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[bryant]

I am firmly dedicated to seeing as many 2004 movies as possible before I crank out a best of list, which means that I won't be doing mine until mid-January. Maybe late January, since the Brattle has that Zhang Ziyi flick I wanna see. However: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Closer, Life Aquatic, Kinsey, The Incredibles, Gozu, Last Life in the Universe, Zatoichi, Eternal Sunshine, Spider-Man 2, aw crap that's ten already? This is gonna be tough.

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[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Well, there will always be movies of high quality which I don't actually care to see. So, perhaps an alternative definition of "best movies" could be "the ten movies I'd least want to be deleted from my memory, if I suddenly had some kind of terrible Johnny Mnemonic problem and had to have all but ten 2004 movies deleted"

By that measure I could easily count Sky Captain, because a movie like it wasn't made in the previous 10 years and and mostly likely won't be made like it in the next 3. That it has various failings as a film is almost irrelevant to me. I stick it on the shelf of "Horribly Flawed But Beloved And Unique: Visual/Conceptual Nerdvana Edition.", alongside 5th Element, Dune, and Flash Gordon.