Your 2004 list, otherwise known as time to bitch or praise the films you've watched

[QUOTE=Popcultjunkie]2004?[/QUOTE]

i havent seen a lot of movies this year, but..

eternal sunshine
i heart huckabees

biggest piles of dogshit

oceans twelve
super size me

[QUOTE=vidalia]adding to that, i think i would put rushmore first.[/QUOTE]

well, you're entitled to your opinion, but, for me, there's just something a little bit more genuine about bottle rocket. there's just something indefinable about the feel of it. maybe because it was so low budget, i dunno.

[QUOTE=Balthazar]bottle rocket > rushmore > tenenbaums[/QUOTE]
It's odd, i would reverse that list. Bottle Rocket just didn't do much for me.

As for this year, I dunno, i have to see some more of 'em on DVD before i could compile a list.

mean girls, 4.5/5

all of it did it for me, maybe even best film ever.

[QUOTE=sara faye]The bus-hits-girl scene did it for me. :p[/QUOTE]

you have good taste

[QUOTE=vidalia]sigh. it's really not my favorite movie. [SIZE=3]it didn't have that sweet rushmore feeling. i don't know what it was. it was just... off... [/SIZE] i'm afraid wes anderson is going to fall into that lynchian trap of making the same movie again and again in some way or another... formulas exist because they work, but it felt like tenenbaums revisited on a boat with beautiful special effects.[/QUOTE]
It didn't pay nearly as much attention to the characters and the thin story as it did to perfecting the look of retro-nostalgia and stop motion quirkiness. Wes and Noah wrote a script that was little more than a series of linked idiosyncratic episodes hung on a thing throughline. Zissou was the only character that felt as if he came into his own and that was more Murray than the script. Blanchett's character seemed out of place and her reasons for leaving her being there and then staying weren't entirely explored. Ned's own character came closer to being fufilled than hers, but, much like he said to Zissou in the film itself:"I'm not a person to you, I'm just a charcter in your movie!" That could easily be said with even greater conviction for the rest of the cast who were little more than quirky bits of scene dressing to add to this already overly conscious work.

There were some genuine moments and scenes that worked but they were interpesed with filler and self-inudlgence on Anderson's part, not nearly enough to comprise an entire narrative or save the film.

This whole year pretty much sucked for movies.

although Mystic River was pretty good
and Anchorman

[QUOTE=rossthefireman]This whole year pretty much sucked for movies.

although Mystic River was pretty good
and Anchorman[/QUOTE]
(Mystic River was last year)

did anyone bitch about 'saw' yet? christ that movie was awful. so was 'deep water'. i think that's what it was called. the one with the two crybabies who got lost at sea and then just floated there and had to avoidzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz