Every year, along about this time, I try to note down all the previous year’s movies I’ve managed to see. Your Humble Blogger doesn’t get out very much, so it’s a small list. Some years it gets up to twelve or so, and I think before my Perfect Non-Reader was born I may have had a year where I saw twenty. This year, it’s six.\n
It’s hardly worth making a top five list, is it? My favorite, I think, was Finding Neverland<\/a>, a three-hanky movie about an extremely good-looking man in Edwardian formal dress, and some other people. Next would be Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/a>, which I not only saw in the theaters, but have seen on the small screen as well. It held up very well on the second showing; count me among those who thought this was the best movie so far (although not among those who think it’s the best book). Third is The Incredibles<\/a>, which I already discussed<\/a>. I really liked it, so a year where this is third is a pretty good year. This is also the line above which the movies may well move around; in two years, I may well decide that I like The Incredibles more than Neverland, or some such.\n Another way to look at it is that the top three are all good movies that I enjoyed watching. The next two are bad movies that I enjoyed watching. I enjoyed Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow<\/a> a trifle more than I enjoyed ¡Ay, Robot!<\/a>, although two years from now I may have difficulty remembering which one had Angelina Jolie saying “Alert the submersible units!” Dazzling visuals, both of them, and lousy stories told badly, both of them. And I enjoyed them both.\n Then there’s the sixth movie, Sideways<\/a>. If the top three are all good movies that I enjoyed, and the next two are bad movies that I enjoyed, this one is a good movie that I didn’t enjoy at all. I dimly understand why some people liked it (if a person thought it was funny, then it was funny for them, and that would be something) but all of the things I look for in a movie were, it seems, deliberately left out. If you want to make a movie that Your Humble Blogger will truly loathe, pay careful attention to Sideways<\/i>, and you’ll learn a lot. See if you can identify the moment when my reaction tipped over from boredom to repulsion. I think this may be my least favorite movie since Wings of the Dove<\/a>, and I think I may have disliked Dove<\/I> somewhat less.\n Well, and out of six movies, I enjoyed five, and three of those were really good. I don’t suppose I should complain. Oh, I suppose I should add to my six the honorable mentions: Calendar Girls<\/a>, an enjoyable movie that got Oscar release in 2003, so it doesn’t count as a 2004 movie; Wimbledon<\/a>, which was playing on an airplane I was on, and which looked pretty good, actually; and Hellboy<\/a>, which I actually own on DVD, only I haven’t seen it yet.\n Thank you, Every year, along about this time, I try to note down all the previous year\u2019s movies I\u2019ve managed to see. Your Humble Blogger doesn\u2019t get out very much, so it\u2019s a small list. Some years it gets up to twelve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17278,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/17278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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