allowed back into the USA because they could not find me in their records (this was pre 9/11 when you all you needed to drive across the border & back was a driver's license). After 6 hours of searching, they finally found me listed with my birth day and month, but birth year 100 years prior, in the mid 1800s. Hence I had been wiped from the list of living Americans!

@davidbowman2001

Жыл бұрын

@@reflectsonlife Kind of presumptuous to assume you weren’t just really really really old!

@reflectsonlife

Жыл бұрын

@@davidbowman2001 👵

@xBINARYGODx

Жыл бұрын

@@LuisSierra42 mostly no one did, the media acted like that, and most people watching just thought it must be other people, but it was mostly no one.

I love video essays like this that combine history, culture, and philosophy!!

@user-ux3vw6mb4k

Жыл бұрын

I know right.

@eltonarthur1233

Жыл бұрын

Same

@julianaxoxo6584

Жыл бұрын

Yess

@VIK_1903

2 ай бұрын

From an extremely US-centric pov, sure...

Always thought 1999 was a great year for movies but never considered that the movies themselves had much in common. Even though magnolia, virgin suicides, American beauty and eyes wide shut have completely different creative visions, they’re all doing that same thing of peaking behind the veneer of middle class life. Great work Broey, I think this might be your best video yet :)

@EmperorSmith

Жыл бұрын

It's difficult to discern trends while you are living through them, and it's usually only through hindsight that you can look back and examine how the zeitgeist of "then" differs so much from the zeitgeist of "now". It's fun to think what this years crop of moveis will reveal about the society that created them in a few decades time.

@KrisBryant99

Жыл бұрын

@@EmperorSmith honestly I think what made 1999 great was that people couldn't stop talking about these films and that they were everywhere far as advertisement ..........Hell even Wild Wild West, a film Will Smith chose over the Matrix got promoted everywhere.....

@chrisjfox8715

Жыл бұрын

​@@EmperorSmith i remember seeing an article at the time pointing out how 1999 cinema was going to go down in history. I can't remember the details of the article itself, but I think what's so great about that year is that so many films managed to be bold artistic endeavors yet mainstream at the same time

@chrisjfox8715

Жыл бұрын

Magnolia was my favorite film for years, but I think it's merely convenient to label its purpose as to uncover the veneer of middle class life. Yeah sure those characters were middle class and were going through stuff - Donnie and Stanley weren't just the cute kids they were marketed to be, Jimmy Gator wasn't as wholesome as he let on, Frank Mackey was capitalizing off of his coping mechanism, Officer Kurring wasn't anywhere close to the tough guy he wanted that uniform to allow him to be, etc. But as much as, ok there's a bunch of unmasked veneers there, but I guess I don't put my focus on that layer because everyone having things going on in their life that they don't share with just anyone - the trauma that motivates them - is such an inherent element of life itself across all decades, not just that era.

@nenriu

Жыл бұрын

how would u rate american beauty as a work of art ..? do u think the movie has redemptive qualities that help the human psyche or is it just a bunch of bullshit from poseurs who are being manipulated by secret service and the real magicians...

To me, 2019 was a phenomenal movie year: parasite, marriage story, portrait of a lady on fire, uncut gems, sorry we missed you, sound of metal, once upon a time in Hollywood, little women, the Irishman

@kittykittybangbang9367

Жыл бұрын

It was also a great year for animated TV shows

@grandtheftautov4874

Жыл бұрын

Yess. To me was a great year for cinema.

Yes, Girl Interrupted had a huge impact on me. I watched it in 2006 when I was 16 and I went and cut my hair like Winona Ryder in it... which was a CHOICE with curly hair. I also dressed like her in that movie. I was struggling with an ED at the time. It was literally so impactful in my life at the time and I still love it now.

True, many of my favourite films happened to come out in 1999. Notting Hill, 10 Things I Hate About You, Election, Fight Club, Virgin Suicides... They're all iconic in different ways, and have left lasting legacies.

@LuisSierra42

Жыл бұрын

I had been wondering for so long why so many great movies came out that year and this video helped clearing that up for me

@KrisBryant99

Жыл бұрын

@@LuisSierra42 I could barely understand a word Broey was saying 😂

@khurram2970

Жыл бұрын

1999 and 1994 both were the greatest years for Hollywood. Following are listed among all time greatest movies of Hollywood and they were all released in 1994. 1. Pulp fiction 2. Lion King 3. The Shawshank redemption 4. Forrest Gump. Plus, there were other 1994 movies that were really great which although not in same category as 3 above, still were better than most junk produced now. These include Speed, the Mask, True lies, Dumb and dumber, Ace Ventura, Leon, natural born killers, baby's day out, interview with vampire, legends of the fall etc.

2019 is one of the greatest years for modern films: Parasite, Midsommar, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Waves, The Lighthouse, etc.

@samr3140

Жыл бұрын

little women as well honestly

@Whackadoo1

Жыл бұрын

In General, I think the last half of the 2010s had some banger films: The Favorite, Moonlight, Black KKKlansmen, Sorry To Bother You, Get Out, US, Ladybird, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Call Me By Your Name, Hereditary, Midsommar, Raw, The Place Behind the Pines, Inherent Vice, etc.

@Dm34421

Жыл бұрын

2016/2017 were the best modern years for movies: moonlight, get out, Lala land, fences, Florida project

@adriangutierrez3196

Жыл бұрын

only parasite is above average with the movies you just listed

@j.alice.gale.

Жыл бұрын

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood! & Jojo Rabbit!

1999 was such an incredibly wild year for me (senior year, Columbine, so much weirdness) I always forget so many killer movies came out. Rushmore alone, my god

@BeautifulEarthJa

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't. Matrix and The Mummy. I was 19, going into 2nd yr of uni. Yea. Amazing year all round.

@adamant5550

8 ай бұрын

Wasn't Rushmore freleased in 98?

@taeso0o

4 ай бұрын

1999 was a wild year for me too, i was born.

So happy to see ‘Notting Hill’ included in the list because it’s great fun whenever I see it. Apart from the amazing lead pair, I love the group of friends.

@HitchcockBrunette

Жыл бұрын

Same!!!!

1999: I have the feeling something is wrong with the country 2023: Oh, you have seen nothing yet.

Hello Broey: Thank you from the depths of my heart of not saying that the "millennium bug" was a hoax. I was one of the many thousands of people who worked on that problem. It was one of the hardest years of my working life. I worked for a very famous company and I had to sign a document saying that on New Years Eve, I would be fit and able to work, i.e. not drunk. Stay well and safe.

@gaze5393

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your work. Stay well and take care.

I was 19 in 1999, worked at a video store. We had DVDs but still 50/50 VHS/DVD by 2002 when I quit (it was a summer/college job). It was just the best time to have access to free movies. I remember being soooo excited to show Fight Club to all my friends

There's something about the Y2K Era that I've only really come to appreciate in the last couple of years. From about 1998 until 2001. The Y2K hysteria wasn't really a panic, most of us were hopeful and excited about the idea of going into a new millennium, especially with the improvements technology was making. From what I remember, there was the impression that we were on the verge of something great. An exciting new world. Then 9/11 happened and the 2000s just felt like an especially bleak and cynical era.

@mikfhan

Жыл бұрын

Maybe we will see a resurgence when the Y2K38 "epochalypse" happens :D that will probably be my target for early retirement so I can avoid all the annoying refactor/doublechecking of time/date variables - or maybe by then ChatGPT will just do it for us - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmWt2LRuj7K3pbQ.html

It was an insane year, indeed. It's a shame that the indie auteur midbrow film is not that common these days... I remember being a high-school social outcast, actively looking for Todd Solondz, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley movies about weirdos, freaks and failures so I didn't feel that alone.

Magnolia stands out from this era of filmmaking. It BLEW MY MIND and I was moved and appalled in a way that I hadn't been before in a theater experience. I had no idea going in that it was 3 hours long and I remember having to pee and refusing to leave my seat because I just couldn't look away or miss anything. Rushmore, American Beauty, Fight Club and The Sixth Sense were also memorable movie going experiences that a cherish and remember fondly...

1999 in film deserves it's reputation. Its insanely stacked. From the heavy hitters to even underrated gems. From what you mentioned and more - all genres: The Matrix, Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, The Sixth Sense, Arlington Road, The Virgin Suicides, The Iron Giant, American Pie, Election, Office Space, The Mummy, The Phantom Menace, Bringing Out the Dead, The Straight Story, Being John Malkovich, Galaxy Quest, The Talented Mr. Ripley, South Park The Movie, Big Daddy, 8mm, Three Kings, Deep Blue Sea, Toy Story 2, The Insider, Any Given Sunday...I could keep going. It's fucking nuts, lol.

Yeah, the 90s were my teen / college years and even at the time, I had a sense of being around for something special. I'd been a movie fan all my life, but the late 90s seemed like it was just one amazing film after another, nonstop. As an aside, the rise of DVD probably helped as well. Not just for being a visually superior format to tape, but because of the inclusion of extras. BTS videos and director's commentaries and such brought film analysis and technique into the mainstream in a way that really hadn't happened before. (Yes, there were Laserdiscs, but those were expensive and for serious collectors only.)

I definitely think A24 I’d bringing that indie spirit back. Also just want to say how much I genuinely love your channel, content, and really just everything you put out there. You’re incredibly talented + I look forward to every video. Seriously my favorite channel.

i just know it’s gonna be good

I cannot overstate how fantastic this channel is. Thank you for your thoughtful and thorough analysis coupled with such high production value 👏🏻

I’ve always loved 1999 and felt like it got semi revitalized in 2019. But 2017 was amazing and I found myself in the theater constantly for both years.

I truly cant express how much your podcast got me to finally understand the podcast craze. Now I binge yours and Mina lees podcast on repeat. Thank you for making such interesting and unique content in an easy to access way.

Crazy to me how hard it is for me to come by channels like yours when half of what I watch is film video essays. Not sure why the algorithm plays me like that. But, glad to have come across your channel now.

I was graduated high school and started college that year. I was about 3 years into discovering good movies. I saw most of the films you listed in theaters and more. Films I saw that year (looking at a list and trying to remember which I saw in theaters, sometimes two or three a week): She's All That At First Sight Blast from the Past Analyze This Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels True Crime The Matrix 10 Things I Hate About You Go All About My Mother Life Election Existenz The Mummy Star Wars Episode I Notting Hill Inherit the Wind Austin Powers 2 Run Lola Run Big Daddy South Park Wild Wild West Summer of Sam Vendetta American Pie Blair Witch Project The Haunting Twin Falls Idaho Iron Giant Mystery Men The Sixth Sense Thomas Crown Affair Love Stinks Stigmata Blue Streak Double Jeopardy American Beauty Fight Club The Story of Us Boys Don't Cry Being John Malvovich House on Haunted Hill Princess Mononoke Dogma Sleepy Hollow The World is Not Enough Toy Story 2 Sweet and Low Down Cradle will Rock Green Mile Bicentennial Man Fantasia 2000 Magnolia Stewart Little Girl Interrupted Man on the Moon Talented Mr. Ripley Virgin Suicide But I'm a Cheerleader And probably a few small films I missed. This was from a list of wide releases. Though some probably are on here by mistake that I actually saw later.

@rejunshane

Жыл бұрын

Wow go is my favorite film ever and I love film! It’s just got amazing aesthetic and cinematography that made me obsessed with it. Great film. Not many people know about it which is upsetting because it’s really a good movie. I know it’s not the first to do what it did but I still love it.

@allenrubinstein3696

Жыл бұрын

You've got most of them. Adding: Bowfinger Bringing Out the Dead Cider House Rules Eyes Wide Shut Galaxy Quest Hurricane Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai American Movie Dick Happy, Texas The Minus Man Mansfield Park Limbo The Limey The Insider Jesus' Son The Red Violin A Midsummer's Night's Dream Show Me Love Illuminata The Straight Story Three Kings Titus Topsy-Turvy The Winslow Boy An Ideal Husband God Said "Ha" 8 1/2 Women

@Sam_on_YouTube

Жыл бұрын

@@allenrubinstein3696 This was the list of what I saw that year. Not everything that came out. I didn't see any of those movies in theaters. MAYBE Hurricane, but I think I didn't see that until later.

@allenrubinstein3696

Жыл бұрын

@@Sam_on_KZread Oh, I know. Just contributing the remaining films you might look up.

@Sam_on_YouTube

Жыл бұрын

@@allenrubinstein3696 Thanks. Seen most of them. Since I had kids, my movie consumption greatly decreased. But in 1999 I was watching just about everything.

I was born 99' and it's so interesting to me, how much these movies resonated with my teenage self. The whole 90s, with Nirvana, the early internet, Spongebob Squarepants: It holds a very special place in my heart. It's the period that most feels like "past", although I never really lived it. I have an older sister and she showed me a lot of stuff from the 90s, my parents used VHS for well after the DVD became mainstream, all the cartoons I watched are from the turn of the Millennium. It's crazy to me, to know that my younger brother (2008) doesn't know a world without smartphones, youtube and tikitok. I don't want to sound like a boomer but the now feels way different. I wasn't even capable of understanding what's going on but I still feel that all these big changes that happened around the 90s and early 20s still echo in me longer after.

1999 is still my favorite year for movies, like it's kind of insane how many well-known bangers came out during that year. And they still hold up extremely well for the most part.

1999 as a 19 year old there for all these movies was one of the greatest years in time. I am Gen X

The last time I felt that same Indy film feel, the last year for me (a teenager from the mid to late nineties) was 2004. It was the year of Garden state (though people have turned against it at the time it was beloved) before sunset (a sequel to a movie from the 90s heyday) and eternal sunshine (still Miramax). That year was the swan song for me. I haven’t felt that feeling in a theater again until VERY recently with everything everywhere (and also Parasite a few years back).

HOLY COW!!!! I'm stunned by this essay. Thank you for eloquating what my limited brain function could not. I have always held this turn of the millennium film making in high esteem, but was never fully capable of expressing it, or understanding it. This video did what I could not. Bravo!

I think it’s because studios were willing to take risks on fresh ideas back then. Nowadays, studios invest in marvel and sequels to make a profit And studios were probably scared of the Y2K crash and pushed out so many movies

Excellent video! 1999 has brought me my two favourite films - The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Ninth Gate. I was 15 then, thus many of these films here have left a significant impact on me. Also, seeing James Spader is always a sweet bonus

Holy shit i did not know how many beloved movies came out that year. I'm reeling

I'm hoping a cultural shift is coming soon to film and music, i can't help but feel the films and music that receive large scale distribution and attention nowadays doesn't speak to me at all and surely i can't be the only one

@Nirax3

Жыл бұрын

I feel like a cultural shift is already happening and has been happening for some time. I don't care for big franchises (especially the MCU), but many of my faves have been produced during the last 10 years: Parasite, Midsommar, Get Out, Ex Machina, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Whiplash, Annihilation, Her, The Nightingale, mother!, Tár, Saint Maud, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Only Lovers Left Alive, Bones and All, ... I could go on and on. Maybe it's a generational thing - I'm only 27 years old - but I feel like there are much more interesting films being produced now than when I was a teenager (late 2000s) and used to believe that if I wanted to see cinematic masterpieces my only option was to catch up on pre-y2k DVDs because there would be no more great films to come. I'm glad to have been wrong.

Wow, i saw that entire initial list of movies in the theater back in '99. What a year.

When I was a cringey high school senior my favorite movie of all time was American Beauty. Since then my opinion has only gotten sourer and sourer on it to the point that I'm afraid to rewatch it at risk of dying from my own cringe nostalgia. I'd love to see you tackle it in a separate essay because that film is BIZARRE.

@angrynerdgirl

Жыл бұрын

I'm scared to rewatch it knowing what we know about Kevin Spacey now. It's too close to reality.

@ripwednesdayadams

Жыл бұрын

Idk, I watched it a few years ago and thought it was still pretty good. I enjoyed the critical look at the myth of the “American dream”, suffocating suburban life, the negative impact of toxic masculinity and the dissolution of the American nuclear family right before 9/11.

@Solarexistence

Жыл бұрын

So many people are missing the boat with American Beauty. It has nothing to do with the middle class or some midlife crisis or a creepy manchild, but realizing the beauty in the smallest mundane things and appreciating reality for what it is. The storyline is just a silly entertaining ride to get us to that point

@udishomer5852

Жыл бұрын

It is a really great movie, I personally watched it 3-4 times and always enjoyed it. But there were plenty of other great classics in 1999, Fight Club, The Matrix, Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, Noting Hill...

@KaceyRepublic

Жыл бұрын

Same. I was 17 and I loved it when I watched it enough to go see it again at the cinema. The moral of this story is the 17 year olds are idiots.

Thanks for the excellent video, Broey. Glad you mention the rise of the multiplex in 1995. In 1995, the first multiplex theater opened in my home town and changed everything. In a few years, all traditional cinema theaters closed down.

American Beauty is a masterpiece. It exposed the American dream for the lie that it really is. Lester's wife played by Annette Benning was one of the most heartbreaking characters in any film ever.

@michaeladkins6

Жыл бұрын

When she opens his closet door at the end.

@Krwler

Жыл бұрын

It’s a Leftists wet dream. Beautiful propaganda.

@angrynerdgirl

Жыл бұрын

Her "I will sell this house today" scene reminded me SO much of my best friend's mom. She broke my heart.

@TheListenerCanon

Жыл бұрын

Love that movie despite Kevin Spacey. Actually, I still love Spacey as an actor but I can't support the guy anymore.

@dewolf123

Жыл бұрын

​@Listener Canon We don't know if anything said about him is legit, they are rumors for now till proven true.

I think it was Edward Norton who said something like, it was the last year of that century and so many directors, screenwriters and such were all cramming to get there works in before the new millennium began that, that year was just a banger for movies. He said something like that, more articulate.

I'm quickly becoming a huge fan of you - Rehash is one of my favorite podcasts out there right now!

Dogma was a film I anticipated and was not disappointed. Fight Club was amazing and the Phantom Menace was also great.

I hadn’t even realized how many of my favorite movies are from 1999. Very interesting conversation!

I love the history lessons you give us with each video! Juicy!

I was in college in Dallas in 1999. I saw a lot of these in the theater and still count 2 of them as amongst my favorites. Thanks for the look back. It was a good year!

Agree but arguably some equally iconic movies popping up in most years of this decade: 1993 - Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Age of Innocence, Three Colors: Blue, Falling Down, The Piano, True Romance, Carlito's Way, Remains of the Day, Philadelphia, Tombstone. 1994 - Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Ed Wood, Leon: The Professional, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Interview with the Vampire, Speed. 1995 - Heat, Before Sunrise, Casino, Seven, Dead Man Walking, Nixon, The Usual Suspects, 12 Monkeys, Apollo 13, Braveheart, Leaving Las Vegas, The Bridges of Madison County. 1996 - The English Patient, Trainspotting, Michael Collins, A Time to Kill, Jerry Maguire, Scream, Ransom, Independence Day, The Rock. 1997 - Good Will Hunting, Titanic, Life is Beautiful, Amistad, The Fifth Element, L.A. Confidential, Contact, Starship Troopers, Cop Land, Lost Highway, Face Off, The Edge, Gattaca. 1998 - Saving Private Ryan, Elizabeth, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Out of Sight, Dark City, The Truman Show, Blade, The Big Lebowski, The Thin Red Line. and even 2000 gave us - Requiem for a Dream, Snatch, In the Mood for Love, Gladiator, Memento, American Psycho, Malena, Unbreakable, Billy Elliot, Meet the Parents, Erin Brokovich, Chocolat, Traffic, Quills, The Patriot, Cast Away.

@simianinc

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The 90s felt a magical time to live in if you were a movie buff. There was always something magical to see at the cinema - for both art-house and mainstream.

@thetalentof

Жыл бұрын

​@@simianinc Yes absolutely, on-location filming or built sets if filming in a studio, more shooting time and higher budgets given from WB, Fox, Disney, Universal, Paramount, original and unique screenplays being greenlit at enormous budgets from all major studios, real stunts, explosions, helicopters and squibs so that action sequences were thrilling to watch, movie stars that had screen presence or if a studio preferred to use an actor instead, it was usually an actor skilled at the craft, orchestral scores and superior image quality shooting on 35mm (we do thankfully still get this today from Nolan, PTA, Snyder, Guadagnino, Anderson, Shyamalan, Scorsese, Abrams, Spielberg, Tarantino, Bradley Cooper, Robert Eggers, Jordan Peele, John Krasinski, Cary Fukanaga, Colin Trevorrow and Marc Forster who still understand this). I don't blame studios for going the cheaper route today though because if they can rush movies out faster and at less expense then they can get more movies produced in a year and if they are all IP movies, casual audiences will still flock to go and see them, even though they're paying for less quality in return, it is a business after all. But if the numbers keep coming in, studios won't change this approach unless they're forced to become more creative again. A24 are keeping the ship afloat in addition to the auteurs mentioned above. Chris Stuckmann does a much better job of explaining why this change happened (basically the arrival of streaming preventing a huge 2nd opening that would normally come from DVD releases allowing the studios to take more risks) in his 'Why Don't they Make 'Em Like They Used To' video here - kzread.info/dash/bejne/qn52lpiOoLC9h8Y.html&ab_channel=ChrisStuckmann

Brilliant work as usual! Incredibly insightful video, I really appreciate how it really contextualizes the year and gives reasoning for why everything happened exactly as it did. Keep up the fantastic stuff!

I feel like 9/11 changed things a little more than audiences merely wanting escapism, but perhaps there was a little bit of disdain for the types of movies coming out in 1999. A lot of those movies mentioned and featured (though not all, of course) seemed to appeal to men and boys looking around at their lives and wondering if this was all there was. Y2K would somewhere between the end of the universe or nothing, but, except for Daddy Deschanel, there was nothing that they could do about it. So, all they had left were their humdrum lives, boring suburbia, an unfulfilling office job, little annoyances that pile up, no sense of direction or purpose or meaning. If the end came, it would come either before they could do anything with their lives, or it would turn all of their accomplishments into nothingness. When Y2K passed, those feelings may have stuck around, but the sense of urgency was no longer there. In Fight Club, Brad Pitt's character said that they had no great war, save for a spiritual one. 9/11 put an end to all that. Suddenly, these little problems seemed so petty in the face of 3,000 deaths, with more maybe to come. In less than a month, the United States began "military operations" in Afghanistan. For the men looking for adventure, to feel like they part of something bigger, to feel like they were bigger, to feel like the were doing something that actually mattered, this was a great opportunity. For those who were going through real psychological turmoil, eh, maybe not so much. But I guess that people had less patience and sympathy for these men wandering around musing about the meaning of life and plotting the downfall of American society. This was no longer the time for mopey philosophizing; this was a time for action and for unity, and persecuting those deemed suspicious. I myself had been scouted by the army just months before 9/11. Despite me being really short and not really in shape, they flattered me greatly, saying that I could work in intelligence, and I sheepishly turned them down. I feel kind of lucky that I had been raised in a rather liberal household and was attending a somewhat liberal university, because I cannot imagine how much pressure there would have been for me to "volunteer" for the armed forces.

End of Evangelion literally embodies whole 90s broody melancholic experimental indie vibes into a film culminating anime serialisation.

Damn very great work, please keep this up. Refreshing, New and Insightful. I was 29 in 1999 and this was a piece of art.

Thank you so much for this insightful take! I always thought movies this year were iconic to basically me specifically, bc it was my first year of high school. It's nice to know I'm not just looking at them with nostalgia goggles and that they really were iconic to a bunch of folks and learn the history of why!

Amazing video ❤ Can't believe how many legendary movies came out in 1999. I think I need to make a 1999 movie watchlist

This was fantastic ❤ Damn good job, and analysis. I often talked with my brother and cousin, who are also huge cineasts, how great 1999 was, in terms of movies. And the amount of it. And how connected they actually all were. You really dived deep into it.

2007 is my personal favourite year of movies. So many masterpieces like Zodiac, ratatouille, there will be blood, no country for old men, assassination of Jesse james

@DanaJaneWriter

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good choice 👌

@eddiemc86

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Also 1994. Shawshank, pulp fiction, NBK, dumb and dumber, swimming with sharks, shallow grave, lion king, Ace Ventura . Not as good as 07 which is for me the best film year ever but 94 was definitely a cut above normal

@kostajovanovic3711

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And that's only the north American mentions

@kostajovanovic3711

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​@@eddiemc86 one of those is not surviving the cultural shifts

12:49 so basically “life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it” but honestly i don’t know if it’s more that i’ve gotten more consciously into movies over the past few years but i feel like right now is an amazing time for cinema. crimes of the future, the northman, everything everywhere all at once, infinity pool, i’ve seen so many films in the last year or so that were amazing and i was surprised got as wide of a release as they did

I remember being very grateful for an amazing cinema year in '99. I had stupidly decided to do a uni exchange in an upstate NY campus for a semester and literally the only thing good about those 4 months was the 'trapped together' friendships i made with the other exchange students, that we managed to escape to Canada a few times and the fact that there was a (very small) cinema in the town, showing a new movie every week. Aside from American Beauty and Sixth Sense, there were also Sleepy Hollow, The Green Mile and House on Haunted Hill while we were there. They also showed South Park the movie on campus for some reason. There were only a few students there to watch it though, which surprised us in such a boring, one horse town and our entire row were pretty much the only ones cackling with laughter all the way through.

Wow, that was a damn good video essay!

Yes, finally a video essay about movies where I've seen them all. It's a tiny pedantic victory.

While it was omitted from your initial rundown, I'm glad you later included mention of 'Election.'

I think its notable that while these movies spoke to a certain socioeconomic angst, by virtue of the neoliberalism in which they were made, they wouldn't do anything to change it and in some ways, create false outlets for those feelings and dull the collective urge for change. Whether these movies led people to imagine Sisyphus happy or not, we are all still stuck with our boulders.

@avillianchillinskrillian

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How did movies in other decades/eras change the status quo?

@satyasyasatyasya5746

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@@avillianchillinskrillian they didn't. movies can't

@KrisBryant99

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WHAT?????????

aaaah your videos are always so captivating & hopeful ! 💗 amazing job

Big love for 1999! 'The Virgin Suicides' is one of my favourite films ever. And I completely agree with the comments about a24: surely the antidote we all need to the over-hyped passable films we are constantly bombarded with.

Yo 2019 was amazing (Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Little Women, The Lighthouse, etc.,

I was a junior in high school. What a year. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

Fantastic video. Never heard of your channel but it was extremly informative and entertaining.

Your videos are super high quality 🙏 thank you

I wish you made a new video 2-3x’s a week. One of the top 5 creators on the platform, ong.

As always, you deliver so well, Broey! Luv ya, girl! 🎉

For me 1987 was one of the best years for movies, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Evil Dead 2, Raising Arizona, Withnail and I, Predator, RoboCop, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Full Metal Jacket, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street. On the downside 1987 had Jaws III The Revenge and Superman IV Quest for peace which sort of evens things out.

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Also, 1987 had The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.

This is the level of detail I need in my life 🙏🏼 Great Job.

This is terrific. I'm going to show this to my students today. Thank you!

This was great! 1999 was a phenomenal year for movies. 1939 will always be #1 for me (GWTW, Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Dark Victory, Stagecoach, Gunga Din, The Women, Love Affair, Of Mice and Men, Each Dawn I Die, Babes in Arms, etc.), but 1999 is a very close #2 in terms of the best years for films.

Although being from 1998, Happiness by Todd Solondz also fits into this category of movie in my opinion. It's ultimately about a group of tragic and miserable characters and their misguided pursuits of love, fulfillment, acceptence and happiness. It's also a darkly comical critique of the "American dream".

Damn this totally explains why I am able to see so many bizarre films with my amc subscription at the southpoint mall in Durham, nc

I really miss the AMC presence here in Canada, while we had it, the smaller more interesting movies had a chance to still get a fairly big screen experience outside the art-house theaters downtown, by using their smaller more intimate screens. These smaller pictures could screen for 6-7 weeks giving you a chance to catch them. Also at 5.88 on a Tuesday you could risk it on a picture which didn’t have huge marketing budget but had an intriguing premise. These types of films have morphed into streaming films, or mini-series but the experience is much reduced.

Quick shout out to Dogma as well, not discussed as often as Kevin Smith's other movies (primarily because pretty much the only way to watch it is piracy), but its certainly one of the most open-minded and thought-provoking discussions about religion in film from the era. Plus its just got an icon cast... Alan Rickman as Metatron is flawless casting. Edit: wanted to mention Mystery Men too. A weird, cult-classic superhero parody of the Schumaker Batman movies starring most of the indie circuit actors from the time and made at the tail end of the superhero rush that churned out so many awful films studios like Marvel would like to forget (Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD starring David Hasselhoff, anyone?). Definitely hits different with how superhero movies are now, it’s almost ahead of it’s time in its deconstruction of the genre. Crazy that it’s Kinka Usher’s only movie, too.

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And Alanis Morrisette as G-d...

What are the things I love talking about most at parties and get-togethers is how 1999 was the best year ever four movies. As soon as I start going down the list, everyone starts nodding in agreement

Love your video essays! Excellent stuff here.

Bloody hell- what a great video! I was glued to my screen from start to end

This was the year that made me fall in love with movies

The Mummy (1999) of course

I cannot say which year had the best movies. As a xennial movies were my obsession. Every Friday we went to the cinema or rented movies. I never realised that most of my favourite movies are from 1999. I saw these movies in the cinema, some twice. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Girl Interrupted, Virgin Suicides (saw it on my 16th birthday), Election, Cruel Intentions, 10 Things I hate about you, American Beauty and the sixth sense. I remember thinking American Beauty was a masterpiece. I saw it twice at the cinema. The Virgin Suicides soundtrack by Air was my study soundtrack. I had it on winamp along with the Talented Mr. Ripley soundtrack. I have never seen the Matrix in it's entirety, the boys in my school repeating i know kung fu, which made me not want to see it. It is also my husband's favourite movie, somehow we make it work.

Don't forget about 2007 and 1979. Great years as well.

fantastic video, love the Camus connection!! very inspiring conclusion.

Great essay Broey, thank you.

best video I have seen so far on films.

The indie spirit went online. The indie creator doesn't need Miramax to help them get in front of an audience, they can go direct to consumer.

Perfect timing! Looks super interesting, hyped for another one of your analysis's.

Although films from the past may undergo re-examination, this only tends to happen to films that at their core are actually about something. A film that is made for it's generation, or culture may not have relevance in the future, but a creator making art for their time can't be worried about that. This is something current filmmakers ( in the industry at least ) have foregone as now because of exorbitant budgets studios want movies to appeal to everybody. Now for me to hear someone say that a film is problematic or "questionable" for its ideas is a recommendation that I'm going to be challenged to think and feel something when the film is over.

Fight Club, Boys Don't cry and The Virgin Suicides are pure gold. I couldn't compare them with one another, but I could watch them at absolutely any one of them at any time.

i think this may be the best video ive watched from you.... 10/10 huge fan!!!!! 1999 crafted my movie taste and i have felt so strongly that we can never get back to that, but after watching this i have the language and hope that it'll be okay and not all new movies suck haha also, i would LOVE to see a nymphette video from you!!!

Morpheus tells Neo that The Matrix looks like 1999 because humanity kind of peaked then. Our host says, after 1999, the film industry kind of went off a cliff. COINCIDENCE!? "I think not." 😀

Finally😩 I love your work!!!

1998 - 1999 there were so many great films that I was watching a new film in cinemas at least thrice a week, then I would wait for at least one year so that I could see them again on cable.

Great video as always!

I saw so many movies in the theater in 1999. Great year.

This one is a legit banger. I was about 9 years old when I snuck in to watch baseketball; parent trap; saving private ryan (left early bc ya that shit was too surreal in 35 mm - although I'd love to see it again in 35mm). And then my older brother snuck me in to watch Matrix and Fight Club. Ya, it's the reason I love movies so much...

This is my goddamn kind of content. Subscribing 🔥

One of the last scenes in "American beauty" is the neighbor kid looking at the dead father of the girl and smiling...

And to think I was 17 in that year and saw nearly each and every one of these at the movie house. I hardly realised it at the time, but it was true that I wasn't watching any duds for a whole 12 months!