Favorite movies of 2003? Not only Oscar nominated.

[Gryph]

I think Kill Bill is my overall favorite movie of 2003. Such an awesome movie.

 

Other favorites of 2003:

Bad Santa

21 Grams

The Cooler

Lost in Translation

The Last Samurai

LOTR: The Return of the King

Big Fish

[Agozer]

The most recent that I've seen is Return of the King, so I'll go with that.

[Weirdy]

Bad Santa sucked ass, only 1 funny part. Yes, Last Samurai should've been nominated, don't know why though, I think it came out too late to be nominated as a movie of 2003.

[Gryph]

I thought Bad Santa was hilarious. I love Terry Zwigoff and his off-beat, raunchy humor. Though I will admit that Ghost World is a better picture than Bad Santa, but this is only the beginning.

Edited February 5, 2004 by GryphonKlaw

[Wizard]

Matchstick Men

The Last Samurai

Mona Lisa Smile (YOU KNOW ITS GOING TO BE NOMINATED!)

Lost in Translation

Kill Bill (Uma is teh hot there)

Once Upon A Time in Mexico

And finally, Return of the King.

[Weirdy]

I thought Bad Santa was hilarious. I love Terry Zwigoff and his off-beat, raunchy humor. Though I will admit that Ghost World is a better picture than Bad Santa, but this is only the beginning.

umm..Ghost World came out like in 2001 I think or 2002

[Diso]

Return of the King

Bruce Almighty

X2: Xmen united

T3

[Gryph]

I thought Bad Santa was hilarious. I love Terry Zwigoff and his off-beat, raunchy humor. Though I will admit that Ghost World is a better picture than Bad Santa, but this is only the beginning.

umm..Ghost World came out like in 2001 I think or 2002

Umm... Terry Zwigoff directed both the films. I was just stating that Ghost World is the better of his pictures.

[Gryph]

X2: Xmen united

Aw man! How could I forget X2!?

 

That's another one of my favorites this year.

[BoomBa_GoosE]

The most recent that I've seen is Return of the King, so I'll go with that.

same here....i also watched scary movie 3 but that was beyond retarded

[ovalprocess]

lost in translation, hands down.

[stealthcat]

LOTR got shafted 2 times already, just let it win for once. Can't believe it lost to Godsford Park 2 years ago

[Gryph]

Gosford Park was a good movie, though. It had intrigue, plot, wonderful acting, and everything else.

 

Why should LOTR win just because it was shafted twice? The award should go to the best movie of the year, which consequently is most probably LOTR.

[ovalprocess]

lotr are fine action/adventure movies... but i think that the main reason why people like them so much isnt because they are technically quality films. the nostalgia is what sells them 9 times out of 10, even if people dont realize it. put some fancy schmancy special effects and half-decent acting in a classic story and its almost always a guaranteed hit.

 

doesnt really make it oscar calibur tho, imo.

[Captain FuKu]

Probably Kill Bill vol.1 for overall personal favorite.

 

As for The Last Samurai, it wasn't a bad movie; and I'd go so far as to say it even had some emotionally moving scenes -- even from my point of view, which is saying quite a bit if you know me in real life. But then, even after such "moving scenes", I can't help it, but it hits me: this movie is not very accurate. Or specifically, the problem is that it portrays Samurais in a very unrealistic romantized view -- aka, not historically true (nevermind that Cruise's character was entirely fictional, but everything else as well). I could describe in great detail, but I'll choose not to waste time. (Still, not a bad movie, as long as you keep things in perspective that in no fashion is any of the ideas proposed in the movie accurate.)

 

Last, LOTR: The Return of the King was not a bad movie. It had it's negatives, but the audience knows that it is complete fantasy so it can get away with a lot. Only downside for me was that the last half hour of the movie or so, I felt like it had been overly long with its farewells and its unsuccessful attempt at creating "moving/touching scenes", cuz frankly, for me the only reason I stayed till the end was to see the death of Saruman.

 

*BUT* as we all know (or most of us who've read the books), that scene never made it to the theatrical release. And so, the theatrical versions have all these gaps because it never specifically addressed what happened to Saruman after his defeat -- just to name one. So I ended up staying that last half hour just to see that scene, and I find that it was cut out, and we end up watching some humdrum goodbyes and farewells, which never brought a single drop of tear to my eyes.

 

I just left the theater feeling robbed of that last half hour, when otherwise, it could have been a much "fuller/complete" experience. Oh well, that's why there's always the extended edition DVDs, no? Eh...sorry, enough rant.

 

Edited because I can be a grammer freak at times.

Edited February 6, 2004 by Captain FuKu