Ebert & Roeper's Top Ten Films of 2005

I know that Ebert's list has been announced for a while now but I'll just post it here anyways.

Roger Ebert:

1. Crash
2. Syriana
3. Munich
4. Junebug
5. Brokeback Mountain
6. Me and You and Everyone We Know
7. Nine Lives
8. King Kong
9. Yes
10. Millions

Richard Roeper:

1. Syriana
2. The New World
3. Crash
4. Munich
5. Nine Lives
6. Capote
7. Brokeback Mountain
8. A History of Violence
9. Walk the Line
10. The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Lady in the Water and The Departed will be #1 and 2 on the top 10 of 2006. Shyamalan and Scorsese are such damn good directors!

As soon as New World actually opens on more than 1 screen, I'll be reviewing it.

Bah, the only movie released in 2005 that I've bought on DVD is "War of the Worlds" (only because the first half is so good). I'll get "Munich" and "Memoirs of a Geisha" (it's a pretty movie even if it's bad), but even while I was in Asia, I didn't come across much new that was good.

The "Gladiator Extended Edition" DVD is pretty sweet, though.

Surprisingly, the "joe average" Roeper placed "The New World" high on his list. Which reminds me...where is YOUR review of "The New World"?

Eddie, I'm still learning Icelandic just in case I ever get to meet Bjork.

I was actually taking a shot at how provincial both these lists are - Ebert can be such an eloquent spokewsman for world cinema, but his list is about as diverse as a 700 Club mixer.

I'm still catching up on all the foreign releases from '05 but I think there were plenty of worthy candidates this year, even if there were no standouts: Kung Fu Hustle, Oldboy, Tony Takitani, Nobody Knows, and Cache all spring to mind. I'm sure there are many more I haven't seen yet.

Chris,

This is always the lamentable case. But, would you rather have everyone speak English or everyone speak French (like during the 18th and 19th centuries)? :p

Eddie

Apparently nobody made a movie in any language other than English in 2005. Man, no wonder it was such a disappointing year.

Shyamalan? Doubtful after "The Village".

Scorsese? Why re-make an already great movie? This guy has run out of ideas. (Actually, he ran out of ideas long ago when he started making mob movie after mob movie after mob movie--in other words, the same movie all the time with Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci.)

Eddie, you're crazy. I like you, but you're crazy.

San Jose Shark,

Dude, it used to be that Scorsese at least was only re-making his own movies. Now he's re-making other people's movies, and he picked one that won a ton of awards in Asia. I'm telling you, Marty wants an Oscar sooooo bad that he doesn't care to try any more. It'd be interesting to see how little "The Departed" departs from "Infernal Affairs".

But, I like you, too. :)

Eddie