0 The Michigan Daily -~Veekend, etc. ~M4 128 - The Vchiga Daily. - Weeken et . Magazine - Thursday, nuary 13, 2000 0 0 - f jLGtQ~ S~r~" The Michigan 'Daily - eekend, etc.Ma tc 1999 - The Year In New Media Garners hit the jackpot with Dreamcast r The 10 Best of 1999 1) Magnolia 2) American Beauty 3) The Sixth Sense 4) Election 5) Boys Don't Cry 6) The Insider 7) Three Kings 8) Toy Story 2s 9) Run Lola Run 10) Being John Malkovich We, the Daily film staff, racked our brains, went through our lists and basi- cally had to weed through much of the "piss 'n shit" ("Dogma," "The Haunting," etc.) to get to this stellar list. Though we were forced to limit our- selves to 10 films, we had to leave out such films as David Lynch's tender trac- tor tale "The Straight Story," Stanley Kubrick's final farewell, "Eyes Wide Shut," the Wachowski brothers' special effects-laden action/noir "The Matrix" and Martin Scorcese's ambulance jour- ney "Bringing Out the Dead." But we love '99. Who'll forget Lester Burnham, Frank T.J. Mackey, Teena Brandon, John Malkovich or fiery- haired Lola? 1999 surely had its bag of surprises. So what does '00 promise? We hope a Brian De Palma blockbuster titled "Mission to Mars" isn't all. Lasting Lin es "I did have a tumor, I'd name it Maria." - Jack (or the narrator), "Fight Club" "I love shooting this gun." -'Carolyn Burnham, "American Beauty" "Respect the cock. And tame the cunt." - Frank TJ. Mackey, "Magnolia" "I think there is something very important that we have to do as soon as possible." "And what would that be?" "Fuck." - Alice and Bill Harford, "Eyes Wide Shut" "I guess you could say I was surprised the day that Lisa Flanagan asked me for a ride home and ended up blowing me." Paul Metzler, "Election" "Anakin Skywalker, meet Obi-Wan Kenobi." - Qui-Gon Jinn, "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" "Look at me. Jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. it all goes downhill from here." --Lester Burnham, "American Beauty" "The book says we might be through with the past but the past ain't through with us." Jimmy Gator, "Magnolia" From left to right: "The Sixth Sense," courtesy of Buena Vista; "Being John Malkovich," courtesy of Gramercy; "Election," courtesy of Paramount; "Toy Story 2," courtesy of Disney; and "American Beauty," courtesy of Dreamworks SKG. By Ted Watts Daily Arts Writer The music of 1999 might be dis- tilled down to Latin men and blonde girls. 1999's movies might be ren- dered as ghost stories and violent banality. The big trends in videogames in 1999 can be simply summed up as sequels and the Dreamcast. Sequels aren't anything new to video games, but they really domi- nated the shelf space of most console game sellers last year. There were precious few big titles in the last year that weren't in furtherance of an existing franchise. Umiammer Lammv, Pac Man World 20th Anniversary, Final Fantasy ViII, Metal Gear Solid VR Missions, Donkey Kong 64, Resident Evil 3 and Wipeout 3 were all big sellers and were all spawned by previously successful titles. Some important releases were just re-releases of games for different systems, Resident Evil 2 for N64 and Marvel vs. Capcom for Dreamcast being two standouts. Even games like Star Wars Episode One Racer, while new and innovative, were built on more than readily recognizable entertainment monoliths. One major sequel, Sonic Adventure, although it came out on the same day as Final Fantasy VIII, had more to do with the other, bigger story of 1999: The American release of the Sega Dreamcast. The system had more selling points in 1999 than merchandise for the false millenni- um. It is still the only current next gen- eration video game console, with a huge lead time over the forthcoming Nintendo and Playstation platforms; it came from day one with an inte- grated modem; and it still debuted at a very reasonable price, only around S50 more than its last-generation competitors' prices at the beginning of 1999. With dozens of titles available before Christmas, Dreamcast was quicker to the punch on software than nearly any other newly launched console had been before. The tri- umphal nature of the debut dispelled the naysayers, who were uncertain of Sega after the less than stellar per- formance of their solid but poorly marketed Saturn system. With the substantial equivalent of the hardware that many arcade games run on, the Dreamcast fea- tures beautiful ports of brilliant games like House of the Dead 2 and Sega Bass Fishing that were previ- ously playable only for one dollar a shot at a chaotic smoke-filled game house. It even features a better-than- arcade version of the fighter Soul Calibur (itself a sequel to Soul Edge), arguably the finest 3-D fight- ing game ever made. Self-evidently, sequels abounded on the Dreamcast as well. But even with more sequels like Sega F and Street Fighter Alpha Dreamcast had plenty of firs games. New heights in sports were reached in the for NBA2K and NFL2K, and unique discs for a wide range c came out in the form of Pe TrilceLon and Toy Comm Still, nothing incredibly differ kind was released in the Japanese gamers got the in innovative game Shenmue, bu "A MAGICAL, aS-TV ANIMATED MAS! "IMAX® Is THE WAY To SEE IT - NoT JusT As Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIME "YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES OR EARS. 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