My top ten for 2005 and their ratings....These give away my soft spot for Australian film, movies with a strong conceptual theme running through them (eg. Look Both Ways - death, Crash - racism, The Sea Inside -euthanasia, Mysterious Skin - child sexual abuse) and very atmospheric films.
01. Closer (10)
02. Shopgirl (10)
03. Look Both Ways (9.5)
04. The Proposition (9.5)
05. Crash (9.5)
06. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (9.5)
07. The Sea Inside (9)
08. Mysterious Skin (9)
09. Tarnation (9)
10. Hotel Rwanda (9)
NB: Dismal failure for the year - Last Days, the second rate homage to Kurt Cobain's last days, by Gus Van Sant. It just missed the mark so badly, I can't even express it in writing.
My top ten movies for 2004 and their ratings....Unfortunately these reveal my secret love for musical theatre (Camp and Phantom), and also docos and once again, very atmospheric and subtle films that don't necessarily have a lot of action in them (The Return, The Station Agent, The Weeping Camel which is also a doco, Girl with a Pearl Earring).
01. Garden State (10)
02. Girl with a Pearl Earring (10)
03. The Return (10)
04. Coffee and Cigarettes (10)
05. The Station Agent (9.5)
06. Camp (9.5)
07. The Phantom of the Opera (9.5)
08. The Weeping Camel (9.5)
09. To Be and To Have (9.5)
10. Eternal Sunshine... (9.5)
NB: This was my first year of rating things on the DaveScale and I didn't yet understand the concept of outright failing things. My lowest mark was 5.5 for Anchorman, which I have since come to love since shedding my snobbery relating to ridiculous comedies. I do remember being incredibly disappointed by The Human Stain (it had Nicole Kidman in it, but she redeemed herself with Birth) and The House of Sand and Fog. In fact, I was quite passionate about the latter, but that was more to do with the irritation caused by Jennifer Connelly's character. I would probably also revise Garden State down to a 9 now, thus pushing it out of the top 10, making Girl with a Pearl Earring number 1 and bringing either In America, 21 Grams, Big Fish or Life and Death of Peter Sellars (all on 9) into the top 10.
I was going to paste some honourable mentions, but I want to go to bed. Might update this later so check back if you care.
Tomorrow I'm seeing 'The Pursuit of Happyness'. Will Smith will probably get an Oscar nomination for it so I feel it's my duty to see it, even though I don't have high hopes. 2006 top ten coming soon i hope....
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Well Kat you have given me some reminders of some of the great films over the past couple of years which I have to get around to seeing. I am not at the stage to do top tens as I don’t get to see as many movies as I would like. Also you have given me a great list of movies to see.
Anybody who has Tarnation and The Return in their top tens is a legend in my esteem!!
Thank you Jim! When i get around to rating all 70ish films i saw at the cinema in 2006 (I was aiming for more, bummer) I'll put my next top 10 up.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with some of your selections in these two top 10 lists. Garden State was fantastic but was it better than Eternal Sunshine???? And Shopgirl and Crash would have definitely been in my list, Crash deserves to be much higher though
Closer totally rubbed me up the wrong way but in saying that was a very good movie and if nothing else introduced Damien Rice to a much wider audience
I totally understand that Closer was a love or hate type film. Very 'stage-y'. I have a theory that everyone could become one of those characters if something in their life went horribly, horribly wrong, relationship wise.
Something about my top 10s - they are all films I loved, anything above 9 is really just personal preference. Eternal Sunshine did incredibly well for me - usually I come out of films like that say it was contrived etc etc. So for it to make my top 10 is great.
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