Wow, another year that ends in 7 and another really difficult one to make cuts. Big list that was hard to get down to 6. The cuts like Fifth Element and the extremely underrated The Lost World sucked to do. And I cut Gattaca because while I really loved that movie when I first saw it, I've owned it or never gone back to it because I'm afraid it might not hold up. Yeah, I'm weird, but I really want to keep my high from seeing it together. This year I remember most because the Oscar race for Best Picture might have been the best and strongest I had ever seen. Had Titanic not come this year, 3 of the other 4 nominees probably would have won Best Picture in any other year. While I did see Titanic twice and it was deserving, I can't help that I liked 2 other films better, but that's me. 1997 is also notable as it was the year I was first able to see the Star Wars movies on the big screen and it was a fun and incredible 3 months when those 'Special Editions' were released.
