Bright Wall/Dark Room: Ok let’s see how this does on bluesky: What is your favorite movie from 1999 (you can only pick one!)

Ok let’s see how this does on bluesky: What is your favorite movie from 1999 (you can only pick one!)

Cronenberg's sadly underrated masterpiece eXistenZ

we published a deep dive on that one last week!

eXistenZ (1999): A Game Everybody's Already Playingwww.brightwalldarkroom.com What matters in eXistenZ, it seems, is still the pursuit of human connection, whether out of true love or revolutionary fervor (or both).

Forgotten entry in the biomorphic instruments trilogy.

25 years on I still can’t stop myself from shouting “Death to the demoness Allegra Geller!” at the most inappropriate moments

All The 1999 Movies:

Rushmore is definitely an edge case too, technically 1998 though basically everyone saw it in 1999

Yeah that’s mine too. It’s probably even my favorite Cronenberg film, even though it’s a tough choice since all he does is put out masterpieces.

As a guy who watched this with the woman who is now my spouse because I somehow thought it was a date movie, I concur.

Fuck it, you said *favorite*: THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. John McTiernan GOAT. Insanely re-watchable, sexy af, perfection from beginning to end.

I saw that in theatres with my dad when I was 14. The only thing I remember is how uncomfortable I was 😂

I had an uncomfortable experience watching American Gigolo on VHS at the house of my only friend that was well-off enough to have a VCR and her dad came in right at the beginning and watched it with us and that was a LONG and completely silent 2 hours.

I have so many questions for the kinds of parents that don't remove themselves from that situation...

I have questions about a VCR in 1999

I had a VCR into my 20s so I could watch the original Star Wars. 🤓 But American Gigolo came out in the early 80s, so it makes sense to have watched that on VHS.

Nooo 🫢

This still wins over the time I saw Sex, Lies, and Videotape with my mother at age 20.

My son was home for Christmas, and we tend to go to movies together when he’s here. He mentioned wanting to see Poor Things. I knew little about it at the time, and we didn’t end up seeing it. I saw it alone, and he saw it with his gf. All for the best 😅

The entirety of my GI system tensed up and froze in place when I read your post.

Sea of Love was not okay to watch with my parents when I was 22, or at any age really, but I did not know how to extract myself.

They need a warning label that says "not suitable for parents".

Almost as uncomfortable as that sex scene on the staircase. Which is what I remember about the movie because I KNOW it was supposed to be as sexy AF but I just couldn’t stop thinking about how freaking uncomfortable it would be.

THAT'S the movie that's scene from??? Apparently I do remember one part of it 😂

😂😂

Omg yeah, that’s a rough one!

(It’s a super fun movie if you ever feel like giving it another go!)

If I say I've seen this movie 100x that's probably not an exaggeration. Partly because I love it and partly because it's on movie channels and every streamer constantly.

1999 is a pretty stacked year, and I love TCA, but for favorite, I’d go with The Talented Mr Ripley

It’s pure pleasure!

Definitely will. Though I'm very aware that once I do I'm going to have to talk about how I have even more evidence of how fucked up my relationship with my dad was, which feels like it'll take some of the fun out of it 😂

Funnily enough, my uncle is in this film.

Do tell!

Can't say much more because I'm paranoid about giving away my identity online, but he has a nice little scene with Pierce Brosnan and said that on-set he was really, really funny on-set. Said something like, "You wouldn't expect a guy that handsome to tell a good fart joke."

Ah, that’s delightful!

(completely understand the paranoia, i’m the same way)

It was okay but I can't forgive Pierce Brosnan for saying "expresso"

That was a good movie! I didn't realize it was so late in the 90s

A perfect slice of Hollywood entertainment! Fun! Sexy! Didn’t insult your intelligence!

Fun movie

I saw it three times in the theater and watch it any time it's on TV. Easily one of the best caper films of all time, even though it's a remake. Humorously enough, Pierce Brosnan hosted a series on the greatest heists of all time in the past few years.

The Insider and The Matrix come mighty damn close. Ultimately, though, I have to give 1999 top honors to Bowfinger. Pure comfort food, screamingly hilarious. 📽️

Loved Bowfinger! It is so underrated.

It’s a little too uneven for me to name it a favorite, but it has some astonishingly funny bits in it.

SO MUCH WORD TO THAT It helps that director Frank Oz is such a wonderfully mad scientist in the realm of film. Sure, to be fair, not *every* single film he's done was a banger, but the overwhelming majority of them were, and Bowfinger certainly applies. Instant bad day antidote, that.

Steve Martin doing A+ comedy game and then Eddie Murphy shows up and outcomedies him by like a fucking mile without trying hard; Murphy is just so, so brilliant

It's *unreal* how adept at comedy Eddie Murphy is. Like, stop giving him those lower-tier screenplays. If you can give Murphy a comedy screenplay that's respectable and *not* something along the lines of Norbit, he WILL give you magic. It's that simple.

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