Movies That Rocked Your 2006

[Punky London]

Doesn't matter whether you saw them at the cinema, on DVD, etc - they don't even have to have been released this year.

Some of mine...

Little Children
Marie Antoinette
The New World
The Prestige
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Volver
Pan's Labyrinth
Grizzly Man
Monster House
Friends with Money
The King
Superman Returns
Me, You and Everyone We Know
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Departed
Brick
Little Miss Sunshine
The Night Listener


[older...]

Persona (Bergman)
The Silence (Bergman)
The Tenant (Polanski)
The Birthday Party (Friedkin)
The Dead (Huston)

[muffins]

Walk The Line, Transamerica, Good Night And Good Luck and for the first time ever I saw The Shawshank Redemption this year. I also really enjoyed The Queen. I think I saw The Painist this year and I now have it on DVD.

[LJK]

Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Hard Candy
Duck Season
Dave Chapelle's Block Party
Lonesome Jim
Brick
Tickets
The King
Strangers with Candy
Heart of the Game
Little Miss Sunshine
Monster House
The Queen
Infamous
Fur
For Your Consideration
Stranger than Fiction
Volver
Notes on a Scandal
Charlotte's Web
The Good German
The Lives of Others

[db44]

Mind you, I'm not a huge movie person, and I probably don't even see half the movies I get an inkling to see.

That said, I have one flick of the handful I saw:

Dead Man's Chest!

Which I bought yesterday on DVD, for the record. ;)

[V-Money]

Firecracker
Secret Things
Infernal Affairs
The Departed
Thank You for Smoking
Hard Candy
Water
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Paradise Now
Happy Times
Last Days
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Little Miss Sunshine
Tsotsi
Le Cercle Rouge
Something New
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Volver
Running Scared
Jackass 2
Borat
The Libertine
My Summer of Love

I didn't watch a lot of movies this year. Most of these were memorable and some were just good enough to recommend.

[Punky London]

Oh my Jesus, I completely forgot to mention "Little Miss Sunshine" (one of my favourite movies in years), "Brick" and "The Departed". I am going to movie HELL, lolz omg ok bye.

[LJK]

I won't get to see Little Children for about a month. I'm really looking forward to it!

[Punky London]

Prepare to have your entire being slapped by celluloid magic.

[V-Money]

Prepare to have your entire being slapped by celluloid magic.

The back of the DVD reads:

'Little Miss Sunshine dropped from celluloid heaven.'

Do you work for the San Francisco Chronicle?

[Punky London]

Do you work for the San Francisco Chronicle?

:nc:



Not since "Variety" started paying. Sunny Miss + 2 Jims 4 Big Monks = LOL

That's how they do headlines, right?

[Punky London]

P.S. "Little Children" is long, but you'll only think it's boring if you think "A Walk to Remember" is the best movie ever made.

[Enter.The.Circus]

Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You For Smoking
Friends With Money
Borat
Talladega Nights
United 93
Hollywoodland
V For Vendetta
The Devil Wears Prada
Akeelah and the Bee

[Punky London]

Whoa, I forgot "United 93" was this year. That was one of my favourites, too.

Christ, this year was good.

[muffins]

Oooh, I forgot Starter For Ten. OK, so the movie isn't going to change the world or anything but it kept me smiling for the duration, I found it very uplifting and it's about one of my favourite quiz shows!

[V-Money]

'Hoodwinked!' :love:

[jenn]

Dead Man's Chest
jackass2 (and 1)
The Devil Wears prada

[Janis]

blood diamond
departed
we are marshall
the descent
dead mans chest

[junio]

A Prairie Home Companion remains my #1 movie of the year.

Saw Notes on a Scandal tonight; loved it!

The Departed rocked my socks.

What else? V for Vendetta was ok.

I have much to see still.

[JustDecent]

I saw 13 Tzameti a few months ago. It wasn't a popular film, it's actually a French thriller, but I thought it was amazing. I have never seen a movie that made me feel as intense and crazy as this one. I thought my heart would explode from the suspense.

[V-Money]

I just saw my favorite movie of '06: 'A Scanner Darkly'

*bows down*

[snowultra]

i loved shes the man
hollywood land
blood diamond

[LJK]

i loved shes the man
hollywood land
blood diamond
That's an interesting list.

[V-Money]

Update:

Last King of Scotland
Mini's First Time
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Days of Glory
Jesus Camp
Venus

[Jim Colyer]

Casino Royale. There have been no good movies since.

[junio]

A Prairie Home Companion
The Departed
Notes on a Scandal
V for Vendetta
Marie Antoinette
The Good German
The Devil Wears Prada

[mistershow]

The Departed. It was one of the best movies EVER!! I think the entire cast should win an oscar for their amazing performances.

[Blueskies511]

Walk The Line :love:

[thisismyusername]

V for Vandetta, DaVinci Code, Over the Hedge, Jackass 2!

I want my money back for Nacho Libre, though.

[jamesrasul]

dreamgirls

[junio]

1. A Prairie Home Companion
2. The Departed
3. Notes on a Scandal
4. Children of Men
5. V for Vendetta
6. Marie Antoinette
7. The Good German
8. The Devil Wears Prada
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
10. The Black Dahlia
11. Little Miss Sunshine

I also recently saw Brick and loved it. I'll probably place it somewhere under The Good German. Up next: Babel, Superman Returns and An Inconvenient Truth.

[V-Money]

Top Ten:

01. A Scanner Darkly
02. The Departed
03. Children of Men
04. Babel
05. Borat
06. Water
07. Letters from Iwo Jima
08. Flags of our Fathers
09. Little Miss Sunshine
10. Last King of Scotland

Best performances that weren't nominated for Oscars:

Robert Downey Jr. - A Scanner Darkly
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby
Adam Beach - Flags of our Fathers
Sarala - Water
Clive Owen - Children of Men
Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada
Steve Carrell - Little Miss Sunshine
Leslie Phillips - Venus
Jodi Whittaker - Venus
Patrick Wilson - Hard Candy
Cameron Bright - Thank You for Smoking/Running Scared
Vera Farmiga - The Departed/Running Scared
Luke Wilson - Mini's First Time
Jeff Goldblum - Mini's First Time

[V-Money]

11. Little Miss Sunshine



I thought you hated it.

[junio]

I thought you hated it.

It's only there by default. And I didn't hate it, I just didn't like it. But that's proof of how little movies from 2006 I have seen.

Here's my reorganized top however many:

1. A Prairie Home Companion
2. The Departed
3. Notes on a Scandal
4. Children of Men
5. V for Vendetta
6. Marie Antoinette
7. The Good German
8. The Devil Wears Prada
9. Brick
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
11. The Black Dahlia
12. Little Miss Sunshine

Notice how it keeps sliding down? I didn't care for The Black Dahlia too much either.

I'm also seeing The Prestige soon, and there's a TON of movies I still want to see. So I'm sure my final list of favorites will look very different later on.

But first, I have a date with film noir. I'm seeing The Narrow Margin and Born to Kill tonight. I also wanna check out the commentary on the Brick DVD.

Btw, did you ever see The Good German? And what about Prairie did you not like? Where do you stand on Altman? Or the source material? :confused:

[V-Money]

I can't believe you're putting movies you don't care for on your list. :p

I just caught up on a lot of stuff from '06. It was a fairly decent year.

I haven't seen any of those. I have The Prestige on DVD but I'm too lazy to watch it. I was never a fan of Prairie, so I wasn't really looking forward to the movie. I do love me some Altman, though. I'm waiting till that gets on cable. I'm sure it'll premiere really soon. I have a copy of Dahlia but that looked terrible. Maybe I'll watch that and The Prestige this weekend. I still have to see Little Children. I've had that DVD for months. :o

Have you seen Hard Candy? Mini's First Time? Venus? A Scanner Darkly? Sherrybaby? Last King of Scotland? Jesus Camp?

[LJK]

I saw Hard Candy, Venus, A Scanner Darkly and Jesus Camp.

I love Hard Candy. It's #2 on my list of favorites from last year. Venus was overrated with an okay but not great performance from Peter O'Toole, who should have gotten an Oscar for My Favorite Year 20 years ago, A Scanner Darkly isn't my kind of film but it was good for what it was, and Jesus Camp was one of the scariest films I've ever seen.

[V-Money]

I thought all of the performances in Venus were divine. I really liked the movie.

I know A Scanner Darkly won't appeal to most but I was completely hynotized, mesmerized and chilled to the bone. Saw Jesus Camp for a second time on Tuesday night. Those poor kids. I want a follow-up in 10 years. It'll be interesting to see where they end up.

[junio]

I can't believe you're putting movies you don't care for on your list. :p

I just caught up on a lot of stuff from '06. It was a fairly decent year.

I haven't seen any of those. I have The Prestige on DVD but I'm too lazy to watch it. I was never a fan of Prairie, so I wasn't really looking forward to the movie. I do love me some Altman, though. I'm waiting till that gets on cable. I'm sure it'll premiere really soon. I have a copy of Dahlia but that looked terrible. Maybe I'll watch that and The Prestige this weekend. I still have to see Little Children. I've had that DVD for months. :o

Have you seen Hard Candy? Mini's First Time? Venus? A Scanner Darkly? Sherrybaby? Last King of Scotland? Jesus Camp?


I realize that the thread asks for movies that rocked my year. :o And my problem with Little Miss Sunshine lies more with the ending and the reception from the media/public/masses/whatever...

http://talk.livedaily.com/images/ld/icons/arrow_alt.gifAnd this would rock anybody's year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmPxstKwEU
http://www.oscarwatch.com/forums/images/smilies/clap.gif

But once you've seen that (^), you've seen it all. In the end it's a cute picture with some likeable (sp?) aspects, but the finale killed it for me. And that prevents me from listing it as a favorite, but my lists of movies are based on both my favorites of the year+ranking all the movies that I saw that year.

Like I told you, I haven't even begun to strach the surface of last year's movies. What's listed there is basically all I've seen. Except for X3 and Lady in the Water, but those were so bad that I simply refuse to list them at all. :o

I was just WAY TOO BUSY with school and work last year taking most of my time to get time off and enjoy movies. http://talk.livedaily.com/images/ld/icons/frown_alt.gif

As for Prairie (and Altman), I hadn't even heard of the radio show before I read that Bob was making a movie based on it, so maybe going in without expectations or previous knowledge of the source material allowed me to enjoy it in a way I may not have otherwise. And maybe even the fact that Altman died last year's got me biased, but no. Even after I saw, and loved, The Departed, I still had Prairie as my #1. Now I'm even considering whether I liked Notes on a Scandal better than TD. So Prairie is without question the best '06 release I have seen yet.

Wait, did you see A Prairie Home Companion? Or are you saying you'll wait for it to show up on cable so you can give it a 2nd viewing? :confused:

Btw, my problem with the Dahlia movie also had a lot to do with that godawful ending and that ridiculous bitch overacting her way to death. Otherwise, it was a generic film noir full of De Palma touches that bordered on being good (straight :eek: the horror!) porn. :hat:

[allflowerz]

Good night, and good luck
the departed
curse of the golden flowers

hmm...
forgot whatelse I saw....

[V-Money]

Marvin, I haven't seen it yet. I'll watch it when it's on cable. It should premiere any day now.

[junio]

Ohhhhhhhh....... I thought you had seen it and didn't like it. :o

Now I can't wait (!!!) to hear about your reaction once you've seen it.

[V-Money]

Just saw 'Stranger Than Fiction'. Awesome flick.