Movies of 2006 revisited

Cafe Society
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I finally caught up with some of the releases of last year, and what a lame ass year it was for movies. With good tv shows on hiatus, movies have carried me through the past few weeks, as far as home entertainment goes. Or I wish it’d been entertainment.
First off - the summer blockbusters: **X3 ** was really, really stupid The final scene, with Golden Gate, was just added to make for cool visuals. **Bryan Singer ** should’ve stayed with the franchise. Speaking of which, **Superman Returns ** was equally stupid and I don’t know what persuaded Singer to sign on for it. Since Superman is invincible, it all hangs on the Kryptonite to make any kind of suspense, and it was all tired bý the time Reeeves was doing it. Minus points for **Spacey ** chewing the scenery.
Was MI:III this summer? I saw it. I don’t remember anything.
Oh, and the mess that was PotC. Well, it was a setup for the third installment, but it was pretty stale, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Da Vinci Code was kinda faithful to the book, but on the whole, a pointless effort by **Howard ** and Grazer, not adding, nor subtracting anything from the book. Paint by numbers.
Then there were the Oscar Baits™: All the King’s Men, The Good Shepherd, Blood Diamond, The Departed ( I guess **Scorsese ** will finally get his Oscar, just because he’s been snubbed for so long.)
The Usual Suspects in ‘edgy’ indy films were there: Thank you for smoking, Little Miss Sunshine, Children of Men. Some semi-good heist/ con man flicks: Inside Man, **The Illusionist ** and some not so good: Revolver.
Family movies took a plunge with Pixar’s mediocre **Cars ** and the truly awful Ice Age 2 (though Scrat is a worthy heir to Wile E. Coyote).

All in all, I’m glad I invested my spare time this year into tv shows. Not movies.

There were exceptions, of course, but 2006 was really a mediocre year for movies. (Too bad Scorsese is a sure winner, **Iñaratu ** deserves the prize. He’s still young though)

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Yeah, Scorsese might get it and for a while I would have agreed with you that Iñarritu deserves it but after watching Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood deserves it. It’s simply a phenomenal movie.

Regarding All the Kings Men, if you listened to the writing on the wall last November, you knew it would be a dog (when you postpone something ten months and the word re shoots come up, it isn’t a god sign).

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I admit that I may be easily amused, but I enjoyed many of the movies that the OP is slamming. The high point of my movie-watching year was Cars. This could partly be explained by the fact that I grew up just a few blocks from Route 66 in the 1950s, but I believe there’s more to Cars than Baby Boomer nostalgia. If Cars is a “mediocre” animated film, I’m geniunely curious to learn what the OP thinks is a “good” one.

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Try almost every other Pixar movie.

Cars was boring, unoriginal, cliched, and had lame characters.

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Cars wasn’t bad when compared to the other releases, but compared to Pixar’s own movies, it certainly lacked a lot.

I haven’t seen Eastwood’s two movies yet. I have high hopes though.