Posted on 02/05/2023 11:16:25 AM PST by Saije
20 YEARS AGO — Just the other day, I was sitting in my living room when I heard a loud bang from the basement. Undoubtedly, it was one of my kids destroying yet another piece of our home — but I'll never know.
That's because the noise made me turn my head, resulting in me hurting my back. Yes, a head turn can now hurt my back. When I was a kid, I'd ride my bike off a shed roof and hit the ground like a satellite returning to Earth's atmosphere. I'd then pop up, grab a popsicle and go play dodge ball for six hours.
My point is, I'm getting old. And the one thing that can make you feel old — more than a strained back from a head turn — is realizing the movies on this list are turning 20.
2003 gave us the final Concorde flight, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, French fries became freedom fries, and Lance Armstrong was still the darling of the cycling world with his fifth Tour de France win.
Let it set in that all of this happened 20 years ago ... and that means the movies on this list, which were all released in 2003, are celebrating their 20th birthday in 2023.
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Worst collection of movies I’ve ever seen.
I’ve seen two of them on the list. “The Italian Job” - Mark Walberg action flick and “Secondhand Lions” with Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment. Fond memories of the latter one as saw it with three generations of family at movie theatre, some now deceased or estranged.
Hollywood lost me before these movies came out. I have not seen any of them. Good riddance.
Yep, makes me realize how few Hollywood movies made since 2000 I’ve actually watched.
The vast majority of movies made after 2000 that I’ve seen have been foreign movies.
Ping.
5.56mm
Jackson’s “Ring” movie featured no Negroes. It could not be made today with that cast.
Reminds me of Richard Pyror talking about "Logan's Run"...."They made a movie about the future called 'Logan's Run', ain't no n_____s in it. I said, 'White folks ain't plannin' for us to be here!'"
makes me feel glad I missed them
The last movie I paid to watch in a movie theater was Team America: World Police.
We were sitting in the theater and Independence Day preview came on.
Then there was a power outage.
And then some minutes of confusion.
Is the the preview? Is this real?
It got sorted. We are still alive.
Wasn't that more about the Motown house band? The Funk Brothers? However, there is a current history of Motown on Showtime called, "Motown, The Making of Hitsville, USA." If you love Motown, this is the one to watch. It has Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson as narrators as they go though the history of all the amazing acts they gave us from The Miracles (Smokey) to the Jackson Five. If you love Motown, you will love this documentary.
The only movie I paid to see was ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’.
I’ve seen one on the list.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown.
That and “The Wrecking Crew” were both great.
I’ve seen them all except Holes and Daddy Daycare. Doubtful I’ll ever see those.
We didn’t see any of them besides Raiders of the Lost Ark, in our home.
We haven’t given Hollywood money in years. We could not remember the last movie, we paid to see in a movie theatre.
Top Gun was good. Avatar - too much fluff and too long. Not bad if they edited by one hour.
You’re probably right which shows how damaging leftist ideology is.
The last movie I saw in a theater was The Girl Can’t Help It.
The Orpheum in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
Thanks. But I don’t need movies to remind me that I’m getting old. My knees do that for free.
I’ve seen five of the ten movies on the list. Two of them I remember as having been ok (but not great). Peter Jackson had already lost his discipline and surrendered to bloat by the time ROTK came out. I enjoyed it at the time but would not want to sit through it again.
It’s an odd list. Kill Bill, Cold Mountain, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Seabiscuit, and Lost in Translation all came out in 2023 and are better than most of the movies on this list. Any other favorites from that rather forgettable year?
I shouldn’t be cynical. Any year that gives us ten movies that stand the test of time is probably a pretty good year. The reason that so many people think golden oldies beat today’s output is that we tend to aggregate decades’ worth of golden oldies in our minds and compare our personal GOAT lists with the current year’s crop. The current year will always look mediocre from that perspective. 20 years from now, it won’t.
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