Best Movies So Far This Year?

EvilGeorge · 08-07-2002 2:46pm

For me I think Minority Report , I thoroughly enjoyed this one.

Mr E · 08-07-2002 3:39pm

You can add Minority Report to my original post, waaay back at the top of this thread! :cool:

Spiderman makes the top 10, while AotC is well outside the top 10....

And Black Hawk Down is STILL sh1t !!
2 hours of people shooting guns and blowing stuff up, without ANY excitement or tension. Snoozefest.

- Dave.

EvilGeorge · 08-07-2002 4:02pm

Have to agree with you on black hawk down , its not the best - found it amusing for a bit - haha look at the americans getting shot - but then put me to sleep.

Well I hope to add the two towers to the list in December!!

Swifty · 09-07-2002 7:10pm

Spiderman and Panic Room. Haven't gone to the cinema an awful lot this year.

I just saw Ringu this year when it was on channel 4, it made me soil my pants, alot.

KdjaCL · 09-07-2002 9:36pm

Royal tenebaums
Training Day
Oceans 11
Blade 2
Spiderman
Scooby Doo (kids loved it ,i liked it )
AOTC
Black Hawk Down
Lord of the rings(last year but should always get a mention when best movies are being asked)

To name a few .
After readin some of the above posts i cant believe i didnt go see Dog Soldiers

Kdja

Makaveli · 11-07-2002 11:37pm

Originally posted by gandalf
Biggest pile of cr@p is Star Wars AotC. All those that posted this obviously don't get out to the cinema much

Gandalf.

(flameproof_suit = on)

Actually I would give that award to Monsters Ball. Quite possibly the worst film I have ever seen in the cinema.

Best this year...
Spider-Man

sceptre · 12-07-2002 12:03am

Mostly Seamus has been extremely disappointed.

Liked Spiderman and The Count of Monte Cristo (and Oceans 11)as popcorn movies that did precisely what was required and little more.

Royal Tenenbaums was quite good in a quirky way. I liked A Beautiful Mind.

Minority Report was perfectly acceptable but Spielberg seems to be confusing techno and making social commentary in his desire to make the ultimate sterile Kubrick movie.

Can't think of anything else (which is particularly bad given that I've been to the cinema an average of once a week)

Disappointing year on the whole. No drama that stands out as a classic (Gosford Park missed the boat slightly, though the acting was superb). No comedy that will stand out even at the end of the year. Not even a human interest biopic with the exception of A Beautiful Mind (which really counts as one of last years). No good action flick imho. Almost six months to go though.

Kali · 12-07-2002 12:33am

aye amiele is a 2001 release for those mentioning it..

best film ive seen myself this year is probably the panic room, and even then i didn't find it that engrossing... must go catch minority report this week sometime.

Excelsior · 12-07-2002 9:03am

Panic Room
Minority Report
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
No Man's Land

BJJ · 15-07-2002 9:51pm

Oceans 11
Spiderman
Res Evil

Lei Xiejiang · 17-07-2002 6:09pm

Look out for

Reign of Fire, Simone, Matrix 2, Red Dragon Mr.Canibal, Lord of the Rings ( The name 2 towers may have to go becuase of the WTC in NY), Austin Powers 3, Men in black again.??
Is there
Anything I forgot?

Lei Xiejiang · 17-07-2002 6:10pm

Of Course there is!
Up n comming
French Cinema releases and HongKong releases!!

Dave · 30-08-2002 9:33am

Ali [Enjoyable]
Episode II [Waste of money]
Resident Evil [Good Laugh]
Spiderman [Fantastic!]
Blade II [Fun]
Oceans 11 [Really fun film]
Minority Report [Brilliant]
The Royal Tenenbaums [Strange but enjoyable]
Austin Powers 3 [Didn't like it]
Bad Company [Very Enjoyable]
Sum Of All Fears [Also very enjoyable]
MIB II [I liked it, alot didn't]

Wow i've been to the cinema alot these past few months. Next on the list reign of fire.

eth0_ · 30-08-2002 9:36am

oooooooohhhh "XXX", saw it in Canada last month. Not only does it have the cream-inducing Vin Diesel in it, but 90% of the cast are hot, and the scenery is beautiful (Prague....before the rains came :-D ) and there's some kick ass extreme sports stunts.
Yes, it's brain candy, but it looks awesome, and has a brilliant heavy metal soundtrack.

Also, "The Mothman Prophecies", fantastic freak-the-sh|t outta you film. Made me jump a few times

Mr E · 30-08-2002 9:42am

Originally posted by Dave
Ali [Enjoyable]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

- Dave.

GreenHell · 30-08-2002 10:16am

Ocean 11 and Star Wars episode 2 are the only films to stick out in my mind this year. There have been an awful lot of nearly there films though.

Monsters ball isn't a bad flick either, just a film you really have to be in the mood to see.

Dave · 30-08-2002 10:46am

EP II is by far the worst movie i've seen this year. The only thing that kept me watching was natalie portman and the brillant cgi.

Ping Chow Chi · 03-09-2002 12:16pm

hi Dave

Spiderman

reminded me of all them comics I read as a child

It was so much fun, unlike

Starwars ep 2

which was pants for a number of reasons that we wont get into here

rapture_queen · 07-09-2002 10:57am

I just cant remember the films i saw this year-the only good ones i can remember is Minority report,The guru(i quite enjoyed it),frailty.

Thats as far as my memory span can go back to-there has got to be better ones than these this year-just cant remember!

Clintons Cat · 08-09-2002 12:25pm

The Guru was great in the same kind of vien as "coming to america",the simpsons gag was great,as was the pissed swarmi.
A good film for a first date.or lazy sunday afternoon

Also enjoyed The One with Jet Li,Sort of Highlander meets the terminator with a bit of the matrix thrown in for good measure

One to Avoid "The Adventures Of Pluto Nash" What was Eddie Murphy thinking of when he signed up for this pile of Poo?Spacetruckers it aint.Hell its not even as good as the aging space balls.
This movie gets just about everything wrong the pacing is terrible,the mix of humour and over gratuitous gunplay grates the nerves,and murphy never pulls out the stops to make the gunfights seem like anything more than over enthusiastic cgi .
Labouring murphy with a lumbering obselete robot bodyguard thats too slow to keep up seems to be the raison d'etre for this movie,the whole pitch seems to have been based around this concept which keeps cropping up in various guises throughout the movie

Robot to slow to keep up during chase
robot runs out of power during escape
robot tries to (unsucessfully) disguise it self in hilarious oversize wig

AN OVERSIZED WIG !!!Movie Jokes about Wigs,its like Benny Hill never died a lonely and bitter old man,but somehow survived to wreak his revenge upon us all,by giving us Jokes about Oversized Wigs...Curse You Hollywood Producers,Curse You all to hell.

Finally as the movie grinds towards what might under normal circumstances be called a climax,Guess What,theres a plot twist.
Not a normal plot twist mind,but a plot twist that makes no fu<king sense whatsoever.Its so illogical and contrieved as to make you want to rip the DVD out of the player and stamp on it.
By this point you really wont care if the bad guy gets away with it,you will probally be secretly rooting for him,anything to get the movie over before the its last slide into gushing sentimentality that was meant to give the audience a feel good factor,but actually left them quietly wondering if it was really such a wise move for a grown up to be watching a movie about talking robots.

Avoid,Or be damned

ohgratuitous · 08-09-2002 4:24pm

my favourite movie this year has to be 24 hour party people. it has its flaws but it is superb. steve coogan is nothing short of magical in his performance!

Brian Bennette · 09-09-2002 4:11am

How about a thread worst film of this year?

fisifan01 · 12-09-2002 10:06pm

Spider Man
A beautiful mind
Attack of the Clones
Minority report
Vanilla Sky

Ill soon be hoping to add the Two Towers and Signs to my list.

Brian Bennette · 14-09-2002 4:57pm

Brian Bennette
How about a thread worst film of this year?

Attack of the Clones was the Worst

kaimera · 14-09-2002 5:03pm

Also enjoyed The One with Jet Li,

I thought I would...and I did...to an extent.
I felt it was too short and more could have been made of it.

Training Day.
We Were Soldiers.

Scooby Doo.
Resident Evil
Austin Powers 3: Goldmember [<--Film of the YEAR!]

Black Hawk Down

Johnny_the_fox · 15-09-2002 4:33pm

Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
Spider-Man
A Beautiful Mind
Mothman Prophecies [Lethal]
Panic Room

Worst
The Royal Tenenbaums [what??]

Cheez · 19-09-2002 12:33am

Training Day
Minority Report
24 hour party people cause of steve coogan
&Lord o tha rings
wanna c amelie,vanila sky&spiderman now

am pissed off i didnt c blade 2 wrecked
off me hed in the cinema godamit!

The Royal Tenenbaums was v.good too
I enjoyed the weirdness,v.original!
i love the tenis playin chap when ur wan was in the crowd
(he seems to hav lost it! he's taken off his two shoes and one of his socks heheheh)

Ali is sh1te,austin powers is good when ur off ur face
an whats the story with that twin towers bein renamed
fukin dumass americans,jeez it was a tragedy an all why
are u rubbin it in! ITS A BLEEDIN FANTASY FILM!
i wouldn't mind if it had sometin to do with terrorism