Favorite movies of 2005

[Rickypt]

Knowing there are still a few good ones coming out, these are my faves. What are yours?

Squid and the Whale
Capote
Dying Gaul
Broken Flowers
Junebug

[Miss Vicky]

Walk the Line
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mr. and Mrs. Smith

[dissention]

The Dying Gaul
Syriana
Good Night and Good Luck
Down To the Bone
Brokeback Mountain
Heights
Happy Endings
Batman Begins
Prime (I enjoyed it so much more than I should have)
The Squid and the Whale
The Beautiful Country
Manderlay
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Melinda and Melinda
Sin City
The Chumscrubber

[michelle2677]

I think the only movie I have even gone to see this year was Just Friends.
It was pretty damn funny so I 'll go with that one.

[Rickypt]

Down To the Bone


Is that the one about a mother with drug addiction? I didn't know it had been released yet.

[dissention]

Is that the one about a mother with drug addiction? I didn't know it had been released yet.

Yes. Vera Farmiga and Hugh Dillon are so good in it. I believe it was released in NY & LA in November after kicking around a bunch of festivals for most of the year, but I saw a screener copy of it. I doubt it'll get a wide release.

[GypsySorcerer]

Good Night, and Good Luck
The Upside of Anger
Shopgirl
Wedding Crashers :p

I am sure there'll be more after I catch up on my movies during the holidays.

[trackaghost]

I haven't seen a lot of the films people are mentioning because they haven't been released here yet in the UK but here's mine in no order:

Dig!
Mean Creek
In Good Company
A Very Long Engagement
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Broken Flowers
The Descent (best horror film of the year)
Sideways
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Team America: World Police
Sin City
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Million Dollar Baby
A History Of Violence
Downfall
Kung Fu Hustle
The Machinist
King Kong
The Brothers Grimm

Worst films:
Closer
White Noise
Crash
Revolver
The Amityville Horror

Most disturbing:
The Woodsman/Mysterious Skin

Most disappointing:
Elizabethtown
Wedding Crashers
The Chronicles Of Narnia

Guilty pleasures:
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Red Eye
Kicking & Screaming

[dissention]

The Descent (best horror film of the year)

Christ, I jumped out of my seat ten feet into the air when one of those creature things first appeared out of nowhere. Horrifying. Why can't they make horror movies that good in the States?

I saw a bootleg of Wolf Creek and thought that one was ****, though. So awful.

Most disturbing:
Mysterious Skin

I still don't know if I liked that one or not. But it certainly was disturbing.

[trackaghost]

The Descent is awesome :nod: Very few films scare me but that one had me jumping out of my seat too.
Wolf Creek is okay nothing special.

As for Mysterious Skin, and The Woodsman for that matter, I didn't like either really, although they were well done, but they definitely disturbed me. I felt sick after seeing The Woodsman, it was horrible.

[Karlie]

I think the only movies I saw this year were Rent and Elizabethtown, which were both excellent.

[Rickypt]

I felt sick after seeing The Woodsman, it was horrible.

Definitely the most disturbing movie I've seen this year. I haven't decided whether or not I should have gone to it.

[Serrart]

Keeping out the Italians:
Good Night, And Good Luck
Brokeback Mountain
Tzameti
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Old Boy
Samaria
Comme une image
The Wild Blue Yonder
Allegro
Mary
3 Iron
March Of The Penguins
Everything is Illuminated
Downfall
Le Petit Lieutenant
Cache
Die Grosse Stille
Sophie Scholl
Million Dollar Baby
L'Enfant
Gabrielle (even if only for Huppert's performance)


Surprinsingly good
In Her Shoes
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The Skeleton Key
The Constant Gardener


Most disappointing:
Cinderella Man
War Of the Worlds
Elizabethtown
Seven Swords
Eros (except for Wong Kar-wai episode)
Sin City
The Brothers Grimm
Manderlay
Memoirs Of A Geisha

Worst Films
Kingdom Of Heaven
The Legend Of Zorro
The Grudge
The Island
Mr And Mrs Smith

Romy

[Dark Angel]

Revenge Of The Sith
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Batman Begins
Kingdom Of Heaven
Crash

I still have so many movies I want to see.

[Karlie]

Oh, I just remembered that I also saw Harry Potter. It wasn't that good, but it was better than I expected.

[shackin'up]

brothers grimm.:nod:

[Rickypt]

I guess I'll add:

Most disappointing: Shopgirl

Worst: Bewitched. BARF. Besides being a piece of crap, it had a joke about Hepatitis C, really funny.

[AliceLover]

Saw 2 (Incredible)
Wedding Crashers
The 40 Year Old Virgen
Skeleton Key
Red Eye
High Tension (BEST HORROR FLICK OF THE YEAR)


Ill think of more later.....

[dissention]

brothers grimm.:nod:

I fell asleep. A thoroughly vacuous affair that thing was. Gilliam needs to take another long vacation. I hear "Tideland" is an even bigger turkey, unfortunately.

[CreepingDeath]

Best:

A History of Violence
Downfall
Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Batman Begins
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
King Kong

Most disappointing:

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
The Chronicles Of Narnia
Cinderella Man
Elizabethtown
Kingdom Of Heaven
Sin City

[shackin'up]

I fell asleep. A thoroughly vacuous affair that thing was. Gilliam needs to take another long vacation. I hear "Tideland" is an even bigger turkey, unfortunately.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

I cannot imagine how you can fall asleep at a film that apeals so much to all your senses.

Maybe I am more sensible??:lol: :lol:

[dissention]

:eek: :eek: :eek:

I cannot imagine how you can fall asleep at a film that apeals so much to all your senses.

Maybe I am more sensible??:lol: :lol:

Maybe you're more easily entertained. :p

It didn't appeal to anything of mine. I thought it was crap. One giant mess of a movie. Lazy script, hamfisted acting, flat jokes, and lacking almost everything that makes Gilliam a good filmmaker. No wonder it was shelved for two years and then finally dumped at the end of summer with all the other turkeys by Miramax before the Weinstein's took off.

[cliffdweller]

Most disappointing:

Sin City

I liked Sin City :shrug: I thought Mickey Rourke was fantastic!

[skcin]

I was thinking "I didn't see that many movies this year" and then I read everyone's lists. I guess I did see a few. :laugh: A couple of these were actually released in '04, but it took me a while to get to them.

I liked:

Sin City
Upside of Anger
Empire Falls
Crash
Before Sunset
Garden State
Wedding Crashers (didn't love it the first time, but saw it again at the drive-in as part of a double feature & LMAO)
Eternal Sunshine...
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (that's right)
That movie I rented with Joan Allen & Sam Elliot (help me out here, Diss, I can't remember the name of it to save my life...)


Disappointments:

Skeleton Key
The Ring 2 (that scene with the deer in the woods had me giggling. WTF?)
Bewitched
Fever Pitch

[skcin]

I just found this site when trying to find out when Wedding Crashers is being released on DVD (1/3/06, btw.) I like knowing when to expect things.

http://videoeta.com/index.html

[Dark Angel]

Garden State
Eternal Sunshine...


I forgot these two. both were very good.

[David]

My favorite 2005 movie was a movie called "Hana To Alice." It shook me to my very bowels.

[cliffdweller]

My favorite 2005 movie was a movie called "Hana To Alice." It shook me to my very bowels.


Sounds....messy :distress: :laugh:

[DavidMn]

Sounds....messy :distress: :laugh:Indeed it does.:p

[ryan8472]

All the movies I've seen this year (all four of them :laugh: ) were great, so I'll go with those:

Saw II
Revenge Of The Sith
The Goblet of Fire
Rent

[Rickypt]

I'd like to add "Memoirs of a Geisha" to my list of worst movies of 2005.

AWFUL

[Rickypt]

Need to add Transamerica to my list of faves. Felicity Huffman--amazing. Kevin Zegers--woof (and great performance).

In my opinion, just as *important* as BB Mountain. Plus it ends with a new Dolly Parton song, what more could I ask for.

[David]

1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
2. Caught in the Draft
3. Ugetsu Monogatari
4. The Seventh Victim
5. Alice to Hana
6. The Ladykillers
7. I'm All Right, Jack
8. The Lower Depths

[estranged4life]

1 movie this year (Which is average for me....Movie theatre's are obsolete with the arrival of DVD's) which was "Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire".

From the previews I will wait til next summer to see another movie ("Superman"). I hope/pray it isnt over 2.5 hours in length.

[DavidMn]

Well I saw it the other day, and my favorite of the year is The Family Stone. I LOVED it!!!!:)