It's a new year, so I tried thinking back trying to compile my top ten list of movies for 2006. I seem to remember this being a good year for film, but I actually had a hard time coming up with ten movies that were really worth mentioning. Actually, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't come up with a better list. I know we all like movies, though, so I'm hoping this will spark a little discussion in the comments board:
- The Departed - Great plot, great acting, and Scorsese doing what he does best. Who knew Leonardo DiCaprio would develop into such a good actor?
- Casino Royale - Less preposterous gadgets, plots, and villains. More action. More soul. The future of Her Majesty's Secret Service on the big screen looks bright.
- Superman Returns - One of the best superhero films, in my opinion.
- Mission Impossible: III - Sure, it was a two hour episode of Alias starring Tom Cruise, but why is that necessarily a bad thing? Boycotting Tom Cruise is just silly. Who cares about his Scientology beliefs? Heck, half of Hollywood doesn't believe in anything. No one is as dependable for good high-octane entertainment at the movies than Tom.
- United 93 - Almost made me want to throw up, it was that powerful. I normally see movies to escape the real world. Scary that this one was grounded (no pun intended) fully in reality.
- The Painted Veil - I'm a sucker for a romance, and this one was painfully truthful.
- Hard Candy - It's an odd film that actually manages to create a tiny amount of sympathy for a pedophile. It's a fleeting moment, but a moment, nonetheless.
- An Inconvenient Truth - May be the first time I actually kind of admired Al Gore. With the wacky winter we're having, perhaps he's on to something. You have to kind of wonder whether this side of him would have ever gotten out had he become President.
- Miami Vice - Not perfect, but still very Michael Mann.
- The Science of Sleep - Another love story, albeit a very trippy love story. I'm such a sissy.
- Down in the Valley
- The Illusionist
- Flags of Our Fathers/Letters From Iwo Jima
- Borat
- Half Nelson
- The Fountain
- Apocolypto
- Blood Diamond
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Good Shepard
- Babel - The more I think about this movie, the more I think I get it. Still, I'll need to view it again at some point to elevate it's status in my mind.
- Little Miss Sunshine - A funny movie, but not as heart-grabbing as I was led to believe.
2 comments:
I had a fairly movie free year this year... missed way too many, but I will tell you my favorites and a few I thought blew of what I did see.
My number one by far is Miami Vice. This movie just did it for me... and the extended directors cut is officially now in my top ten favorite films of all time. If that had been the version released to the theatres, it would have gotten the respect it deserves. Borat is so funny, and so inciteful, it hurts. And I literally almost threw up from laughing so hard. No movie in the theater has ever done that to me. Flags Of Our Fathers, though was long and rather boring. I know it was supposed to be about the bond drive that arose from the staged photo, but a few action scenes longer then 5 minutes would have helped, Clint... Although I do plan on seeing the counterpart film Iwo Jima, as I hear those that didn't like the first will like it, and conversly that those... well you get it.
What else... MI:3 good, Cars not so much.
Ok, I'm digging against cartoons, I'll sign off now.
I saw Blood Diamond and I would say that it is good but it isn't worthy of a top ten. (That last sentence was for Scooty.) The movie does more to make you think about diamonds, and oil, and tourism for that matter. Okay so the film doesn't make you think about the last two unless you are me. And why Leo got a best actor nod for this on the Golden Globes kind of surprises me.
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