Favorite Flicks of 2003?

welsh

welsh

Junkmaster
What were your favorite movies of 2003?

I am still looking forward to Kill Bill

I was pretty disappointed in Matrix 2 and haven't seen the new one yet, nor have I seen T3 or Nemo.

I am leaning for
(1) City of God- Brazilian gang flick
(2) Seabiscuit- one of the few adult "feel good" films of last summer
(3) Lost in Translation- Bill Murray is a treasure.
(4) Mistic River
(5) Italian Job- ok, not "wow" but I thought a pretty fine movie all around. I thought the movie was perfect for what it was, and was pleased.
(6) Winged Migration- ok it's a documentary, but... wow. I agree withe Ebert- Not so much as I am against hunting but wish those ducks had guns to shoot back.

Disappointments-

Pirates of the Carribean- Fun and nice but about as intelligent as a Disney ride. Johnny Depp was a play on Keith Richards. I like Keith Richards fine, but could do without Johnny Depp pretending to be Keith Richards.

Last Samurai- what is Tom Cruise bullet proof. That movie was fine right up until the last battle. TC should have gone down and stayed down.

28 Days Later- I loved this flick- but it was over-hyped. The last 30 minutes blew the movie for me.

I also have to add that I am looking forward to Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, but to be honest, the only character I really like is Gollum and I know how it ends for the poor computer generated bastard.
 
first off i must say I was actually suprised at Pirates of the Carribean, i realy enjoyed Depp's performance. The italian job i thought was pure crap. A complete waste of Edward Norton (obviously the best actor in the group, i heard he actually tried to get out of his contract but wasn't able to so was forced to do the film against his will.).

Now my thoughts on films of 2003:



X2 - Great sequal, tons of action, i liked how the story was new but didnt stray too far from the comic.
Matrix Reloaded - Sweet action sequences, storyline is getting pretty weak (havent seen the 3rd)
28 Days later - Best horror/ Sci-fi film in YEARS
School of Rock - Hilarous and great soundtrack
Bad Boys 2 - overall very good, got to be a little too flashy and hollywood at points.
Kill Bill - Taratino + chick fights. what more could i ask for?
RoTK - fight scenes were great, rest of the movie was LONG

Movies that suprised me by being good -

Pirates of the Carribean
Terminator 3
Hollywood Homicide

Movie of the year - OLD SCHOOL
 
I could have sworn Old School was 2002, but it was good, none the less.

1. Terminator 3
2. X2
3. Bruce Almighty
4. Pirates of the Carribean
5. Italian Job
6. Old School
7. Return of the King
8.

Me can't think of any more.



My number one hated movie of 2003 was... get ready...

Dumb and Dumberer.... it sucked, period.
 
Anybody seen Bad Santa? Fucking hillarious.

Lets see, I didn't really see too many movies this year, so hmmm...

#1. Bad Santa - Just too fucking dark and humerous and underrated for me to not list as #1

#2. Terminator 3 - I fucking liked it, great action flick, plus Awnawld is my Governator.

#3. Bad Boys 2 - Great action movie, a couple of good laughs in it, too.

#4. The rest of the movies I saw (Pirates of the Carribean, Bruce Almighty, Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions were all kind of crappy so they all get the #4 slot.)
 
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T3-arnold is pretty cool and shows that he is still the man but the fil was overall really bad...

matrix3-cool..........exept the ending,i mean neo is supposed to be the one nad achive some glorious thing but all he does is ends the war until another chosen "one" will come and do it all over again..

NEMO-it was ok but nothing i whould cry about if i didn't see..

Bruce ALLmighty-jim carey is fucking hilarious altho i am dissapointed that as god he thinks of the world for 5 minutes and the rest he just spends for himself.

the RING-stupid,borin,not scary at all..i mean scary is when something is ugly,freakish an dark and is coming your way,scary is NOT when one scene is nice and relaxed and suddenly it jumpes to another scene which is gruesome and has some creepy music affect(and another thing,if the little girl whould see the ring by looking up from the well,the lid of the well whould drop on her)
 
Return Of The King- Good movie, although it's a bit drawn out at the end. Like the book.

The Last Samurai- Even though it's not out here yet, I already saw it, and I thought it was great. Not a single love scene in it! Whooo...
I have to agree with welsh, though, that Cruise should've stayed down. Hrmph,...

Matchstick Men- Very interesting to watch.

Finding Nemo- For some reason it was fun to watch. Hmmm....

Both Matrixes(Matrices...hmm)- They were nice action flicks, but they weren't that good.
 
1. Kill bill.
2. 28 days. Yeah i only saw the first hour or so, then there was food so i had to leave.
3.finding nemo
4. T3. Ze terminatr killz
5.
 
Alright, we're talking a bunch of crappy movies in 2003, but the ones that stood out in my mind as being good:

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Pirates of the Caribbean

Cold Mountain

Finding Nemo

Kill Bill Vol. 1

T3 and Reloaded = not bad

Freddy vs. Jason (come on, you know you liked it)
 
28 Days Later
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If this is officially a "top five" thing, I should also list the Matrix Retarded and DDRevolutions, but I kinda don't want to.

Yeah, I don't go to the movies much.
 
The only flick I really liked that went out this year is City of God, the brazilian flick Welsh mentioned. ( tell your husband to.... ;)) Finding Nemo wasn't that bad because I was roaring drunk at the movie. Didn't see Kill Bill, though...

I didn't even bother to pay for watching either T3 or Shitrix. Yuck.
 
1) Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
2) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
3) House of Sand and Fog-Connelly's breasts!
4) Mystic River
5) Kill Bill
Have not seen City of God, and was Russian Ark this year for American release?
 
all this talk 'bout ROTR is making me wanna mastrubate(its gonna be out on 8.1. so i have to wait)
 
People should really stop abbreviating Lord of the Rings' titles. When people do it online, ok, but when someone walks up to me and actually says "rotk", I feel the urge to kick his ass. And act on it.

Sadly, I missed a lot of the more powerful flicks of 2003, like Elephant and Mystic River.

Oh, and people, Cidade de Deus and 28 Days Later are both 2002 flicks. Just because you Americans are slow-ass in importing good foreign flicks don't mean you have to pretend they were made a year late.

all in all, 2003 was a terrible year for films. What was good?

Finding Nemo was fun, and definitely the best animated film of the year. No major classic or anything, tho'

Kill Bill vol 1 was tons-of-fun, but a "watch once and be bored with it" flick. I hope he does better with the sequel. and I hope to god he makes a better soundtrack for the sequel. Eeegh.

Terminator 3 is a bloody classic. that movie is the ultimate entertaining pulp. I never tire of it. God T3! T3 is prolly my pick for best overal

X-Men 2 competes with Spider-man for best comic book made into a film. It, like T3, is brilliant entertaining pulp. I get the impression Spider-man 2 is gonna rock, by the way

Big sucksucks/dissapointments/overrated movies:

Matrix Reloaded. The worst sequel ever made since Highlander 2. That movie is bad beyond comprehention. Didn't see matrix 3, don't really plan to.

Return of the King.

What the bloody hell is up with that movie? Was this some kind of action-spectacle gay-porn comedy? Seriously, this movie is so overhyped it's not even funny

Let me first say: I liked the film. Return of the King is a good, sturdy movie, though very flawed. I have too much beef with it to consider it any kind of classic, though; SPOILERS

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_What the hell's wrong with Jackson's character work? He makes every character into one big comedy spectacle? How the hell are you supposed to take Legolas seriously when he singlehandedly takes down a bloody elephant? How are you supposed to be interested in Gimli when his most interesting remark in the entire film is "that still only counts as one"? And how in God's name are you supposed to take the book's most tragic character, Gollum, seriously when the filming of his conversation is done exactly so that it is supposed to be funny. Whenever Gollum was talking to himself, I could feel a strong strain through the audience, they felt that since Gollum's self-conversation in the Two Towers was a piece of bloody comedy, they probably have to laugh now

_Way, way too epic. These movies should've been made with a much smaller budget. What I loved in the first movie and hated in the last two was the scale. The first one was focused, and clear, it was about characters and a small number of people more than about epic battles. Compare the facing-off between Gandalf and the Balrog between the face-off between the remnants of the human army (did anyone else think there were too little, compared to how it's described in the book) and Mordor.

The focus is way off. All Jackson did in the last two movies was film epic battles. That's fucking it. There's no in-depth character exploration beyond the uninteresting "Arwen loves Aragorn" bits. Any and all emotional scenes are Hollywood-stylized, and in a very bed way. Anyone who wasn't annoyed by the gay jumping-on-the-bed-and-stepping-in-the-room-one-by-one scene near the end of Return of the King must be stupid or a looney. I was so uninterested in all the characters, despite having read the books, I still didn't care about Frodo. "Fuck him," I thought, "let him die, stupid brat"

_Bad, bad, baaahaaaad special effects. Whooboy. Did notice the fact that the third signal fire lit looks like the pile of wood was pasted on the mountain using photoshop, before pasting a fire over the pile of wood, again using photoshop.

I didn't mind the few transgressions he made from the book. Generally they weren't badly picked (like leaving out that annoying 'the Shire is in chaos"-bit).

But ugh...this trilogy could've been so much better if they were done by a more competent director and with a smaller budget.
 
Oh yeah, I also forgot about Phonebooth. That was released this year. Good movie, very suspenseful. Well written, and well-acted. It was an extremely good movie, considering that 99% of it took place in and around an area of a small city block on the street.
 
I didn't see many films made this year, so I'll just list the ones I can remember. I also worked at a cinema for 2 weeks so I got to see a bunch of movies. Holla!

X-men 2
It was pretty average I thought. Had one or two good bits and was enjoyable, it looked good but that was where it ends. 5/10

Johnny English
A Rowan Atkinson movie. I thought it was better than the austin power movies, but then again I hated those movies. 6/10 or something.

Dreamcatcher
I don't know why, but I liked this movie. It was dumb as shit and pretty fucking boring, but I watched it three times. Guess all the snow>giant snakes. It'd have been a better critters type of movie, or mabye zombies. 4/10

Matrix: Reloaded
I liked this movie a bit. It wasn't as good as the original, but it had some good parts, and I enjoyed the 2 decent fight/chase sequences. 6/10.

Old school
What a load of wank. The only decent part was when he got stoned. 3/10

Anger Management
Also pretty shit. Probably Adam Sandler's best movie though. 3/10

Finding Nemo
Very good I thought. Looks good, good story etc.
8/10

Pirates of the carribean
I liked it. It was meant to be a family film about pirates, and that's what it did.
7/10

Terminator 3
A lot better than what I thought would be. The new actors didn't do to bad a job, but the most important thing was arnie blowing shit up. Rar. It was also the best ending of the year. 8/10

Matrix: Revolutions
Somewhere between Reloaded and the original is this. Some good fights and a better movie altogether I thought. With a shitty ending. Also a certain death lasted to fucking long. 6/10

Kill Bill vol. 1
I thought this was the best movie of the year, though it wasn't hard with most of the other crap. The best fight sequence of the year as well as other good shit. If vol. 1 and 2 weren't split this would probably have been a great movie. Also the house of blue leaves fight could have been in colour, but it's not that important. Also a bit too much Uma loving, but it wasn't too bad. 8/10

Movies I'd have liked to seen: Phone Booth, City of God, Freddy vs. Jason. Cabin Fever. Also there's some films I'd like to see but haven't been released here yet (Lost in Translation, Oldboy)

I think rotk would have been pretty shit, so I didn't bother. It's just harry potter for adults mebbe? It's getting too much fucking attention and I'm already bored of it. Also I'm not sure about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake
 
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