Movies 2006, part 1 of 4

For the last several years I've kept a running list of all the movies and/or TV-on-DVD I watched during the year, with mini-reviews. In addition to a moderately interesting media review, it's also diary-esque on re-reading.

This year I watched at least 58 movies*, ten fewer than last year. I feel let down by that. I slowed down in trying to watch movies in the last half of the year, and I completely stopped trying to watch things that were challenging or unusual. Darn.

As before, my reviews are so idiosyncratic as to be perhaps meaningless to the outside observer. Some contain spoilers. Those are going to have to be your problem.

The Frighteners
Happy new year’s everybody.

Transporter 2
I hope somebody’s having a Happy New Year, because the movie buff in me isn’t.

The Constant Gardener
You know, it was fine. It didn’t have the constant heart it wanted to, but it was okay.

Fargo
I was told this movie was disturbing, so I avoided it for a lot of years. I was lied to! This movie isn’t disturbing, it’s fun!

Underworld: Evolution
Consciously bored during this movie. That’s no good sign.

Battlestar Galactica (miniseries, 2003)
I watched this when it was on teevee a couple years ago, and wow, appointment television like that already seems quaint. I just looked this up on imdb, and there were so many haters there, which confuses me. This is fucking great.

Spanglish
I only watched the back half of this. Kind of not so good. Maybe I just saw the Glish part.

Crash
Man, there sure are a lot of racists in L.A.

Arrested Development, season 1
Too good to live.

Battlestar Galactica, season 1
Still f’in great!

Doctor Who (2005)
This has issues, but does not suck like old Doctor Who did. It has charm and cheek, and interesting season-long arcs. For the first time in my whole life, I’m also getting the British joke of the title. Not ever hilarious, but just slightly funny all the time.

Skeleton Key
Meh. At least the bad guys win in the end.

Arrested Development, season 2
The characters are starting to wander a little, but it’s still LOL funny, so who cares?

Millions
I enjoyed this, but the last ten minutes took a perpendicular journey from the rest of the film. What. The? But still fun and good for the watching with children, which, even with none of my own, I’ll accept gladly.

*I might have forgotten to write some down. Life.