Vickie's Best of 2004 - Moviepie.com

VICKIE'S BEST AND WORST OF 2004

Movies I Loved in 2004:

Sideways - fantastically full-bodied
The Sea Inside - marvelously moving
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - wonderfully weird
Les Choristes - wholly heartwarming
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - superbly silly
Crash - effectively excellent
Before Sunset - rapturously romantic
Hotel Rwanda - painfully powerful
The Incredibles - amazingly animated
Tarnation - ingeniously imaginative

The 10 Worst, Entirely Poop-Filled Movies I Saw in 2004:

First Daughter - stinky!
Christmas with the Kranks - embarrassing!
King Arthur - boring!
Shark Tale - obnoxious!
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid - cheese-tastic! (but, I admit, fun to mock)
The Girl Next Door - crass!
When Will I Be Loved - offensive!
Innocence - WTF?!
A Dirty Shame - shameful!
Taxi - unfunny!

Excellent Documentaries That Scared the Bejesus Out of Me:

Super Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Corporation, Control Room

Excellent Documentary That Didn't Scare Me At All:

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Movie That Made Me Wish I'd Taken Dramamine Before It Started:

The Bourne Supremacy

Movies Whose Utterly Boring Navel-Gazing Self-Importance Made Me Feel Like I'd Actually Taken Dramamine When I Hadn't:

Closer, Coffee & Cigarettes, Silver City

Best Jude Law Film in The Year of The Jude:

I ♥ Huckabees

Worst Jude Law Film in The Year of The Jude:

A tie between Alfie and Closer

Laura Linney at Her Most Lusciously Thrashable: Laura Linney and Topher Grace in P.S.

P.S.

Laura Linney Looking Decidedly Unthrashable in a Film *About* Thrashing:

Kinsey

Movies That Are Destined to Air For All Eternity on TBS:

The Terminal, Welcome to Mooseport

Best Teen Movies:

Napoleon Dynamite, 13 Going on 30, Chasing Liberty

Biggest Teen-Movie Disappointment:

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Great Movies About Criminals:

Maria Full of Grace, Collateral, Stander, Vera Drake

The Only Maggie Gyllenhaal Movie To Be Released in 2004:

Criminal (And the fact that I missed its one-week run here? Also criminal!)

Big-budget, High-Concept Event Films Every Bit As Entertaining As Promised:

I, Robot, The Day After Tomorrow, Spider-Man 2

Big-budget, High-Concept Event Film That Should Have Been Destroyed Before Release:

Flight of the Phoenix

Movies That Apparently No One Liked But Me:

Head in the Clouds, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Thunderbirds

And, speaking of Thunderbirds, if I can't have bad girl Gina Gerrrshon screaming punk rock in tattoos and leather, I'll gladly take:

Good girl Sophia Myles saving the world as the prim, proper, practically perfect, pink pantsuit-wearing superhero, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (*sigh*)

Best South African Accents:

Stander, Red Dust

Worst South African Accents:

Drum

Hot New Talent I Stumbled Upon and Subsequently Became Enamored With in 2004:

Belén Rueda (The Sea Inside), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Sophia Myles (Thunderbirds), Paz Vega (Spanglish)

Favorite Movie-Related Moment of 2004:

The stalking of Maggie Cheung at TIFF on Linda's behalf. Ah, memories! (Note: this, of course, means Linda can once again drop the ubiquitous picture of Maggie onto this page. It's here somewhere, isn't it? I bet it is.)

[I have no idea of what you might be talking about, Vickie. - Linda]

Movies I'm Desperately Looking Forward to in 2005:

Elektra - Jennifer Garner back in her leather-clad, sais-toting hotness!
Proof - the other Gyllenhaal I love, Jake!
Aeon Flux - Charlize Theron as a sexy superhero! Rowwwwwr!
The Ballad of Jack & Rose - Catherine Keener *and* Susanna Thompson!
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - hi, I'm a nerd!
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - and I'm eleven!
and ALL FIVE (!!!!) Maggie Gyllenhaal films! (including Happy Endings, Shall Not Want and The Great New Wonderland)

Movie You'll Have to Pay Me to See in 2005:

The Fast and the Furious 3 (why? WHYYYYYY?)

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