| Personally, I thought 2006 was a solid year all around and a better one than 2005... 2006 had movies like The Last King of Scotland, Half Nelson, The Painted Veil, Volver, The Departed, Little Children, The Lives of Others, The Science of Sleep, The Descent, United 93, The Prestige, Perfume, and Children of Men to name a few. For me, 2006 had a lot of solid/very good movies but not a lot of "blow-me-away great" movies. I wasn't too down with 2005 right after the year but over the past few years I've seen a few more 2005 movies that I missed and it improved the year decently for me. 2005 had Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, C.R.A.Z.Y., Nobody Knows, Lord of War, The Constant Gardener, Mysterious Skin, Batman Begins, 3-Iron, etc... 2004 had a lot of solid flicks too but 4 movies I absolutely love so that really pushed it up. 2003 is awful though, the only movie I was blown away by was City of God and even the solid movies were a weaker bunch in general. This year is looking like another year with many solid entries but not too much blowing me away (at least as of yet, only Assassination and No Country were in the top tier for me and of those two Assassination was the only one to truly blow me away) but of course there's still a month and a half to go...and this is usually the make-or-break month of the year so, we'll see. As for 2008, I think it's a very promising line-up for both 2008 and 2009. Nowhere near as great as my anticipation was for 2006 but it all looks like there's some really interesting/great stuff coming out. Also - looking at other lists here, some movies I missed that probably would've made some part of my list are Defiance and Daybreakers. |