Top Ten Movies Of The Year So Far.....

[coasterguy618]

I've seen Star Wars, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory,WOTW, and the Longest Yard. Out of the fours i'v seen, i really likes them all.

[Sir Clinksalot]

I'm happy that a good version of Charlie is out so I can finally see that. Same thing with Wedding Crashers.

 

--Robb "Doesn't go to the movies anymore." Alvey

 

Me too!!! Thanks for the care package we got in the mail today.

 

Funny though, there are Russian subtitles in the movie. At the beginning where Charlie says "Hi Dad" it said "Hi Vader" ... so the word for Dad in Russian is Vader.

 

Darth Vader = Darth Dad ... Hmmm

[Wes]

^ Are you trying to imply that Darth Vader is someone's dad? Who? Han Solo?

[Sketch105]

If I can just recall what i've seen this year without looking at my ticket stubs..

 

1. Batman Begins

2. Land of the Dead

3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

4. Sin City

5. Kung Fu Hustle

 

I know, nothing really sticks out from anybody else's list...but here's what i hope to catch on DVD:

 

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Madagascar, and The Aristocrats

 

What stunk: Fantastic Four

[Homer]

I have only seen four movies in 2005:

 

-Robots

-Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

-The Island

 

This years movies were decent. The Island, IMO, was an underdog (it was a decent flick, though some hardcore moviegoers say its a ripoff of a 1979 film). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a great film with the weird ol' Burton spirit. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was random and great and Robots was another "wannabe Pixar film".

[Stitch]

I have seen none of them, give it up for a horrible summer of movies (in my opinion)

[TheGreatOne]

Sadly, none of those movies were really blow-you away films. I manage a video store (not Blockbuster, thank God), so I get to see a lot of movies and buy them for cheap.

 

Here is my list of the best films from this year.

 

1. Crash (Comes out on DVD this Tuesday). Outstanding, outstanding movie that takes a real (and very harsh) look at how racism is so prevalent in our country. It also includes racist LAPD, so you know it's accurate.

2. Sin City. Obvious.

3. Kung Fu Hustle. I'm partial to Kung Fu flicks, and for a great action-filled picture to mix in some Monty Python-style humor was great to see. A very original movie.

4. Machinist. If you liked Christian Bale in Equilbrium, then Machinist would be worth seeing. He lost 60 pounds and played an insomniac machinist trying to figure out what is bothering him. A very dark and well-made movie.

5. Upside of Anger. A woman (Joan Allen) goes crazy after her husband ups-and leaves her family without contacting them in any way. A ex-ballplayer (Kevin Costner) comes along to try to woo her. A great ensemble that makes up her daughters includes up-and-coming actress Evan Rachel Wood, Erika Christiansen, Keri Russell and the underrated Alicia Witt.

 

I've heard Broken Flowers with Bill Murray is really good and Pretty Persuasion with Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Livingston and James Woods is supposed to be another good one. It is also directed by Marcos Seiga, who has done mostly music video work for Weezer and Blink 182 among others. Broken Flowers is in theatres now, Pretty Persuasion has a limited release currently. Both new Nicholas Cage movies (Lord of War and Weather Man) along with Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown look like winners soon to be released.

 

-Bryan "Surprised Sahara wasn't on the list unless it was released in 2004" Wood