Vickie's Best of 2003 - Moviepie.com

VICKIE'S BEST AND WORST OF 2003

Movies I Loved in 2003

Love Actually - made me all warm and fuzzy
Mayor of the Sunset Strip - a sweet story about a little guy with big dreams
Big Fish - wait, Jessica Lange is in this and I *still* liked it?
Japanese Story - delightfully surprising
X2: X-Men United - way cool and much better than its predecessor
Finding Nemo - 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney...
Pieces of April - indie cinema at its finest
Down With Love - a candy-colored, loopy romp
Cold Mountain - the token epic
Prey For Rock & Roll - I love a kick-ass girls-in-a-band movie!
and, to my utter shock and surprise...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - big, loud and unexpectedly impressive (who knew?)

Yes, that is Hugh Grant as the British Prime Minister in Love Actually, one of Vickie's favorite movies of 2003.

Movies That I Didn't Love AT ALL in 2003:

Hollywood Homicide (blech!), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (boo!), The Medallion (hiss!), Intolerable Cruelty (bah!) and Brother Bear (yawn!)

Absolute Worst Movie I Saw in 2003...Nay, In the Last Five Years:

The Cat in the Hat, which is almost too awful for words

Saw 'Em, Liked 'Em But Didn't Understand the Hype:

Mystic River, Lost in Translation and 21 Grams

Acclaimed Movies I Wish I'd Seen in 2003:

A Mighty Wind, Capturing the Friedmans, 28 Days Later, The Station Agent and Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Bad Movies I Wish I'd Seen in 2003:

Gigli, The Real Cancun and Marci X

Movie That Made Me Skip The Matrix Revolutions:

The Matrix Reloaded

Best Argument For the Validity and Merit of Sequels:

X2: X-Men United

Best Arguments For the Unilateral Prohibition of Sequels:

2 Fast 2 Furious and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Movie I Won't Ever See Because of Its Wooden Co-Star:

Dummy (why??? why would they make another ventriloquist movie???? WHY???)

Best Shamelessly Fun Movies of 2003:

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Pirates of the Caribbean and Old School

Movies That Featured the Wonderful Maggie Gyllenhaal in 2003:

Casa de los Babys and Mona Lisa Smile (What? Can't a gal gush about her fave talent?)

Best Performance By a Hot Woman in Cool Leather:

Jennifer Garner's sais-toting turn in Daredevil
(runners up: Gina Gerrrrrrshon in Prey For Rock & Roll and Kate Beckinsale in Underworld - yowza!)

Best Performance By a Funny Guy in Tights:

Will Ferrell's adorably impish Elf (runner up: Johnny Depp in Pirates)

Best Teen Movie of 2003:

Freaky Friday

Totally Interchangable Teen Movies of 2003:

What a Girl Wants and The Lizzie McGuire Movie

Best Performance By An Actress With a Funky Name:

Zooey Deschanel (All the Real Girls, Elf)

Best Performance By An Actor With a Funky Name: Chiwtel Ejiofor (with Audrey Tautou) in Dirty Pretty Things

Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things, Love Actually)

Largely Overlooked Performances In Need of Appreciation:

Cate Blanchett in Veronica Guerin, Johnny Depp in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Overly Praised Performances In Need of Reevaluation:

Cuba Gooding Jr. in Radio, Naomi Watts in 21 Grams (dial it down a smidge, Nomi)

Movies I'm Most Embarrassed To Admit I'm Actually Looking Forward To in 2004:

That Hilary Duff Cinderella thing, and the equally fluffy looking Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, starring Hilary's rumored arch-nemesis, Lindsay Lohan. What can I say? I'm actually twelve years old.

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