Ebert & Roeper - Best of 2004
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Ebert's list:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Kill Bill Vol. 2
3. Vera Drake
4. Spider-Man 2
5. Moolaade
6. The Aviator
7. Baadasssss!
8. Sideways
9. Hotel Rwanda
10. Undertow
Roeper's list:
1. Hotel Rwanda
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Aviator
4. Sideways
5. House of Flying Daggers
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. The Terminal
8. Kill Bill Vol. 2
9. Spanglish
10. Collateral
Just watched Sideways in 2021...I shouldn’t have waited that long! 🍷
Sideways is a great movie!
Such a great movie. Feels so real
Im jealous that you can discover it now for the first time. I saw in the theatre with my mum back in 2004 it was my favourite film of the year. Its in my all time top 50
Sideways gets a lot of hate now for whatever reason but I still think it's a damn good movie.
It’s aged very well like a fine….something….like a thing that gets better with age. I can’t think of what it is but it ages well.
2004 was a great year for movies
Collateral is an excellent action film. Love it.
Great film but it's not an action film
The 3rd act went a little Hollywood with a safe and disappointing ending but most of it was great.
1. The Passion of the Christ
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Team America: World Police
4. Man on Fire
5. Before Sunset
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. The Bourne Supremacy
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
9. House of Flying Daggers
10.Hellboy
Once again, I agree with Roger. Spider-Man 2 is one of the Best of 2004.
Before Sunset. Best of 2004
Watching these Ebert & Roeper's Best Movies of the Year was an annual highlight. It was a great way to cap off the year to see if anything I saw or loved happened to make it on any of their lists or gave me excellent recommendations to catch up on.
Here is my list of the Best Films of 2004:
1) Kill Bill: Vol 2
2) Birth
3) Spider-Man 2
4) Ripley’s Game
5) Vera Drake
6) Red Lights
7) Million Dollar Baby
8) Closer
9) The Libertine
10) Young Adam
More Recommendations: The Tracker, Sideways, The Aviator, Spartan, My Summer of Love, Layer Cake, A Home at the End of the World, Kinsey, House of Flying Daggers, Intimate Strangers, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, Primer, Blind Shaft, Hair High, Cellular, Winter Solstice, The Intruder, Palindromes, Dear Frankie, Team America: World Police, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, When Will I Be Loved, and Mind Game
What amazing lists! Many great movies. 2004 was a great year for films!
Rogers “sounds like you” totally took me off guard.
Roger didn’t even have Eternal Sunshine on his list? Wow!
Great point! and Go Pack Go!
He gave it only a ***1/2 rating in his original review, so it wasn't among his favorites at the time. But he did re-evaluate it 6 years later for inclusion in his Great Movies list.
Philip Moore I disagree my man, it’s one of the best films of the 2000’s decade. Watch it again.
But he got conned that much by Sideways, a good movie, but also like I said, like sitting across from a knowitall who's trying to convince you how sensitive he/she is.
@@HugoSoup57 i take it back it is an interesting film. But 2004 was such a great year for movies it was hard to come up with a top 10 im sure he liked it.
Spanglish is a pretty good movie. Nice to see it here. Vega is great.
My dad and I love that movie
Yep.. and Sandlers best acting.. by far
2004 was one of my favorite years at the movies in recent memory. There was also a ton of great comedies: Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Harold and Kumar, Anchorman, and Dodgeball off the top of my head.
Collateral, Kill Bill and Million Dollar a baby were the 3 best films of this year
I gotta imagine Sam Raimi was happy watching this and hearing Ebert call it the best superhero film ever made.
I saw Million Dollar Baby at the movies and what an experience, Roeper was right, MDB stays with you. It’s been 18 years and I’m still both traumatized and mesmerized about that masterpiece.
Yes, great movie but I can't watch it again. I was a mess after I watched it.
I had to trim about 22 seconds from Roger's "Million Dollar Baby" clip to get around the copyright restrictions.
The Incredibles was my 1 best flim of the year 2004
Undertow is a great underrated pick!
The Terminal is so underrated one of my fave comfort movies!
My current list, based on North American release dates:
1. Moolaade
2. Vera Drake
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. The Sea Inside
5. Twilight Samurai
6. Sideways
7. Undertow
8. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
9. Born Into Brothels
10. Garden State
I haven't seen any of them in almost 10 years. Now that I'm in my 30s, I wonder if my love of Garden State would endure. It resonates with teens and young adults who are struggling for self-definition and trying to find the right direction in their lives, and maybe it is best left in the past as a movie that I found at just the right time in my adolescence.
Well, looking back we know they still made some decent movies back in 2004. Collateral, Aviator, Hotel Rwanda, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Million Dollar Baby, Badassss! were all very good flicks. I'm not so sure about The Terminal(lost me halfway through) and either of the Kill Bill movies but I think they were still very popular.
I liked Kill Bill Vol. 1, not Vol. 2.
I thought The Terminal was great (Spielberg's third-best), generally far too overlooked.
@@suarezguy No way, he has many superior movies.
Million $ baby what a great film.
My Favorite and Best Flim of the Year 2004
1. The Incredibles
2. Unfortunate Events
3. Garfield
4. Mickey's Twice Upon of Christmas
5. The Day After Tomorrow
6. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
7. Harry Potter 3 The Prisoner of Azkaban
8. The Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow
1. Shaun Of The Dead
(UK)
2. Before Sunset
3. Super Size Me
(documentary)
4. Anchor Man
5. The Machinist (UK/USA/France)
6. Wicker Park
7. Fahrenheit 9/11
(documentary)
8. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
9. Napoleon Dynamite
10. Mean Girls
ewwwwww
How the fuck can you put Eternal Sunshine at 8??
Damn... Million Dollar Baby, Kill BIll 2, Collateral, House of Flying Daggers, Eternal Sunshine, Shaun of the Dead... Bravo, 2004, bravo.
Roeper was a great partner for Roger after the longtime foil of Gene Siskel. RIP, Rog.
Yicch.
He was really wrong about Fellowship of the Ring, but i think he was ok
Sideways is amazing. I love Alexander Payne
Moolaade, Sembene (Cannes)
3-Iron, Ki-duk Kim (Cinemanila 04)
Sud pralad, Weerasethakul (Cannes)
Sideways, Payne
La nina santa, Martel (Cannes)
Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood
Comme une image, Jaoui (Cannes)
Vera Drake, Leigh
Dare mo shiranai, Kore-eda (Cannes)
Whisky, Rebella and Stoll (Cannes)
Eternal Sunshine..., Gondry
Maria, Full of Grace, Marston (Cinemanila 04)
2004 was a great year, some awesome movies, and in the November of that year I managed to get a loan of €10,000 and bought a flight from Ireland to South America and spent the entire of 2005 travelling across the world.
My top 10 from 2004:
1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. Shrek 2
5. The Aviator
6. Spider-Man 2
7. The Incredibles
8. Sideways
9. Hotel Rwanda
10. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Thanx for your insights
Leonardo is spectacular in the aviator
2004 was one of those great years for movies just like 1999 and 1994 we haven't gotten a great year for movies in a while like those three years I mentioned
I think 1999, 2004 and 1993 were probably the best years.
2007 ~ No Country for Old Men; Into the Wild; and, There Will Be Blood
The Oscars agreed with Roger that year!
He also picked "Crash" as best film of 2005. His taste skewed much closer to the mainstream as he aged.
Oscars also agreed with roger in 2009.the hurt locker
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They let Kathryn Bigelow put it to her ex-FreeMason hubby Cameron that year 👍
Sad you can see the early signs of cancer in his jaw being crooked
He had his first bout with salivary gland cancer and radiation treatment in 2003, hence the weight loss.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Both Siskel and Ebert were gone far too soon. I loved their show and watching them as a teenager in 90’s every Saturday night at 10:30, screw SNL my to go show was always S&E.
Closer, Maria Full of Grace, Ray, The Sea Inside, The Motorcycle Diaries, A love song for Bobby Long were my favorites of 2004
Some great stuff on your list. I'll look for Maria Full of Grace.
The Sea Inside was excruciating and sad. I love the Motorcycle Diaries!
Yeah surprising not seeing Ebert mention sea inside considering he was one to championship foreign films.
Rodger was spot on about SpiderMan 2. Still the best super hero movie ever made 👏🏻
My best of 2004
The Passion of the Chirst
Ray
Man on Fire
Before Sunset
Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Spider-Man 2
Shrek 2
Shark Tale
Mean Girls
13 Going on 30
Great year for movies...
I’ve only seen three of these movies.
Love the movie "House of Flying Daggers"
Roger…Sideways should have been much higher than #8.
The tumour in Roger’s cheek is noticeable
@neilgodfrey2669 No, he had a square jaw. His only tumors were on his thyroid and salivary gland, none present at the time.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 oh one side looked bigger than the other
@@neilgodfrey2669 Possibly post-surgical complications.
Million Dollar Baby is a special film
A special movie composed but not directed by Clint Eastwood is Grace is Gone, starring John Cusack. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a beautiful movie. It’s about a man named Stanley who works for a home store (like Sam’s Club for instance) who loses his wife in a tragic war battle on March 12 and he brings his two girls Heidi and Dawn on a road trip to go see his brother John and Enchanted Gardens, their favourite theme park. It came out Christmas of 2007.
Mine:
10. Homecoming (Jost)
09. The Ister (Barison, Ross)
08. Before Sunset (Linklater)
07. Sideways (Payne)
06. The Intruder (Denis)
05. Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood)
04. Evolution of a Filipino Family (Diaz)
03. Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)
02. Moolaadé (Sembène)
01. The World (Zhangke)
Sideways is a great move as Collateral
They’re all great
I love all these people's movies list, as of anyone cares
Man I love Spanglish and Sideways. Collateral and Spidey were great as well as Terminal. Great picks overall
Spanglish and Sideways are my top favourite Thomas Haden Church movies. Collateral is my favourite Los Angeles crime drama.
My top 10:
1. The Incredibles
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Spider-Man 2
4. Collateral
5. Shaun of the Dead
6. Napoleon Dynamite
7. Kill Bill
8. The Aviator
9. Shrek 2
10. The Terminal
Man Ebert looks and sounds so different here 😭
I wouldn’t say Kill Bill 2 stands alone.
Well I will commit blasphemy and state that I have never been impressed by Eternal. Also Vera Drake was disappointing. Napolean Kaufman was a quirky fresh film , Sideways was wonderful , and there were certainly many films that were worth watching . I do have a bias for Asian films so The House of Flying Daggers and Hero would make my list for the year. I would note that of the English language films of this year that it is arguable that the two films that have stood up best were the comedies Shaun of the Dead and Anchorman . I am glad that people still remember Garden State . I recall that I favored Sideways for Best Film but had no negative reaction to Million Dollar Baby winning as I had thought it was a very good film.
Here's my list.
1. Million Dollar Baby.
2. The Passion of the Christ.
3. The Polar Express.
4. Spider-Man 2.
5. Ray.
6. The Aviator.
7. Two Brothers.
8. Yesterday.
9. Hotel Rwanda.
10. The Story of the Weeping Camel.
I like The Passion of the Christ and The Polar Express
I thought The Polar Express was pretty bland/basic.
my list, based on NA release dates:
1. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii)
2. The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
3. Infernal Affairs trilogy (Andrew Lau and Alan Mak)
4. Vera Drake
5. Torque (Joseph Kahn)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Chronicles of Riddick (David Twohy)
8. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
9. The Terminal
10. Primer (Shane Carruth)
11. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
12. Zatoichi The Blind Swordsman (Takeshi Kitano)
13. The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress & J Mackye Gruber)
14. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
15. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
16. Collateral
17. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
18. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
19. Mooladé
20. She Hate Me (Spike Lee)
21. Spider Man 2
22. The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis)
I also love The Manchurian Candidate 04 and The Terminal.
I do not mean to quibble but kind of unfair to nominate the trioligy of Infernal Affairs. That said the original is in my view far better than any film on Roger and Gene;s list and I would place it above Ghost . I would also have Hero, The House of Flying Daggers and would definitely consider Zatoichi . Napolean Dynamite was a breath of fresh air and no one can go wrong with a Wes Anderson film The only 2 films I really did not like on your list were Eternal Sunshine and Brown Bunny -- I guess I went against the crowd on Enternal and went with the crowd on Brown Bunny ( and was a fan of both Gallo and Chloe ). I suspect you may have seen the hidden gem Palookaville
wow, that was a bad year for movies if The Terminal, spanglish or collateral are the best top ten.
Alternatively, the personal taste of the one guy who listed those movies doesn't align with yours. Whether the year was good or bad has nothing to do with an individual list.
The Terminal is one of Speilberg’s worst! 10 ten?
Damn... Million Dollar Baby, Kill BIll 2, Collateral, House of Flying Daggers, Eternal Sunshine, Shaun of the Dead... Bravo, 2004, bravo.
My list:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. The Aviator
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Hero
5. The Butterfly Effect
6. Hotel Rwanda
7. The Motorcycle Diaries
8. Saw
9. Spiderman 2
10. Kill Bill Vol. 2
What did you love about The Butterfly Effect or Saw?
@@suarezguy Both had brains and suspense. Saw wasn’t just a freak show like some people say.
Shake Hands with the Devil, not made in 2004 but IMO better than Hotel Rwanda
Agreed. I didn't care for Hotel Rwanda. Makes genocide look as inevitable as the tide. The shrug of an indifferent world is expected.
Rogers larynx issue was sadly revealed here.
"...Marked by Tarantino's trademarked fondness for stylized violence....."
And feet. You mustn't forget about his love for female feet.
Also: Remember that year's Oscars when both Paul Giamatti and Jim Carrey didn't get nominated for Best Actor?
They're absolute cowards, Gene Siskel too. Even with Jackie Brown! How can you not mention it as a continuous trend, especially when you get to the movie with a filmed, lit, and edited 5 seconds of a close-up shot of a chick just wiggling her toes right next to a guy's drink??? My personal dream btw
Considering Roger's praise for the movie, I'm a bit surprised that The Passion of the Christ didn't make his top 10.
I often felt that Roger would leave movies off his list if they received mixed reviews or if he realized, as the months passed, that his praise was disproportionate to the consensus opinion of his colleagues. There were some exceptions to this over the years (he listed "Natural Born Killers" and "The New Age" in '94) but I think he was a little more timid in general with his choices than Gene.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 I can see what you mean. :)
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Can’t forget The Cell as well
Such an unappreciated film
He didn't want to burn bridges with Hollywood.
kill bill 1 and 2 were best films of their years as was the two godfathers...that was tarantino's peak...
I loved the Kill Bill movies, but don't think Tarantino (or many others) could surpass Pulp Fiction.
Pulp Fiction was a game changer and that will go down as his most iconic movie.
Collerial was #1 . . .
No way Kill Bill 2 should be above the Aviator. Kill Bill was alright but 2 was just Tarantino basically wanking to himself and his influences.
Do you guys think Roger would have loved Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?
There is a high probability of him at least liking every prestige release from 2013 to present. From 2003 onward (following his first treatment for salivary gland cancer) he became the unabashed embodiment of Gene's old label for him: the Will Rogers of Film Criticism: "He never met a movie he didn't like!" He liked about 95% of the major acclaimed releases and award-scoopers that came out in the final decade of his life.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 Yeah I think the cancer made him not want to be remembered as the guy who hated everything so he softened big time in his criticism.
M$B won best picture (too tragic for my tastes) my #1 is Aviator
Spanglish? Lol
The Room should have been on here
LOL
😂😂😂
did he review final cut robin williams film 2004
Yes, and as I recall they both liked it without notable enthusiasm.
Can’t believe neither had The Dreamers in their list for 2003 or 2004.
Who's the clown riding shotgun with the girlish giggle? At least Ebert roasts him nicely.
The only film on their lists I saw that year was The Aviator. I tried watching Sideways on TV a couple of times but I found it EXTREMELY dead and boring.
The Terminal is one of Spielberg’s worst.
Roeper has pretty bad taste
Roeper still every once in awhile, puts a movie on his top ten list that makes you scratch your head. I can appreciate that he's different from other critics and that he seems to really push his own opinion but its still funny
@@shawnhoelscher8164 Every professional critic deviates from the norm once in a while because criticism is an individual exercise. But Richard Roeper's taste couldn't possibly be more mainstream, conventional, and predictable.
I agree, I hate that movie.
No Harry Potter 3?
Tropical Malady from this year is on top 10 xxi century movies. A typical American-centered lists.
Roeper was such a tool.
sideways bored me.
I don’t know why they didn’t try to bring in Rex reed as Roger Ebert’s new cohost. I’m thinking ebert wanted new cohost he could dominate
Reed didn't live in Chicago and he never had a good reputation as a serious critic, more of a snide gossip-monger. He was one of the co-hosts of "At The Movies" when Gene and Roger left in 1986, and following their departure it was widely regarded as a trashy show. Siskel & Ebert thought so too.
Siskel's replacement needed to be Chicago-based because Buena Vista wasn't willing to continue paying for weekly or even bi-weekly airfare and none of of the out-of-town guest critics wanted the permanent spot. Roeper got the job because he lived in Chicago.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 And then, of course, there was the fact that Roger Ebert had an *especially* good reason not to have Rex Reed accompany him in the balcony at any point. In 1993, Reed started the (false) rumor that Marisa Tomei did _not_ win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in _My Cousin Vinny,_ and that Jack Palance had read the wrong name of the winner from a card he held (later changed to teleprompter after the Academy told him only _one_ name was on the card). Ebert (who himself gave _My Cousin Vinny_ a mixed review) condemned Reed for having started the rumor, which Ebert felt was unfair to Ms. Tomei. Roger would never forgive Rex for lying about the circumstances behind her Oscar win.
Reed would have loved for Ebert to dominate him.
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Terminal as Capra?? Yukk! Spanglish?? Yukk!!
Anyone who doesn't put Napoleon Dynamite on their top 10 list can get out of my life and shut up.
You're a fat lard Nathan😉
LOL. It's a shit movie. Not funny and annoying characters. You're in the minority there
Do you wanna play me?
I hated the Terminal
Yeah same. Although young Zoe Saldana was a fuckin' smoke show lol.
The acclaim for Million Clichéd Baby still astounds me. It was silly unrealistic and ridiculous
Stick to marvel movies Festus.
@@davidmitchell6873 Right, because they're not silly, unrealistic or ridiculous?
I Hate Sideways
How about missionary?
You're incorrect.
Spider-Man 2 sucks
Spider-Man 2 connected with the MCU does suck but Sam's first 2 movies are great.
I hated Kill Bill, such trash
Lol to each their own, I suppose...
Not my favorite but it has grown on me over the years.