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The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
Best Film of 2005 Tournament
With nearly all of the year's notable films released on DVD, I thought it was time to hold the "best film" tournament.
Advancing to Semi-Finals
A History of Violence
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Advancing to Final
The New World
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2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 313 Last Watched: Time of the Gypsies
Last 10 Films Watched:
Retribution - B / Frontiers - C
The Third Mother - B+ / The Mist - A
Diary of the Dead - B+ / The Invisible Man - B+
Inside - B / The Crazies - B
Lost Boys: The Tribe - C+ / The War of the Gargantuas - B
DVD BEAVER My Collection
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05-16-2006, 02:53 PM
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Re: The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
Nominate:
Darwin's Nightmare
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
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05-16-2006, 04:14 PM
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Re: The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
Nominate:
Batman Begins
Sin City
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05-16-2006, 05:30 PM
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Re: The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
I'll nominate the only 2 I saw that aren't on your list:
Hitch
Chicken Little
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05-16-2006, 05:30 PM
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Re: The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
Joe, those films are already in the tournament. The list of bolded films in the first post are already in. You can nominate something else.
Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise! - Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 313 Last Watched: Time of the Gypsies
Last 10 Films Watched:
Retribution - B / Frontiers - C
The Third Mother - B+ / The Mist - A
Diary of the Dead - B+ / The Invisible Man - B+
Inside - B / The Crazies - B
Lost Boys: The Tribe - C+ / The War of the Gargantuas - B
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05-16-2006, 09:31 PM
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Re: The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
Well, I'd love to nominate and play along Brook, but the fact that the list contains films as old as 2003 just confuses me.
I realize that you're probably going for 2005 US releases (despite the fact that some films in that list were first released in the US in 2006), but that makes your 2005 list different from my (Canadian) 2005 list and different from say, Steve Christou's (UK) 2005 list, or Mario's 2005 list, etc.
There is really only one 2005 list and that list isn't limited to US dates.
Since I pay zero attention to US release dates (are they really important?), I have no idea what to nominate.
Can I nominate Innocence...a film I saw in 2004 but was released in Canada in 2005, but not commercially released in the US at all?
Can I nominate What Is It?...a 2005 US film that I saw in 2005, but still hasn't received a commercial release?
Can I nominate Memory for Max, Ida, Clair and Company, a devastating 2005 Canadian doc or do 2005 Canadian releases not count?
Can I.... sorry, I'm being a grump, thorny subject and all 
Carry on! 
My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pretty Boy (1993,Carsten Sønder) 3/5, From the Edge of the City (1998,Constantine Giannaris) 3/5, The Holy Child (2001,Stéphane Clavier) 3/5, Boy's Choir (2000,Akira Ogata) 3/5, The Fire That Burns (1997,Christophe Malavoy) 4/5, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,Nicholas Stoller) 3/5, Ong-bak (2003,Prachya Pinkaew) 3/5, I Want to Live! (1958,Robert Wise) 2/5, Nancy Drew (2007,Andrew Fleming) 3/5, But Forever in My Mind (1999,Gabriele Muccino) 3/5, Death at a Funeral (2007,Frank Oz) 3/5, Pumpkinhead (1988,Stan Winston) 4/5, Beach Cafe (2001,Benoît Graffin) 2/5, 15 (2003,Royston Tan) 3/5, Lonely Boy (1962,Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor) 3/5
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05-16-2006, 09:31 PM
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Re: The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
Whoops, looks like I need to learn how to read.
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05-17-2006, 08:01 AM
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Re: The Best Film of 2005 Tournament
I'll second Darwin's Nightmare
Nominate:
Don't Come Knocking
The Wayward Cloud
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