And no, this was not an "amazing" year for movies, not by any stretch. This has been a fairly bad year for movies.
agree wholeheartedly. i have never gone longer stretches between movie-goings. the selection of movies out in 2003 was dismal. there were a few very solid flicks surrounded by dozens of awful miserable crap. hollywood is getting worse every year and should be ashamed. maybe this is why i enjoyed LoTR so much--by comparison to the rest of the crap out there, it looks even better than it already is.
aye .. am i the only one who loves the pirates of the caribbean?
i don't think its the best of the movies i've seen this year, but i cant think of anything else that i enjoyed that much and that was made this year. the last time before that movie i really ENJOYED seeing a pirate movie when i was 5.
Kill Bill was schlock. Entertaining, sure, but it's schlock, kitschy crap ~10 years out of date.
Without question it is Return of the King.
I know I know, Mystic River, Cold Mountain, Lost in Translation, all excellent movies.
But these are apples to RotK's orange. Return of the King is an event, it's a movie on the Titanic-scale and it is actually a very good movie.
If there's a movie you want to go see again, it's RotK.
It's the best of 2003.
And no, this was not an "amazing" year for movies, not by any stretch. This has been a fairly bad year for movies.
Agreed. As Return of the King was the best of the Trilogy, and the trilogy was perhaps the best series of films ever made...I would have to vote for ROTK on that as well. The rest were good, especially Cold Mountain (ah, Nicole Kidman) and Master and Commander, but they just don't have EVERYTHING that ROTK had.
For me it would have to be either The Last Samurai or RotK. Both are AMAZING movies! End of story.
Pirates of the Caribbean was fun, as was Finding Nemo, but I don't think they were the best movies of the year.
And Master and Commander is pretty near the top of my least favorite movies list. Yeah... that's one movie that actually had me looking at my watch and wondering when it was going to end. Now please don't kill me for this last comment.
I was flipping channels the other day and accidentally watched about five minutes of one of those dumb ass rings movies. I'm glad you all enjoy them, but let's just say they seem pretty painful to me. One of the few books I refused to read in school as well.
The only movie I went to this year was Kill Bill which was pretty entertaining, but I have to say it feels like I haven't seen a great movie in about five years.
Probably Mystic River, though Return of the King is close in my mind. Mystic River would've had it by a mile, were it not for the lazy man's ending. The end was so cliche is almost ruined the movie entirely IMO. Sean Penn's character just wound up like nothing ever happened... it was totally inconsistent with a scenario where the guy killed his best friend for nothing.
Probably Mystic River, though Return of the King is close in my mind. Mystic River would've had it by a mile, were it not for the lazy man's ending. The end was so cliche is almost ruined the movie entirely IMO. Sean Penn's character just wound up like nothing ever happened... it was totally inconsistent with a scenario where the guy killed his best friend for nothing.
I thought the ending was the most chilling part. How even after all that happened to him, life went on. The performance by the actress that played Tim Robbins' wife really drove this home. To Penn, it was fücked up, but he'd dealt with fücked up stuff before.
Also, I don't see the death of Tim Robbins as tragic at all. Penn was able to give him what he had wanted since the car ride, deliverance from the pain that he felt. Sure he died for the wrong reasons, but he got what he really wanted in the end.
i'm not sure what the best movie i saw this year was, but the best i've seen in a few months was 21g. I won't say anything specific about it, in case people haven't caught it yet, but they do some very interesting scene splicing in that movie. Many sequences are very short, and they jump around to other ones, and its not all exactly sequential, but when it all adds up its really moving. You see something happen, and it suggests a certain idea, then they move to a different thread in the weave, and you start to meld those together. Then, as you look over the whole work, you notice that the thread you thought was of [x] happening, was actually [y] with a lot of similar scenery to [x]. Plus what's her names t&a are all over parts of that flick.
i saw big fish the other day. in the ad it said it was nominated for best picture (i dont remember if it was oscar or golden globe or what), but i don't think it was that great. i mean, it was very entertaining, and a lot of good acting (my sister pointed out that near all the actors had very good southern accents, despite not being from the south or america). very entertaining, but not a great movie by my standards.
as for some of the others mentioned, i haven't seen em. well, i saw kill bill, but that was clearly not best picture material in my opinion. and i dont think rotk was as good as ttt. it loses some points with that ending.
Oh god. Not only did that movie make me want to puke for its obviousness, it had to do it over and over and over and over again. there was no plot, no character development, no ... there was no point. i consider the time i spent in the theater watching it wasted loss to the abyss of cruel jokes -- time i could have been watching something far more interesting, like grass growing, or a faucet dripping. it wasnt even romantic. it was cheese. and british cheese at that. ewww. british cheese.
Were there any other movies in 2003 besides Return of the King?!!
Okay, Finding Nemo was good, I'll admit. It's rare that you find a children's movie that an adult can sit through more than once. (Most I can't make it through even once--what garbage!)
You make a valid point. I did think the part about Robins dying was the way to go with that story. I just wish I'd seen a little more anguish or anger -- or raw emotion of some sort --from Penn after he figured out what really happened. It felt like the movie ended too soon for some reason.
They maybe could've added a little more drama between Bacon and Penn at the end for closure... but it just seemed to me that Penn was like "Oh well, time for me to get on with my bad self" instead of despising himself for what he did, etc.
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Originally posted by groverat
And no, this was not an "amazing" year for movies, not by any stretch. This has been a fairly bad year for movies.
agree wholeheartedly. i have never gone longer stretches between movie-goings. the selection of movies out in 2003 was dismal. there were a few very solid flicks surrounded by dozens of awful miserable crap. hollywood is getting worse every year and should be ashamed. maybe this is why i enjoyed LoTR so much--by comparison to the rest of the crap out there, it looks even better than it already is.
Originally posted by groverat
And no, this was not an "amazing" year for movies, not by any stretch. This has been a fairly bad year for movies.
I guess I just have access to better movies. Did American Splendor, Spellbound, Capturing the Friedmans, or 21 Grams made it to your market?
i don't think its the best of the movies i've seen this year, but i cant think of anything else that i enjoyed that much and that was made this year. the last time before that movie i really ENJOYED seeing a pirate movie when i was 5.
Originally posted by groverat
Kill Bill was schlock. Entertaining, sure, but it's schlock, kitschy crap ~10 years out of date.
Without question it is Return of the King.
I know I know, Mystic River, Cold Mountain, Lost in Translation, all excellent movies.
But these are apples to RotK's orange. Return of the King is an event, it's a movie on the Titanic-scale and it is actually a very good movie.
If there's a movie you want to go see again, it's RotK.
It's the best of 2003.
And no, this was not an "amazing" year for movies, not by any stretch. This has been a fairly bad year for movies.
Agreed. As Return of the King was the best of the Trilogy, and the trilogy was perhaps the best series of films ever made...I would have to vote for ROTK on that as well. The rest were good, especially Cold Mountain (ah, Nicole Kidman) and Master and Commander, but they just don't have EVERYTHING that ROTK had.
Pirates of the Caribbean was fun, as was Finding Nemo, but I don't think they were the best movies of the year.
And Master and Commander is pretty near the top of my least favorite movies list. Yeah... that's one movie that actually had me looking at my watch and wondering when it was going to end. Now please don't kill me for this last comment.
The only movie I went to this year was Kill Bill which was pretty entertaining, but I have to say it feels like I haven't seen a great movie in about five years.
cause i'm a romantic at heart for crissakes!
Originally posted by Moogs
Probably Mystic River, though Return of the King is close in my mind. Mystic River would've had it by a mile, were it not for the lazy man's ending. The end was so cliche is almost ruined the movie entirely IMO. Sean Penn's character just wound up like nothing ever happened... it was totally inconsistent with a scenario where the guy killed his best friend for nothing.
I thought the ending was the most chilling part. How even after all that happened to him, life went on. The performance by the actress that played Tim Robbins' wife really drove this home. To Penn, it was fücked up, but he'd dealt with fücked up stuff before.
Also, I don't see the death of Tim Robbins as tragic at all. Penn was able to give him what he had wanted since the car ride, deliverance from the pain that he felt. Sure he died for the wrong reasons, but he got what he really wanted in the end.
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
my favorite was love actually
cause i'm a romantic at heart for crissakes!
Romantic? Nah, you're probably just whipped.
i saw big fish the other day. in the ad it said it was nominated for best picture (i dont remember if it was oscar or golden globe or what), but i don't think it was that great. i mean, it was very entertaining, and a lot of good acting (my sister pointed out that near all the actors had very good southern accents, despite not being from the south or america). very entertaining, but not a great movie by my standards.
as for some of the others mentioned, i haven't seen em. well, i saw kill bill, but that was clearly not best picture material in my opinion. and i dont think rotk was as good as ttt. it loses some points with that ending.
_ 2. Lost in Translation _
_ 3. Pirates of the Caribbean
_ 4. Last Samurai _
_ 5. Big Fish
_ 6. School of Rock
_ 7. Finding Nemo
_ 8. Mystic River
_ 9. X-Men 2 : X-Men United
10. Kill Bill
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Originally posted by thuh Freak
i'm not sure what the best movie i saw this year was, but the best i've seen in a few months was 21g.
Saw it last night. Great direction, editing, and cinematography.
The acting was also top notch with DelToro, Penn and and we got to see a lot more of Naomi Watts too.
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
my favorite was love actually
cause i'm a romantic at heart for crissakes!
Oh god. Not only did that movie make me want to puke for its obviousness, it had to do it over and over and over and over again. there was no plot, no character development, no ... there was no point. i consider the time i spent in the theater watching it wasted loss to the abyss of cruel jokes -- time i could have been watching something far more interesting, like grass growing, or a faucet dripping. it wasnt even romantic. it was cheese. and british cheese at that. ewww. british cheese.
Okay, Finding Nemo was good, I'll admit. It's rare that you find a children's movie that an adult can sit through more than once. (Most I can't make it through even once--what garbage!)
You make a valid point. I did think the part about Robins dying was the way to go with that story. I just wish I'd seen a little more anguish or anger -- or raw emotion of some sort --from Penn after he figured out what really happened. It felt like the movie ended too soon for some reason.
They maybe could've added a little more drama between Bacon and Penn at the end for closure... but it just seemed to me that Penn was like "Oh well, time for me to get on with my bad self" instead of despising himself for what he did, etc.
Just my take....