Best In Film: 2003
Friday, May 5th, 2006
01) The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
02) Master and Commander (Peter Weir)
03) The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
04) Seabiscuit (Garry Ross)
05) Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
06) In America (Jim Sheridan)
07) Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)
08) Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park)
09) Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
10) Lost In Translation (Sophia Coppola)
Honorable Mention: Cabin Fever (Eli Roth), House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman), X2 (Bryan Singer), Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich), Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella), Pirates of the Caribbean (Gore Verbinski), Bus 174 (Jose Padilha, Felipe Lacerda), The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)Pieces of April (Peter Hedges)
Undiscovered: Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke), Father & Son (Aleksandr Sokurov), The Company (Robert Altman), American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini), Garage Days (Alex Proyas), Spider (David Cronenberg), The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand), Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki), The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy), Dogville (Lars von Trier), To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert), Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
Worst of 2003:
01) Bad Boys II (Michael Bay)
02) Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (McG)
03) Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan)
04) The Matrix Revolutions (Andy & Larry Wachowski)
05) The Order (Brian Helgeland)
06) High Tension (Alexandre Aja)
07) The Matrix Reloaded (Andy & Larry Wachowski)
08) Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell)
09) 21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
10) Gothika (Mathieu Kassovitz, Thom Oliphant)
May 5th, 2006 17:20
Matrix Reloaded as one of the worst of 2003? I think that decision was made retrospectively after seeing Revolutions. The latter is not great, I will give you that. It was pretty horrible. But Reloaded? It is loaded (no pun intended) with amazing action sequences, it’s relatively engaging, and has in my opinion, a really great cliff-hanger ending. Now after seeing Revolutions, I can understand why Reloaded is just pointless. The third installment just doesn’t answer any of the intriguing questions Reloaded asked and definitely cheapens the second one. But as a stand-alone movie, Reloaded in my opinion is a fun ride.
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