As of 12/24, still waiting to see Adaptation, The 25th Hour, LOTR, Gangs Of New York

Y Tu Mama Tambien 4.00 (out of 4)
Jackass 4.00
Signs 3.50
Black Hawk Down 3.50
8 Mile 3.50
Red Dragon 3.50
Narc 3.50
The Good Girl 3.00
Blue Crush 3.00
Spiderman 3.00
Star Wars: AOTC 3.00
Road To Perdition 3.00
Panic Room 3.00
Monster's Ball 3.00
About A Boy 3.00
Die Another Day 3.00
About Schmidt 3.00
Tadpole 2.50
Super Troopers 2.50
Storytelling 2.50
Slackers 2.50
Rules Of Attraction 2.50
Orange County 2.50
Van Wilder 2.50
Moonlight Mile 2.50
Men In Black 2 2.50
Insomnia 2.50
Friday After Next 2.50
Empire 2.50
XXX 2.00
The New Guy 2.00
Sum Of All Fears 2.00
Punch Drunk Love 2.00
Minority Report 2.00
Changing Lanes 2.00
Goldmember 2.00
40 Days 40 Nights 2.00
Mr. Deeds 1.50
Deuces Wild 1.50
Death To Smootchy 1.50
Solaris 1.50
Undercover Brother 1.00
The Time Machine 0.00
Kung Pow: Enter The Fist 0.00
Collateral Damage 0.00

My final revised list for the end of the year....


BEST
1) Star Wars 2 (I'm a Star Wars geek whay can I say)
2) Spiderman (I'm a comic book geek what can I say)
3) Minority Report (awesome movie no one gave a chance to)
4) Die another Day (Pierce IS Bond)
5) The Two Towers (great but too long sequel)
6) Red Dragon (please make a prequel before his capture)
7) Blade 2 (Vampires bursting into flames, nuff said)
8) Frailty (Blind buy on DVD .. very creepy , very scary)
9) Sum of All Fears (I was in shock when they actualy........)
10) Reign of Fire (Dragons with people bursting into flames)
11) Insomnoia (Al Pachino nuff said)
12) Panic Room (Intense thriller)

WORST
1) Scooby Doo (crap crap crap)
2) Austin Powers Goldmember (a laugh ever half hour)
3) Men In Black 2 (the Pug is the only good thing in this)


Did not see will wait for Video or cable release:
Harry Potter 2 (the first was more than enough)
Star Trek 10 (the last one sucked so I'm waiting)
Streets of New York (I'm in no hurry to watch any movie with Leonardo)

Dissapointment: Signs (although a good movie... it just did'nt deliver for me)

Got what I expected: Jason X & Halloween Ressurection (not great movies but i didn't expect them to be great)

Better late than never....

1) Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner - 10/10
2) Bowling for Columbine - 9.5/10
3) The Two Towers - 9.5/10
4) Royal Tenenbaum's 9/10 (2001)
5) Monster's Ball - 9/10 (2001)
6) Road to Perdition - 8.5/10
7) Bourne Identity - 8/10
8) Minority Report - 8/10
9) Insomnia - 7.5/10
10) One Hour Photo - 7/10
11) Treasure Planet - 6.5/10
301) Veggie Tales Movie - 0/10

Wow...that's it for my movie-going in 2002

Bumping off of page five...

Number of new, domestically released films seen: 76

Rated out of four stars, listed in order of preference (updated on 01/13 to include 24 new titles):

Y Tu Mama Tambien (****)
Gangs of New York (****)
Nine Queens (****)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (****)
Panic Room (****)
About Schmidt (****)
Unfaithful (****)
Femme Fatale (****)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (****)
Spirited Away (****)
Punch-Drunk Love (****)
Frailty (****)
Signs (****)
13 Conversations About One Thing (****)
Monsoon Wedding (****)

Minority Report (***1/2)
Shiri (***1/2)
Bowling for Columbine (***1/2)
Insomnia (***1/2)
Die Another Day (***1/2)
Adaptation (***1/2)
Scooby-Doo (***1/2)
The Count of Monte Cristo (***1/2)
Red Dragon (***1/2)
Spiderman (***1/2)
Happy Times (***1/2)
Lilo & Stitch (***1/2)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (***1/2)
Last Orders (***1/2)
We Were Soldiers (***1/2)
Road to Perdition (***1/2)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (***1/2)

Lovely and Amazing (***)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (***)
Blade 2 (***)
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (***)
Trouble Every Day (***)
The Fast Runner (***)
Antwone Fisher (***)
Secretary (***)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (***)
Changing Lanes (***)
Auto Focus (***)
Jason X (***)
The Ring (***)
Songs from the Second Floor (***)
Super Troopers (***)
Kissing Jessica Stein (***)
Ice Age (***)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (***)
Big Trouble (***)

The Four Feathers (**1/2)
Star Trek: Nemesis (**1/2)
The Scorpion King (**1/2)
The Cat's Meow (**1/2)
The Sum of All Fears (**1/2)

Solaris (**)
Eight Legged Freaks (**)
Storytelling (**)
One Hour Photo (**)
8 Mile (**)
Possession (**)
Resident Evil (**)
Jackass (**)

John Q (*1/2)
Collateral Damage (*1/2)
The Piano Teacher (*1/2)
Bad Company (*1/2)
XXX (*1/2)

Analyze That (*)
Fear Dot Com (*)
Men in Black 2 (*)
The Time Machine (*)

Mr. Deeds (1/2*)
The Queen of the Damned (1/2*)
In Praise of Love (1/2*)


Top 10 of 2001:

1) Memento
2) In the Bedroom and Monster's Ball [tie]
3) Ghost World
4) Gosford Park
5) A Beautiful Mind
6) Waking Life
7) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
8) Moulin Rouge
9) Wet Hot American Summer
10) O

My Top 10 of 2002
01. Punch-Drunk Love
02. Adaptation
03. Solaris
04. Gangs of New York
05. The Rules of Attraction
06. Bowling for Columbine
07. CQ
08. About Schmidt
09. Y Tú Mamá También
10. Minority Report

10 Runners-up:
11. 8 Mile
12. 13 Conversations About One Thing
13. Storytelling
14. The Ring
15. Panic Room
16. Spider-Man
17. Catch Me If You Can
18. Changing Lanes
19. ZigZag
20. Unfaithful

Best guilty pleasure:
(TBA)

Biggest disappointments:
- Signs
- Dogtown & Z-Boys
- Austin Powers in Goldmember

Films I still need to see, or sadly missed... and want to see:
in alphabetical order
About a Boy
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Antwone Fisher
Ararat
Auto Focus
Barbershop
Biggie & Tupac
Blue Crush
The Bourne Identity
Brown Sugar
The Cat’s Meow
Chicago
Comedian
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys
Death to Smoochy
Diamond Men
El Crimen Del Padre Amaro
Equilibrium
Far From Heaven
Femme Fatale
Finder’s Fee
Frailty
Frida
Full Frontal
The Good Girl
Habla con Ella (Talk to Her)
Harvard Man
Heaven
Hell House
Hollywood Ending
The Hours
Human Nature
Igby Goes Down
Irréversible
Jim Brown: All American
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Kissing Jessica Stein
The Laramie Project
Lilo & Stitch
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Love Liza
Lovely & Amazing
Metropolis
Moonlight Mile
Narc
Nicolas Nickleby
Nine Queens
No Such Thing
One Hour Photo
Orange County
Personal Velocity
The Pianist
Possession
The Quiet American
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Road to Perdition
Roger Dodger
Pumpkin
Real Women Have Curves
Red Dragon
Riri Shushu no subete(All About Lily Chou Chou)
Sånger från andra våningen (Songs From The Second Floor)
Secretary
Scotland, PA
Scratch
S1m0ne
Spider
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Sunshine State
Tadpole
25th Hour
24 Hour Party People
Undercover Brother
Welcome to Collinwood

My ratings out of 5 stars.

2002 Theatrical Release:

1. In Praise of Love *****
2. The Piano Teacher ****1/2
3. The Hours ****1/2
4. Spirited Away ****1/2
5. What Time is it There? ****
6. Rabbit-Proof Fence ****
7. Punch-Drunk Love ****
8. The Way Home ****
9. Far From Heaven ****
10. Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) ****
11. 8 Mile ****
12. Chicago ****
13. Monsoon Wedding ****
14. Time Out ****
15. Russian Ark ***1/2
16. The Pianist ***1/2
17. Spider ***1/2
18. Warm Water Under the Red Bridge ***1/2
19. Try to Remember ***1/2
20. Maelstrom ***1/2
21. Auto Focus ***1/2
22. Read My Lips ***1/2
23. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ***1/2
24. Mostly Martha ***1/2
25. Bowling for Columbine ***1/2
26. Atarnajuat the Fast Runner ***1/2
27. Metropolis***1/2
28. The Lady and the Duke ***1/2
29. Italian for Beginners ***1/2
30. About Schmidt ***
31. Inch'Allah Sunday ***
32. Late Marriage ***
33. Chinese Odyssey 2002 ***
34. Frida ***
35. Y Tu Mama Tambien ***
36. The Believer ***
37. Mysterious Object at Noon ***
38. Adaptation ***
39. The Son's Room ***
40. Hollywood Hong Kong ***
41. Minority Report ***
42. Son of the Bride ***
43. All About Lily Chou-Chou **1/2
44. Golden Chicken **1/2
45. Pauline and Paulette **1/2
46. 8 Femmes **
47. One Fine Spring Day **
48. Frailty **
49. The Quiet American **
50. Das Experiment **
51. Lan Yu **
52. The Cat's Meow **

Film Festival Reviews:

1. Firefly Dreams **** (Cinequest)
2. Go (Japan) ***1/2 (SFIFF)
3. The Sea that Thinks ***1/2 (Cinequest)
4. GeGe ***1/2 (Cinequest)
5. Laundry ***1/2 (Cinequest)
6. Brief Crossing ***1/2 (SFIFF)
7. Delbaran ***1/2 (SFIFF)
8. Ichi the Killer ***1/2 (SFIFF)
9. La Repetition *** (SFIG&LFF)
10. Violet Perfume ** (Cinequest)

Bertrand Tavernier retrospective:
1. A Sunday in the Country ***1/2
2. L'Appat ***

Robert Bresson retrospective:

1. Angels of the Sin ****
2. Diary of the Country Priest ****
3. A Man Escaped ****
4. Au Hazard Balthazar ***1/2
5. Mouchette **1/2
6. Pickpocket **

Ingmar Bergman retrospective:

1. Persona *****
2. Cries & Whispers ****1/2
3. Hour of the Wolf ****1/2
4. Shame ****
5. Sawdust and Tinsel ****
6. Summer with Monika ***1/2
7. The Silence ***1/2

updated the list to give it all that jazz

why isnt the 2003 thread at the top and this one dead??

My top ten of 2002

1. Gangs of New York
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3. Chicago
4. Far From Heaven
5. Road to Perdition
6. Signs
7. Star Wars Episode II- Attack of the Clones
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
9. Minority Report
10. The Pianist

Honorable Mentions:

Adaptation
About Schmidt
Catch Me If You Can
We Were Soldiers
Red Dragon
Spider-Man

Y Tu Mama Tambien
25th Hour
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Gangs of New York
Igby Goes Down
Two Towers
PunchDrunkLove
8 Mile
Fubar
The Ring

on a scale of 1 to 10

Solaris -9.0
Jason X -8.5
Frailty -8.0
Visitor Q -8.0
Femme Fatale -7.5
Scratch -7.5
Transporter -7.5
Audition -7.5
Star Wars ep.2 -7.5
City of Lost Souls -7.5
Spiderman -7.5
8 Mile -7.0
Y Tu Mama Tambien -7.0
Piano Teacher -7.0
Like Mike -7.0
The Ring -7.0
Blade 2 -7.0
Panic Room -7.0
Minority Report -7.0
Metropolis (anime) -7.0
Blackhawk Down -7.0
Eight Legged Freaks -7.0
Super Troopers -6.5
Resident Evil -6.5
Signs -6.5
K-19 -6.5
Dog Soldiers -6.5
Undisputed -6.5
Kung Pow -6.0
Road to Perdition -6.0
Harry Potter -6.0
Brotherhood of the Wolf -6.0
Dogtown & Z-Boys -6.0
Scarlet Diva -6.0
xxx -5.5
Shallow Hal -5.5
Wendigo -5.0
Vulgar -5.0
Death to Smoochy -5.0
Collateral Damage -4.0

I thought Minority Report, Femme Fatale, Frailty, and Insomnia were some of the best movies of the year. But these movies are were garbage.

Bad Company
Changing Lanes
Enough-by far the worst
Trapped-close second
Truth about Charlie
Swept Away
Queened of the Damned
Stealing Harvard
Death to Smoochy
Reign of Fire
The New Guy

The Time Machine (seen on March 15, 2002): Terrible film, boring as hell

Death to Smoochy (seen on March 29, 2002): Pretty good film, a little slow in parts, but regardless a good comedy.

Jason X (seen on April 26, 2002): A funny Jason movie, not scary (of course) but still a good film.

Spider-Man (seen on May 3, 2002): Good film, could have been better but still a good film

STAR WARS: Epiosde II -Attack of the Clones- (seen on May 15, 2002): Terrible SW movie, good film, but just a bad SW film.

Insomnia (seen on June 13, 2002): Bad movie, boring and just bad, what else can I say?

Austin Powers in Goldmember (seen on July 25, 2002): Good continuation for this film, much funnier than the last two

Stealing Harvard (seen on September 18, 2002): Okay, not something I would want to own.

Swimfan (seen on September 19, 2002): Good film, good thriller, I really enjoyed it.

Red Dragon (seen on October 4, 2002): Great film, much better than Hannibal

8 Mile (seen on November 8, 2002): Also a great film. I really enjoyed it, and Eminem is a good actor!

8 Crazy Nights (seen on December 1, 2002): Funny animated movie, as any other Adam Sandler film, how could it not be funny?

Bowling for Columbine (seen on December 14, 2002): Great documentary, really enjoyable

how can enough be BY FAR the worst if trapped was a CLOSE second?

TOP 10 FILMS OF 2002

1. Chicago
2. Minority Report
3. The Pianist
4. Spirted Away
5. Y Tu Mama Tambien
6. Gangs of New York
7. Road to Perdition
8. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
9. Talk to Her
10. The Hours