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Some Popular American Movies from the Year 1997
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Poll Question: Which one(s) do you choose?
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    Posted: March 15 2021 at 15:25
This time, I chose popular movies for the options. At least, I'll be very surprised if one of them I put here was rated by less than 100.000 people on IMDb.

All the movies here are American. I used Wikipedia as a source, and didn't include movies that are done in collaboration with other countries (like UK/USA). IMDb and Wikipedia can differ in that, and probably IMDb is the more trustable site in this regard; but it would have taken too much of my time if I had checked each movie on there.

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I've seen most of these, blockbuster type of movies, don't know which one to vote for TBH Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I've seen most of these, blockbuster type of movies, don't know which one to vote for TBH Embarrassed


I voted for 5 of my favourites. Seemed about convenient. Smile
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Of these, Gattaca is my favorite. Also enjoyed The Devil's Advocate, Men in Black, The Game, Air Force One, and Titanic. Starship Troopers could have been much better, but was OK. Liar Liar has its moments for a couple of laughs. I'm pretty sure I've seen Alien Resurrection, but can't seem to remember it at the moment. I haven't seen the others in this list. Curious to see what others think. Always looking for more films to add to my "need to watch" list.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Of these, Gattaca is my favorite. Also enjoyed The Devil's Advocate, Men in Black, The Game, Air Force One, and Titanic. Starship Troopers could have been much better, but was OK. Liar Liar has its moments for a couple of laughs. I'm pretty sure I've seen Alien Resurrection, but can't seem to remember it at the moment. I haven't seen the others in this list. Curious to see what others think. Always looking for more films to add to my "need to watch" list.


Gattaca is probably my favourite too. As Good As It Gets is a pretty nice film. A good example of a mood shifter, uplifter kind of movies.

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I'm a huge movie guy, while Mrs. JD likes watching 'Shows' I prefer the mastery of movie making and have, a few times, watched a movie with my eyes closed so that I can focus on the soundtrack for music and Foley. Other times I've ignored everything in the main frame and watched all the background activity and extras. I'm weird thatway.

Face/Off was an unmitigated disaster. The single worse movie I can imagine. There's so much wrong with it, it deserves its own hate thread. I struggled to watch it through the only time it made its way to the big VidBox.

In fact a number of the ones on this list are pure Hollywood crap. But I digress.

I did enjoy Charlize Theron's performance in Devil's Advocate and liked the 'Invalid' dual meaning in Gattaca.

Con Air is way over the top and thus earns high marks for being a great popcorn movie. Kudos to Colm Meaney for his supporting role as a smug prick of a DEA Agent.

But from this list I will pick Men In Black for its purely entertaining and effects filled hijinx.

A close second goes to Liar Liar, one of Jim Carry's best comedies IMHO.


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^ Dude, you can vote for more than one movie here.

Face/Off wasn't one of the movies that impressed me too, nor was numerous other movies I put here.

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Gattaca and Devil’s Advocate by far, from this list, and I couldn’t say which I prefer. I loved them both.
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The Game
Devils Advocate
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Alien: Resurrection
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Titanic gets better each time i see it, it have a very good filmatic backdrop that works very good. An ending fate that can not be spoiled but is as dramatic as it gets. The forcefull division betwern classes is the element that provokes me the most - Leo havev played better and better simce this movie yet hes forcefull bravado in Titanic is both engaging but also quite tireing. I believe its to easy to give this movie flack but its a good movie with a dark twist - but the twist is not forced as it is actualy i piece of history. You know the ending so well and the faith of the ship - but this film works withinn the power of THE SUBLIME AND BEUTIFULL. that is why it works, despite the cliches and formula, its becouse thr dramaturlogy og Titanic is too good to be true, but it is actualy true - it's like a fate waiting for the moment of motion picture. And the unfairness of class system and that pride is deadlyer then a large ice mountain.
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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

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Thanks for the recommendation. I'll add it to my list. 
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

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U Turn! Definitely watch it!

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll add it to my list. 


Ur welcome. I don't want to make a U-turn and delete it from the options after learning that it actually is not that popular. Tongue

Anyway, great movie. Star

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The only one I voted for was "Men In Black".
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Hi,

I probably saw at least half of these films, though, in general, I do not reviews for films that get the blockbuster billing and rate in most top ten this and that at the time. The whole "fame" and "fortune" thing really turned me off a lot of these films and too many of them spent their time making special bits and pieces of their "action" available as teasers to get people to see them.

It will be interesting to see how these things will fare in the days past Covid ... I doubt we will see the blockbuster thing for a while ... so at least we have a chance to see many more films than a lot of the .... well, some of them were fine ... Men in Black was OK with me ... but it really was more of an acting showcase than it was anything else ... something that most the other films don't have. 

Some more from the same year: 

Ma Vie en Rose
Four Days in September
La Deuda
Forgotten Light
Barbara
Destiny
Elles
Junk Mail
Love Stories
The Thief
For Ever Mozart
Wo De Shen Jing Bing
The Bandit
My Best Friend's Wedding
The Fifth Element
The Full Monty
In Love and War
Waiting for Guffman
Donnie Brasco
Private Parts
Crash
The Van
Temptress Moon
Mrs Brown
Air Force One
Conspiracy Theory
G. I. Jane
The End of Violence
Seven Years in Tibet
The Jackal
The Tango Lesson
The Sweet Hereafter
As Good as It Gets


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A lot I like off Moshkitos list, and quite a few of those I saw in the cinema.  Saw these in the theater: (The Sweet Hereafter, Temptress Moon, The Full Monty) and some others, not that any of those are American.  The Sweet Hereafter is one of my favourite Canadian films, and well I love Zhang Yimou plus Gong Li(was surprised at how few even knew Raise the Red Lantern apparently here).  The Eel (Unagi) and Fireworks (Hana-bi) were a couple of Japanese films I loved which I saw in the cinema that year, and I'm big on Studio Ghibli with Princess Mononoke ( watched it again recently).  I also saw Almodovar's Live Flesh that year in the cinema as I recall.  It doesn't seem like it was over twenty years ago.

As to the list, I love Gattaca (got that out on video when it came out).  Loved Jackie Brown (felt like such a mature Tarantino film), Starship Troopers (reading reviews over the years, I think a lot of people missed the point), Donnie Brasco, Boogie Nights and L.A. confidential -- others I really like in the list too.  Oh, and Alien: Resurrection I loved. I know quite a few don't hold it in nearly as high regard as I do.  I prefer it to Aliens. I do enjoy the whole Alien franchise with the first being one of my favourite horror films.

Men in Black was fun....

On I didn't much appreciate is Titanic (a shipwreck of a movie to me).

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The Game, Devils Advocate, Men In Black (a fun one), but for me 
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Lots of good ones here. The Game, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, Jackie Brown, As Good As It Gets,...
Went with The Devil's Advocate (Al Pacino as the Devil, Gotta love it!)


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I know about two thirds of the films in the poll (which is something I can rarely say about album polls), and out of the films I've seen, Titanic is my favourite Thumbs Up, with Men in Black being my least favourite. Thumbs Down
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LA Confidential was brilliant.  Beautifully shot with a power-packed cast, what's not to like.  Surprised it didn't get more love in the poll. 

Also voted for As Good As It Gets and Devil's Advocate.

Face/Off was pretty decent but have had my fill of it.  Came way too many times on Star Movies back in the day.  Con Air was the kind of 90s film that gets parodied/memed today; would put Air Force One in that category as well.  And Jackal was an efficient but dull remake that paled compared to the 1970s film. My Best Friend's Wedding is where the Julia Roberts romcom shtick started to grate. Not really her fault as the films got progressively sillier. 

The Edge didn't make your list.  It wasn't a massive success nor a flop and was quirky and interesting without necessarily being an amazing watch. 

And speaking of ginormous blockbusters, where's Tomorrow Never Dies? LOLLOLLOLWink
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