The '03 Movie Hierarchy
Submitted by Cosgrove on Thu, 08/05/2004 - 12:57
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- A
- The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
- Spellbound
- All the Real Girls (2)
- A-
- Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2)
- Finding Nemo (3)
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2)
- Gerry (2)
- The Secret Lives of Dentists (2)
- Zero Day
- Friday Night
- Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
- Owning Mahowny
- Capturing the Friedmans
- Bad Santa (4)
- Irreversible (3)
- Intolerable Cruelty
- Down with Love
- House of Sand and Fog
- Mystic River
- demonlover (2)
- The Backyard
- B+
- May
- Resurrection of the Little Match Girl
- Ichi the Killer (2)
- Stevie
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Fulltime Killer
- Love Actually
- The School of Rock
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
- X2: X-Men United
- Step Into Liquid
- Charlotte Sometimes
- Raising Victor Vargas
- The Hunted
- Bubba Ho-Tep (2)
- Lost in La Mancha
- House of 1000 Corpses
- B
- Matchstick Men
- The Rundown
- Millennium Actress
- Freddy vs. Jason
- Holes
- Willard
- Angel on the Right
- Lawless Heart
- The Italian Job
- Monster
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Big Fish
- The Same River Twice
- Cold Mountain
- Winged Migration
- B-
- Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
- Phone Booth
- In My Skin
- The Dancer Upstairs
- The Lizzie McGuire Movie
- Black Tape: A Tehran Diary (The Videotape Fariborz Kamkari Found in the Garbage)
- American Splendor
- Casa de Los Babys
- Swimming Pool
- The Good Thief
- Head of State
- In the Cut
- An Injury to One
- Anything Else
- Shanghai Knights
- 7th Street
- Cinemania
- The Core
- My Little Eye
- Decasia
- C+
- Manic
- Cheerleader Ninjas
- PTU
- Lost in Translation
- Gigli
- The Glow
- The Recruit
- The Eye
- City of God
- Out of Time
- 21 Grams
- The Son
- Gothika
- American Wedding
- Hulk
- Pantaleon y las visitadores
- So Close
- Peter Pan
- Confidence
- The Good Old Naughty Days
- Cabin Fever
- Final Destination 2
- Jeepers Creepers 2
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Freaky Friday
- Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
- 28 Days Later
- C
- Dreamcatcher (2)
- Returner
- Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
- Elephant
- Chaos
- The Man Without a Past
- Don’t Tempt Me
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Run Ronnie Run!
- Paycheck
- Skin of Man, Heart of Beast
- The Missing Gun
- Darkness Falls
- A Mighty Wind
- Bulletproof Monk
- The Housekeeper
- Bend it Like Beckham
- Bhoot
- He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
- Whale Rider
- Calendar Girls
- Tsui Hark’s Vampire Hunters
- The Matrix Reloaded
- Anger Management
- That’s My Face
- Suspended Animation
- C-
- L’Auberge Espagnole
- Bruce Almighty
- Beyond Re-Animator
- Millennium Mambo
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
- Spun
- thirteen
- Spider
- D+
- Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
- Mimic: Sentinel
- The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
- Masked and Anonymous
- Gasoline
- Pistol Opera
- Lilya 4-Ever
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Johnny English
- D
- Flesh for the Beast
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- The Princess Blade
- How to Deal
- Wrong Turn
- A Man Apart
- The Embalmer
- Tears of the Sun
- Mansion by the Lake
- D-
- The Real Cancun
- Underworld
- House of the Dead
- F
- Identity
- Killer Klowns from Kansas on Krack
Author Comments:
Not much of a year... but we take what we can get, I guess. (Films with numbers besides them indicate multiple viewings.)
Wow, I've really enjoyed checking out your '02-'04 movie breakdowns. I can find much to agree with, a little to disagree with (adding spice to the experience), and much envy in many of the things you've seen that I haven't gotten to yet (particularly out of Asia). Thanks for kicking these in!
Will you be tackling earlier years?
Most likely... I've got complete lists up to the year 1998. Beyond that, who can say... lots of catching up and rewatching still needed. (I've began believing, for instance, that my F grade for "The Game" may have been a bit harsh...)
C'mon, Underworld wasn't *that* bad. How can you give any movie featuring Kate Beckinsale in skintight vinyl a D-?
If I did letter grades, I'd probably put it somewhere in very low C territory. Beckinsale irrationally continues to be a draw for me because of Cold Comfort Farm (not because of vinyl :-), even if she did spend all that good filmic karma several times over by now.
Well, besides the film's technical ineptitude, its inability to make sense even on its own terms, its godawful portentiousness that outdoes even "The Matrix Reherniated", its painful monochromatic idea of "style" and its hilariously bad wrapup... there's also the fact that I just don't find Beckinsale terribly attractive. She has a pretty face, yes, but she also has a figure like a broomstick.
She has a pretty face, yes, but she also has a figure like a broomstick.
Sorry to chime in on this so late, but what's wrong with figures like broomsticks? (I'm thinking of Ms. Knightley, naturally.)
Well, nothing if your tastes run to someone like Kate or Keira. For reasons which elude me, though, I've always been attracted to girls of a somewhat more vigorous constitution. Think pre-fame Brittany Murphy.
Looney Tunes?!
Wow, didn't see that coming.
Wow, how did I not notice that? My mind must have recoiled from the shock as I was scanning the list. Even now I feel a bit woozy. :-)
Yes, "Looney Tunes". It's only the funniest comedy of the year, as well as a brilliant homage to the Loonies of yesteryear AND a return to form for previously-MIA director Joe Dante. What's unexpected about that?
Well, my review is here. Our completely differing perspectives reinforces how subjective humor is. We don't let our kids watch much TV, so they latch onto whatever we bring home for movie night, and Looney Tunes managed to bore both the kids and the parents.
Don't get me wrong - I'm glad you liked it - and whatever tickles the funnybone is good medicine, I was just surprised. Not only because of my own dislike of the movie, but from what I had gleaned of your tastes from looking over your lists.
By the way, has Joe Dante really had enough good movies to establish a "form" he's returning to? :-)
"Pirahna", "Gremlins", "Gremlins 2", "Innerspace", "Matinee"... if you don't love these movies, you have no soul. (Kidding. But still, I always liked his infectious brand of movie-mad filmmaking. Heck, I even mostly liked "Small Soldiers".)
Alrighty, I suppose I did like 3.5 of those 5 (I'm withholding 0.5 from Piranha since I haven't seen it since I was a wee lad, and I didn't think much of Gremlins 2).