Your Top Films Of 2003(and worst picks)

[Jaycee]

How can you all rate Pires Of The Caribbean so high?? It was dull as fucking ditchwater! A brilliant role by Johnny Depp let down by... well, just about everything else in the movie.

somewhat true, but then again i'm a bit wary of your tastes considering your two best films ever are reloaded and revolutions...

anyway, there's more to a film than an intellectual plot, or flashy machinery (and yes i have very flashy machinery :wink:). Pirates of the Caribean was entertaining. and that's basically what a film should do, entertain.

[edit]

Scary Movie 3: the whole thing is a parody of the Ring.

the whole point of the scary movie series is that they parody films like that. i think one of the previous two parodied Scream, but i haven't seen any of them.

[Hostile]

How can you all rate Pires Of The Caribbean so high?? It was dull as fucking ditchwater! A brilliant role by Johnny Depp let down by... well, just about everything else in the movie.

somewhat true, but then again i'm a bit wary of your tastes considering your two best films ever are reloaded and revolutions...

anyway, there's more to a film than an intellectual plot, or flashy machinery (and yes i have very flashy machinery :wink:). Pirates of the Caribean was entertaining. and that's basically what a film should do, entertain.

Oh, but the Matrix sequels were massively entertaining. You're right, they definately had an intellectual plot and flashy machinery: they also had great acting, mind-blowing action and a brilliant level of tension to back them up.

POTC didnt have flashy machinery or an intellectual plot. It didnt have any great actors aside from Johnny Depp and that "worst pirate I ever met" guy who's name isnt worthy of my long-term memory. It didnt have mind-blowing action (amusing at best) and tension didnt enter into it. It had comedy, but that was all down to Johnny Depp's acting IMO, not the script or the setups.

Although "Gareth" was great in it (UK'ers should get this)

Scary Movie 3: the whole thing is a parody of the Ring.

the whole point of the scary movie series is that they parody films like that. i think one of the previous two parodied Scream, but i haven't seen any of them.

The first one parodied a load of films but it was mostly scream. The second parodied a load but it was mostly The Haunting (very much so infact). The third, once again, parodies a load but borrows most from The Ring. Not that i've seen it yet, but I want to.

[Jaycee]

yeah, the matrix mk.II & III were entertaining, but not much more i thought. the first one was really good on an intellectual level as well as from a purely entertaining perspective, but i didn't get that from the following two. they just seemed to be an extention of the plot, which didn't add too much to the science of it.

so yeah, they were entertaining, but not what i would put at the top.

and i used machinery as a common example of what you often see in action movies. of course they're not going to have machinery in a pirate film! again, i don't think i'd rate the film so high, but i think you're being a bit too critical of it. after all, it's a different genre of film, one which you may not like, but that doesn't make it a bad film.

[icabod540]

Yeah I was talking about cradle of life.  Man that was bad.

[darklem]

Matrix 2 and 3...

I have _never_ walked out of a movie theature feeling so utterly bored in my entire life. I cannot believe I spent even £3 on those pieces of crap. Reloaded had some nice sequences... but, alll in all. I didn't like it.
The only reason I even went to see Revolutions was because I wanted to know how it ended.

You can't ignore the fact it _TRIED_ to be intellegent. It was no longer about the action, it was supposed to be an intellegent philisophy film... o____O
and it failed.

There was absolutely no redeeming feature about Revolutions.
If anyone asked my opinion... they should have left it as the first film, it could have ended there with no problem at all.

The only way Revolutions could have been lastingly entertaining was the way it managed to crowbar your pleasurecenter into submission with all it's "Flash Woosh Boom!" with nothing to back it up.

<.<

I enjoyed Kill Bill, even though it did feel a littel weird due to being split in half. The fight with Go-Go Kubari would have rounded off the film perfectly I think... o.o

[Hostile]

If you're telling me you watched the last 10-15 minutes of Reloaded and came out BORED... I think you must be a different type of human being to me. I cant imagine how anyone could not like that cliffhanger.

I also dont understand people who say they should have stopped at Matrix 1. Ok, yeah, its the best of the lot. But it is BRILLIANT, in my opinion, a work of genius. Why stop! When you've got the name, you've got the characters, got the (unfinished) story, got the tallent.. why not run with it! I think the Wachowskis did a fine job on the sequels, and their constantly being put down becomes irritating very quickly.

Not a single oscar nominations. Yeah, fuck you too critics. Eat cock and die.

[MAX]

I find it interesting, although it doesn't show that much here, that generally the  americans tend to like Reloaded more then Revolutions, and the other way around in Europe.
Return of the King-This movie was great, but since I'm a fan of the books I really think alot of things in it were messed up/missing. Still a good movie though.
The Matrix Rel/Rev-Two goos movies, Rev better then Rel.
Pirates of the Caribbean-Worthless movie. Only thing that made me watch it though was that Johhny Depp did some awesome acting in it.
Finding Nemo-Best Pixar movie to date? Might actually be...
Don't remember any other movies form this year I've watched. Might watch Once Upon A Time In Mexico later, so I'll add that to the list if I do. Well, that's all

[darklem]

If you're telling me you watched the last 10-15 minutes of Reloaded and came out BORED... I think you must be a different type of human being to me. I cant imagine how anyone could not like that cliffhanger.

Yeah. I like to have action that makes me feel like it's justified and isn't just there for the hell of it. The Freeway chase? Why was that there?
It would have been cool for a game... but I have to sit and watch this happening instead of getting into it. Cliffhanger? there was Cliffhanger?

I also dont understand people who say they should have stopped at Matrix 1. Ok, yeah, its the best of the lot. But it is BRILLIANT, in my opinion, a work of genius. Why stop! When you've got the name, you've got the characters, got the (unfinished) story, got the tallent.. why not run with it!

 
Because some things are better left Unsullied. I won't consider Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions even part of the Matrix because they are so differnet films. They were just blatent cash-in films. There was no _need_ for them to complete the story (which is half of the reason why I think the ending of Revolutions was as hideous as it was). There was no cliffhanger in The Matrix if you recall. They could have even released The Animatrix and Enter The Matrix without the sequels. That's how utterly useless they were.
Let's not have Reason For MTV logic here.

I think the Wachowskis did a fine job on the sequels, and their constantly being put down becomes irritating very quickly.
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I think they did a f**king terrible job of the sequels. There was a vast world to explore with the Matrix, I mean, look at the Animatrix shorts. And what we got was just... nothing that was of any real interest.

They're being put down because they geninuingly did a bad job. They deserve every single bit of what they get in my opinon.

[DanTheMan]

Oh, but the Matrix sequels were massively entertaining. You're right, they definately had an intellectual plot and flashy machinery: they also had great acting, mind-blowing action and a brilliant level of tension to back them up.

What hallucinogenic were you taking when you saw them? I'd like to enjoy Revolutions on the same level you did.    :wink:  I don't know how they managed to do it, but the Wachowski brothers actually managed to make killer kung-fu action sequences terribly boring. And the blatant references to Christianity and related symbolism got extremely annoying after a while.

Although, the siege of Zion was kinda cool. I'll give them that. But when compared to Pirates of the Caribbean... robots, or zombie pirates? Robots... zombie pirates...

You can't go wrong with zombie pirates.

[dashfly311]

not a whole lot of good came out last year, so ill just post the bads

bad
-swat
-loeg
-matrix3
-DD

[gRasole]

Its not like they did anything new with the matrix. It was just Plato's throey of the cave (or whatever the hell its called)  What made people like the first movie was the new and innovative graphics and whathave you. Its been overdone now, no longer impressive. The second movie was just plain bad.  The rave scene was completely pointless and what was with the 5 minute fight scene with the agent smiths where they just got lazy with the cg towards the end?  The chase scene was cool albiet pointless. After 10 minutes or so of the third one i just turned it off it was equally stupid, and by then they had seemed to just stop caring at lest from a marketing standpoint. There was no more buzz and everybody just seemed to not care. What was i talking about again?

[Hot Soup]

liked pirates of the carribean

didn't like lost in translation
           [boring, and no real plot.  It was sorta like stream of conciousnesnesnesnes]

[Hesse]

Hot Soup... are you the same Hot Soup who was an artist on a post-apocolyptic comic a while back? It stopped updating and I lost the link. I forget the name right this moment, but it was cool and the line-work was kept as a sort of rust color. I really liked that comic if you were.

[darklem]

Hot Soup... are you the same Hot Soup who was an artist on a post-apocolyptic comic a while back? It stopped updating and I lost the link. I forget the name right this moment, but it was cool and the line-work was kept as a sort of rust color. I really liked that comic if you were.

You mean "Winter"?

isn't Winter being updated again Mr Soup? *pokes him with a stick*

[coffeemonkey]

Yeah. I like to have action that makes me feel like it's justified and isn't just there for the hell of it. The Freeway chase? Why was that there?

Thank you... thank you thank you.  
IMO- somehow they wanted to rinse and repeat that they couldnt do anything more... more.  *sighs* it robs me of words remembering it, it does.  Seriously... just because it's loaded with SFX and action shots of situations the normal person couldnt perform... doesnt make it good.  

Action movies dont mean you can stay awake during them.