In No order

Shaun Of The Dead
Old Boy
House Of The Flying Daggers
Bubba Ho-Tep
Napolean Dynamite
Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind
Infernal Affairs
The Incredibles
Spider Man 2
Kill Bill 2

Getting general releases this year, but I actually saw these in 2003 so didnt include in list...these would definitely be in top 10
Zatoichi
Shaolin Soccer
Hero

can i include films i saw this year? ta...

time of the wolf - michael haneke
gozu - takashi miike
visitor q - takashi miike
shaun of the dead - ed wright
party monster - fenton bailey and randy barbato
kill bill vol.2 - tarantino
last house on the left - wes craven (the ONLY wes craven film i have time for)
aileen, life and death of a serial killer - nick broomfield
saw - James Wan
farenheit 9/11 - michael moore

i can't help it. i've been writing articles for so damn long i have to put the director. but check them out...

heres my two pence worth...

shaun of the dead
d.e.b.s
bubba ho tep
napoleon dynamite
dodgeball
blue gate crossing
anchorman (ive got an inexiplicable obsession with will ferrel excuse me)

oh dear i cant actually think of ten as i have only just woken up, give me time i'll come back to it.
i was gonna mention that i saw wimbledon this year and it has left a deep rooted sense of anger and disgust and horror and will stick in my mind for the rest of my life.

mwahaha - wimbledon. the male lead played gangster in gangster no 1. i have lovely visions of him snapping halfway through and attacking everyone with hammers

My Top-5:

Shaun of the Dead
Big Fish
Oldboy
Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

SOTD (Well, obviously)
Van Helsing (I liked it, so there!)
Shrek 2
Dodgeball
Spider-Man 2

Although to be honest, I haven`t been to the flicks that much this year, the fact that me and the missus have been so busy with the wedding and strange work shifts has made it difficult. We`ll see what happens next year, I reckon.

It's pretty cool that so many here like "Dodgeball", which was besdie SotD the best comedy of the year. Rawson Marshall Thurber is really a comedic talent.

I'm not sure I've seen 10 films that have been released this year to be honest.

Of those I have seen I'd have to put Spider-man 2 at the top of the list but I'm not sure what I would put after that . . . Will have to have a think!

i felt fairly let down by 'eternal sunshine...' and i really wanted to love it because michel gondry is one of my favourite music vid directors. i watched it three times, and still felt unable to care about anyone involved. i can't even remembr jim carreys name in that film. it left me cold.

please let me know if there is a huge revelation that i missed

OldBoy and Shaun of the Dead are the two best films of the year. As for the other 8, in no particular order...

Hero
Dogville
The Village
The Incredibles
Spider-Man 2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Infernal Affairs (the Asian godfather? Martin Scorsese planning Boston-based remake with leo decaprio and matt damon...won't be as good).

err...yeah i can't decide the other two so honourable mentions go to 21 Grams, Dodgeball, Zatoichi, Anchorman, Kill Bill vol. 2

Right here goes after much deliberating (i go to the flix at least once a week- so this was a bit of a nightmare)

in no apparent order ( ihope these are all 2004 cos i get muxed up)

SOTD
Collateral
Kill Bill 2
Dodgeball
Anchorman
13 going on 30
Troy
Dawn of the Dead
Bridget Jones2
Finding Neverland

DAR DAR!

step forward:
1. lost in translation
2. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
3. shaun of the dead!
4. 21 grams
5. dodgeball
6. anchorman
7. the motorcycle diaries
8. american splendor
9. saw
10. hero


others that didn't quite make the top 10 included:
kill bill 2
hellboy
blade trinity
the bourne supremacy
house of flying daggers
finding neverland

almost starting a new topic: films you're most looking forward too...
BATMAN BEGINS!

architecto x

i think my revelation was that a memory is a resource to some extent.
we erase people from our lives without realising it, or in the eternal sunshine case, by choosing to on the spur of the moment. by drawing attention to the fact that we often make rash decisions (that in retrospect we'd rather not have made) which then have long term effects; it questions whether we should be at all rash when it comes to being in love. whether falling in love or falling out of love - that has to be a gradual process. you don't know what you've got until it's gone. until you've lost it. until she walks away.

it's happened to me.

architecto x

aw shit im so stupid that i forgot about lost in translation - im so ashamed of myself - it was a terrific film

I have really gone off that film since I saw it. Sofia Coppolla, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson are all good at what they do, I'm sure...but that film was such an Americanised view of the world! Every Japanese person was portrayed as a screaming, writhing idiot with no grasp on reality...but don't worry! The Americans are here and they know more than these foreign fools! Someday they'll be set right...


...okay sorry i went a little overboard there. It was a well-made film, but too...well yeah look above.

in no order.

my summer of love
shaun of the dead
napoleon dynamite
spring, summer, autumn, winter...and spring
dead man's shoes
bubba ho-tep
last life in the universe
infernal affairs
hellboy
capturing the friedmans
dodgeball
blind flight
zatoichi
twlight samurai
21 grams
the station agent
uzak
oldboy
spiderman 2
before sunset

10. Spiderman 2
9. Shrek 2
8. I, Robot
7. Ray
6. Collateral
5. Kill Bill 2
4. Hero
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Napoleon Dynamite
1. Shaun of the Dead

movies I WANT to see that could potentially jump on this list...
sideways, kinsey, the incredibles, house of flying daggers, zatoichi, garden state

And Lost In Translation came out in 2003 didn't it? It got nominated for best picture then. Anyway, I thought that movie SUCKED! No one I've talked to who has watched it has liked it. Sooo boring.

1. shaun of the dead
2. napoleon dynamite
3. kill bill vol. 2
4. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
5. labyrinth...aww...2004? damn...
6. shrek 2 (i'm a sucker for that one)
7. dodgeball
8. spiderman 2
9. lost in translation
10. hero

I'm from Australia, so films sometimes take a while to get to us down here... but for what it's worth

1. Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Hero
4. Lost in Translation
5. Garden State
6. Somersault (a great Aussie film that may not have reached those distant shores yet)
7. Kill Bill 2
8. Team America World Police
9. The Motorcycle Diaries
10. Napoleon Dynamite

1) Dogville

2) Finding Neverland

3) Spider-man 2

4) Shaun of the Dead

5) Dawn of the Dead

6) Capturing the Friedmans

7) American Splendor

8) Mean Girls

9) A Tale of Two Sisters

10) The Station Agent

I think that's fairly definitive!

Dogville? Cool. I've still never seen that, but I'm pretty good mates with Shauna Shim who plays June.

It's absolutely incredible. One of the best films I've ever seen.

In no particular order :


American Splendour
Lost In Translation
Dogville
The Station Agent
Shaun Of The Dead
Man On Fire
Hellboy
Dodgeball
Anchorman
The Motorcycle Diaries

Bubbling under - The Cooler, Eternal Sunshine..., Fahrenheit 9/11, Hero, Touching the Void, Bubba Ho-Tep, Garden State


And the worst film of 2004, without a doubt in my mind is...

Sex Lives Of The Potato Men