This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2005

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i liked:
War of the Worlds
Wedding Crashers
The Weatherman
2046

and that's all i can think of off the top of my head!

Off the top of my head, this year I liked:

Constant Gardener
Beat My Heart Skipped
Holy Girl
Grizzly Man
My Summer Of Love
Batman movie

I'm sure City Of The Future and Los Angeles Plays Itself would be in there, but I didn't get a chance to see either.

I hate making lists.

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The gayest of any given award show can't be as gay as the least-gay Tony award show. Well, maybe the Daytime Emmys.

Did anyone see Where The Truth Lies?

xp a shame!

Death of Mr. Lazarescu
2046
The World
Tale of Cinema
Grizzly Man
Land of the Dead
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
The Squid and the Whale
Regular Lovers
History of Violence
Three Times

Stuff I still need to see:
Howl's Moving Castle
Mary
My Father is 100 Years Old
Tropical Malady
Kings and Queen
Keane
Last Days
No Direction Home
Syriana
Takeshis
Wayward Cloud

I seriously just had a dream where I was an ex-employee of a gigantic mutliplex and just wandered into various films on the way home from my new job. I peeked into the Sarah Silverman movie for a little while, and (having seen it already) left. I noticed while I was walking out that a group of special ed adults were giving me evil glares for walking out. Down the hall, I noticed that Where the Truth Lies was playing and I made like I was going to go into it, but it was just letting out and a number of families with little blond girls not unlike Dakota Fanning were all leaving, shaking their heads. The next show wasn't going to start until one in the morning, so I went and flinged butter topping at members of the audience for Walk the Line.

I saw Tropical Malady. It was a bit disappointing.

I wonder if Syriana will actually be good.

xp oh no, C0L1N!

I think it's mostly that the critics' screenings for both films are fairly late in the game. Long past the time Peter Travers would wish to post his first-outta-the-gate top 10. (I'd expect The New World to be on his list when the time comes, simply based off his predictability.)

Funniest movie I saw this year:
Green Street Hooligans (unintentional)

Best films:
Wedding Crashers
The Constant Gardener
Masculin-Feminin (re-release, obviously)
The Devil's Rejects
My Summer of Love
Serenity

Good, but not the best:
Good Night & Good Luck
Domino
The Island
Hustle & Flow
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Layer Cake
The Skeleton Key (shockingly enough)
The Longest Yard

Better than expected but still not very good:
Cry_Wolf
Lord of War

Disappointingly Mediocre:
Land of the Dead
Corpse Bride
Jarhead
Walk The Line

I watched it again for Nicole Kidman:
The Interpreter

Totally Overrated (but not necessarily bad):
2046
Broken Flowers
Oldboy
Batman Begins
40-Year Old Virgin
A History of Violence

Boy did these fucking suck:
Willy Wonka
Sin City
Bad News Bears
The Brothers Grimm

You saw The Island.

no, and it got buried so quickly in the US it's shameful. I really wanted to see it, just couldn't make it.

I didn't see too many movies out this year, and that was partly because, for the first time in a long time, I found myself really disappointed in movies. I don't know if it's jsut because I've reached some saturation point where I've realized "fuck this, this was NOT worth the $20 we just spent to see it" or what. But Me You And Everyone We Know? MEH. Broken Flowers? Gimmie a fucking break.

I liked:

2046
Wallace and Grommit
Walk the Line

that was about it.

I still like you though.

The Dreamers wasn't amazing by any means, but I did enjoy it. Batman was great!

i did...we swapped movies!

Where? At Toronto?

Decent trio, jaymc.

I'll take the first two and I'll let the third one in the bedroom on a pass, as long as he holds the door for Jake Gyllenhaal, Eric Bana, and Topher Grace.

OMG Alfred, I thought about naming every single one of these on my list as well.

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Oh duh, add Celia Weston and Amy Adams to my supporting actors for Junebug.

I'm amused Morbius loved Me and You and Everyone Smug Idea We Ever Stole from David Byrne's True Stories and The Constant Gardener.

I wasn't expecting much from Miranda July and was pleasantly surprised, Alfred, but I haven't seen the Byrne movie in 20 years. (plus stealing good ideas can work) And I haven't seen TCG, that was someone else.

Looks good to me.

Morb, Yehuda was actually in Munich for about three seconds. He's the Israeli soldier who picks Eric Bana up at the airport for debriefing and shakes his hand.

Good to great, but it's not the same as catching them on their first run. I had to wait till November to rent Tropical Malady, for example.

Did anyone link the Film Comment readers' poll yet? They have Crash in their top 20.

1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, U.S.) (1)
2. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai, China/Hong Kong/France) (2)
3. Good Night, And Good Luck (George Clooney, U.S.)(11)
4. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, U.S.) (7)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, U.S./Canada) (5)
6. Capote (Bennett Miller, U.S.) (10)
7. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, U.S.) (6)
8. Match Point (Woody Allen, U.K./U.S.) (21)
9. Munich (Steven Spielberg, U.S.) (17)
10. The New World (Terrence Malick, U.S.) (25)
11. Caché/Hidden (Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany/Italy) (4)
12. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, U.S./France) (39)
13. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, U.S.) (19)
14. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, U.S.) (20)
15. The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, U.K./Germany) (32)
16. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, France) (3)
17. Crash (Paul Haggis, U.S) (—)
18. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, U.S.) (16)
19. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, U.S.) (37)
20. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box, U.K./U.S.) (34)
21. Head-On (Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey) (15)
22. King Kong (Peter Jackson, U.S.) (48)
23. Junebug (Phil Morrison, U.S.) (29)
24. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, France) (31)
25. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina) (12)
26. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, U.S.) (26)
27. No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, U.S.) (50)
28. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) (13)
29. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) (8)
30. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) (33)
31. Land of the Dead (George Romero, U.S.) (14)
32. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) (36)
33. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, U.S.) (41)
34. The World (Jia Zhangke, China) (9)
35. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) (27)
36. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany) (40)
37. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, U.S.) (—)
38. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan/Taiwan) (22)
39. Walk the Line (James Mangold, U.S.) (—)
40. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, China/Hong Kong) (23)
41. Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright, U.S./U.K.) (46)
42. Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan, Ireland/U.K.) (28)
43. The Intruder (Claire Denis, France) (18)
44. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, France) (—)
45. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) (—)
46. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy) (43)
47. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, Netherlands/Israel/Germany/France) (24)
48. Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui, France) (42)
49. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, U.S.) (47)
50. Jarhead (Sam Mendes, U.S.) (—)

Eric, I take it you've seen Yehuda Levi in Yossi & Jagger (I missed) or that was an impactful 3 seconds.

The Oughties are striking me the way '90s music struck Stephin Merritt: best ever for reissues, worst ever for new stuff.

Let Viggo Mortenson rehash the tired clichés of fantasy and thrillers. Moviegoers with hearts, minds and eyes know that Paul Walker is a more significant movie icon. Walker confirms his movie star status with Eight Below.

I'd put K&Q in a rundown of the Respectable Overrateds like this one (thx for alerting me to him, Eric):

http://www.geocities.com/michaelsicinski/2005notgoodenoughformyexactingtaste.htm

Stephin M. is not remotely an idiot, even if he's wrong. I also would not take pop radio of '90-94 over any other era but '94-present. (obv since SM is of my generation, tho I was Indie Rock and he was not -- landing on Merge notwithstanding -- we're more apt to agree).

Alfred, first-time film viewings in pieces? Go to confession.

Terrible year.. There are not 10 movies from 2005 I've seen that I enjoyed. As far as I can tell, there are seven, and there might be more if I watched enough of what's been listed in this thread, but if you really have to dig to find stuff you like, then it's simply not a good year.

01 Palindromes
02 A History Of Violence
03 The Squid And The Whale
04 Sin City
05 Kung Fu Hustle
06 Broken Flowers
07 I Heart Huckabees

08 The Devil And Daniel Johnston

kidding, that was 2006

08 The Baxter

Something like an '05 top 10:

Kings and Queen
Munich
War of the Worlds
Land of the Dead
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Joy of Life
The Devil's Rejects
Forty Shades of Blue
Cinévardaphoto
Palindromes