The Top 10 Films of 1998

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  • Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
  • Harry lists his top ten personal favourite films of 1998.

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  • @drdavid1963
    @drdavid1963 5 місяців тому +5

    My top 10 for 1998
    Honorable mentions: Ring, Out of Sight, Gods and Monsters, Happiness, Black Cat White Cat, Buffalo 66, The Negotiator, The Daytrippers, What Dreams May Come, City of Angels.
    10. Shakespeare in love
    9. Open Your Eyes (original version of Vanilla Sky)
    8. Hilary and Jackie (film of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre and her sister)
    7. The Truman Show
    6. Saving Private Ryan
    5. The Thin Red Line
    4. My Name is Joe (Ken Loach classic)
    3. The Idiots
    2. The Dreamlife of Angels (underrated French film about two young women trying to make a life for themselves in Lille)
    NUMBER ONE: FESTEN

  • @DCSMedia
    @DCSMedia 5 місяців тому +8

    I literally just watched The Big Lebowski, some of the most fun I’ve had watching a film this year so far.

  • @CKprimeval07
    @CKprimeval07 5 місяців тому +5

    My top five (yeah haven't watched a lot yet):
    5. The Truman Show
    4. The Thin Red Line
    3. Run Lola Run
    2. Saving Private Ryan
    1. The Prince of Egypt

  • @williamthomas3536
    @williamthomas3536 5 місяців тому +5

    I was a failing art student when I first watched the Red Thin Line back in 1998. After watching that movie I started to become influenced by nature and 12 years later became a PhD. It highlights the beauty of life and how lucky we are living on planet Earth, but within a whisker your life could be gone. (thanks for keeping on making these videos).

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому +1

      Wow. That's brilliant. The power of film and nature!

    • @williamthomas3536
      @williamthomas3536 5 місяців тому +1

      @@1-2manyI was in a cinema in Swansea and I came out with a new perspective on life. Movies can change peoples lives for the better. I just hope this generation understands the power of film.

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому +1

      @@williamthomas3536 100% agree. Not sure a 30 second TikTok video could do that!

  • @gnosis6656
    @gnosis6656 5 місяців тому +3

    Another great list. I’m gratified to know that someone else thinks A Simple Plan and Dark City are noteworthy.

    • @Zed-fq3lj
      @Zed-fq3lj 5 місяців тому

      Simple Plan is a good movie, great cast but an inferior rip off (Shallow Grave 1994). Dark City truly a creative and inspiring piece of art!

    • @gnosis6656
      @gnosis6656 4 місяці тому

      @@Zed-fq3lj There was a cluster of good movies in the 90’s that all centered on groups of people who destroyed each other over how to split a fortune-alongside these 2, add Trespass and Reservoir Dogs. They all hearken back to Treasure of the Sierra Madre and, even further back, to Chaucer.
      Disagree about A Simple Plan. The film closely follows the 1993 novel on which it’s based, so not a ripoff. Both are very good with talented directors at the helm.

  • @dottiegillespie8067
    @dottiegillespie8067 5 місяців тому +10

    I was binging your reviews when I got this notification!!! Thank you I love your channel!

  • @tomt55
    @tomt55 5 місяців тому +6

    Another fantastic list! I absolutely love your lists and narration. Thank you so much for suggesting so many wonderful movies for me to watch! Please keep these coming! 👍🏻❤️🎥🎞️🎬

  • @carltonbright6923
    @carltonbright6923 4 місяці тому +2

    Your commentaries are a delight, helpful and informative, and just to add some light on the "shake cam" history, the 1960's Kubrick Film "Dr. Strangelove" used it for the Military fighting scenes specifically for the realism of filming while under fire.✌

  • @chrislondo2683
    @chrislondo2683 5 місяців тому +4

    I really love the music for Thin Red Line. Especially the unreleased tracks (ones heard in the film or alternate tracks) some of which ended up on the La La Land Records release.

  • @BloodoperaBlackvomit
    @BloodoperaBlackvomit 5 місяців тому +1

    "God I miss shorter movies" THATS IT RIGHT THERE! I just rewatched Zoolander and my goodness is that a short fun romp. Its so short you want to watch it again. Greetings from The Netherlands.

  • @momojojokoko
    @momojojokoko 3 місяці тому +1

    Also in 1998 :
    - Ronin : John Frankenheimer's second to last movie, and one of his best.
    - High Art : a harsh look at love, art, and the selfishness that drives it all.

  • @aristarchusx1111
    @aristarchusx1111 5 місяців тому +2

    Great video!! 1998 was a great year. I love The Truman Show and Big Lebowsky
    About 1999, my favourite movies would be:
    - BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
    - AMERICAN BEAUTY
    - THE SIXTH SENSE
    - FIGHT CLUB
    - THE MATRIX
    - THE GREEN MILE
    - EYES WIDE SHUT
    - THE THIRTEENTH LEVEL (maybe it's too similar to The Matrix, but I like it anyway)
    - DOGMA
    - MAGNOLIA
    - MYSTERY MEN (Best superhero parody ever, and it was made way before superhero movies were so common)
    - SOUTH PARK
    - OFFICE SPACE
    - IRON GIANT

  • @Chicago_Podcast_Authority
    @Chicago_Podcast_Authority 5 місяців тому +7

    Guess who’s back ❤

  • @waelr112
    @waelr112 5 місяців тому +5

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is my number one pick..

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 5 місяців тому +1

    Top from 1998: "When Trumpets fade" / "Legionnaire" with Jean Claude van Damme & "The Patriot" with Steven Seagal.

  • @davidagiel8130
    @davidagiel8130 5 місяців тому +2

    I was only 17 and the Big Lebowski is an all time favourite for me.

  • @jonbolton3376
    @jonbolton3376 5 місяців тому +4

    One of my favourite years with so many films i love. In a less good year in my opinion any of my favourite 6 would be worthy of number 1 position. These are my favourite 12:
    12 You've Got Mail
    11 John Carpenter's Vampires
    10 Halloween: H20
    9 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    8 Curse Of The Puppet Master
    7 There's Something About Mary
    6 Bride Of Chucky
    5 Urban Legend
    4 Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
    3 Lethal Weapon 4
    2 Deep Impact
    1 The Negotiator

  • @dazzer1882
    @dazzer1882 5 місяців тому +5

    I too watched Wild Things a lot as teen. Your right Bill Murray is funny.

  • @channeljan8529
    @channeljan8529 3 місяці тому +1

    My top 10 of 1998:
    1. Babe: Pig in the City
    2. Dark City
    3. Antz
    4. The Thin Red Line
    5. Elizabeth
    6. Forever Fever
    7. Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
    8. Waking Ned Devine
    9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    10. Primary Colors

  • @lbbotpn5429
    @lbbotpn5429 5 місяців тому +1

    I must've been one of the few that actually saw A Simple Plan at the cinema; it's still one of my favorites. Honorable mention to John Carpenter's Vampires - not a great movie, but definitely a guilty pleasure. Thank you for another great list!

  • @80smoviesfan
    @80smoviesfan 5 місяців тому +2

    My personal 20 for 1998
    20. Very Bad Things
    19. Lethal Weapon 4
    18. Halloween H20
    17. Can't Hardly Wait
    16. Pleasentville
    15. Fallen
    14. There is Something About Mary
    13. Rush Hour
    12. Blade
    11. The Waterboy
    10. Wild Things
    09. Armageddon
    08. The Negotiator
    07. Patch Adams
    06. BASEketball
    05. What Dreams May Come
    04. Dark City
    03. Deep Rising
    02. The Truman Show
    01. American History X

  • @Jeffelson
    @Jeffelson 5 місяців тому +4

    Love your content! Generally consider myself to be well-watched but these list make me realise just how many gaps I have to fill, especially when it comes to foreign language films. I've been bingeing your videos recently but I've failed to take proper notes on all of the cool sounding films I'm yet to see... you don't happen to have a google doc or similar with all of your top 10s (or 20s) so far, do you?

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому

      I'm afraid I don't. I delete them once I've finished!

  • @allenrubinstein3696
    @allenrubinstein3696 5 місяців тому +4

    LA Writer and critic Michael Ventura, who is personal friends with Terrence Malick, watched a five hour cut of The Thin Red Line and said it was one of the greatest films he'd ever watched. He said the theatrical cut foregrounded the Hollywood stars and ruined a masterpiece. No way to confirm any of this (and Ventura is quite the eccentric with a dark soul), but it is interesting.
    Very pleased to see a shout out to Afterlife, which was on many critics' top ten lists of the year, and A Simple Plan, which never, ever gets its due as a completely successful, slam bang noir film.
    Yeah, '98 sure did have a bumper crop. I think it got overshadowed by 1999, plus you've got a bunch that weren't appreciated until later. Lots of great independent movies - Buffalo 66, Croupier, Dancer Texas - Pop 81, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Illuminata, The Opposite of Sex, Pi, Permanent Midnight, Sliding Doors, Pecker, and Waking Ned Divine. Guess the late 90s were the peak of the indie majors.
    Two of my personal favorites (in addition to Out of Sight, which would be a top five for me) are now both pretty obscure. First I'll never forget the bizarre tightrope performance from Warren Beatty in the great leftist fantasy Bulworth. And I've recently learned that Stanley Tucci hates his second directed feature, the old-fashioned boat-faring farce The Imposters with Oliver Platt, but boy howdy has it given me giggle fits every one of the dozen times I've watched it.

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому

      I'll have to give those last two a watch. Cheers!

    • @allenrubinstein3696
      @allenrubinstein3696 5 місяців тому

      @@1-2many I honestly don't know how Bulworth might have aged. Racism in 90s LA is a major theme. The senator raps.

    • @allenrubinstein3696
      @allenrubinstein3696 5 місяців тому

      Oh, and Platt is also in it. He's hilarious.

  • @mickey4355
    @mickey4355 5 місяців тому +3

    I’ve seen “The Thin Red Line” and “Saving Private Ryan” but that was a long time ago, I think I have to give them both a rewatch.
    My number one has to be the Greek film “Eternity and a Day” but “Lebowski” and “Happiness” would also be high on my list.

  • @ritualistica
    @ritualistica 5 місяців тому +3

    The thin red line may very well be your best review ever, (and edit) WELL DONE!

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому +1

      Cheers man!

  • @10hickmanj64
    @10hickmanj64 5 місяців тому +3

    Just reminded me how much I love the thin red line, definitely need to check that out at the prince Charles next time it’s on. Love the list 😊

  • @andylangford2658
    @andylangford2658 5 місяців тому +4

    I love this channel and the content. I have been eagerly awaiting this video since the 1997 one. Great work 👏

  • @paulwee1924dus
    @paulwee1924dus 5 місяців тому +2

    Saving pvt Ryan was a movie from mr. Spielberg. I saw it in Pathe cinema back in 1998!

  • @lyonellaverde3135
    @lyonellaverde3135 5 місяців тому +3

    The thing is I appreciate your takes even when I don't agree with them. You both clue me in on films I haven't yet seen, and make me reexamine some I already have.
    I am probably one of the few cinemaphiles who loves Shakespeare In Love. But people forget it was cowritten by Tom Stoppard, one of the greatest playwrights of the age. It is a Shakespearean romantic comedy (in the bard's famously farcical style) wrapped up in quasi-biography of the Bard. Is it a lot of romantic froth? Well yes of course, and if one succumbs to its charms, it is lovely. Any film with the late great Tom Wikinson, Geoffrey Rush, Simon Callow, Imelda Staunton, Colin Firth and Dame Judy Dench can hardly be that bad. Joseph Fiennes is a credible young bard (and famously--and historically--unfaithful), and Gwyneth Paltrow is rather endearing in the film. Did she deserve the Oscar for that? Probably not, but that does not mean she was poor in it. I believed the love story.
    And as Harry might say, Ben Affleck is in it too.

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому +1

      I think Shakespeare in Love is kind of like The How Green Was My Valley of 1998. A really good film that gets undue hatred simply because it beat better films to win best picture.

    • @lyonellaverde3135
      @lyonellaverde3135 5 місяців тому +1

      One might say that about Mrs. Miniver, the following year's monster winner. Weirdly, I've been thinking about that film, propagandistic as it is, as war clouds again hover over Europe.

  • @palacerevolution2000
    @palacerevolution2000 3 місяці тому

    You speak with great passion. It makes me either revisit some films, or finally give them a shot. E.g. "Thin Red Line".

  • @thelostone6981
    @thelostone6981 5 місяців тому +3

    The dogma 95 movement helped me feel better about my shit film making career as I didn’t have any budget! 😂😂 But I earnestly tried. Some of us don’t make it and others do.
    Smoke Signals was an influential film on me from 1998 and helped me open my eyes to the Native American way a life. Black Robe (can’t remember the year) is another I would recommend.
    Central Station is a good film if you’re not into asteroids destroying the earth….because….
    I’ll take Deep Impact over Armageddon any day of the week and twice on Thursday.
    That scene you referenced in Saving Private Ryan is heart breaking because the 2 soldiers are NOT speaking German there…I suggest anyone interested in WWII as to why I say it’s heartbreaking.
    And who’s a Peter Phile? 😉 (can someone name the reference to Happiness?) I love the absurdist-ness of life if I’m honest.
    I SOOOOOOOOO wish we could get a director’s cut to the Thin Red Line! And I will say that I LOVED Nick Nolte in this film. Call me odd, but to me he truly takes his work seriously and it’s a shame he’s been the butt if so many jokes.

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому

      I'd happily watch a 5 hour version!

  • @TheListenerCanon
    @TheListenerCanon 5 місяців тому +1

    I can't wait for 1999. One more year of the 90s!

    • @1-2many
      @1-2many  5 місяців тому +1

      Slowly working on it!

  • @mdjlloydy3243
    @mdjlloydy3243 3 місяці тому +1

    Awesome channel but where is Another Day in Paradise, James Woods at his best. Did this film get cancelled or something, I never hear anybody talking about it anywhere?

  • @Adamdow95
    @Adamdow95 5 місяців тому +4

    Saving Private Ryan
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Armageddon
    A Bug's Life
    Halloween: H20
    Out of Sight
    The Mask of Zorro
    Small Soldiers
    Godzilla
    What Dreams May Come
    Patch Adams
    The Siege
    The Truman Show
    Fallen
    City of Angels

  • @angelus4282
    @angelus4282 2 місяці тому

    It was a coin toss between #'s 1 & 2...
    My Top 10:
    10. Run Lola Run
    9. The Waterboy
    8. Cube
    7. Blade
    6. The Faculty
    5. Rush Hour
    4. Wild Things
    3. The Truman Show
    2. Dark City
    1. American History X

  • @paulzenco6182
    @paulzenco6182 5 місяців тому +3

    Wow man, i agree with most of your pics in this year s list, and you chose my favourite film of 1998 number 1, the great Thin Red Line. You Sir are correct 👍

  • @JustinWilliams367
    @JustinWilliams367 5 місяців тому

    TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998:
    1. Saving Private Ryan
    2. Ringu
    3. The Truman Show
    4. A Bug's Life
    5. Rushmore
    6. Mulan
    7. American History X
    8. The Thin Red Line
    9. The Prince Of Egypt
    10. Croupier

    • @Badastro59
      @Badastro59 3 місяці тому

      First, I think "Cutters way" it the Prequel To The Big Lebowski , His Vietnam Vet, getting out of the Wheelchair,
      Don't like saving private Ryan.
      Hate "The thin red Line" ( Only my opinion)
      Here is my list,
      1. Dark City ( Glad it was a flop, or they would have ruined it Too)
      2.Truman Show,
      3.Big Lebowski
      4.Ringu ( Hiroyuki Sanada has " died more times than Sean
      Bean)
      5.Ronin.
      6. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
      7. Very Bad things.
      8.Rushmore
      9.Lock Stock and two smoking Barrels
      10. Armageddon. ( yes I know, it's got Steve Buscemi in it)

  • @michaelwarwickvalencia8501
    @michaelwarwickvalencia8501 5 місяців тому

    The Two Best Animated Movies of 1998 are Mulan and The Prince of Egypt

  • @TellySavalas-or5hf
    @TellySavalas-or5hf 4 місяці тому

    I liked "When trumpets Fade" Walter Hills anti-war drama.

  • @chrismoore8203
    @chrismoore8203 5 місяців тому +1

    My Best Movies Of 1998
    A Bug’s Life
    Rush Hour
    Dr. Dolittle
    Saving Private Ryan
    The Players Club
    Blade
    Small Soldiers
    Lethal Weapon 4
    Senseless
    Belly
    I Got The Hook Up
    Half Baked
    He Got Game
    Armageddon
    Enemy Of The State
    U.S. Marshals
    The Negotiator
    The Big Hit
    The Big Lebowski
    Blues Brothers 2000

  • @goodman6608
    @goodman6608 28 днів тому

    the big lebowski is masterpiece

  • @DwainDwight
    @DwainDwight Місяць тому

    Dark City is outstanding.

  • @squilliamdafoe4648
    @squilliamdafoe4648 3 місяці тому

    Babe: Pig in the City is my only answer

  • @Chicago_Podcast_Authority
    @Chicago_Podcast_Authority 5 місяців тому

    We need chapters por favor ❤

  • @duncancurtis5108
    @duncancurtis5108 5 місяців тому +2

    Armageddon Saving Ryan's Privates Liz the First Babe two etc etc.

  • @adamgrimsley2900
    @adamgrimsley2900 5 місяців тому

    Nice

  • @thelastknight1276
    @thelastknight1276 3 місяці тому

    american history x

  • @resumensupercortodepelicul922
    @resumensupercortodepelicul922 5 місяців тому +6

    first

  • @Zed-fq3lj
    @Zed-fq3lj 5 місяців тому +1

    1998 was another glorious year for cinema where we had numerous masterpieces! This is an ok list (apart from Celebration which is meaningless pretentious excrement which induces epilepsy 🤢) but the order of movies is (always) questionable and just 10 places for 1998, such a rich year is not enough! Not to mention 'Mask of Zorro' , one of the best action adventures of the decade??!!! Simple Plan is a good movie but an inferior rip off (Shallow Grave 1994) 1998:
    1.The Big Lebowski
    2.Truman Show
    3.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    4.Saving Private Ryan
    5.The Barber of Siberia
    6.The Mask of Zorro
    7.Mulan
    8.The Thin Red Line
    9.The Legend of 1900
    10.Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    11.Dark City
    12.Enemy of the State
    13.Pleasantville
    14.The Dinner Game
    15.There's Something About Mary
    16.What Dreams May Come
    17.The Prince of Egypt
    18.Gods and Monsters
    19.Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
    20.American History X
    21.Apt Pupil

  • @kyloren3693
    @kyloren3693 5 місяців тому

    Norman is a supressed homosexual in Gus Van Sants version. Vince Vaughn clearly plays his as such, and he grows lethal when women come into focus/spur his hetro sexuality. Its an interesting take on the lore... and I enjoy it for the deviation from Hitchcocks vision.