The Best of 2004? by Berentaur

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The Best of 2004?

POSTED BY: BERENTAUR
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 4, 2005 03:33
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Sunday, January 2, 2005 10:51 PM

I was just reading something in a magazine about what people thought were the best films and albums/bands of 2004. It got me thinking about what my choices would be. This is what I decided:

Film: Before Sunset was an amazing film, Finding Neverland was also very good.

Album/band: Wilco- A Ghost is Born was by far my favourite album of 2004, R.E.M- Around the Sun was good too

I'm interested in what everyone else thinks....

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Monday, January 3, 2005 6:15 AM

SCHIZORABBIT

Film(s): I also loved Before Sunset, the sequel to Before Sunrise. I was a huge fan of Before Sunrise, and was excited when I heard that a 9-years-later sequel was in the works. Wow, what a beautiful continuation of the story. Also, I thought Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was amazing. I'm a huge fan of the screenplays of Charlie Kauffman, and Jim Carey (who usually drives me up the wall) was amazingly subdued here.

Music: I got Wilco (album title unsure) as a Christmas present, and I'm enjoying it a lot. Don't have a favorite band per se from last year, but have been enjoying stuff by Muse, Kean, Snow Patrol, etc.

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Monday, January 3, 2005 6:27 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

I did a big 'favorite of 2004' for books, movies, tv, comics, and dvd on my website, at
http://www.unreachablestar.net/2004review.php

As well as what I was looking forward to from 2005.

Firefly got for favorite DVD, and Serenity got for what I was looking forward to from 2005. ;)

Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6
http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions

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Monday, January 3, 2005 7:03 AM

MRSKBORG

Best movies - that was tough, actually no it wasn't, there weren't too many... House of Flying Daggers, Hero and Beyond the Sea, Spiderman 2 and Shrek 2, Shaun of the Dead and thats about it.

Books mmm that's easy - Dan Browns Da Vinci Code, oh and finally read the Phillip Pullman Dark Materials Trilogy - brilliant.

Music - New Finn Brothers album "Everyone is Here" fantastic, Franz Ferdinand and my very favourite - Polly Paulusma "Scissors in my Pocket".

"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.

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Monday, January 3, 2005 8:36 AM

LISSA

movie--garden state. hell yes.

music--mm, i'm not sure when the cd came out, but i have recently developed a HUGE obsession with the postal service (along with, of all people, oasis, causing me to combine them under one name: postasis. lol!)

~lissa, spwhore

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Monday, January 3, 2005 8:57 AM

BADGERSHAT

Quote:
Originally posted by mrskborg:
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Books mmm that's easy - Dan Browns Da Vinci Code, ...

Actually, you can't put that on the 2004 Best List, because it came out in 2003...

... there really wasn't all that much, other than Return of the King and the news that "Serenity" was green-lighted. Although I guess if I was to stretch "Best" to include "Better than the usual crap" I'd also include Spider Man 2, Shrek 2, Shaun of the Dead, and a few others. very good, but I'm looking for a higher echelon...

--Jefé The Hat

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--Don't bother trying to predict, figure out, second guess, criticize, or suggest anything that comes from the mind of Joss Whedon, for you shall usually be wrong, and shall find out the Truth and Purpose in due time.
(This is the Truth of Whedoning)

"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne

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Monday, January 3, 2005 10:13 AM

MRSKBORG

OK then I read it in 2004. Anyways I'm listening to Radio 2's top albums for 2004 and the top one is Scissor Sisters - ack ack- they murdered that Pink FLoyd song? How could they?

"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.

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Monday, January 3, 2005 10:23 AM

BADGERSHAT

Quote:
Originally posted by mrskborg:
OK then I read it in 2004. Anyways I'm listening to Radio 2's top albums for 2004 and the top one is Scissor Sisters - ack ack- they murdered that Pink FLoyd song? How could they?

"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.

I watched an episode of Saturday Night Live a while back, and that Scissor Sisters freakshow "performed" their cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." It took me more than half the song to figure out what the hell song it WAS.

I've never been much of a Floyd fan, truthfully, but THAT was perhaps the worst musical travesty I've witnessed since Mariah Carey covered Def Leppard's "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" (or perhaps Sheryl Crow's horrifying cover of GnR's "Sweet Child O'Mine.").

I'd almost rather see Limp Bizkit do a rap-metal version of the "Mission: Impossible" theme... oh, wait...

--Jefé The Hat

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--Don't bother trying to predict, figure out, second guess, criticize, or suggest anything that comes from the mind of Joss Whedon, for you shall usually be wrong, and shall find out the Truth and Purpose in due time.
(This is the Truth of Whedoning)

"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne

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Monday, January 3, 2005 12:20 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

all in all, I felt 2004 lacked a bit in the arts area in general.

I only was moved to go to the cinema maybe three times this year. I only bougt one cd, Megan Slankard. All the books I read ths year were from last year, so, I'm a bit behind. The best of 2004? There was the excitement of watching my firefly dvds and celebrating the greenlight.

This thread will become my list of things to see, read, or hear before next year.

Oh! this year was filled with horrible evil covers, all over the place, why? I ask why? I think there was a cover on all the new releases this year. Sick really.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

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Monday, January 3, 2005 1:25 PM

XION47

Best of 2004

Movies:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Collateral
Garden State
Finding Neverland
The Bourne Supremacy

Music:
Mark Lanegan Band -- "Bubblegum"
The Black Keys -- "Rubber Factory"
The Hives -- "Tyrannasaurus Hives"
Eagles of Death Metal -- "Peace Love Death Metal"
The Pixies -- "Wave of Mutilation" (Compilation)

Harken: "Seems odd that you would name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of."
Mal: "May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
~ƒireƒly

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Monday, January 3, 2005 3:02 PM

BERENTAUR

Quote:
Originally posted by schizorabbit:
Also, I thought Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was amazing. I'm a huge fan of the screenplays of Charlie Kauffman, and Jim Carey (who usually drives me up the wall) was amazingly subdued here.

I can't believe I forgot to mention Eternal Sunshine. I loved this film and agree with about Jim Carey. I thought all the actors were amazing in their very unusual roles.

I also forgot to mention Garden State, which I also loved. I loved the soundtrack too, my favourite Shin's song is on it, amoung other things...

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Monday, January 3, 2005 3:23 PM

ALIENZOOKEEPER

Spiderman 2, Chronicles of Riddick and I really liked Cellular.

The Incredibles and National Treasure, too, but they came along so late in the year.

No *new* books, this year's books, but I'm tearing through The Deed of Paksenarrion, by Elizabeth Moon,and I'll be getting to her new SF series real soon.

Vince the Alien Zookeeper

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Monday, January 3, 2005 6:40 PM

REGINAROADIE

Every year, I always come out with a ten best list of the year, simply because since I see more movies in a year than most everyone I know. It's not complete yet. I have about six movies that are definitly on the list, and I have a few more to see before I make an official top ten.

But the ones that are most definitly on the list are GARDEN STATE (which is so far my #1), THE AVIATOR (#2) JERSEY GIRL (#4-6), THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (#8-10), DE-LOVELY (#6-8) and SAVED! (#5-9). My maybe's are CLOSER, BEFORE SUNSET, SHAUN OF THE DEAD, FINDING NEVERLAND and THE LIFE AQUATIC. I still need to see SIDEWAYS (which is on nearly every single top ten list and is by Alex Payne and Jim Taylor, so it must be incredible), MILLION DOLLAR BABY (which Ebert cited as his best of the year movie), as well as HOTEL RWANDA, KINSEY, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT, VERA DRAKE and IN GOOD COMPANY, as well as BEYOND THE SEA, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MERCHANT OF VENICE and A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG, just to have my bases covered.

As for like albums, the only album I've listened to that I really liked was Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT. Trust me. That album decades from now will be considered the defining rock album of my generation. And I havn't given the new U2 album a spin yet, although I'm guessing I'll like that as well.

"NO HAI ES BANDAI. THERE IS....NO.....BAND. AND YET....WE HEAR A BAND."

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Monday, January 3, 2005 10:22 PM

QUICKSAND

Maybe it says enough about 2004 that we're already looking forward to 2005-- in my case, I was looking forward to it months ago.

Batman, Willy Wonka, Sin City, SERENITY, Be Cool, Robots, The Ring 2, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Star Wars Episode III: JarJar Dies, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, War of the Worlds, Bewitched, The Dukes of Hazzard, Doom (yes, really), AND a new live-action movie from Mike Judge.

If you'd like to defend 2004 compared to that, by all means, take a shot.

Warm Fuzzy Kisses,
(qs)

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Tuesday, January 4, 2005 3:33 AM

THEPLAGUE

I didn't see any movies that really stood out this year.

As for music, my top 5 would be:
Off Minor - "Innominate"
Another Way - "Ridicule"
Because of Ghosts - "Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake"
Staying at Home - "Reaction Heroes"
Colditz Glider - "Properties of Light"

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