So I’ve seen two movies since I made my list and decided to reconfigure it:

1. Little Miss Sunshine
2. Children of Men
3. Little Children
4. V for Vendetta
5. Brick
6. The Departed
7. Hard Candy
8. Pan’s Labyrinth
9. The Queen
10. The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Bounced are the Science of Sleep and Thank You for Smoking, though both are still highly recommended. Added are Little Children and Pan’s Labyrinth because both of those movies rocked my world. Especially Little Children. Dysfunctional suburbia is my movie kryptonite.

Also, while we’re here, I found Kevin Smith’s 2006 movie list a fun read.

Tags: 2006, film, list

[UPDATE: I’ve modified the list a bit.]

For some reason I saw a whole heck of a lot more movies in 2006 than I have most years. I get a kick out of making my top ten list, so here it is for 2006.

1. Little Miss Sunshine
2. Children of Men
3. V for Vendetta
4. Brick
5. The Departed
6. Hard Candy
7. Thank You for Smoking
8. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
9. The Queen
10. The Science of Sleep

I could flip the top two and feel just as good about this list. In some ways it felt like a weak year because I had to dig through my saved ticket stubs to remember some of these films.

Wasn’t a good year for action movies.

Here’s the list of movies I definitely did not like this year. It also happens to be most of the big budget movies I saw.

Superman Returns
X-Men 3
Mission Impossible 3
The Da Vinci Code

The big action movie I did like was Miami Vice. Definitely a flawed movie but there was just something about it that I really dug. Maybe it was because of it’s rough edges and not despite them. I’m not sure. There were enough moments when the movie Mann wanted to make peaked through that I just got it.

Honorable Mentions

Here are some honorable mentions of movies that I enjoyed quite a bit and would definitely recommend:

Pan’s Labyrinth The Prestige
Stranger Than Fiction
Marie Antoinette
Borat
God Grew Tired of Us
Miami Vice

Best Movie Moments of 2006

Meaning, moments that surprised me. Period. And I don’t mean in a “I can’t believe he was the killer!” type of surprise. I mean, surprised me as a filmgoer. Showed me something I had never seen before. Or reinvented a moment. Or just simply stunned me. Or delighted me. (I’ll try to be as vague as possible but these are potential spoilers.)

Children of Men - The birth.
Little Miss Sunshine - That final scene on the stage.
Miami Vice - The shot.
Hard Candy - That Scene, You know which one.
The Departed - Every scene with Mark Wahlberg.
V for Vendetta - At the end, everyone marching with Fawkes masks.
Little Miss Sunshine - Smuggling grandpa from the hospital.
Brick - “Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.”
Borat - Yes, that scene, you know which one. (how could I not?)

Missed ‘Em

It’s amazing, despite how many movies I saw there’s always so many I didn’t. Here are some 2006 movies I’m still eager to see:

Babel
The Good Shepherd
The Last King of Scotland
Little Children
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Fountain

Tags: 2006, film, list