Another Top 10 List: Best Movies Of 2005

[Bram]

None of you has mentioned the LITERALLY best movie of the year, which was Kung Fu Hustle.

While it was surprisingly amusing, I do not consider it one of the top 10 movies....

According to that site, I've only seen 22 movies this year.

According to that list, I've seen 32. The list is discriminatory, however, since I've seen a LOT morie movies than that in cinema's this year. A lot of them (at least 10-15) were European arthouse flicks (mostly Spanish, some German, French and one or two horrible Dutch ones). Watch for Cronicas in the upcoming Oscars.

[Smmenen]

The reason I saw so many fewer films this year than last year is because I saw alot of repeats.

I saw Batman Begins three times and Revenge of the Sith five times. 

[Machinus]

The reason I saw so many fewer films this year than last year is because I saw alot of repeats.

I saw Batman Begins three times and Revenge of the Sith five times. 

Those are at the top of my list for 2005.

[Smmenen]

I'm still formulating my top 10 list, that's why I haven't posted it yet (and because I still have some movies to see), but I'm pretty sure my top three are going to be:

1) Crash
If you haven't seen this, please do.  This movie will probably creep into my top 20 films of all time list.  It is particularly poignant for me, esp. at this point in my life. 

2) Grizzly Man

3) History of Violence

Those three films were hands down the best I saw this year.

Although, I"ve probably seen Revenge of the Sith 10 times this year (I own the DVD), it gets better upon repeat viewings.  But I"m a huge Sith dork.  The film has alot more flaws than Batman Begins, but I still enjoy it because of the subject matter.  But I can't in all honesty say that either BB or  ROTS were in the top 10 movies I saw this year, unless I really start getting desparate as I formulate that list.

[Vegeta2711]

Crash was soooo terrible, but that's probably because I live in California so it seems so boring and stereotypical to me.

[Clown of Tresserhorn]

1) Rent

2) Dukes of Hazzard

3) Hitch

4) Kingdom of Heaven

5) Revenge of the Sith

6) Madagascar

7) Walk the Line

8) Wedding Crashers

9) The Excorcism of Emily Rose

10) Waiting

Rent could possibly be one of my favorite movies/muscals of all time...

Waiting was fucking HILARIOUS, as I worked in countless restaurantes...

Excorcism of Emily Rose was by and far one of the best suspense movies I've ever seen. I seriously couldn't sleep for like a week after watching this...

Wedding Crashers was awesome...

Chronicles of Narnia would probably be 11, but it just didn't do it for me...

I haven't watched Syriana or Kong yet, but I think they'd probably make the list...

[Godot]

Im not sure I can rank them, but my list of top movies includes:

Batman
Star Wars
The Aristocrats
Crash
Wedding Crashers
40 yr old virgin
A History of Violence
The Upside of Anger
Sin City

Did anybody see Thumbsucker?  I thought that looked really interesting but I havent been able to find it on the int...er, didnt notice when it was in theatres.

Also, am I the only person who thought Narnia sucked?  I almost didnt even finish watching the shit.  It was well executed and looked amazing, but that story was awful.  Its a classic blah blah, I dont care.  When Santa showed up and gave those whiny little pussies gifts I wanted to hurl.

[WildWillieWonderboy]

The only problem with Batman Begins is that Katie Holmes is terrible. She has such an important part and she blows it horribly. Any non-Katie scene is good. Sin City also rocked (first DVD I purchased), as did King Kong, so get out of your basements and see it already.

Jarhead gets biggest disappointment marks. I so badly wanted that movie to be good.

[ctthespian]

I saw at least 38 '05 movies this year.

10 in no order that I thought were the best.
Crash
The Family Stone
Walk The Line  (I don't think anyone mentioned this one. Truly great.)
King Kong
A History of Violence
Rent
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Happy Endings
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Batman Begins

Runners up:
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Coach Carter
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Hitch
The Jacket
The Legend of Zorro
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Sin City
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Movies I still need to see:
Four Brothers
Capote
Cassanova
Cindarella Man
Pride and Prejiduce
Proof
Shopgirl
Wedding Crashers
Munich

-Keith

[Shock Wave]

I'm really surprised at how many "A History of Violence" supporters there are in this thread. That movie easily makes my "Top 5 Worst Movies Ever" list, and although my friends and I regularly disagree on which movies are good, we all concluded that this one was an absolute viewing debacle on many levels. Ah well, to each his/her own. Oh, and nobody enjoyed "Cinderella Man" or "Walk the Line" yet?

[Bram]

Frankly, I completely forgot about Cinderella Man. It was pretty good, though I don't think I could take anything off my t10 list for it.

[Kowal]

Rich, Canadians are silly.  That movie wasn't just the best one I've seen this year--  it was the best I've seen in several years.

[Shock Wave]

Rich, Canadians are silly.  That movie wasn't just the best one I've seen this year--  it was the best I've seen in several years.

I assume you mean from a comedy-value perspective? ie. You were laughing throughout the movie at how hysterically terrible it was?

[Vegeta2711]

I actually liked AHV until the last 20 minutes or so...  then it was the biggest load of bullshit ever.

Didn't help I actually read the graphic novel beforehand.

[WildWillieWonderboy]

Crash has a lot of appeal and apparent depth at first glance. Then you realize it's just a more patronizing kind of racism. All of the character are stock demographics and they interact in ways that are palatable to stereotypes in modern society.

Themes in Crash: Cops hate Black people, rich people and Arabs hate Mexicans, Mexicans have tattoos and live in bad neighborhoods but aren't as bad as black people, Arabs buy guns to solve their problems and are completely backwards people, black people carjack other people, some black people are whiter than others, white people are racist and that's bad, black people are racist but it's ok. The movie can easily be summed up as OMG he just said the N word.

Watch Do the Right Thing and you will see how completely irrelevant Crash is. Or, if you absolutely gots to have some Don Cheadle, watch Hotel Rwanda.

[Dr. Sylvan]

These are all the movies I've seen from the above-linked 2005 list, in most-enjoyed descending order:

Layer Cake
Serenity
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Wedding Crashers
Must Love Dogs
King Kong
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Guess Who
Bewitched
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Unleashed
War of the Worlds

Comments:

Episode III, for me, was a let-down. Best of the new ones, but poorly written. It would be a few spots lower if it weren't for the over-attachment to the series.

War of the Worlds was infuriating. The heroes ran for two hours, with no impact on the end result. That drives me nuts; I want the movie to be about the characters that made the difference, and if there aren't any, don't make a movie about it!

Narnia was produced just fine, but the story is too much like a kid's fantasy---I also hate it when the heroes don't seem to have done anything to earn their place.

I haven't seen Layer Cake mentioned here yet, so I'll pimp it highly: I thought it was a well-nuanced and believable drug story, almost as good as Traffic, though with less of the police theme.

There are probably twenty or more of the movies on that list that I'll see eventually, but I just don't go to the theater enough. I habitually wait 1-10 years before seeing a movie even when I hear other people recommend it.

[nataz]

I walked out of AHV thinking it was probably one of the worst movies I had seen in my entire life.

*possible spoiler warning below*








The running gag during the movie for my firends and I centered around the joke, "and then it ends", which we would say after every single scene in the movie. He kills the doods, and then it ends. He 69's his wife in a cheerleader outfit, and then it ends. He kills more doods, and then it ends. His son is upset and kicks ass, and then it ends. He rapes his wife, and then it ends. etc etc et,. We actually shouted "and then it ends" at the real end of the movie as a joke, and then when it did end, we didn't know what to do. We just kind of sat there for a second, and then burst out laughing.

To us, at the time, that was the biggest joke ever. It was like watching a series of 5 min stand alone video clips, which had only a passing connection to each other. We went in expecting a movie based around what we saw in the previews. A bad ass dude kicking ass in a coffee shop. As the movie continued, we kept waiting for his secret CIA identity to come out or something, but as we all know by now, there isn't one. There is no twist, he is what he is, a killer/loving father depending on his mood/situation (?). We had never heard of, let alone read, the graphic novels and had no idea that it was going to be like this.

Now, taking a second look at the movie, and realizing that its supposed to be like that, I think I actually really enjoy it. If you can accept that this is an adaptation of a graphic novel, then this moves from a joke, into a very well done work of art. The raw violence, the huge swings in emotion, all fit perfectly into something that is supposed to be framed into just a few boxes.

[JACO]

I think there are too many bad movies realeased for me to name 10 good movies this year. The only movies from 2005 that I could possibly recommend to other people with any seriousness are these:
Sin City
Syriana
Batman Begins
Munich

And if you want to be entertained, but not see a good movie, the movie that shattered the unintentional comedy scale as we know it (which was defined by the movie Transporter), you can always see Trasnporter 2.

[TJ-Whoopy]

Just saw King Kong this weekend and would definately add that to my list probably just under SinCity, I think the creature effects/CG were amazing.

[Vegeta2711]

In no particular order:
Sin City
Munich
Wallace and Grommit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Chinjeolhan geumjassi (Sympathy for Ms. Vengance)
Serenity
Batman Begins
Syriana

After getting to watch Munich and Syriana I was pleasantly impressed by the end of year movies. <3