I can't believe Mr. & Mrs. Smith was #2 for IGN... I loved the movie because of the two leads and the director (Doug Liman was great until he made Jumper), however I wouldn't even put it as the second best movie of the year
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| saicho said: I can't believe Mr. & Mrs. Smith was #2 for IGN... I loved the movie because of the two leads and the director (Doug Liman was great until he made Jumper), however I wouldn't even put it as the second best movie of the year |
I agree but Wedding Crashers and Star Wars Episode III shouldn't be on the list either.
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yup, especially Episode III. I actually enjoyed movie1-8 quite a lot. I thought Episode III was such a let down and Wedding Crashers was very overrated.
MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.
| Boutros said: Here are the movies I want to see in the 2006 list: The Prestige 300 Casino Royale Children of Men Pan's Labyrinth The Devil Wears Prada Babel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Flags of Our Fathers |
300 was actually released in 2007.
CatFangs806 said:
300 was actually released in 2007. |
Yeah...IMDB is saying 2006. I think there was a limited release in 2006 and a wide release in 2007.
So yeah I guess it's 2007.
Boutros said:
Yeah but I don't remember if I have seen Letter from Iwo Jima. I think I have...but I don't remember it enough. I think I'm mixing stuff from both movies. |
Since the Pianist and Hotel Rwanda didn't make the 2002 and 2004 list, I'm pretty sure that neither Flags of Our Father or Letter from Iwo Jima will make the 2006 list.
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Letter from Iwo Jima is the better of the two though and should make it to the list...
EDIT: totally missed your first post that was basically saying the same thing.
MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.
| saicho said: ^ EDIT: totally missed your first post that was basically saying the same thing. |
Letters from Iwo Jima is my favorite movie of 2006 and one of my favorite war movies/dramas. Of course their are still some high profile movies from 2006 that I haven't seen yet like Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Man so its not a firm number one. But as far as movies in Japanese that deal with WW2 Letters form Iwo Jima is right up their with Graves of the Fireflies.
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Here are the movies I wanted to see in the 2006 list:
The Prestige
300 (2007)
Casino Royale
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil Wears Prada
Babel
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Flags of Our Fathers
The Devil Wears Prada should have been in the list aswell as one of the Eastwood movie.
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