Best/Worst Movies of 2003

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
finally someone who liked phone booth. still don't like you though.

but I LOOOOOOVE you...

What'd I do?

On a side note, I really really really wanted to like Master and Commander...but I just couldn't. The action was great, the setting was good, and Russell Crowe was good. The problem is, he couldn't carry a script that was sub-par. It was just too "RRR...ME MAN" for me.

I can't wait until Last Samurai. I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, but it looks really good.

[MrFun]

Re: Best/Worst Movies of 2003

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous

5. Bad Boys II

Yeah -- you do have to wonder what they were thinking with creating a sequel to the first title that was created -- what -- ten years ago??

[Elias]

book of mormon volume one oh yeah that was a great movie.
yeah right pitty me I live in Utah.

Anyways

T3 was by far the most dissapointing

Reloaded was ok but really it was just there to link the first and 3rd movie together

[monolith94]

Best movie of the year so far: Millenium Actress

I doubt anything will unseat that movie, considering I love it so much. I wrote a review, but I doubt you guys want to read it.

Worst movie of the year: Sinbad, Legend of the Seven Seas.

I doubt you guys want to read the review for that either.

Most dissapointing: Down With Love
Great cast, great trailer, great art direction and idea, terrible script and execution. The most akward movie of the year.

Most surprisingly good: Anger Management
Marisa Tomei and Adam Sandler's romance rung true for me, and I thought the humor worked. I viewed the ending, which many hated, as so over the top in its use of the sappy hollywood ending as extending over into conscious self-parody. Highly and surprisingly enjoyable movie.

[monolith94]

Emp Fab - PLEASE tell me you didn't actually go to see the cat in the hat... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

[GePap]

Best so far?

American Splendor, Lost in Translation, and I forget the whole name, a documentary on the Friedman family.

The Cukoo was good too, but not in the same league as those three.

[monolith94]

"a documentary on the Friedman family"

Capturing the Friedmans

I haven't seen it, but I doubt it's a better documentary than spellbound.

[GePap]

I have not seen spellbound so I could not say. But it was very powerfull.

[monolith94]

I really want to see CTFs... it does look good. Spellbound was an amazing documentary, however. It was like an Errol Morris film, only on a subject that he wouldn't have chosen due to its lightness...

Really, really awesome filmmaking.

Second worst film of the year - A View From the Top

[Ned]

Best:

Seabiscuit
Mystic River
Lost in Translation

Not seen

Kill Bill
X men II
RoTK
The Last Samarai

The three films I listed are the only ones I saw this year (that I can remember) that I totally thoroughly enjoyed. Seabiscuit is one of the best films I have ever seen. A true joy. Mystic river is a great film, but a bit depressing. Lost is translation is a beautiful love story. Bill Murray is simply great - his best performance ever.

[Dis]

I rate Kill Bill vol 1 as both the best and the worst movie of 2003.

That's how I feel about. Some things I found incredibly cool, and some things I found incredibly stupid.

Also it's like the only movie I seen this year

oh I did see 28 days later- but technically that is a 2002 film.

[Dis]

oh I also saw T3- I liked it, but it could have been better- like having Cameron direct it

And someone actually saw gigli? I want proof you actually saw that movie and aren't jumping on the gigli bashing bandwagon

[orange]

Best
- Love Actually
- Phone booth

Worst
- Matrix Revolutions

Surprising
- Timeline

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Well, we don't get really interesting stuff like "Lost in translation" here in Turkey, and we're way behind on films in general (Seabiscuit, Kill Bill and Intolerable Cruelty have yet to open here); so this is not an incredibly well-informed list. But:

Best of 2003
1. Finding Nemo
2. Master and Commander
3. Mystic River
4. Pirates of the Carribean
5. Love Actually (I'm with cinch; it was really funny)

(looking back at #1-4, it seems like it was a pretty good year for water)

Worst of 2003
(This list brought to you by a man who must stop letting his 13-year-old daughter pick which movies they see together)

1. T3
2. Daredevil
3. The Hulk
4. Matrix Revolutions

(edited because I had completely repressed the memory of T3, but then another poster forced it to the surface)

[orange]

ah yes, Finding Nemo was excellent