1999
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 1999.
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Jet Force Gemini (Spoiler-Free Guide)
Some call ‘Jet Force Gemini’ the hardest Nintendo 64 game. It isn’t—especially with this guide! (read more)
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Fight Club
Thoughts on David Fincher’s 1999 classic ‘Fight Club,’ namely its successes as entertainment and failures as art. (read more)
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The Big O
‘The Big O’ is an excellent post-modern, neo-noir tone piece and surreal mystery that will test the limits of how much you believe a story is about the journey and not the destination. (read more)
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The Blair Witch Project
I didn’t watch this until I was 25. I thought it was engaging and tense. Feel free to use this anecdote if anyone claims ‘The Blair Witch Project’ didn’t age well or is only a product of nostalgia. (read more)
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Sleepy Hollow
It’s difficult to imagine any other popular director of the time who could command such a budget for an old tale and do it better than Tim Burton. Sleepy Hollow doesn’t fully transfer the power of the original story, but the soul is there. Johnny Depp’s timid and conflicting character holds the narrative together as… (read more)
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Pet Shop of Horrors
This mini-series adapts part of the ‘Pet Shop of Horrors’ manga, and does a fine job of establishing atmosphere, but some horror and narrative elements lack teeth. (read more)
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Digimon Adventure Movie
What if ‘Digimon’ was a "giant monster" movie? ‘Digimon Adventure Movie’ answers: it’d be pretty damn fun. (read more)
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American Beauty
American Beauty, despite its satirical nature, is so overly blunt with its character development and saccharine at parts that it can make the ironic lens of the film unbelievable—but these are small problems in the face of what’s one of the funniest films of the decade. Its humor is still restless because its themes are… (read more)
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eXistenZ
David Cronenberg was about 56 years old at the time of writing eXistenZ and tackles the virtual reality craze as intelligently as you’d expect an old man to: embarrassingly. Technically and thematically, it’s just as instantly dated and worn out as other virtual reality stories around the same time, only it’s nihilistic so it persists,… (read more)
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Chrono Cross
‘Chrono Cross’ is the love-it-or-hate-it sequel to one of the most acclaimed RPGs of the 16-bit generation. What makes it so controversial? (read more)