The Best and Worst of 2004 At The Movies
by Tim Nasson

With 2004 at its end it’s time to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly movies of the past twelve months. While more than three hundred were released in theaters there are hardly three dozen worth mentioning, and even some of those are mentioned because they were so bad that they are worth a look, even if only on HBO at 4am some day.

Tim Nasson’s Twelve Favorite Movies of 2004

  1. The Door In the Floor
  2. The Aviator
  3. The Incredibles
  4. Bad Education
  5. Sideways
  6. Hotel Rwanda
  7. Million Dollar Baby
  8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  9. Napoleon Dynamite
  10. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
  11. The Notebook
  12. Spider-Man 2

Tim Nasson’s Twelve Least Favorite Movies of 2004

  1. Welcome to Mooseport
  2. Open Water
  3. Starsky & Hutch
  4. The Stepford Wives
  5. Jersey Girl
  6. Alexander
  7. Shark Tale
  8. Soul Plane
  9. The Village
  10. Surviving Christmas
  11. Christmas with the Kranks
  12. The Terminal

Tim Nasson’s Pick of the Twelve Most Indeterminate Movies of 2004

  1. The Passion of the Christ
  2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  3. Saved
  4. Team America
  5. Hellboy
  6. The Day After Tomorrow
  7. Shrek 2
  8. Fahrenheit 9/11
  9. I, Robot
  10. Closer
  11. Ray
  12. Sky Captain And the World of Tomorrow tied
    Mean Girls

While my twelve favorite films were all good, none were worthy of a five star rating or an A+ in my opinion. Something was lacking in each to make them extra special. What is going on Hollywood? Can’t you make movies like you used to? There were years, many, in the 1980s, when I could not pick my twelve favorites. There were just so many great movies to pick from.

While my twelve least favorite movies of 2004 are each, undoubtedly bad, I could have easily picked fifty more to join them on the list. However, I chose to pick not movies like Against the Ropes or Soul Plane, which were not intended to attract an audience, (zero dollar marketing budget), rather movies that had great ad campaigns yet failed to live up their hype.

As for the twelve indeterminate movies? I am sure you can figure it out. These are twelve movies that were neither great nor dreadful. They are just mediocre, which is a shame. Because most, if not all, could have been contenders for Best Picture if they had been made the right way, especially Harry Potter and Sky Captain.

Another year, another 300+ movies to go before another list is compiled. Until then, stay Wild About Movies. Next year can’t be any worse? Can it?

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