And The Spy Who Shagged Me is the second in a series of satirical films that skewer another franchise: the Bond movies. Tarzan is a remake, in the way that most Disney animated films have been remakes of something, but a remarkably successful and original one. Toy Story 2 is one of the best sequels ever made. The Phantom Menace, whatever its faults, isn’t a sequel it’s a prequel, one that adds many new characters and storylines to the Star Wars universe. One more, The Mummy, is at best a very loose remake of a 1932 film, and not one that many audiences in 1999 would necessarily have remembered.Īnd even the sequels on the list are unusual. Half are centered on comic book characters.īy contrast, fully half of the top-earning movies of 1999 - The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, Big Daddy, Runaway Bride, and The Blair Witch Project - are original stories. Dreamworksīut you’ll notice at least one big difference between the two: Not one film on 2018’s list is based on an original idea, which is to say that every single one is a reboot, a sequel, or a story based on a beloved commercial property with an already established audience, such as Venom or Black Panther. Which, when you think about it, is pretty wild. American Beauty eventually won Best Picture. And both contain animated movies - Tarzan and The Grinch - that remade old stories into new ones. Both contain entries in long-running franchises. Both contain a follow-up to a beloved Pixar film ( Toy Story and The Incredibles). There are some notable similarities between the two lists.
Now, for contrast, look at the top 10 grossing films in North America last year: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.Take a look at the top 10 grossing films in North America in 1999: The top-grossing movies two decades ago weren’t all reboots and sequels 1999 was a very different time than 2019.īut a look back at the year’s movies points illustrates how different the movie landscape is 20 years later - and helps not just show a few factors that made 1999 the extraordinary movie year it was, but hint at some good new year’s moviegoing resolutions for audiences too. There’s no one reason this happened, nor one conclusion to draw. The Blair Witch Project changed the movie marketing game in 1999. Ripley.Ĭult favorites, rom-com classics, teen movie standards, trendsetting horror, wildly successful sci-fi, transgressive melodrama, and the most anticipated (and possibly the most reviled) space opera prequel of all time.īelieve it or not, they all came out in 1999.Įvery year has good films, but a combination of factors - studio appetite for risks, the rise of some daring young directors, and the happy serendipity of a lot of people just making a good movie that year - led to one point: a year that was uncommonly good for movies. Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace. Riddle me this: What do all of these movies have in common?įight Club.
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