1998 Movies

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1998.  Obviously many movies made in 1997 earned box office dollars in 1998.  On the other side many movies made in 1998 made money in 1999 and later.   This page will looks at over 250 movies made in 1998.  The movies are listed in two massive tables that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

Our Top 50….Statistically Speaking…..Movies of 1998

Give me Saving Private Ryan any day!

1998 Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort 1998 Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
  • Sort 1998 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1998 Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1998 Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each 1998 Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1998 Movies received.
  • Sort 1998 Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
 
The Big Lebowski

Top earners in 1998 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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24 thoughts on “1998 Movies”

  5. HI BRUCE Thanks for making the site privy to your own Top 10.It strikes me that only Al Leach and The Duke are from Old Hollywood. Accordingly you seem to be proving the observation of one entertainment historian that each generation prefers its own idols.

    It works both ways though. My Dad for example wouldn’t accept as a Great anyone whose career hadn’t started in the 1930s or at least early forties. He referred to Elvis and The Beatles as “jokes!” and when I showed him articles that attested to Brando “owning the 50s” as you put it, he claimed that I had counterfeited those articles and had printed them off myself!

    [Maybe he decided to get his own back and print off his own Mr Mumbles articles under the pseudonym of Joel Hirschhorn!].

    Conversely when I was 25 in 1966 I had a young friend of 20 years of age and I remember telling him that Charlton Heston was one of my idols, to which he retorted “Oh – another old man” That year Chuck was just 43, was only 16 years into his professional** film career beginning 1950, and hadn’t yet made the classic Planet of the Apes, the blockbusters Earthquake, Midway etc!

    [**At High school in his teens Chuck had the title role in a 16mm silent film amateur production of Peer Gynt, which got some degree of release in Aug 1941. Charlton is given credit for it in some filmographies – though not by for example The Numbers or those Scrooges who moderate the Cogerson site!]

    By the way I am taking it that the Ford to whom you are referring is Harrison and not Charlie Bill? However “long runs the fox” as the saying goes and perhaps in some future life that you share with him Charles William Stuart WILL be in your Top 10. Anyway I have enjoyed discussing with you those “young whippersnapper” idols of yours so keep safe and have a good weekend.

    At a bar down in Dallas an old man chimed in,
    And I thought he was out of his his head.
    Just being a young man I just laughed it off
    When I heard what that old man had said.

    He said I’ll never again turn the young ladies heads,
    Or go running off into the wind.
    I’m three quarters home from the start to the end.
    And I wish I was 18 again.

    [Sung in 1980 by George Burns -aged 84]

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    1. HI BRUCE

      “I NEVER apologize!” [John Lund, with arms folded defiantly, as the haughty, stuffy George Kittredge in 1956’s musical Philadelphia Story remake High Society.]

      “When I’m wrong I SAY I’m wrong]!” [Frances “Baby” Houseman’s father Jake in 1987’s Dirty Dancing.]

      As Chuck’s Peer Gynt was a 16mm silent amateur film which seems to have gotten just some kind of limited release [maybe in art houses] way back in 1941 I accused you of not crediting it to him whereas on double-checking I see you have indeed recorded on Chuck’s page a $2.6 million adjusted domestic gross for it and a 64% rating [identical to IMDB’s].

      On the one hand I can maybe be forgiven for assuming that NOBODY would have a gross for such a ‘relic’ as that but on the other (1) I should have known that whereas difficult stats of yesteryear are your calling card – an apology, impossible ones as the saying goes just take you a bit longer! (2) I remember confessing to a boss of mine that I had made a wrong assumption and he lectured me “NEVER Assume!”

      So please if you will, imagine me down on my knees now groveling to you in both admiration and repentance!

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