The Departed and Blood Diamond.

Leo Dominated this year.

predictable, i know, but screw ya:

shortbus
little miss sunshine
beales of grey gardens
friends with money (it's official: frances mcdormand = )
this filthy world
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Anx said:

Totally spaced on Little Miss Sunshine and Shortbus. I think I enjoyed Little Miss Sunshine the most out of any movie last year.

Laughwise:

Snakes On A Plane
Clerks II

I really have to see Volver very soon.

I didn't see that many movies last year. Of the ones I remember that were really good:

The Queen
Babel
Shut Up And Sing
The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
Quinceañera
Superman Returns
Little Children
American Hardcore

And then there was this one that I actually saw twice:

Drawing Restraint 9

TheFemaleNumber6 said:

The only thing I liked about that movie was Samantha Morton. She saved that film from being a total disaster.

sextonseven said:

every bit of my being wanted to love that movie. matthew barney. bjork. it seemed tailored for me to worship.

but damn.

some scenes from it i thought were quite pretty, and i typically love barney's whole schtick and let's face it, i just like looking at bjork.

but that was a chore of a movie to get through. wow. i'm glad i saw it, but i don't know that i could ever watch it again. and i got through the whole cremaster cycle (and would do it again!).

Anx said:

I don't care if it's predictable

sextonseven said:

hey! we have some titles in common
Shut up and sing was pretty good, huh
And Little Children - quirky and unconventional enough for me!

I missed American Hardcore

the Departed and Shortbus keep showing up

I missed them both

Casino Royale
The Departed
The Aristocrats (I'm pretty sure that was 2006?)

Is Robert De Niro's "Good Shepherd" film any good?

TommyRoss said:

It was like watching an old Douglas Sirk picture. I liked its pace very much.

Anx said:

I'm still scrubbing my eyeballs from watching Drawing Restraint.

Was Libertine 2006? I actually did really like that movie. Some people really hated it, not sure why...

Others:
Shortbus
Pan's Labyrinth
Casino Royale

Worst, but so bad it's a must-watch new camp classic: Wicker Man

Still dying to see: Children of Men

I thought "shortbus" had some of the worst acting and amateurish scenes, like when she freaks out and slaps the guy while they are all seeing her as a therapist. It was like a student film in that part, forced to try to be dramatic in an unconvincing way... at least to me.

ufoclub said:

weird. i thought the acting was good. i thought it was a deeply flawed movie mainly in that it wasn't as inclusive as it seemed to want to be, but i also think that's the risk they took with the film's subject matter, so no matter how big of a net got cast, they'd never catch everything. the performances were fine, i thought. then again, edith massey is one of my favorite actresses.

ufoclub said:

It was boring porn. Nothing more.

VoicesCarry said:

of course you didn't like it. it's your job to hate anything i'd like.

VoicesCarry said:

I don't think it was completely boring but it was a better experiment than it was a movie. I'd agree that the acting was terrible, outside of the lead actress anyway. JCM had been working on this movie a long time, pretty much since he finished Hedwig. That's a lot of work for something so eh.

from Netflix: After losing her husband to illness, 8-year-old Chuyia (Sarala) is forced to live out the rest of her days in a temple for Hindu widows, communing with 14 other women and a cruel headmistress who agrees to take her in. But it's through the trials of another widow, a beautiful prostitute named Kalyani (Lisa Ray) who's being courted by a man from a lower caste (John Abraham), that Chuyia learns the true restrictions of widowhood.

This is the type of movie that you think about for days afterward. After like five minutes, I didn't mind the subtitles and was completely engrossed in the movie, and weeping at the end.

little miss sunshine

shortbus

beales of grey gardens

volver

over the hedge (guilty pleasure)

cborgman said:

predictable

heartbeatocean said:

my kinds of movies. i almost put borat on there, but i thought it was overrated. good, but overrated. same with dreamgirls.

still need to see the departed, pan's labyrinth, children of men, and babel.

i LOVE oscar season

oh, and the queen too. that goes on my faves list

cborgman said:

cborgman said:

actually, the only one on your list I've seen is little miss sunshine...I'm just joshin' ya...

heartbeatocean said:

i know, m'dear.

sextonseven said:

Me too. I know it's going to be out of theatres here in no time.

Anx said:

yes, yes, yes!!!!

forgot that one -- what a pleasant surprise it was.

sextonseven said:

so, so, soooo good! classic Pedro. Penelope Cruz, Spanish actress, is light years ahead of Penelope Cruz, American film star. There's a depth and beauty in this performance that I've only seen glimpses of in her previous Spanish language roles, and not at all in her American movies. And to see Carmen Maura back... ahhh. It reminded me how much I need to get fluent in Spanish and go live in Spain.

heartbeatocean said:

SO predictable. i don't know what kind of boring pervert would come up with a list like that, but i for one find it offensive to my intelligence!