I can loan you mine if not.

The "Ultimate DVD Demo Disc" that came free with my Dell computer circa 1999. The only good thing on it was this: https://youtu.be/TCzUjxORhqA

Was Street Fighter II still big in '97? I remember the SF Alpha series and even Tekken over that.

Hercules" had a HUGE amount of hype going into theaters… but no one cared all that much.

Not to be confused with the Daft Punk song of the same name and the same year?

Better than Fleetwood Mac's Tusk?

Oh yeah, I couldn't remember the song or film but I did hear it.

There might have been two versions?
The one I heard the most was with Rose's "I'll never let go!" echoing at the end (I'm not clicking the above link).

First?

It got its own writeup last week or so, didn't it?

Still a stupid name, but I agree.

But you guys did have Powderfinger, I know that.

Do you still have said merchandise?

Meanwhile us teenage boys were excited about the ship sinking, right?

I was there when it happened; a lot of it had to do with timing. It was released around Christmas '97 so this run was during the first few months of '98 when the movie season is traditionally at its lowest.
Among the list of movies it kept from the #1 spot were "The Wedding Singer" and the aforementioned "Spice World."

1) Yes. Also Len's "Steal my Sunshine" the following year and Vitamin C's "Graduation (Friends Forever)" a few years after that.

I guess that was a pretty good time to be a New Yorker. Giulianni was cleaning up the place for better or worse, it wasn't quite unaffordable yet and of course it was pre-9/11.

7. The death of Britpop

Buy the ticket, take the ride…

Here's Lindsay Ellis' epic takedown of that film: https://youtu.be/o26AVJYTMcg