Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Movies I Watched - 2005

Posted as a public service announcement, so the FBI doesn't have to request the list from Netflix. Posted from most recent, to least recent. And yes, there are 129 of them for 2005 alone and they are only the things we watched on Netflix, not in the theater and not via pay per view (the clean kind) and not on IFC.

Favorites: Unforgivable Blackness (absolutely enthralling - just amazing), Motorcycle Diaries, Fitzcarraldo, Kinsey, Gunner Palace, Tae Guk Gi, Iron Jawed Angels, Persona, Naussica of the Valley of the Wind, The Woodsman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Five Obstructions, Touching the Void. Oldboy and Calamari Wrestler get props for being "memorable".

Not on the list, but watched this year and absolutely loved: Sarah Silverman's "Jesus is Magic".

Hated: Elmopalooza (really, Eryn concurs), Versus, Anchorman, Duplex, Boo the Movie,Vampires Out for Blood, The Horror Within, Darkness, Alone in the Dark, Orgazmo, The Brown Bunny, Closer. Those were the out and out one-star flops at first glance - there were an amazing number of twos. We'll watch anything, but it'll get a bad rating if it deserves it.

Not on the list, but watched this year and absolutely loathed: "The Cave".

The List:
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson: Disc 1 (2-Disc Series)
Robots
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 3: Vol. 1 (2-Disc Series)
Burnt Money
The Calamari Wrestler
Fire
Farmingville: POV
Come Undone
Peeping Tom
House of Wax
A Tale of Two Sisters
Lost: Season 1: Disc 6 (7-Disc Series)
I'm Not Scared
Lost: Season 1: Disc 5 (7-Disc Series)
Closer
Lost: Season 1: Disc 4 (7-Disc Series)
Lost: Season 1: Disc 3 (7-Disc Series)
Lost: Season 1: Disc 2 (7-Disc Series)
Bush's Brain
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 2: Vol. 2 (2-Disc Series)
Lost: Season 1: Disc 1 (7-Disc Series)
City of God
Downfall
Layer Cake
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 2: Vol. 1 (2-Disc Series)
Oldboy
Friday Night Lights
A Very Long Engagement
Seven Samurai
8.5
The Brown Bunny
Assisted Living
The Motorcycle Diaries
In the Realms of the Unreal
Shallow Ground
The Girl from Monday
Steamboy
The Aviator
Voices of a Distant Star
Down by Law
Born Into Brothels
Kinsey
Fitzcarraldo
Gunner Palace
M
Naked States
Millennium Actress
Rashomon
Suspect Zero
Through a Glass Darkly
Orgazmo
Team America: World Police
Throne of Blood
The Machinist
Being Julia
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Finding Neverland
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Persona
Memories
Iron Jawed Angels
Lewis Black: Black on Broadway
Hidden Fortress
Primer
Alone in the Dark
The Merchant of Venice
The Corporation
Northfork
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Darkness
Vera Drake
The Horror Within
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Bottle Rocket
The United States of Leland
The Woodsman
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 1: Vol. 1 (2-Disc Series)
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Danny Deckchair
The Yes Men
Akira
Dead Birds
King Arthur
Ocean's Twelve
The Final Cut
Elling
Since Otar Left
Robot Stories
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Rules of Attraction
Storytelling
Saw
The Bourne Supremacy
Closely Watched Trains
Word Wars
The Bourne Identity
Vampires: Out for Blood
Exorcist: The Beginning
I Heart Huckabees
Cube Zero
Man Bites Dog
Maria Full of Grace
Head in the Clouds
Garden State
Hero
Napoleon Dynamite
Boo! The Movie
Paragraph 175
The Five Obstructions
Duplex (Widescreen)
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Kiki's Delivery Service
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
The Sopranos: Season 4: Disc 4 (4-Disc Series)
Open Water
Home on the Range
Pieces of April
Audition
I, Robot
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Journeys with George
Versus: Director's Cut
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
The Terminal
Touching the Void
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Wiggles: Cold Spaghetti Western

2 comments:

LissyJo said...

Dude: That's a Jim Carrey movie in your favs.

Scooter said...

Jim Carrey was in Tae Guk Gi? Was he on the side of the North or South?