All movies appear in the order in which they were seen.
Akid’s Top Ten Movies of 2005
Ocean’s 12
Bend It Like Beckham
Million Dollar Baby
Shallow Hall
Maria Full of Grace
Road to Perdition
In America
Lantana
Nuevas Reinas
Billy Elliott
Lisa’s Top Ten Movies of 2005The Quiet American
Shallow Hal
Maria Full of Grace
Shattered Glass
Road to Perdition
In America
Nuevas Reinas
Max
Billy Elliott
City of God
And here are all the other movies we saw in 2005, along with some that have already been mentioned, and the awards they garnered, again in the order that we saw them.
Meet the Fockers—Best Accompaniment to Sheryl Nielsen’s Laughter
In Good Company—Best Way to Meet Topher Grace in a Movie, if You aren’t Meeting Him as Himself in Ocean’s 12
Ocean’s 12—Akid’s Top 10
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow—Sexiest Actress with An EyePatch
Monsoon Wedding—Our Favorite Secondary Love Story/Most Colorful Movie We Saw This Year
Monsieur Ibrahim—Lisa’s Best Friendship Movie in French 2005
Bend It Like Beckham—Akid’s Top 10
The Quiet American—Lisa’s Top 10
Sideways—Movie Almost Good Enough to Make Akid Try to Like Wine
Bourne Supremacy—Sequel Most Identical to Its Predecessor/Most Poorly Named Movie (Should have been called Boring Supremacy)
Million Dollar Baby—Akid’s Top 10
The Incredibles—Best Animated Film
Shallow Hal—Combined Top 10
After the Sunset—Most Forgettable Movie We Saw
Amos & Andrew—Better To Be Watching It than Acting In It
Bewitched—Best Birthday Present
Saving Face—Most Poorly Chosen Viewing Choice(AKA We Should’ve Seen My Summer of Love Instead!)
National Treasure—Best Underground Cavern
Maria Full of Grace—Hardest Pill to Swallow/Combined Top 10
Shattered Glass—Lisa’s Top 10
Road to Perdition—Combined Top 10
InterMission—Best Opening Song(AKA Colin Farrell kicks ASS!)
In America—Combined Top 10
Station Agent—Best Friendship Movie
Bad News Bears—Most Poorly Rated (AKA We didn’t know they made NC-17 movies for children’s audiences) Lantana—Lisa’s Top 10
Love Actually—Akid’s Favorite Love Story
Sum of All Fears—Better than Watching the Snow on Akid’s Parents’ TV at the Lake on a Rainy DaySomething’s Gotta Give—Most Shameless Advertisement for Botox
2 Weeks Notice—Another Boring Sandra Bullock Movie
Miss Congeniality 2—Another Boring Sandra Bullock Movie
Wedding Date—Best Remake of Pretty Woman in Drag
Harry Potter 3—Darkest Family Movie
Guess Who—Worst Remake of All Time
Monster—Movie Most Likely to Cause Its Viewer to Require a Refresher Therapy Session (AKA—Who Got Raped Here?)
Fast Runner—Best 3-4 hour anthropological docudrama/Viewers of this movie receive the STAMINA AWARD
Being Julia—Best Revenge in a Movie
Nueva Reinas—Combined Top 10/Best Con Movie
13 Conversations About One Thing—The Grass Is Always Browner Award
Max—Lisa’s Number One Favorite Movie
Hitch—Hottest Dance Sequence
Crash—Movie Most Recommended to Us
Longest Yard—Best Cheerleaders
The Interpreter—Best Candidate for a Silent Film
The Full Monty—The Closest Akid’s Been to Seeing A Penis in Recent Memory
Billy Elliott—Combined Top Ten and the Every Boy/Every Girl Award WinnerEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind—Best Argument for Not Using Drugs While On the Job
City of God—Lisa’s Top Ten
Polar Express—Creepiest Animation
Christmas with the Cranks—Best Reminder of the Worst Things About Christmas Movies
Mr. and Ms. Smith—Worst Use of Gender Equality as a Plot Device
Napoleon Dynamite—Best Credits
7 comments:
Congratulations. I am glad your awards have finally hatched. Quite an undertaking, undoubtedly. Several movies I look forward to seeign from your list once I can watch DVDs again.
Love these awards. Thanks for laboring so hard for the delight of the blogworld (and for my delight in particular). I hope you had fun doing it.
Thumbs up to all of Akid’s top ten, with the exception of Ocean’s 12, Million Dollar Baby and Billy Elliott. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen these three films, but I’d probably put them in my shaky-thumb category (between mild up and mild down). Million Dollar might get a mild-thumbs down, though: I didn’t like the Million Dollar Baby’s caricature family. Glad to see Lantana here. A lot of these were recommended by me, huh?
Thumbs up to all of Lisa’s top ten, with the exception of Billy Elliott .
In three years of Family Movie Awards (four for me, actually), not a single movie has appeared in every award ceremony’s Best Picture nomination list. But The Quiet American made it onto 4 lists—mine, Lisa’s, Melissa’s and Brian’s—and might very well have made it on to Mari’s, but she didn’t do an awards show the year she saw it (I was the only one who did). Can't remember if Ruth and/or Jack have seen it. I gave Michael Caine the Best Actor award that year, but gave the Best Motion Picture Award to Monsoon Wedding over The Quiet American and Max. I think I might re-think that choice if I had to make it again.
What was the secondary love story you guys dug in Monsoon Wedding? Was it the one Brian liked and I didn’t? Between the wedding planner and house cleaner? I’m assuming so based on the photo. I thought the wedding planner was kind of caricature cheesy—the weakness of the movie.
I thought you guys liked Saving Face?
Did Something’s Gotta Give make you think Diane Keaton should get Botox treatments? I saw her on Oprah the other day (only episode of Oprah I’ve ever seen—Emma Thompson was also a guest), and she said she has never had Botox treatments or plastic surgery of any kind.
Bourne Supremacy did not bore me. I guess I’m just a bigger fan than you guys are of frivolous action/adventure films that don’t require a lot of intellectual and/or emotional engagement.
And for the record: It’s Nueve Reinas (not “Nuevas Reinas”) and The Fast Runner was a full 6 minutes short of a 3 hours.
Finally, here are some of my own awards:
The I Can’t Imagine Wanting to See This Movie Based On Its Title Award: Christmas with The Cranks
The I Probably Would Have Walked Out of This One Award: Longest Yard
The Most Glad I Didn’t See It Honorable Mention Award: Amos & Andrew
The Most Glad I Didn’t See It Grand Prize Award: Guess Who
Best Random Midword Capitalization Award: InterMission
The Wish I Could Forget It Award: After the Sunset
The Best Award Title: The Grass is Always Browner
thanks beeb for your props.
ess--
we had a very hard time with our movie awards this year. it was just too many for us. so i wouldn't say we'd had that much fun doing it. but i do think the fun for me comes in the responses, so thanks for taking as much time with your response as it felt like we did with the awards.
will let akid say what she wants about her top 10.
obviously from my top ten movies the movie menu that you gave me this year was wonderful and helped me make a lot of great movie choices, even if you left Billy Elliott out.
yes the secondary love story was the one between the wedding planner and the maid. we really like this movie alot for the cultural pictures we retained and the colorful set and good music.
i liked saving face. akid wished we had seen something heavier and more substantial. at the time, i liked the idea of seeing warm happy normal movies about lesbians. i think as my movie palate has become more experienced, i can appreciate that cliche's in movies are boring. feels like if i watched saving face now i would think it was boring. i don't think this is progress.
re: botox--i think i was thinking more about jack nicholson here. : )actually i think botox and other types of plastic surgery are sick and sad and i always hope my favorite actors don't ever feel compelled to change their natural aging process. i think this was a weak movie award . . .
as for your awards--they're totally great!
you don't want to see any of the movies that you said you don't want to see. don't ever question that.
And we really really really don't remember anything about after the sunset and didn't want to get online to try to refresh our memory of it. it didn't seem worth it.
let it also be said that coming up with an awards ceremony as a partnered couple is no small task. certainly my opinions about the movies we watched are not akid's or vice versa. so i'll let akid craft her own response - - -
Well, I loved these awards, and I will definitely enrich my selections on NetFlix based on your top 10's as well as your comments about all the others.
One of the things I liked about it was the comprehensiveness of it, complete listing and a clever comment about each one.
I have been trying to get everyone to see Billy Elliot for SUCH a long time, and I'm just delighted that it made it onto both your top 10 lists. I really, really liked this movie the first time and subsequent viewings did nothing to change my mind. A very, very strong thumbs up from me.
I didn't see Ocean's 12 or 11, because I don't enjoy seeing movies about criminals being successful. Having just said that I can't help but realize what a hypocritical statement it is. I just watched (2 times through trying to find Val Kilmer) a movie called True Romance - extremely, extremely violent but Gene and I both thoroughly enjoyed it (made in 1993). It was "recommended" on NetFlix based on the "if you liked this movie" section.
I also very much enjoyed Bend It Like Beckham
My "excellent" of those selected by both of you:
Million Dollar Baby one of the hardest to watch
The Quiet American could you believe Michael Caine - what a performance!
Shattered Glass
Those I started but didn't finish
In America just watched a few minutes
Shallow Hal tried a couple of times
Movies I thought were excellent although I didn't really like them
Road to Perdition great performances
Maria Full of Grace one of the hardest to watch - too realistic
Movies I haven't seen from both your top tens (but want to see):
Nueve Reinas because it made it on both your top 10s
Lantana because it sounds interesting on IMDb and because I like Anthony LaPaglia
And there are a lot from your 2005 movies that I will add to NetFlix.
I can't "figure out" which City of God movie you guys are talking about.
Thanks again for a fun analysis. I hope you will do it again next year, and that I will have recovered enough to read the whole thing at one time and make my comments more timely.
It occurs to me that you may never see these comments if you don't go back to previous posts and check, and I'm sort of wagering that neither of you have time to go back and check... hmmm - I think I'll remind you on your current post.
Hey rnr--
Glad you liked the awards. It is quite a task to generate them. It hadn't been in years past, because we only watched 10 movies in years past, none of which were good.
The City of God movie we are talking about is a Brazilian film.
Akid loved loved loved In America--wonder why you had a hard time sitting through it?
I am not surprised that you didn't make it through Shallow Hal. While I really loved it, I can imagine that it might be hard to suspend the offense long enough to get to the end. I believe it redeems itself. And I love Jack Black.
Anyway-- I like to go back and respond to old blogs every once in awhile and I'm glad you weren't deterred by the time lapse!!
Hey rnr--
Glad you liked the awards. It is quite a task to generate them. It hadn't been in years past, because we only watched 10 movies in years past, none of which were good.
The City of God movie we are talking about is a Brazilian film.
Akid loved loved loved In America--wonder why you had a hard time sitting through it?
I am not surprised that you didn't make it through Shallow Hal. While I really loved it, I can imagine that it might be hard to suspend the offense long enough to get to the end. I believe it redeems itself. And I love Jack Black.
Anyway-- I like to go back and respond to old blogs every once in awhile and I'm glad you weren't deterred by the time lapse!!
I've seen many of these movies. I thought Stephen King wrote Road to Perdition but he didn't. I guess I got it mixed up with "Shawank Redemption." He also wrote "The Green Mile."
If you have not seen them, I highly recommend.
"Stand by me" is also a "King" of a movie.
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