Charles's 2005 List

I never do numbered lists. There some films that aren't perfect but they have bits I like. Others were flatout terrible, yet I personally enjoyed. And there are those films that I thought were great, but over time don't stand the test of time. So I figure I'll do my list the only way I know how: completely randomly slapped together, straight off the dome.

Charles

The Good

• Best indie film: Tie - Hustle & Flow and Me You and Everyone We Know
• Best Romantic Comedy: Hitch
• Best Ensemble Cast: Crash
• Best scene that will make you tear up: Michael Peña’s daughter using herself to shield him from harm in Crash.
• Best film for the whole family: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Best fantasy film: Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
• Funniest comedy: 40-Year Old Virgin
• Funniest performance: Vince Vaughn - Wedding Crashers
• Film with the most and coolest visual references to old school film making: Munich
• The he never lets you down performance: Geoffrey Rush - Munich
• The only reason to watch the movie: Vince Vaughn and The Rock in Be Cool
• Best performance that won't get the recognition it deserves: Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevense - Chronicles of Narnia
• Best crime film of the year: Layer Cake
• Best film that if released 30 years ago critics would be now be claiming it as a minor classic: Flightplan
• Movie that will most likely become a "I hate to admit to I watch it when ever it comes on" film for millions: Fever Pitch
• Film most likely to be quoted ad infinitum: Tie - Wedding Crashers and 40-Year Old Virgin

The Bad

• Movie most in need of editing: Tie - Munich and King Kong
• Movie I was most disappointed in: Munich
• Most underwhelming remake: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
• Script most in need of another draft: Munich
• Movie most over hyped by geeks: Sin City
• Movie that was only worth watching once: Sin City
• Most desperate grasp to reclaim their cool: John Travolta - Be Cool
• Most desperate attempt to recreate a memorable movie moment: Travolta and Thurman's dance in Be Cool. A scene that only reminds you how good Pulp Fiction is and how bad Be Cool was.
• Author whose work again proved most difficult to translate to screen: Elmore Leonard - Be Cool
• Most worthless film of the year: XXX: State of the Union
• The what were they thinking award: Jane Fonda for choosing the J-Lo vehicle Monster-In-Law as her first film in fifteen years.
• Most disappointing sequence: The Batman vs. Ra's Al Ghul climax in Batman Begins.
• Movie with the most unfulfilled dramatic promise: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
• Most embarrassing moment on film: Vader's Scream - Star Wars: ROTS
• Movie with the dumbest plot that should still have turned out to be a fun popcorn flick but didn't: Stealth
• Most disappointing directorial debut: Liev Schreiber - Everything is Illuminated
• Most pretentious direction: Liev Schreiber - Everything is Illuminated
• Direction most lacking subtlety: Liev Schreiber - Everything is Illuminated
• Film that I found so boring that I never finished: Lord of War
• Most delayed film that was delayed for good reason: G
• Movie that proves cool sh*t is still better when there's a halfway decent story to go along with it: Tie - Ong-Bak and Transporter 2