Favorites of 2005 (and a couple from 2004)
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing, Movies |
I always love to look over my movie ticket stubs for the year that was as I begin to sort my receipts in preparation for tax time. I’ll always lay them out all over the floor and attempt to put them in some kind of order from my least favorite to the best of the year. It’s always interesting because #1: Some of the movies are from 2004 since in Nashville it will always be after January 1 when we will get some of the year end releases. #2: These kind of lists are usually bogus anyway since outside of the top 5 or 10 or 12 I kind of like most all of them the same. So even though I’ve seen both Munich and Brokeback Mountain and King Kong, I have to stick by my own rules and wait until some time in 2007 to see where they fall on the 2006 list even though some of them came out in 2005!
1. Crash (I still think about it today)
2. Murderball (Tour de Force documentary making)
3. Batman Begins (Everything a comic book movie should be… fun, fun fun)
4. Hotel Rwanda (powerful beyond words)
5. Million Dollar Baby (great ending!)
6. Hustle & Flow (It IS indeed hard out hea’ fo a pimp)
7. Capote
8. The Constant Gardener
9. Vera Drake
10a. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
10b. The Chronicles of Narnia (it was just fun too despite the Jesus lion named Liam)
11. Syriana (though I didn’t understand half of it)
12. Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire (viva film festivals)
13. Jarhead
14. Star Wars: Episode III. Revenge of the Sith (my childhood comes full circle)
15. Missionary Positions (viva film festivals again)
16. Brothers (viva film festivals a 3rd time, we’d never be able to see of these movies with out them!)
17. Walk the Line (Would be higher if we’d have seen some of the more important events in Johnny Cash’s life)
18. Finding Neverland
19. North Country
20. War of the Worlds
21. Broken Flowers
22. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
23. Zathura
24. Gunner Palace
25. Sin City (a technical wonder but something was missing and I’m not sure what)
