Temporal Top Ten – 2004

Number of movies seen from this year – 124
Number of movies reviewed – 141 (Including 17 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    Encore Review
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. Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
20. Butterfly Effect, The   Encore Review
21. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
22. Catwoman
23. Cellular
24. Characters of ‘Star Wars’, The
25. Chasing Liberty
26. Chronicles of Riddick, The
27. Clearing, The
28. Closer
29. Collateral
30. Crash    Encore Review
31. Criminal
32. Dawn of the Dead  Encore Review   Encore Review 2
33. Day After Tomorrow, The
34. Dead Man’s Shoes
35. Dear Frankie
36. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
37. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
38. Downfall
39. Door in the Floor, The
40. Empire of Dreams: The Story of the ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy
41. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
42. Fahrenheit 9/11
43. Fat Albert
44. Final Cut, The
45. Finding Neverland
46. Five People You Meet in Heaven, The
47. Flight of the Phoenix
48. Forgotten, The
49. Friday Night Lights
50. Garden State
51. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
52. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
53. Heir to an Execution
54. Hellboy
55. Hotel Rwanda
56. House of Flying Daggers
57. Howl’s Moving Castle
58. I, Robot    Encore Review   Encore Review 2
59. I Inside, The
60. Ike: Countdown to D-Day
61. Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
62. In Good Company
63. Incredibles, The
64. Jersey Girl
65. Julia! America’s Favorite Chef
66. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
67. Kinsey
68. Ladder 49   Encore Review
69. Layer Cake
70. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The
71. Looking for Kitty
72. Machinist, The
73. Man on Fire   Encore Review
74. Manchurian Candidate, The
75. Maria Full of Grace
76. Mean Girls
77. Meet the Fockers
78. Merchant of Venice, The
79. Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
80. Million Dollar Baby
81. Millions
82. Mindhunters
83. Miracle
84. Mr 3000   Encore Review
85. Mystery of Natalie Wood
86. Napoleon Dynamite
87. National Treasure   Encore Review
88. Noel
89. Notebook, The
90. Ocean’s Twelve
91. Paper Clips
92. Perfect Score, The
93. Phantom of the Opera, The
94. Polar Express, The    Encore Review
95. Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy
96. Primer
97. Raising Helen
98. Rent-A-Person
99. Ray
100. Salem’s Lot
101. Secret Window
102. Septem8er Tapes
103. Shaun of the Dead
104. Shrek 2
105. Sideways
106. Six Shooter
107. Something the Lord Made
108. Spanglish
109. Speak
110. Species III
111. Spider-Man 2
112. Starsky & Hutch
113. Stepford Wives, The
114. Super Size Me
115. Surviving Christmas
116. Terminal, The
117. Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment with History
118. Troy
119. Ushpizin
120. Vera Drake
121. Village, The
122. Welcome to Mooseport
123. Whole Ten Yards, The
124. Woodsman, The