2006 Films
TOP GROSSING
WORLDWIDE
1.
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest
2.
The Da Vince Code
3.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
4.
Casino Royale
5.
Night at the Museum
6.
Cars
7.
X-Men: The Last Stand
8.
Mission Impossible III
9.
Superman Returns
10.
Happy Feet
UPON FURTHER
REVIEW: DaVinci Code. As popular as the book was, this was a bad movie…and
actually, no, it was a pretty lame book too. There’s plenty of lost gospel fan
fiction out there. Can’t figure out why this was the one that struck paydirt.
It’s certainly not Dan Brown’s prose.
BEST PICTURE
AWARD:
The
Departed
Babel
Letters from
Iwo Jima
Little Miss
Sunshine
The Queen
UPON FURTHER
REVIEW: Worst Nomination: Babel. Hollywood keeps churning out these globalist
butterfly effect narratives, they keep getting nominated, and yet no one sees
them and no one remembers them. Rarely has so much Oscars hay been made over so
little art.
Most Overrated:
Pan’s Labyrinth. Full of flat characters and mediocre CGI.
Most Underrated (Then): Stranger Than Fiction. What’s more
nerve-wracking for an agent, when drama actors go public with their politics or
when comedic actors go public with their desire to be taken seriously? Stranger
Than Fiction keeps Farrell somewhat in the bounds of comedy and ends up in a
perfectly watchable film.
Most
Underrated (Now): Pirates of the
Caribbean 2. Suffers from the agonizing process of Disney’s third and fourth
sequels wringing the creative vitality out of the world the first one created.
Most
Influential: V for Vendetta. Vaingloriously vexing via voraciously vapid
consonance. As a movie, this movie’s self-seriousness registered off-the-charts
on my unintentional humor scale. However, there are pockets of self-serious
anti-establishment types who could overlook the movie’s extreme faults. For
them, V provided the imagery and mindset that was the missing key on their anti-globalist,
cyber-hacking keyboard.
Most
representative of the decade: Snakes on a Plane. Snakes was a bad movie
based on a premise so silly that it would be “low concept” if one had to term
it “high concept.” So kitsch was it that its announced title and cast sparked
an internet phenomenon that got lines added to the movie. Production was too
far along to turn the silly premise into fan-altered, self-parodying genius. But
these were the first ripples in a production from the new i-tides.
Best Scenes:
Borat – The Wedding Sack
Casino
Royale – I’m the Money
The Departed
– What Freud Said About the Irish
Notes on a
Scandal – Here I am
Talladega
Nights – Prayer
Winner:
Talladega Nights
Best Movies:
1.
Casino Royale
2.
The Departed
3. The Prestige
3. The Prestige
4.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad
of Ricky Bobby
5.
Borat: Cultural Learnings
of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
6.
Thank You For Smoking
7.
The Queen
8.
The Lives of Others
9.
United 93
10 Notes on a Scandal
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