1. Gladiator - Ridley Scott + Best Adventure of the Year + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Big Hit of the Year + Best Comeback of the Year: Oliver Reed + Best Epic of the Year
2. Italian for Beginners/Italiensk for Begyndere - Lone Scherfig + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Low-budget Movie of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Best $ Return of the Year: 16.3 Times the Cost + Best Romcom of the Year
3. In the Mood for Love/花樣年華/faa1joeng6 nin4waa4/huāyàng niánhuá - Wong Kar-Wai + Best Drama of the Year + Best Erotic Movie of the Year + Best Hong Kong Movie of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year
4. Meet the Parents - Jay Roach + Best Comedy of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Best Remake of the Year
5. Erin Brockovich - Steven Soderbergh + Best Biopic of the Year + Best True-crime Movie of the Year
6. Ginger Snaps - John Fawcett + Best Box Office Disaster of the Year + Best Canadian Movie of the Year + Best Horror Comedy of the Year + Best Werewolf Movie of the Year + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.12 Times the Cost
7. Malèna - Giuseppe Tornatore + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best Coming-of-age Movie of the Year + Best Italian Movie of the Year
8. Mission: Impossible 2 - John Woo + Best Action Movie of the Year + Best Sequel of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 93.52 mil. $ range
9. The Beach - Danny Boyle + Best Adaptation of the Year
10. Thirteen Days - Roger Donaldson + Best Historical Drama of the Year + Best Huge Flop Movie of the Year
Other great movie:
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror, TV documentary - Leon Ferguson
Other good movies (in alphabetic order):
Battle Royale/バトル・ロワイアル (Batoru Rowaiaru) - Kinji Fukasaku
The Crimson Rivers/Les Rivières Pourpres - Mathieu Kassovitz
Charlie's Angels - McG
Dancer in the Dark - Lars Von Trier
A Fish Tale/Hjælp, Jeg Er en Fisk/Help! I'm a Fish - Stefan Fjeldmark, Greg Manwaring, Michael Donovan, Michael Hegner + Best Family Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year
Nico and Dani/Krámpack - Cesc Gay + Best Barcelona Movie of the Year + Best Spanish Movie of the Year + Best Youth Movie of the Year
The Bottom 5 of 2000
1. Battlefield Earth - Roger Christian
2. Chocolat - Lasse Hallström + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
3. The Legend of Bagger Vance - Robert Redford + Most Deserved Flop of the Year + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 64.24 mil. $ range
4. The King Is Alive - Kristian Levring
5. 2001: A Space Travesty, video - Allan A. Goldstein + Worst Poster of the Year
Other failed, poor and/or mediocre movies (in alphabetic order):
American Psycho - Mary Harron
Amores Perros - Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu + Best Mexican Movie of the Year + Best Mexico City Movie of the Year
Final Destination - James Wong
Frasier - season 8 - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
The Ladies Man - Reginald Hudlin
Memento - Christopher Nolan
Miss Congeniality - Donald Petrie
[29 titles in total]
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. The Legend of Bagger Vance - 64.24 mil. $ range
2. Battlefield Earth - 61.12 mil. $ range
3. Thirteen Days - 53.4 mil. $ range
4. The Ladies Man - 18.52 mil. $ range
5. A Fish Tale - 14.36 mil. $ range
6. Ginger Snaps - 4.27 mil. $ range
7. Malèna - 4.24 mil. $ range
Combined losses: 220.15 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. Mission: Impossible 2 - 93.52 mil. $ range
2. Gladiator - 81.2 mil. $ range
3. Meet the Parents - 77.16 mil. $ range
4. Erin Brockovich - 50.48 mil. $ range
5. Miss Congeniality - 40.08 mil. $ range
6. Chocolat - 36.04 mil. $ range
7. Final Destination - 22.12 mil. $ range
8. Italian for Beginners - 16.3 mil. $ range
9. Charlie's Angels - 12.64 mil. $ range
10. The Beach - 11.6 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 441.14 mil. $
Notes:
The first edition of the lists for the year 2000 are based on regrettably few titles, (later editions will boom the title count), but the Top 10 does have 3 of the year's greatest masterpieces at its very top:
Ridley Scott's grand, thrilling adventure epic Gladiator reigns, with Lone Scherfig's bubbling, hilarious, romantic Dogme comedy Italian for Beginners taking silver and Wong Kar-Wai's sensual, erotic period romance In the Mood for Love bronze.
The Top 10 goes on with Jay Roach's gut-busting comedy remake Meet the Parents, Steven Soderbergh's true-crime biopic Erin Brockovich, John Fawcett's sexuality-probing werewolf horror Ginger Snaps, Giuseppe Tornatore's picturesque, erotic coming-of-age drama Malèna, John Woo's fiery action spectacle Mission: Impossible 2, Danny Boyle's dramatic utopia adaptation The Beach and finally Roger Donaldson's flawed but thrilling historical drama Thirteen Days.
Among the year's other noteworthy films is Cesc Gay's tender, humorous coming-out drama Nico and Dani.
In the Bottom list of the year, which yet only comprises 5 worthy titles, Roger Christian's wildly panned sci-fi disaster Battlefield Earth takes gold, Lasse Hallström's gooey, anti-Christian confection romance Chocolat silver, and Robert Redford's race-ignoring period golf drama The Legend of Bagger Vance bronze. The remaining two titles are Kristian Levring's depressing Dogme desert drama The King Is Alive and Allan A. Goldstein's spoof comedy trainwreck 2001: A Space Travesty.
Besides the big-scale, hugely expensive flops for stars John Travolta (Battlefield Earth), Will Smith, Matt Damon and Robert Redford (The Legend of Bagger Vance), other noteworthy events of the year includes the first not-stellar Frasier season (season 8 is only mediocre) and the breakthroughs of two major filmmakers (Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros and Christopher Nolan's Memento).
2000 films currently on the watch-list:
The Journey of Jared Price, Our Lady of the Assassins, Stygian, Come Undone, Burnt Money, The Yards, The Independent, Barking Dogs Never Bite
Previous annual lists:
2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess
2007 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2005 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2004 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2002 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2001 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
What do you think of the 2000 lists?
Which 2000 titles are at the top and bottom of your lists?
Which worthwhile 2000 titles are missing on the watch-list?
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