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Which is your favourite film of 2003?

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2 (3.7%)
Goodbye Lenin!
2 (3.7%)
Lost in Translation
8 (14.8%)
The Station Agent
1 (1.9%)
Matchstick Men
0 (0%)
Old School
0 (0%)
The Cooler
0 (0%)
Secondhand Lions
0 (0%)
Kill Bill Vol. 1
7 (13%)
The Corporation
0 (0%)
Monster
0 (0%)
Bad Santa
0 (0%)
Memories of Murder
1 (1.9%)
Ong-Bak
0 (0%)
Seabiscuit
0 (0%)
Belleville Rendezvous
0 (0%)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4 (7.4%)
Thirteen
0 (0%)
Girl With a Pearl Earring
0 (0%)
Runaway Jury
0 (0%)
The Return
1 (1.9%)
Finding Nemo
9 (16.7%)
Touching The Void
1 (1.9%)
The Life of David Gale
0 (0%)
Identity
0 (0%)
Elephant
4 (7.4%)
Zatoichi
0 (0%)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
0 (0%)
Holes
0 (0%)
The Dreamers
0 (0%)
21 Grams
0 (0%)
The Matrix Reloaded
0 (0%)
The Matrix Revolutions
0 (0%)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter....And Spring
1 (1.9%)
Open Range
0 (0%)
The Best of Youth
0 (0%)
Mystic River
1 (1.9%)
Capturing the Friedmans
1 (1.9%)
American Splendor
0 (0%)
House of Sand and Fog
0 (0%)
The Man Who Copied
0 (0%)
Oldboy
2 (3.7%)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
0 (0%)
Voices of a Distant Star
0 (0%)
Cold Mountain
0 (0%)
Distant Lights
0 (0%)
The Last Samurai
0 (0%)
The Barbarian Invasions
1 (1.9%)
Last Life in the Universe
0 (0%)
Dogville
0 (0%)
Big Fish
1 (1.9%)
Classic
0 (0%)
Love Actually
2 (3.7%)
Zero Day
0 (0%)
My Life Without Me
0 (0%)
The Italian Job
0 (0%)
X2
0 (0%)
The School of Rock
1 (1.9%)
Hulk
0 (0%)
The Fog of War
4 (7.4%)
I'm Not Scared
0 (0%)
Earthlings
0 (0%)
Once Upon a Time In Mexico
0 (0%)
A Tale of Two Sisters
0 (0%)
American Pie: The Wedding
0 (0%)
Elf
0 (0%)
Intolerable Cruelty
0 (0%)
Something's Gotta Give
0 (0%)
The Rundown
0 (0%)
Swimming Pool
0 (0%)
Haute Tension (Switchblade Romance)
0 (0%)
Coffee and Cigarettes
0 (0%)
Confidence
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 54

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #20 on: January 01, 2009, 01:14:27 AM »
The credits are rolling on Master and Commander, which won't be getting my vote.  It was just alright.  I read the first book, but I don't remember it being so conventional and trope-ridden.  The movie was like Last of the Mohicans stripped of all the really great parts.  Crowe wasn't good, but it looked like maybe a rough shoot for an actor.  I don't know.  I wanted to like it.  I should have seen it in a theater or not at all.  Grade: B-

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #21 on: January 01, 2009, 01:56:05 AM »
Kill Bill, Vol. 1, although Elephant might ultimately end up getting my vote.

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2009, 02:11:55 AM »
1 The Fog of War

Yup, me too. It's somewhere in my top 10 of all time I think.

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2009, 02:43:05 AM »
The credits are rolling on Master and Commander, which won't be getting my vote.  It was just alright.  I read the first book, but I don't remember it being so conventional and trope-ridden.  The movie was like Last of the Mohicans stripped of all the really great parts.  Crowe wasn't good, but it looked like maybe a rough shoot for an actor.  I don't know.  I wanted to like it.  I should have seen it in a theater or not at all.  Grade: B-

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2009, 02:44:00 AM »
Pix, you are so incredibly wrong.

Okay, but can you switch your vote to Finding Nemo anyway?  I'm lonely.

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2009, 10:21:32 AM »
The credits are rolling on Master and Commander, which won't be getting my vote.  It was just alright.  I read the first book, but I don't remember it being so conventional and trope-ridden.  The movie was like Last of the Mohicans stripped of all the really great parts.  Crowe wasn't good, but it looked like maybe a rough shoot for an actor.  I don't know.  I wanted to like it.  I should have seen it in a theater or not at all.  Grade: B-

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2009, 11:54:49 AM »
Pix, you are so incredibly wrong.

Okay, but can you switch your vote to Finding Nemo anyway?  I'm lonely.

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The credits are rolling on Master and Commander, which won't be getting my vote.  It was just alright.  I read the first book, but I don't remember it being so conventional and trope-ridden.  The movie was like Last of the Mohicans stripped of all the really great parts.  Crowe wasn't good, but it looked like maybe a rough shoot for an actor.  I don't know.  I wanted to like it.  I should have seen it in a theater or not at all.  Grade: B-

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The books are a whole lot better.

are books really ever better?

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2009, 12:53:07 PM »
Kill Bill winning this makes me even more sad than Lost in Translation winning.
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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2009, 01:12:59 PM »
Kill Bill winning this makes me even more sad than Lost in Translation winning.

I agree Lost in Translation is HUGELY overrated. Scarlett Johansen is simply a very bad actress.

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Re: Best Film of 2003
« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2009, 01:17:03 PM »
It's a toss up between Elephant and Big Fish. I'm leaning toward the latter, but Elephant gets better and better with each viewing. I don't know yet.