2004 Films in Review
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- Top Films of 2004:
- Shaun of the Dead
- Team America: World Police
- Saddest Music in the World
- Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
- Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- A Dirty Shame
- The Corporation
- Spiderman 2
- Dogville (surprise)
- Bottom 5 films of 2004:
- Saw
- The Village
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- House of Flying Daggers
- 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