Temporal Top Ten – 2003

Number of movies seen from this year – 133
Number of movies reviewed – 104 (including 6 Encore Reviews)

2003 was a year which all the awards ceremonies were dominated by one film, which was the culmination of a 3 movie, 10+ hour adventure series that was even able to break the Oscar “unofficial shunning” of Science Fiction/Fantasy being considered part of the mainstream awards ceremonies.

In any other year, my #3 movie would have had much more of a chance to win awards because it’s a very engaging thriller that took home two acting Oscars.

To round out the Best Picture nominees that made my top ten, you will find #2, which is a heart warming movie that I fell in love with the first time I saw it and have enjoyed it immensely every time since because it is a movie about falling down and then having the ability and courage to stand up and try again over and over.

The other two nominees that year – Master and Commander and Lost in Translation are two movies that I just couldn’t get in to while watching them and personally don’t feel that they were movies that can be considered among the best of the year.

My Top Ten

10. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

9. Kill Bill – Vol. I

8. House of Sand and Fog

7. Finding Nemo

6. S.W.A.T.

5. Shattered Glass

4. Touching the Void

3. Mystic River

2. Seabiscuit

1. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 2003

1. 11:14
2. 2 Fast 2 Furious
3. 21 Grams
4. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
5. Agent Cody Banks
6. Alex and Emma
7. American Splendor
8. American Wedding
9. Anger Management
10. Bad Boys II
11. Bad Santa
12. Basic
13. Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
14. Battlestar Galactica
15. Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Three’s Company’
16. Beyond Borders
17. Big Fish
18. Brother Bear
19. The Brown Bunny
20. Bruce Almighty
21. Bulletproof Monk
22. Calendar Girls
23. Cat in the Hat, The
24. Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
25. Cheaper by the Dozen
26. Coast to Coast
27. Cold Creek Manor
28. Cold Mountain
29. Confidence
30. The Cooler
31. The Core
32. Daddy Day Care
33. Daredevil
34. Dark Blue
35. DC 9/11:Time of Crisis
36. Dreamcatcher
37. Elephant
38. Elf
39. Final Destination 2
40. Finding Nemo
41. Fog of War, The: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
42. Freaky Friday
43. Freddy Vs. Jason
44. Full-Court Miracle
45. Ghosts of the Abyss
46. Gods and Generals
47. Good Bye Lenin!
48. A Guy Thing
49. The Haunted Mansion
50. Head of State
51. The Hebrew Hammer
52. Holes
53. Hollywood Homicide
54. Hope Springs
55. House of Sand and Fog
56. How to Deal
57. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
58. Hulk
59. The Human Stain
60. The Hunted
61. I Witness
62. Identity
63. In the Cut
64. The In-Laws
65. Intermission
66. Intolerable Cruelty
67. The Italian Job
68. Johnny English
69. Just Married
70. Kill Bill Volume 1
71. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
72. The Last Samurai
73. Le Divorce
74. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
75. The Life of David Gale Encore Review
76. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  Encore Review
77. Lost in Translation
78. Love Actually
79. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World    Encore Review
80. Matchstick Men
81. The Matrix Reloaded
82. The Matrix Revolutions
83. Memories of Murder
84. Mona Lisa Smile
85. Monster
86. My Boss’s Daughter
87. Mystic River
88. None Without Sin
89. Old School
90. Oldboy
91. Open Range
92. Open Water
93. The Order
94. Out of Time
95. A Painted House
96. Paycheck
97. Pieces of April
98. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
99. Radio
100. The Reagans
101. The Recruit
102. The Room
103. Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
104. Runaway Jury
105. S.W.A.T.   Encore Review
106. Saints and Soldiers
107. Saving Jessica Lynch
108. Scary Movie 3
109. School of Rock
110. Seabiscuit   Encore Review
111. Shanghai Knights
112. Shattered Glass    Encore Review
113. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
114. Something’s Gotta Give
115. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
116. Statement, The
117. Station Agent, The
118. Stuck on You
119. Tears of the Sun
120. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
121. Thirteen
122. Timeline
123. Tokyo Godfathers
124. Touching the Void
125. Twin Towers
126. Two Soldiers
127. Under the Tuscan Sun
128. Underworld
129. Unlikely Heroes
130. Uptown Girls
131. Wonderland
132. Word of Honor
133. X2: X-Men United  Encore Review