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Best movie you've seen this year

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Alma, Nov 16, 2006.

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What's the best movie you've seen thus far?

  1. Borat

    10 vote(s)
    14.5%
  2. Babel

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%
  3. The Departed

    18 vote(s)
    26.1%
  4. Flags of Our Fathers

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%
  5. The Queen

    2 vote(s)
    2.9%
  6. Stranger Than Fiction

    3 vote(s)
    4.3%
  7. V For Vendetta

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%
  8. Volver

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  9. Marie Antoinette

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  10. Inside Man

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%
  11. Some summer blockbuster

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  12. Something else

    9 vote(s)
    13.0%
  13. United 93

    6 vote(s)
    8.7%
  14. Little Miss Sunshine

    17 vote(s)
    24.6%
  1. westcoastvol

    westcoastvol Active Member

    My faves:

    BOBBY
    LITTLE CHILDREN
    LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (I voted for that)
    THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
    THE QUEEN
    BORAT
    CASINO ROYALE

    Biggest disappointments:
    FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (the genre's played out, for Christ's sake)
    THE DEPARTED (Alma summed it up for me, last shot and all)
    STRANGER THAN FICTION (Ferrell horribly miscast)

    Have yet to see:
    MARIE ANTOINETTE
    VOLVER
    INSIDE MAN
     
  2. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    Little Miss Sunshine got my vote, but any one of three other movies could have been right there -- The Departed, Thank You For Smoking, and V for Vendetta. The more I think about it, the more I really, really liked Smoking. But LMS was smart and hilarious, too.

    Want to see Marie Antoinette. Stranger Than Fiction enjoyable, but clearly a step below the previously mentioned, IMHO. Bobby is not even in the discussion.
     
  3. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Casino Royale in my top 5.
     
  4. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    Finally saw Borat, today.

    Laughed four times in the first 20 minutes (the opening is sound, as they say at the chess table).

    Didn't laugh once, through the remainder.

    An hour and a half I won't get back.
     
  5. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Just saw this.

    Mirren must be a lock.

    Michael Sheen was even better.

    It did have a feel of a film that could have been on HBO.

    But excellent, nonetheless.
     
  6. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Blood Diamond. Better than The Departed.
     
  7. spup1122

    spup1122 Guest

    I agree with Doc. Blood Diamond was the best movie I've seen in years, and I'm a comedy lover. This movie kept me engaged and had me nearly in tears more than once.
     
  8. Trey Beamon

    Trey Beamon Active Member

    I really enjoyed Little Miss Sunshine, World Trade Center and Thank You for Smoking.
     
  9. OTD

    OTD Well-Known Member

    I just saw The Departed on Friday night (it was in a theater that had just opened). I really enjoyed it, although it seemed like everyone's Boston accents kind of came and went.

    What bugged the shit out of me though was the couple in the row in front of me who brought their two girls, I'd guess about ages 6 and 8. What the fuck are people thinking when they let kids that age watch a movie like that?
     
  10. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    I'd tell you how much I dug Blood Diamond, but I'd have to D_B myself.
     
  11. spup1122

    spup1122 Guest

    That's almost as bad as the three or four-year-old who was with his parents watching Blood Diamond this weekend. It was horrible. I wanted to turn around and explain the psychological abuse they were bestowing on their child by letting him watch a movie about genocide that showed people being murdered, point-blank. Not to mention the fact that they had a cell phone that went off at least five times throughout the movie and the constant light from them opening the cell phone and doing whatever. I as BEYOND aggravated.
     
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