GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 2005

[CiG]

RYM film chart

Deadline is MARCH 31st. If you need an extension just say so and it will absolutely be considered. This is usually just a soft deadline to make sure everybody doesn't become complacent.

REMEMBER for those of you who haven't seen many films from this year or in general, you can always submit lists as small as only having 5 submissions.

Rules:

- Please submit at least 5 films.
- First place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- Feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- Feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- Feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- If you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, the maths will be worked out.

 

[no country for old wainds]

prelim unranked list based in many cases on a 15 year old memory:
the new world (malick)
a history of violence (cronenberg)
l'enfant (dardennes)
cigarette burns (carpenter) - if it counts, it's one of his best.
cache (haneke) - no idea how i'd feel about this now
broken flowers (jarmusch) - ditto
king kong (jackson) - always thought this was underrated. probably need to see the spielbergs from this year again too.
grizzly man (herzog)
brick (johnson) - rewatched recently, still quite like it
tideland (gilliam) - might hate this now lol, used to be my favourite gilliam

stuff that's high up on my wishlist:
noriko's dinner table (sono)
strange circus (sono)
hazard (sono)
election (to)
the wayward cloud (tsai)
tale of cinema (hong)
the squid and the whale (baumbach)
three times (hou)
mutual appreciation (bujalski)
mary (ferrara)
the sun (sokurov)
linda linda linda (yamashita)
manderlay (von trier)
lady vengeance (park)
loft (kurosawa)
a bittersweet life (kim)

 

[zerostatic]

1) Batman Begins
2) Constantine
3) Wedding Crashers
4)40 Year Old Virgin
5) Sin City
6) Lords of Dogtown
7) Starwars III: Revenge of the Sith - the best of prequels.
8) Hide and Seek

 

[Slammed]

Not so much a list of the best of 2005 but a list of what I've actually seen.

1. Wolf Creek
2. Sin City
3. The World's Fastest Indian
4. 頭文字D [Initial D]
5. Into the Blue
6. Walk the Line
7.Wedding Crashers
8. The Dukes of Hazzard
9. The Longest Yard

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

1. The Devil's Rejects
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
4. Wedding Crashers
5. The Descent
6. Grizzly Man
7. The Proposition
8. House of Wax
9. Waiting
10. Hostel

 

[challenge_everything]

a bittersweet life (kim)

Good movie this.

king kong (jackson) - always thought this was underrated

I couldn't endure this longer than 30mins though. I just remember awful CGI dinosaurs running everywhere like Michael Bay doing Jurassic Park.

 

[rms]

Can't imagine wanting to go back and give kong a rewatch haha

 

[Burkhard]

1. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2. Adams æbler
3. Corpse Bride
4. Sabah
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
6. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
7. Voksne mennesker
8. Batman Begins

 

[TageRyche]

Obviously my list factors in not just having seen the movies, but liking them. I also like to consider whether or not I'd rewatch them multiple times without being bored.

Here's the list:

1. Serenity
2. V For Vendetta
3. Cinderella Man
4. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
5. Pride and Prejudice
6. The Greatest Game Ever Played
7. Fever Pitch
8. Elektra
9. The Pacifier
10. Beauty Shop

 

[Bloopy]

1. Sin City
2. Tideland
3. Lords of Dogtown
4. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
5. Saw II
6. Serenity
7. Funky Forest: The First Contact
8. The World's Fastest Indian
9. Hostel
10. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning

HM:
Wolf Creek
The Devil's Rejects

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2. The Zero Years (Nikos Nikoliadis)
3. Flower and Snake II (Takashi Ishii)
4. Snakewoman (Jess Franco)
5. Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan)
6. Flowers of Perversion (Jess Franco)
7. Jenifer (Dario Argento) *See what wainds said about Cigarette Burns*

 

[CiG]

Surprised you couldn't make it to 10.

 

[challenge_everything]

Has anyone seen the Call of Cthulhu from 2005? I don't have any free time to watch movies at the moment but it looks absolutely fascinating... apparently filmed in 1930s b&w style. Has excellent reviews.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Rough draft list ...

1 - Batman Begins
2 - The Proposition
3 - Cinderella Man
Kingdom of Heaven
Sin City
Serenity
Walk the Line
Lords of Dogtown
A History of Violence
Waiting
The Devils Rejects
V for Vendetta
Constantine

 

[CiG]

1. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
2. Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)
3. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
4. Election (Johnnie To)
5. Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
6. TAKESHIS' (Takeshi Kitano)
7. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie)
8. SPL: Sha Po Lang (Wilson Yip)
9. Wolf Creek (Greg McLean)
10. The Protector (Prachya Pinkaew)
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Spoiler

Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Walk the Line (James Mangold)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon)
Pusher 3 (Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Descent (Neil Marshall)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)

Not included: Brick and Harsh Times as I'm counting them as 2006 movies.

Bunch of stuff from '05 I've had on my wishlist for ages like L' enfant, Kingdom of Heaven (even during my hardcore medieval/fantasy/sword & sandal phase I didn't manage to see this), Soderbergh's Bubble, Lonesome Jim, Don't Come Knocking, Feast, Feed, Mouth to Mouth and Tideland.

 

[no country for old wainds]

fuck yeah mysterious skin

i still haven't seen election tbh

 

[CiG]

i still haven't seen election tbh

Good shit mang.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I've been meaning to check out Election for a while too. I need to watch a few more films to even make it to 10 for this year. Pretty confident A History of Violence will take the top spot though

 

[CiG]

I need to watch a few more films to even make it to 10 for this year.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I've been meaning to check out Election for a while too. I need to watch a few more films to even make it to 10 for this year. Pretty confident A History of Violence will take the top spot though

watch every johnnie to movie tbh, that shit is so fun to just binge-watch and very up your street i’d imagine. there’s so many and they’re basically all good to great. even the milkyway stuff that isn’t officially directed by to tends to rule.