2005: The Movies
My Netflix rental list for 2005. Netflix ratings go from a high of 5.0 to a low of 1.0 which, of course, correspond to my A through F.
The best movie I saw this year was Murderball [Netflix] [IMDb], and I really don’t think it’s because it was the most recent.
Other outstanding ones were The Station Agent, Grave of the Fireflies, Shaun of the Dead, Trainspotting, Amelie, Citizen X, and Shaolin Soccer. I note most of these are foreign language films.
I think the worst movie I saw this year (or tried to watch, since I ended up fast forwarding through it) was O Fantasma. Dreck. Total. Dreck. Cringemaking dreck.
There were a couple of okay gay-themed movies, notably Nico and Dani, and Burnt Money, also both foreign language films (Spanish and Argentine).
I was most surprised by Grave of the Fireflies. Surprised because it’s an anime movie and I’m not an anime fan at all. But it’s so well done and the story is so compelling that it’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. It’s also so sad that I’m not sure I could watch it again.
I sent two back unwatched (marked dnw) and returned one unfinished (marked dnf); it was a TV show, I watched one episode of the three on the disk, and it was pretty cliche.
These are just the Netflix movies, though. There were a bunch of others that I either bought or saw in some other context.
I wonder if this list says reveals any hidden personality trait.
List below.
| Creature from the Black Lagoon | in queue |
| Oldboy | in queue |
| Rififi | in queue |
| Murderball | 5.0 Stars |
| After the Thin Man | 5.0 Stars |
| M | 4.0 Stars |
| Out of the Past | 5.0 Stars |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | 4.0 Stars |
| The Madness of King George | 5.0 Stars |
| The Station Agent | 5.0 Stars |
| 12 Monkeys | 4.0 Stars |
| The Man from Planet X | 2.0 Stars |
| To Have and Have Not | 3.0 Stars |
| Revenge of the Creature / The Creature Walks Among Us | 4.0 Stars |
| Shadow of the Thin Man | 4.0 Stars |
| Quadrophenia | 3.0 Stars |
| The Angry Red Planet | 3.0 Stars |
| The Day of the Triffids | 3.0 Stars |
| Captain Blood | 4.0 Stars |
| End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones | 4.0 Stars |
| It Came From Beneath the Sea | 4.0 Stars |
| French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years | 1.0 Stars |
| Another Thin Man | 5.0 Stars |
| Stranger from Venus | 2.0 Stars |
| Yes, Prime Minister: The Complete Collection: Disc 3 (3-Disc Series) | 5.0 Stars |
| Yes, Prime Minister: The Complete Collection: Disc 2 (3-Disc Series) | 5.0 Stars |
| Star Trek: Nemesis | 2.0 Stars |
| Jeeves and Wooster: Season 2: Disc 1 (2-Disc Series) | 4.0 Stars |
| Yes, Prime Minister: The Complete Collection: Disc 1 (3-Disc Series) | 5.0 Stars |
| The Young Ones: Every Stoopid Episode: Disc 1 (3-Disc Series) | 4.0 Stars |
| The Machinist | dnw |
| The Cosmic Man | 2.0 Stars |
| Soldier’s Girl | dnw |
| Miss Congeniality | 3.0 Stars |
| The Transporter | 3.0 Stars |
| Ren & Stimpy: Seasons 1 and 2: Disc 1 (3-Disc Series) | 4.0 Stars |
| Harvie Krumpet | 1.0 Stars |
| Borstal Boy | 3.0 Stars |
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | 4.0 Stars |
| Strangers on a Train: Special Edition | 4.0 Stars |
| Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live | 5.0 Stars |
| Team America: World Police | 5.0 Stars |
| Harsh Realm: The Complete Series: Disc 1 (3-Disc Series) | dnf |
| Invaders from Mars | 3.0 Stars |
| Avengers: The Best of the Original Avengers: Vol. 1 | 3.0 Stars |
| The Iron Giant: Special Edition | 3.0 Stars |
| Invisible Invaders / Journey to the Seventh Planet: Double Feature | 2.0 Stars |
| South Park: Passion of the Jew | 5.0 Stars |
| Citizen X | 5.0 Stars |
| Y Tu Mama Tambien | 3.0 Stars |
| Dumbo | 4.0 Stars |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 5.0 Stars |
| Paragraph 175 | 3.0 Stars |
| Destination Moon | 3.0 Stars |
| Come Undone | 2.0 Stars |
| House of Flying Daggers | 3.0 Stars |
| First Men in the Moon | 2.0 Stars |
| Z | 4.0 Stars |
| Three Days of the Condor | 4.0 Stars |
| Spider-Man | 4.0 Stars |
| Napoleon Dynamite | 2.0 Stars |
| Classic Albums: Fleetwood Mac: Rumours | 3.0 Stars |
| Four Days in September | 3.0 Stars |
| It Came From Outer Space | 4.0 Stars |
| The Man Who Would Be King | 3.0 Stars |
| Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.0 Stars |
| The Brain from Planet Arous | 1.0 Stars |
| Tea with Mussolini | 3.0 Stars |
| Grave of the Fireflies | 5.0 Stars |
| Quatermass and the Pit | 3.0 Stars |
| Burnt Money | 4.0 Stars |
| I Heart Huckabees | 4.0 Stars |
| Ice Age | 2.0 Stars |
| Amelie | 5.0 Stars |
| The Weather Underground | 4.0 Stars |
| Clerks: First Cut (Not Theatrical Version) | 4.0 Stars |
| Bowling for Columbine | 4.0 Stars |
| Iron Monkey | 4.0 Stars |
| Shaun of the Dead | 5.0 Stars |
| Trainspotting: Collector’s Edition | 5.0 Stars |
| Gun Crazy | 4.0 Stars |
| Slasher | 4.0 Stars |
| The Wedding Banquet | 2.0 Stars |
| Dragon Inn | 3.0 Stars |
| The Sword in the Stone | 2.0 Stars |
| The Name of the Rose | 5.0 Stars |
| Shaolin Soccer | 5.0 Stars |
| Rat Race | 2.0 Stars |
| The Asphalt Jungle | 5.0 Stars |
| Nico and Dani | 4.0 Stars |
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 3.0 Stars |
| Rashomon | 4.0 Stars |
| The Thing From Another World | 3.0 Stars |
| O Fantasma | 1.0 Stars |
December 31st, 2005 at 8:55 pm
FYI, I was in a Circuit City this week, and they had Shaolin Soccer on DVD in the $5 bin. Couldn’t pass that one up for so cheap.
Happy New Year. *
December 31st, 2005 at 8:56 pm
OK, that comment got messed up. There was supposed to be a smiley with a party hat on, not an open HTML tag.
P.S. Oldboy still rules.