Favorite movies of 2005
 

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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