No mention of his version of I Am Legend that missed the point entirely, or his version of I, Robot that featured none of the premises, themes, characters, stories, or general principals from I, Robot?

You're thinking of international superstar Bug Hall.

"You think the letter on my head stands for Hulu?"

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Was it not The Fugitive that did that?

I distinctly recall watching Blinky Bill and Bananas in Pyjamas at 6:00 AM. I also remember thinking that Blinky Bill originally had no commercial breaks, because they would always come in mid-sentence:

This applies mostly to Europe and the Middle East.

"It'll be great exposure. You should consider yourself lucky just to be doing what you love: installing rebar."

Shrek.

Neighbours is one of those things that's huge in the rest of the world but somehow never made it into the US. It was regularly scheduled programming in Israel at a time when there was only one channel and most people didn't speak English, yet only ever broadcast in the US on a couple of indie stations in New York and…

1997 was definitely the peak of Britpop in America. But the peak of Britpop in its country of origin was around 1994.

Oh, maybe half of these I didn't see until at least the 2000s.

Oh, it was a giant hit. It made more than half a billion dollars, the third biggest movie of the year worldwide. If you were of school age at that time, Will Smith was the movie star.

It was a remake of a French movie called Little Indian, Big City, which is supposedly as bad if not worse.

Yes, but there's so much that's faded from memory that it's weird that that specific detail has stuck.

I have a giant movie spreadsheet where everything is ordered by first premiere date, including festival and foreign releases, so yes, quite a lot of these would've gone wide in '98.

Yeah, Contact did come out in 1997. I'm updating these as I review my list of movies watched from that year.

Much like 2016, 1997 in film was a big year for highly-anticipated disappointments and unexpected gems.

Also, his daughter gets "saved."

Somebody saw Reign of Fire!