Temporal Top Ten – 2004

Number of movies seen from this year – 123
Number of movies reviewed – 125 (Including 4 Encore Reviews)

2004 was an interesting year for me in my life. It was the year I got married for the first time and I was also in the Police Academy for the first 5 months of the year.

Of my top ten this year, only 2 of them were actually seen in the theater due to me having a very busy year (#3 and #7)

My #1 is a movie that I saw two years later and due to my impending divorce at the time, I felt a very strong connection to the characters and their situations.  I still believe that it’s Payne’s best movie.

As you can see, only 3 of the 5 Best Picture Nominees made my list; I am not a fan of The Aviator at all, and I enjoyed Ray, but it still didn’t make the list.

I can’t say that this was the strongest year for movies overall, but there are definitely some enjoyable films on the list.

If I ever make a top 10/20 or even a top 30 of the decade, I’d be very surprised if anything beyond #2 make it.

 

My Top Ten

10. Before Sunset9. Jersey Girl8. I, Robot

7. Million Dollar Baby

6. The Butterfly Effect

5. Miracle

4. The Incredibles

3. Finding Neverland

2. Empire of Dreams: The Story of the ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy

1. Sideways

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 2004

1. 2046
2. 3-Iron
3. 50 First Dates
4. 5ive Days to Midnight
5. Ae Fond Kiss…
6. Alamo, The
7. Alexander
8. Along Came Polly
9. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
10. Around the World in 80 Days
11. Assassination of Richard Nixon, The
12. Aviator, The
13. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
14. Before Sunset
15. Being Julia
16. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
17. Born Into Brothels: : Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
18. Bourne Supremacy, The
19. Butterfly Effect, The
20. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
21. Catwoman
22. Cellular
23. Characters of ‘Star Wars’, The
24. Chasing Liberty
25. Chronicles of Riddick, The
26. Clearing, The
27. Closer
28. Collateral
29. Crash
30. Criminal
31. Dawn of the Dead  Encore Review
32. Day After Tomorrow, The
33. Dead Man’s Shoes
34. Dear Frankie
35. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
36. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
37. Downfall
38. Door in the Floor, The
39. Empire of Dreams: The Story of the ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy
40. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
41. Fahrenheit 9/11
42. Fat Albert
43. Final Cut, The
44. Finding Neverland
45. Five People You Meet in Heaven, The
46. Flight of the Phoenix
47. Forgotten, The
48. Friday Night Lights
49. Garden State
50. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
51. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
52. Heir to an Execution
53. Hellboy
54. Hotel Rwanda
55. House of Flying Daggers
56. Howl’s Moving Castle
57. I, Robot    Encore Review
58. I Inside, The
59. Ike: Countdown to D-Day
60. Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
61. In Good Company
62. Incredibles, The
63. Jersey Girl
64. Julia! America’s Favorite Chef
65. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
66. Kinsey
67. Ladder 49
68. Layer Cake
69. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The
70. Looking for Kitty
71. Machinist, The
72. Man on Fire   Encore Review
73. Manchurian Candidate, The
74. Maria Full of Grace
75. Mean Girls
76. Meet the Fockers
77. Merchant of Venice, The
78. Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
79. Million Dollar Baby
80. Millions
81. Mindhunters
82. Miracle
83. Mr 3000
84. Mystery of Natalie Wood
85. Napoleon Dynamite
86. National Treasure   Encore Review
87. Noel
88. Notebook, The
89. Ocean’s Twelve
90. Paper Clips
91. Perfect Score, The
92. Phantom of the Opera, The
93. Polar Express, The
94. Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy
95. Primer
96. Raising Helen
97. Rent-A-Person
98. Ray
99. Salem’s Lot
100. Secret Window
101. Septem8er Tapes
102. Shaun of the Dead
103. Shrek 2
104. Sideways
105. Six Shooter
106. Something the Lord Made
107. Spanglish
108. Speak
109. Species III
110. Spider-Man 2
111. Starsky & Hutch
112. Stepford Wives, The
113. Super Size Me
114. Surviving Christmas
115. Terminal, The
116. Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment with History
117. Troy
118. Ushpizin
119. Vera Drake
120. Village, The
121. Welcome to Mooseport
122. Whole Ten Yards, The
123. Woodsman, The