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post #121 of 214
2/11/07 at 12:28am

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Added The Queen at #8, bumping Bobby from the top 10.
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post #122 of 214
2/11/07 at 5:53am

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Finally saw enough films to make me feel good about my Top Ten (yes, I had seen enough movies; there were plenty of films I liked, but I didn't think were top ten material). So Adam can stop being "teh biast" against me and count my vote

Here we go:

1) The Fountain
2) Pan's Labyrinth
3) The Departed
4) United 93
5) Children of Men
6) Casino Royale
7) Letters from Iwo Jima
8) The Proposition
9) V for Vendetta
10) Slither (just for fun)
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post #123 of 214
2/11/07 at 4:37pm

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Okay, just 2 more to see before I put up my list - Iwo Jima and Pan's. Right now Children of Men tops my list I think.

Chuck, I did like The Fountain quite a bit.
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post #124 of 214
2/11/07 at 4:42pm

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam_S
I agree that 30 is a good minimum. I think I'll edit the main post to suggest that as well.
Well, 30 if you've seen at least 5-6 of the films falling into the rough overall top 10.


People bristle at limits and requirements, but the point should be well understood and isn't hostile at all. We are curious what avid movie fans from HTF think about films. If I wanted to know what a person who saw 5 films enjoyed I could ask my mom.

BTW, I'm at 51 so far (50 below my norm at least, ugh). 30 in theaters (Pan and Iwo will add to that) which is much closer to my typical 40. Sorry, but Dukes of Hazzard and Click don't get theatrical bucks from me. They are often lucky just to get rented.
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post #125 of 214
2/12/07 at 7:06am

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Here is my first crack at the least since I have several majors left to see. I didn't think that it was possible for there to be a worse film year than '05, but '06 has set a new low bar. I hope like hell that some of my "TO SEE" titles make me change my mind.
Children of Men
V for Vendetta
We are Marshall
Thank You for Smoking
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Is this '05 or '06?)
The Proposition
Rocky Balboa
An Inconvenient Truth
Brick
The Matador (Is this '05 or '06?)

Also seen:
The Pursuit of Happyness
Clerks II
Borat
Art School Confidential
Akeelah and the Bee
Cars
A Prarie Home Companion
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
Little Miss Sunshine

To See:
The Departed
Marie Antoinette
Letters From Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
Notes on a Scandal
Blood Diamond
The Science of Sleep
The Last King of Scotland
The Queen
The Fountain
The DaVinci Code
The Prestige
Monster House
Bubble
A Scanner Darkly
When the Levees Broke
The Notorious Betty Page
Volver
Bobby
Nacho Libre


Here's my updated list now that I've crossed a few more off of my list. I'm well over the 20 minimum now.
  1. Children of Men
  2. Flags of our Fathers
  3. The Departed
  4. V for Vendetta
  5. We are Marshall
  6. Thank You for Smoking
  7. Letters From Iwo Jima
  8. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  9. The Proposition
  10. Rocky Balboa

Also seen:
An Inconvenient Truth
Brick
The Matador
The Pursuit of Happyness
Clerks II
Borat
Art School Confidential
Akeelah and the Bee
Cars
A Prarie Home Companion
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
Little Miss Sunshine
Nacho Libre
The Science of Sleep
Monster House

To See:
Marie Antoinette
Notes on a Scandal
Blood Diamond
The Last King of Scotland
The Queen
The Fountain
The DaVinci Code
The Prestige
Bubble
A Scanner Darkly
When the Levees Broke
The Notorious Betty Page
Volver
Bobby
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post #126 of 214
2/12/07 at 9:51am
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Quote:
If I wanted to know what a person who saw 5 films enjoyed I could ask my mom.

On the other hand if I wanted to know what a person who saw 100+ films last year I'd ask my mom, just about 90% of those would be "not rated-R" she'll watch just about any new movie so long as it isn't R. :p

I'm currently reading, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and it's convincing me that polling just the most avid movie fans on HTF wouldn't give us the best list for even avid movie fans. it's fascinating reading material, and incredibly well written.
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post #127 of 214
2/13/07 at 5:50am

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I didn't realize that you upped the minimum to 30.

I'll probably break that barrier, but not until later in the year. There just wasn't that many movies worth watching last year (IMHO). I still have over 300 classics in my collection waiting to be watched, so I have to be somewhat judgemental ahead of time. Personally, I'd rather watch any film at random from 1930-1960 over any film at random from today.
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post #128 of 214
2/13/07 at 11:02am
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Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

there never really was a posted minimum, and twenty is fine. It's more healthy for the htf list to have input from those who have seen only a few films as well as those who have seen hundreds.
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post #129 of 214
2/13/07 at 11:47am

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Tops on 06

1. INLAND EMPIRE
2. Pan’s Labyrinth
3. The Fountain and Little Children
5. Children of Men
6. The Prestige
7. A Scanner Darkly
8. The Departed
9. V for Vendetta
10. Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest

The rest (in order):

Volver, Rocky Balboa, Little Miss Sunshine, Clerks II, Flushed Away, The Illusionist, Borat, Cars, Casino Royale, Stranger Than Fiction, Brick, A Good Year, Slither, Jackass Number Two, Over the Hedge, Miami Vice, The DaVinci Code, Hard Candy
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post #130 of 214
2/17/07 at 4:47pm

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Added Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) at #3, bumping Little Miss Sunshine out of the top 10. Its a shame this isn't showing in more theaters. Hopefully a win next weekend will help to remedy that.
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post #131 of 214
2/17/07 at 5:13pm

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Layton
Added Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) at #3
Would've made my list too, but it's a 2007 title, if you're going by US release dates, as most of us are.

Quote:
USA9 February 2007(limited)
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post #132 of 214
2/17/07 at 6:12pm

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Originally Posted by Nick C.
Would've made my list too, but it's a 2007 title, if you're going by US release dates, as most of us are.

Are we going by the US release date, or when it was initially released? (3/23/2006)
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post #133 of 214
2/18/07 at 3:52am
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Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

As you like it.
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post #134 of 214
2/18/07 at 9:26pm

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Best of 2006

1. Little Children



2. Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story



3. Climates



4. The Science of Sleep



5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu



6. L'Enfant



7. United 93



8. Half Nelson



9. Children of Men



10. Old Joy


Honorable Mentions (in order): Letters from Iwo Jima, The Fountain, The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, When the Levees Broke, The Break-Up, Volver, Babel, Brick, The Road to Guantanamo

Edited by schmidtt - 1/14/10 at 8:31pm
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post #135 of 214
2/19/07 at 1:11am

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Adam - I posted my list back in my page 2 placeholder, so I'm on board with Chuck now.

As far as polling the full-on masses, that's what box office is for.
(well, kinda)
Let's say People's Choice awards instead.

I'm at 52 seen, with 4-5 on deck for this week. I'll hit 100 by summer, but most will be lesser films I waited to see on DVD and not top 20 contenders.


BTW, I just put that book on my Hold list at the library.
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post #136 of 214
2/19/07 at 2:43pm
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the current HTF top thirty
there were 53 total votes

TITLES
TOTALS number of votes # of #1 votes st dev

avg
01. Departed, The
304 43 5 2.4

7.1
02. Children of Men
243.5 30 10 2.1

8.1
03. United 93
189 29 5 2.8

6.5
04. Superman Returns
148.5 22 2 3.0

6.8
05. Casino Royale
145 26 4 2.8

5.6
06. Pan's Labyrinth
143 19 4 2.7

7.5
07. Prestige, The
123 20 1 2.2

6.2
08. Little Miss Sunshine
119 22 3 2.9

5.4
09. Fountain, The
113.5 16 6 3.5

7.1
10. Borat
101 19 1 2.3

5.3
11. V for Vendetta
95 22 0 2.4

4.3
12. Letters From Iwo Jima
86 13 3 2.8

6.6
13. Inconvenient Truth, An
52 9 0 2.3

5.8
14. Rocky Balboa
51 13 0 2.5

3.9
15. Queen, The
49 12 0 2.0

4.1
16. Babel
45 8 1 3.4

5.6
17. Miami Vice
40 8 0 1.9

5.0
18. Blood Diamond
39 5 1 1.9

7.8
18. Thank You For Smoking
39 9 0 1.8

4.3
20. Little Children
38.5 6 1 2.3

6.4
21. Proposition, The
37 8 0 2.8

4.6
22. Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut
36 6 0 1.7

6.0
23. Clerks II
35 8 0 2.1

4.4
23. Flags of Our Fathers
35 6 0 2.5

5.8
25. Tristram Shandy
31 5 0 3.4

6.2
26. Akeelah and the Bee
29 4 0 2.9

7.3
27. Apocalypto
26 7 1 3.3

3.7
27. Mission Impossible III
26 6 0 3.2

4.3
27. Stranger Than Fiction
26 8 0 1.6

3.3
30. Brick
24 6 0 2.8

4.0
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post #137 of 214
2/20/07 at 9:56pm

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Updated my list. The Prestige and Babel are #4 & #5. Eight Below and Kingdom of Heaven were bumped off the list.
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post #138 of 214
2/22/07 at 1:13pm
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updating my list, Babel is replacing Rocky Balboa at number ten while Devil wears Prada moves up.
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post #139 of 214
2/24/07 at 10:46am

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Criteria = North America 2006 Screening :

1. Fong juk (aka Exiled) 10/10
2. Shi gan (aka Time) 9/10
3. Severance 8/10
4. Rang De Basanti (aka Paint It Yellow) 8/10
5. Wang-ui namja (aka King and the Clown, The) 8/10
6. Laberinto del Fauno, El (aka Pan's Labyrinth) 8/10
7. For Your Consideration 8/10
8. Lady in the Water 8/10
9. V for Vendetta 8/10
10. Fido 7/10

Criteria = 2006 Oscar Eligible (hate this one cause so many good movies never become Oscar eligible, But this is probably the better one to use for the HTF top ten list summary)

1. Thank You for Smoking 9/10
2. Rang De Basanti (aka Paint It Yellow) 8/10
3. Laberinto del Fauno, El (aka Pan's Labyrinth) 8/10
4. For Your Consideration 8/10
5. Lady in the Water 8/10
6. V for Vendetta 8/10
7. Water 7/10
8. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story 7/10
9. Clerks II 7/10
10. Fearless 7/10
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post #140 of 214
2/24/07 at 11:07am

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In no particular order:

The Departed
United 93
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Lady in the Water
Ice Age: The Meltdown
The Devil Wears Prada
Eight Below
The Guardian
The Illusionist
Inside Man

Most all of these were watched on DVD or in HDTV in my home theater.

Chris
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post #141 of 214
2/27/07 at 10:29am

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Prestige goes on my list at 15, Iwo Jima goes on at 16.

I moved Dreamgirls down to 18th from 11th. No changes to the top 10 at this point.

Not that it's critical, but I did drop the ratings on a couple of my top films, leaving me with only two 10 of 10 films (Children of Men and Departed). IMO this was a down year for truly great films. Still plenty of good ones, but less impressive for me than any of the last 4-5 years at least.
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post #142 of 214
2/27/07 at 10:35am

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Seth Paxton
Not that it's critical, but I did drop the ratings on a couple of my top films, leaving me with only two 10 of 10 films (Children of Men and Departed). IMO this was a down year for truly great films. Still plenty of good ones, but less impressive for me than any of the last 4-5 years at least.

Seth:

Though I gave out 6 '10' ratings (out of probably 30 films seen at least) I do agree with you about 2006 overall. I think it was a top heavy year, with a couple of fantastic entries that could compete for all time classic status, but further down there is much more mediocrity than in past years.

Also, in 2005 I thought the big blockbuster movies were much better (ROTS, HP, BB, Narnia, to name a few) than the crop this year (only SR really stood out to me).
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post #143 of 214
2/27/07 at 11:00am
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I only gave 1 10 this year, for Borat, like last year, for History of Violence, so it's about even for me, granted I'm very jealous of handing out a ten. Last year did have a vast field of 9's though, 10-15, while this year only had eight or nine.

I still haven't decided where to put Prestige, or quite how to rank it, likewise for Shut up and Sing.

Adam
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post #144 of 214
2/27/07 at 11:14am

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I don't know about you, Adam, but I definitely don't grade movies on a curve. If a film pulls me in, never lets me go, and tugs on my heart strings, it gets a 10. Films that have minor problems get 9.5s or 9s, then down from there.
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post #145 of 214
2/27/07 at 3:42pm

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I'm noticing I am giving alot of 9's lately ...one of the hardest things about rating a film is what I find myself rating it against. A film like John Tucker Must Die...certainly no masterpiece and was never meant to compete with the Schindler's Lists of the world. Still, it's rather clever and an effective comedy. On that basis I rank it higher than a film that is trying to be more "important"...

This is hard to explain ...I'll make it easier: It's really subjective & I'm not very consistent.

Agree with the films this year. Alot of truly memorable films but in 2005 -for the first time in a long time- we got blockbuster films that really, really were great.

Still, I feel I've matured a bit in my film perspective ..I am thinking more about film in general & in some ways I find 2006 to be rather excellent.

I'm rambling. Sorry.
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post #146 of 214
2/27/07 at 5:16pm

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Seth Paxton
IMO this was a down year for truly great films. Still plenty of good ones, but less impressive for me than any of the last 4-5 years at least.

I thought it was a great year, and notably diverse...between Pan's, CoM, The Departed, The Fountain, and United 93, I thought 2006 was very, very strong.

But I almost agree completely with Chris when he says

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Atkins
Also, in 2005 I thought the big blockbuster movies were much better than the crop this year.

Except replace SR with Casino Royale, an absolutely great time I had at the movies. But I thought the "serious" movies were really good. Nothing came close to my fave of 2005, but my list above satisfied me quite a bit.

I give out 10's when the film is something special, and couldn't be noticeably improved to my eyes. I guess I do grade on a bit of a curve, as most of my films are 7-10, or 3 or less. I'm picky about what I go see, as it involves leaving my kid (and often my wife), so I tend to see more of what suits me.
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post #147 of 214
2/27/07 at 5:36pm
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It's really subjective & I'm not very consistent.

Agreed. I tried the game of not grading on a curve for four or five years using a four star system I based off of Lew who based it off of Jonathan Rosenbaum, I believe. But I found I was lumping about 40% of films into four stars under that eight point categorization and there were several subjective, inconsistent ways I delineated between the four star films. So I relented and started fooling with a ten point scale (I don't like five stars for some reason...) and found it suited me quite nicely.

I'm not trying to bemoan 2006, there were several excellent films from this last year, it's quite on par with almost every other year, but it is a slump, for me, from 2005.

2005 remains the best year since 1999 or 1994, imo. 2006 was a pretty average year for films. I try not to fall into the trap of bemoaning what a 'bad year' for films whatever particular year it is--because naturally this is done by several critics every year and if you go back and read the 1994 or 1999 year in reviews you'll hear almost universal bellyaching of what a terrible year it was with hardly any good movies.

This is just speculative, If you go back to the seventies you'd probably find the same thing, and back in 1980 critics assessing the 70s as a whole would probably complain the 70s were the worst decade in film history--if they had been in the habit of doing those sorts of assessments in the first place.

This is not speculative, it's telling that in a big survey of great films done in 1977, The Most Important and Misappreciated American Films Since the Beginning of Cinema, only one seventies film (iirc) made the cut, The Godfather, as one of the very last entries on the list, not even making the top 100. It's equally telling that in Film Review Monthly in 1954 critics considered Casablanca to be the single most embarassing and inappropriate choice the academy had ever made in choosing a best picture, while How Green Was my Valley was considered one of the academy's finest decisions.


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post #148 of 214
2/27/07 at 7:40pm

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Updated my list. I might actually qualify now. There are still a few I want to see, most notably Letters from Iwo Jima.
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post #149 of 214
2/28/07 at 8:58pm

Re: 2006 Top Ten Lists - Time to Throw Down!

Updated my list again. After seeing the Departed, I had to make a tie for the number 1 spot. I still need to see: Flags of our Fathers, Letters from IJ, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, and United 93, before I can call it a wrap.

I will say that I feel very good about my list right now, which is something I couldn't say a month ago. I really enjoyed '06.

JC
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post #150 of 214
2/28/07 at 10:56pm
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Stranger than Fiction just pulled a History of Violence on me, a movie I never expected to really love (and missed in theatres) has just become one of my favorite's ever. Going in at the very top of my list. It'd be hard to make a movie that is more exactly what I love than this.
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