Big Damn Movie Blog

UPDATED 1/4/07: I've added in the huge influx of movies I saw in the last 15 days of the year, just for completeness's sake. Not that anyone will ever notice.

Hey, so remember last year when I exhaustively went down and itemized every single movie that I had seen that was released in 2005, and then ranked them by some arcane system known to no one, not even myself?

It was a lot of fun (and occupied plenty of my time) so I'm doing it again. I'm really scared to see how many movies I've seen, and absolutely dreading that fact that I'm probably going to break last year's mark (which was already better than one new movie a week). Although I have been much less theatre-going, for sure. Maybe I've become less of a movie whore than previously thought.

(Again, the movie must have been released in 2006. And I divide the movies into 5 distinct categories: Movies that I Actively Hate, Movies that I Only Dislike, Movies I Don't Hate But Also Don't Recommend, Movies That Were Good, and Movies That Were Excellent.)

Movies that I Actively Hate
68. London (Seriously, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Ever.)
67. Lonesome Jim
66. Final Destination 3
65. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
64. Find Me Guilty (Find me guilty? More like Find Me Boring! AMIRITE?)
63. Aquamarine (Mermaid in the pool? Oh hell no.)
62. Ultraviolet
61. X-men III: The Last Stand (Not actually this bad, but gets a huge demotion because of the massive amounts of disappointment that I feel. Way to screw up the un-screw-up-able, Ratner.)

Movies that I Only Dislike
60. The Break Up (The most depressing Romantic Comedy in the known universe)
59. Scary Movie 4
58. Hostel (Soft-core straight porn followed by horrific gore. Yeah, I'm definitely outside the demographic on that one)
57. Silent Hill
56. You, Me, and Dupree
55. The Benchwarmers (I...wait Rob Schneider is supposed to be the jock? Wait...what?)
54. Date Movie
53. FAQs (Almost verbatim line from the movie - "Two guys kissing is more powerful than an atomic bomb")
52. Crank
51. The DaVinci Code
50. The Lake House
49. Adam & Steve (Another movie that is unfairly hated on by me. Some brilliant things (Parker Posey!) interspersed with some of the worst ideas possible in a movie.)

Movies I Don't Dislike But Don't Recommend Either
48. Clive Barker's The Plague (Dawson! Where have you been. Do you see what happened to Joey the second you let her alone? She married right into crazy. I blame you.)
47. Imagine Me & You
46. Freedomland
45. Art School Confidential
44. A Prairie Home Companion (Aww! Robert Altman. I'm sorry I didn't like your last movie. Cookie's Fortune was awesome, though.)
43. Accepted
42. Stay Alive
41. Winter Passing
40. The Hills Have Eyes (Look how far we have come. From "most vile thing I have ever seen" to "don't dislike." Apparently time does heal some wounds.)
39. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (I feel like I should like this movie either far more or far less than I do.)
38. Over the Hedge
37. Something New
36. Another Gay Movie
35. Running Scared (Another movie that I cannot categorize. Should probably be higher on the list.)
34. Running With Scissors
33. The Last Kiss
32. Clerks II
31. Happy Feet

Movies That Were Good
30. Monster House
29. Slither
28. Superman Returns (Decided I was a little unfair in my review, now that I've had some time to consider it.)
27. John Tucker Must Die (All for you Sophia Bush. Call me! I hate Chad Michael Murray too!)
26. Just My Luck (I love this movie with reckless abandon, and still it is only 23. LiLo just cannot catch a break anymore.)
25. Stick It
24. Strangers With Candy
23. Goal! The Dream Begins
22. Eight Below
21. Underworld: Evolution (Vampires! Werewolves! Scott Speedman! Must use exclamation points!)
20. Inside Man
19. American Dreamz (Dreamz with a Z, indeed. I wish I knew how to quit you, Mandy Moore.)
18. Glory Road
17. Mission: Impossible III (Man, do you think that Felicity wakes up in the middle of the night sometimes and just thanks God that it was Katie Holmes and not her that got sucked into the Tom Cruise system? I feel like she just barely dodged a bullet.)
16. The Science of Sleep
15. Last Holiday
14. V for Vendetta
13. Akeelah and the Bee (My most randomly spouted movie line of the year: "I wanna win the National Spelling Bee!" No, I don't know why.)
12. The Devil Wears Prada (Ask anyone, I both love and hate this movie at the same time to such frightening degrees that it looks like I'm going to have a stroke while it's on.)
11. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Oh, shut up. LOVE.)

Movies That Were Excellent
10. Thank You For Smoking
9. Dreamgirls
8. Stranger Than Fiction
7. The Prestige
6. Cars
5. The Descent (The best horror movie I have seen in AGES)
4. She's the Man (I said shut up! Amanda Bynes, you complete me. Make more movies.)
3. The History Boys
2. Little Miss Sunshine
1. Brick (No exaggeration: I have seen this movie 5 times. I am so weird. But I love it unconditionally. It is like my child.)


AHGH! 68! For those of you keeping score at home, that is 15 more than last year. 15! Good goddamn.

Maybe 2007 will be the year I actually go outside every once in a while. (Unlikely)