April 2003 Archives

If you were to ask me right now what year was better for movies, 1999 or 2002, I wouldn't know what to say, it is almost a dead heat, so many great movies...
These are my votes for some of the movies from 1999, there were still more that were good that aren't even on this list:

*Note* this listing isn't a ranking (well, the numbers are ranked...) they are in a mixed up order:

10 for Election
10 for Thomas Crown Affair, The
10 for Being John Malkovich
10 for Boondock Saints, The
10 for Mumford
10 for Magnolia
10 for Three Kings
10 for South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
10 for Fight Club
10 for American Beauty
10 for Man on the Moon
10 for American Movie
9 for But I'm a Cheerleader
9 for Matrix, The
9 for Girl, Interrupted
9 for Green Mile, The
9 for Virgin Suicides, The
9 for Bringing Out the Dead
8 for Dogma
8 for Office Space
7 for Bowfinger
7 for Galaxy Quest

I will do 2002 next...

Looks like the following countries will be in the EU come 2004, which I think will be good for those countries and for Europe as a whole. More power to them.

Cyprus
Czech Republic
Estonia
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia

With the recent letdown of Oscar winners (for I don't know how many years straight) I will now list for the world to see, the best picture of the year for the past 10 years as they should be:

2002 - Adaptation
2001 - Amelie
2000 - Wonder Boys
1999 - Being John Malkovich
1998 - American History X
1997 - Jackie Brown
1996 - Fargo * Actually Nominated! *
1995 - Seven
1994 - Forrest Gump * Actually Won! *
1993 - In the Line of Fire

Ok, so I saw the Pianist, it was decent, but not mind-blowingly good, and while Brody did a fairly good job transforming himself for the movie and changing over time, it was done before, in a movie called Cast Away. What the whole movie came down to for me was that it was mostly showing Nazis executing Polish Jews in the street in horrifying ways and that has been in several movies before, so it was nothing new, and frankly it was unsettling. The directing by Polanski was nothing special, and he really shouldn't have won for that.

In other news, I watched the whole first season of 24 and it was quite decent, except the last episode wasn't as thrilling as I was led to believe. From what I hear, second season is better, hopefully it is.