99 from 99

After many trials and tribulations of exploring the year of 1999 in film we may have rediscovered a true classic in Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM. Of course we stay on brand and lament the cold shoulder this film got that summer so even (especially!) twenty years later there is still much sorrow to share with our fellow man. You can do so as well by clicking on the links of sorrow below!

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Well... the music of 1999 was fun while it lasted. Our brave hosts face the feature length version of Will Smith's version of THE SEARCHERS as unfortunately WILD WILD WEST becomes more than a strangely popular song to a justifiably unpopular film adaptation of a television seri- oh who gives a damn? This movie STINKS. Enjoy the podcast, I guess.

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To top the musical stylings of Phil Collins in Disney's TARZAN we had to eventually (just under two weeks in 1999 time) get to SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT. Pre THE BOOK OF MORMON, Trey Parker and Matt Stone threw everything but the kitchen sink of filth and joy at the silver screen version of their beloved animated series... and we are here to revel in all of it. Now you can revel in the heated debate our hosts have on Best Original Song from 1999: Uncle F**ka or Kyle Mom's A B**ch?

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Adam Sandler recently had a "big" hit on Netflix with MURDER MYSTERY (many Bothan spies dies to get us those streaming metrics) but back in 1999 he was an actual movie star... where his films played in theaters... on film. Were things better back in those days of BIG DADDY? One host thinks so. The other just wants to keep talking about Minnie Driver... like a decent human being. Be one of those and click on the links below:

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Oscar Wilde surely was a quotable sonofabitch but sometimes a man just needs to sulk in solitude. Well, find another movie because AN IDEAL HUSBAND is a charming romcom who will flirt with you until you give in to its advances. This makes the entire film sound aggressive and somewhat criminal but if Rupert Everett, Minnie Driver, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett and THE MAN of 1999 Jeremy Northam are wrong then who the hell wants to be right? Just shut and click:

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In THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER John Travolta has an atrocious Southern accent for a stretch of undercover work but thankfully for the enjoyment of at least one host he manages to sweat for nearly the entire runtime of this problematic thriller. Madeline Stowe attempts to be the only adult in the room as we kink-shame the Army before we really shame them for truly foul deeds. Call at least one host crazy (but you'd be right to apply that to both) but this movie remains kind of fun. Kind of. And that's goddamn good enough. Click here:

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As the summer movie season is wont to do, beefcakes eventually grace us with their presence on the silver screen even in lowly animated form. If that's not titillating enough... the great (and Oscar winning) Phil Collins provides the mood music for our conversation on Disney's TARZAN. So expect a discussion where one man comes under the charms of Minnie Driver as Jane and the other man hates his life. Which moment would you rather relive in our journey of the films of 1999? And don't you dare say watching INSTINCT again. You fool.

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Clearly in no hurry to catch up with what the kids (okay, film snobs) were into back in 1999 we pace ourselves by finally watching RUN LOLA RUN and in the process get very, very tired. While Franka Potente would go on to bigger and better things (THE BOURNE IDENTITY, put that in your pipe and smoke it) she would never again have such strikingly red hair. For more terrific observations click on the links below:

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Twenty years later and thankfully AUSTIN POWERS did not have the staying power of James Bond. But in the summer of 1999 this Mike Myers sequel THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME earned more in its opening weekend than the original did in its entire theatrical run. Your two hosts differ on if it maintained its cool cult classic status but both of us agree that Heather Graham was on quite the roll in the mid-late 90s and shouldn't feel bad about her accomplishments. This has been your unnecessary pep talk for a very successful human being, now you can be that as well if you just click on the links below:

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David Strathairn in his tighty whities is an accurate but misleading way to sell John Sayles' LIMBO from the summer of 1999 but we hope we have your attention to give this film/episode a try. At least one of our hosts found a lot to like here and the other one really loved the closing song by Bruce Springsteen. Overall another win in the books for 99 FROM 99. Now click here:

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