1999-2004 era movies.

Good Bye Lenin!

Election

Kill Bill 1 and 2.

8 mile--the white Purple rain.

Amélie

Mulholland Drive.

Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love

Why this random period? Why not 2000-2005?

R9 Because if you can count, that's a 5 year period and 1999 was a much more significant year for film than 2005 was. Don't question me.

The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think it's a better adaptation of the book than the Alain Delon version Plein Soleil.

I think this is just one of the greatest movies ever made. It's what got me into black comedies and every scene is engaging, bleak and surreal. I don't think anything has come close to it yet and I limit myself to one viewing around Halloween each year.

Bertolucci's The Dreamers

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Tons and tons of teen movies. Never Been Kissed, American Pie, Election, She's All That, 10 Things.. America must have reached peak teen population then, because I don't think there's been such a saturation of teen flicks since.

Eyes Wide Shut

Oldboy

I loved The Village. I know it got so much hate, but I was definitely was not expecting the ending in theaters and audibly gasped. I was totally satisfied with the ending.

R4 You mean rip offs of Hong Kong and Taiwanese martial arts/ action cinema circa 1970s-80s? QT is a master at doing just that, and audiences here go apeshit like he's an inventive genius.

Lilya 4-Ever

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind1

R15 Election is not a teen movie.

Her pussy is so wet.

Legally Blonde.

R22, that depends on which high school you attended.

Whore

That period covered parts of high school and college. The films I remember most are from 1999, American Beauty, American Pie, and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, from 2000, Dude, Where's My Car, Boiler Room, Road Trip, and The Patriot, from 2001, Kingdom Come, Boiler Room, Moulin Rouge, American Pie 2, Shrek, from 2002, Signs, Orange County, Super Troopers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Barbershop, Far From Heaven, Star Trek:Nemesis, Nicholas Nickleby, from 2003, American Wedding, Love Actually, Cold Mountain, from 2004, The Passion of the Christ, Shrek 2, Meet The Fockers, and from 2005 Batman Begins. I'm sure there were other great and better films from that time period but those are the ones that I most remember from the time and that feel me with nostalgia.

I see dead people.

The House of Flying Daggers

I agree with r9. This is a random period because 1999 was the peak of an era, whereas 2000-2004 was the mediocre start of a new one. 1999 was also the year of the directorial debut, whereas the years that followed showed them trying to match that success. The world changed in 2001, so you could also argue that's when the new era officially started.

1999 favorites: American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, The Sixth Sense, Election, Blair Witch Project, Go 2000-2004 favorites: In The Bedroom, Moulin Rouge, Ghost World, Lost in Translation... and that's all I got

Sorry, R29 but from 2000 - 2004, it all about the Lord of the Rings. trilogy. After this, special effects were never the same.

'Big Fish', 'Down With Love' and 'Lost in Translation' are some of my favorite films ever. I've seen all of them multiple times, and I think I will always return to them regularly.

It was also the start of The Matrix and its trilogy.

From 2000 and on, there seemed to be an explosion in special effects and CGI. I remember this scene where Neo dodges the bullets and people were awestruck, they couldn't believe the special effects. Now, it happens all the time.

It's all about Pedro Almodóvar

Minority Report -- another exceptional SciFi thriller.

The last good DePalma movie came during this time period - Femme Fatale . ..

My least favorite Woody Allen movies are from this "era":

Melinda & Melinda, Hollywood Ending, and his two worst (at least of the pictures of his that I've seen) - The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Anything Else.

The Fluffer!

Ghost World was great.

I know a lot of people hate it and think it's mediocre trash -- and Mrs. Kevin Spacey has been cancelled -- but I do really like American Beauty.

Magnolia, a masterpiece. Enjoy the clip.

Bring it On and Mean Girls were two other teen movies from this era.

Could we stretch this era back to 1997? I see Boogie Nights, The Ice Storm, Jackie Brown, and Eve's Bayou as the start of this era, likewise '98 flims like Gods and Monsters and Happiness.

R4 ... if, for just this

Not Another Teen Movie was an awesome spoof of teen movies of the period. It was also the first time I noticed Chris Evans.

[Quote] It was also the first time I noticed Chris Evans.

Same.

Are we including animated movies?

Gladiator

I enjoyed this era in film. I was in high school and college during those years and probably saw 70% of all the mainstream films released then. This was right before complete domination of film by superhero movies.

IFC would show short films back in the late 90s. They were usually pretty bad. I watched one until the end because it had this cute guy in it. When I saw the trailer for Not Another Teen Movie, I thought, it's the guy from that short film. Little did I know back then that Chris Evans would be an A list star in just a few years.

R48 X Men came out in 2000 and Spiderman, the film which opened the floodgates, came out in 2003.

R50, thanks a lot, X Men and Spiderman!

1999 was also the year Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow came out. The first of that gothic desaturated gloomy aesthetic that I really took notice of. I'm sure there were ones before that, but it could have been filmed yesterday. It's been 20 years. Wow.

Drop Dead Gorgeous came out in 1999.

Chicago

American Psycho (2000)

R29 I loved GO! and still do. It was unfairly panned on release as a cheap pointlesss Happy Hardcore knockoff of PULP FICTION but in my opinion GO! has it’s own distinct personality, more charming by half. Just because it’s a vignette caper about partygoers doesn’t make it a bargain-bin film, but that seemed to be the general reception. It was written and released to be a mischievous sexy offbeat black comedy alternative for the Gen X crowd over Christmas Y2K, and it succeeded ably.

The only real flaw in GO! is the boneheaded but mercifully-short second act with the unsympathetic idiot-ball punk characters (one of them played by a young Breckin Meyer) who steal from a gang. That part is dull and loses me, so I tend to skip over it.

Overall though Sarah Polley was a revelation in it, and Katie Holmes more than watchable (high praise given her talent level). Timothy Olyphant managed to be both sexy and convincing. William Fichtner WENT there with the comedy. Melissa McCarthy has her first major movie credit and she steals the show. Scott Wolf/BAY-LEEEEE was never cuter, and should have leaned into more gay roles following this one. The perma-grinning kiss of death for film Jay Mohr even clicked perfectly in his laconic straight-man character.