The Best Movie for 2004

[Banzai Kamikaze]

In my entire life, I have never seen so many good movies in theaters as I have seen in 2004. What movie would you rate the best this year ? And the worst ?

3^rd: Van Helsing (I have never laughed so much in a movie. Superb special effects and...interesting scenario)
2^nd: Kill Bill Volume 2 (Very good acting, interesting script, original storyline, not too much gore )
1^nd: I, Robot (Surprisingly good storyline, not too many comic reliefs, interesting choice of dark colors, very immersive)

Note: I would have rated Fahrenhein 911 first, but it's not a movie.

[The Beast of Caerbannog]

EDIT: stoopeed barbarian language... ahem... -->I'd also add the Terminal to that list... pretty good movie... though not in the same style as those above... (yeah yeah... had written it in... French... so had to... translate ... ugh...

[Flax]

I would say the same movies exept in second place I would choose The Chronicles Of Riddick, it's not that it was better but I had much more fun watching it than Kill Bill 2.

[Banzai Kamikaze]

Chroniccles of Riddick ? This movie hurt my eyes. I didn't fint it particularly funny. It was too serious and too...fast.

[Flax]

Let me change it.

1) I, Robot
2) The Bourne Supremacy
3) Chronicles Of Riddick
4) Van Helsing
5) Paycheck

[Syxix]

( Okay, is this a sarcastical list or it's really the best movies you thought were out this year? Excluding Van helsing, of course... But, Flax?? )

[The Beast of Caerbannog]

reading about all 'em movies made me think... you guys all have to realize that, even though it hasnt come out in 2004, the best movie of all time (and of my summer since its only this year i got to see this masterpiece) is of course Bubba-Ho-Tep in which Elvis and president Kennedy (sp?) who'se been dyed black confront an evil cowboy mummy, Bubba-Oh-Tep to save their texas' rest house from the depredation of this soul sucking undead....

"don't ask yourself what your rest house can do for you; ask youreself what you can do for your rest house"
-Elvis, the King, to black president kennedy...

[Flax]

Hey, I,Robot and The Bourne Supremacy were exellent movies, please name me the movies you found better. As for Riddick, well what can I say, I love sci-fi and Vin is perfect, so I liked it ( exept for the blinding action scenes). Finally Paycheck suprised me very much, it was really better than what I expected and its a bit sci-fi.

Note: I would have to agree that Bubba-Ho-Tep is a must see, it is one of the great movies man ever produced.

[Syxix]

Hum, honestly, Napoleon Dynamite is probably this summer's best movie...

[Flax]

I have yet to see it but in my opinion comedies are rarely better than serious movies, I don't think I'll enjoy it as much as I,Robot or Fahrenhein 911.
Btw I vote Spiderman 2 as the worst movie of 2004, or at least the most desapointing, especially if you waited a 1h30 to see at 12h01 the day it comes out.

[Syxix]

Excuse me, but it's extremely hard to classify Van Helsing or Chronicles of Riddick as serious movies...

While I enjoyed Van Helsing because it made me laugh like hell and also because there was Gregory Charles a few rows to our left and it made me feel special, Chronicles of Riddick is certainly one of the worst movies I've seen in my life. As for Spiderman 2 being a bad movie in your opinion, it is so vastly superior to Chronicles of Riddick that I really must wonder what you smoked/sniffed/injected yourself before seeing them/it.

I don't even want to spend another second thinking about it.

[Flax]

Did I say Riddick or Van Helsing were serious? I was talking about I,Robot , The Bourne Supremacy and Fahrenheit 911. I never said a camody wound never be in my favorite movies, it's just that for me they are rarely number one. As for my problem with spiderman 2, it was the script writen for little children. Btw one of my favorite movies of all time is Airplane, so yes I do appreciate comical movies, but I even like better a really good serious movie, sadly they are rare. Riddick or Van Helsing don't even make it in my top 25 or maybe even in my top 50. So I don't rate those movies as best ever, I only said that compared to what I saw this summer those were the movies I preferred and since I only saw 9 movies (if we exclude fahrenheit 911) the other four were Arthur, Dawn Of The Dead, Troy and Spiderman 2.

Have you even seen those three movies or paycheck?

As for the worst "action" movie ever, I would have to say its Pearl Harbor. Three hour of boredom with a small half hour of great special effects. At least the music was good.

At the end I suppose its a question of personal taste, I can accept that other people liked movies I didn't, can you?

[Syxix]

I haven't seen Paycheck, King Arthur, nor I, Robot, but the other movies you saw I saw as well.

Even though I agree this summer's movies were far from stellar in general, I don't understand how you can put Chronicles of Riddick in front of Troy (which I agree doesn't deserve to be in this summer's top 5 movies), or even in front of the fairly crappy yet comical Dawn of the Dead. I mean the acting is so abysmal, argh.... To me, Chronicles is a two hour "Van Helsing, you murdereeeeeer" except the guy yelling doesn't have a funny french accent.

[Flax]

Well this summer was not so bad, but it wasn't great either. Here are the best movies of all time in my opinion.

1) Apocalypse Now (Redux)
2) A Bridge Too Far
3) Return Of The Jedi
4) Airplane
5) Full Metal Jacket or Gattaca (not sure)

Now the most recent movie in there is Gattaca, and its from 1997, the other ones can go back as far as the 80s.

[Banzai Kamikaze]

Hmm, well first you should have called these the best movie of all time YOU saw, because I'm sure there are tons of excellent movies out there you didn't see.

Airplane....lol. Fun movie, but it is far from being one of the greatest movie of all time...

I agree with you for Apocalypse now, though I wouldn't put as THE best movie. Return of the Jedi ? Maybe one of the best, but I believe Episode 4 and 5 were much better. I never saw Full Metal Jacket, so I can't say anything about it. A bridge too Far is the best war movie I ever saw, but not the best movie. I believe old war movies were even superior.

Let me recommend a few great movies, though you might not like them all.

Go download Pulp Fiction, Schindler's list (only good holocaust movie, not like that f#%ing stupid Pianist), The Silence of the Lambs, Casablanca, The Godfather (1 and 2), Lawrence of Arabia, 2001 A Space Odyssey, North by Northwest, Jaws, Raiders of the lost Ark, Sound of Music, Psycho, ET, Alien (ok...that's just me), Patton, etc.

Now which movie is the best ever ? Can't say. It depends on my mood.

If I were to make a list of the movies I most liked, my list wouldn't very far of yours, but if it is about best movies ever, I believe the competition is far greater than Airplane or A bridge too far...