Metal Reviews

First I gotta tell you that I'm a sucker for horror/scifi movies, I usually watch anything in this genre! It doesn't matter if it's good or bad, and some oldskool bad ones are now days campy=good! Yeah, and especially those from like 1930's to 1990's ;)

We have this cool digital channel in Finland called "YLE Teema" which shows marginal stuff, ie. selected classic/old movies, usually by some theme, hence the name. It has been on air for couple of years or so, and although I've tried to watch all the good ones on it, there's only one film atm that I can mention: Teenagers From Outer Space, this was campy as hell and funny as fvck! Too bad I haven't seen anything on par with it since :(

Anywayz, I only started listing my favorite movies a couple of years ago ie. at age when I had already seen most of the classic movies (at 20's) that everyone's seen, but never marked the really good ones down, and now afterwards I can't really recall exactly how good a certain movie was... Although I do remember seeing 2 movies that affected me about a year or so before I started listing my favs, but unfortunately couldn't remember their names :(

SO, here's what I've gathered since (and this is again a copy paste list from my site), it's quite short:

Man On The Moon, The Shawshank Redemption, K-Pax, Phenomena, Logan's Run, RKO 281, Lord Of The Rings trilogy, So Close, The Exorcism Of Emily Rose.

And my last years best movies were (from those that I've seen):

The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
War Of The Worlds
Fantastic Four

Now, please tell me yours! 8)

Wow, you must've seen no other movies in 2005 or just have really horrible taste.

My three faves of 2005 were Syriana, Munich, and Good Night and Good Luck.

A list of favorites of all time would take too long to compile, so maybe I'll post it later.

some of my favorite movies are
- Brazil (Terry Gilliam) thx for reminding me Lzrdtl !
- Once Upon In America (Sergio Leone)
- When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner)
- A Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
- Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
- Love Actually (Richard Curtis)
- Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
- Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
- Der Himmel über Berlin (Wim Wenders)
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson)
- Matrix (first one only) (Larry & Andy Wachowski)
- Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
- Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
- Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
- The Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
- Amélie from Paris (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- Goodfellas (Martin Scorcese) thx Zadok
etc...

as for 2005

- King Kong (Peter Jackson)
- Corpse Bride (Tim Burton)
- Les Poupées Russes (Cédric Klapsich)
- Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)

Okay. Fvck you! I shall hate you from now on! :evil: 8)

I think your comment is unjusted. I watch a SHITLOAD of movies, much more than anyone of my fellows, and I can handle quality drama and oldskool classic movies and enjoy it unlike some who can't even bother.

I truly believe those 3 movies I listed as best of my 2005 were good. For instance, WOTW seems to be only hated because Tom Cruise was on it!? :? Fvck that. He was good in it.

And I see ur best of was dramas all together. But the difference with newer movies is (ok, I'm guilty here) that I can't bother to watch some drama or anything un-funny or un-eventful when I have to PAY for the movie, thus when I go to the movie theater I wanna get "pumped" so to speak :roll:
But when those movies come from the telly, I'll probably watch and rate them then

For reference here's the other ones I saw in 2005:

Hide And Seek
Kingdom Of Heaven
Star Wars III
Batman Returns
The Island
King Kong (2005)

...I hope I got them all... These were all good movies, but inferior to my top 3.




^^----- Those are the ones I've seen from your list, but most years ago when I didn't rate or mark the good ones down.
But from what I remember all of those range between OK to good and with the exception of LOTR trilogy nothing would probably end up on my list... but to each his own of course ;)

Not sure if I've seen Paths Of Glory, hmm...

Advent Children tops my list. Me? A nerd? I resent that comment.

The new Batman was cool too...nothing else jumps to mind.

Oh, I loved High Tension. Came out in 2003 but didn't make it here until last year.

my all time faves are things like Brazil and Apocalypse Now, intelligent films but still ultimately pretty popular. I spend much more time on music.

as for 2005, nothing. my prediction for 2006 will similarly be nothing.

Back To The Future

I hated the "Gay Cowboys" movie. (not that I've seen it or anyhthing) It's getting the Oscars wtf ?


My fav movies

Fight Club
Star Wars
Lotr
Rezervoir Dogs
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Indiana Jones
The Shining
The Matrix (the first one)
Seven
Alien, Aliens
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Die Hard (first one)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Platoon

and a shitload more I've forgotten

Wow two of those films sucked utterly.

My favourites of '05
-Batman
-Sin City
-King Kong

and not a lot else really. There were some real pissers last year. I heard Crash and Downfall were really good, but my wanker friends went to see them without me.

A list of my all time favorites would take forever, but for 2005;
-Kingdom of Heaven
-Cinderella Man

Well normally I'm a romcom fan, but for some reason my favourites all came from a different genre last year.

In no order
Wolf Creek
Devil's Rejects
Zombie Honeymoon
The Descent
King Kong was also good

I won't say that I've got a particularly favourite genre of films, because anything can be good (despite the majority being shite). Even my horror-film bashing of late was just to get Rio worked up.

Fave films EVER? Hmmm:

Big Lebowski
Monty Python and Holy Grail
Ditto Ditto Life Of Brian
Se7en
Memento
Talk To Her
Matrix (first only!!)
The Day After Tomorrow (average film, great message)
Goodfellas
Amelie
Withnail And I

I'll edit this later.

And Crash was too emotionally manipulative for me. SPOILER ALERT: will the racist cop pull the black woman he molested out of the car before it blows up? He will....OMG HE WON'T!!! ...he does. Will the annoying Iranian shopkeeper shoot the Spanish man's daughter...no....OMG HE SHOT HER A DEAD KID...oh, she's alright because of the lengthy scene before where daddy gave her his bullet-proof cloak. I mean, for fuck's sake!

I see.

Brokeback Mountain
Sin City
King Kong
Serenity
Syriana
Good Night, And Good Luck
Murderball
Grizzly Man
Mysterious Skin
Batman Begins



These are just some movies of 2005 that came to mind. This is in a ... rough order, so to speak.

If you'd have read what I said after the latter statement, you'd see why.

Yeah, but if you don't like manipulative cinema, how could you possibly be satisifed with TDAT?

As I said, the green message. The ice caps ARE melting, and if the politicians aren't going to do anything, we must. I'm perfecting a plan to buy lots of freezers, make a huge amount of ice cubes, then fly them to the poles before it's too late. Want to help?

No, I'm a pro-war right wing spawn of the devil (in a bad way) bastard, remember? I'm actually planning to fly to the poles and fart on them until they melt completely, so you better hurry.

Shit...Scotland's further north than me!! All is lost...

Some of my all-time favs:
Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Matrix (First only as well)
Princess Mononoke
Amelie
Army of Darkness

Bah, thats all I feel like listing.

Best I saw in 2005:
King Kong
A History of Violence
Batman Begins
Devil's Rejects (though just barely)

I have yet to see Sin City or Serenity and I expect both would be on my list as well.. if I saw them.