Temporal Top Ten – 1998

Number of movies seen from this year – 159
Number of movies reviewed – 122 (Including 18 Encore Reviews)

This was a very difficult year to compile because I easily had 16 films that were worthy of making the top ten and I had trouble deciding.

My 6 runners-up are The Big Lebowski, A Bug’s Life,  Lethal Weapon 4, The Truman Show, When Trumpets Fade and You’ve Got Mail

On the other hand, choosing my #1 and #2 were easy choices. Both have had a profound impact on my life having been an infantry soldier and always being fascinated by the journey to the stars.

#3 is IMHO the best non-Disney or Pixar animated movie ever made.

You’ll notice that only two of the 5 Oscar nominated best pictures appear on this list at #1 & #7 which gives one representative from each of the two genres nominated that year (WWII and ye olde British period pieces) I wasn’t the biggest fan of Elizabeth or The Thin Red Line, so both are very low on my yearly list. Life is Beautiful is registered for 1997 in IMDB; so keep an eye out for it on that list.

Truly one of the greatest movie years!

My Top Ten

10. Wild Things

9. American History X

8. Pleasantville

7. Shakespeare in Love

6. Enemy of the State

5. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

4. Deep Impact

3. The Prince of Egypt

2. From the Earth to the Moon

1. Saving Private Ryan

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 1998

1. 42 Up
2. 54
3. 20 Dates
4. 30, Still Single: Contemplating Suicide
5. Almost Heroes
6. American History X
7. Antz
8. Apt Pupil
9. Armageddon Encore Review
10. The Avengers
11. Babe Ruth
12. Babylon 5: In the Beginning
13. Babylon 5: The River of Souls
14. BASEketball
15. Beloved
16. The Big Hit
17. The Big Lebowski
18. Blade
19. Blues Brothers 2000
20. Buffalo ’66
21. A Bug’s Life
22. Bulworth
23. Calvin Coolidge: Our American Journey
24. Can’t Hardly Wait
25. Celebrity
26. Central Station
27. Chips ’99
28. City of Angels
29. A Civil Action
30. Clay Pigeons
31. Croupier
32. Dark City
33. The Day Lincoln Was Shot
34. Dead Man on Campus
35. Deep Impact       Encore Review
36. Deep Rising
37. Desert Blue
38. Desperate Measures
39. Dirty Work
40. Doctor Dolittle
41. Elizabeth
42. Enemy of the State  Encore Review  Encore Review 2
43. Ever After
44. Exiled
45. Fallen
46. Final Cut
47. Finding Graceland
48. Following
49. From the Earth to the Moon  Encore Review   Encore Review 2
50. The General
51. The Gingerbread Man
52. Gods and Monsters
53. Godzilla
54. Goodnight Mister Tom
55. Happiness
56. Hard Rain
57. He Got Game
58. Hideous Kinky
59. Hilary and Jackie
60. Holy Man
61. Hope Floats
62. The Horse Whisperer
63. Houdini
64. Hurlyburly
65. Into the Breach: ‘Saving Private Ryan’
66. Jack Frost
67. Jeremiah
68. John F. Kennedy: A Personal Story
69. Jon-Erik Hexum: E! Mysteries & Scandals
70. Just a Little Harmless Sex
71. Kissing a Fool
72. Last Days, The
73. Last Days of Disco, The
74. Left Luggage
75. Les Miserables
76. Lethal Weapon 4   Encore Review
77. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
78. Little Voice
79. Living Out Loud
80. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
81. Lost in Space
82. Making ‘From the Earth to the Moon’
83. Major League: Back to the Minors
84. The Man in the Iron Mask
85. The Mask of Zorro
86. Meet Joe Black
87. Mercury Rising
88. Merlin
89. The Mighty
90. Mighty Joe Young
91. Mulan
92. A Murder of Crows
93. My Giant
94. The Negotiator
95. Next Stop, Wonderland
96. The Object of My Affection
97. The Odd Couple II
98. One True Thing
99. The Opposite of Sex
100. Out of Sight
101. The Parent Trap
102. Patch Adams
103. A Perfect Murder
104. Pi
105. Pleasantville
106. Practical Magic
107. A Price Above Rubies
108. Primary Colors
109. The Prince of Egypt    Encore Review
110. The Proposition
111. Psycho
112. Quest for Camelot
113. The Rat Pack
114. The Red Violin
115. Return to Paradise
116. Ronin
117. Rounders
118. Run Lola Run
119. Rush Hour
120. Rushmore
121. Saving Private Ryan Encore Review Encore Review 2 Encore Review 3 Encore Review 4 Encore Review 5 6 7
122. Savior
123. Shakespeare in Love    Encore Review
124. The Siege
125. Simon Birch
126. A Simple Plan
127. Since You’ve Been Gone
128. Six Days Seven Nights
129. SLC Punk
130. Sliding Doors
131. Small Soldiers
132. Snake Eyes
133. Soldier
134. Species II
135. Sphere
136. Star Trek: Insurrection Encore Review
137. Stepmom
138. Still Crazy
139. Thanks of a Grateful Nation
140. There’s Something About Mary
141. Thick as Thieves
142. The Thin Red Line
143. The Truman Show
144. Twilight
145. U.S. Marshals
146. Velvet Goldmine
147. Very Bad Things
148. Waking Ned, aka Waking Ned Devine
149. The Waterboy
150. The Wedding Singer
151. What Dreams May Come
152. When Trumpets Fade
153. Wild Things
154. Winchell
155. Without Limits
156. Wrongfully Accused
157. Your Friends & Neighbors
158. You’ve Got Mail  Encore Review
159. Zero Effect