# Best movie you've seen this year?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 19, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047 "2004-09-19T21:47:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/41 "2004-09-22T15:39:36Z")
A tie - Maria Full of Grace and Hero.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/42 "2004-09-22T16:03:36Z")
**Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkeban** I’m not a particularly huge Harry Potter fan, so I walked into this one with no huge expectations. But man, what a fun movie! “I swear upon my honor that I am up to no good.” I love this movie!
**Mean Girls** and **Saved!** These were essentially the same movie. Who’d have thought that Lindsey Lohan would break out of the ghetto of awful Disney remakes, or that Tina Fey would break out of the ghetto of Crappy SNL Movies? An even bigger shock: An edgy teen movie with a Christian Rock soundtrack! These two have replaced **Heathers** in the culture.
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### Author:  [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/43 "2004-09-22T16:09:53Z")
**Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind** would be #1, with (and I’m sure I’m in the minority here) \*\*The Manchurian Candidate \*\* remake as second. I haven’t seen Garden State yet but am really looking forward to it.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/44 "2004-09-22T16:18:11Z")
I love these kinds of threads because I’m usually at least a year behind in films (good ones, anyway, my friends and family drag me out to see a lot of the big Hollywood stuff that I probably wouldn’t bother with otherwise) and I can use this as a ‘shopping list’.
> [@Gadfly](#):
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> But the foundation for this great, great film was Charlie Kaufman’s aptitude for the bizarre combined with Gondry’s creativity and grasp of human emotion (something that Kaufman sometimes misses when he isn’t reigned in by a good director).
I just watched _Adaptation_ this week. Very strange film, but it does make one think. I had to look up the Kaufmans on IMDB and was surprised that Susan Orleans also got a writing credit, as I had assumed she was just a character in the film. Sometimes it’s fun to watch films that make you question reality, like tripping without the hangover.
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### Author:  [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/45 "2004-09-22T18:15:06Z")
> [@Bimble](#):
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> **iRobot** - I just love Will Smith as an actor and the film was pure easy-on-the-braincell entertainment!
SEE BrainGlutton! I’m not alone! 😉
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### Author:  [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/46 "2004-09-22T22:54:43Z")
**Nowhere in Africa** German/Swahili with English subtitles. Wonderful movie about a Refugee German Jewish Family in Kenya 1938 ish through the WWII.
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/47 "2004-09-22T23:29:26Z")
Definitely _Eternal Sunshine_. Saw it twice in the theaters.
Still waiting to see _Hero_ though, so that may be changing…
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/48 "2004-09-23T04:57:27Z")
The best movies I’ve seen so far this year are **The Butterfly Effect** , \*\*Foolproof, HP:tPOA \*\* and **Bunny Lake is Missing**. Yeah, I know the last one came out in 1965 but this year was the first time in decades that it was on!
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### Author:  [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-youve-seen-this-year/265047/49 "2004-09-23T06:05:26Z")
Best films that I’ve seen this year would have to be **Kamchatka** a wonderful Chilean film doing the film fest rounds, **Contol Room** , and **Pieces of April**
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