A belated response to Johnbai's best/worst list.
Note: I noticed that (quelle horreur!) that there seemed to be gaps in my spreadsheet. I think I have plugged all the holes. Since I saw relatively few movies (in the theater) this year, I just listed all of them with a comment.
Pizza: Well constructed and engaging.
Fantastic Four: One of the best translations of a particular superhero sensibility to the screen.
March of the Penguins: Second-best bird-related documentary of the year.
Sky High: Very amusing fluff, with extra bonus Bruce Campbell action that gave us a new tagline: Siiiiiiiiiiiiide-kick!
Mad Hot Ballroom: Not the best documentary, but fun stuff.
Batman Begins: A nice balance of comic book sensibility and mainstream action movie
War of the Worlds: I like Spielberg again, and even managed to stand Cruise for the duration
Me and You and Everyone We Know: Idiosyncratic and totally cool, and I hope to see more from Miranda July.
Serenity: Made me care about characters from a defunct TV show and was a rollicking good movie to boot.
King Kong: TOO!
(Apparently I was only supposed to list official 2005 movies.)
8 comments:
Speaking of Serenity, are we on for next Sunday?
Next Sunday won't work for me - rehearsal has restarted so I'm unavailable from noon until 6pm. Saturday is wide open. Friday is too soon. Monday is way out.
But if the majority is up for next Sunday, then do it next Sunday. Leave me here. No Diane, get off my arm! Now take, I said TAKE THIS canteen. It's full. You'll need it for the road ahead. Just leave me here, I'll only slow you down. See this, Mel? This is what's called a full clip. So I'll take as many of 'em down as I can before they overrun the caravan up ahead. But rest assured: they won't take me alive.
Could we possibly break the marathon into two smaller marathons?
Soapy
RE: Firefly Marathon.
The Seahawks schedule is posted now... They play Saturday from 1:30 to 4ish. My preference therefore, is to watch the shows on Sunday. But I haven't been following everyone's day preferences. If everyone wants to do it on Saturday, then we could do it then, and I could slip out to a bar down the street and watch the Hawks game for a couple of hours and then come back. So I'M FLEXIBLE.
And hey, weren't some of those films from last year?!
John and Diane:
I saw Vera Drake on February 11, 2005.
I saw Born into Brothels on March 11, 2005.
Full details were posted here in August.
This spreadsheet has high credibility; the 2005-2006 records had some holes, but no errors.
Gee, I guess since it was my list I figured I could pick the movies on it...
I'll get cracking on editing it right away so it meets specs.
B.S. Release dates don't matter in my world. They shouldn't matter in yours. Free your mind.
List whatever movies you saw in 2005. That's what I'm going to do, and I cannot be stopped. "Closer" was out in 2004, but lots of people didn't see it until 2005.
Soapy
Sopay, are you going to list your movies on...
YOUR BLOG!?
WV: zajzcedo
Sounds like the name of someone Soapy perfroms with.
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