Best movies of 2006

[ThirdMarioBro]

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

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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!)
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.

[Risawn]

Originally Posted by Time Mistress

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]

Originally Posted by Time Mistress

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.

Spoiler:

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.