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54 Movies of 2005
Jan. 1st, 2006 | 05:02 am
Because I am a special sort of psychotic. After getting home last Friday morning, I devour movie after movie, to the point that I decided that 50 movies was an attainable goal for the year. Thus, my 54 movies for the year. I might be missing some, and some of the earlier ones might actually be from Fall semester 2004, but there's enough wiggle room for that to be all right. If I had included 2004 movies, I would've included The Notebook, Mean Girls, House of Flying Daggers, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle... but thankfully no, because reviewing 54 was already quite enough.
Anyways, they're all listed alphabetically, and given individual and independent scores based on cinematography, pacing, storytelling and characters, with an overall score that doesn't necessarily match up with the individual categories. Scores are on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the best. Also, when applicable, my secret boy/girlfriend along with the best actor/actress of the movie is named. And yes, those are two separate categories.
Summaries/commentary following, with the length dependent on my interest in the particular movie. All spoilers will be marked and in white, so highlight if you want to read them.
So here you go: They range from the horrid (Without a Paddle), to the mindless (Ocean's Eleven), to the cult classic (Donnie Darko), to the indie favorites (Napoleon Dynamite), to the old samurai flicks(Rashomon). 7 languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese) are represented. Top 5 are starred. ~22 were seen in the past 10 days, which means I've hit an overload now. It's funny, because I see moviewatching as a solitary activity. I don't much care for watching them with others, but if I have to, I want to be able to talk and mock and discuss it as it moves along.
( 2005 in Review )
Anyways, they're all listed alphabetically, and given individual and independent scores based on cinematography, pacing, storytelling and characters, with an overall score that doesn't necessarily match up with the individual categories. Scores are on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the best. Also, when applicable, my secret boy/girlfriend along with the best actor/actress of the movie is named. And yes, those are two separate categories.
Summaries/commentary following, with the length dependent on my interest in the particular movie. All spoilers will be marked and in white, so highlight if you want to read them.
So here you go: They range from the horrid (Without a Paddle), to the mindless (Ocean's Eleven), to the cult classic (Donnie Darko), to the indie favorites (Napoleon Dynamite), to the old samurai flicks(Rashomon). 7 languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese) are represented. Top 5 are starred. ~22 were seen in the past 10 days, which means I've hit an overload now. It's funny, because I see moviewatching as a solitary activity. I don't much care for watching them with others, but if I have to, I want to be able to talk and mock and discuss it as it moves along.
( 2005 in Review )