1999 done!

Alright, so we finally got through our 1999 selections. Let's see...

First we watched "Virgin Suicides", which starred Kirsten Dunst, James Woods and Josh Hartnett, yet somehow managed to be a legitimate movie. It was about a set of 5 sisters, the youngest of which commits suicide and the events that follow. The girls' strict parents try to help them maintain normalcy while at the same time sheltering them from the evils of the world, and in the end, well... I won't spoil it for you, but it doesn't quite work out the way the parents intended. It was worth watching, not great but certainly not bad. American Beauty tops it without fail.

Last night we muscled through the 3+ hours of "Green Mile" starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. Really excellent movie. We had both seen it before, and Adam had watched it pretty recently, but I hadn't seen it in ages, and I realized as we were watching it how little of it I actually remembered. Tom Hanks was great as usual, and Michael Clarke Duncan was excellent, and should have won Best Supporting Actor in my opinion (he lost to Michael Caine that year for his role in Cider House Rules, which I haven't seen, but there's no way it beats Duncan as the uneducated black drifter John Coffey.) This movie brought me to tears and that is not easy to do, so it has to win points there. As far as whether or not American Beauty beats it in term of Best Picture-ability, I'm sure Adam thinks that though Green Mile is excellent, it doesn't top American Beauty, and I see them as pretty evenly matched. I could not sit through Green Mile nearly as easily as I can American Beauty, but that doesn't make it a worse movie.

The next year(s?) have been drawn, so a new blog will come soon. Stay classy kids.