Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:37am
And for the first time since the year 2000, the top choice does not begin with an "M"...
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051218/COMMENTARY/512180302
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#1re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 1:37pmOoOoO, interesting...I wonder what Roeper's choices were.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#3re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 1:43pmHe has a top 10 but then goes on to honorably mention a further 58 movies. So isn't it a top 68?
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#4re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 1:44pm
Are you telling me that broadway86 is Ebert!?!?
Oh, no, because Ebert picked Crash as the best film of the year! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#5re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 1:56pmSyriana is probably my pick. I love that movie like the son I never had.
#6re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:15pm
Oh, no, because Ebert picked Crash as the best film of the year! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Got that right. I did not like that movie. Othan than that, he has some great choices.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#7re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:17pmAnd yet High Tension is a well made, intelligent movie.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#8CRASH SPOILERS IN UPCOMING POSTS
Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:21pm
I think you should see Crash a second time. I just find it unfathomable that there are people that don't like it. But, then, I refer to my thread about how nothing exists that everyone likes and am less unfathomabled. 
Updated On: 12/18/05 at 02:21 PM
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#9re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:33pmCrash was definitely strong but I can see why people wouldn't like it. It's not exactly subtle...
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#11re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:02pm
W.T.F. I can't believe Monster-In-Law did not make this list.
And where is Wedding Crashers in all this?
Screw Ebert, he wouldn't know good cinema if he was smacked across the face with a reel of film!!
#12re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:12pm
Wow..i've only heard of two of those movies (Brokeback mountain king kong) and only seen one of them.
shows ow into pop culture I am...
"We're afraid to talk to you now, because anything we say causes you to burst into song." - My friends
#14re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 9:40pm
"I think you should see Crash a second time. I just find it unfathomable that there are people that don't like it.
I saw CRASH in theatres, and thought it was terrible. I immediately dismissed it.
I then saw it again once it came out on DVD.
I still think it's not what it could be and I hated the pretentious demeanor the film took on. I also thought it was counter-productive to what it was trying to say. It wasn't clear - it was a contrived mess.
That said, I still find the performances amazing and moving.
******BECAUSE JRB INSISTS, SPOILERS BELOW****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
I've now seen the movie 4 or 5 times and I always cry when Dillon's character pulls Thandie out of the car, and when the little girl nearly gets shot - they're brilliantly filmed scenes.
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end of spoilers
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Updated On: 12/19/05 at 09:40 PM
#15re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 9:51pm
And yet High Tension is a well made, intelligent movie.
Well, yes. I could go much further into why, but it's obvious that you don't want to hear it.
Updated On: 12/18/05 at 09:51 PM
#16re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 9:57pm
MUNK! SPOILERS! HELLO!
And, I disagree with you that the film is a mess. My mind wrapped around it just fine. 
#17re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:34pmI personally loved Crash. Tisk tisk for those who didn't like it! Updated On: 12/18/05 at 10:34 PM
#18re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:40pm
I love you too, DRS. Go watch a Disney movie, or something!
Updated On: 12/18/05 at 10:40 PM
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#21re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:03pmI loved CRASH. It was such a profound film. Thandie Newton deserves an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the movie deserves an Oscar for Best Screenplay (and if it was up to me, Score and Cinematography as well).
#22re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:37pm
Thandie might deserve a nomination, but I don't think she should win.
It's screenplay IS quite good - it should definitely get a nomination.
I love the score, but BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and GEISHA have better scores, in my opinion.
Cinematography? Um...okay.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#23re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/19/05 at 12:59am
I can't believe you are leaving those spoilers there. 
#24re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:09amWell, who HASN'T seen this movie?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#25re: Ebert's Best Films Of 2005
Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:10am
Oh--did it make over a billion dollars worldwide??
Clearly a lot of people haven't seen it. Don't ruin the film for them.
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