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[2005 MOVIE THREAD] 10 Best and Worst
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| Nightscape |
post 10 movies that came out this year that you liked and didnt like. and then post what your looking forward to in 2006.
Top 10 of 2005
10. Brokeback Mountain
9. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
8. Water
7. Walk the Line
6. The Island
5. Crash
4. A History of Violence
3. Syriana
2. Sin City
1. Batman Begins
Bottom 10 of 2005
10. War of the Worlds
9. Roll Bounce
8. Bewitched
7. Stealth
6. Fantastic Four
5. Bad News Bears
4. Must Love Dogs
3. The Honeymooners
2. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
1. In The Mix
looking forward to a lot of movies in 2006, but the most important ones are
Grind House
two 60 minute horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez (my two favorite directors) put together as a two film features including fake movie trailers in between both movies.
V for Vendetta
based on the comic book, this movie is about a freedom fighter name V who uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. written by the Wachowski brothers, who gave us the matrix movies. directed by James McTiegue (Second Unit Director of all matrix movies)
Superman Returns
Miami Vice
The Da Vinci Code |
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| Chiclet |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nightscape
8. Water
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Ooh. How was that? I really want to see it. Deepa Metha (sp?) has a bounty on her head back home because her films are considered really controversial. I really liked Fire.
I haven't seen many films lately, so I can't really contribute to this thread, except that I really liked The Corporation and It's All Gone Pete Tong. |
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| MLB |
| quote: | Originally posted by Chiclet
Ooh. How was that? I really want to see it. Deepa Metha (sp?) has a bounty on her head back home because her films are considered really controversial. I really liked Fire.
I haven't seen many films lately, so I can't really contribute to this thread, except that I really liked The Corporation and It's All Gone Pete Tong. |
its good, marcia you should see it! |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nightscape
Top 10 of 2005
6. The Island
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omg as if, stupidest ing movie ever made |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
omg as if, stupidest ing movie ever made |
Actually I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, there's cheesy acting in some parts and plot could have been better, but I thought it was pretty innovative. I didn't know it was a sci fi flick for first few mins.
And Scarlett Johansson. 'nuff said!
Sin City was also good.
Episode III was very disappointing. |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
but I thought it was pretty innovative |
what! it rips off like 50 films! lol |
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| Floorwhore |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
omg as if |
:stongue: |
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| jon jon |
Brad Copeland's Review of "the Island" on MaxG's board is hysterical. A long read, but SOO funny.
From: Brad Copeland
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:44 AM
Subject: blog-"the island" review in progress
Right off the bat, I’ve got to tell you some spoilers are going to follow. If, for some sado-masochistic reason, you do want to go see this movie, you should stop reading now and go play with your Lego or something.
This was easily one of the worst movies in the history of film.
First off, the morons who made the trailer TOLD US that these people were clones.
The whole first ing 55 minutes of the movie was for NOTHING. We already knew they were clones, we already knew that there was, in fact, no island, and that “going to the Island” meant certain death. We ALSO knew that the two heroes of the story were going to escape.
I can’t fathom what ing mental midget decided that giving away the whole premise of the movie in the trailer was a good idea, but considering the numbers this embarassment did in its first weekend, I’d bet my last stick of beef jerky that he/she is now not only out of a job, but was probably physically removed from California. Can you imagine this being done for other films? “Soylent Green-It’s made of people!”, “The Village-Set in Upstate NY!”, “The Crying Game-She Has a Wang!”
Absurd…just absurd!!
The first 45 minutes/hour or so was just a pot-pourri of stolen ideas. I don’t mean influences, I don’t mean hints of, I mean full on ing ripoffs. “Coma”, “Thx 1138”, “The Running Man”, “Minority Report”, “Logan’s Run”, “Total Recall”...all movies that were violated in the making of this film. Apparently there’s some other movie from the 70s called "Parts: The Clonus Horror" who’s producers are suing Dreamworks. Personally, I think they should sue Michael Bay's parents for having intercourse. Regardless, the first 45-60 minutes or so just gave me a ing headache, and what was making it worse was, as I mentioned above, we all KNEW what was about to happen!
When they escape things take a turn towards more typical Michael Bay territory. Hokey jokes are passed around, bullets fly and Amtrak trains float. Downtown LA in the future looks pretty much like downtown LA today.. or not. If you ask me, I think they borrowed some of the CGI from "I, Robot", which was supposedly set in Chicago. Truth be told, this part of the movie was shot in Detroit, a fact which was evidenced by the GIGANTIC wall mural of Steve Yzerman in a Red Wings uniform PLAINLY visible on one or two occasions...
Shortly thereafter, a car chase ensues, and by "ensues" I mean "is an exact ing repeat of the one in Bad Boys 2". Like, even some of the same camera angles were used. It was as if some half-wit with a basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro removed the policemens’s vehicles from BB2 and inserted the nameless henchmen’s SUVs from this film. I also found it tremendously amusing that, even though 15 minutes earlier we saw a floating train, the clones’ accidental "weapon" against the “bad guys” in this chase is...wait for it...TRAIN WHEELS. Train wheels, being thrown off a moving truck. As opposed to boats…being thrown off the back of a moving truck.
Tragic. ing tragic.
Speaking of moving trucks…who the hell was driving that thing??? Do you not notice when your big truck is suddenly getting hundreds of pounds lighter by the minute? Do you not pull over when bullets start flying? I mean I’ve heard of long haul truckers falling asleep at the wheel, but this was absurd.
While still on the subject of the car chase, I’d like to point out that it also made me extremely nauseous to note that the sounds the "speeder bikes" made were pretty much the *exact* same sounds the speeder bikes from the Star Wars franchise made, but appeared to be spliced with some sort of animal noise. At this point in the movie I had gathered that Michael Bay’s end of things had basically turned into a plagiaristic nightmare, but I was really shocked to find even the sound designers in on the slacking as well. I mean, for the Love of all that is Holy.. it sounds like someone literally ripped the speeder effect from a commercially available star wars DVD and combined it with a noise they recorded from the life network or something.
Eventually through a series of speederbike manouveres, the escaped clones end up teetering on the edge of a 70 story building. At this point I’d like to digress a bit.
Around 2 years ago or so I rented “The Bourne Identity”. The dramatic conclusion to this craptacular film finds our hero, Jason Bourne, trapped on the top floor of a staircase, 8 flights up. Bourne has nowhere to go…he’s pinned down by enemy bullets. His opponent is 2 levels below him on the staircase and has Bourne cornered. With no chance to shoot his adversary from where he is, Bourne grabs a corpse and uses it as a shield while he stands up, throws the corpse OVER the railing and jumps after it, shooting his adversary. RIGHT IN BETWEEN THE EYES. WHILE DROPPING STRAIGHT DOWN. AFTER ALREADY FALLING 2 FLOORS. He then, triumphantly, lands ON THE DEAD BODY 8 stories down, gets up and limps away.
Until I saw “The Island” this was one of the biggest loads of crap I had ever seen in a movie. Well, as we all saw in the trailer, our 2 clones fall off a building in a big sign. What the trailer DIDN’T show, was that they fell 70 stories. 70 stories down and landed in a net that was conveniently hung across a construction site. 70 stories, and Scarlett Johansson didn’t even have so much as a bra strap out of place.
The next few minutes of the movie were more lame sight gags that were so overdone I wanted to scream. If I had a dollar for every time someone’s “double” in a movie made a funny by talking “like” them, id be rich enough to buy myself an island to deport Michael Bay to. Another car chase of sorts ensues, which culminates in the male clone’s “master” holding a gun to “his” head in front of a group of armed bounty hunters, who are around 20 feet away. Bay falls back on the time tested “both men claiming to be the original” cliché, which we’ve all seen in such challenging fare as “The Loony Tunes”. It’s a darn good thing for that clone that he was practicing talking like his “master” a few moments before, because at this point he’s got those bounty hunters totally fooled and they’re not sure which Ewan Macgregor to shoot!! The clone realizes that he is in fact holding his clone identity bracelet and, quick as a bunny, slaps it on the wrist of his “master”, who is currently holding a gun to the clone’s head. The bounty hunter, of course, sees the bracelet and shoots the master. How the bounty hunter missed the clone’s hand moving 4 inches and affixing the bracelet is one of the burning questions which, til the day I die, will haunt me, and one I wish there was a poll-taker asking movie-goers at the exit doors of the theatre after this picture had, mercilessly, come to a close.
So much incredibly crappy stuff transpires over the next few minutes I’m not even going to bother writing about it, but I’ll leave you with one final point. When the male clone goes looking to destroy the clone’s underground “prison”, he finds a gigantic sign with 14” white letters proclaiming “DO NOT STOP WHILE TURBINE IS IN MOTION” with a giant white arrow pointing to the exact lever he needs to pull to blow the whole pop stand and ensure that *sob* no clones ever have the wool pulled over their eyes again.
This is what we’ve been reduced to.
Do you remember Obi-Wan trying to disengage the tractor beam? In the original version of the film the markings on the dial were in alien language. Lucas has since diddled it to the point that those markings now appear in English, but at least they’re subtle and not 14” high.
The film ends with thousands of clones running out into the desert, as layers of strings swell and tell us what to feel. At that point I was fearful of my ability to control the bit of vomit that had risen up in my mouth and I, much like the clones, fled without looking back. |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
what! it rips off like 50 films! lol |
Well, I liked the way it presented itself.
Or I just haven't seen a flick done that way in a long time. Can't remember the last time I saw a good non space opera type sci fi flick. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| 10 best and worst...... that's 20 movies, I didn't even see 20 movies.... , I think I saw 3.... I need to get out more. |
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| angelgirl |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
Brad Copeland's Review of "the Island" on MaxG's board is hysterical. A long read, but SOO funny.
The first 45 minutes/hour or so was just a pot-pourri of stolen ideas. I don’t mean influences, I don’t mean hints of, I mean full on ing ripoffs. “Coma”, “Thx 1138”, “The Running Man”, “Minority Report”, “Logan’s Run”, “Total Recall”...all movies that were violated in the making of this film. Apparently there’s some other movie from the 70s called "Parts: The Clonus Horror" who’s producers are suing Dreamworks. Personally, I think they should sue Michael Bay's parents for having intercourse. Regardless, the first 45-60 minutes or so just gave me a ing headache, and what was making it worse was, as I mentioned above, we all KNEW what was about to happen!
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too funny...all I did throughout the whole movie is yell out...That is so "Logun's Run" ..that is so "The Running Man". Maybe not the worst movie of all time but would never have made a list of good movies for this year.
I'd be adding OLD BOY to my best of 2005 list. |
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| Matt |
the lines between 2004/05 are a little blurry for me, so I'll just name some top movies I saw in 2005, and came out in theatres between mid 2004 and end of 2005.
Okay.
Top 10:
10. Shaun of the Dead
09. The Life Aquatic
08. Kung Foo Hustle
07. Primer
06. Hotel Rwanda
05. Finding Neverland
04. It's All Gone Pete Tong
03. Hero
02. Serenity
01. Garden State
Bottom 10:
10. War of the Worlds
09. Meet the Fockers
08. Taxi
07. Chronicles of Riddick
06. National Treasure
05. Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
04. Are We There Yet?
03. The Pacifier
02. Ocean's Twelve
01. Aliens vs. Predator |
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