Rate the 2005 Movie Year & What is your list

[JoeGKushner]

Sin City
Batman Begins
Mr. And Mrs. Smith
War of the Worlds
Cinderella Man
March of the Penguins
Land of the Dead
Corpse Bride
Revenge of the Sith


Probably more if I went to the theater more often.

 

[Rykion]

I thought it was a pretty good year for movies. Here's my list of movies in order of preference, 1 being the best.
1. Serenity, Batman Begins
2. Chronicles of Narnia, King Kong
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hitch, Star Wars Ep. 3
4. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Brothers Grimm, War of the Worlds
5. The Island, Sin City, Land of the Dead, The Longest Yard, Kingdom of Heaven
6.Constantine

I think that covers just about every movie I saw from 2005. I can't think of a single movie I found to be really bad.

 

[stevelabny]

Tough call.
The last few years have collectively been the best time for movies in my life. This year continued the trend of making movies I wanted to see but too many of them sucked.

So I'm gonna give it a 5. Higher interest level than usual but a return to really bad execution.

1. Serenity

and then...

2. Harry Potter Goblet of Fire

3.-4. Narnia / Kong - saw them one right after the other, still can't decide which is better.

and then a A LARGE DROP-OFF... I'm not even gonna keep numbering them

Fantastic Four - nailed 2 characters perfectly, but ruined Doom so much it hurt the movie.

Sin City - a perfect adaptation of "eh" material

Star Wars Revenge of the Sith - Bad

Batman Begins - Awful

Hitchhiker's Guide - Weak

Constantine - eh

War of the Worlds - Lame

Pooh's Heffalump Movie - Not sure this counts as a real movie, but it might be the 7th best movie of the year.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith - waited for the DVD - nothing special

Sky High - waited for DVD - unimpressed

Elektra - waited for DVD - really bad. and I LIKED Daredevil.

Madagascar - waited for DVD - so unwatchably terrible, it makes the rest of these disasters look good.


Didn't see yet:

Sahara, Kingdom of Heaven, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Chicken Little, Zathura, the Island, the Brothers Grimm, Doom, Sharkboy and Lava Girl, Stealth, the Cave, Dukes of Hazzard, and I'm sure I might have missed one.

 

[Wombat]

Due to financial constraints, I saw very few films in the theatre this year. I saw many more on dvd.

Let's see ...

I didn't see Star Wars -- Episode III ... and have no intention to. After "Episode I", I gave up on the franchise entirely. I also missed Serenity, not having cared for the tv show. **shrug** -- maybe I have to give up my geek-license...

Saw War of the Worlds and Fantastic Four on dvd a couple weekends back -- the former was awful, except for some special effects; the latter existed, but that is about as much as I can say -- not really bad, not really good, merely there.

I saw Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and loved the dance sequences. Overall it was an okay film. Again, nothing really spectacular, but certainly very far from bad. "Pleasant" would be a good word to describe it.

I wanted to see both The Corpse Bride and Wallace & Grommit, but was unable to do so -- hopefully friends will rent these soon. Same goes for "Good Night, And Good Luck[/I] and Capote.

I went to see Goblet of Fire and it was ... okay. The problem is the book was superb, so I came away very disappointed. Still, the film itself was well done. There simply wasn't enough time to cover more than the bare-bones basics. Sad, really.

I caught part of The Dukes of Hazzard on a train trip. I am still trying to bleach my eyes over that...

Saw the new version of The Amityville Horror -- fine for what it is supposed to be. I don't take it seriously as "real events", of course, because that was disproven with Round 1 back in the 1970s, but it was decent as a suspence-and-startle film.

My sister got the dvd of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for Xmas and watched it -- pretty good. I thought Zaphod was overly goofy, but Marvin was fantastic, as was Ford.

Kung Fu Hustle was a lot of fun!

Overall I would say this was a fairly unspectacular year. Nothing really great. A few awful, but avoidable. In the aggregate, I'd say a very average year for films.