The Top 20 Films of 1997

The Top 20 Films of 1997

Some More Friday Morning Nostalgia / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | April 24, 2009 | Comments (79)

As is our custom on Friday mornings, here’s another glimpse into the past. This week: The top 20 films of the year 1997. And you can already see that the kinds of movies that made scads of money were significantly different than in 1987. Big action movies had already begun to supplant adult dramas and comedies at the box office. And 1997 was a particularly successful year for it — the most successful movie of all time in terms of box office opened that year. I remember the day well. December 19. I remember it because, appropriately, it was the date of my first, ill-fated, and very brief marriage (in Arkansas, it’s customary to get one marriage out of your system before doing it for real). Tomorrow Never Dies also opened on that day — the first Pierce Brosnan Bond film. I was late to my wedding because of Tomorrow Never Dies. I probably should’ve seen the three-hour Titanic and missed the wedding all together. And then I saw Good Hill Hunting, two days after Christmas. On my first trip to NYC.

Ancient history. Anyway, here are those top 20 — I’ve seen them all but Hercules. How about you?

1. Titanic $600,788,188
2. Men in Black $250,690,539
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park $229,086,679
4. Liar Liar $181,410,615
5. Air Force One $172,956,409
6. As Good as It Gets $148,478,011
7. Good Will Hunting $138,433,435
8. Star Wars (Special Edition) $138,257,865
9. My Best Friend’s Wedding $127,120,029
10. Tomorrow Never Dies $125,304,276
11. Face/Off $112,276,146
12. Batman and Robin $107,325,195
13. George of the Jungle $105,263,257
14. Scream 2 $101,363,301
15. Con Air $101,117,573
16. Contact $100,920,329
17. Hercules $99,112,101
18. Flubber $92,977,226
19. Conspiracy Theory $75,982,834
20. I Know What You Did Last Summer $72,586,134

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Comments

Sorry to be a smart ass Dustin, but Goldeneye was the first Brosnan Bond movie. Or are you just blocking it out of your mind?

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at April 24, 2009 10:32 AM

Oh, and 14/20 for my personal score. Forgot that bit.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at April 24, 2009 10:33 AM

Hang on, Goldeneye was the first (and best) Brosnan Bond film in 1995.

Yikes, though, it disturbs me how many of the terrible films in this list I saw at the cinema...

Posted by: JQ at April 24, 2009 10:36 AM

13/20

I thought this was going to be the BEST movies of 1997, and I was ready to be upset if Good Will Hunting was not #1. But now I see. I didn't realize it made that much money, incidentally.

Posted by: Audiosuede at April 24, 2009 10:37 AM

14/20 for me too. I only had one kid in 1997, it was much easier to actually leave the house back then.

Posted by: slower lower at April 24, 2009 10:38 AM

1997 was the year I quit smoking. And learned that I hated Julia Roberts for her role in that horrible movie.
9/20...

Posted by: Janey at April 24, 2009 10:38 AM

I too saw all of these, but none of them in the theater. I wasn't interested enough, especially not in Star Wars (Special Edition) since I knew Lucas would smear shit all over it. Nailed it!
Conversely, in 1998 I made it my mission to see as many Oscar nominated movies as I could in the theater. Good times.

Posted by: Kballs at April 24, 2009 10:39 AM

Four? Ouch.

I saw "George" at the drive-in. It was the last time I went to one. Anyone still go to the drive-in? Anyone still HAVE a drive-in?

What? Oh, right ... See, they used to put up HUGE screens in the middle of empty fields and scatter tinny-sounding speakers on a few hundred stands, and you'd pay like $5 for you and a carload of your friends/family and some more in the trunk next to the three cases of beer and you'd drive around until you found one of the three speakers that worked and then you'd wait until the sun went down and you'd hope it didn't rain and ...

What? Why, yes, millions of people did, it was a huge thing to do on Saturday nights once and your parents were conceived in the backseat and ...

What? Well, I'm 106, thanks for asking. Be 107 next month ...

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 10:45 AM

"Tomorrow Never Dies also opened on that day — the first Pierce Brosnan Bond film..."

Dustin Rowles: man abs enthusiast, relatively unknown 6th tier web personality... and alleged movie buff.

Let's hear it for him!

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 24, 2009 10:45 AM

17/20. Con Air was the first R-rated movie I ever got to watch, and it took a week's worth of begging to my mom to get permission. I'm still trying to decide if that was the most or least productive week of my life. Anyway, I saw it at the drive-in theater with my best friend in high school. I don't have anything clever to add, but it has been fun to regurgitate those old memories.

Posted by: puregonzo at April 24, 2009 10:46 AM

Are we counting all that we've seen or all that we saw that year? I've seen them all, but only about half in the actual theater. I distinctly remember seeing Contact in the theater but I'm not sure why since I was only 10 in 1997.

Posted by: Monica at April 24, 2009 10:47 AM

I missed George Of The Jungle, Flubber, and Hercules. Well, perhaps "missed" isn't the correct word.

The thing I noticed is that of the 17 I saw, 16 of them were in the theater. I was really helping out with the studios' bottom lines that year.

Any discussion of the films of 1997 requires my obligatory mention that Boogie Nights was the best film that year.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 24, 2009 10:50 AM

Wow, (tcfkab), your drive-in comment hadn't even popped up until after I made mine. Nice to see a fellow drive-in veteran. Ours also served as the county flea market on Thursday mornings during the summer, and they made hot dogs at the concession stand that are to this day the best I've ever had. Ah, memories...

Posted by: puregonzo at April 24, 2009 10:51 AM

ten year old me cant remember seeing any of these films. the cinema opened in our town that year and i can only remember seeing anastasia with my family on the first day it opened. i vividly remember thinking it was a bit girly but looking back it was allright. whatever happened to don bluth and his animation company? now all i can think of is that don bluth is the black sheep of the bluth family... that would be awesome if hed animate some parts in the movie...

Anyway... Dustin the story of your first marriage sounds like a coming of age indie film. It could be about your first marriage but really just be about you finding you loved films more than her and home. And then you went to New York... the end.

Posted by: jim at April 24, 2009 10:51 AM

I've seen 15. Good Will Hunting still makes me cry. Con Air is brilliant trash.

Ah Titanic. I saw it twice at the cinema and cried my eyes out. I was 16 and thought Leo was amazing. God. I had the bloody soundtrack and books about the film and a pirate copy on video. Terrible.

Posted by: Carrie at April 24, 2009 10:52 AM

The last drive in in Delaware closed for good at the end of last season. I discovered that Mr. Lower had never been to one so we took the kids to see Ratatouille when it came out. It was much less fun with three kids in tow, somehow. We actually saw the movie.

Posted by: slower lower at April 24, 2009 10:53 AM

I've seen all of them but Flubber. Woo me!

bucdaddy, the only theatre in the small town I grew up in was a drive-in. God, I loved going to the drive-in. And your description of it was perfect.

Posted by: Kelly at April 24, 2009 10:54 AM

puregonzo

High five, but not too hard, my arthritis is acting up.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 10:55 AM

18/20.

As Good as it Gets will always be my favorite script.

Posted by: Sofía's Identical Hand Twin at April 24, 2009 10:56 AM

Sigh. Four. And damn it, MIB and The Mummy are just the best bad movies EVER.

Still haven't seen Titanic.

Posted by: dsbs at April 24, 2009 10:56 AM

slower, Didn't the kids fall asleep during the boring second feature, so you two could at least engage in a little mutual masturbation?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 10:57 AM

i tell a lie i saw return of the jedi in the cinema well the first few minutes until just before boba fett fell into the sarlaac. they then stopped the film to say there was a phone call for my parents. that was the day my great grandad died and that is why the empire strikes back is a much better film than return of the jedi.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at April 24, 2009 10:58 AM

Know what I love about you guys? We can get like 25 comments up on a post that HASN'T EVEN BEEN POSTED YET!

True story: Not far from where I live there used to be a drive-in that sat right along a major highway (I-79), facing the road, and it would show porn. The berm would be lined with cars and the police would get called out for traffic control.

You kids will never know the pleasure of coming around a curve at 70 mph and seeing a 60-foot dick in front of you.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 11:02 AM

Okay, so I've seen 17 out of the 20.

I saw Titanic SEVEN times in the theater that year. I was a 12-year-old girl, and Leo was the cutest sexually non-threatening celebrity around.

Posted by: Clementine Bojangles at April 24, 2009 11:04 AM

george lucas killed my grandad.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at April 24, 2009 11:05 AM

17/20 - I haven't seen Flubber, George of the Jungle, or Conspiracy Theory.

Posted by: Kolby at April 24, 2009 11:05 AM

In 2000, there was a huge flood in my hometown that nearly wiped it off the face of the earth. They closed the drive-in and used it to house the FEMA trailers for people who had lost their homes. I spent that summer volunteering, helping people to clean up their damaged homes and delivering food, water, and other basic material needs to people who lost their homes to the flood. I could pretend I did this out of the goodness of my own heart, but I'll tell you a secret: I did it to off-set the bad kharma I surely would have suffered from being royally pissed that they took away my weekend fun to house FEMA trailers. What can I say? I grew up in very rural southern West Virginia. I didn't have anything else to do.

Posted by: puregonzo at April 24, 2009 11:08 AM

I've actually been to a drive in. I couldn't tell you what was playing... I was definitely young enough that it had to be a children's movie. We went with another family that we used to always do things with. Their youngest was my best friend. Our parents would go on double dates. Then my best friend's mother left his father for a janitor and we didn't talk to them so much anymore.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at April 24, 2009 11:13 AM

Mr. Lower will tell you that we were there for the kids, but, since it was mid summer and the first movie didn't even start until close to 9, my girls didn't even make it to the end of Remy. No worries, they had already seen it in the theater. The second feature was Transformers. I was between the overgrown adolescent on one side and my then 2 year son on the other. There were 'splosions, giant robots, and Megan Fox's boobies. My son was up through most of it. Speaking of the "m word", I was so glad that my son was too young for me to have to explain that scene. It was all good, though. My insistance that the movie sucked led me to look for a less than glowing review to shove in the mister's face, which led me here. Yeah, drive ins.

Posted by: slower lower at April 24, 2009 11:13 AM

I adored "Good Will Hunting" and thought Robin Williams was great (though his accent was just okay - naturally, Damon's was better).

Posted by: samantha t at April 24, 2009 11:15 AM

All but Hercules, I know what you did, Scream 2 and George. So 16/20

Holy shit there are 2 Nic Cage shitflics up there and ahhhh the beginning of Star Wars exploitation rape.

Posted by: humorless dick at April 24, 2009 11:17 AM

Anyone still go to the drive-in? Anyone still HAVE a drive-in?

I still go to the drive-in. Last summer I saw The Dark Knight, Step-Brothers, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E, The Incredible Hulk, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express and possibly a few other movies there. The jenky speakers are now your car radio and it costs per person (kids are free). Still the best way to see a movie, says I.

And 13/20. I have still never seen Titanic.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at April 24, 2009 11:19 AM

17/20. Skipped the chick flicks, which makes sense for 1997 as I was 14.

Posted by: Snath at April 24, 2009 11:21 AM

I saw six of these at the theatre (Batman and Robin AT the drive-in in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire! Still operating as far as I know)) and the rest, either rentals at home, or bits and pieces babysitting or on TV. Good Will Hunting I saw on a double-date set up by my friend and her boyfriend, and we had to buy tickets for The Wedding Singer since we were all under 17 and then sneak in, but despite my dipshit date, I still love that movie...

Posted by: Ariel at April 24, 2009 11:23 AM

I've only seen 6? Wow, I suck. And one of them was Titanic. At least I can say I was forced by a friend to see it. Then I discovered that all the guys at my work had seen it too, just for the joy of watching extras die in spectacular fashion. They were just pissed it took so long for the carnage to begin.

Face Off was boooorrrrrrrrrrrrrinnnnnnng. My God, I can still recall the numbness in my butt and my brain as people did nothing but shoot at each other for what seemed like an eternity. And I can suspend my disbelief over the face switching thing, but why doesn't the wife notice any changes in her husband's body? Way to be observant, hon.

Contact was awesome. The book sucks, though.

Posted by: DeadBessie at April 24, 2009 11:30 AM

Oh, I LOOOOVE the drive-in. It takes about 45 minutes to get there from my house, but it is SO WORTH IT. My drive-in has three screens and makes nachos that are so good I will physically fight Mr. Pug to over the privilege of licking the cheese out of the plastic cup.

We didn't get to go last summer because we have the little pug and the #%(@#*%@ state legislature of our good state decided to adopt daylight savings time, so now the movies are REALLY late. But we're planning to go as soon as Up comes this spring.

Posted by: idgiepug at April 24, 2009 11:32 AM

Seven for me, whoopee!

Posted by: Cindy at April 24, 2009 11:36 AM

There is one Drive In left around here, and I make a point of going at least once a year. Big dumb summer movies are perfect for the Drive In. One of the screens always shows a double feature of "family" movies-it's directly opposite the main screen. I once watched a dad open his trunk so his 12 year old son couldn't see Eyes Wide Shut. This was after loudly warning the kid to keep his head forward about 5 times.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at April 24, 2009 11:38 AM

15/20 - but not all were seen in the theatre. Of those 15 I saw 8, maybe 9, in the theatre. The ones I missed (on purpose): Batman & Robin, George of the Jungle, Hercules, Flubber, and I Know What You Did Last Summer.

I saw the second MIB movie at a drive-in which straddles the MA-NH border. It was a double-feature with a film I no longer remember.

The Main Squeeze and I should really go back some time.

Posted by: tamatha at April 24, 2009 12:09 PM

Tamatha, are you near Nashua? I lived in Lowell for a bit. I remember a drive in south of there, maybe in Chelmsford or Tewksbury that we used to go to. This is a great database for drive ins by state:

http://www.driveinmovie.com/mainmenu.htm

Posted by: slower lower at April 24, 2009 12:19 PM

slower - I'm actually in Western Mass. The "local" drive-in is the Northfield Drive-In, in Hinsdale, just over the border in New Hampshire.

Posted by: tamatha at April 24, 2009 12:27 PM

We have a drive-in here in Idaho about 8 minutes from my house it is alot of fun to take my nephew there.

Posted by: humorless dick at April 24, 2009 12:27 PM

I'm at 50%, and I'm happy to say I avoided most of the worst dreck on the list. "George" was a guilty pleasure for obvious eye-candy reasons. I still haven't seen Titanic, and I refuse to ever watch it.

SPOILER
The boat sinks. People die.
END SPOILER

Posted by: Treena at April 24, 2009 12:28 PM

10/20
But did you seriously pick George of the Jungle over Hercules as your disney movie of the year? Shame. Blatant D-ism (2D vs 3D) at play here. The 3D getting the screentime over a more qualified 2D.

Posted by: Ling at April 24, 2009 12:28 PM

Someone else from MA who knows what an "r" is. I grew up in Springfield.

Posted by: slower lower at April 24, 2009 12:32 PM

11/20. Not bad.

Has anyone actually seen Flubber? I wouldn't expose my eyes to it, but was anyone forced to take their kids/cousins or whatever? I can't believe it made that much money.

Haven't seen As Good as it Gets, and I really don't care. Yet I've seen George of the Jungle 3 times. Hmm.

Carrie, I had a poster of Leo on my wall, along with other Titanic memorabilia. When the crackheads in the apartment above me flooded their place and leaked into mine, the Leo poster was the first thing to get ruined. I almost cried over that. I was 15, I think.

Posted by: Brie at April 24, 2009 12:51 PM

Clementine, me too. I was 11, a humongous history nerd, and I saw that movie 7 times (at least). I owned the album, and a hideous t-shirt, and a poster. . . etc etc etc. Mind you, I was a Titanic buff before the movie came out and owned roughly 15 books about it, fiction and non-fiction, unlike every other girl in my class, for whom it was the other way round.

To be fair, we only had one screen in our town at the time, and "Titanic" was there for a full THREE MONTHS as the only movie playing. That must have killed for everyone over 20 or with a penis.

Posted by: teacupnosaucer at April 24, 2009 12:52 PM

I've maybe seen 50 of the AFI's Top 100 and yet I'm 20 for 20 on these? Granted, most all of them have been TNT/USA/TBS weekend or late night viewings, and I was 16 at the time. Thankfully I'm old enough to drink now.

Posted by: branded at April 24, 2009 12:56 PM

My mother likes to tell everyone that I was conceived at a drive-in during "The Sound of Music". I try to tell myself that it says nothing about me that my parents are a cliche (they had to get married a few months later).

Also, "Titanic" is the last movie I ever saw in a theater. I left vowing that no one would ever induce me to spend that much money to watch crap again. This is why I'm always so behind on seeing good movies, but it spared me from seeing many more stinkers.

Posted by: lateformyfuneral at April 24, 2009 1:02 PM

17/20
And there is a lot of movies on that list that I loved that I'm sure a lot of people hate. And I sit in the category that Titanic is freaking fantastic. Yeah, the story is cheesy. But Winslet and Leo are awesome, Zane is manic, and the set design/special effects are incredible. Deal.

Oh yeah and Con Air. Best of the dumbass 90's action flicks spawned from Bay.

"Put the bunny back in the box."

Posted by: TylerDFC at April 24, 2009 1:04 PM

Holy shit. I saw ALL off those except Tomorrow Never Dies. 19/20!

But this was the peak of my movie-watching years. I watched anything that looked good enough.

Ooh man. But dude, there were some good movies up there! As Good as it Gets and Good Will Hunting? Both Oscar nominees that made a lot of money? UNHEARD OF.

And no, Tyler, it's "Put da bunneh...bahk in da bawx..."

Posted by: figgy at April 24, 2009 1:19 PM

Guess I did a lot of movie watching in '97. Seen 'em all, even *gasp* Flubber and *double gasp* George of the Jungle. I was fourteen at the time with little sibs and I'm going to conveniently blame it all on them. Hands washed, conscious cleared!

Posted by: Leigh Hacksaw at April 24, 2009 1:21 PM

Damn. I just started posting and I'm already a liar. I have not seen Flubber. 19/20.
Still 0/20 in the theater though!

Posted by: Kballs at April 24, 2009 1:32 PM

In 2000, there was a huge flood in my hometown that nearly wiped it off the face of the earth. ... I grew up in very rural southern West Virginia.

Posted by: puregonzo at April 24, 2009 11:08 AM
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I came into some money in 2001 and sent $1,000 of it to y'all for flood relief. I hope you spent it well, i.e. cleared out someone's inventory of good West by-God 'shine.

Noticed in my newspaper today that the two drive-ins within 45 minutes of my house are giving it a go for another summer. I'd go sometime, but usually one movie or the other isn't something I want to see, and one of the selling points of the drive-in (for me) is the double feature, so ...

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 24, 2009 1:41 PM

Figgy: Nice phoenetic description. That is surprisingly close to whatever non existent redneck accent Cage was going for.

Posted by: TylerDFC at April 24, 2009 1:43 PM

Liar Liar isn't only a shitty movie, but it's the shittiest movie that gets played on tv EVERY SINGLE FUCKING WEEKEND AND WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?!

Seriously. EVERY WEEKEND. Every weekend there's that shitty piece of the worst piece of overacting ever created.

Gah, I hate that movie.

Posted by: figgy at April 24, 2009 1:53 PM

I feel ashamed to say I've seen all of those movies. But it happens I guess when your parent's cable subscription has like 100+ movie channels. What sucks is despite all the movie channels comcast offers the channels themselves still play mediocre shit 99% of the time.

Posted by: Hurp Durp at April 24, 2009 1:58 PM

15/20. I did not see: Conspiracy Theory, Flubber, Hercules, George of the Jungle, and Star Wars. I love Good Will Hunting and As Good As It Gets. It was pre-Jack going insane and doing crap films for the paycheck.

I still want my money back for Batman and Robin and Titanic. I also want the Bat nipples forever removed from my brainspace.

Posted by: Melody at April 24, 2009 1:59 PM

7/20. Although I did see Scream 2 when I was in France. It was dubbed and I didn't understand a word of it. Does that count? All I remember is the preview for the re-release of Grease. John Travolta and Oliva Newton-John on the beach. He opened his mouth and out came this weird high pitched french voice. It was surreal.

Posted by: Jeni at April 24, 2009 2:31 PM

Seriously, Hurp Durp, you're not lying. My wife and I have to fight over who gets to choose what to watch on TV, but we try to get the other person to decide, because THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING ON, EVER. We are so sick of trying to find a shitty movie. Even the free On Demand movies are boring.

I was forced to watch Armageddon last night when trying to put my kid to sleep. I decided on that one instead of Die Hard, even though Die Hard is about 1000% times better, but only because I had watched it earlier in the week.

Posted by: Snath at April 24, 2009 2:36 PM

I saw 9 in theaters that year. My theater number mi9ght have been higher if I wasn't 14 at the time and not allowed into R rated movies. I've seen 16/20 overall.

Posted by: cree83 at April 24, 2009 2:38 PM

You kids will never know the pleasure of coming around a curve at 70 mph and seeing a 60-foot dick in front of you.

Posted by: ,TCFKAB

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Ah, yes. I think some image like that was the death-knell of a local drive-in south of I-10. I have no idea what movie it was, but I watched 4 lanes of traffic ahead of me bend right and then swerve back left going past that screen one night. Now that I think about it, it might've been only 40-foot boobies, but they got the job done.

Posted by: Gavin at April 24, 2009 3:03 PM

I've only seen 5. Though, I remember dumping a guy over a fight we had about Titanic. He seemed to believe there was merit to his argument that it was *not* a pile of cinematic excrement. There are some things a girl cannot stand for.

Posted by: Nichofthyme at April 24, 2009 3:05 PM

Contact, although a $100 million grosser, was panned generally in retrospect, which is kind of bullshit, seeing as the movie was written by Carl Sagan, who was using up-to-date physics and cosmological theories to explain how we would plausibly interact with extraterrestrial life. I repeat, plausibly, making it less sci-fi and moreso sci-nonfi.

What were you expecting? That she'd find God and find out that the Christians were right?

Small world(mind) they inhabit, indeed. No wonder why we can't get our shit straight w/respect to science, but we can put moral codes above that which is more materially relevant to existence in its entirety.

Our priorities are fucked.

Posted by: Recondite at April 24, 2009 3:27 PM

18 outta 20.

but then again, i have no life.

Posted by: gp at April 24, 2009 3:43 PM

slower - I do know how to pronounce the "r" at the end (or sometimes even in the middle of) words, but that's because I'm originally from Maryland. That being said, all the Western Mass folks I know all know how to pronounce their "r's."

I live in Northampton. I've been here long enough to know not to call it Noho.

Posted by: tamatha at April 24, 2009 3:52 PM

I also dumped my high school boyfriend after he claimed I had no soul because I didn't cry at Titanic. Was he right? Possibly, but I maintain that it is a shitty movie, even though I would totally go gay for Kate Winslet.

Posted by: tanotice at April 24, 2009 4:53 PM

I must have been a movie-watching fiend when I was 12, because I've seen all of these.

I remember watching Titanic with my parents (twice) and feeling very uncomfortable during the "...Wearing only this" scene.

Posted by: Borg at April 24, 2009 5:29 PM

19/20, seen all but George of the Jungle. I rule (suck?)!

I took no pleasure in seeing Titanic, though. One of my asshole friends ruined it for me. She told me the boat sank and a whole bunch of people died.

.....

Posted by: stardust savant at April 24, 2009 6:15 PM

3/20.

I was also 7, and one of them was Titanic. The other two were Flubber and George of the Jungle, but again, I was 7.

Posted by: Erin S at April 24, 2009 8:23 PM

Oh, Snath, I must disagree with the On Demand situation. My On Demand is a treasure trove of truly delicious, truly awful movies. I rarely venture away from the horror section, because there are just so many godawful, hilariously bad movies to choose from. You know that when even the description blatantly makes fun of the movie, you are in for a treat. Of course, I have no life and spend way too much time watching bad movies, so my opinion may not be worth a whole heck of a lot.

Posted by: puregonzo at April 24, 2009 8:39 PM

I've saw 11/20 of those in the theater. I haven't seen 11 movies in the theater over the last 3 years probably. Simpler times.

Aslo, this thread has made me realize where I lie in the demographic of this place.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at April 24, 2009 10:14 PM

As with everything in life, I'm a total zero, babies! Movies, like romantic love and culottes are the socially apt. None-a-that here. This old gray mare's still what she used-ta be!

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Posted by: salawhite at April 25, 2009 4:08 AM

i'm surprised by the lack of love for hercules; that film dates back to disney's heyday in the '90's when they still knew out to make movies. I still have the soundtrack on my iphone. fantastic.

Posted by: trippdup at April 25, 2009 8:15 AM

oh and i have all but as good as it get's and my best friend's wedding

Posted by: trippdup at April 25, 2009 8:16 AM

I'm a total zero, babies!
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Not in my book, hot Mama.

BTW, you're not kin of this guy, are you?

http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/joeport.jpg

I figured it was about time somebody asked.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 25, 2009 12:02 PM

17/20 but all on video. In 1997, I had two small kids and a husband who worked graveyard shift while I worked days. When we did have time alone and awake, it wasn't spent at the movies.

Whenever I feel homesick for Boston, I put on Good Will Hunting. Not for the accents, which are passable, but for the scene where Damon rides the Red Line. It goes right by my friend's old apartment.

Posted by: Reba at April 25, 2009 1:33 PM

I'm 9/20. We have a great drive in here in Springfield (IL), but I haven't been in forever. I grew up going to the Egyptian Drive In in SoIll.

I was a sophomore that year and my parents are still convinced I loved Titanic. Because of the long running time, I would tell them I was going to the late showing and was therefore able to stay out past my curfew. I got away with this 6 or 7 times. My mom even bought me the collectors edition dvd a few years back. Only then did I watch the whole thing through and I realized that having sex with my boyfriend in the back seat of my bitchin' Camaro on some backroad was definitely the better choice than sitting in some darken theater watching Leo drown.

I also remember seeing Good Will Hunting on Valentine's day with said boyfriend. We went to Fazolis then the movie. Such a romantic, that one! Anyway, I was wearing this awesome tan and red sweater that I loved and wish I still had. I loved that sweater!

Posted by: Austin asking for trouble at April 25, 2009 11:25 PM

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