top 10 films of 2006

[Vic Sage]

not a great year, i'd rank my top 10 as:

1) Stranger Than Fiction
2) Little Miss Sunshine (Oscar nom)
3) Thank You for Smoking
4) Casino Royale
5) Happy Feet (Oscar nom)
6) Dreamgirls
7) V for Vendetta
8) Invincible
9) Superman Returns
10) Apocalypto

with honorable mentions to:

- Akeelah and the Bee
- Art School Confidential
- Cars (Oscar Nom)
- Children of Men
- Clerks II
- Departed, The (Oscar nom)
- Flushed Away
- Inside Man
- Lucky Number Slevin
- Mission: Impossible III
- The Notorious Bette Page
- Pan's Labyrinth (Oscar nom)
- Prestige, The
- Scanner Darkly, A
- Snakes on a Plane
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- X-Men: The Last Stand

and dishonorable mentions to:

- Aquamarine
- Bloodrayne (razzie nomination)
- Failure to Launch
- Hills Have Eyes, The
- Hollywoodland
- Lady in the Water (razzie)
- Pink Panther, The
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- RV (razzie)
- Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The (razzie)
- Ultraviolet
- Doogal
- Monster House (Oscar nom)
- Underworld: Evolution
- Miami Vice
- Pursuit of Happyness, The

I also saw:

- Break-Up, The
- Click
- Da Vinci Code, The
- Curious George
- Charlotte's Web
- History Boys, The
- Over the Hedge
- The Proposition
- Wild, The
- World Trade Center
- Beerfest
- Benchwarmers, The
- Eragon
- For Your Consideration
- Fountain, The
- Idiocracy
- Man of the Year
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend
- Night at the Museum
- Queen, The (Oscar nom)
- Rocky Balboa
- Stick It
- Jet Li's Fearless
- Ant Bully, The
- Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
- Open Season

Here are all the major feature films released this past year that i HAVE NOT yet seen ( * = I plan to see):

- 16 Blocks
- Accepted
- All the King's Men
- American Dreamz
- ATL
- Babel (Oscar nom)
- Basic Instinct 2 (razzie)
- Beer League
- Big Momma's House 2
- Black Christmas
- Black Dahlia, The *
- Blood Diamond
- Bobby
- Borat *
- Butterfly Effect 2, The
- Copying Beethoven
- Covenant, The
- Crank
- Date Movie
- Dead Girl, The
- Deck the Halls (razzie)
- Deja Vu *
- Descent, The
- Devil Wears Prada, The
- Eight Below
- Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The
- Fast Food Nation
- Final Destination 3
- Find Me Guilty
- Firewall
- Flags of Our Fathers *
- Flicka
- Flyboys
- Freedomland
- Friends with Money
- Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (razzie)
- Glory Road
- Good German, The *
- Good Shepherd, The
- Good Year, A
- Gridiron Gang
- Groomsmen, The
- Grudge 2, The
- Guardian, The
- Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A
- Half Nelson
- Holiday, The
- Home of the Brave
- Hoot
- How to Eat Fried Worms
- Idlewild
- Ilusionist, The *
- Infamous
- John Tucker Must Die
- Keeping Up with the Steins
- Lake House, The
- Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (razzie)
- Last Holiday
- Last King of Scotland, The
- Last Kiss, The
- Let's Go to Prison
- Little Children
- Little Man (razzie)
- Madea's Family Reunion
- Marie Antoinette
- Marine, The
- Material Girls (razzie)
- Nacho Libre
- Nativity Story, The
- Night Listener, The
- Notes on a Scandal
- Omen, The
- Painted Veil, The
- Poseidon
- Prairie Home Companion, A
- Pulse
- Running with Scissors *
- Saw III
- Scary Movie 4
- School for Scoundrels
- Scoop
- Sentinel, The
- Shaggy Dog, The (razzie)
- She's the Man
- SherryBaby
- Shortbus
- Silent Hill
- Slither
- Step Up
- Take the Lead
- Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny *
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The
- Tristan + Isolde
- Unaccompanied Minors
- United 93
- We Are Marshall
- When a Stranger Calls
- Wicker Man, The (razzie)
- You, Me and Dupree
- Zoom (razzie)

foreign lang:
- Letters from Iwo Jima * (Oscar nom)
- Science of Sleep, The *
- Turistas
- Volver
- Catch a Fire
- After the Wedding (Oscar nom)
- Days of Glory (Oscar nom)
- The Lives of Others (Oscar nom)
- Water (Oscar nom)

animation:
- Barnyard
- Everyone's Hero

docs:
- Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
- Inconvenient Truth, An (Oscar nom)
- Jesus Camp (Oscar nom)
- Shut Up & Sing
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
- Wordplay
- Jackass Number Two
- Deliver Us from Evil (Oscar nom)
- Iraq in Fragments (Oscar nom)
- My Country, My Country (Oscar nom)

Edited January 2, 2007 by Guest

[Guest sharpie]

Looking at that list, I've only seen 15 '06 releases. Thought I'd seen more. Now that my kids are of an age that they don't need (or want) my accompaniment I didn't end up seeing any kid movies. Therefore, here are my top 10 movies:

Little Miss Sunshine
Little Children
Children of Men
The Departed
Half-Nelson
Inside Man
Borat
Babel
The Queen
The Science of Sleep

Bottom 5:
An Inconvenient Truth
For Your Consideration
Keeping Up With the Steins
A Prairie Home Companion
Who Killed the Electric Car?

Between the two of us, Vic and I have seen 41 '06 movies with only two overlaps, Little Miss Sunshine and Inside Man.

[Guest Edgy DC]

1. Stranger Than Fiction
   
2. Little Miss Sunshine


3. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby


4. Superman Returns


5. Click


6. Nacho Libre


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9. 
   

I imagine Nacho LIbre would have been better than Click if I got through it, but I turned her off. With Click I was at the theatre with kids and escape was not so easy.

[metsmarathon]

um, i only saw three of 2006's theatrical releases

the best of them was cars
the worst of them was happy feet
and the movie i saw in an airplane was mission impossible iii

i need to get out more.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

You can rent Little Miss Sunshine.

I suggest that you do.

[Guest Rotblatt]

For me:

1. Volver (great story, amazing performances.)
2. Little Miss Sunshine (loved it.)
3. Half Nelson (every moment felt earned--great acting)
4. L'Enfant (gritty, rather shocking story about a young man growing up)
5. Casino Royale (fun.)
6. Borat (liked it, didn't love it, but it was pretty innovative)
7. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (kind of long, but still gripping)
8. Superman Returns (loved it.)
9. The Devil Wears Prada (I hated the whiny heroine and was meh on the story, but damn was Streep good.)
10. The Descent (really good thriller. Could've done without the crazy bat dudes, but still a good movie).

[Vic Sage]

"3 burials" = 2005

but i've added "descent" to the 2006 list.

[soupcan]

Here are the top 9 of what I saw this past year.

1. The Departed
2. Casino Royale
3. Cars
4. X-Men: The Last Stand
5. Wordplay
6. Monster House
7. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
8. Night at the Museum
9. Little Miss Sunshine

I can't in good conscience include any of the below to the above list to create a 'top ten' because although while I did see them I was not even remotely impressed.



Happy Feet
Over the Hedge
Pink Panther, The
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
RV
Click
How to Eat Fried Worms
Keeping Up with the Steins
Shaggy Dog, The
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Open Season


Geez Louise I see lots of 'G' movies.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It turns out I've seen exactly ten 2006 movies to date. Eight of them I saw in theaters, one on DVD (Cars) and one on an airplane (My Super Ex-Girlfriend, on the return flight from Tokyo).

Here they are in order from my favorite to least favorite:


Borat
X-Men: The Last Stand
Superman Returns
Monster House
Cars
Happy Feet
Departed, The
Eight Below
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
My Super Ex-Girlfriend


I would say that I enjoyed the first four. The next four were "okay" and the last two were pretty bad.

[Vic Sage]

Other films of 2006:

(based on Oscar eligibility list
http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards/reminder/reminder_list.html )

ABOMINABLE
ALEX RIDER: OPERATION STORMBREAKER
ANNAPOLIS
APRIL'S SHOWER
ASK THE DUST
AURORA BOREALIS
BACKSTAGE
BASIC INSTINCT 2
BEYOND HONOR
BREAKING AND ENTERING
BRICK
BROKEN BRIDGES
BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
CSA: THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
COME EARLY MORNING
CONFETTI
CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN
CROSSOVER
DOG LOVER'S SYMPHONY
DON'T COME KNOCKING
DOWN IN THE VALLEY
DRIVING LESSONS
EL CORTEZ
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
FACTORY GIRL
FACTOTUM
FAST TRACK
FLANNEL PAJAMAS
FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS
GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS
GRANDMA'S BOY
HARD CANDY
HARSH TIMES
HEADING SOUTH
HOLLYWOOD FAMILIA
HOSTEL
IMAGINE ME & YOU
INLAND EMPIRE
JUST MY LUCK
THE KING
KINKY BOOTS
LIES & ALIBIS
THE LISTENING
LOOK BOTH WAYS
LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
THE LOST CITY
MAN PUSH CART
MAPLE PALM
MISS POTTER
THE MOSTLY UNFABULOUS SOCIAL LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN
NANNY MCPHEE
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER 2: THE RISE OF TAJ
NEO NED
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D
OFF THE BLACK
OLD JOY
ON A CLEAR DAY
ONE LAST THING...
ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING
OPAL DREAM
PEACEFUL WARRIOR
PERFUME - THE STORY OF A MURDERER
PHAT GIRLZ
POSTERBOY
THE PUFFY CHAIR
THE QUIET
THE RETURN
RUNNING SCARED
SAVING SHILOH
THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS
SEE NO EVIL
SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM: A DONALD STRACHEY MYSTERY
SOMETHING NEW
STAY ALIVE
SWEET LAND
10 ITEMS OR LESS
3 NEEDLES
TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY
TRUST THE MAN
TWO WEEKS
VENUS
WAIST DEEP
WALTZING ANNA
WASSUP ROCKERS

animated:
ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES
PAPRIKA
RENAISSANCE

docs:
AMERICAN HARDCORE
THE BEAUTY ACADEMY OF KABUL
BUDDHA WILD: MONK IN A HUT
DAVE CHAPPELLE'S BLOCK PARTY
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
GOD GREW TIRED OF US
THE GROUND TRUTH
THE HEART OF THE GAME
IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS
LEONARD COHEN I'M YOUR MAN
MUSIC IS MY LIFE, POLITICS MY MISTRESS: THE STORY OF OSCAR BROWN JR.
NEIL YOUNG HEART OF GOLD
ONCE IN A LIFETIME: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE NEW YORK COSMOS
RAPE OF THE SOUL
SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY
THE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON

foreign:
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
THE BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS
BROKEN SKY
DAYS OF GLORY
DUCK SEASON
THE HOUSE OF SAND
LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO
LAGE RAHO MUNNA BHAI
LEMMING
L'ENFANT (THE CHILD)
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
MARRIAGE, IRANIAN STYLE
MEMORIES OF TOMORROW
MIRIAM
THE PROTECTOR
QUEENS
RANG DE BASANTI
RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES
THE TIGER AND THE SNOW
TIME TO LEAVE
TWO DRIFTERS
TYPHOON
WARIS SHAH
WATER
A YEAR WITHOUT LOVE

Edited January 8, 2007 by Guest

[Vic Sage]

here are 2 more i saw that i didn't realize were from 2006, that i've since added to my top 10 list

-THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
-V FOR VENDETTA

Also, honorable mention to:

-NOTORIOUS BETTE PAGE

and I also saw

-THE PROPOSITION

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I suppose I'm releived to have not made it to the movies even once during 2006, seeing as so many of you put an OK but hardly great "Sunshine' as the best movie of the year!

From videos I saw:

1. Thank You for Somking
2. L'Enfant (reviewed somewhere in this forum)
3. Sunshine
4. Prairie Home

whoo!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, then, that brings me closer to logging in ten.

1. Stranger Than Fiction
   
2. Little Miss Sunshine


3. Thank You for Smoking


4. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby


5. Superman Returns


6. Click


7. Nacho Libre


8. 
   
9. 
   

[Vic Sage]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I suppose I'm releived to have not made it to the movies even once during 2006, seeing as so many of you put an OK but hardly great "Sunshine' as the best movie of the year!

well, my ranking is fairly arbitrary. none of this year's movies were great. Upon further consideration, I'd probably put STRANGER THAN FICTION at the top of the list, but not by much.

i also appreciated SUNSHINE'S creepy, Solondz-style undertones, making it one of the bleakest, most emotionally disturbed comedies of the year.

Edited January 8, 2007 by Guest

[soupcan]

Yup - throw Thank You for Smoking on my list

1. The Departed
2. Casino Royale
3. Thank You for Smoking
4. Cars
5. X-Men: The Last Stand
6. Wordplay
7. Monster House
8. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
9. Night at the Museum
10. Little Miss Sunshine

[Guest sharpie]

Adding in several movies from Norrin's list plus this weekend's video stinker, the new top 10 and bottom 9:

Little Miss Sunshine
Little Children
Children of Men
The Departed
Half-Nelson
Water
The Science of Sleep
Inside Man
Borat
Babel


Bottom 10:
The Queen
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
An Inconvenient Truth
Thank You For Smoking
V for Vendetta
For Your Consideration
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Keeping Up With the Steins
A Prairie Home Companion
Scoop