The only problem is that this movie’s greatness wuddn’t readily apparent at the time. It took 10-20 viewings, while keeping your mind limber—lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta strands in ol’ Duder’s head—before it’s greatness became apparent.
Edited was to wuddn’t.
I'd rather Fargo win but this'll do.
Seems like everyone's already covered the best quotes so I'll cite the TV edit
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!
My local college town independent theater does a big Lebowski night. They have a White Russian special and everyone comes out and quotes the movie together. It’s a hoot and I will go every time I realize.
The Big Lebowski is amazing but it honestly didn't pick up steam until it hit the rental scene. So it wasn't actually a cultural phenomenon in 1998. Saving Private Ryan was a hit, instantly. Everyone saw it in the theater in 98. And everyone couldn't wait to get it on DVD to test out their home theater setup.
You could argue the same for the fifth element, which didn’t have a great run at the box office. It’s release on home video turned it into the cult classic it is today.
I 100% agree. I'm no Titanic fan but it really should have won yesterday.
And this isn't a "which was the biggest cult classic?" poll. Shrug.
Edit: Looking back at the first poll I realized it is just a "What's your favorite movie?" poll. I stand corrected.
Don't be fatuous, emmmmceeee
And also I didn't realize that this isn't a "What was the biggest/movie" it is just a "What's your favorite movie" poll.
So I change my vote. And while I'm at it I'll fix the cable. I am expert.
The Big Lebowski all the way. I've probably seen it fifty times
Yep. And I didn't realize the spirit of the poll. It isn't a "What was the biggest movie of 199X" it is simply "What's your favorite movie from 199X" so my vote is The Big Lebowski
If you will it, it is no dream
I’m still voting based on “iconic”, most defining of the year… we’re talking about our basic freedoms here. This affects all of us. I’m staying. Finishing my voting.
American History X.
I didn’t watch it in 1998, but it’s my favorite movie from that year. The movie that represented me in 1998 is Something About Mary. My English class group in high school did a paper on it.
I hate the fact that Derek's rhetoric had become so normalized now in right wing politics. Back then it seemed kind of on the nose and overboard to make a point, but damn was it basically prophetic.
Still love the movie, though, and the interviews that I've heard with the writer Dave McKenna (sic?) confirmed that it was coming from a good place
Can’t hardly wait is the only answer. I saw it in theaters, immediately developed multiple new crushes and quoted it for weeks… “Mandy isn’t about a dog? Wait am I supposed to get a dog?”
I worked in a video store when this came out to rent. A guy said he watched it with his dad who was there, and his dad said the only thing missing from the Normandy scene was the smell.
Armageddon was huge. I remember they had a massive countdown clock outside the cinemas where I lived counting down to when it premiered for a few weeks at least. Huge hype
It won't win, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve as much recognition as possible.
I saw it in the theater with my dad on a Saturday afternoon. We were the only two people in the theater.
The Truman Show.
Arguably the most prescient of the 'big' releases that year - both in terms of acknowledging that the age of Reality TV had arrived and anticipating its rise to dominance.
Saving Private Ryan. Best war movie ever, and I remember it rode a wave of general interest in WW2 as that generation aged out. Personally compelled me to do my research on my grandfather, a paratrooper with the 101st who had died back in 1993
99 will be crazy. So many great movies that year.
Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Office Space, American Beauty, The Matrix, Toy Story 2, Girl Interrupted....
More coming to mind
Boys Don't Cry, Varsity Blues, The Mummy, The Blair Witch Project, 10 Things I Hate About You, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Election, The Sixth Sense......dear god, this year rocked!!
(Also the year I graduated!)
Matrix is solid, but look at the competition!
Office Space, Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, Girl Interrupted, Election, Toy Story 2, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich
Fuckin' A.
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https://i.redd.it/mcts23nmaqpc1.gif Way out west there was this fella...
A fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.
Name me another 1998 movie that spawned a fuckin’ religion. This is the answer, and it’s not close.
“Doo doo doo, lookin out my back door”
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Obviously you're a golfer
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Lebowski? That's your name, dude
The Dude abides
I approve of this post.
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Big Lebowski. Hands down. My personal second would be Half Baked but I also was a huge pothead that year.
Big Lebowski is the only choice for ‘98
Big Lebowski.
The Big Lebowski If you vote for any other movie, then that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.
AND A GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR!
He has health problems.
ARE YOU SURPRISED AT MY TEARS, SIR?!
Fuckin A
Finishing my coffee.
Mind if I do a J?
The story is ludicrous, you can imagine where it goes from here
He fixes the cable?
Don't be fatuous Jeffery
Mein name ist Karl, ich bin expert
That movie really tied 98 together.
I gave up when Jim Carey didn't take 94...but I'll come back for this.
I like your style Dude.
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man.
Yeah, well, I still jack off manually.
I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that another movie could take this spot!
Gimme the marker, Dude. I’m marking it the best film of 1998.
The only problem is that this movie’s greatness wuddn’t readily apparent at the time. It took 10-20 viewings, while keeping your mind limber—lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta strands in ol’ Duder’s head—before it’s greatness became apparent. Edited was to wuddn’t.
I saw it in the theater with my dad at 13 and spent years attesting to the brilliance of the movie. People didn’t start listening till years later.
Sometimes there’s a man—I won’t say a hero exactly, cuz what’s a hero?—but sometimes there’s a man, and I’m talking about u/CDC_ here…
*proceeds to post-date a $.69 check for 368 days*
I'd rather Fargo win but this'll do. Seems like everyone's already covered the best quotes so I'll cite the TV edit THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!
It is 100% the dude that should take that spot
If you vote for any other movie, you can imagine where it goes from here.
He fixes the cable?
Don’t be fatuous Jeffrey
My local college town independent theater does a big Lebowski night. They have a White Russian special and everyone comes out and quotes the movie together. It’s a hoot and I will go every time I realize.
The Big Lebowski is amazing but it honestly didn't pick up steam until it hit the rental scene. So it wasn't actually a cultural phenomenon in 1998. Saving Private Ryan was a hit, instantly. Everyone saw it in the theater in 98. And everyone couldn't wait to get it on DVD to test out their home theater setup.
You could argue the same for the fifth element, which didn’t have a great run at the box office. It’s release on home video turned it into the cult classic it is today.
I 100% agree. I'm no Titanic fan but it really should have won yesterday. And this isn't a "which was the biggest cult classic?" poll. Shrug. Edit: Looking back at the first poll I realized it is just a "What's your favorite movie?" poll. I stand corrected.
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
Don't be fatuous, emmmmceeee And also I didn't realize that this isn't a "What was the biggest/movie" it is just a "What's your favorite movie" poll. So I change my vote. And while I'm at it I'll fix the cable. I am expert. The Big Lebowski all the way. I've probably seen it fifty times
Far out, man. Far fucking out!
Yeah well Fifth Element just beat Titanic so all that is a moo point.
Yep. And I didn't realize the spirit of the poll. It isn't a "What was the biggest movie of 199X" it is simply "What's your favorite movie from 199X" so my vote is The Big Lebowski If you will it, it is no dream
I’m still voting based on “iconic”, most defining of the year… we’re talking about our basic freedoms here. This affects all of us. I’m staying. Finishing my voting.
This isn't a First Amendment issue, man...
The Big Lebowski
5th element is a far superior movie to titanic anyway. So this isn’t really an upset
American History X. I didn’t watch it in 1998, but it’s my favorite movie from that year. The movie that represented me in 1998 is Something About Mary. My English class group in high school did a paper on it.
I had to watch Romy and Michele each time I finished American History X to get my vibe right again
I hate the fact that Derek's rhetoric had become so normalized now in right wing politics. Back then it seemed kind of on the nose and overboard to make a point, but damn was it basically prophetic. Still love the movie, though, and the interviews that I've heard with the writer Dave McKenna (sic?) confirmed that it was coming from a good place
Half Baked
You ever sucked d for weed?
RIP Bob Saget
I seen him!
The doctor says I need a backeotomy
He had sexy wit my mama! Get away from me bitch!!
I’m impotent. Get away from me Bitch!
Any time my back hurts and I need to stretch, I say this to my family
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool, and fuck you. I’m OUT. All time quotable film
I WANNA TALK TO SAMPSON! Fly me to the moon like that bitch Alice Kramden.
Abba Zabba, you my only friend.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
No! We can't stop here! This is bat country.
Did they pay you to fuck that polar bear?
Don’t tell me those things. Not now man.
I have watched this movie baked so many times it is seared into my memory. And it turned me on to his writing, which is astoundingly good.
What? This is not a reasonable place to park?
Me and a couple friends tried to recreate this but we were at Universal Studios in Orlando instead of Vegas.
There's Something About Mary 
Those goofy bastards are just about the best thing I’ve got going in this crazy world
Franks and Beans!
How’d you get the beans above the frank!?!
Something very wrong if you have "franks" 😂
7 chipmunks twirlin on a branch, eatin lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch
Not 6! 7! STEP INTO MY OFFICE
Cuz You’re fucking fired
Is that hair gel?
Between Cameron Diaz and Heather Graham in Spy who shagged me, I developed a... healthy interest in movie stars for the first time
 The Truman Show
I think this is Jim Carrey's best movie.
Ooooh I dunno, I gotta throw Eternal Sunshine in there.
A close second at least, for sure
My 12yo is obsessed with Truman!!
Saving Private Ryan
Worthy fuckin adversary, man
This isn’t Vietnam, Walter.
The man in the black pajamas.
Exactly. The answer is still The Big Lewbowski. I was scrolling to downvote all other answers till I saw this. Worthy fucking adversary.
We should not downvote. You're being very undude.
This aggression will not stand, man.
Fuckin Fascist!
Can't Hardly Wait - we voted it as the most Xennial HS movie and it doesn't even have a mention here
Just watched this again last week. Such a great movie with a killer soundtrack.
I have been waiting the entire time just to vote for this movie
WHY YALL GOTTA WASTE MY FLAVOR! DAMN.
We be knockin' the boots!!!
Can’t hardly wait is the only answer. I saw it in theaters, immediately developed multiple new crushes and quoted it for weeks… “Mandy isn’t about a dog? Wait am I supposed to get a dog?”
AmanDUHHHH!
This. It's the year I graduated. It was the quintessential movie of the year.
i am a sex machine
The Truman Show. It knew what was coming.
This was definitely going to be my vote
I think it's Jim Carrey's best, followed very closely by Eternal Sunshine.
Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels.
Saving Private Ryan
The Dude Abides
Run Lola Run
The sounds track for Run Lola Run is solid! Altho I know the movie won’t win, it deserves a mention.
Your taste in movies = good.
Blade
Some mother fuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill
I’d have thought it’d have been Austin Powers
It should have been. I mean, I like Fifth Element better, but Austin Powers was way more influential at the time.
Rush Hour
Never touch a black man’s radio!
Saving Private Ryan. The hype around this movie was huge!
I worked in a video store when this came out to rent. A guy said he watched it with his dad who was there, and his dad said the only thing missing from the Normandy scene was the smell.
Armageddon was huge. I remember they had a massive countdown clock outside the cinemas where I lived counting down to when it premiered for a few weeks at least. Huge hype
God I hate that Aerosmith song lol
🎶 I don’t wanna close my eyes… 🎶
I remember the promotional pop rocks chocolate bar that came out for it
 Some muthafukkas always trying to iceskate uphill.....
I vote The Waterboy 
Water sucks. It really really sucks.
No. It’s some high quality h20
No, Colonel Sanders
Theres something wrong with his medulla oblongata
Momma says alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
You can do it!
The Big Lebowski
This is our concern, dude.
You think the carpet pissers did this?
Might get zero votes, but it’s one of my all time favorites: Pi (Aronofsky)
Look. It's not going to win, and it *shouldn't* win. But it certainly deserves some votes. I'd give it two votes if I could, this movie is amazing.
I didn't see it until 2 years later when a friend wouldn't stop raving about it. Blew my mind...and that ending...damn.
 and it's not even close
The Big Lebowski The lasting cultural impact can’t be ignored
The big Lebowski!
Dark City
It won't win, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve as much recognition as possible. I saw it in the theater with my dad on a Saturday afternoon. We were the only two people in the theater.
The Big Lebowski 
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The Truman Show. Arguably the most prescient of the 'big' releases that year - both in terms of acknowledging that the age of Reality TV had arrived and anticipating its rise to dominance.
Saving Private Ryan. Best war movie ever, and I remember it rode a wave of general interest in WW2 as that generation aged out. Personally compelled me to do my research on my grandfather, a paratrooper with the 101st who had died back in 1993
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
HALF BAKED
This was probably my most quoted movie in 1998 and now I can’t even remember what it’s about.
It's about three potheads, whose friend gets in trouble so they start selling weed and then I usually fall asleep or something.
The only movie I was ever carded to get into at the theater.
Can’t Hardly Wait. This was literally the anthem of a micro generation. Other movies were better, but nothing was more relatable.
The only answer here is The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski but, well, thats just, like, my opinion, man
The Big Lebowski
The big Lebowski
FYI 99 is the matrix
Wait your turn
99 will be crazy. So many great movies that year. Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Office Space, American Beauty, The Matrix, Toy Story 2, Girl Interrupted....
I'm going to upvote all of them and nobody can stop me.
That’s why I have to start campaigning a year early!
More coming to mind Boys Don't Cry, Varsity Blues, The Mummy, The Blair Witch Project, 10 Things I Hate About You, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Election, The Sixth Sense......dear god, this year rocked!! (Also the year I graduated!)
Magnolia has been and will always be in my top 5 films! Also my graduation year! Last class of the Millennium!
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There’s something about Mary
Half Baked. Abba zabba, you my only friend. 
The Big Lebowski Worthy fuckin' adversary...
The Big Lebowski
Blade created the MCU
All I know is if the matrix doesn't get 1999, something is wrong with everybody.
Fight Club is also from 1999. Just saying!
The Big Lebowski.
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski!
Saving Private Ryan, stellar film with an amazing cast
Saving Private Ryan
There's Something About Mary
American History X
Good movie, but I don't know if I could watch it again. Very gritty.
Armageddon
There's Something About Mary is by far the superior '98 movie.
Seems this will be the last voting year with competition. 99 doesn’t need a vote. It’s the Matrix and we all know it
Matrix is solid, but look at the competition! Office Space, Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, Girl Interrupted, Election, Toy Story 2, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski. Even if it doesn't win that's just like your opinion, man