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10 of 2002
Joe - I don't really have 10 films that blew my mind this
year, so instead of padding the list, I will give you the 8 that did.
(In no particular order)
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Punch-Drunk Love
ivans xtc.
The Fast Runner
Jackass: The Movie
Adaptation
Sunshine State
Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns) |
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Jackass?
But that's low-brow reality TV isn't it? You think what you want and I will
think what I want. Jackass made me laugh more, and harder, than any film
I've ever seen. It is also the most widely accepted film to not have any
kind of plot or story. That's exciting to me. Jackass challenges what a
movie should look like, sound like, and be about. Truly revolutionary. I
think my other choices are the same things that are on everyone else's "Best
of..." lists, so I don't think any explaination is necessary. I will
conclude by saying that Danny Huston's performance in ivan's xtc. is acting
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Jon
- Here they are (in particular order):
10. About a Boy
9. Gangs of New York
8. Adaptation
7. Jackass: The Movie
6. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Far From Heaven
4. Metropolis
3. Monsoon Wedding
2. The Good Girl
1. Y Tu Mama Tambien |
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There
you have it. Last year, "Lord of the Rings" didn't make my list,
because I hadn't seen it yet. This time, I didn't think it was good enough.
Simple as that. Other Big name films that I didn't like as much as other
critics: "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," "Minority Report,"
"Bowling For Columbine," "Chicago," "About Schmidt." |
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Ken
1. The Fast Runner
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Adaptation
4. Frida
5. Talk to Her
6. Rabbit-Proof Fence
7. Spirited Away
8. The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys
9. Y Tu Mama Tambien
10. The Sunshine State |
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Mike
Adaptation
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
About a Boy
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Jackass The Movie
Bowling For Columbine
Lost in La Mancha
Punch Drunk Love
Death to Smoochy
Jason X |
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That’s
right, fathergoosers! I didn’t get out to the city much and
as I’m no longer in college, I’m naturally a bit further from
the indy loop, so I didn’t get to see many of the art house giants.
You look at my list and say….Meyer’s lost it…or
he’s just being silly. Not really. Nor am I out to trump
Joe in the whole "celebration of the low brow” category. I
had some fun at the movies this year and don’t feel a lick of guilt
for any of it. I laughed until I bled more than once for all the wrong
reasons, was injected with an overwhelming sense of vulnerable humanity,
and was blown away by the opulence and sheer beauty of an epic that squashes
about 90% of those who’ve come before. I also realize how artistic
filmmakers can drop the ball too by their own vices, as does Hollywood.
How a up-and-coming breakthrough director goes astray and makes a
pretentious, self-serving stinker (Full Frontal) then step ups and be vindicated…kinda
(Solaris), how hero worship can lead one astray into worlds you in which
you don’t belong (Spielberg trying to revive the bleak sci-fi of Kubrick
AGAIN in Minority Report) which forces one to step up to be vindicated…kinda
(Catch Me if You Can) and of course how a movie 20-some odd years in the
making can be completely undone by the fact that it was 20-some odd years
in the making (Gangs of New York) and then how the world is vindicated (by
Scorcese’s not winning the Oscar for a mid-card movie).
2002…a year for laughing….a year for learning….a year
to teach everyone that independent or studio, high or low brow, every film
has an obligation to make something good, true, hopefully entertaining but
always engaging, and in the end….job that film to glitzy 2nd rate
pieces of tripe like Chicago because a war’s on and we want glitzy,
happy. |