So what is your film of 2005??

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I've been racking my brain to think of my favourite/best film this year & i have come up with............
Unleashed

There are a few others i loved (Crash, Revolver, Four Brothers etc) but Unleashed i would say is just about my fav. Possibly the best fight ever, brilliant acting, a different story, great directing & of course good ol' bob Hoskins!

What is everyone elses?? Try to name just 1 film please.
 
Since Man on fire was last year I'm going to have to say King Kong, though I liked Charlie and the chocolate factory a hell of a lot too, King Kong was that bit better.
 
Well Sideways is technicly a 2004 film but due to time delays for release over here and me being a little slow to getting round to watching movies i would say that is my film of 2005.
 
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Batman Begins WAS good, and we haven't yet got to cinemaland to see Kong or Narnia. But my favourite film I first watched this year is easily Team America.
 
I dont really watch movies but I remember that Are We There Yet? with Ice Cube was good. xXx: States Of The Union was good, White Noise was good too... Dunno about the release years, but I saw them all this year...
 
Well it this film wasnt technically 2005 but The Girl Next Door still has to be one of my all time favourites... yeah I know alot of people hate it but theres alot of substance in that film if you watch it with a different sorta mind...

...oh and, cant wait for The Fast and The Furious 3!!!!
 
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Me too. :boggled:

I haven't scene many movies this year. But I'd have to go with Batman Begins. Since I believe it had the total package that makes a good movie.
 
Nobody liked Harry Potter, huh? Good.

Episode III was the best Star Wars flick ever, but that's not saying much, and the acting and plot still sucked in most parts. Enjoyed it, because I was expecting much worse.

The Chronicles of Riddick was a great action flick, but nothing more. Made me feel all nice and warm inside, though, with its authentically space-operatic pulp sci-fi story.

Was Kung Fu Hustle this year? Loved that one. Only sour note on that package was the quality of the CGI, but then, it didn't ruin the movie. Stephen Chow really loves old-school Kung Fu movies, and it shows in all his work.

Charlie & the CC was good, but I felt strangely detached from it. I don't know, the candy was nice, the meat of the story was nice, but it just didn't gel with me for some reason.

War of the Worlds was very good. I'm still in disbelief about how having both Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning in it (both very annoying... Dakota seems a sure bet to be the next Lindsay Lohan) did NOT ruin the film. But then, I'm biased for anything with Tim Robbins in it, however small the role. A lot of people were disappointed that the story didn't focus on the global scale of the invasion itself (we've already had a lot of stupid invasion movies, so what would the point be) or by the ending (no sense of history WHATsoever), but they don't count. :lol:

Batman Begins had the whole package. Great actors, great director, good special effects which did NOT overshadow the story and cohesion with the character himself. While I still like Tim Burton's version, his Batman stands out as "Tim Burton's Batman", while Chris Nolan's Batman is simply pure Batman. Good stuff, even with Katie Holmes in there. Until I see Kong or Narnia (which is coming to this market in January, bugger), I'd say this is the best I've watched so far.
 
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Nobody liked Harry Potter, huh? Good.

Batman Begins had the whole package. Great actors, great director, good special effects which did NOT overshadow the story and cohesion with the character himself. While I still like Tim Burton's version, his Batman stands out as "Tim Burton's Batman", while Chris Nolan's Batman is simply pure Batman. Good stuff, even with Katie Holmes in there. Until I see Kong or Narnia (which is coming to this market in January, bugger), I'd say this is the best I've watched so far.
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Harry Potter was horrible. Was it just me or did the actors pre-pubescent wierdness just make everyone uneasy through out the whole movie. I think as they grow it shows how little they can act. Sorry for those who loved it, but it got a 👎 here..

Im gonna agree with everything you said about batman. Best movie of 20005. 👍 👍
(King Kong is .000000000000001 pts behind.)
 
For me it is tied between Batman Begins and Sin City
 
Unleashed was excellent, top quality action, with a refreshingly different plot, with great acting & direction, complete with some nice centimental (spelling?) moments.

White Noise, really? it was just an (very average) american take on every other Asain horror film.

I would add Films like Crash, Saw II, Four Brothers, War of the worlds & Team America. But i did actually say could we all post just ONE film please.

Chronicles of Riddick was 2004 BTW.
 
Oh? Riddick was 2004? Too bad. I thought it would hate it when I watched it, but I'm surprised I didn't, thus I listed it. I listed everything else to show why I picked Batman over them.

Sin City was nice in a way, but it was too true to its comic roots to make great cinema in the classic sense. I liked it, loved how Rodriguez did not in any way try to dilute the original half-satirical / half-serious bent of the story. But it's a perfect visual interpretation of the comic, and it should be viewed as thus... a moving comic, and not a movie.
 
My top three in order are:

1) King Kong - hands down.
2) Batman Begins
3) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I haven't seen Narnicle (what we call Chronicles of Narnia at work) yet but I will be seeing it Monday.

I had hope for War of the Worlds and I enjoyed it, but I am also able to tear it apart way too much. I liked the original movie, TV show, and radio drama better.
If MST3K were to be redone in ten years I think that War of the Worlds should be their first movie since that was essentially the treatment I gave it.

I am looking forward to Munich also. That looks to be very good. Let's hope Spielberg doesn't botch two movies in one year.
 
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Team America and Batman seems like good nominees. I also have not yet seen King Kong.
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Took the words right out of my mouth :) Actually I was going to say just Batman Begins but then Famine reminded me of Team America.
 
1) House of flying Daggers
2) The Magic Roundabout
3) Nine Songs
 
Was house of flying daggers ths year? I thought it was 04, great film but the ending screwed it up a bit, the ammount of times she should have been dead.
 
I liked House of the Flying Daggers about as much as I liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon... not much. It's just the same cornball Kung Fu wire-work fantasy drama that Hong Kong's been putting out for decades. Overwrought story, exaggerated action sequences, focusing more on wire-work and impossible moves than on real Kung Fu, nearly impossibly superhuman characters and long drawn out sequences. Only this time, these movies are being done with professional editing and expensive effects.

I actually expected her to live through all that. She should've gotten up hours later after he left and they could've gone through a whole Romeo-Juliet suicide thing.

Well, maybe I liked Crouching Tiger just a little bit, but I still prefer honest-to-goodness Kung Fu. I liked "Kung Fu Hustle", though, because it purposely spoofs over-choreographed movies like that. I may never forgive the Warchowski brothers for making wire-work fashionable in Hollywood. The wirework in the first Matrix was relatively good, but it encouraged so many other filmmakers to do it (and do it very very badly) that it has permanently ruined my film-watching life.
 
Ah, that reminds me...
Ong Bak. No stunning panoramic vistas, no wirework, no overwrought love story. Acting in the league of Van Damme, and a horribly laughable plot (Oh noe! Head smugglers!*).
Man I loved that movie.
I did really enjoy Crouching Tiger, and House of Flying Daggers even more, but that sort of thing can get very old very quickly. I went in to Flying Daggers expecting that sort of thing and enjoyed the majority of it, but I nearly sprained my eye rolling muscles during that bamboo spear sequence.

Can't think of another movie from this year right now. Even Ong Bak was made in '3, it just came out over here this year.

*I apologize for and retract this statement if this sort of thing really does go on. It just sounds so silly.
 
I'm very sad to have missed Ong Bak. It was so small it was only out in my country for a week or so. And I was really looking forward to watching it, even if the film quality were horrible, just to get some of that "old school" feel.

And yes, we do tend to go on about Kung Fu, eh? :lol:
 
Not much comes to mind as the film of 2005.... If I could just steal you guys' choices, it'd be "Sin City", "Batman Begins" and "War of the Worlds". If "Crimson Rivers: Angels of the Apocalypse" with Jean Reno was '05(DVD definitely was), I'd vote for that.
 

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