Here's the year end best-of movies from my local free weekly, The Riverfront Times> I have a love/hate with the RFT, which is great sometimes, but bad more often.

Here's their year-end top ten:

1. Sideways
2. Maria Full of Grace
3. House of Flying Daggers
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Bad Education
6. Napoleon Dynamite
7. Osama
8. Fahrenheit 9/11
9. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
10. Closer

I think that it is bad this time PE. I mean, it looks like they just picked the most sophisticated movies possible and just put them in. What is it with all of these list having so many low-budget films on them? I don't get it, I guess this is a new sort of "Indie" creating for the movie scene. "Hey everybody, if you have a camera and a couple friends, you can make one of the best movies of the year!!!" I don't mean that literally but you get what I mean, many of the listed films, basically picked a number of unknown actors/actresses, ("Maria full of Grace" and "Bad Education" for starters) which I am not against but this "Indie" thing is gettting out of hand.

I like putting Fahrenheit 9/11 on the list, but Metallica's movie gets number nine, Napoleon Dynamite gets on the list as well, give me a break.

I've only seen ESOTSM from this list, although I want to see Napoleon Dynamite and a few others, but it strikes me as a fairly typical critics list...focus on the low-key indie flicks, disregard almost anything "Hollywood" and attempt to "save the cinema." It's really no different than indie music critics dissing anything that comes out on a major label simply because of the label.

HOWEVER...given my inability to find many movies this year I really liked (ESOTSM is the only one that will probably weather repeated viewings) and the fact that I've not seen many of the films on this list, I'll reserve judgment.

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
Here's the year end best-of movies from my local free weekly, _The Riverfront Times_> I have a love/hate with the RFT, which is great sometimes, but bad more often.

Here's their year-end top ten:

1. Sideways
2. Maria Full of Grace
3. House of Flying Daggers
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Bad Education
6. Napoleon Dynamite
7. Osama
8. Fahrenheit 9/11
9. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
10. Closer

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These all seem to be abstract movies. None are really hollywood blockbusters or anything of that sort. As I said elsewhere, Sideways was not that good. I dont know what the whole fuss about it is anyways. I really like Napolean Dynamite but wouldn't rate it as high as they did. I heard Maria Full of Grace was excellent. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind should've caught a higher spot. F 9/11 seems to be a little high. Osama was very good, but not my type of movie so I would've probably rated it loser. I havent heard many good things about Metallica..... But I still want to see Closer and really want to see House of Flying Daggers.

I saw Napoleon Dynamite last night and enjoyed it a whole lot. I probably would put it in my Top Ten of 2004, but that's at least in part because I can't find a whole lot of other movies that really blew me away this year.