Movies Seen In 2005

Submitted by Rushmore on Thu, 02/10/2005 - 03:24
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  1. --------Newest Additions To The Bottom-------
  3. =====Warp to bottom of list=====

  5. January

  6. Super Size Me (A)
  7. Bang Bang You're dead (B+)
  8. Hellboy (B)
  9. Open Water (D)
  10. Garfield (D - )

  11. February

  12. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (A+)*
  13. Shark Tale (A-)
  14. The Aviator (A-)
  15. Hero (B+)
  16. Envy (B)
  17. Nanook Of The North (1922) (C)
  18. Zoolander (C)

  19. March

  20. Eulogy (A+)
  21. Marathon Man (A+)
  22. / Die Hard / (A+)
  23. / Batman / (A+)
  24. / Joe Dirt / (A)
  25. / Liar Liar / (A)
  26. / Monty Phyphon: Life of Brian / (A)
  27. Rear Window (A)
  28. / Taxi Driver / (C+)
  29. Coffee And Cigerrates (C-)
  30. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (F)

  31. April

  32. / Midnight Cowboy / (A)
  33. The Grudge (B+)
  34. Cathy Come Home (B)
  35. Saved! (B)
  36. The Thin Blue Line (1988) (C-)

  37. May

  38. Saving Private Ryan (A+)
  39. Kes (A)
  40. / Reservoir Dogs / (A)
  41. / Big / (A)
  42. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (A-)*
  43. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (A-)
  44. Apocalypse Now: Redux (B+)
  45. / Happy Gilmore / (C+)
  46. / Big Daddy / (D)

  47. June

  48. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (A+)
  49. Team America: World Police (A+)
  50. / Little Shop of Horrors / (B-)
  51. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (B-) *
  52. / SpaceBalls / (B-)
  53. Meet the Fockers (C+)

  54. July

  55. / Batman Returns / (A+)
  56. / Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / (A)
  57. Batman Begins (A-) *
  58. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (A-)
  59. Madagascar (A-)
  60. War Of The Worlds (B) *
  61. / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / (B-)
  62. Wellcome To Mooseport (B-)

  63. August

  64. Hostage (A+)
  65. / Aliens / (A+)
  66. Wedding Crashers (A) *
  67. Riding In Cars With Boys (B+)
  68. / Airheads / (B-)
  69. / My Girl / (C+)

  70. September

  71. /Eulogy / (A+)
  72. Freaks (C+)
  73. Revolver (C) *

  74. October

  75. / Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out / (A) (With Commentary, Com Grade = A)
  76. Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (A-)
  77. / Batman Begins / (B+)
  78. The Longest Yard (B-) *
  79. Sin City (D) (Will Rewatch Though, Gave Up In 22 Minutes)

  82. November

  83. The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off (A)
  84. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (B)
  85. Till the End of Time (C-)

  87. December

  88. / Cool Runnings / (A+)
  89. / Bottle Rocket / (A+)
  90. / Rushmore / (A+)
  91. Morvern Callar (-A)
  92. Panic Room (B+)
  93. / Team America: World Police / (B)
  95. BTW I'm Seeing less and less movies
Author Comments: 

Mini Review or comments on request, please feel free to ask or comment on this list

This is a list of all the movies i've seen in 2005!

* = Seen in Cinema / Theatre

The newest addition in Blue

/ /- rewatch (usually to indicate a film i had seen before 2005)

Grades: A+ / A / A- / B+ / B / B- / C+ / C / C- / D+ / D / D- / F
______Amazing__________Good_________________Crap

Changed a little here:) this used to be my "seen august 2004-05 list" but to help in understading and accessiblity i've changed it to seen in 2005 and moved the other movies to seen in 2004 (link comming soon!) The layout has also changed to seperate it into months

Cloned From: 
_Movies ive seen From August 2004 - August 2005
192202/20/2005

This means that you liked The Aviator, right?

Rushmore02/20/2005

yeah, very much so. it was very good, alot of people say that De Niro's performance as Travis bickle, as the best depiction of someone on the edge of madness, but i found this one just as good, if not better. he nevr got to a dangerous level but it was more of a personal fall, that really by the end, never resolves, my favourite line is from this is "don't let them see him like this" because even at the end, he could never shake the demonds the visuals were great. i originally (When i saw the previews) thought they looked tacky and cheesy but i was wrong. the music was great also, really held themovie together, gave a cilled out effect to a long and heavy movie. this is my Martin S. movie

Also may i ask you a question about this list? i was wondering if you thought it wasn't Specific
enough? that the time space (August04-August05) was to large and that it isn't very accessible. i'm thinking of going back and splitting it into "Seen in 2004" and "Seen in 2005" because that my help with the understading of the list, at the moment it seems to random!

192202/20/2005

In fact, I don't really like DiCaprio, but I must admit that he was fantastic in The Aviator. Scorsese really deserves the Oscar for his work.

I like this list. It contains a lot of interesting movies, but a split as you suggested it would definetly be an excellent idea.

Rushmore02/20/2005

yeah i usually don't like DiCaprio also, but here he was great!

thx for the advice, i do like this list but i think splitting the list may help with the understanding of it. i'll think it over.

192203/04/2005

BTW, you've got a post.

Rushmore03/04/2005

:-) thx

SteveR03/15/2005

I know you've talked about this a lot, but... do you REALLY think Garfield and Dumb and Dumberer are better than Raging Bull and Raiders of the Lost Ark? I mean, really really? Say for instance that I hadn't seen any of them and I called you up and said, "Say Rushmore, I'm here at the video store and I've got Garfield in one hand and Raiders of the Lost Ark in the other -- which one should I go with?"

And you'd say, "Dude, go with Garfield." Yeah?

:)

Rushmore03/15/2005

lolol. well sometimes it's tough to judge the rating on this list because there's such a wide range of movies here, some of them are rated in other places and in other ways. say Garfield is "Good" in my 2004 by tier now i have to try and guess what "good" would be from A - F but when you put it like you did your right it is way too high for garfield. BUT i do hate Raging Bull, sure Maybe its a better film than garfield in a technical sense but i didn't enjoy it. As for raiders, i found that pretty good but not great.

"Dude, go with Garfield" lol.

192203/30/2005

Is it safe?

Rushmore03/30/2005

After alot of thought i'm gonna have to say..Yes.

icubaji04/01/2005

That book is one of the five I would take with me on a desert island. I *love* william goldman.

Rushmore04/02/2005

i'll have to read the book some day.

192204/26/2005

Nice move with the links.

The Thin Blue Line (the title) reminds me another, totally different, but excellent film: The Thin Red Line.

Rushmore04/26/2005

Thx mate. i just thought that because i split it into months then that means theres less movie each tier, so its not so overwhelming to use links, as maybe it would of been for say my "Seen in 2004" list.

Man, The Thin Red Line looks great. great cast, Sean Penn, Woody, Cusack, looks great, gonna have to check it out.

Cosgrove04/26/2005

An F for "Stuck on You"? Aw...

Rushmore04/27/2005

yeah sorry. it was ok but no where near the level of the other ferelly bros. movies, in my opinon. i'm always open to ewatches so i may give it another go. i just found it to be too silly and childish. but hey thats just me mate, like i said i'll gladly give it another go. it's that when compared to Dumb & Dumber and Kingpin, it just can't match up. but the F.Bros are very hit and miss for me. Dumb and dumber is one of the best ever made but on the other hand i found Theres somethig about mary to be overrated. again i will give it another watch, so stay tuned! But to it's credi, like mary it had alot of heart to it.

dayfornight05/06/2005

So, you're giving an F to a film that has a lot of heart?

That's kinda heartless, don't ya think? ;-)

Rushmore05/06/2005

:-) lol yeah i guess thats a bit harsh. ok think of it this way. For its heart it gets A but for fun and humour it gets F, but because in my opinon the "fun" part was so bad, the F overwhelms the A :-) if that makes sense. But it's no where as bad as the other F on this list so far Resident Evil, now that is a bad bad badd, crap, terrible movie. so yes i may well bump Stuck on you up a grade.

grandpa_chum05/06/2005

BIG!!!... not enough people appreciate that movie... although a lot do... but it's never enough

Rushmore05/06/2005

totally agreed. i mean the view listed here is about my 100th, i love this movie beyond words, it realy is a great movie

grandpa_chum05/21/2005

i don't really know why but i'm surprised you loved apoc now so much... it is on my top 25 so obviously i think it's great... it's just one i assumed we'd disagree on.

Rushmore05/22/2005

no, i enjoyed it. i liked the idea of following a small group of people rather than always watching huge battles. The way that you could track the movie by where they go, different areas they discover. it was more of a personal emotional battle than an all-out war. it's like The Deer Hunter, which i liked for the same reasons. The Deer Hunter had also a long runtime, which allowed for alot of character work. in my view if Deer Hunter was shorter by 50mins / 1hour it would not have had worked. you needed the time to show their friendship and community before they go to war. this could be applied here with Apoc now. it showed what they had to go through ot find this guy, friendships were made, people died, it was a small but intense battle (what we saw anyway) i really enjoyed it

Critico07/01/2005

Well your taste is interesting, to say the least.

Now Playing: Death Cab for Cutie: For what reason.

Rushmore07/01/2005

hhhhmmm in what way which ones seemed an interesting choice?

Mr Dom07/02/2005

How could you have given Big Daddy a D, alright its to the most intelligent comedies of all times, but the characters are brilliant and deliver lines that would make a cat laugh its balls off. Over all good grades for the over films, (Hellboy rules).

Rushmore07/10/2005

lol hi Dom. :) It's good don't get me wrong but not his best, i like Happy gilmore :) oh and i'll try the cat thing... :) lol

Critico07/12/2005

You seemed to be a exteme grader, either the movies are really positive or really negative, and i don't feel that they are consistent, i mean there are some movies that i thought you would give positive reviews based on the other movies you reviewed, and they are negative, and viceversa.

Now playing: Todosantos: Ilegal.

Rushmore07/13/2005

i agree here. yes they are not that consistent i guess. Each of my grades are not really based on the film as a film, if you get me. i don't look at the mise-en-scene or the acting,directing, script, not really too fussed about that. i base my ratings nearly entirely on whether i enjoyed it. I don't think "ah nice idea about the camera shot" or "Man, great line and social statment" really. However i'm saying that stuff does not matter, it does. For example i think the direction in Royal Tenenbaums or The pallbearer is brilliant and Jim carrey's performance in Eternal sunshine is outstanding. But above all, i enjoyed the movie, no matter what.

Ok take Raging Bull, many say this is outstanding, brilliant masterpiece, i don't. I agree that the fight scenes and camera shots are brilliant and the emotion aand how that is directed was great, but i did not enjoy the film. there was nothing i could grab hold of and like, so that over powers all the other stuff. Great direction and script can make a film better, sure, but i can enjoy a lesser made film just as much. Take something like Joe Dirt. Many say thats rubbish and poorly acted, but i thought it was a hoot.

I also think instant recaction can be connected with the changing grades. sometimes i add it to the list as soon as i've seen it, so excitement or disappointment can over shadow the "real" grade. Sometimes i go back and change grades.

Hope that helps, sorry for long reply :)

Rushmore07/04/2005

i don't know what happened to it but it says that "Mr. Dom" Made a post here but..it's not here, jim, anyone spread any light on this? woundering if i missed it?

0dysseus07/05/2005

Newbie hasn't been vetted yet? (Who's the leader of the band that's made for you and me?)

grandpa_chum08/07/2005

I was also pleasantly surprised by hostage... i thought it was great, one of the best new releases i've seen in quite some time.

Rushmore08/08/2005

I know right? just brilliant. had me hooked all the way. I sometimes wish less time was spent on the mafia DVD subplot and more on the Kids and Mar's mentality. But still brilliant. i loved the last scene and also i think the character of mars was one of the best i have seen for a long time.

grandpa_chum08/16/2005

now that i think of it, you'd love (maybe the biggest surprise movie of my life) the devil's rejects... see it when you get the chance, it's better than hostage... i know it's hard but you'll have to trust me.

Rushmore08/16/2005

Cool, thanks for the recommendation.

192211/08/2005

Already seen the new film with Bill Murray, Broken Flowers? His performance is excellent (and IMO Oscar-worthy), but I still have to watch Lost in Translation (where he seems to be great too).

Till the End of Time? Never seen (not even heard about it). The only film by Edward Dmytryk I have seen is Mirage starring Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau. In fact, it is the first black-and-white-movie I remember having seen, and it had a remarkable effect on me (as a child). Yet, I got no occasion to see it for a second time...

Rushmore11/09/2005

Na, but i do really want to see it. i think Broken Flowers is getting pretty limited release over here but hey, i will search it out! it's murray!

Till the End of Time was a film i was studying for my media / film studies course so i actually didn't get to "Enjoy" it much as i was looking at it from a fairly techical standpoint. I did like it though. Mirage maybe one i might check out sometime. I actually find myself seeing less and less movies, most i see are because of my Media Course, these days anyway.

192211/09/2005

Less and less movies, I noticed that. Just three movies in september, but, hey, with Freaks you have seen a classic. :-)

Rushmore11/12/2005

yeah Freaks was a great and thought provoking piece of film!