Best movie you've seen this year

[Alma]

Just curious. Compiling something. Explain why if you want.

 

[Double Down]

I'm casting a vote for Little Miss Sunshine, simply because Jack Nicholson did his best to ruin The Departed.

 

[buckweaver]

I voted Borat.

The Departed was the most ... umm, enjoyable ... movie experience I had this year. Loved that movie, and was thoroughly into it from beginning to end.

Borat made me cringe so much that it made me hesitate to vote for it ... for a few seconds.

Interesting that you didn't include The Da Vinci Code, which also came out this year. But as everyone who saw it can attest, there's no reason to include it. Decent but safe movie ... much, much, much better book.

 

[Chi City 81]

I've only seen four movies this year, and The Departed was the best one.

 

[Columbo]

United 93... and not really close to me.

Incredible detail and the fact that four KEY players weren't actors is ****ing incredible.

1. United 93
2. Borat
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. The Departed

 

[kokane_muthashed]

The Departed (and it wasn't even close)

of course I've only seen 4 movies on the list: V, United 93, Inside Man and Departed.

want to see Borat badly.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

1. The Departed
2. The Queen
3. Hard Candy
4. Borat
5. Inside Man

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The Queen is outstanding. Helen Mirren should be a lock for Best Actress Oscar...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Alma, what are your picks?

 

[Duane Postum]

The Palm Beach Story. ;D

 

[Bubba Fett]

I can't believe Saw III wasn't listed. [\sarcasm]

I voted for The Departed.

 

[hockeybeat]

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints was the best movie I've seen this year. The Departed is a very close second.

 

[Pringle]

"Hard Candy" and I'm not sure it's really that close. What a creepy-ass, then scary-ass movie.

"Lonesome Jim" was terrific, too, but I think that both were officially '05 releases - just so hard to catch indies in their theatrical release.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

I voted for "Little Miss Sunshine," but I haven't seen many movies this year and haven't seen Borat. "The Departed" runs a close second, but the more I think about that last shot in the movie, the more it bugs the **** out of me.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

"Hard Candy" and I'm not sure it's really that close. What a creepy-ass, then scary-ass movie.

Hard Candy was incredible. Unfortunately, I don't think enough people saw it...

 

[Pringle]

"Hard Candy" and I'm not sure it's really that close. What a creepy-ass, then scary-ass movie.

Hard Candy was incredible. Unfortunately, I don't think enough people saw it...

And only five actors listed in the credits - and really only two. The two main people, the coffee shop clerk at the beginning, the neighbor who stops by and the guy's former girlfriend at the end.

I thought I was renting "The Woodsman" and really I rented "Misery."

 

[Columbo]

"Hard Candy" and I'm not sure it's really that close. What a creepy-ass, then scary-ass movie.

Hard Candy was incredible. Unfortunately, I don't think enough people saw it...

And only five actors listed in the credits - and really only two. The two main people, the coffee shop clerk at the beginning, the neighbor who stops by and the guy's former girlfriend at the end.

I thought I was renting "The Woodsman" and really I rented "Misery."

Well put.

Hard Candy would be in my top 5, too.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I didn't vote, because the only one on the list I've seen is United 93.

But in memory of Jack Palance: Year ain't over yet.

 

[Unibomber]

I wanted Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" a couple of weeks ago on Encore. None of the crap out there now is that good. ;D

 

[HejiraHenry]

I have quit going to the movies due to my fear of communicable disease.

But the best thing I have seen this year is "Overnight," the 2003 documentary on the guy behind the just-missed-phenomenon movie "Boondock Saints."