Best In Film: 2004
Friday, May 12th, 2006
01) Sideways (Alexander Payne)
02) Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald)
03) The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
04) Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
05) Collateral (Michael Mann)
06) Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
07) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
08) Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
09) Spartan (David Mamet)
10) Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
Honorable Mention: Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles), Spanglish (James L. Brooks), Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess), The Incredibles (Brad Bird), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón), The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass), The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes), Control Room (Jehane Noujaim), Outfoxed (Robert Greenwald), Primer (Shane Carruth)
Undiscovered: Hotel Rwanda (Terry George), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar), The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar), The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles), Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Dogville (Lars von Trier), Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Worst of 2004:
01) The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson) *(Tie)
01) Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) *(Tie)
02) Alexander (Oliver Stone)
03) Catwoman (Pitof)
04) The Forgotten (Joseph Ruben)
05) The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)
06) Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers)
07) Saw (James Wan)
08) Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
09) National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)
10) The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich)
* While both films were two of the biggest grossing movies of 2004 and the most talked about, they’re at the top of the list for two reasons: 1) they’re both pretty much one-note films proselytizing their own biased view of the world; and, 2) while technically brilliant, there’s just not enough substance in either film to merit intelligent discussion or insight. In other words, both films are highly overrated and seriously flawed.
May 12th, 2006 17:58
It’s a good think you explained yourself for Fahrenheit and Passion…I was going to come over there and slap you. But I understand your logic. I can’t believe you put Man on Fire there…let the debates begin. Come on Andy, I know you loved it :)