Best /Worst Films Of 2005

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Well, it's that time of year again. Where the winners are awesome and the losers suck ass. In the relm of films, I mean. So, what are your 10 best and 5 worst films of 2005? Feel free to throw in honorable mentions for films good, but not good enough for the top 10.

1. King Kong
2. War Of The Worlds
3. Serenity
4. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
5. Sin City
6. Batman Begins
7. The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
8. Steamboy
9. Howl's Moving Castle
10. The Island

Honorable Mentions:

Constantine
Stealth
Kingdom Of Heaven
House Of Wax
Fantastic Four
Doom

Worst:

1. Alone In The Dark
2. Elektra
3. Hide And Seek
4. Boogeyman
5. Aeon Flux

That's my list. Can't wait to see yours.
 

[Reply #1 on:]

Is there a list of movies that were released in 2005 somewhere? If there is, a link would be much appreciated.

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Woah... I saw no new movies this year. Take THAT, thread!

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Originally posted by Eyedol7513:
Is there a list of movies that were released in 2005 somewhere? If there is, a link would be much appreciated.

Try

 http://www.imdb.com

[Reply #4 on:]

 

Originally posted by Eyedol7513:
Is there a list of movies that were released in 2005 somewhere? If there is, a link would be much appreciated.

www.imdb.com

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Hmmm... Those are very useful. I know it's a movie site, but I can't find a list of the movies released in 2005 there. And from what I tried to find, it's not even there.

EDIT: <http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/index2005.html>. Google is useful after all.

[Reply #6 on:]

Revenge of the Sith was my favorite of the year.

I thought Sin City was pretty terrible.  Not the worst ever I'm sure but the worst movie I've seen this year.

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Originally posted by Eyedol7513:
Hmmm... Those are very useful. I know it's a movie site, but I can't find a list of the movies released in 2005 there. And from what I tried to find, it's not even there.

http://www.imdb.com/nowplaying/2005/1

...The Baz?  Great googly moogly you haven't been around in a while.

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I haven't seen a shitload of films still, but King Kong is the best this year.  I liked Revenge of the Sith a lot, but it certainly had little problems that are universal to the whole Star Wars series.

Worst....who knows really.  I avoid obviously shitty films like the plague, so honestly I just can't comment.  I've probably seen something really awful this year (perhaps something from 2004 that I rented), but in general I avoided the really awful stuff.

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Good Movies:
-King Kong
-War of the Worlds
-Elizabeth Town
-Episode III

Worst Movies:
-Aeon Flux
-Fantastic 4
-Doom
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
-House of Wax

[Reply #10 on:]

I don't see many (modern) movies, at least compared to everyone in here. But my ratio of good to bad is much better than everyone else's,too, which makes me feel good. I saw Sin City, but won't mention it 'cause certain segments were cool while others blew.

Best-
Ice Harvest
Munich

Worst-
Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins

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Originally posted by The Baz:
I thought Sin City was pretty terrible. 

Incorrect. Please leave again.

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It was generally kind of boring, with some parts being just short of nauseating. I'm tired of this new "arty" style of violence that involves dancing instead of fighting and a shitty story.

[Reply #13 on:]

Well I thought Sin City was awesome (although I have only read That Yellow Bastard so I don't know how faithful the other 2 stories were)

Other awesome films of 2005 include

Serenity
Batman Begins
Steamboy
Narnia

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The good:
Ong Bak - the Thai Warrior (Anyone who disagrees with me will be knee-dropped through the floor)
The Jacket
Kingdom of Heaven (If just for the Siege of Jerusalem)
Star Wars
Batman
Serenity
Wallace and Gromit
Potter
Narnia

The bad:
Sharkboy and Lavagirl
Herbie
Bewitched
Fantastic Four
Dukes of Hazzard
Doom
Aeon Flux

The ugly (or so I assume, since I haven't and never will see these):
Son of the Mask
Miss Congeniality 2
Honeymooners
Stealth
Sound of Thunder
The Man
Deuce Bigalow
The Fog
Yours, Mine, Ours

Have yet to see, but want to:
Syriana
Kong
Producers
Fun W/ Dick & Jane
Matchpoint

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The Best
Corpse Bride

The Good
Wallace & Gromit
Robots
War of the Worlds
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Sin City
Star Wars Ep III

The Bad
Spongebob movie
Mr & Mrs Smith
Constantine

Haven't seen any other movies of 2005 yet...

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I saw quite a few movies in '05... not all of them are 2005 movies, but I'll say they are considering I saw them this year.

Best:
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Raise Your Voice!

Good:
The Life Aquatic
Crash
Star Wars Episode III
Legend Of Zorro (even though pretty much everyone else hated it)

Bad:
The Aviator (too much penis)
Herbie: Fully Loaded ( Hilary Duff wins chick flick battle)

Want to see:
Are We There Yet? (it's got Ice Cube plus it got 1 star at IMDB;  )
Sin City

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well I don't watch many new movies... most of these I saw on the plane.. but uhh, I liked these:

Walk the Line
Hitchhiker's Guide
Batman Begins
Crash
Life Aquatic
40 Year Old Virgin
March of the Penguins
Dear Frankie
Constantine- that was early this year, right?
A Very Long Engagament- that may be 2004 though...

i'm probably forgetting some..

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Reminds me, have to watch the end of 40 Year Old Virgin.
I watched it in bursts so far and I got sick of it when they started arguing after the 2 months or whatever it was they were waiting.

Wallace and Gromit, Hil?

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Good:
War Of The Worlds
Harry Potter 4
Star Wars III
Robots
Wallace And Gromit
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Serenity

Bad:
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Lilo and Sttch 2
Are We There Yet
Son Of The Mask
The Aviator
Christmas With The Kranks

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I really didn't see that many movies this year. But from the six I will quickly go over, all were good.

{#1}Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
-In my opinion, this was a good movie. Although the non-action scenes in the middle were boring, especially because of the stiff acting. Overall though, it was a good movie. (Saw it 5 times in theatres, 2 times on DVD, for a total of 7 times.)
   
{#2}Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
-Johnny Depp was awesome as Willy Wonka. The movie was cool overall, and the backstory to Wonka was a nice added touch. Although I liked the original Oommpa Loompas better.

{#3}King Kong
-Nothing to say, it was good. Although the part when she was on the skyscraper with Kong made me wonder if she would kiss him. Jack Black was also cool.

{#4}Batman Begins
-Kinda boring, but I realize the movie was about showing how Bruce Wayne became Batman. Factoring that, it was a good movie. Also, the villian wasn't that good, but that's just me.

{#5}The War Of The Worlds
-It was good. I can't say anything more.
     
{#6}Just Friends
-Again, a good movie. I can't say anything more.

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To make use of the Jeremy Scale® -

Woo

Downfall
Sin City
Howl's Moving Castle
Good Night and Good Luck
Little Fish

Moo

Last Days
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Corpse Bride
Batman
Serenity

Boo

Star Wars
War of the Worlds
Hitchhiker's Guide

Trailer that caused the biggest unintentional laugh

The Fog (come on..)

Trailers that caused the biggest 'oh god, please tell me they didn't..' groan

Stealth
Doom

I haven't seen any of the holiday releases yet.

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To make use of the Clint Eastwood Scale -

The Good

Star Wars - Best. Movie. Of the year.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Funny.
The Corpse Bride - Awesome. Simply awesome.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - It was from 2004, but was so good, it caried over into this year. Or maybe this year's movies were so forgetful...

The Bad

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Pretty good, but not great.
War of the Worlds - Wasn't as great as expected. Maybe Cruise should learn the Secrets of Scientology Success in the Entertainment Industry from Beck.

And...
The Ugly

Herbie Fully Loaded - Ugly can't describe this film.
Yours, Mine, and Ours - Worst remake of the year.
Doom - Even worse than The Cat in the Hat The Movie's game.


And now for my still to see list...
Still to See: The List

Fun with Dick and Jane
The Producers
40 Year Old Virgin
King Kong

[Reply #23 on:]

Wiener, out of that list "still to see", only The Producers is worth it. The others will (in order): Make you sleep, make you cry, and make you urinate.

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I've only seen 2 movies this year:
The Chronicles of Narnia,and
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
I thought they were both good.

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The Good

Corpse Bride
Harry Potter 4
Star Wars 3-6 (I discovered it this year)
Million Dollar Baby (Rented it)
Breakfast Club
War of the Worlds
Crash
Fun w/ Dick and Jane
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Anchorman
Madagascar

The Ugly...but in some cases still Good

Son of the Mask (I loved it. That's good enough)
Aeon Flux
Bewitched (Tisk Tisk Ms. Kidman)
40 Year Old Virgin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I fell asleep after 10 minutes but I feel like I didn't give it a chance)
The Aviator (meeeh)
Hide & Seek
Miss Congeniality 2

and the Baaad asssss ones

Elektra
The Amityville Horror
Napoleon Dynamite
Robots

The Want to see list

King Kong
The Producers
Sin City
Capote
Munich
The Fog (just so I can bitch)
Rumor Has It...
Wedding Crashers

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Off the top of my head I think I saw four movies this year.  They dont let me out much...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Odd, but funny and nicely filmed.  I've never read the book but I have been told it's a laugh.  Wanted to strangle the chick though.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Very, very well done.  Johnny Depp AND chocolate, what more could a girl want??

Star Wars Ep. III
I love star wars, so this was gonna be good anyway...

Narnia
Lovely cinematography, nice story but I really could have done without all the obvious Christian undertones.  Yeah I know the book is like that too and it's a sign of the time it was written but I still could have done without it.

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Narnia was written AS an analogy to the story of Christ. CS Lewis was a Christian author. It's reflecting on the guy that wrote it more so than the time period. So no it couldn't have done without it because that was the entire purpose of the book.

anyway...

The Good
Wedding Crashers
Narnia
King Kong
Mr & Mrs Smith

The Bad/The Disappointing/The WTF?!
Red Eye
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Star Wars 3
Aeon Flux
The Family Stone

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The Good
Wallace & Gromit And The Curse Of The Ware-Rabbit
King Kong
Serenity
Batman Begins
Sin City
War Of The Worlds
Kung Fu Hustle
Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

The Bad
Wedding Crashers (middle of good and bad)
Sahara (Respect the book to much to like this)
Kingdom Of Heaven
Star Wars Ep lll (Big let down for me)
Transporter 2
Harry Potter & GOF (It sucked unfortunately)
Madagascar

.... and The Ugly
Land Of The Dead
Doom
Unleashed
Elektra

Thats my list for 2005. 

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I haven't seen much this year, so it's a rather short list.

Great
Batman Begins
Sin City
Dear Wendy
Wallace & Gromit

Good
King Kong
Merchant of Venice
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Harry Potter Episode IV 

Not Good enough
Star Wars Episode III
The Brothers Grimm

Baaaaaad!
Fantastic Four
War of the Worlds

[Reply #30 on:]

Best: Serenity.
Worst: I dunno, didn't see the ones that looked like they qualified for worst.  Doom looked pretty damn lame, though.

Best honorable mentions: Sin City, Batman Begins.
Worst honorable mention: HHGttG, just because I'm a novel fanboy.

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It has been a bad year for movies, for me anyway and these are the only good ones..

Good
Wallace & Gromit
Kung Fu Hustle
Harry Potter
Dukes Of Hazzard
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Bad
House of Wax (2005)
Doom -  "Utter, utter pish" according to my dad...
Elektra
The Ring 2
Mrs. Henderson Presents


Movies which I would have liked to have seen but couldn't
The Corpse Bride
King Kong
Revenge of the Sith
Chicken Little

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Movies that blew my mind:
Family Guy's Stewie Griffin:The Untold Story
The Producers
Wallace & Gromit And The Curse Of The Ware-Rabbit

Movies that made me wanna hit my head:
Harry Pooper and the Goblet of BORING!
Fantastic Four
Herbie

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Originally posted by Jicannon:
Narnia was written AS an analogy to the story of Christ. CS Lewis was a Christian author. It's reflecting on the guy that wrote it more so than the time period. So no it couldn't have done without it because that was the entire purpose of the book.

Aah, well there you go then.  I didn't actually know that 

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Allegory, not analogy.

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Also note the World War II/Nazi Germany paralells.  Not as pronounced as they are in LotR, but they are there.

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I just realized that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was the only 2005 film that I've seen. And I liked it; it was much better than I feared it would be.

[Reply #37 on:]

You all... liked War of the Worlds? Oh. Wow. I thought the effects were great, but the movie sucked in basically every other way. I had a headache from that girl constantly shrieking, not to mention the overplayed teenageboy<->father angst.

Being a disgustingly obsessed fangirl, I have to express my love of Potter and the Goblet of Fire, HHGTTG, and of course, Episode III (Which, admittedly, I just watched.)

Honorable mentions out to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  For the record, I don't see too many new movies.

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Good ones:

Serenity (i didnt like the movie,but i like Firefly so it goes here)
StarWars EpIII. (yes, i like it)
Batman Begins
War of the worlds (bad but i like the history so same as serenity)
hijwhatever guide to the galaxy

Bad Ones:

the weekend
Stealth


For god sake, nobody mentions Stealth?
this movie is a HUGE step back..
I can go with the Talon plane wich does 20Gs or something easily. I can go with that HAL9000 computer embebed in a R/C ducted fan plane..
I CANNOT stand:
"So the HAL9000 has gone nuts, and is going to strike rusia, so i go after him before it does any harm, so i catch up with him, convince him that is wrong, he accepts it, but look: we are violating rusian air-space and here comes three rusian SU-37 wich are defending their air space against two invader planes. So what we do?, we try to get radio contact? nooo, We kill all three rusian planes like they are the bad guys..

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Originally posted by Javier Lopez:
Serenity (i didnt like the movie

Get off my board.