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Between unemployment and a dvd rental scheme I've watched a lot of "I should see that, but I don't really want to" type films. Some were surprisingly good, others were disappointingly bad. I thought I was going to the cinema less (the ridiculous cost detering me from several films) but actually went 15 times, compared to 16 last year.
12 Angry Men - 7/10
A Beautiful Mind - 7/10
A Clockwork Orange - 5/10
All About Eve - 8/10
Amelie - 7/10
American Dreamz - 7/10
Annie Hall - 7/10
Brick - 6/10
Brief Encounter - 6/10
Brokeback Mountain - 7/10
Buffalo Soldiers - 7/10
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 5/10
Cars - 7/10
Casablanca - 6/10
Casino Royale - 6/10
Chinatown - 4/10
Chocolat - 7/10
Citizen Kane - 8/10
Clerks - 6/10
Corpse Bride - 7/10
Doom - 6/10
Driving Miss Daisy - 5/10
El Laberinto del Fauno - 7/10
Elizabethtown - 7/10
Fight Club - 9/10
Finding Neverland - 8/10
Good Night, and Good Luck - 6/10
Gosford Park - 8/10
Gremlins - 7/10
Ice Age: The Meltdown - 7/10
Jarhead - 6/10
Jaws - 8/10
Kiki's Delivery Service - 7/10
Kind Hearts and Coronets - 4/10
Kramer vs Kramer - 7/10
La Vita รจ bella (Life is Beautiful) - 8/10
Lord of the Rings 1: Fellowship of the Ring - 9/10
Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers - 9/10
Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King - 8/10
Magnolia - 7/10
Manhattan - 5/10
Manhattan Murder Mystery - 5/10
Million Dollar Baby - 7/10 | Mirrormask - 6/10
Mystic River - 6/10
Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind - 5/10
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 7/10
Operation Petticoat - 6/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - 9/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 8/10
Poseidon - 8/10
Pride and Prejudice (2005) - 6/10
Prime - 5/10
Psycho - 7/10
Rear Window - 8/10
Rebecca - 9/10
Requiem for a Dream - 5/10
Romance and Cigarettes - 4/10
Saving Private Ryan - 9/10
Serenity - 7/10
Sin City - 7/10
Some Like it Hot - 7/10
Stand by Me - 7/10
Sunset Blvd. - 5/10
Thank You for Smoking - 8/10
The 39 Steps - 5/10
The African Queen - 5/10
The Apartment - 7/10
The Aviator - 5/10
The Brothers Grimm - 4/10
The Godfather - 7/10
The Graduate - 5/10
The Holiday - 6/10
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - 5/10
The Muppet Christmas Carol - 8/10
The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D - 7/10
The Perfect Storm - 4/10
The Right Stuff - 6/10
The Terminal - 5/10
The Usual Suspects - 6/10
This Is Spinal Tap - 7/10
Titanic - 5/10
War of the Worlds (2005) - 7/10
When Harry Met Sally - 6/10
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - 7/10
X-Men: The Last Stand - 7/10 |
This year's best films - technically only 13 films count as 2006 films, although a couple were not released in the UK until 2006. I've not really been blown away by any of the new films, maybe I've just not caught the right things. Thank You for Smoking and El Labertinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) are the standouts, because they used inovative and interesting ways of telling stories. Thank You for Smoking was a lot of fun to watch, while Pan's Labyrinth was almost painful to watch. I enjoyed Pirates 2 in the cinema but was actually somewhat bored when I re-watched it on dvd. I loved Cars, mostly 'cos it hit a couple of my interests - fast cars and americana. Poseidon was a brilliant example of the disaster movie genre.
Best overall film - two films stand out from the rest by a clear mile. People have been telling me Fight Club is superb for ages, but I was put off by the title and topic. They were right, I shouldn't listen to my brain. Saving Private Ryan has been on my shelf to watch for ages but was again put off by the topic, it was all the things I thought it would be, and it was absolutely superb.
Don't make me watch it again - A very very long list, including but not limited to Titanic, The Perfect Storm, The Brothers Grimm and Romance and Cigarettes.
Looking forward to - Bobby, Miss Potter, The Fountain, The Pursuit of Happiness, Dreamgirls, Hot Fuzz, 300, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pirates 3, Ocean's 13, Shrek 3, Transformers
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