- Top 10 Films of 2006:
- Bottom 5 films of 2006:
- Snakes on a Plane
- Miami Vice
- The Science of Sleep
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- Film which should have been in last year’s top ten: Brokeback Mountain
- Best Remake/Reworking: Casino Royale
- Most Unnecessary Remake/Reworking: Miami Vice
- Best Director: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
- Best Actress: Laura Dern for INLAND EMPIRE
- Best Actor: Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
- Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain
- Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children (this was an astonishing performance…)
- Best Ensemble: Jackass Number Two
- Best Original Screenplay:Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck for Half Nelson
- Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan for The Departed
- Best Cinematography: Children of Men
- Best Soundtrack: Clerks II
- Best Concert Film: Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That!
- Most Alarming Cinematic Trend: Documentaries better suited for PBS being stretched to feature length for theatrical release.
- Most Memorable Line: “Even the trees walked in those fucking movies! ” — Randal Graves in Clerks II
- Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
- Best Faux Documentary: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Worst Faux Documentary: Death of a President
- Best use of Special Effects in a lame movie: The Science of Sleep
- Best Interviews in a Documentary: Why We Fight
- Film I feel guilty for missing: The Queen and The Good Shepherd (tie)
- Film I don’t feel guilty for missing: The Wicker Man (2006) and Basic Instinct 2 (tie)
>Top 10 Films of 2005:
Off by one error.
I counted 1 through 10 many time before I realized you were talking about the year. :P
I have to say I am a bit shocked “A Scanner Darkly” made it on the list, I really didn’t care for it at all, which kind of upset me as I was quite excited about its release. I have to ask why you enjoyed it so much?
Oh and Wicker Man sucked so hard I cannot find the words, I watched both endings and I could barely tell you the difference. Nicholas Cage again deserves to be punched.
See The Good Shepherd; excellent character portrayals.
It’s funny… Opinions seem completely polarized over this flick… I have people telling me it’s great, others telling me it’s terrible…
I’ll definitely see it, though…
wow out of all of those movies, I’ve only seen two:
# Casino Royale
# Miami Vice
I clearly suck at the movie watching.
Well, I see at least a movie a week, thanks to the film club.. If you wanted to revive the SF SNFC…. :P
Yeah, The Descent was way better than I expected. I just wish they kept it Them vs Cave, as I found the first half way scarier than the second (regardless of it being fun).
Re: Concert movies
Did you see Block Party? I enjoyed it more than the Beastie Boys, which lost points for the amount of “freshman film project”-style “effects”.
Chappelle’s block party? It was really good, definitely worth seeing in a theatre, but I really dug the Beastie Boys’ flick…
If The Departed was your top pick, shouldn’t it also win Best Remake/Reworking?
Hmm, I don’t see any numbers next to the top 10.
Fair enough; however, it was one of your top 10, while Casino Royale was not.
But the are completely different categories. I am saying “Casino Royale” is good for a remake. That’s like winning the special olympics.
And I’m not retarded, I know it was a remake of that other shitty movie.