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

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.