All the Movies I've seen in 2005, ranked
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dangermousieThis is purely subjective. As in ranked only in how much it appealed to me. There is no doubt that Brokeback Mountain is a better movie than Aeon Flux. But I liked Aeon Flux more.
Adored beyond the telling of it:
1. Rent: What an amazing, emotional, beautiful experience. What musicals can be. This story about a group of desperate bohemians living, loving and losing in the New York of 1989 just broke my heart. But in the best way possible.
1. Serenity: It made me cry, it made me laugh, it made me forget to breathe. It's science fiction the way it should be and almost never is. It's a dystopia, it's a thriller, it's a love story, it's everything you want in a movie and so rarely get.
1. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: You know that rare feeling when you watch a movie and you forget where you are and who you are and when you walk out, everything seems less intense and drab, as if you've just woken up? That's RotS for me. The end, on the planet of full of the fires of hell is...guuuuh.
1. Howl's Moving Castle: Something so beautiful and fragile and perfect I don't really know how to describe it.
5. Good Night and Good Luck intelligent but not dry, I love this. I wish it would win Best Picture, but it won't.
6. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: this hilarious, clever, romantic take on a film noir made me fall in love with it in the first five minutes and that slight giddy feeling you get when you've found a movie that is just right remained throughout.
7. Parineeta: This is what Bollywood does when it's really really REALLY good: gives you moments of such breathtaking intensity and beauty and romance, it feels as if goes straight to your veins.
8. Constantine: Probably one of my all-time favorite comic books movies, this is dark, atmospheric and intelligent. I am in love. And not just with Keanu.
9. House of Flying Daggers: Doomed romance. Visually stunning doomed romance with Takeshi Kaneshiro being the Chinese Legolas. *swoon*
10. Walk the Line: It made someone who knew nothing about the subject fall in love with the characters. Wow.
11. Kingdom of Heaven: An intelligent and layered period epic that does not feel ahistorical and is chockfull of fascinating characters and moral dilemmas. I can't wait for the Director's Cut.
12. Batman Begins: I had little desire to see this, but about 15 minutes in I realized it had just became my favorite superhero movie, ever. And Christian Bale's Batman was so real and mesmerizing, and painfully fucked-up beautiful.
13. King Kong: dramatic, powerful, scary, moving. This is a dream of a movie, one I was able appreciate even while being so zonked. The only reason it's not rated higher is because Ann's love for KK is a bit odd and because I get scared easily.
14. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit: Funny, clever and kind. If you don't like it, there is something wrong with you :P
15. Elizabethtown: No one can show what it feels like to be in love, or experience little moments the way Cameron Crowe does. Yes, the road trip is a bit long and should be cut. But who cares, when the whole thing is just...guuuh.
16. Karam: The visuals would get this movie in, alone. But I love the angst and the beauty of this really dark movie about a hitman who has to do a series of hits or else his wife dies.
Very Good:
17. War of the Worlds: The end was a bit pat, but the rest of it scared the hell out of me and was really really moving and good and Tom Cruise, crazy or not, is smoking hot.
18. Bunty aur Babli: If you are in a bad mood, pop this in. This story about two lovable (and in love) crooks is funny and charming and romantic.
19. Aeon Flux: this part dystopia, part action flick, part really messed-up and cool love story is a movie I feel for without expecting it.
20. History of Violence: slow, understated movie about cost of violence that grabs you and doesn't let go. Plus, Viggo Mostensen was excellent.
21. Shopgirl: it's a perfect adapation of an elegant, thoughtful, tender book.
22. Layer Cake: a really clever, twisty pretzel of a British gangster movie.
23. Casanova: A silly, giddy romp that made me grin for two hours.
24. Brokeback Mountain: This is exploration of two gay cowboys. Yup. And it works. But then it's an Ang Lee movie, so why wouldn't it? But it didn't super move me. Oh well.
25. Taj Mahal: Doomed romance Bollywood style. Starts slow, but the court intrigue and passionate love are so good as we watch the story of Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, for whom he built the Taj.
26. Proof: really clever and sad and hopeful. One of the few movies I've liked Gwyneth Paltrow in, this is a story about a mathematician's daughter who is falling apart.
27. Green Street Hooligans: violent edgy fun about an American drawn in by a London football hooligan gang.
Liked:
28. Paheli: it's colorful, it's feminist, it's period. Not to mention well-acted. Just not enough drama for me.
29. Kisna: delightful, if a touch on the Orientalist side, period melodrama romance.
30. Black: visually stunning and excellently acted, but it's a Miracle Worker remake, so won't go higher on the list.
31. The Constant Gardener: Ralph Fiennes is excellent as a grieving man falling in love with his dead wife all over again, but politics is a bit heavy handed and the jerky camera made me sick.
32. Lucky: School girl and roue hook up in Russia, Bollywood style.
33. Fever Pitch: sweet and cute baseball-themed fairytale.
OK:
34. The Rising: Epic about 1857 uprising in India. Ambitious but wildly uneven.
35. Cinderella Man: Sap, sap, sap. But Russell Crowe is excellent.
36. Elaan: fun Bolly actioner, notable mainly for my overwhelming desire to drag former mob hitman (portrayed by John Abraham) to a very private corner for a get-to-know-you session.
37. Wedding Crashers: funny.
38. Kung Fu Hustle: Lovely moments mixed in with gross-out humor. Some things I adored and some things that made me go "whaaaa?" I own it happily though.
39. Dil Jo Bhi Kahey: a cute and understated Bolly take on interracial romance.
40. Chronicles of Narnia: an excellent children's movie. But unfortunately I am not a child any more.
41. Bride and Prejudice: Cute and sweet, but Bollywood-lite.
42. Vaada: fun if flawed Bolly thriller about a dimwit, her blind husband and her ex-boyfriend stalker. Aejun Rampal, yum. Zayed Khan, yum.
43. Memoirs of a Geisha: a beautiful but empty movie.
44. Pyaar Mein Twist: an unusual for Bollywood romance involving two elderly widowers. Fun.
45. Robots: Cute. Once.
46. Corpse Bride: Interesting. Once.
47. Dus: routine but slick action flick. Less explosions, more characters?
48. Where the Truth Lies Very flawed but interesting. A pity the book is 10 times better.
49. Brothers Grimm A for idea, and for hot Matt Damon. C for the rest.
Not so good:
50. Sahara: Blah.
51. Waqt: made me laugh in the wrong places.
52. Capote: wonderful example of "well-made movie that is absolutely wrong for me"
53. The Island: Blah Part 2
54. Kyun Ki: the idea was good, but the movie is a mess. And not a glorious mess either.
55. Crash: Most overrated movie of the year. Also, as subtle and realistic as a brick. But well-acted.
56. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe: zzzzzzzzzz
57. Just Like Heaven: oh no, it isn't. Not even watching this on the plane makes it anything but annoying.
58. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants: stupid tweenie junk. But it did make me write a parody so not a total loss.
59. Mr & Mrs Smith: amoral AND boring.
60. The Wedding Date: it's too incipid to even be loathed. It took a cute enough chick flick book and turned it into this...vacuum.
Loathed:
61. Monster-in-Law: what was the point of this atrocity? And why did Jane Fonda, who was so brilliant in "Coming Home" come out of her retirement for that? Ugh.
62. Legend of Zorro: the first was quite good, but this was a hideous, anachronistic, stupid movie that was only bearable by Antonio Banderas.
63. Salaam Namaste: It had such promise, but it threw away everything that was good about Bollywood and replaced it with...nothing. It was worse than a random, played out HW romcom.
64. In Her Shoes: So bad, pointless and dull I walked out.
65. Sin City: I WISH I walked out. Amoral and disgusting and made me sick.
Adored beyond the telling of it:
1. Rent: What an amazing, emotional, beautiful experience. What musicals can be. This story about a group of desperate bohemians living, loving and losing in the New York of 1989 just broke my heart. But in the best way possible.
1. Serenity: It made me cry, it made me laugh, it made me forget to breathe. It's science fiction the way it should be and almost never is. It's a dystopia, it's a thriller, it's a love story, it's everything you want in a movie and so rarely get.
1. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: You know that rare feeling when you watch a movie and you forget where you are and who you are and when you walk out, everything seems less intense and drab, as if you've just woken up? That's RotS for me. The end, on the planet of full of the fires of hell is...guuuuh.
1. Howl's Moving Castle: Something so beautiful and fragile and perfect I don't really know how to describe it.
5. Good Night and Good Luck intelligent but not dry, I love this. I wish it would win Best Picture, but it won't.
6. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: this hilarious, clever, romantic take on a film noir made me fall in love with it in the first five minutes and that slight giddy feeling you get when you've found a movie that is just right remained throughout.
7. Parineeta: This is what Bollywood does when it's really really REALLY good: gives you moments of such breathtaking intensity and beauty and romance, it feels as if goes straight to your veins.
8. Constantine: Probably one of my all-time favorite comic books movies, this is dark, atmospheric and intelligent. I am in love. And not just with Keanu.
9. House of Flying Daggers: Doomed romance. Visually stunning doomed romance with Takeshi Kaneshiro being the Chinese Legolas. *swoon*
10. Walk the Line: It made someone who knew nothing about the subject fall in love with the characters. Wow.
11. Kingdom of Heaven: An intelligent and layered period epic that does not feel ahistorical and is chockfull of fascinating characters and moral dilemmas. I can't wait for the Director's Cut.
12. Batman Begins: I had little desire to see this, but about 15 minutes in I realized it had just became my favorite superhero movie, ever. And Christian Bale's Batman was so real and mesmerizing, and painfully fucked-up beautiful.
13. King Kong: dramatic, powerful, scary, moving. This is a dream of a movie, one I was able appreciate even while being so zonked. The only reason it's not rated higher is because Ann's love for KK is a bit odd and because I get scared easily.
14. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit: Funny, clever and kind. If you don't like it, there is something wrong with you :P
15. Elizabethtown: No one can show what it feels like to be in love, or experience little moments the way Cameron Crowe does. Yes, the road trip is a bit long and should be cut. But who cares, when the whole thing is just...guuuh.
16. Karam: The visuals would get this movie in, alone. But I love the angst and the beauty of this really dark movie about a hitman who has to do a series of hits or else his wife dies.
Very Good:
17. War of the Worlds: The end was a bit pat, but the rest of it scared the hell out of me and was really really moving and good and Tom Cruise, crazy or not, is smoking hot.
18. Bunty aur Babli: If you are in a bad mood, pop this in. This story about two lovable (and in love) crooks is funny and charming and romantic.
19. Aeon Flux: this part dystopia, part action flick, part really messed-up and cool love story is a movie I feel for without expecting it.
20. History of Violence: slow, understated movie about cost of violence that grabs you and doesn't let go. Plus, Viggo Mostensen was excellent.
21. Shopgirl: it's a perfect adapation of an elegant, thoughtful, tender book.
22. Layer Cake: a really clever, twisty pretzel of a British gangster movie.
23. Casanova: A silly, giddy romp that made me grin for two hours.
24. Brokeback Mountain: This is exploration of two gay cowboys. Yup. And it works. But then it's an Ang Lee movie, so why wouldn't it? But it didn't super move me. Oh well.
25. Taj Mahal: Doomed romance Bollywood style. Starts slow, but the court intrigue and passionate love are so good as we watch the story of Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, for whom he built the Taj.
26. Proof: really clever and sad and hopeful. One of the few movies I've liked Gwyneth Paltrow in, this is a story about a mathematician's daughter who is falling apart.
27. Green Street Hooligans: violent edgy fun about an American drawn in by a London football hooligan gang.
Liked:
28. Paheli: it's colorful, it's feminist, it's period. Not to mention well-acted. Just not enough drama for me.
29. Kisna: delightful, if a touch on the Orientalist side, period melodrama romance.
30. Black: visually stunning and excellently acted, but it's a Miracle Worker remake, so won't go higher on the list.
31. The Constant Gardener: Ralph Fiennes is excellent as a grieving man falling in love with his dead wife all over again, but politics is a bit heavy handed and the jerky camera made me sick.
32. Lucky: School girl and roue hook up in Russia, Bollywood style.
33. Fever Pitch: sweet and cute baseball-themed fairytale.
OK:
34. The Rising: Epic about 1857 uprising in India. Ambitious but wildly uneven.
35. Cinderella Man: Sap, sap, sap. But Russell Crowe is excellent.
36. Elaan: fun Bolly actioner, notable mainly for my overwhelming desire to drag former mob hitman (portrayed by John Abraham) to a very private corner for a get-to-know-you session.
37. Wedding Crashers: funny.
38. Kung Fu Hustle: Lovely moments mixed in with gross-out humor. Some things I adored and some things that made me go "whaaaa?" I own it happily though.
39. Dil Jo Bhi Kahey: a cute and understated Bolly take on interracial romance.
40. Chronicles of Narnia: an excellent children's movie. But unfortunately I am not a child any more.
41. Bride and Prejudice: Cute and sweet, but Bollywood-lite.
42. Vaada: fun if flawed Bolly thriller about a dimwit, her blind husband and her ex-boyfriend stalker. Aejun Rampal, yum. Zayed Khan, yum.
43. Memoirs of a Geisha: a beautiful but empty movie.
44. Pyaar Mein Twist: an unusual for Bollywood romance involving two elderly widowers. Fun.
45. Robots: Cute. Once.
46. Corpse Bride: Interesting. Once.
47. Dus: routine but slick action flick. Less explosions, more characters?
48. Where the Truth Lies Very flawed but interesting. A pity the book is 10 times better.
49. Brothers Grimm A for idea, and for hot Matt Damon. C for the rest.
Not so good:
50. Sahara: Blah.
51. Waqt: made me laugh in the wrong places.
52. Capote: wonderful example of "well-made movie that is absolutely wrong for me"
53. The Island: Blah Part 2
54. Kyun Ki: the idea was good, but the movie is a mess. And not a glorious mess either.
55. Crash: Most overrated movie of the year. Also, as subtle and realistic as a brick. But well-acted.
56. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe: zzzzzzzzzz
57. Just Like Heaven: oh no, it isn't. Not even watching this on the plane makes it anything but annoying.
58. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants: stupid tweenie junk. But it did make me write a parody so not a total loss.
59. Mr & Mrs Smith: amoral AND boring.
60. The Wedding Date: it's too incipid to even be loathed. It took a cute enough chick flick book and turned it into this...vacuum.
Loathed:
61. Monster-in-Law: what was the point of this atrocity? And why did Jane Fonda, who was so brilliant in "Coming Home" come out of her retirement for that? Ugh.
62. Legend of Zorro: the first was quite good, but this was a hideous, anachronistic, stupid movie that was only bearable by Antonio Banderas.
63. Salaam Namaste: It had such promise, but it threw away everything that was good about Bollywood and replaced it with...nothing. It was worse than a random, played out HW romcom.
64. In Her Shoes: So bad, pointless and dull I walked out.
65. Sin City: I WISH I walked out. Amoral and disgusting and made me sick.
