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
9 thoughts on “2004 Films in Review”
You should probably see Garden State. Very good film. (Zach Braff from “Scrubs” and Natalie Portman…)
Even though I missed it last year, i think it’s one of the best films from last year… much like “Collateral”. (I saw both of them within the past few days..)
In clarification: I saw it this year (on the plane back from CA). It was quite good, and I’d like to see it on DVD, as I understand the plane version was a bit chopped up…
I wonder if that is the only list ever to include Team America, Harold & Kumar, and Dogville. I appreciated the artisticness of the film, the morality, and even the story. But why in God’s name did it take an eternity to tell this story?! My God, that movie plodded along at an aggravating pace.
I really liked it… I think it could benefit from a few trims, no doubt, but I think the length contributed to the helpless feeling conveyed by Kidman. The one thing I definately would have chopped was the ham-handed condemnation of Americans during the Bowie “Young Americans” credit roll… You shouldn’t need to scream out the point of the movie once it’s finished, the audience should just get it. Which the audience did, so you don’t need to smack them in the face with it.
You should probably see Garden State. Very good film. (Zach Braff from “Scrubs” and Natalie Portman…)
I did. :)
nevermind then.
Even though I missed it last year, i think it’s one of the best films from last year… much like “Collateral”. (I saw both of them within the past few days..)
Oops. I should have used this icon…
In clarification: I saw it this year (on the plane back from CA). It was quite good, and I’d like to see it on DVD, as I understand the plane version was a bit chopped up…
It was good, but it didn’t hit this list.
Best appearance by a former cast member of the Hogan Family: Jason Bateman, “Ocho” anchorman.
You mean:
Valerie -> Valerie’s Family -> Hogan Family?
:)
Dogville?
I want my 3 hours back!!
I wonder if that is the only list ever to include Team America, Harold & Kumar, and Dogville. I appreciated the artisticness of the film, the morality, and even the story. But why in God’s name did it take an eternity to tell this story?! My God, that movie plodded along at an aggravating pace.
Re: Dogville?
I really liked it… I think it could benefit from a few trims, no doubt, but I think the length contributed to the helpless feeling conveyed by Kidman. The one thing I definately would have chopped was the ham-handed condemnation of Americans during the Bowie “Young Americans” credit roll… You shouldn’t need to scream out the point of the movie once it’s finished, the audience should just get it. Which the audience did, so you don’t need to smack them in the face with it.