Posted on 12/28/2005 10:55:48 AM PST by Shermy
The Narnia thread was great yesterday, so I thought I try getting another going. As follows are my awards for 2005. I’ve seen a moderate amount of movies. I, and am sure others, are going to rent/see more this time of year so I would like recommendations, and most of all, warnings.
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Best Film: King Kong. Full Hollywood experience.
Worst film: Stealth. How to pick among the wealth of bad films of 2005? Stealth stands above them all by reason even the film’s title is a false advertisement. There was no stealth technology. I wish there were, the whole film should have been hidden. Bad all around, I rooted for the North Koreans.
Best Political Film: Downfall. Best Foreign too.
Best Comedy: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Romance: King Kong, somewhat sad to say. Best Action too.
Best Actor: Phillip Hoffman, Capote.
Best Actress: None stood out for me.
Oddest Performance: Jamie Foxx, Stealth. Flat and boring, no personality. One reason I paid to see this film was Foxx. What I got was a disposable Star Trekkian Redshirt tagged with an undue starring credit.
Most Annoying Performance: The daughter in “War of the Worlds”. Rarely has a movie engaged me so. I mumbled “stop it” at her more than once. I wanted to scream SHUT UP! So bad, I almost dropped my opposition to the seagulls in March of the Penguins. She was the ultimate Spielbergian uber-brat. Caveat: nearby viewers were cooing “Isn’t she sweet...”
Most Endorsements Of a Product: The Island. Numerous product placements.
Best Endorsement Of A Product: Tom Cruise on Oprah for Ritalin.
Worst Line: Revenge of the Sith. “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” A contemporary political dig at George Bush’s “with us or against us” phrase, an approving nod to Kerryesque nuanceology. An arguable criticism, but in a film driven by the struggle between “The Force” and “The Dark Side?” The line was delivered without an iota of irony.
Best Screenplay: Revenge of the Sith. Only one inept stab at political relevancy, a film of few words. Thank God, the dialogue in Star Wars 4 and 5 were unbearable. Honors to Mr. Lucas for exercising restraint.
Worst Remake: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Yes, Longest Yard was bad, but the backers of Charlie arrogantly pretended their film was an improvement on the Gene Wilder version. It was not. Except for the squirrels.
Best Remake: The Island. A vast improvement of The Clonus Horror.
Worst Special Effect: The crows in War of the Worlds. The forcefields shielding the aliens’ land craft have failed. How do we know this? A flock of crows can lands on one. These are some amazing birds, the craft was spinning and jerking yet the crows hung on! Maybe they wore magnetic claw booties.
Best Food: Munich.
Best and Worst Costumes: Munich. A meticulous and faithful recreation of early 1970's ugly fashions.
Worst Sex Scene: Munich. Watch Abner visualize the bloody crescendo of the Munich massacre when he reaches his own personal crescendo. Ewww. What? Whatever.
Stupidest Anti-American Comment: Munich, again. Abner’s last phone call to his potential French replacement-daddy ends with Papa’s serious observation Abner is condemned to a life of pasteurized, tasteless American cheese.
And finally,
Film That Literally Put Me To Sleep: Some Kevin Costner flick with a bunch of blond women. Or was that in 2004?
Ping.
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Stealth had Jessica Biel in a bikini. That alone disqualifies it from any "worst" lists. :o)
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line as June Carter Cash
And that's with a serious point deduction for her being so selfish and not doing nude scenes... LOTS of nude scenes.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
and now you're wasting space in News/Activism on a vanity post
Ever see the film "Twilight"?
Effects.....A+. The rest of the movie, stunk.
I don't like monkey melodramas. But then again, I'm one of about 5 people on the planet that didn't like Titanic, either.
IMHO, if you liked Titantic, you'll like KingKong.
I haven't (I'm not a big movie guy though). Does it have what I'm looking for?
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
"hahahah you wasted money on Stealth, hahaha"
Yep, I was a sucker.
"and now you're wasting space in News/Activism on a vanity post"
I have some political observations among them. Don't banish me to chat!
Reese's pieces in all their glory. ;) Right up there with Katie Holmes naked in "The Gift" as the most "Holy @#$%! Am I actually seeing this?!" screen moments of all time.
Too late! :) But then again, I liked Fantastic Four, so maybe my opinion isn't the best to throw out there. ;)
Have a little respect, will ya. She's mother of 2 and married to the father of her children, something I figured FReepers would support and respect!
The only good things about Titanic was the reproduction of the ship itself, the period costumes and the sinking
Of interest ping
I really need to get around to seeing Walk the Line.
Also, I was not impressed w/ King Kong.
She was *genuinely* mad at me, for ruining the ending.
Your "political observations" don't make it any less a vanity - it is even more a vanity for them.
Hard to believe Jamie Foxx followed up his Oscar with "Stealth." The Curse of Halle Berry strikes again!
Speaking of curses, "Wallace and Gromit" was my favorite film of the year. Marvelous.
And don't get me started on Charlize Theron's procession from Monster to Aeon Flux.
Well the movie was really a big disappointment to me as I was interested in the Titanic before it was cool, having read "A Night to Remember" years ago
Why throw in a tacky love story when the real passengers were so interesting?
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