2006 retro: movies

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IT'S GOING TO BE 2007 IN TWO DAYS! O__o;; How'd that happen? I'm going to be spamming with lotz of end of the year posts. 2006 was a pretty good year in Watching Movies. Usually what would happen is that we'd see a trailer or a commercial or just heeeear about a movie and say "hey! let's watch that" and we never ever would. But this year!

- The Break-Up
+ Cars
+ Pirates of the Caribbeans 2 - Dead Man's Chest
+ The Illusionist
+ Murderball [UCLA screening]
+ Flyboys
++ The Departed (x2)
/ The Prestige
+ Blood Diamond
+ Half Nelson [UCLA screening]

Only these movies got the standard treatment:
Little Miss Sunshine :: Steve Carell! and yellow!
Casino Royale :: Daniel Craig!
Happy Feet :: uh this is mostly my mom.
Stranger Than Fiction :: Will Ferrel!
Rocky Balboa :: I DON'T KNOW. the trailer.
An Inconvenient Truth :: it will break my heart I knooow.

Other movies watched (non-theaters/screenings):
- The Chronicles of NAHHHNYYAAA Narnia
+ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
+ *Beyond Silence
+ Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
+++++ Singin' in the Rain
- An American in Paris
/ Some Like It Hot
/ *Pokemon: The First Movie
+ Strictly Ballroom
/ *Four Weddings and a Funeral
+ Munich
+ Batman Begins
/ The March of the Penguins
- Flightplan
+ Copycat
+ Romeo and Juliet (1968)
/ The Lady of the Port
+ um... me not remembering the title doesn't say good things, does it? but it was good!
+ Rashomon
/ Lone Star
+ The Aviator
+ *The Prince of Egypt
+ Serenity
+ Mysterious Skin
/ The Birth of a Nation
+ Some Kind of Wonderful
- Madagascar
+ *Titanic

* had already seen before, but a long enough time ago to make the viewing new

Arbitrary awards!

Best movie I've seen 2006: Singin' in the Rain
Best movie I didn't notice as a kid: The Prince of Egypt
Best movie I wasn't prepared to like outside the ONE reason I was watching: Blood Diamond
Best movie I wasn't prepared to be interested in: Cars
Best movie I loved from the first half hour: The Departed
Best movie I wished I saw with diff'rent pople: PotC 2 - Dead Man's Chest
Best movie I enjoyed without really knowing what to think: Half Nelson
Best movie with a totally cliche plot: Strictly Ballroom
Best fight sequences: Serenity
Best movie that's too depressing to watch: Munich
Best straight-up teen romance movie: Some Kind of Wonderful
Best really harrowing-sad movie: Mysterious Skin
Best use of $8 to cater to a Thing: Flyboys
Best movie no one's ever heard of: Beyond Silence
Best movie everyone's heard of: Rashomon
Best movie I couldn't think of a category for: Murderball
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Best movie with Christian Bale falling to floor only to immediately start doing push-ups: Batman Begins
Best movie to foster a new fangirl crush and change your mind about Dan Rad: HP & tGoF
Best movie that broke my fucking heart with a weakass ending: The Departed
Best movie that made me academically glad to see but morally flummoxed, leading me to focus on Lilian Gish while thinking about the Silent Age of film and that one story Neil Gaiman wrote that I didn't like very much but maybe I should read again, god this is a really long movie: The Birth of a Nation
Best movie to only watch the second half of: Titanic