1. About Schmidt - Alexander Payne + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Dramedy of the Year + Best Road Movie of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year
2. Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes + Best Connecticut Movie of the Year + Best Melodrama of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best Screen Couple of the Year: Julianne Moore & Dennis Haysbert
3. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress/Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise - Dai Sijie + Best Chinese Movie of the Year + Best Political Movie of the Year
4. All or Nothing - Mike Leigh + Best Drama of the Year + Best English Movie of the Year + Most Under-appreciated Movie of the Year
5. Frida - Julie Taymor + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year + Best Biopic of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Breakthrough of the Year: Salma Hayek
6. The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear/Drengen Der Ville Gøre det Umulige/The Boy Who Wanted to Do the Impossible - Jannik Hastrup + Best Animation of the Year + Best Box Office Disaster of the Year + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year
7. Adaptation - Spike Jonze + Best Adaptation of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year
8. Bloody Sunday - Paul Greengrass + Best Irish Movie of the Year
9. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Joel Zwick + Best Dollar Return of the Year: 73.74 Times + Best Romcom of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Nia Vardalos
10. 25th Hour - Spike Lee + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year
Other great movies and TV-series (in alphabetic order)
24 - season 2 - Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow, creators + Best Thriller of the Year
Cabin Fever - Eli Roth + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Best Gore Movie of the Year
Dark Water/ 仄暗い水の底から (Honogurai Mizu no Soko Kara) - Hideo Nakata + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Japanese Movie of the Year
Die Another Day - Lee Tamahori + Best Action Adventure of the Year
Other good, recommendable movies (in alphabetic order)
28 Days Later - Danny Boyle + Best London Movie of the Year + Best Zombie Movie of the Year
At Kende Sandheden - Nils Malmros + Best B/W Movie of the Year + Best Mega-flop Movie of the Year
Collateral Damage - Andrew Davis + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 53.68 mil. $ range
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - Peter Care + Best Independent Movie of the Year
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - George Lucas + Best Fight Scene of the Year: Yoda vs. County Dooku + Best Space Movie of the Year + Biggest Moneymaker of the Year: 144.72 mil. $ profit range
The Bottom 10 of 2002
1. The Gathering - Brian Gilbert + Most Deserved Flop of the Year + Worst Dollar Return of the Year: 0.07 Times
2. Blood Work - Clint Eastwood
3. Solaris - Steven Soderbergh
4. Open Hearts/Elsker Dig for Evigt - Susanne Bier
5. A Walk to Remember - Adam Shankman
6. Barbershop - Tim Story + Most Overrated Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
7. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - George Clooney
8. Demonlover - Olivier Assayas + Worst Poster of the Year
9. Dirty Pretty Things - Stephen Frears
10. Spider - David Cronenberg
Other failed, poor and/or mediocre movies (in alphabetic order)
24 Hour Party People - Michael Winterbottom
Blade II - Guillermo del Toro + Best Monster Movie of the Year
The Bourne Identity - Doug Liman
Bubba Ho-Tep - Don Coscarelli
Dahmer - David Jacobson + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Jeremy Renner
Deathwatch - Michael J. Bassett
Eight Legged Freaks - Ellory Elkayem
[35 titles in total]
Notes:
The tentative first edition of the 2002 lists hasn't uncovered any masterpiece of the year yet. It has Alexander Payne's divine road movie dramedy About Schmidt at #1, followed by Todd Haynes' sumptuous, affecting melodrama Far from Heaven and Dai Sijie's semi-autobiographical political period drama-romance Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. The Top 10 list goes on with Mike Leigh's funny and socially relevant All or Nothing; Julie Taymor's vigorously acted artist biopic Frida; Jannik Hastrup's originally animated, Greenland-set family fairytale The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear; Spike Jonze's wry, insightful adaptation/non-adaptation Adaptation; Paul Greengrass' vivid, grueling Bloody Sunday; Joel Zwick's crowd-pleasing feel-great romcom My Big Fat Greek Wedding and finally Spike Lee's nuanced post-9/11 New York-drama 25th Hour.
Other great outputs of the year includes a gnarly cabin-in-the-woods body horror (Cabin Fever), a chilling J-horror (Dark Water) and a cartoonish, effervescent Bond spectacle (Die Another Day).
On the Bottom 10 list no less than 4 master filmmakers assert themselves questioningly and prove that quality runs high and low, also among the best:
Brian Gilbert's horror bungle The Gathering is #1 and effectively offed his career; master filmmaker Clint Eastwood's inconsequential, flawed Blood Work and master filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's dull, quizzical sci-fi adaptation Solaris follow suit.
The list goes on with master filmmaker Susanne Bier's excruciating Dogme drama Open Hearts; Adam Shankman's banal teen romance A Walk to Remember; Tim Story's tiring talk-heavy sleep-inducer Barbershop; George Clooney's curious game-show Cold War debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Olivier Assayas' unlikely porn industry thriller Demonlover; master filmmaker Stephen Frears' illegal immigrant drama Dirty Pretty Things, and finally David Cronenberg's taxing schizophrenia portrait Spider.
Another great filmmaker batting under average in 2002 is Guillermo Del Toro with Blade II. George Clooney figures prominently in 2 titles on the Bottom 10; Solaris and as director of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. And action superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger suffered one of his career's worst flops with the year's costliest flop, good actioner Collateral, which had its release botched by the 9/11 attacks the year before, - as audiences still apparently were unwilling to go for an action vehicle about foreign terrorism on US soil the following year.
Biggest flops of the year:
[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Collateral - 53.68 mil. $ range
2. Blood Work - 37.32 mil. $ range
3. Solaris - 35 mil. $ range
4. The Gathering - 17.48 mil. $ range
5. Confessions of A Dangerous Mind - 16.8 mil. $ range
6. Eight Legged Freaks - 11.68 mil. $ range
7. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - 11.2 mil. $ range
8. All or Nothing - 7.88 mil. $ range
9. Spider - 7.68 mil. $ range
10. Demonlover - 6.92 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 205.64 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - 144.72 mil. $ range
2. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - 142.48 mil. $ range
3. Die Another Day - 30.76 mil. $ range
4. The Bourne Identity - 25.6 mil. $ range
5. 28 Days Later - 25.08 mil. $ range
6. Barbershop - 18.8 mil. $ range
7. About Schmidt - 12.32 mil. $ range
8. Cabin Fever - 10.7 mil. $ range
9. Frida - 10.48 mil. $ range
10. A Walk to Remember - 7.16 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 428.1 mil. $
2002 titles currently on the watch-list:
Comedian, The Emperor's Club, Blissfully Yours, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, Rabbit-Proof Fence
Previous annual lists:
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2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
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2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
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2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
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What do you think of the 2002 lists?
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