GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 2005

[CiG]

Is NZ Netflix similar to Aussie Netflix? Because last I checked there's a lot of Johnnie To stuff on there (including both Election movies).

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah I think they're on there. I haven't used it for a while but I'll have a look in the next couple days.

 

[Bourbon]

1. A Bittersweet Life
2. A History of Violence
3. Walk the Line
4. The Devils Rejects
5. Lady Vengeance
6. The New World
7. Batman Begins
8. Sin City
9. Serenity

 

[CiG]

About a week left on this one.

@MetalAges @RadicalThrasher @Funerary_Doom @challenge_everything @Slayed Necros @Vegard Pompey @rms @Serjeant Grumbles @EchoForever @Krow @zabu of nΩd @Einherjar86 @Sirjack @I-TEND-TO-DIE @-CC- @Krigloch the Furious

Also reminder to @no country for old wainds & @TechnicalBarbarity to finalize your prelim lists.

 

[Einherjar86]

1. The Proposition (number one, hands down--"no finer race of men have ever peeled a potato")
2. Munich (this is actually my favorite Spielberg)
3. V for Vendetta (tough for a literature guy to pass on this one)
4. Serenity (I'm a leaf on the wind...)
5. The Descent (modern classic)
6. Brick (Rian Johnson man)
7. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg man)
8. Antibodies (fucked up movie, this one)
9. Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (awesome flick about immigration and the border before it was a major political issue in the U.S.)
10. Kingdom of Heaven (I actually have issues with this movie--mostly having to do with the horrible acting from Bloom and Neeson--but still love it, can't help it)

Honorable mentions for:
Thank You for Smoking
The Constant Gardener

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Picking the old brain, will try to have a list together later tonight.

 

[challenge_everything]

1. Brick (Rian Johnson)
2. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller)
3. De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté [The Beat My Heart Skipped] (Jacques Audiard)
4. The Descent (Neil Marshall)
5. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
6. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
7. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
8. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
9. A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-Woon)
10. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)

 

[Slayed Necros]

Didn't get around to watching a few things I wanted to so I won't even make it to ten. Some of these I haven't seen since 2005 but it'll have to do

1. A History of Violence
2. Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut is much better)
3. Walk the Line
4. Sin City
5. Batman Begins

 

[CiG]

Wrapping this up this weekend.

Scratch that. In another week.

 

[rms]

The Descent
Grizzly Man
Cache
The Proposition
A Bittersweet Life
The Squid and the Whale

 

[Bloopy]

Scratch that. In another week.

 

[CiG]

10th) Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog



Voted for by:
@rms (2nd place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (6th place)
@no country for old wainds (unranked)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

It's a documentary.

TOTAL POINTS: 19.5

 

[CiG]

9th) Brick directed by Rian Johnson



Voted for by:
@challenge_everything (1st place)
@Einherjar86 (6th place)
@no country for old wainds (unranked)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt


Nora Zehetner


Noah Fleiss


Lukas Haas

TOTAL POINTS: 20.5

 

[CiG]

8th) The Devil's Rejects directed by Rob Zombie



Voted for by:
@dwellerINTHEdark (1st place)
@Bourbon (4th place)
@CiG (7th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

William Forsythe


Bill Moseley


Sid Haig


Sheri Moon Zombie

TOTAL POINTS: 21

 

[CiG]

7th) Walk the Line directed by James Mangold



Voted for by:
@Bourbon (3rd place)
@Slayed Necros (3rd place)
@Slammed (6th place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (unranked)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Joaquin Phoenix


Reese Witherspoon

TOTAL POINTS: 26.5

 

[CiG]

6th) The Descent directed by Neil Marshall



Voted for by:
@rms (1st place)
@challenge_everything (4th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (5th place)
@Einherjar86 (5th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Shauna Macdonald


Natalie Mendoza


MyAnna Buring


Saskia Mulder


Alex Reid


Nora-Jane Noone

TOTAL POINTS: 29

 

[CiG]

5th) Serenity directed by Joss Whedon



Voted for by:
@TageRyche (1st place)
@Einherjar86 (4th place)
@Bloopy (6th place)
@Bourbon (9th place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (unranked)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Summer Glau


Nathan Fillion


Alan Tudyk


Adam Baldwin


Gina Torres


Morena Baccarin

TOTAL POINTS: 29.5

 

[CiG]

4th) Batman Begins directed by Christopher Nolan



Voted for by:
@TechnicalBarbarity (1st place)
@zerostatic (1st place)
@Slayed Necros (5th place)
@Bourbon (7th place)
@challenge_everything (7th place)
@Burkhard (8th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Christian Bale


Liam Neeson


Katie Holmes


Michael Caine


Gary Oldman


Cillian Murphy

TOTAL POINTS: 37

 

[CiG]

3rd) The Proposition directed by John Hillcoat



Voted for by:
@Einherjar86 (1st place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (2nd place)
@CiG (3rd place)
@rms (4th place)
@challenge_everything (6th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (7th place)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Guy Pearce


Ray Winstone


Danny Huston


Emily Watson


David Wenham


John Hurt

TOTAL POINTS: 43

 

[CiG]

2nd) Sin City directed by Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez



Voted for by:
@Bloopy (1st place)
@challenge_everything (2nd place)
@Slammed (2nd place)
@Slayed Necros (4th place)
@zerostatic (5th place)
@Bourbon (8th place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (unranked)

Spoiler

IMDB
Main cast:

Jessica Alba


Bruce Willis


Mickey Rourke


Benicio del Toro


Brittany Murphy


Clive Owen


Elijah Wood

TOTAL POINTS: 49.5