2004 Films in Review

grahams - - 2 mins read
  • Top Films of 2004:
  1. Shaun of the Dead
  2. Team America: World Police
  3. Saddest Music in the World
  4. Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
  5. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
  6. Fahrenheit 9/11
  7. A Dirty Shame
  8. The Corporation
  9. Spiderman 2
  10. Dogville (surprise)
  • Bottom 5 films of 2004:
  1. Saw
  2. The Village
  3. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  4. House of Flying Daggers
  5. Starsky & Hutch
  • Best Reissue: Monty Python’s Life of Brian
  • Best Remake/Reworking: Dawn of the Dead
  • Best Director: John Waters
  • Best Actress: Isabella Rosselini (Saddest Music in the World)
  • Best Actor: Paul Bettany (Dogville)
  • Best Supporting Actress: Lynn Redgrave (Kinsey)
  • Best Supporting Actor: Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead)
  • Best Ensemble: Shaun of the Dead
  • Best Original Screenplay: Shaun of the Dead
  • Best Adapted Screenplay: Spiderman 2
  • Best Cinematography: Dogville
  • Best Soundtrack: Team America: World Police
  • Most Alarming Cinematic Trend: Ben Stiller’s Increasingly Annoying Schtick
  • Most Memorable Line: Team America: World Police

Lisa: Promise me you’ll never die.

Gary Johnston: You know I can’t promise that.

Lisa: Promise me you’ll never die and I’ll make love to you right now.

Gary Johnston: I promise I’ll never die.

  • Best Documentary: End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
  • Best Faux Documentary: The Battle of Algiers
  • Movie which was good, yet didn’t make it anywhere else on this list: Napoleon Dynamite
  • Best Fake Television Network: “The Ocho” - Dodgeball
  • Reinforcement that M. Night Shyamalan sucks: The Village
  • Best use of Special Effects in a lame movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  • Most audience manipulating “Documentary”: Tarnation
  • Film I won’t watch until I can get it off Napster: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
  • Best Interviews in a Documentary: The Fog of War
  • Film I feel guilty for missing (tie): Sideways & The Motorcycle Diaries
  • Film I don’t feel guilty for missing: MXP: Most Xtreme Primate