1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu/Moartea domnului Lăzărescu - Cristi Puiu + Best Romanian Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Best Huge Flop of the Year + Best Drama of the Year + Best Societal Critique of the Year + Best Feel-Bad Movie of the Year + Best Low-Budget Movie of the Year
2. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, documentary - Alex Gibney + Best American Movie of the Year
3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Andrew Adamson
+ Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Fantasy of the Year + Best Adaptation of the Year + Best Blockbuster of the Year + Best Poster of the Year
4. Hidden/Caché - Michael Haneke + Best French Film of the Year + Best Mystery of the Year
5. A History of Violence - David Cronenberg + Best Indiana Movie of the Year
6. Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Best Western of the Year + Best LGBT Movie of the Year + Comeback Actor of the Year: Jake Gyllenhaal
7. The Constant Gardner - Fernando Meirelles + Best Thriller of the Year + Best Political Movie of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year
8. Lord of War - Andrew Niccol + Best Villain of the Year: Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlog + Best War Movie of the Year
9. Munich - Steven Spielberg + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best Spy Movie of the Year + Best Revenge Movie of the Year
10. Fierce People - Griffin Dunne + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Anton Yelchin + Most Under-Appreciated Movie of the Year + Best Box Office Disaster of the Year + Worst Distribution of the Year + Best Youth Movie of the Year
Other great 2005 movies (in alphabetical order):
The 40 Year-Old Virgin - Judd Apatow + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Best Comedy of the Year + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year
Broken Flowers - Jim Jarmusch + Best Road Movie of the Year
C.R.A.Z.Y. - Jean-Marc Vallée + Best Canadian Movie of the Year + Best Coming-of-Age Movie of the Year
Dark Water - Walter Salles + Best Remake of the Year
Hard Candy - David Slade + Best Independent Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Ellen Page
Other good, recommendable movies of the year (in alphabetical order):
Allegro - Christoffer Boe
Batman Begins - Christopher Nolan + Best Superhero Movie of the Year
Capote - Bennett Miller + Best Biopic of the Year
Coach Carter - Thomas Carter + Best Sports Movie of the Year
Deadwood, season 2 - David Milch, creator + Best TV-series of the Year + Most Excruciating Scene of the Year: Al Swearengen's gallstone operation, ep. 3: New Money
Deer Woman - John Landis + Best TV movie of the Year
The Descent - Neil Marshall + Best Horror of the Year + Best Monster Movie of the Year + Best Gore Movie of the Year + Best British Movie of the Year
Elizabethtown - Cameron Crowe + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best Romance of the Year + Best Feel-Good Movie of the Year + Best Kentucky Movie of the Year
Match Point - Woody Allen + Best London Movie of the Year
The Method/El Método - Marcelo Piñeyro
Murk/Mørke - Jannik Johansen + Best Mega-flop of the Year
The Bottom 10 of the Year
1. Day of the Dead 2: Contagium - Ana Clavell, James Glenn Dudelson
2. Everything Is Illuminated - Liev Schreiber + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
3. Dance of the Dead (TV movie) - Tobe Hooper
4. Accused/Anklaget - Jacob Thuesen + Most Deserved Flop of the Year
5. Derailed - Mikael Håström + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
6. Domino - Tony Scott + Worst Poster of the Year
7. Cigarette Burns (TV movie) - John Carpenter
8. Fragile/Frágiles - Jaume Balagueró
9. Madagascar - Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath + Most Profitable Hit of the Year (138.04 mil. $ range)
10. Corpse Bride - Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Other failed, mediocre and/or poor movies of the year (in alphabetical order):
2001 Maniacs - Tim Sullivan
A Year Without Love/Un Año Sin Amor - Anahí Berneri
The Brothers Grimm - Terry Gilliam + Most Expensive Flop of the Year (45.88 mil. $ range)
Chocolate (TV movie) - Mick Garris
Colour Me Kubrick: A Tru...ish Story/Color Me Kubrick - Brian W. Cook
Dear Wendy - Thomas Vinterberg
The Devil's Rejects - Rob Zombie + Craziest Movie of the Year
The Dukes of Hazzard - Jay Chandrasekhar + Best Car Movie of the Year
The Exorcism of Emily Rose - Scott Derrickson
Flightplan - Robert Schwentke
Fun with Dick and Jane - Dean Parisot + Best On-Screen Couple of the Year: Téa Leoni & Jim Carrey
Land of the Dead - George A. Romero
The Longest Yard - Peter Segal
The Matador - Richard Shepard
Weeds, season 1 - Jenji Kohan, creator
[51 titles in total]
Notes:
Two masterpieces from 2005 have been reviewed at Film Excess thus far: The year's best film, and first Romanian movie to ever make the top 10, is Cristi Puiu's revelatory death-drama The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. The other is the year's 2nd best, Alex Gibney's enraging, shocking documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
The Top 10 continues with 8 sensational films: Rounding out the top 3 is Andrew Adamson's amazing family fantasy adaptation The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Following are: Michael Haneke's unsettling thriller Hidden, David Cronenberg's fascinating and brutal thriller A History of Violence, Ang Lee's mainstream-breaching, grand cowboy romance tragedy Brokeback Mountain, Fernando Meirelles' vivid, beautiful thriller adaptation The Constant Gardner, Andrew Niccol's chilling, thrilling weapon's dealer war drama Lord of War, Steven Spielberg's controversial, elegant and suspenseful period thriller Munich and finally Griffin Dunne's mismanaged coming-of-age gem Fierce People.
Among the other great films of the year are David Slade's unpleasant thriller Hard Candy, - so that so far 2005 looks like a strong year for thrillers.
Other great titles are Judd Apatow's hilarious debut The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Jean-Marc Vallée's vibrant youth movie C.R.A.Z.Y. and Walter Salles' great J-horror remake Dark Water. Other good entries of 2005 include the filthy 2nd season of Deadwood, Christopher Nolan's first Batman movie Batman Begins, the perhaps ultimate meet-cute, Elizabethtown, a nerve-wrecking claustrophobic cave horror, The Descent, and a weird but highly entertaining TV movie, Deer Woman.
The worst of the year are first and foremost low-budget fare: Day of the Dead 2: Contagium by Ana Clavell and James Glenn Dudelson may rank among the decade's worst, a travesty in the zombie genre. It is followed by Liev Schreiber's pretentious, dull and overrated Everything Is Illuminated and Tobe Hooper's Masters of Horror TV movie entry, Dance of the Dead as the year's 2nd and 3rd bottom of the barrel slush.
Following them are Jacob Thuesen's cloying pedophilia drama Accused, Mikael Håfström's ugly, pointless Derailed, Tony Scott's massive money-losing action dud Domino, John Carpenter's unimpressive TV movie Cigarette Burns, Jaume Balagueró's UK-Spanish horror flunk Fragile, Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath's cynical cash-grab Madagascar and finally Tim Burton and Mike Johnson's loud and empty stop-motion animation Corpse Bride.
Among the other great filmmakers who churned out sub-par efforts in 2005 we find Terry Gilliam (The Brothers Grimm), Thomas Vinterberg (Dear Wendy) and George A. Romero (Land of the Dead).
Biggest flops of the year:
[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. The Brothers Grimm - 45.88 mil. $ range
2. Domino - 40.84 mil. $ range
3. Elizabethtown - 24.2 mil. $ range
4. Lord of War - 20.96 mil. $ range
5. Fun with Dick and Jane - 19.2 mil. $ range
6. Munich - 17.88 mil. $ range
7. Dark Water - 10.24 mil. $ range
8. Fierce People - 7.89 mil. $ range
9. A History of Violence - 7.72 mil. $ range
10. Dear Wendy - 7.6 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 202.41 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Madagascar - 138.04 mil. $ range
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - 118 mil. $ range
3. Brokeback Mountain - 57.2 mil. $ range
4. Flightplan - 39.32 mil. $ range
5. The Exorcism of Emily Rose - 37.68 mil. $ range
6. Match Point - 19.12 mil. $ range
7. The Descent - 17.83 mil. $ range
8. Capote - 12.68 mil. $ range
9. Broken Flowers - 8.68 mil. $ range
10. The Constant Gardner - 7.96 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 456.51 mil. $
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2005 titles still on the watch-list:
Forty Shades of Blue, Shadowboxer, Keeping Mum, Kinky Boots, Do You Like Hitchcock?, Fateless, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, Melissa P. Maestro, West Bank Story, One Too Many, The Saviour, Water, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
What do you think of the 2005 list?
Which 2005 titles would make to your top and bottom lists?
Which worthwhile 2005 titles are missing on the watch-list?
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