We're half-way through the year. What are your picks so far?
inside man
the king
three times
the devil and daniel johnston
brick
block party
fearless
The Proposition
Southland Tales
Shortbus
A Prairie Home Companion
Paris, Je T'aime
Cars
Pan's Labyrinth
Its a little early... we are missing the "best" half, or maybe not... but I havent seen many important ones like Cars, Southland Tales, Superman, etc.
These are some that I liked, in no particular oder....
- Thank You For Smoking
- Inside Man
- Mission Impossible 3
- V for Vendetta
- Goal!
1. L'Child
2. You Knighted XCIII
3. Carros
4. In Sighed Man
5. D Chap's Bloc Potty
haven't seen: Brick, Prairie Home, Dev and Dan, 3X
The Proposition
L'Enfant
Brick
Army Of Shadows
A Prairie Home Companion
Road To Guantanamo
Superman Returns
Old Joy
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I've been very disappointed this year, I'm not sure why.
Movies I've seen and am ok with liking:
United 93
V for Vendetta
Brick
Mission Impossible 3
The Proposition
Bad movies/Big Disappointments:
Hard Candy
X3
Da Vinci Code
Cars
The only movie i think was incredible was United 93. V was good for what it was. Brick was a very cool experiment that definitely worked. MI3 was highly entertaining, but not great. The Proposition was gritty and cinematic and epic, but there's a "but" in there somewhere.
The Proposition is going to stay #1 for the rest of the year. B-13 was pretty awesome. Prairie Home was good and A Scanner Darkly was great.
I'm going to see Brick and United 93 on Friday.
Army of Shadows
Superman Returns
Brick
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
M:I 3
Superman Returns
Brick
V for Vendetta
United 93
MI:3
I'd say Superman, United, and Brick are the only ones that have much of a chance of sticking on the year-end list
This extended dry spell of late has really put a damper on the year.
L'Enfant
United 93
Lonesome Jim
Brick
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Friends with Money
Twelve and Holding
The Proposition
Don't Come Knocking
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Five of those I'd happily watch again/wouldn't be upset to see on my year's end list.
1. The Departed
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. Art School Confidential
4. A Prairie Home Companion
5. United 93
It's got to be The Proposition for me thus far.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada was also particularly good though.
Haven't been to the cinema enough this year... M:I 3 was decent entertainment.
Manderlay?
we speak manderlay in Taiwan everyday.
Thus far, 2005 has been one kick in the nuts after another. I haven't been to the theater since X3, and I didn't bother with most of the other films that came out earlier in the year. After this weekend (PotC2 and A Scanner Darkly), I'm looking at another long, dry stretch. Wake me up when Brick and United 93 hit DVD.
Edited as of sept 24, 2006
2006 - 10 Months In
1. L'Enfant [J. Dardenne, L. Dardenne]
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2. Army of Shadows [J. Meville]
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3. Half Nelson [R. Fleck]
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4. Science of Sleep [M. Gondry]
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5. Brick [R. Johnson]
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6. A Scanner Darkly [R. Linklater]
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United 93 was very intense, I honestly have left a theater emotionally taken back this year by only one movie, the inconvenient truth, best documentary this year by far.
top 5 so far:
1. l'enfant
2. the prestige
3. the science of sleep
4. manderlay
5. a scanner darkly
need to see:
deja vu
marie antoinette
inland empire
the departed
the fountain
little miss sunshine
fast food nation
volver
army of shadows
Top Three So Far:
The Three Burials Of Marcelles Wallace
Bubblecious
Sometimes Superman Comes Back
wow. i'd love to work in a rental store there.
In chronological order:
Manderlay
V for Vendetta
Thank You for Smoking
A Prairie Home Companion
Superman Returns
Quote from: flagpolespecial on July 22, 2006, 06:43:10 AM
Quote from: picolas on July 21, 2006, 11:37:01 PM
wow. i'd love to work in a rental store there.
what do you mean? in australia? where do you live that you can't get those same ten movies at your local video store?
while one may be able to rent them, one may not find those movies topping the list of most rented and picolas would love to work at this mythical place. I believe that was what he meant.
So I guess I was right. Such a place truly is mythical.
now answer my questions in the new world thread please.
Quote from: edison on July 22, 2006, 09:38:26 PM
while one may be able to rent them, one may not find those movies topping the list of most rented
what made you think flagpole's list was most rented? did u think his theatrical list was a box-office list too?? this is completely bizarre. no one else's list has been about that, or misunderstood to be that, the thread is not about that.
Quote from: Pubrick on July 23, 2006, 12:53:58 AM
Quote from: edison on July 22, 2006, 09:38:26 PM
while one may be able to rent them, one may not find those movies topping the list of most rented
what made you think flagpole's list was most rented? did u think his theatrical list was a box-office list too?? this is completely bizarre. no one else's list has been about that, or misunderstood to be that, the thread is not about that.
he's explaining what i thought. i thought what i thought because i wasn't thinking.
I'm adding Little Miss Sunshine to my list.
adding Gabrielle to mine.
Little Miss Sunshine is on there.
Army of Shadows and L'Enfant for me. I've yet to see Little Miss Sunshine or An Inconvenient Truth yet, but I'm on my way.
... pretty much in order...
A Scanner Darkly
United 93
Nanny McPhee
An Inconvenient Truth
Time To Rest (Le Temps Qui Reste)
I also enjoyed (in no order)...
The Devil Wears Prada
Little Miss Sunshine
The Descent
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
A Prairie Home Companion
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Brick (this is 2006, right?)
Manderlay
The Notorious Bettie Page
L'Enfant
Inside Man
Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story
The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
The Untold Story of Louis Emmet Till
The Proposition
Everything else I saw was a B-grade or lower in my book (I keep a book). The top 5 there is my actual list for this thread, and the others were just movies from this year that I think are notable and worth watching.
The main bad movie to point out is Hard Candy. That movie just gets worse the more I think about it. Final Destination 3 had more respect for the audience than that movie did!
Unfortunately I've been on an island in Maine, so lucky for you all i don't get to post much, but unlucky for me, I don't get to see many films
5) Thank you for smoking
4) brick
3) M:I:3
2) V for Vendetta
1) Inside Man
I believe that this list could have been copied and pasted from another post.
Rather than sullying the list by including films I hated with ones I loved, but also to have a full 10 of what I've seen this year, the list goes...
Top 3
3 ) Over the Hedge
2 ) Little Miss Sunshine
1 ) Brick
Middle 3
3 ) Wicker Man
2 ) The Omen
1 ) V for Vendetta
Bottom 3
3 ) Pirates of the Carribbean 2
2 ) Clerks 2
1 ) Lady In The Water
Some great films are on the way for the end of the year, though. I hope these lists will see adjustments.
fountain, science, and the rest.
Quote from: JG on July 05, 2006, 01:45:28 PM
Edited as of sept 24, 2006
2006 - 10 Months In
1. L'Enfant [J. Dardenne, L. Dardenne]
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2. Army of Shadows [J. Meville]
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3. Half Nelson [R. Fleck]
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4. Science of Sleep [M. Gondry]
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5. Brick [R. Johnson]
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6. A Scanner Darkly [R. Linklater]
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1. departed
2. little children
3. prairie home companion
4. united 93
5. brick
6. flags of our fathers
7. colour me kubrick
8. inside man
haven't seen superman, sunshine, devil, inconvenient pirates.
1 INLAND EMPIRE
2 Borat
3 Volver
4 Goya's Ghosts
5 Babel
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Brick
The Proposition
Borat
United 93
three times
marie antoinette
art school confidential
old joy
l'enfant
the departed
mutual appreciation
a scanner darkly
manderlay
gabrielle
if INLAND EMPIRE and Syndromes and a Century get distributed before the end of the year, they will be at the top, respectively.
After having just seen it at the London Film Festival, it's undoubtedly a new addition to my list:
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Quote from: samsong on October 23, 2006, 03:09:11 PM
if INLAND EMPIRE and Syndromes and a Century get distributed before the end of the year, they will be at the top, respectively.
ditto, but swap them, Syndromes and a Century at the top, plus Departed to round up top 3
Quote from: Astrostic on June 27, 2006, 08:38:02 PM
The Proposition
Southland Tales
Shortbus
A Prairie Home Companion
Paris, Je T'aime
Cars
Pan's Labyrinth
+ The Fountain
+ The Host
Okay I think I have a decent list, and have seen some decent- to great- movies. I plan to see the queen soon, so maybe that will be as good as many have been saying. But I guess, well, there's a halfway through the year list, a 'final' list (but what list is ever REALLY final anyway?), and a pre-oscar season list, so I suppose this is my pre-oscar season list.
1. The Departed
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. The Queen
4. Marie Antoinette
5. A Prairie Home Companion
6. Hard Candy
7. United 93
8. Art School Condfidential
9. A Scanner Darkly
10. Thank You For Smoking
(No doubt will be way different come Feburary.)
Quote from: Derek237 on November 01, 2006, 09:57:30 AM
(but what list is ever REALLY final anyway?)
that's deep, man. but you're right, which is why i've made some changes to my list upon further reflection..
Quote from: Pubrick on October 15, 2006, 01:17:36 PM
1 INLAND EMPIRE
2 Borat
3 Volver
4 Goya's Ghosts
5 Babel
i realised that my desire to love Babel blinded me from what it really is.. far too flawed at a fundamental level, impressive only as a goodbye to a worn out partnership. it can be seen as emblematic of the very same insurmountable rift between languages it aspires to tackle.. in this case between the language of a trite arrogant scribe, and that of a passionate but shackled visionary. to paraphrase what apocalypto was acutely aware of, a partnership is not conquered from without (superficial flaws in the story), until it is destroyed from within -- a discordance that was there from the beginning.
it might come back to 6th after i revisit it, but for now it rests better in my mind to think of this tower of babel in rubble.. and to wait instead for iñarritu build his own.
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i'm satisfied.
Top 10 of 2006
10.
9.
8. The Black Dahlia
7.
6.
5.
4.
3. The Departed
2. Little Miss Sunshine
1. Brick
What may fill these gaps or even rearrange placements: Inland Empire, Babel, Borat, The Fountain, Fur, Let's Go To Prison
this is easy:
1. when the levees broke i and ii
2. miami vice
3. art school confidential
4. pan's labyrinth
i still have to see volver , the prestige, the fountain, the science of sleep, babel and the departed.
I dont have an order yet... and I hate making these things early... but for now:
- Superman Returns
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Borat
- The Departed
- Stranger Than Fiction
I liked Mission Impossible 3, Thank you for smoking, Cars, and a couple of others but I doubt they will make my final list.
This is what i've come up with:
-Brick
-The Proposition
-Borat
-A Scanner Darkly
-Tideland
-The Descent
-The Devil and Daniel Johnston
-The Prestige
-A Prairie Home Companion
-Dave Chappelle's Block Party
-Banlieue 13
-Superman Returns
I've got a mountain of movies yet to see so of course this'll change somewhat. I'm pretty positive Brick and The Proposition will stay in the top two.
Quote from: Derek237 on July 01, 2006, 08:40:39 PM
1. The Departed
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. Art School Confidential
4. A Prairie Home Companion
5. United 93
your list is exactly the same as mine, however i have not seen a prairie home companion. based on the rest of your taste, i will check it out.
on a side note...
i see cars come up a lot, and it was good and entertaining, however i was expecting more.
also, brick seems to be on a lot of lists. brick was horrible, it just didn't work. i understand what it was trying to do, and it's not that it couldn't have worked. it's just a film students wet dream of a film. i say, stop being smart with cinema, just be smart with subtext.
i guess my list would go:
1. The Departed
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. United 93
4. Art School Confidential
5. Lady Vengence (for the lack of a good year really)
Quote from: socketlevel on November 20, 2006, 11:55:57 AM
i say, stop being smart with cinema, just be smart with subtext.
i say, elaborate (feel free to answer in the brick thread)
Borat
The Departed
A Scanner Darkly
United 93
Miami Vice
Quotetop 5 so far:
1. l'enfant
2. the prestige
3. the science of sleep
4. the fountain
5. manderlay
need to see:
deja vu
marie antoinette
inland empire
the departed
the fountain
little miss sunshine
fast food nation
volver
army of shadows
scratch deja vu off that list... and I wouldn't even say it makes top 10, sadly...
the fountain took me by surprise... I'll use the same words to describe the film as I did to the soundtrack, "so good."
i just got back from a great film last night, my new list is as follows:
1. The Departed
2. The fountain
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. United 93
4. Art School Confidential
Quote from: squints on November 16, 2006, 06:38:04 AM
This is what i've come up with:
1. Brick
2. The Proposition
3. Borat
4. The Fountain
5. The Departed
6. A Scanner Darkly
7. Tideland
8. The Descent
9. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
10. The Prestige
-A Prairie Home Companion
-Dave Chappelle's Block Party
-Banlieue 13
Just saw the Departed once and the Fountain twice....and they altered my list dramatically
1. The Fountain
2. The Departed
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Science of Sleep
5. Brick
6. The Proposition
7. Little Children
Movies I missed:
The Descenet
Marie Antoinette
Shortbus
Disappointments:
Casino Royale
A Scanner Darkly
Manderlay
The Prestige
Movies that were great but I don't feel like they belong on a list:
United 93
Borat
Mission Impossible III
Still Have to See:
Babel
The Last King of Scotland
The Queen
For Your Consideration
Apocalypto
The Good Shepard/German
Letters from Iwo Jima
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
et al
(no order)
Volver
INLAND EMPIRE
Mutual Appreciation
The Departed
Brick
The Science of Sleep
Little Children
Old Joy
Little Children
Letters from Iwo Jima
Quote from: A Matter Of Chance on November 30, 2006, 08:09:52 PM
(no order)
Volver
INLAND EMPIRE
Mutual Appreciation
The Departed
Brick
The Science of Sleep
Little Children
Old Joy
Little Children
Letters from Iwo Jima
A part of us all. A part of us all. ;)
my definitive year-end top ten (for now)
1. my dad is 100 years old
2. INLAND EMPIRE
3. syndromes and a century
4. old joy
5. three times
6. marie antoinette
7. art school confidential
8. l'enfant
9. woman on the beach
10. mutual appreciation
1. Sleeping Dogs Lie
2. The Prestige
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Pan's Labyrinth [EDIT: Having now seen it, it's up here]
5. United 93
6. Half Nelson
7. The Proposition
8. The Departed
9. Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
10. Deep Water
Special mention to Casino Royale.
Would've seen and mostly likely top tenned in 2006 if my country's release dates weren't rubbish:
- The Fountain
Quote from: samsong on December 20, 2006, 11:58:34 AM
my definitive year-end top ten (for now)
1. my dad is 100 years old
2. INLAND EMPIRE
3. syndromes and a century
4. old joy
5. three times
6. marie antoinette
7. art school confidential
8. l'enfant
9. woman on the beach
10. mutual appreciation
Ah where do you live and is there a spare bedroom.
L'Enfant
Half Nelson
Little Miss Sunshine
Volver
I think there was another I really liked but what was it.
Maybe Shortbus.
Quote from: samsong on December 20, 2006, 11:58:34 AM
my definitive year-end top ten (for now)
1. my dad is 100 years old
2. INLAND EMPIRE
3. syndromes and a century
4. old joy
5. three times
6. marie antoinette
7. art school confidential
8. l'enfant
9. woman on the beach
10. mutual appreciation
Hey, that's my list! Except I haven't seen Syndromes And A Century (I'm dying to, though - I love Tropical Malady), Woman On The Beach (
definitely am excited about this one) or Art School Confidential (just plain missed it). I'd throw Pan's Labyrinth on there and then bump everything down a notch and put Army Of Shadows on at the top, even though it was a re-release.
I've only seen 10 films from 2006, so my No. 10 would be my No. 1 worst film of the year.
Oh well, here's my list, which will change each week:
1. A Scanner Darkly -- just saw it on DVD, much better than I expected it to be. What inspired casting to have Downey playing a guy who is bouncing off the walls (and ceiling), hemp advocate Harrelson is a burn out, and Keanu, who always seemed stoned in his other movies -- in this one subtext becomes text. Linklater even quotes his own Dazed and Confused by inserting Rory Cochrane, who was zonked out in D&C, as an even more zonked out guy in Scanner. Also, Linklater outdoes the other Philip K. Dick adaptations by focusing on banal details of everyday reality, rather than going for the grandiose visual splendor of Ridley Scott or Steven Spielberg.
2. Wassup Rockers -- Larry Clark does a Hispanic version of Kids. Or you could say it's The Swimmer with skateboarding Hispanic kids.
3. Harsh Times -- Christian Bale plays the Deznel role in a de facto remake of Training Day, and he does it superbly.
4. Flags of Our Fathers
5. The Departed
6. A Prairie Home Companion
7. Bubble
8. Inside Man
9. Thank You For Smoking
10. Art School Confidential
when the levees broke
the hidden blade
volver
half nelson
little miss sunshine
the science of sleep
block party
the devil and daniel johnston
three times
tristram shandy
the king
babel
b13
election 2
miami vice
two gondry and three garcia-bernal. I haven't seen that many foreign films this year, 'cause I kinda stopped working that lowly indie theater job. I should go back.
i've seriously abused my theater going duties in the last month so theres five or six that i need to se which i think will fill out my list.
i probably have a solid top 7, but the year's not over.
...
contour (http://www.contourmovie.com) should be on everyone's list. 'cause I made it.
Still waiting for Pan's, Little Children, Volver, Children of Men, Island Empire, to land in Nashvegas. Can't make a truly honest top ten until.
still a few more movies to see (catching up on my foreign films via internet downloading programs) but I think Exiled by Johnnie To deserves to be on everyone's list. So far, no North American distributor though. Imagine Takeshi Kitano's sensibilities blending with Taxi Driver-esque shootouts in a cluastrophobic hong kong.
Quote from: pete on December 26, 2006, 12:31:06 AM
contour (http://www.contourmovie.com) should be on everyone's list. 'cause I made it.
That box kick at the end is too good...
You're in the wrong thread...
Fuck. Sorry.