2006 Film List

Travis_S · 01-03-2006, 11:40 PM

Since Jason Whyte is no longer posting here, I thought I'd start this. This will work like previous years, just update whenever you see a 2006 Film. When you update, make a post to bump this thread so it can easily be found.

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2006 Film List

Total Films Seen: 40

Last Updated: 1/6/07 with Clerks II, The Devil Wears Prada, Little Miss Sunshine, and Children of Men

Criteria: North American Release

Films

Hostel (Director - Eli Roth) **1/2
Underworld: Evolution (Director - Len Wiseman) **1/2
Final Destination 3 (Director - James Wong) **1/2
The Hills Have Eyes (Director - Alexandre Aja) ***
V For Vendetta (Director - James McTeigue) ***1/2
Slither (Director - James Gunn) **1/2
United 93 (Director - Paul Greengrass) ****
Mission: Impossible III (Director - J.J. Abrams) **1/2
Poseidon (Director - Wolfgang Petersen) **
The Da Vinci Code (Director - Ron Howard) **
X-Men: The Last Stand (Director - Brett Ratner) **1/2
The Break-Up (Director - Peyton Reed) ***
Cars (Director - John Lasseter) **1/2
Click (Director - Frank Coraci) **
Superman Returns (Director - Bryan Singer) ***1/2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Director - Gore Verbinski) ***1/2
Lady in the Water (Director - M. Night Shyamalan) **
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Director - Adam McKay) ***
Monster House (Director - Gil Kenan) ***
The Descent (Director - Neil Marshall) ****
Bubble (Director - Steven Soderbergh) **1/2
Pulse (Director - Jim Sonzero) *1/2
Inside Man (Director - Spike Lee) **1/2
Snakes on a Plane (Director - David R. Ellis) **1/2
RV (Director - Barry Sonnenfeld) **
The Black Dahlia (Director - Brian DePalma) **
Hard Candy (Director - David Slade) ***
The Departed (Director - Martin Scorsese) ***1/2
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Director - Johnan) ***
The Prestige (Director - Christopher Nolan) ***1/2
The Omen (Director - John Moore) **1/2
Feast (Director - John Gulager) **
American Dreamz (Director - Paul Weitz) ***
Borat (Director - Larry Charles) ***1/2
Casino Royale (Director - Martin Campbell) ***1/2
Miami Vice (Director - Michael Mann) ***1/2
Clerks II (Director - Kevin Smith) ***
The Devil Wears Prada (Director - David Frankel) ***
Little Miss Sunshine (Directors - Jonathan Dayton and Valaria Faris) ***
Children of Men (Director - Alfonso Cuaron) ****

Ranking

****
1. Children of Men
2. United 93
3. The Descent

***1/2
4. Casino Royale
5. The Departed
6. Miami Vice
7. The Prestige
8. Borat
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
10. V For Vendetta
11. Superman Returns
12. The Hills Have Eyes

***
13. Little Miss Sunshine
14. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
15. Clerks II
16. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
17. The Break-Up
18. Hard Candy
19. The Devil Wears Prada
20. Monster House
21. American Dreamz

**1/2
22. Snakes on a Plane
23. X-Men: The Last Stand
24. Cars
25. Mission: Impossible III
26. Inside Man
27. Slither
28. The Omen
29. Hostel
30. Bubble
31. Final Destination 3
32. Underworld: Evolution

**
33. Lady in the Water
34. RV
35. Click
36. Feast
37. The Da Vinci Code
38. Poseidon
39. The Black Dahlia

*1/2
40. Pulse

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Nick C. · 01-03-2006, 11:49 PM

Ah, I was waiting for this... Speaking of Jason Whyte, where has he gone? I'm not good with names, but I do recall he would do the film list and top ten threads annually.

2006 Film List
US (NYC/LA) release date
out of 4 *

A Prairie Home Companion **
Akeelah and the Bee *1/2
American Dreamz *1/2
American Gun **
An Inconvenient Truth **
Army of Shadows **
Art School Confidential **1/2
Babel ***
Black Dahlia, The *1/2
Blood Diamond **
Borat *
Brick **
Bubble **
Cars *1/2
Casino Royale ***
Children of Men **1/2
Clean **1/2
Confederate States of America **
Curse of the Golden Flower **
Da Vinci Code, The *1/2
Darwin's Nightmare **
Dave Chapelle's Block Party *1/2
Death of a President ***
Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The **
Departed, The **1/2
Devil Wears Prada, The *1/2
District B13 **
Down in the Valley *1/2
Dreamgirls **
Driving Lessons **
Duck Season *1/2
Edmond **
Fateless **
Fearless *1/2
Flags of Our Fathers ***
Fountain, The ***
Free Zone *
Friends with Money **1/2
Good German, The **
Good Shepherd, The **
Half Nelson ***
Hard Candy *1/2
Harsh Times *1/2
Hidden Blade **1/2
Hollywandland *1/2
Idiocracy **
Illusionist, The **1/2
Inside Man ***1/2
Joyeux Noel **
Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol ***
Lady in the Water **
Lady Vengeance **1/2
Lake House, The **1/2
Last King of Scotland, The **
L'enfant **
Letters from Iwo Jima ***1/2
Little Children **
Little Fish **
Little Miss Sunshine **
Look Both Ways **
Manderlay ***
Marie Antoinette **
Miami Vice ***
Mission Impossible: III **1/2
Neil Young Heart of Gold *
Notes on a Scandal **1/2
Old Joy **
Painted Veil, The **1/2
Pan's Labyrinth **1/2
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer **1/2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest *
Prestige, The ***
Promise, The *
Proposition, The **1/2
Pursuit of Happyness, The *1/2
Queen, The **1/2
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles **1/2
Rocky Balboa **1/2
Running with Scissors *1/2
Science of Sleep, The **
Secret Life of Words, The **1/2
Shakespeare Behind Bars **
Sherrybaby **
Shortbus ***
Superman Returns **
Sweet Land ***1/2
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ***
Thank You for Smoking ***
This Film Is Not Yet Rated ***
Three Times **
Tideland *1/2
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story **
Tsotsi ***
United 93 **
V for Vendetta **
Venus **1/2
Volver **
War Tapes ***
Who Killed The Electric Car? **
Wordplay ***
World Trade Center *1/2
X-Men: the Last Stand **

102 as of 2/10/06

Edwin Pereyra · 01-04-2006, 12:05 AM

***Updated: 2/1/2006***

Criteria: First U.S. non-festival theatrical 2006 release.

Number of films seen (2006 eligible only): 1 : My emphasis - Quality matters more than quantity.

2/1/06 - Added: Bubble

Alpha Listing Of Films Seen (out of 4 stars):

= Standouts

= Recommended

Bubble ***¼

Sorted By Rating:

Films (out of four):

½ Films:

¼ Films:

• Bubble

Films:

½ Films:

Films:

½ Films:

½ Films:

***************Legend:

= Excellent

½ = Very Good

¼ = Better than Good

= Good

½ = Fair or Average. With Mixed Feelings.

= Below Average. Not Recommended.

½ = Bad.

= Worst. Avoid At All Cost.

I'm only going to see those that are noteworthy including independent, foreign films and the high profiled films. I value my time and life is too short to waste on such movies as Joe Dirt and Freddie Got Fingered. So my list will be shorter than most of the others here.

~Edwin

Chris Ze · 01-04-2006, 12:52 AM

checking in.

ZacharyTait · 01-04-2006, 02:18 AM

Placeholder for myself just to keep track of 2006 theatrical releases that I see.

Justin_S · 01-04-2006, 04:19 AM

Ratings are on a scale of * to *****
Total seen: 59
Last film watched: 13 Tzameti

2006 FILMS SEEN

13 Tzameti ****½ (Director: Géla Babluani)

Accepted **½ (Director: Steve Pink)
Altered **** (Director: Eduardo Sánchez)
Apocalypto ***** (Director: Mel Gibson)
Art School Confidential ****½ (Director: Terry Zwigoff)

Beerfest **** (Director: Jay Chandrasekhar)
Benchwarmers, The ** (Director: Dennis Dugan)
Black Dahlia, The *** (Director: Brian De Palma)
Blood Diamond ***½ (Director: Edward Zwick)
Brick ****½ (Director: Rian Johnson)
Bubble ****½ (Director: Steven Soderbergh)

Casino Royale **** (Director: Martin Campbell)
Catch a Fire *** (Director: Phillip Noyce)
Cavite **** (Directors: Neill Dela Llana & Ian Gamazon)
Children of Men ***** (Director: Alfonso Cuarón)
Click * (Director: Frank Coraci)
Crank *** (Directors: Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)

Da Vinci Code, The ** (Director: Ron Howard)
Date Movie * (Director: Aaron Seltzer)
Departed, The ****½ (Director: Martin Scorsese)
Descent, The ** (Director: Neil Marshall)
Down in the Valley ****½ (Director: David Jacobsen)
Dreamland **** (Director: Jason Matzner)

Edmond **** (Director: Stuart Gordon)

Feast ***½ (Director: John Gulager)
Final Destination 3 ***½ (Director: James Wong)
Flags of Our Fathers *** (Director: Clint Eastwood)
Fountain, The ***** (Director: Darren Aronofsky)

Hard Candy ***½ (Director: David Slade)
Hills Have Eyes, The ** (Director: Alexandre Aja)
Hostel ***½ (Director: Eli Roth)

Idiocracy *** (Director: Mike Judge)
Illusionist, The **** (Director: Neil Burger)
Inconvenient Truth, An ****½ (Director: Davis Guggenheim)

Jesus Camp ****½ (Directors: Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady)

King, The ***** (Director: James Marsh)

Little Athens ***½ (Director: Tom Zuber)
Little Miss Sunshine **** (Directors: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)

Marie Antoinette ***** (Director: Sofia Coppola)
Miami Vice ***½ (Director: Michael Mann)

Night Listener, The **** (Director: Patrick Stettner)

Poseidon ** (Director: Wolfgang Petersen)
Prestige, The ***** (Director: Christopher Nolan)
Proposition, The ****½ (Director: John Hillcoat)

Running Scared ****½ (Director: Wayne Kramer)

Saw III * (Director: Darren Lynn Bousman)
Scanner Darkly, A ***** (Director: Richard Linklater)
Sheitan **½ (Director: Kim Chapiron)
Silent Hill * (Director: Christophe Gans)
Snakes on a Plane ** (Director: David R. Ellis)
Stick It **½ (Director: Jessica Bendinger)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby **½ (Director: Adam McKay)
Thank You For Smoking ***½ (Director: Jason Reitman)
This Film is Not Yet Rated *** (Director: Kirby Dick)

United 93 ****½ (Director: Paul Greengrass)

V For Vendetta * (Director: James McTeigue)

Woods, The ***½ (Director: Lucky McKee)

X-Men: The Last Stand *½ (Director: Brett Ratner)

You, Me and Dupree ** (Directors: Anthony & Joe Russo)

FILMS BY RATING

*****
Apocalypto
Children of Men
Fountain, The
King, The
Marie Antoinette
Prestige, The
Scanner Darkly, A

****½
13 Tzameti
Art School Confidential
Brick
Bubble
Departed, The
Down in the Valley
Jesus Camp
Proposition, The
Running Scared
United 93

****
Altered
Beerfest
Casino Royale
Cavite
Dreamland
Edmond
Illusionist, The
Inconvenient Truth, An
Little Miss Sunshine
Night Listener, The

***½
Blood Diamond
Feast
Final Destination 3
Hard Candy
Hostel
Little Athens
Miami Vice
Thank You For Smoking
Woods, The

***
Black Dahlia, The
Catch a Fire
Crank
Flags of Our Fathers
Idiocracy
This Film is Not Yet Rated

**½
Accepted
Sheitan
Stick It
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

**
Benchwarmers, The
Da Vinci Code, The
Descent, The
Hills Have Eyes, The
Poseidon
Snakes on a Plane
You, Me and Dupree

*½
X-Men: The Last Stand

*
Click
Date Movie
Saw III
Silent Hill
V For Vendetta

Brian.L · 01-04-2006, 04:50 AM

Eligible 2006 Film Count: 171 (seen between 1/1/06 and 12/31/07)
2005 Film List Continued: 70 (seen during the 2006 calendar year)
Pre-2005 Films Seen For the First Time: 145 (seen during the 2006 calendar year)
Revisits: 15
Total Seen: 401

2006 Film List

ALL RATINGS OUT OF

(FIVE) STARS

Children of Men
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
United 93

Casino Royale
The Departed
Half Nelson
Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan Geumjassi)
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Children
Mission: Impossible III
Monster House
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)
The Prestige
The Science of Sleep (La Science des Rêves)
Stranger Than Fiction
Thank You For Smoking

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Babel
Brick
Catch a Fire
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea Domnului Lazarescu)
Fast Food Nation
Find Me Guilty
Hard Candy
Hollywoodland
The Illusionist
Inside Man
The Last King of Scotland
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor)
The Proposition
The Queen
Sherrybaby
Superman Returns
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Tsotsi

An Inconvenient Truth
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Break-Up
The Bridge
Bubble
Down in the Valley
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Flags of Our Fathers
Flushed Away
The Good German
The History Boys
Hostel
Idiocracy
Iraq in Fragments
Jackass Number Two
Jesus Camp
LOL
Lucky Number Slevin
The Matador
Miami Vice
Old Joy
Over the Hedge
The Painted Veil
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Road to Guantanamo
Rocky Balboa
Slither
Spanglish
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Why We Fight
X-Men: The Last Stand

A Good Year
A Prairie Home Companion
Beerfest
Bobby
Cars
Clerks II
Conversations With Other Women
Crank
Curse of the Golden Flower (Man Cheng Jin Dai Huang Jin Jia)
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
The Da Vinci Code
Death of a President
Deja Vu
The Descent
The Devil Wears Prada
District B13 (Banlieue 13)
Edmond
Feast
Final Destination 3
The Fountain
Friends With Money
The Good Shepherd
Happy Feet
Harsh Times
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Idlewild
Infamous
Inland Empire
Lassie (2006)
The Last Kiss
Marie Antoinette (2006)
The Marine
The Night Listener
The Notorious Bettie Page
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Sentinel
V for Vendetta

16 Blocks
Accepted
All The King's Men (2006)
American Dreamz
Annapolis
Art School Confidential
Ask the Dust
The Black Dahlia
Breaking and Entering
Click
Dreamgirls
For Your Consideration
The Groomsmen
Invincible
Keeping Up With the Steins
Lady in the Water
The Lake House
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Night at the Museum
Poseidon
Running With Scissors
Scary Movie 4
Scoop
Shortbus
Silent Hill
Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny
Tideland
Tristan & Isolde
Underworld: Evolution
Volver
The Wild
World Trade Center

Basic Instinct 2
Edison Force
Eragon
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Freedomland
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Man of the Year
Nacho Libre
The Omen (2006)
Running Scared
Saw III
Snakes on a Plane
Turistas
The Wicker Man (2006)
You, Me and Dupree

Bloodrayne
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Gridiron Gang
The Holiday
Just My Luck
The Return

Black Christmas (2006)
The Covenant
The Grudge 2
The Quiet
See No Evil
Stay Alive
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Ultraviolet
When a Stranger Calls (2006)

ZERO STARS
An American Haunting

2005 Film List continued...
(these titles will also be added to the actual 2005 Film List)

ALL RATINGS OUT OF

(FIVE) STARS

The Squid and the Whale

Caché (Hidden)
Capote
Hustle & Flow
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Good Night, and Good Luck.
Junebug
King Kong
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
Match Point
Munich
The New World
Nine Lives
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun Naui Geot)
Thumbsucker

2046
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté)
Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Flightplan
Jarhead
Pride & Prejudice
Separate Lies
Shopgirl
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Transporter 2
The Weather Man
Where the Truth Lies
Zathura

9 Songs
Æon Flux
Appleseed (Appurushîdo)
Dark Water
Everything is Illuminated
Fun With Dick and Jane
The Great Raid
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mysterious Skin
Oliver Twist (2005)
Proof
Two For The Money
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Winter Passing
Wolf Creek
The World's Fastest Indian

The Chumscrubber
Derailed
Doom
Duma
Elizabethtown
The Family Stone
In Her Shoes
Just Like Heaven
North Country
Stay

A Sound of Thunder
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Bee Season
Blade Trinity
Saw II

The Cave
Domino

The Fog (2005)
Hide and Seek
Rent

Pre-2005 Films Seen For the First Time

ALL RATINGS OUT OF

(FIVE) STARS

All About Eve (1950)
Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2001)
Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru) (2000)
Burden of Dreams (1982)
Chicken Run (2000)
The Conversation (1974)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Goodbye Children (Au Revoir, Les Enfants) (1987)
The Insider (1999)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Monster's Ball (2001)
Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) (1955)
Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era Una Volta il West) (1968)
Papillon (1973)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Rififi (Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes) (1955)
Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett Äktenskap) (1973)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Viridiana (1961)
White Heat (1949)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

An American Werewolf in Paris (1981)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
The Apartment (1960)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
The Devils (Les Diaboliques) (1955)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Exotica (1994)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Gettysburg (1993)
The Gift (2000)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
High Noon (1952)
In the Mood For Love (Fa Yeung Nin Wa) (2000)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Marathon Man (1976)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
My Best Fiend (Mein Liebster Feind) (1999)
My Summer of Love (2004)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Out of the Past (1947)
Ran (1985)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) (1998)
Slap Shot (1977)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Thing (1982)
Thirteen Days (2000)
Tootsie (1982)
Wag the Dog (1997)
The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur) (1953)
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna) (1963)

A Christmas Story (1983)
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)
The Big Red One (1980)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Doors (1991)
Down by Law (1986)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin Shi Nan Nu) (1994)
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
The Hitcher (1986)
Impostor (2002)
Jackass: The Movie (2002)
Lifeboat (1944)
Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-Ever) (2002)
Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria) (1957)
The Passenger (Professione: Reporter) (1975)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Red Dragon (2002)
Risky Business (1983)
Sahara (1943)
The Siege (1998)
Sleepers (1996)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Stripes (1981)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Time Bandits (1981)
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) (1960)
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) (1957)

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) (1996)
Dark Star (1974)
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Hamlet (2000)
The Howling (1981)
The Jerk (1979)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari No Totoro) (1988)
Once Were Warriors (1995)
The Patriot (2000)
The Peacemaker (1997)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
P.S. (2004)
The Recruit (2003)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Bom Yeoreum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom) (2004)
State and Main (2000)
Swordfish (2001)
Through A Glass Darkly (Såsom I En Spegel) (1961)

Bad Taste (1987)
Basic (2003)
Body Double (1984)
Buffalo Soldiers (2003)
Bullitt (1968)
Casualties of War (1989)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Family Plot (1976)
The General's Daughter (1999)
Gods and Generals (2003)
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Just Cause (1995)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Men in Black II (2002)
The Notebook (2004)
Resident Evil (2002)
Safe Men (1998)
Simone (S1m0ne) (2002)
The Serpent's Egg (Das Schlangenei) (1977)
The Silence (Tystnaden) (1963)
The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom Weinenden Kamel) (2004)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
We Were Soldiers (2002)

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
The