2004
Top
World-Wide Gross
1.
Shrek 2
2.
Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban
3.
Spider Man 2
4.
The Incredibles
5.
The Passion of the Christ
6.
The Day After Tomorrow
7.
Meet the Fockers
8.
Troy
9.
Shark Tale
10.
Ocean’s Twelve
Upon Further
Review: Most Inexplicable Blockbuster: Shark Tale
Shark Tale
is no better than a lot of what goes straight to video.
BEST PICTURE
AWARD:
Million
Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Finding
Neverland
Ray
Sideways
Upon Further
Review: Worst Nomination: The Aviator. As they say, good directors can make bad
movies but bad directors cannot make good movies. Martin Scorcese is a great
director. The Aviator is a bad movie.
Most
Overrated: Sideways. There’s nothing wrong with Merlot.
Most
Underrated (Then): Troy. So it wasn’t Gladiator.
Most
Underrated (Now): The Passion of the Christ. A harrowing portrayal of
Jesus’s martyrdom. Possibly bearing Gibson’s anti-semitic undertones? I’m too
removed from the disputants to render judgment. Just as a movie, it’s pretty
darn good.
Most
Influential: Fahrenheit 9/11. Michael Moore’s genius was to figure out a
way to get everyone to pay to see a campaign commercial. That the commercial
was for himself and, secondarily, his scatterbrained conspiracism, in the midst
of an election he wasn’t running in and whose outcome he failed to influence is
immaterial at this point. Since Farenheit 9/11, everyone, right and left, Gore
to D’Souza, has copied Moore. The obscure, penniless documentary genre has been
turned over to the sawhorse race between Fox News and MSNBC. There’s a lot more
money in it.
Most
representative of the decade: Napoleon Dynamite. Do you drink skim milk
because you think you’re fat? Because you’re not.
Best
Scene:
Anchorman –
Two Tickets to the Gun Show
Dodgeball –
Lance Armstrong scene (hard to watch the same way now)
The Notebook
Spiderman 2 –
Train Scene
Team America
– Hans Brix!
Winner:
Spiderman 2 Train Scene
Top 10
(Sorry, 15…Had to be done):
1.
Anchorman: The Legend of
Ron Burgundy
2.
Team America: World Police
3.
Spider Man 2
4.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog
Story
5.
The Notebook
6.
Finding Neverland
7.
The Life Aquatic with Steve
Zissou
8.
Shaun of the Dead
9.
Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban
10.
Saw
11.
National Treasure
12.
50 First Dates
13.
Napoleon Dynamite
14.
Ocean’s 12
15.
Mean Girls
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