Several years later, I finally deliver my little anticipated review of the decade in film that was the otts.
2000
Top
World-Wide Grossing Films:
1.
Mission Impossible 2
2.
Gladiator
3.
Cast Away
4.
What Women Want
5.
Dinosaur
6.
How the Grinch Stole
Christmas
7.
Meet the Parents
8.
The Perfect Storm
9.
X-Men
10.
What Lies Beneath
The year
2000…simpler times, when a Tom Hanks drama beats X-Men handily,
pre-anti-Semitic-meltdown Mel Gibson is what women want, and Jim Carey launched
the war on Christmas.
Upon Further
Review: Most inexplicable top-grosser: Dinosaur. Not aware this was a movie.
Michael Eisner was – 300 million plus.
Best Picture
Nominees:
Gladiator
Chocolat
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Erin
Brockovich
Traffic
Upon Further
Review: Worst Nomination: Traffic. It’s
a directorial challenge to weave all these things together. It’s just not entertaining.
Most Overrated:
Sexy Beast. To quote the most interesting man in the world, on rollerblading, “No.”
Most
Underrated Then: Almost Famous. I remember looking around the theater when this
was done and realizing that no one else was blown away but me. That’s when I
realized Rock & Roll was dead, making the movie hit home all the more.
Most
Underrated Now: The Patriot, Space Cowboys. These were big releases at the time and deservedly so.
Most
Influential: X-Men, Bring It On, Crouching Tiger, O Brother Where Art Thou,
Traffic
X- Men
launched the comic book revolution. Bring It On created a new genre of movies about cheerleaders, drumline majors, and glee club members. Crouching
Tiger opened the west’s door to big-budget martial arts and action movies have
been pilfering its choreography ever since. O Brother introduced the
concept of the soundtrack as separate art form and big-money maker. Traffic
started Hollywood’s navel-gazing fascination with metanarrative nonsense.
Most
Representative of the Decade:
Bring It On.
By this point, it’s hard to remember a time when it had not already been
broughten.
Best Scenes:
Almost Famous – I am a golden god (and pretty much every PSH part)
Billy Elliot
– dad crosses the picket line.
Gladiator - I will have my vengeance.
O Brother
Where Art Thou – The repentance scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsrIYleq2KY
(and beyond)
Snatch – the fake desert eagles (and pretty much every Brad Pitt part)
Winner:
Billy Elliot
Best Movies:
1.
Almost Famous
2.
Snatch
3.
American Psycho
4.
Meet the Parents
5.
O Brother Where Art Thou?
6.
Memento
7.
Gladiator
8.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon
9.
Shanghai Noon
10.
Erin Brockovich
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