My Picks For The Best of 2006

[mrbakasan]

It is funny to me that many people who love Lynch's work, don't like Dune.  I hate David Lynch movies, but I love Dune.  What a crazy world.

[kodiakthejuggler]

It is funny to me that many people who love Lynch's work, don't like Dune.  I hate David Lynch movies, but I love Dune.  What a crazy world.

I've only seen one of Lynch's movies all the way through: Mulholland Drive. It's mysterious, it's captivating, and at one point in the movie, something happens, and the movie switches from odd to downright psycho. After that crucial point, I have absolutely no idea what's happening.

Oh, and there's hot girl on girl action...   

[mrbasehart]

It is funny to me that many people who love Lynch's work, don't like Dune.  I hate David Lynch movies, but I love Dune.  What a crazy world.

I've only seen one of Lynch's movies all the way through: Mulholland Drive. It's mysterious, it's captivating, and at one point in the movie, something happens, and the movie switches from odd to downright psycho. After that crucial point, I have absolutely no idea what's happening.

Oh, and there's hot girl on girl action...   

I think my favourite part in Mulholland Drive is just before everything goes tits up.  When the two women go to the theater and

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The man comes out on stage and proclaims that everything that will happen "is an illusion".  Then a beaten and haggard woman comes out on stage and belts out a stunning version of "Crying" in Spanish, only to drop to floor unconscious.  There's a bunch of confusion and finally, it is all revealed to be an illusion, just like the guy said.  I think the scene encapsulates the entire movie.

[Minnesota]

sorry mrB but your spoiler just proved the opposite for me Although I'm not familiar with this Lynch character I'm now convinced that he needs to be riffed

[SmilinJackRoss]

I finally saw The Fountain, and it is certainly in my top ten for the year.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

1.  casino royal
2.  pirates 2
3.  Cars
4.  the departed
5.  stranger than fiction
6.  fountain
7.  xmen 3
8.  lady in the water
9.  V for vendetta
10.  mission III

List based on how much i ENJOYED the movie, not nessicarily how good the movie as a whole.  Also note that i maybe saw a total of 13 or 14 new movies total last year that were released last year.  There were several i really wanted to see but never got to

[dignan]

Let's see...

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Children Of Men
3. Casino Royale
4. The Hills Have Eyes
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
6. Borat
7. The Descent (yeah, I know, it came out in 2005, but I didn't see it until 2006)
8. The Departed
9. Cars
10. Rocky Balboa (seriously!) 

[davo]

some of my list may be from 2005,because i mostly rent:

Brick
The Descent
world trade center
V For Vendetta
Cars
Grizzly Man
slither
over the hedge
Thank You for Smoking
rocky balboa (finally a fitting end to the series!)

honorable mentions:
Nacho Libre
 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
MI3
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

disappointments:
superman returns
Talladega Nights
Ultraviolet
clerks II (your mortgage is now paid, Mr. Smith. cut with the lazy dick & fart jokes
  & start being funny again)
monster house (must've not been in the mood for it or something because the art is great in it)
A Scanner Darkly  (yet another philip k dick novel ruined on screen. it looked great....and that's it.)


crap of the year:

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
Bloodrayne


Hopeful for:
Flags of our Fathers
For Your Consideration
Casino Royale
Apocolypto
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

not that i feel one way or the other about it but what didnt u like about scanner?

[Minnesota]

not that i feel one way or the other about it but what didnt u like about scanner?

since we're on the subject of davo's picks (with all due respect )

Brick  ------------- havent seen it
The Descent
world trade center
V For Vendetta
Cars
Grizzly Man ------------- havent seen it
slither
over the hedge
Thank You for Smoking ------------- havent seen it
rocky balboa  ----------- ... I've heard good things...

honorable mentions:
Nacho Libre
 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
MI3
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

[Andrew1911]

not that i feel one way or the other about it but what didnt u like about scanner?

since we're on the subject of davo's picks (with all due respect )

Brick  ------------- havent seen it
The Descent
world trade center
V For Vendetta
Cars
Grizzly Man ------------- havent seen it
slither
over the hedge
Thank You for Smoking ------------- havent seen it
rocky balboa  ----------- ... I've heard good things...

honorable mentions:
Nacho Libre
 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
MI3
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

You better be taking the Descent off the list because it's 2005 movie...

[Minnesota]

Decent was cool because they pretended to be a horror movie at first (the cabin), then they arrive at the cave and I enjoyed the fact that the filmmakers were messing with us... what I didn't like however were the characters, frankly I'm glad the "heroine" got a grudge. Why in the world did she kill her friend for no apparent reason, unbelievably irresponsible filming.

[davo]

heheh..good to know we're not opinionated about movies. how can you cross off a movie on my list you haven't seen?

not that i feel one way or the other about it but what didnt u like about scanner?

i thought the story just dragggged & the (some of the) dialog was cliche. 

i think it disappointed because i expected so much. the look of it was so fantastic, i was expecting the rest of the elements to live up to the look. (think "dark city" - the story,etc was a good as the look of it)

[Andrew1911]

heheh..good to know we're not opinionated about movies. how can you cross off a movie on my list you haven't seen?

not that i feel one way or the other about it but what didnt u like about scanner?

i thought the story just dragggged & the (some of the) dialog was cliche. 

i think it disappointed because i expected so much. the look of it was so fantastic, i was expecting the rest of the elements to live up to the look. (think "dark city" - the story,etc was a good as the look of it)

What the hell was cliche about the dialogue? I want you to name one other movie that had the same dialouge like A Scanner Darkly. The story does not drag on. It was a fantastic film/

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

I thought some of the dialog was annoying, but i think in a way the characters were supposed to be.  They weren't the cream of civilization to be sure.