Hey there, it's Kathy. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to History of the 90s

early and ad-free on Amazon music included with Prime. In our last episode, we started exploring

some of the groundbreaking movies from 1999. Instant classics, like Being John Malkovich, Fight Club,

Three Kings, The Blair Witch Project, Election, and Boys Don't Cry.

If you didn't hear it, I recommend you go back and have a listen.

Those movies, though, they really are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to 1999.

There were so many other innovative films that tapped into some hot-button issues at the turn of the century.

Y2K, consumerism, technology, and a general feeling of discontent.

So on this episode of History of the 90s, we continue to look back at a year that seemed to have an endless supply of game-changing original movies.

And a quick warning, like last time, there will be swear words in this episode, and there will be spoilers.

In the 90s, movies were still everything.

Going to the theater was considered cool.

I mean, it's not like we had many other options.

TV and cable didn't have the high-quality shows we're used to now,

and there wasn't the flood of content we get today from streaming services.

So when an interesting new movie was released, it was a big deal.

Movies were just, that was it. I mean, that was popular culture along with, you know,

teen pop and, and magazines and all other things that have, you know, kind of come and gone over the

years now. That's author Brian Raftery. As a culture critic, he's written about movies for GQ, Rolling Stone, and Esquire.

Brian thinks we will likely never see another time when we have so many filmmakers of various

generations and influences making so many good films for an audience quite so big.

I mean, 99 was kind of sort of the peak moment for really adventurous movie making and

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