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The Best and Worst Movies of 2003?
rufey asks: "As 2003 comes to a close, I thought it would be interesting to ask Slashdot what they thought the best and worst movie of 2003 was, and why. At the beginning of the year there was excitement about parts 2 and 3 of The Matrix triology, X-Men 2, and of course, LOTR: Return of the King. In Slashdot's opinion, what did and didn't live up to the hype and expectations, and were there any surprises?"
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as the worst movie of not only this year, but every year since it was released (1992). It was so bad, people kept asking to re-evaluate it, just to see if anyone could do any worse.
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I dont think I ever respected Murray as an actor before - though I've thought him to be a fantastic comedian - but this movie showed that he actually had the ability to evoke complex emotion.
What, you've never seen Rushmore? Murray won several awards for his performance in that wonderful film.
The problem with God is that he thinks he's Richard Wagner
One movie I walked into thinking it was going to suck, was last samurai. I walked out having thoroughly enjoyed it.
Go figure.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms,
Are you JOKING?
Kill Bill was not only the year's worst movie, it was humanity's worst movie. No matter what is produced in the future it cannot be worse than Kill Bill. It was an entire movie about violence with the most minimal plot that a movie can possibly have. What story there was didn't make any sense or provide any real motivation for the characters to do what they did.
Trying to describe the plot of Kill Bill actually makes it sound more interesting than it is on the screen. If you like watching people lose arms and legs and be impaled, dismembered and disembowled in strange and unusual ways then you need psychological help... Kill Bill was like a purposefully fake Faces Of Death without the pretense of reality.
I walked out of Kill Bill and I swore I would never walk out of a movie, ever. I didn't anticipate the level of shittiness that QT attained in Kill Bill. In fact, I'm going to invoice the bastard for the cost of my movie ticket.
I will never see another QT film again. Actually, I'll never see another Uma Thurman movie either. Oh yes, the movie is that bad...
-JemSorry, I know EVERYONE was thinking this too... exponentially, not logaritmically
Surprisingly, parent is NOT trolling. The movie DOES exist. And looks to be horrendous.... hehe.
Ya' know, I wouldn't really say "for a lacking script" as much as "for lacking a script"...
The Angelika, www.angelikafilmcenter.com/dallas/nowshowing.asp , is showing several times a day.
I doubt it. Here's Moore's response.
Filmed in New Zealand too!
I went to see RoTK yesterday. Not knowing what sort of crowd to expect, my wife and I arrived 90 mins early for a 3:15 showing, and traded tickets for the 2:15 showing once we noticed (at 2 PM) that the 3:15 line was longer than the 2:15 line!
I was waiting for it to start, and remember some guy two rows behind me muttering about third movies sucking. "I hope it doesn't suck, because it's the third movie, and the third Matrix movie sucked. So this is probably going to suck." Heh heh, dumbass.
I liked the Two Towers more than FoTR, and I liked this even better. It has everything in it that made the Two Towers enjoyable, plus more stuff. I don't consider myself a Tolkien weenie, since I've only read the book once and that was ten years ago when I was in college. So I can sometimes remember something not being in the book, and it irks me when I see deviations from the book, but if they work in the movie then I don't care.
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28 Days had quite a lot of CGI. It's called digital erasure. Did you think London was actually evacuated? In that case, perhaps the movie deserves an award for CGI effects.
Bollocks. They filmed it very very early in the morning with loads of guys stopping traffic while they filmed the scenes. Most of that had to be done in one take as they didn't have time to reshoot.
The BBC radio adaptation of Lord of The Rings does a much better job with the characterization and story than the movies.
You'll fall in love with characters from the radio play that just fall flat in the movies.
"The men want to have sex with the women and possibly have a chance at repopulating."
Ummm, if you replace "rape" when saying "have sex with" and "a woman and a child" when you said "the women" then you'd be a little more accurate.
The fact that that premise not only doesn't bother you but is being used as a way to mock the movie is highly disturbing.
28 Days was not only a very good movie, but it also has the rare quality of getting better every time you watch it.
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LOTR:ROTK and the rest of the series were in a rather tight bind, they had to respect the books enough(and the most-sold ever set of books of fiction in english literature kinda deserves a little). They also had to fit 5 books(in three volumes) into a three-movie set(and cut enough stuff to make it fit in the time constraints). They managed to alienate the true purists by cutting essential scenes from the movies, yet make it a wide-audience series that generated wide interest.
The cutting out of Tom Bombadil, for one example, was a perfect example of mass-marketing(it would helped to understand the world of Tolkien better, the mythology, and the role the Ring had with regards to the powers that be). It didn't include a fight scene, and the potential for special effects was minimal, so it was cut. The equivalent part with Galadriel, which served the same purpose, but to understand the relationship between the Elves' head honchos and the ring, didn't include a fight scene, but had more special effects/pizazz potential, was kept. I imagine that Saruman's invasion of The Shire(my term for it) was cut because it was hard getting that many male hobbits in uniform as to compose two opposing army units.
As for the books not standing out on their own, you're kinda missing the point... The books already are a hit, the idea is to translate the books into visual medium, for a different audience(how many people do you know would buy, then read a set of 3 800 page volumes? ), not make a related, but different product.
If I had a choice between seeign Matrix Revolutions again on the big screen and sitting through Return of the King, I'd go for the Matrix.
2003 faves:
X-men 2 - 9.5/10 I loved X-1 and I think X-2 was a great expansion of the movie incarnation of the franchise.
Finding Nemo - 9/10 Saw it opening weekend in a digital theater in Orlando. It looked AMAZING. I also loved Ellen DeGeneres' surprisingly touching performance. I'm getting all verplempkt now. :sniff:
Matix Reloaded - 8/10 The Architect scene KILLED the movie. I suppose he was necessary, but I never expected the Big Showdown in Reloaded to give me SAT flashbacks. Ergo, the dialogue was as interminable as it was pontifical, and should have been assiduously avoided.
Matrix Revolutions - 9/10!! OMG, I loved this movie. I don't understand why so many people blew it off. The battle for Zion was much better that anything I expected, and the inevitavle conlcusion (imo) [mostly] worked really well.
Lord of the Rings: Return of the Shakey-Cam - 8/10 :-(
Everything in the movie looks great, until the swordfights start. "Quick cuts between scenes with lots of camera shaking is no basis for an onscreen sword fight."
I blame the 2nd or 3rd Unit Director who was probably in charge of that aspect of the production. Also, I knew about the 6 or 7 endings, but I didn't knw that I'd be waiting for about 50 minutes for the film to really kick in to gear.
Elf - 8.5/10 Cuter and less annoying than I expected. it gave me some Chirstmas Spirit.
Bad Santa - 7/10
He was a REALLY bad santa. I mostly like the movie, but some parts were just too crude and gross for me.
Bend it Like Beckham - 9/10
Whale Rider - 8.5/10
Timeline - 7.7/8
(Belive it or not. The production had a LOT of problems and the plot is a bit confused, but for some reason I really enjoyed it)
Least Favorite:
Pirates of the Caribbean - 6.8/10
I didn't HATE it, but it didn't really impress me. I was right there with the flick up until the pirates invaded the port town.
Underworld - 6.5/10.
The trailer looked SO amazing (for a Goth-ey Matrix rip off) The movie was pretty impressive for the budget, but it wasn't really as polished as it should have been.
Kill Bill vol. 1 - 4/10
All the Cool Kids love Tarantino. I just think he was sadisticly tortured too many times in school and is now fixated on that. If you thought the Stormtroopers in Star Wars had bad aim, take a look and the crowd of swordsmen throwing their limbs at Uma Thurman.
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