Unless you were there, it's hard to explain how weird the year 1999 was. In the decades leading up to the new millennium, we had been looking forward to it with pop culture entries ranging from
Space: 1999 to Prince's song and album. There was anticipation, excitement, and even a little fear about things like the Y2K Bug as we approached the rollover.
Capitalizing on the high emotions of the time, a few movies were set in the immediate future to give us a glimpse of what might be coming. Among those was
Entrapment, released in late April but set in the last couple of weeks of 1999.
The final act took place in the newly-completed Petronas Towers, which had just been crowned as the tallest building in the world, but the movie started with a glimpse of a previous record-holder. The opening zoom shot of New York City included the World Trade Center, which had been the tallest building in the world from 1970 to 1973 and the tallest twin buildings until 1998.
