Fave films released from the same year Jade Goody and Alison Hammond were unleashed unto a post-9/11 world. When it rains; it pours.
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
Blade II (Guillermo del Toro)
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth)
Catch Me if You Can (Steven Spielberg)
City of God (Kátia Lund & Fernando Meirelles)
Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall)
Ju-On: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu)
May (Lucky McKee)
Paid in Full (Charles Stone III)
Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman)
Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-Wook)
Slim pickings in retrospect.
Considered adding Gaspar Noé's Irreversible onto the list; which is admittedly a powerful film. However, the first ten or so minutes are beyond nauseating, to the point of vomit inducing. Add that infamous underpass scene and I have no real desire to ever watch it again; nor any of his other films for that matter (except maybe Climax).
Dada Debaser Bonus:
An ex of mine was a big fan of Secretary 😊
ReplyDeleteWould add Phone Booth and 24 Hour Party People as 2002 personal faves.
Movies I enjoyed at the cinema in 2002 but I've never rewatched:
One Hour Photo
8 Mile
The Ring
Still never seen Punch Drunk Love.
Always saw Secretary as the final chapter in the James Spader Being A Preppy Perv trilogy.
ReplyDeleteOnly memomable thing about 8 Mile is Brittany Murphy being the film's equivalent to Leslie Ash from Quadrophenia; replete with getting chav shagged.
Not seen Punch-Drunk Love, but I'm not a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson nor his insufferable fan base, so I've never been in any rush to catch it.
Even Boogie Nights?
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing about 8 Mile was hearing a buncha 90s classics by Mobb Deep, MC Breed, OC, Onyx, Show & AG etc etc in a packed movie theatre.
I think Boogie Nights is mostly considered Anderson's most accessible film. Partly because it has a story with a sense of real purpose; and the other, because it's having fun. Those aspects are largely lost in the rest of his filmography.
ReplyDeleteKept thinking Eminem's dumb mate was played by J-Zone in 8 Mile.