Best movie you've seen this year

My faves:

BOBBY
LITTLE CHILDREN
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (I voted for that)
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
THE QUEEN
BORAT
CASINO ROYALE

Biggest disappointments:
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (the genre's played out, for Christ's sake)
THE DEPARTED (Alma summed it up for me, last shot and all)
STRANGER THAN FICTION (Ferrell horribly miscast)

Have yet to see:
MARIE ANTOINETTE
VOLVER
INSIDE MAN

 

Little Miss Sunshine got my vote, but any one of three other movies could have been right there -- The Departed, Thank You For Smoking, and V for Vendetta. The more I think about it, the more I really, really liked Smoking. But LMS was smart and hilarious, too.

Want to see Marie Antoinette. Stranger Than Fiction enjoyable, but clearly a step below the previously mentioned, IMHO. Bobby is not even in the discussion.

 

Casino Royale in my top 5.

 

Finally saw Borat, today.

Laughed four times in the first 20 minutes (the opening is sound, as they say at the chess table).

Didn't laugh once, through the remainder.

An hour and a half I won't get back.

 

Just saw this.

Mirren must be a lock.

Michael Sheen was even better.

It did have a feel of a film that could have been on HBO.

But excellent, nonetheless.

 

Blood Diamond. Better than The Departed.

 

I agree with Doc. Blood Diamond was the best movie I've seen in years, and I'm a comedy lover. This movie kept me engaged and had me nearly in tears more than once.

 

I really enjoyed Little Miss Sunshine, World Trade Center and Thank You for Smoking.

 

I just saw The Departed on Friday night (it was in a theater that had just opened). I really enjoyed it, although it seemed like everyone's Boston accents kind of came and went.

What bugged the shit out of me though was the couple in the row in front of me who brought their two girls, I'd guess about ages 6 and 8. What the fuck are people thinking when they let kids that age watch a movie like that?

 

I'd tell you how much I dug Blood Diamond, but I'd have to D_B myself.

 

That's almost as bad as the three or four-year-old who was with his parents watching Blood Diamond this weekend. It was horrible. I wanted to turn around and explain the psychological abuse they were bestowing on their child by letting him watch a movie about genocide that showed people being murdered, point-blank. Not to mention the fact that they had a cell phone that went off at least five times throughout the movie and the constant light from them opening the cell phone and doing whatever. I as BEYOND aggravated.