Best movies of 2006

[Brian]

What were your favorite movies this year?
Mine...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Casino Royale
X3: The Last Stand
Superman Returns
V For Vendetta

[ZariusTwo]

1. Miami Vice
2. Casino Royale
3. Superman Returns
4. X-Men: The Last Stand
5. Snakes On A Plane

[The Stryker]

The Departed.

[Mr. Snackpants]

My favorites:

Borat
X3
Talladega Nights
V for Vendetta
Casino Royale
Snakes on a Plane
Superman Returns

[jeff the cheff]

Borat and Clerks II were both funnier than any movie I've seen before them.

[The Clerk]

Clerks II
X3
Talladega Nights
Little Miss Sunshine
Pirates 2

[gobo]

Clerks II
Superman Returns
Stranger Than Fiction (Will Ferrell deserves an award for this)

[Dontebell]

Barnyard
Superman Return
X-Men:the Last Stand
Over the Hedge
the Wild

[Cure]

Little Miss Sunshine, Babel, Departed, and The Descent.

[Spitfire]

I don't remember all the flicks that came out but I know what I bought on DVD this year and what I saw more recently so I liked these movies.

The Fountain
V for Vendetta
Casino Royale
Silent Hill
The Descent*UK Version*

I can't remember seeing anything else I liked

[cqb101]

Top 3:

Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
Casino Royale

Honorable Mentions:

Pirates 2
This Film Is Not yet Rated
Shortbus
The Descent
The Prestige
Miami Vice
World Trade Center


Still need to see Babel, Flags of our Fathers, Pan's Labyrinth, and United 93, all of which I've heard are great.

[LogicDonny]

Superman returns
xmen 3
pirates 2

can't wait till next year..

Bean 2
Spider man 3
tmnt!!

[Leonardo's_Girl]

(no particular order):

Pirates of the Cairbbean: Dead Man's Chest
Cars
X-Men: The Last Stand
Night at the Museum
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Happy Feet
Over the Hedge
Mission: Impossible II
The Devil Wears Prada
Monster House
The Pink Panther (new version)
Eragon (yes, I know it's not the same as the book, but I an understand why)
V for Vendetta
World Trade Center
Underworld: Evolution
Poseidon

[MadPirateBunny]

... I still haven't seen Superman Returns

[Leonardo's_Girl]

It's a good movie, but for spoilers, Lois doesn't look the same, although Branden Routh did a good job portraying as Superman, and looked almost like the old Christopher Reeves version. Lex Luther doesn't look the same either, but Kevin Spacey did a good job as well. There's some much newer characters introduced in the movie, but it's still good, and worth watching.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

My favoritesof last year:

X-Men 3
Clerks II
Rocky Balboa (I'm the first to mention this movie? Probably my favorite of the year. It was a great way to end the series)
Superman Returns

I thought X3 was great, but it ends up kind of like ROTJ in that it is a worthy conclusion, but you're left feeling like it could have been a whole lot better. In this case, X3 felt really rushed.

[Aries10]

I also have to go with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Memoirs of a Geisha was also pretty good (but not as good as the book) but I do not know if that is from 2006 or 2005.

[raphael_is_cool]

Little Miss Sunshine
The Prestige
Talladega Nights
X3

I should probably check my ticket stubs collection but then I'd have to move and since these spring to mind they're obviously worthy.

[Tabularasa]

Little miss sunshine
Pirates of the caribbean: Dead man's chest
The departed
Clerks II
Rocky Balboa
X3: The last stand
V for vendetta
World trade center

[Risawn]

Alright, I'll jump on this thread.

Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
Pursuit of Happyness
The Departed
Stranger then Fiction
Thank You for Smoking
Jet Li's Fearless
The Devil Wears Prada

In a change of pace, these were the movies I couldn't stand.

Date Movie
Open Season
The Wild
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Happy Feet
The Shaggy Dog

I notice there was a lot of animated movies I didn't like last year. I'm an animation major so I tend to see a lot of family/kids flicks.

Here is a box office breakdown of all movies that came out in 2006, which is where I got a list of movies I saw.

http://www.the-movie-times.com/thrsdir/moviesofyear.mv?moviesof2006+ByTGross

[ThirdMarioBro]

Casino Royale
Children of Men
Pirates 2
Underworld: Evolution (Unrated edition)
V For Vendetta
Pan's Labyrinth
Dreamgirls

[bullet]

babel
the departed
silent hill
v for vendetta
end of the spear
poseidon
fearless
potc 2

then also a bunch of really horrible ones...and some i didn't get.

[Time Mistress]

Best
X-Men 3
Flushed Away
Casino Royale
Night at the Museum
Eragon
Superman Returns
Ice Age 2


Worst
The Fountain

Can someone please tell me what that movie was even supposed to be about. One of the most confusing, head trippy, so postmodern it might as well have been made in France types of films. Though I suppose there are worse things than having to stare at Hugh Jackman for two hours.;)

[RaphistheBest]

Flushed Away
Cars
Monster House
Happy Feet
Pink Panther
Pirates 2 (best part was that I got to see it two days before it hit theaters!:D)
Night at the Museum

For some reason I can't think of anything else. I mean, I worked at a theater all that year. Oh well.:P

[Risawn]

Worst
The Fountain

Can someone please tell me what that movie was even supposed to be about. One of the most confusing, head trippy, so postmodern it might as well have been made in France types of films. Though I suppose there are worse things than having to stare at Hugh Jackman for two hours.;)

I think you are supposed to be dropping acid to understand this film. I didn't get it either.

But I can't say that I hated it, but I think it requires at least two viewings and I'm not in the mood to see it a second time. . . any time in this millenia.

[Spitfire]

Worst
The Fountain

Can someone please tell me what that movie was even supposed to be about. One of the most confusing, head trippy, so postmodern it might as well have been made in France types of films. Though I suppose there are worse things than having to stare at Hugh Jackman for two hours.;)

Wow way to fit the stereotype of the average movie go'er.

"DUR I DON'T GET IT! I need to have a brain to understand the movie!"

How hard is it to understand? It's a really simple story. Yes the pretty visual will distract those with ADD or low IQ but the plot is very easy to understand.

It takes place in 3 timelines, the book his wife wrote, him 1,000 years in the future, and him in present time.

The whole movie his dead wife wants him to finish the book, and the whole movie he keeps brooding on it. The tree he is with is his wife, remember at the end he plants a tree over her grave? And she talked about the guy's uncle who became one with the tree how he became the tree? Well that was her and she was made of bark that gave eternal life. At the end of the movie he decides how the book ends. By deciding he finally stopped fearing death. That was his issue the whole movie. He feared death, and she didn't. At the end he finally dies and he's happy.

Sorry if I seem a bit harsh but it really pisses me off when people view intelligent films poorly and think you need to be a drug user to do so because they don't get it.

[Time Mistress]

Yeah, you were a bit harsh, but I'm sorry if I dissed a film you like. I shouldn't be mentioning films I don't like in a topic that 's supposed to be about films people do like anyway.

I have a Master's Degree in English with a concentration in film studies. I enjoy analyzing films. Sometimes I get highly intellectual arsty films. Sometimes I don't. This time I didn't. And that's okay.

I do think the film did itself a major disservice in it's TV spots by giving false impressions of what the movie would be about by showing only one of the "time periods." Sometimes the right mindset going into a film can make a difference in how you view it. And stupidly running late and missing the first ten minutes of the movie doesn't help either.;)

So no hard feelings from me.:)